Dakota notes stir in Dakota farms and towns
Centreville forms a G A R post the 6th. Salem Register prints home edition. Sioux Falls to host stone cut and polishing work. Hanson raises 2500 bushels, 360 miles of ocean wire in use in the Black Hills. Catholic fair at Deadwood nets 1711.30, clears 1391.85. Wheat crop reported abundant across Southern Dakota. Yankton College opens its second year with about eighty students. The Free Masons borrow 15000 to finish their Sioux Falls temple. Dakota potato yields praised. notable tallies at Bowman and Canton. Aberdeen lands office head W Duncombe dies. Elwood of Illinois seeks Dakota Supreme Court appointment. Andrew Anderson sets 64 minute 10 mile run in a recent fair. G G Williams declines state executive post, citing pioneer sensitivity and civic limits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sioux
Falls
Hanson
Black Hills
Deadwood
Dakota
Huron
Free Masons
Sioux Falls
Masonic Temple
Dell Rapids
Seney
Sioua
Falls Press
Alsinegion
Canton
Deaf Mute Institute
Bowman
Ashton-Herald. S
W. Duncombe
Aberdeen Land Office
Aberdeen
Michigan
Elwood
Mlinois
Fuller
Supreme Court of the
Territory
J.P. Kidder
Washington
Itress
Land Frauds Ignores Desert Acts and Homestead Rules
Col James Pullis, government land agent, reports widespread fraud in Territories and the Rock mountains. He cites false sworn affidavits, desert land and timber claims, and many patents to noncompliant holders. Wealthy cattlemen enclose public lands, depriving settlers of grazing space.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Pullis
Territories
Rock Mountains
Salt Lake
Sollemn
Ohio River
Why ames Buchanan Never Married
Study of the famous Buchanan courtship and missteps as recalled from a forty year old account. The narrator links the tale to a Pittsburg figure and hints at a lengthy, faded romance involving legal offices and local names.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ames Buchanan
Potatoes and Light Exposure Affects Flavor and Storage
Agricultural advice notes that potato skins are modified stems and light exposure turns tubers green and bitter. It advises digging in dry weather, drying slightly, and storing away from sunlight with surface covered by vines and weeds to prevent greening.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lestinesian Pasasal
Poor cyclone ruins sale as husband loses wife and money
A commercial traveler recalls a nine shaped cloud and describes a breakup where a man owes his wife 1600 dollars. He travels to Chicago to gather funds but a cyclone strikes his home. He learns his wife has been killed and the divorce is set.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rochester
Minu
Greeley Expedition Missing In Arctic Still Sought
The Greeley expedition set out two years ago to man a northern scientific station from the Proteus at Lady Franklin Bay. Relief efforts succeeded only to fail in providing information. the War Department reports the party may be in distress and has dispatched aid, though full success is unlikely.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greeley
Proteus
Lady Franklin Bay
Sore Ting
Anees
Li Ten At
Massachusetts Lane
Lehane
11Th Cavalry
Strabismus and the Missteps of a Dreaming Eye
In St Paul I met a man with cadet blue eyes and a terra cotta nose. One eye probed the future while the other scanned the past before a failed surgery worsened his condition. A drunken surgeon overcorrected, dragging the eyes out of alignment and leaving them detached and misdirected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Paul
The Wreck of a Life and a Lawsuit of Grief
A fragment from a 19th century vignette describes a man crippled by illness and botched medical care. He endures fever drinks iron and poisons, seeks death, sues over a sidewalk injury, and wins a legal verdict that costs him. The tale closes with a paradoxical remark on happiness despite deformity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kane
Bill Nye
Free Press
Witty verse and societal musings in a busy column
A collage of humorous clippings and anecdotes from daily life, including shop prices and advertising tricks, schoolroom readings with misreadings, family quips about manners and marriage, a pickpocket chase ending at a lawyer's office, and a farmer debating railroad surveys through his barn. The page blends playful dialogue and social observations with light satire.
Pressing after holiness beyond common Christians
William Bramwell urges his brother John to pursue personal holiness through fasting and prayer as health allows, questioning ministers who live on a plane of life he calls common. He asks how many truly strive for eminent sanctity and how many practice fasting as growth in grace and for greater gospel power.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Bramwell
John
Clive
Food and Brain Work
An organism performing both brain and muscular work benefits from unified energy use. Better food fuels the brain and muscles, enhancing overall performance and efficiency.
Temperance Notes on church purchase by Victoria group
The W. U. of Victoria in British Columbia bought a church for use, paying 4000 dollars. A comment cites regret over temperance politics and voter betrayal. Washington anti liquor campaigners press an aggressive push against city saloonkeepers to block licenses next year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S. U. of Victoria
British Columbia
Wendall Philips
Washington
Dr Kings New Discovery for Consumption and Coughs
An early 19th century advertisement touts Dr King’s New Discovery as a universal remedy for consumption coughs colds asthma bronchitis hay fever and throat chest pains. It claims guaranteed healing and offers three bottles free at Blount and Hood’s drug store with large sizes priced at one dollar.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. King
Blount & Hood
Dmg
Stord
Electric Bitters Praised as Cure All by Blount & Hood
In an old newspaper notice a testimonial extols Electric Bitters as a universal remedy for biliousness liver and general debility. The ad promises quick cures and lists Blount and Hood as the sellers at fifty cents a bottle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blount & Hood
Also Mentioned on This Page
Centreville
G.A. R. Post
Salem Register
Yankton College
Bunever
Cincinnati Enquirer
Andrew Anderson
Fair’ Grounds
Wade
Exerton
Andrew
Cantones
Hono. G. Williams
Aitizen
Land. Francis
Ilient
Adolphing W. Greeley
Ile
Biggins
Nellie
Mary
Mamma
Charles
Betty
I. M
Cincinnati
Atecess
Hugh
Stamford Advocate
Orry
Devel
London
Lancet
Temperance
Federuian
Orad Railway
Chicago & North
Ing
California
Oregon
British Coluumbia
Onina
Enland
Northwes
Illinois
Patel
Rincip
MNI
Cesky
VAUL
Pata
Hughitt
D Gen
E.n.toucey
Ands Commission
Barlow
W.D
Tutt
Rec
Murray Stre Futt
Bowe & Stive
Reed's Block
West Third Street
A. F. Anderson
Rathbone, Lard & CO
ACORN
Bridge, Beach & Co
Reddy Oil Stove “Agency
Hardwarel
Mechani
TOOLS
Hal
L. Adler & 60’S
J. W. Caphell
J. HW. Miller
Asat. Cashier
J. W. Smith
Cashier
First National Bank
Geo ©. Kelchner
A. W. Richardson
Childdren
West Side Dakota Ave
Huron, Dakot
Chas, C. Dunlap & CO
Eers
Third Street
Stewart
John Deere
Polws
Rushford and
Moline
United States Depository
C. A. Gor
Parkesis Block
Pving
Highmore, Hyde Co
Harrold, Hughed Co
D. Zrence
John Stiver
2Nd Street
Youmans, Bro’s
Hodgins
B. A
Akers
T. M. Jeffris
General Merchandise
Snedigar & Day
Cor 3dl
Wis St. Huron
Dak
Huron Meat Market
Dakota Avenue
WN Fayant
Pioneer Jewelry Store
Dakota Ave
D.T
Baker
Choice Family Groceries
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!