Dakota Harvest Tops All Records Uproar in Wheat and Crops
The Pioneer Press notes a record Dakota harvest with wheat around forty million bushels and strong hay yields. It argues this prosperity signals settlement, debt repayment, and mass east-to-west migration while contrasting eastern crop failures with Dakota’s robust agriculture and expanding stock, root crops, and dairying potential.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pioneer Press
Dakotas
Pronger
Dakota
Ohio
Indiana
Illinois
Wisconsin
Iowa
Minnesota
Towa
Yankton
Fargo
Russia
India
Pembina
Mitchell
Montana
Union
Dakota bonanza farms yield vast wheat power
Frank Wilkeson writes from Casselton on northern Dakota bonanza farms along the Northern Pacific and Manitoba railways. He contrasts the brutal, factory like farm labor with the immense scale, high profits, and constant work that drive cheap wheat production and the migration of harvest laborers. He cites wages, work routines, and the social toll as farm life is mechanized and industrialized.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Irgé
Northern Pacific
Manitoba
California
Dakota
Frank Wilkeson
New York Times
Casselton
Novelty Ironworks
Executive Stables of President Cleveland Revealed
A 19th century profile describes President Cleveland's private stable: five horses including three Hambletonian stock members, one buggy horse, and one work horse at Oak View. Four carriages exist led by a preferred landau used by the President and Mrs. Cleveland. Private secretaries and cabinet members are seldom seen with him, except on ceremonial occasions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
New York
Oak View
Lamont
4 Tamont
Manningobi
Capitol
Steenbe Pea Ae
Hehe Dent
Dent
Ana Tenia
Eyes and travel lines in New York notes
The article analyzes eye colors and gender traits, linking blue to femininity and fidelity, brown to passion and risk, gray to steadiness, and hazel to mixed heritage. It then describes New York elevated rail lines with 110th Street gaps, guard timbers, and derailment risks, plus system statistics and crowded peak trains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. James Gazette
Pope
Discomforts of Special Trains in Railroading Notes
Railroad Gazette discusses the drawbacks of special trains and how excessive speed, though not unsafe, reduces passenger comfort. It cites the 1876 Jarrett Palmar transcontinental run in eighty four hours as an example of jarring speed and notes recurring issues with pace on both regular and special services.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Railroad Gazette
Mysterious two mahogany caskets built in Boston area
The article details a Boston area undertaking firm commissioned to craft two unusually large mahogany caskets. Costing about $700 in wood, the project involved elaborate carved designs, secretive handling, and a future estate storage setting. The work stretched over 14 months, with all carvings and inner silken hammocks described in somber, symbolic terms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Tidak
Ca Ee
Boston Ae
Mrs Harper rushes to police station after alarm at home
A Cincinnati Enquirer item describes Mrs Harper, wife of a Fidelity vice president, startled at her Fourtis street home by cries from newsboys. She hurried to the station, embraced her husband’s work, and kissed him amid tears. Rev Frank L Norton is cited as the richest clergyman in the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Col. Lamont
Washington
St. Louis
Chicago
Milwaukee
Madison
St. Paul
M Lis
Kansas City
Memphis
Nashville
Chattanooga
Atlanta
Wisconsin
Fend
Minnesota
I. C. Morey
Minneapolis
F. F. Lightner
W. J. Snyder
Austin
W. Beydon
Janesville
Dakota
A.C. Wescott
Corona
J. W. Dove
Huron
Nans
Take Ieee
J. P McDonnell
New York Regiment
Mumford
New Orleans
Butler
South
Mumfords
Wytheville
Internal Revenue Bureau
Hayes
Key
Tom Reed
John A. Logan
Ben Butler
Atlanta Constitution
The
Cincinnati Enquirer
Harper
Fidelity
Fourtis, Street
Ariesta
Frank L. Norton
Lynn
United States
Also Mentioned on This Page
Day County
Ere
Big Dakota
110Th Ae
Manhattan Island
Rome
South Ferry
York
Harlem
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!