Dakota Territorial News Local election results and river city shifts
Election returns show Missouri river cities losing voters in two years. Minnewaukan canvass gives Campbell 214 Rolfe 208. Rolfe to contest. Manitoba extension work from Campbell to Aberdeen underway. Diphtheria closes Carroll county schools. Custer county population doubles in a year. Yankton council acts to avert creek overflow. Flooded business basements and rising Manitoba road activity noted. Kinred hotel owner Wilmot leaves debts around 1500. Legislative district winners named. Fort A Lincoln abandonment rumor revived. Trudell murder case in Lawrence county. Milwaukee graders near Faulk county line. Sheldon elevator collapse disperses 15,000 bushels. Buttzville elevators splitting under heavy wheat. Godley assigns assets 6000 liability. Spiritwood cottage fire loss 3700 with 2000 insured. Various local court and railroad notes and a Sanborn depot fire. Mitchell post clerk discharged after drunkenness and possible suicide.
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Minnewaukan
Campbell
Rolfe
Manitoba
Cambell
Aberdeen
Carroll County
Minneapolis
Valley City
A.C. Wilmot
Fourteenth Legislative District
F. J. Washabaugh
P. Wells
John Wolsemuth
John D Patton
Stewart
Fort A. Lincoln
Washington
H. Trudell
Joseph Connelly
Lawrence County
Milwaukee Road
Faulk County
Cyrilla Ann in a Cold New Neighbor Romance
Cyrilla Ann, an orphan in the Feeze household, bonds with Saul J. Benson a year as window cleaner and neighbor hopeful. They marry, she bears a child, while Mrs Feeze’s critique of Cyrilla Ann’s dimple drives the romance and social tension. An unrelated health article follows about insomnia remedies and sleep aids.
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Cyrilla Ann
Gruff Old Winter
Feeze
Mrs. Feeze
Cyrille
Ann
Cyrilla Ann Blushed. She Blushed Eaneree
Chamois
Requsition
Orphan Asylum
Cyrillia
Saul J. Benson
Saula Benson
Aperetin
Windom
von Gellhorn
Animals Use Dinner Horn to Guide Work and Meals
Kingston residents recall tales of animals that recognized the dinner horn. A mule would bray when the signal sounded, and a farm horse would refuse to plow, forcing a stop for dinner. The stories illustrate perceived animal intelligence and reasoning.
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Kingston
N. Y
Death of Ferencz Benyi Recall 1848 Hungarian War Hero
Hungarian papers report the death of Ferencz Renyi a young schoolmaster turned patriot in the 1848 war He fought bravely was captured by Austrians and faced General Haynan before history noted his sufferings and fate after years in a Budapest asylum Fortunate praise of his prior life and family is cited by Petit Parisien
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Ferencz
Renyi
Haynan
Renji
Hungary
Pall Mall Gazette
Ferencz Benyi
Benyi
Buda-Pesth
Petit Parisien
Ferencz Renyi
Ore
Regni
Onlea
Cent
Metan
General Haynan
Colors Discarded in the British Army
A Boston Commercial Bulletin note explains that British regiments discarded colors after the Maiwand disaster and at Tel el Kebir orders forbade drums and bugles in advance. It states soldiers fought without colors and later accepted this change as standard practice.
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Egypt
Balancora
Maiwand
Afghanistan
Esco
War Office
Tel-el-Kebir
Boston Commercial Bulletin
A Good Horse from the Rural New Yorker
A reader notes an ideal farm horse: broad and strong, gentle, intelligent, a capable roadster, and worth the higher price. The piece argues that first‑class animals, though costly, yield greater service and quality, while scrubs remain scrubs regardless of price.
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New Yorker
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Pakota
Missouri River
Devil's Lake
Manitoba Railroad
Custer County
Yankton
Manitoba Road
Devil’s Lake
Barnesville
Sheldon
Buttzville
P. G. Godley
Secretary of Interior
Joseph Slater
Jeremiah H. Murphy
Township
Range
Huron Land District
M. Thompson
Lange Conest
Webster Williams
Mitchell
Martin Marty
Dakota
Pebasiorene
Omas Cordner
Marie Budde
Charles Budde
R. R. Wise
R. E. Wallace
Spirit Wood Lake
Jamestown
C. H. Shaw
Alexander Mitchell
New York City
Fox
Shaw
Charles City
Iowa
Sanborn
J. W. Ross
Calmar
Chamberlain
Alexandria
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