Dakota Territorial News Highlights Across Dakota Territory
Aberdeen reports a large fire scare at the Sherman house. Mitchell prisoners escape by sawing bars. Pensions granted to Farley Rapid City Boyden Brookings Mills Sioux Falls. Sioux Falls line open for passenger traffic Salem to Mitchell. New train 7 30 p m Mitchell to St Paul. Regents of University of North Dakota bid to restore pre-storm conditions at 4800. Southwestern Telegraph company formed at Yankton. Directors named for Southern Dakota university. Gibbon struck by lightning near Faulkton. O Zardetti named vicar general at Yankton. Lightning fatalities Hanson Frankfort and Parcell Spiritwood. Heavy Dakota rainfall across the region. Dakota boasts rapid growth and strong school system. Ipswich bank incorporated with 500000 capital. Chicago North Western depot at Pierre burned. Youmans yard partly destroyed. Redfield to host Dakota Medical Society June 1888. Bids for Southern Dakota fair at 2000 each. Huron wins. Railroad commissioners locate station between Andover and Langford. Dakota Medical Association elects officers and meets in Yankton.
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Aberdeen
Sherman House
Mitchell
J. H. Farley
Rapid City
P. Boyden
Brooings
T. J. Mills
Sioux Falls
Omaha
Salem
Worthington
St. Paul
Southern Dakota University
A. J. Edgerton
EB. B. Bracy
A. W. Adkinson
Huron
E. 8. Ormsby
Emmetsburg
William Fielder
H. D. Haveller
Watertown
O. H. Sprout
Alexandria
L. Bradford
Clark
C. B. Clark
R. N. Kratz
George Gibbon
Faulkton
Father O. Zardetti
St. Francis’ Seminary
Wisconsin
Dakota
Martin Marty
Yankton
Hanson
Frankfort
Chicago & Northwestern Railway Company
Pierre
Youmans Bros. & Hodgins
Redfield
Dakota Medical Society
de Smet
Miller
Cver Scotland
Kimball
Cham
Miscellany of Humorous Quotes and Jests
A collage of witticisms from newspapers lampooning politics, society, and culture. Snippets reference Henry George, Sara Bernhardt, Roscoe Conkling, Mark Twain, and various regional papers with quips on buses, air, and manners. The fragment ends amid stray lines about a New York doctor and weight loss.
Lovers in Fiction by George Sand and Her Lovers
Lisat recounts how George Sand used lovers in her fiction after discarding them in life. He likens her process to capturing butterflies, feeding them, pinning them for vivisection, then preserving them as dried specimens as a final act.
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Lisat
George Sand
New York Tribune
Great Similarity Picture of a Cow Bas Fungo
A Chicago newspaper features a photograph of a cow bas fungo with a caption noting notable similarity. The image and caption reference Ike Mom Spenied f soso ste Met i no 2 with mentions of Trost doatee Meiphia Apelania in the accompanying text.
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Chicago
Meiphia
Bowser Paint Row Ends In Entertaining Straitjacket
In Detroit a household dispute over household painting escalates as Mr Bowser hires a painter crew to touch up the cornice. The crew overruns the property with mismatched colors while the wife protests and Bowser vows retaliation before a chaotic scene ends with a comedic promise of payback.
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Bowser
Detroit Free Press
Prominent Guests Flooded With Letters at New York Hotels
The Graphic notes guests in New York hotels receive many letters and schemes when their names appear in print. A Mexico ranch owner received 74 letters after a newspaper paragraph about his wealth, including one from a 25 year old man seeking $200 to avoid prison. A young Englishwoman wrote begging assistance for her husband and child, hoping a noble donor would help, while other appeals reflected widespread hardship.
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New York
Graphic
Mexico
San Francisco
Novel Wedding Sparked by Basket of Flowers Tradition
The Minneapolis Tribune notes a recent wedding broke the usual fashion mold with an independent touch. The bride’s sister, serving as maid of honor, placed the bridal ring in a basket of flowers, a pretty fancy that drew pleasant comment.
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Minneapolis Tribune
Lawn Tennis Rules Book Omits Key Beginner Guide
A Lowville Journal item notes a new lawn tennis rules book published but lacking the single most important rule for beginners: first I get your lawn. The quip highlights the humorous oversight in a local publication.
Prison life in Siberia outlined in exile and penal labor
The article describes Siberian exile life with sentences ranging from three years of banishment to life in hard labor. Exiles may work in permitted trades, may follow families to some extent, and some become wealthy while others face harsh conditions, cold climates, and severe labor in mines and roads.
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Siberia
European
Russia
Likoutsk
Biberia
Europe
Alexander
Nicholas
Linerres
Early Love of Tom Waller Creates City Romance
New London residents recall Gov Tom Waller as a clerk who courted the mayor Loomis daughter. Loomis opposed the match, spurring Waller to rise in business and politics. Waller later became mayor and diplomat, while the two families remained on good terms after the unions.
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New London
Tom Waller
Waller
Lincs
Loomis
Ees
Family fortunes and cattle as tale of sons
A narrator recounts giving each son 5000 dollars then sending them west to prosper. John invests in a cattle ranch and works hard while Henry, ignoring lessons on honesty, opens a fare bank. Eventually Henry gains control of John’s ranch and lends him money to return home.
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John
Henry
Drake's
Also Mentioned on This Page
Dakota Territorial News
A. N. Parcell
Northern Pacific
Spiritwood
Jamestown
Ludden
Columbia
Brookings
New Hampshire
New Jersey
Massachusetts
Ipswich
Alex Griggs
Abe Boynton
N. ©. Smith
Dakota Railroad Commissioners
Milwaukee Road
Andover
Langford
The
Dakota Medical Association
D. F. Etter
H. FE. McNutt
Morgan
Shad
Henry George
Jones and Small
Minneapolis
Dallas News
Herr Most
Sara Bernhardt
Lowell Times
Dansville
George Washington
Owell Courier
Yonkers Gazette
Anti-Poverty Society
Boston Gazette
Borneo
Boston
Harvard Lampoon
United States
Clinton, Conn
Peck
Roscoe Conkling
Conkling
Chicago Herald
Mark Twain
Men of the Robe
Texas
M. Goblet
Goethe
Louisville Courier-Journal
Iain Sig
Sarah
Lovers
MR. and
Mrs. Bowser
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