Dakota Territorial News Briefs From Across the Territory
A wide sweep of notes reports water at Arthur at 400 feet and a shooting at Rapid City involving Nobles. Floods, wind, and a tornado strike towns, with damage to barns, churches, and crops. Immigrants arrive in Min tosh. ore finds near Hill City and Custer draw attention.
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Arthur
George Fuller
Alexandria
E. H. Keyes
Mitchell
Keyes
St. Elmo
Hill City
Andrew and
Ezra McCord
Chicago
Dakota Maid
Strawberry Gulch
Henry Shanks
Custer
Rapid City
Kelso
Huron
Pierre
Aberdeen
Salem
Montrose
Great Eastern Circus
Cranks at the Mint Test Philadelphia Visitors for Wealth
A Philadelphia Mint tale recalls crank visitors chasing imaginary fortunes. A polite chief usher placates claimants, delaying payments while sending them on fool’s errands. A self-styled General Jackson confesses a multi million deposit, then learns only silver is available.
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Andad
Philadelp. 8
Mint
Chestnut Street
United States
General Jackson
Baron Alphonse de Rothschild
Paris
Jackson
John
Girard Avenue
Lamas
Auntie’s Rose Poem Reflects Lost Love and Quiet Hope
A faded rose becomes a memory of a sailor sent off to war and never returning. The speaker, now old, finds comfort in the enduring symbol while looking toward a new chapter of life and renewed love. The verse by Frederick B. Weatherly appears in Cassels.
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Frederick B. Weatherly
Cassels
Manhoov's Yesterday Poem Reflections on Youth
A nostalgic poem by George Glyndon in the Current recalls boyhood days spent in sunlit woods and meadows. The speaker laments aging while clinging to memory, trusting God to guide both young and old toward fields of gold as the future unfolds.
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George Glyndon
Room with the Staircase Ghost in North Carolina Farmhouse
In October 1884 a couple traveling through rural North Carolina stay with a farmer and witness a haunted room. A chilling climb by a stairway ends when a spectral figure leaps from a bed and vanishes. The tale links a murdered wife and a ghost that returns each anniversary, leaving the couple shaken and eager to leave the house.
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North Carolina
Fred
Erie
Head
Way
A Word to Young Men on Promptness and Trade
A word to young men urges promptness in appointments and work, warns against idle talk in business hours, and stresses discipline, order, and self reliance. It emphasizes trade as money, avoiding unnecessary risks, and learning to say no. The piece ends with a metaphor on youth’s springtime and discovery.
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Dakota Territorial News
Edward Grundy
Nobles
Rawson County
Swedish Lutheran Orphan Asylum
Brule
David Bonier
Stanton
Fort Fetterman
Douglass
Russell Bryant
Sioux Falls
W van Brooklyn
Charles Cooley
Tower City
The
Fine Stock Breeders’ Association of Dakota
Madison
McIntosh County
Ole Mickelson
Grand Forks
John Keenan
Montreal
Keenan
B. Herring
Elk Creek Valley
Duddie
George Bushee
Elk Point
Farmers’ Alliance
Ipswich
Iron Hill
Robert Whittaker
Roscoe
Devil’s Lake
Walker
North Dakota
S Mint
Manhoov
Tonsien Dal
Tiene
Eleanor Corbet
Phere
Nettie
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