Dakota Democratic Convention Chooses Temporary Chairman
The Aberdeen convention selects John D. Benton of Cass as nominee for delegate to Congress. Debate over whether the territorial central committee should name the temporary chair ends with a roll call showing 107 for Wilson and 115 for Quigley, and the chair is made permanent amid factional discussion.
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Aberdeen
D. M. Inman
Territorial Central Committee
Territorial Committee
John St. Wilson
Lawrence
Mather Geering
Union
W. Y. Quigley
Turner
Wilson
Central Committee
L. G. Johnson
Ordway
M H. Day
John K. Wilson
Quigley
Hughes
Corwin
Kidd R
Gantz
Pennington
Charles Keith
Brookings
H. A. Reeves
Bon Homme
W. ©. Bellows
Morton
Resolutions
W. K. Brierly
Grand Forks
J. B. Harris
Yankton
A. Ramsey
Sanborn
L. O. Jeffries
Hyde
J. W. Harding
Jerauld
W. W Goddard
Minnehaha
F. J. Walsh
Spink
J. W. Goodrich
Stutsman
J. B. Mooney
T. F. Randolph
Beadle
W. H. Adams
Edmunds
J. H. Jenkins
Brule
F. C. Strander
Clark
D. E. Dellery
Committee On Credentials
Burleigh
Cass County
Committee On
Cleveland
Price
yFourth
Lamar
Fighth
Dakota
George A Sala on The Use of That and Which in Relative Pronouns
The essay argues against dropping the relative pronoun in English and cites Cobbett on the importance of these words. It notes a correspondent who mocks omitted pronouns and jokes about a stenographer who dislikes grammar, then ends with a playful complaint about weekly corrections.
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Cobbett
S. Cobbett
Blindar
Joe Jefferson Eats a Plain Meal and Sleeps
Joe Jefferson eats a plain meal around 1 p m and then sleeps until about 6 p m the same day in a brief daily activity record.
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Joe Jefferson
Democratic Territorial Convention Votes and Committee Formed
The Dakota Territory Democratic convention reported results from the formal ballot mirroring the informal count with Mr Johnson and Mr Marratta receiving numerous county votes. A central committee was elected with A W Bangs as chairman after a roll call. Various local notes follow including education nominations, farming yields, disease in horses, and regional developments.
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Congress
Banga
Grand Forks
McCormick
Bangs
M. H. Day
Bon Homme
Thomas Welch
Ganz
Farmington
Mr. Price
Hyde
Matthew Gehring
Union
United States
Marshal Maratta
F. Corwin
Kidder
W. Y. Quigley
Turner
Maratta
Purcell
Richland
John D. Benton
Cass County
Spitler
Brown County
L. G. Johnson
Brown
Teksee Ct
D. W. Maratta
Mr. Adams of
Edmunds
W. Maratta
BE. P. Palmer
Hughes
Day
L G. Johnson
Palmer
Aberdeen, Dak
Johnson
Campbell
Dickey
Grant
Hanson
Lincoln
McIntosh
Minnehaha
Moody
Morton
Stutsman
Walworth
Wells
Mr. Marratta
Black Hills
Missouri River
J. C. Ryan
Lake
Oscar E. Rae
J. B. Vanvelson
Yankton
Thiru
S. Simpson
Douglas
D. D. Glidden
M. H. Pawley
Davidson
John Brennan
A. M. Keller
Kingsbury
George
Nave
Sanborn
F. E. Strander
Clark
L. F. Arnold
Potter
Charles H. Price
Henry J. Glasser
W. E. Purcell
John H. Hill
MK. Marrinan
Walsh
G. B. Valladigham
Barnes
K. N. Falk
Trail
J. D. Cornell
Lawrence
M. Ryan
Cass
James G. Webb
Pembina
James W. Goodrich
Joseph Hare
Burleigh
Ira C. Bellows
James
Callister
Stark
Jacob Gantz
Pennington
William G. Thornley
Custer
Ramsey
Mr. Ramsey
A. W. Bangs
Abe Boynton
P. T.mcclure
P. T. McClure
Oscar EF. Kemp
Coddington
Dead Hope and a Baby's Death at the Rail Station
A Detroit Free Press piece narrates a grieving father returning home to find his baby has died. He recalls comforting friends in sorrow and imagines a guardian mother with a sleeping babe. His own home is shadowed as sounds fade to the night, and his wife whispers that “It is best.”
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Oli
Detroit Free Press
A Midsummer Day's Dream in Life Parody
A poem parodying court life and fashion, with lines about pursuing love, legal practice, and a tailor pressing a suit. The speaker imagines fleeing the courts for the ocean shore while courting. George BE Bhroop referenced in Life.
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George BE. Bhroop
Notable Colored Wedding in Iberville Parish Louisiana
The largest colored wedding in Louisiana was held at Soulouque plains Iberville Parish with a special train for guests and a string band. Miss Eladie Allain wed Prof. Palmerston Landry of Mansfield College in a ceremony attended by leading black politicians and select white elites. The bride’s father, once a slave named Soulonque, is now Hon. Theophile Allain, and the event featured lavish flowers and lanterns with remarks of historical lineage.
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Louisiana
Soulouque Plainates
Iberville Parish
New Orleans
Eladie Allain
Palmerston Landry
Mansfield College
Soulonque
Theophile Allain
United States
Charleston
The Extraordinary Seurat of Pall Mall Fame
Claude broise Seurat, exhibited at the Chinese saloon in Pall Mall, drew crowds of up to seventy thousand in weeks. Born 1797, he appeared ordinary in dress but his body was a grotesque skeleton with disfiguring muscles. He weighed over forty five stone and stood five feet four inches tall. He lived on bread and wine, learned English quickly, and died in 1840 at age fifty two.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Claudebroise Seurat
Pall
Seurat
Astley Cooper
Seuart
Beuart
Stature of Great Men In History
A New York Sun reader asks if world great men tend to be tall. The article notes great figures vary in height from short to tall and argues stature matters little next to capacity and sustained effort. Some examples: Tilden small, Gladstone tall, Napoleon short, Commodore Vanderbilt tall, Hannibal very small, Hamilton under mid-height.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Sun
New York
Samuel J. Tilden
Mr. Gladstone
Bismarck
Dasraeli
Napoleon Bonaparte
Wellington
Jefferson
Alexander’ Hamilton
Franklin
Peter Cooper
Commodore Vanderbilt
Jayk
Grant
McClellan
Farragut
Robert EB. Lee
Charlemagne
Hannibal
Julius Ozsary
English Matron Abroad Provokes Parisian Jest
A Paris jeweler notes an Englishwoman paid a pound note for a bracelet and got change of nearly five pounds. The note proved not Bank of England forged but an old order dated years back. The tale underscores Parisian wit and cautions shopkeepers to be vigilant with exotic notes.
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St. Jamen’s
Bank of England
Bank of Engra
Helder
Albign
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Washington
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Miller
George A. Sala
Dakota Territorial News
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Wolf Mountains
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Tyner
Sully County
Sioux Falls
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Antelope Valley
Mouse River
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Tyndall
Young Men’s Christian Association
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Albert Kraus
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Mur
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Fort Totten
J. W. Cramsie
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Bismarck Land Office
Hughes County
Winnebago Reservation
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