Dakota Territorial News Patchwork Highlights Local Events
Reports cover church completion at Parker by October 25, a store fire at Rousseau, and military transport costs. Notes include Deadwood indictments for fornication, Chinese district raids, Northern Pacific land sales to a Rhode Island colony, and new Scandinavian and Catholic newspapers in Aberdeen. Also mentions a railway grading forecast to Sioux Falls, and Dakota residents impacting cattle and sheep trade with Wisconsin and Illinois buyers.
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Parker
M.C. Rousseau
Rousseau
Pierre
Harris
Farr & Beattle
Harold
C. W. Hawley
Blunt
Thomas Ward
Sioux Falls
Ward
Deadwood
Dakota Ruralist
East Pierre
DC. Crosse
J. C. Mc Manima
Northern Pacific Land Department
Orton County
Rhode Island
Ramsey County
Devils Lake
B. F. Shouley
Mueller
Jamestown
New Buffalo
Calaboose
Col. Parker
Aberdeen
Wilmar and
New England
Dakota
Northern Pacific Railroad Company
Secretary of the Interior
H. H E. Hawkey
B. Schlick
Mitchell
Oy Schlick
Ais
South Dakota
Veces
Yankton
Disinterment of Chinese Bones for Return to China
The San Francisco bulletin notes repeated disinterments of Chinese and Mongolian remains for shipment to Cathay. Since 1880, hundreds of bodies have been exhumed from Laurel Hill and City cemeteries, with a total counted at 4,070 in city plots, under state health statutes and company arrangements.
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San Francisco Bulletin
Flowery Kingdom
Joseph
Egyp
Israel
Canaan
Cathay
China
Yerba Buena
Laurel Hill
Baioe
Laurel Hi
Hata
Warner
Carl Red
Inspector Moran
Beautifying the Skin by a Professional Complexionist
A New York Mail and Express reporter visits a complexionist shop described as a skin study room with a French mistress. The expert outlines treatments for preserving skin, including elder flower baths, strict dieting, and a sulfur regimen with occasional rest periods, plus glycerine, lime water, ammonia applications, and camphor washes.
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New York Mail and Express
Rome
Be Kind to Your Horse and Care in Driving
Advice from American Agriculturist urges kindness to the family horse, daily exercise, properly fitted harness, warmed bits, fly protection, and careful driving. It warns against overexertion in cold weather, the risk of disease, and asks for rigid enforcement of the one last fast driving statute.
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Atv
Greeley’s Poetic Taste and Browning Admiration
Joel Benton recalls Mr. Greeley as an admirer of Robert Browning and Swinburne, praising verbal melody. He notes Greeley’s reluctance toward Pope and his engagement with Morris Earthly Paradise and Richter’s prose, contrasting English and German works.
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Greeley
Pope
Robert Browning
Swinburne
Dolores
Atlanta
Calydon
William “Morris
Ubland
Richter
Joel Benton
The
Cosmopolitan
Apartments in Washington Offer Room Rentals and Odd Inducements
In Washington a surge of vacant rooms attracts buyers with odd incentives. Listings include large airy spaces at high prices and curious pitches such as a Franklin Square suite priced far above typical rents. One owner even cites a foreign minister as a past patron, hinting at inflated expectations and dwindling demand.
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Washington
Franklin Square
Italy
Detroit
Startling prediction on natural gas dangers from historical Chinese tale
The piece recounts a centuries old Chinese legend of massive gas explosions that devastated districts after wells were drilled, warning that similar explosive risks could arise today if drilling continues unchecked. It predicts vast destruction from a future blast, comparing it to earthquakes and a lake named Foo Chang.
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China
Teioying
Lake Foo Chang
Jia
Luke Foo Chang
Loledo
Oise
Tillie
Kentucky
Erie
Ohio
Mississippi
Cincinieli Commercial
Centenarian and kin tour Boston with son in wax museum
A 106 year old man from Middleton visits the Boston museum with his septuagenarian son. They share family history from Canada East, discuss descendants in Canada and the United States, and recount his long life and health while observing curiosities and wax figures.
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Charles Mint
Boston
Middleton
Eastern Depot
Boston Museum
Ang
Septuagenaum
Massachusetts
States
Dunham
Canada East
Charles
Cantada
Mitchell
John
Francis
Jose
Haverhill
Dabnge
Iowa
Charles King
King Charles
Politeness Rewarded On East Boston Car Ride
A crowded East Boston horse-car scene contrasts cold manners with courtesy when a workingman gives his seat to a frail invalid woman. The anecdote ends with her gratitude and the man's quiet observation that gentlemanly behavior still exists on the ride.
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Boston
Johani
Longevity and the Pipe in a Dash of Old Time Talk
In a rustic dialogue Uncle Jeff and Young H. C. recall long smoking days and aging, with A. J. remarking it is all right as the conversation drifts through memory. The exchange captures local dialect and humor from a bygone era, featuring characters named Uncle Jeff Uncle Jolt and A. J. as they reminisce about youth and smoke.
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Jeff
H. C
Jolt
A. J
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Dakota Territorial News
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Fort Sully
Duluth
Gifford
Congress
Big Stone Lake
Coe
D. T
National Council
Jes
Gary
M. F.greeley
Cooley
Wisconsin
Illinois
Mr. Greeley
Eabigen
America
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