The Story of Her Summer in Minnesota
Rose Dunbar recounts a summer on the Gates farm where overworked Mrs Gates falls ill and a hired girl Thekla helps transform the household. The tale follows Rose as she reassesses labor love and renewal, inspiring changes in the farmer family and in herself.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Dunbar
Gates
Etty
Dean Maynard
Minnetonka
Mrs. Gates
Mr.Gates
Minnesota
Yraces
Rose DrsBar
Quiet Milwaukee Wedding Follows Decades of Patience
In Milwaukee a secluded marriage ties two longtime lovers who waited thirty years as farm life and duty shaped their bond. The couple, once separated by obligation and family, return to their homestead to start anew, after the mother’s death left the farm to patient managers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milwaukee
Longfellow
Evangeline
Homer
Graveyard Insurance
Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance Company
Metropolis
Bloomington
John H. Norris
George F. Musgrove
Bloomington Life Insurance
Douglas Life of
Chicago
Northwestern Mutual Life of
Perpetual League of Protection of
Ashley, NL
Massac County
Ill
Kentucky
Paducah and
Dycusburg
Scraps of History and Shocks Across the Nation
A collage of brief notices reports killings in Oregon crops and fires in Canada. The items list robberies drownings disappearances and a murder case alongside a boat trial and a burned district with heavy insured losses. Includes multiple personal strays and small-town incidents.
Important Transfer Brings Mills to Mannville Wisconsin
Henry Sherry of Neenah has bought land on both sides of the Wisconsin Central Railroad at Mannville from Henry Nervittal of Menasha. The tract includes the Mann saw and planing mills store building stock and several dwellings and the town site. Consideration is between 20000 and 25000 dollars. Sherry will stock the mills and Mannville residents expect permanent operation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Blarshfield
Wis
Henry Sherry
Neenah
Henry Nervittal
Menasha
Wisconsin Central Railroad
Mannville
Mann Saw
Sherry
Embossed Leather Processing in New York Markets
Hundreds of men women and even boys in New York gather old boots and shoes to sell to wallpaper factories earning five to fifteen cents per pair. Calfskin fetches the best price as cowhide is not accepted. Boots are soaked to clean dirt then nails and threads are removed and the leather is turned into a fine pulp and pressed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Georgia
Macon
Osier
I. 0
City
Plant
Switzerland
Ross
Poe
Cotes
Col. E. 0. Grier
New York
Suffocated in a Well Tragedy in ReaprxcG Pa
In ReaprxcG Pennsylvania a 12 year old companion of Charles Smith dropped a knife into a 25 foot well. Smith descended to fetch it and fell exhausted. Isaac Doyle aged 26 went to rescue him and also suffocated. Both men died at the scene during the incident. Spear, a burglar from Lake Geneva, confessed to stealing $400 worth of watches from Rogers Jewelry. He pleaded guilty and received a three year sentence to Waupun.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kentucky
Daniel Keene
Bremen
Tsenax EB. Earos
Bloomingdale
van Buren County
Mich
Rockford
Ill
Fritz Spahrs
Frederick A. Paracer
Newark
N.J
Anthony Taeis
Jacob Weskey
Detroit, Water Works
Water Works
Hamtramck Township
Sylvester Cochrane
Jackson
William Sussex
Sussex
Cassius P. Born
Steubenville
Pittsburg
Columbia
S.C
Jons Parry, Jr
Delta
York County
Pote
Tomas Marx
Thomas Bulnate
Henry
Mariam
Samuel Marshall
Fort Gratiot
Sherifs
Frazer
Detroit
Flora Emily Downs
St. Louis
Oman
TarLor
Department of Agriculture
Dolphin
John Roach
Prevropscemosta
Pennsylvania
Newcastle County
Del
Delaware
James Dooley
Mount Carmel
Cleveland
Pennsylvania Railroad
Somerset
Quebec
Waupun
Spear
Rogers
Lake Geneva
Day
Also Mentioned on This Page
Carlotta Perry
Rose
Whittier
Aire
Coup Strixe Farm
Dean Frickp
House of Gates
Lake Minnetonka
Thekla
Jane
Deacon Gates
Pio
Dan O’hara
Adame
Robins
Canyon City
Grant County
Ore
Thomas Warner
Coshocton
N. C
Wietax Wiver
Aberdeen
Oak
Dunkirk
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