23 Mar 1892
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Newspaper
Algona Republican
Location
Algona, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1892
Page
1
A bustling period piece notes Mason City plans two new churches and push for free mail delivery by local business leaders. A meteor lit the Burlington sky Thursday, while a string of personal tragedies and notable notices fill regional pages with suicides, accidents, and civic developments.
The Republican convention at Minneapolis gathered 1 095 delegates at 11 a m with Ex Congressmen Struble elected permanent chairman. J Clarkson Gear E E Mack and D Chase named as delegates at large. Gear and Mack favored Harrison renomination. a prohibition resolution was rejected. platform centers on national issues and endorses Harrison administration.
A wide range of items fills this week s digest from political maneuvers in Kansas fusion to Carnot signing a commercial treaty with the United States. Reports cover a Tiffin Ohio shooting suicide, Russian famine relief by Indiana steamers, and a grand river bill likely funding a Great Lakes deep water channel.
Chicago March 21 grand jury returns indictments against aldermen W. J. O’Brien D. RB O’Brien Nicholas A. Cremer Patrick J. Gorman Phillip Jackson Stephen M. Gosselin John Dorman and others in a bribery and conspiracy case tied to the Economic gas and other city ordinance deals. Roth testified revealing payments and votes while investigators plan more arrests as the probe widens.
Congressional items from March include executive sessions on judicial nominations led by Judge Woods of Indiana, conference actions on the urgent deficiency bill, and debates on the free wool tariff with speakers from Texas Nebraska and Maryland. The House passed a bridge bill and moved to committee on the private calendar and pensions. Morrison elected Interstate Commerce Committee chairman.
Hogs receipts scarce keeping market strong and active with range 4.40 to 4.50. Cattle steady. good fat butcher stockers in demand. Prime steers 8.50 to 9.00, good steers 2.02 to 3.50, prime cows 2.40 to 2.75, good cows 4.00 to 2.61, common to fair cows 1.25 to 1.90, light veal calves 4.00, heavy calves 2.00 to 3.03, stockers 2.40 to 2.50, feeders 2.50 to 3.00, bulls 1.45 to 2.95. Sheep and lambs scarce but in demand. choice muttons and lambs 4.00 to 5.25, mixed 4.50 to 4.00. Receipts hogs 180, cattle 25, calves and sheep small.
Chicago live stock and grain markets show varied activity with wheat prices fluctuating across futures, cattle and hogs showing strength, and pork and lard futures listed. The report provides opening prices for May and July wheat, corn and oats, with live stock bids in Chicago and detailed May and July price points across multiple commodities.
Advertisements tout a complete telegraphy course at Austin including equipment and facilities. The notice highlights a popular remedy for biliousness and indigestion, mentions De Witt's Little Early Risers, and cites testimonials from various readers praising health products and cures. It reads as a dense, fragmented collection of trade notices and personal blurbs with multiple brand names and local endorsements.
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