06 Mar 1890
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Newspaper
Athens Messenger
Location
Athens, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Mar 06, 1890
Page
1
Chicago faces a vast drainage canal plan valued at fifteen to thirty million dollars. The project aims to solve flatland drainage, with census enumerators to include women as part of the effort, potentially boosting female participation in demographic data collection and improving family birth death and marriage records.
An Washington Post column argues Pan American manners and temperance surpass all in the hemisphere with little intoxication among South Americans. It praises Spanish American ladies, notes American and English residents in Argentina, and highlights the importance of education and voting rights for Black Americans.
Ohio reports include a $100000 bond filed by Secretary of State Ryan and a $1600000 Cleveland building bill. Murders, embezzlement, and suicides appear in Zanesville, Cincinnati and Warren County. The Grand Army encampment meets in Cincinnati, while editor Joshua Saxon and Oran Follett are noted as pioneer figures.
Marion township citizen Jacob F Bauer dies while several regional items unfold. The Hocking county grand jury reports nine indictments including theft and poisoning attempts. Logand union brickworkers boycott Columbus Brick and Terra Cotta Company. Ghostly incidents haunt Tesboro. Perry Kuhn indicted for attempting poisoning. Local educational, church, and civic developments span Marietta to Pomeroy with damag e to stores and new building plans. Weathered death notices and marriages pepper the regional notices.
A New York centennial celebration featured William Allen Butler delivering a learned speech on the Origin of the Supreme Court and its constitutional role. Butler, famed for Nothing to Wear, was described as a sharp, legal figure from a firm earning about a million dollars yearly.
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