Breezy letter from 8 W GillilanRichmond Telegram editor
A Richmond Indiana letter from 8 W Gillilan notes college pranks by students and the row over campus sports. He lauds a Republican club and predicts a Republican victory in Ohio and Indiana, praising McKinley and Harrison while quipping about Democratic opposition. Gillilan is identified as a former University student and city editor of the Richmond Telegram.
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Richmond, Inc
Dean Messenger and Herald
Commercial Gazette
Cynthia Jane” Lane
Old Bauer
Shumate
Jackson County
Ohio
Indiana
Ben
McKinley
Harrison
Toozleazzem
Ralph Super
W. Gunman
Richmond
Ind
Gillilan
Ohio coal mining statistics from 1893 report
The nineteenth annual Ohio chief mine inspector report states total state coal output in 1898 reached 14,828,097 tons, up 228,189 tons from the prior year. Pick mining yielded 12,275,023 tons and machine output 2,558,074 tons, with 74 days average mine operation. 28,810 workers were employed, including 19,497 pick miners and 827 total casualties, 34 fatal.
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Ohio
Robert M. Haseltine
Messenger and Herald
the &Smount
Notice of Delinquent Tax Collection in Athens County
Athens County Treasurer Wilbur F. Scott announces tax rates, collection hours from Oct 4 to Nov 8, 1894, and the December 20 deadline for half taxes with remaining due June 20. Delinquent lists will be prepared after December 20, property may be sold January 1895 to enforce payment. Taxpayers urged to pay promptly and verify receipts.
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Athens County
Ohio
Wilbur F. Scott
Saia County
Post Office
Ohio iron ore and coal production in 1893 summary
Iron ore output dropped to 68 220 tons, second lowest after 1891, as annual declines continued. Hocking Valley counties produced 5 694 841 tons of coal, 884-10 percent of statewide total, with Perry leading at 2 171 495 tons. Athens ranked fourth with 1 632 851 tons. over one million tons were produced in Hocking Jackson Belmont and Jefferson. Ten top counties listed: Perry, Hocking, Jackson, Athens, Belmont, Jefferson, Stark, Tuscarawas, Columbiana, Guernsey. In Perry and Hocking counties 2 517 miners and 631 day hands were employed. 55 mines operated in the county with 8 openings, 4 suspensions, and 9 abandonments.
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Perry
Hocking
Athens
Hocking Valley
Jackson
Belmont
Jefferson
Stark
Souvenir Portfolio offer for the Columbian Exposition
A notice invites readers to send address and fifteen cents in stamps to receive a prepaid Souvenir Portfolio of the World’s Columbian Exhibition. The book, normally fifty cents, is offered at a nominal price for value and art quality. If unsatisfied after receipt, stamps are refunded and the book kept.
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H. E. Buoxuen & Co
Chicago, Ill
Warrint's Celery Tea Cure Headache Relief
Advertisement notes Warrint's Celery Tea claims to cure constipation and headaches. Offers one month's treatment for 25 cents at Cline's Pharmacy. Includes cryptic dating code y12-no-16-y1.
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Warrint
Cline
Foreigner stars and historic nursing links highlighted
Foreigner Herr Kuan the oldest actor in Germany celebrated the sixtieth anniversary of his stage debut. Miss BatFour sister of the English conservative leader travels Africa and visited Cecil Rhodes at Cape Town. Lady Marie Forester, who died in England, chose Florence Nightingale for Crimea hospital work, inaugurating modern nursing. Ex-Empress Charlotte, widow of Maximilian, reportedly in worse health. Isaac Pitman of Bath, inventor of Pitman phonography, knighted by Queen Victoria at eighty two, remaining active in the spelling movement.
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Germany
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Cape Town
Marie Forester
England
Florence Nightengale
Crimea
Chanotts
Maximilian of
Mexico
Brussels
Isaac Pitman
Bath
Eng
Pitman
Victoria
RAILWAYS GAIN IN AFRICA AND ENGLAND FIRST AID DRIVE
The African state railways in Cape Colony and the Orange Free State yielded a dividend near five per cent last year. In England railway employees now receive first aid training under the St John’s Ambulance association. A Spanish train run covered twenty five miles in a little over an hour amid nationwide jubilation. The Marquis of Dufferin and Ava reportedly owns the world’s smallest book. A plan seeks to consolidate all St Louis street railways. Missouri’s capitalization limit at ten million will prompt a ten to twenty million cap with similar bonded debt.
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Orange Free State
England
St. John's Ambulance Association
Spain
St. Louis
Missouri
Baltimore Sun
Mr E E Baker Returns to Athens from Ohio Sale
Mr E E Baker returns to Athens after weeks away selling the Standard dictionary in northern Ohio. Mrs N H Van Vorhes was recently summoned to Indianapolis by the illness of her son Lou Van Vorhes, who is under treatment at a sanitarium there.
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E. E. Baker
Athens
Standard Dictionary
Ohio
N. H. van Vorhes
Indianapolis
Indiana
Lou. van Vorhes
Dew House Special Examination for Diseases Focus
Tuesday November six at Dew House offers free examination and description of ailments from head to bladder. Consults cover asthma bronchial and stomach liver kidney bladder skin and female disorders with no questions asked and confidential correspondence. Office hours nine in the morning to nine at night.
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