Utah Women Win Delay on Vote in New State Fight
The Utah suffrage debate ends with a supreme court ruling that women cannot vote until after the new state's constitution is ratified and officers elected. The decision preserves the right to vote but delays it to a later election. Jeremiah Hacker, Vineland resident, once ridiculed the Bible and set monuments for wife and self in his cemetery. His funeral involved no services, his body carried in a common wagon by members of the Ten Dollar Coffin Society.
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Utah
Supreme Court
Jeremiah Hacker
Vineland
New Jersey
God
Paris
William
Washington Star
Dying hero Stonewall Jackson and old remedies
Fragment from a periodical page features a dying Stonewall Jackson quote and then praises Dr. Pierce's Favorite Prescription for women in change of life. It includes letters praising the medicine's strength and cures, plus medical notes on electric shock deaths and resuscitation limits. The piece also offers a Washington Star cartoon exchange about political life and a Simmons Liver Regulator endorsement, followed by a string of curious local notes about an underground river near Charlotte and burial customs in Sumrall.
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Stonewall Jackson
Dr. Pierce
Ohio Farm Laws and Legal Forms advertisement summary
An advertisement for a 236 page Ohio law compilation titled Ohio Farm Laws and Legal Forms. It outlines chapters on animals chattel mortgages contracts descent and distribution of property dower drainage fence game grist mills grain warehouses husband and wife homestead landlord and tenant mechanic's lien offenses against property trespass wills work and labor compulsory education of children and various legal forms. The book claims current state law content with repeals removed amendments added and includes Supreme Court decisions. It targets farmers landlords tenants laborers and village businesses and is priced at 1.00 with wine colored binding.
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Ohio
Supreme Court
Emporia Woman Sells Companionship to Idle Husbands Away
In Emporia Kansas a local woman offers professional companionship for women whose husbands are away. She charges 5 dollars a week to stay in with a lone woman, 75 cents a night for evenings out, and 50 cents a night for gossip. Extra charges apply for late parlor conversations and for disruptive children or misbehaving youths, with doubles in certain cases.
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Tue Emporia
Kan
Michigan lands sale fails as buyers stay away
The Michigan state land commissioner offered 100000 acres of Michigan Agricultural College lands for sale but no purchasers appeared. The price had been set by the state board of agriculture years earlier and deemed too high, leaving the land unsold.
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Michigan
Michigan Agricultural College
State Board of Agriculture
Dr Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets Promote Health and Digestion
An excerpt praising Dr Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets as a safe pleasant remedy for liver, bilious, and dyspeptic complaints. The ad notes strong health benefits and the popular claim of cure, then shifts to a Michigan peach belt update with Fennville shipping three cars daily of early clingstones and six growers marketing over 300000 baskets.
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Dr. Pierce
Great Michigan
Fennville
Mountain Resorts of Colorado Greatly Reduced Rates
The Missouri Pacific railway offers reduced round trip rates to Colorado summer resorts via its Colorado Short Line. Summer tourist tickets are on sale until October 31 with return, featuring solid trains and Pullman cars, buffet sleeping cars, and free reclining chair cars from St. Louis to Pueblo Colorado Springs and Denver. For time cards and full information, contact N. R. Warwick agent 181 Vine St Cincinnati O.
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Colorado
Rocky Mountains
Missouri Pacific Railway
St. Louis
Pueblo
Colorado Springs
Denver
N. R. Warwick
Vine St
Cincinnati
Cheap Home Seekers Excursions Half-Price Rail Fare
On August 29 September 10 24 and October 8 the Missouri Pacific Railway and Iron Mountain Route will sell round trip tickets from St Louis to all points in Southwest Missouri Kansas Nebraska Colorado Arkansas Texas and Indian Territory at half fare rates plus 2.00. Tickets good 15 days with privilege of stop overs for inspection of lands. For maps time cards land pamphlets and full information address N R Warwick agent 131 Vine St Cincinnati Ohio.
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Missouri Pacific Railway and
Iron Mountain
St. Louis
Missouri
Kansas
Nebraska
Colorado
Arkansas
Texas
Indian Territory
N. R. Warwick
Vine St
Cincinnati
Ohio
The Woolen Industry Outlook in the United States
An 1895 perspective from Loybox argues American woolen mills face danger amid rising imports and tariff shifts. British production runs at full tilt while US mills scramble. the piece warns of a possible collapse and urges Republican victory to restore industrial health. Rosert P. Porter.
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London
Bradford
Boston
United States
Huddersfield
Roubaix
Rheims
France
Leeds
Halifax
England
Cleveland
Republican Party
Rosert P. Porter
Treasury reliance on Rothschild syndicate exposed
The treasury admits the administration depends on a London bankers syndicate to protect the gold reserve, leaving the government vulnerable and paying excessive rates for financial aid. Critics say the administration and party responsible deserve public repudiation. Brice is described as unyielding. inquiry asks where Colonel Wellington A. Stillwell of Millersburg was when the light failed.
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Treasury Department
Rothschild Syndicate
London
Brice
Wellingston A. Stillwell
Millersburg
Pleasures of Mining in the Far West
A Cripple Creek miner details prospecting in the Rocky mountains describing gold mining as the prettiest work. He recalls striking rich days with nuggets the size of a bullet and evenings counting hundreds of dollars earned, while also noting stretches without earnings yet the daily excitement persists.
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Cripple Creek
Col
Rocky Mountains
Far West
Artificial Eyes The Glass Blowers Craft Owl Eyes for Taxidermy
In New York a small glass shop crafts eyes for taxidermists and dolls. One worker forms a clear eyeball on a wire, another adds blue or brown irises, producing owl like eyes and varied sizes for moose to thrush. The superintendent notes demand mainly for taxidermy mounted animals and household pets.
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New York
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Henderson
Ala
Bradfield Regulator CO
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Executive Mansion
Washington
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Lima
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F. M. Senter
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Joseph H. Newton
Newark
Henry D. Lemon
Michael Ryan
Michael Devanny
Southern District of
George W. Crites
C. D. Crites
United States Bank Examiner
Albert Carlile
Robert T. Hough
Charles Q. Davis
Herman Cellarius
John Dowd
Harlan Cleveland
8. D. Dodge
Northern District of
Joseph H. Outhwaite
United States Bureau of Ordnance
Robert B. Palmer
Goain
Campbell
Bernard
Wall Street
Lew Bernard
Board of Elections
Hamilton County
America
China Station
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Celluloid Company
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Reublican
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the Advertiser
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