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Une County
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Detroit Free Press
I. Barnum
Ladies’ Home Journal
West Vinessia supports Cleveland and Gras in party line
In a brief political note readers are told the Democratic party is the only genuine people's party. The text argues removing tariffs on sugar and certain goods would lower prices for poultry and medicines.
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Cleveland
Gras
People's Party
The
Democratic Party
Government to Create 1555 New Offices
The plan recommends 1555 additional government offices, boosting annual expenses by 4,148,145 dollars. The measure targets expanded administrative functions and higher operating costs for the federal budget.
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Congress
Political notes and school book contracts in Indiana
Vincennes residents hear remarks about Congress and government as Green and Indiana taxes draw focus. The State Board of Education contracts for Indiana spelling and physiology books at low prices while Ginn Co. supplies Montgomery’s history. A road plan dispute continues as the board meets to negotiate.
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State Board of Excccstion
Indiana School Book Campany
Indiana Physiology
Vic. Ginn & Co
Boston
Montgromery
Jenkins
de Pauw University
Counterfeiter Beguiled by Baptist Preacher in Duquoin
In Polk county a counterfeiter named Jerry Holmes who was shunned by society converted to Christianity after a sermon under the stars by Pastor George Vancil near Duquoin. Holmes later passed counterfeit money to Vancil, who then helped expose the scheme while confessing his role. Both men ended up jailed in Chicago awaiting trial.
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Jerry” Holmes
Duquvin
George Veocil
Holmes
Vancil
Avalmes
Paul
Damascus
Polk County
Duquoin
Helmes
Vaneil
Hulme
Lensias
Hulmer
Ch'cago
Intial
Local District Assembly Adopts Controversial Resolution
A district assembly at Leu on a Saturday session debated a cease proposal and considered an annulment of a county supervisor appointment. The document urged voters to support trustees opposing a specific candidate, asserting the need to protect school interests and taxpayer concerns, while urging action by the appointed supervisor.
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Leu
Lyor
WI EO
Iadisco
Boeard
Mary
Mocreta
Amesolutiss
LYONS
Corene
Arborea
Efres
Lax Peyers
County Supervisors Faulted for Election Conduct
A report accuses the Swit Civ assembly candidates of falsehoods and poor qualifications for the county superintendent post. Several named men are described as strangers to the duties, with many unable to read or write well, casting doubt on their fitness for office.
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John Do Ax
AJ W Heeorn
Leeter
Philip Beasoe
So Jarvis
Mo BL Stacy
Arty Welly
Wi E. Stacy
Andrew Comaple
Women in New York Form Political Study Society
A New York group named the Society for Political Study gathers at 805 East Seventeenth Street with weekly meetings at 3 30 p m on Tuesdays. Members discuss topics from Protection and Free Trade to the Monroe Doctrine and annexation, with tea served after sessions.
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Yue Secer
New York
Society
East Seventeenth Street
Society For Political Study
Pace American Congress
Canada
Utah
Ther Anay
Italy
United States
Argentine
Peru
Grace Doodge
England
Emily L. Wakeman
Cauraulyn F. Ober
Theresa Barcalow
Salvation Army’s Global Mission and Growth
Archdeacon Farrar lauds the Salvation Army’s reach and impact, noting 9,349 regular officers, 13,000 volunteers, 30 training homes, 400 cadets, and 2,804 corps across 32 countries. He highlights England’s 1,377 corps, 1,000 open air meetings, and extensive social work including 30 rescue homes and shelters.
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Salvation Army
England
East End
New Zealand
San Francisco
Cape Town
Nordkoping
Booth
Archdeacon Farrar
Harper’s
Safe with 160000 Cipher Combinations Devised
A safe claims to resist unauthorized opening with a four dial mechanism and keyhole cover engraved inside. It uses a predetermined cipher and permutation to unlock, while a duplicate may allow substitution if the cipher is forgotten. described in the New York Journal.
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Steed
New York Journal
Warranted Not to Fade Selene
Fragmentary note describes a character Calico Clerk Crepentantius attending to interests while small details about fading colors and eyes are mentioned in a hurried dialogue with a likely narrator or audience member. The text is garbled and lacks a clear event or outcome.
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Selene
Calico
Crepentantius
Study of manners mocks romance in Bronklen Life
A fragment reads a humorous exchange between Mrs Ginge and Mr Kransgley about politeness. The note, from Bronklen Life, hints at changing attitudes and social manners in a light, satirical tone.
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Kransgley
Ginge
Bronklen
Examination manuscript shows scattered questions across languages and geography
The text presents a wide exam draft covering orthography grammar geography reading and science with prompts on letters sounds sentences punctuation indirect objects maps and colonial history plus sample readings and advertisements.
Remarkable Salve Advertised for Wide Range of Ailments
A colonial era advertises a salve claimed to cure curr, bruises, sores, ulcers, salt rheum, fever sores, tetter, chapped hands, corns, and skin eruptions. It guarantees satisfaction or money back and prices at 25 cents per box. Sold by 8. Statcup tf.
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Statcup
Weather and crops woes from Wellsville letter 1891
A Wellsville correspondent reports dull times and bad weather in May 1891 harming wheat and oats. He notes a late city on the Ohio River sixty miles west of Pittsburgh with oil wells across the river in Virginia, low river levels halting river traffic, and a boat stranded mid river awaiting rail shipment to Pittsburgh.
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Ohio
Oho
Pittsburgh
Vrginia
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C P. BickMas
Foo priesta of the World's Hostsers book praised in press
The Christian Record hails John Clark Ridpath and Wm S Bryan for their new work Foo priesta of the World's Hostsers. It is praised as pure, wholesome literature with rich bindings and colored plates. The review notes the book offers edifying, family friendly content sold through agents and lauds its value in a changing market.
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Duebe
Foo'prieta
the Lawest
Aratet Weock
John Clark Ridoath
Fortresses Fraud Exposed In St Petersburg Reports
Reforms at Novo Georgievsk and Doubno reveal substandard walls. a fortress chief faced dismissal or worse. The case spurred railings of Siberia and a reform push as the sunspot cycle and unrelated anecdotes follow.
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St. Petersburg
Novo Georgievsk
Modlin
Warsaw
Doubno
Nicholas
Siberia
Leeds Mercury
Butler the lawyer with many irons in the fire
A profile of a prominent lawyer noted for a broad practice including hunting factory ventures granite quarries and contingent claims. His generous habits and multiple homes contrast with occasional missteps as he pursues ambitious projects and reminiscences.
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Butler
Court of Claims
Lowell
Boston
Doweyer
United States
Philadelphia
Dream of burial mound leads to recovered Civil War grave
A Griffin man Jethro Jackson sought his son's Civil War grave in spring 1866 at Resaca. A dream guided him to a mound marked by pokeberry bushes. An excavation found a rough pine coffin with the son’s remains and identifying clothing, confirming the burial.
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Jethro Jackson
Resaca
Young Jackson
Mr. Jackson
Griffin
Jackson
Atlanta Journal
Ice and Flowers Near Mount St. Elias
Field notes describe alpine flora near Mount St. Elias and Malaspina glacier with lush flower meadows and stark snow cliffs. The text contrasts perpetual winter above timberline with brief summer slopes and mentions lichens, mosses, and barren rock faces. It also notes signatures, forgeries, domestic advice, and early 20th century statistics on Bible society publications and foreign students in Germany.
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Mount St. Elias
Foresta
Malaspina Glacier
New England
Alaska
Israel
C. Russell
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