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Newspaper
Bluffton Banner
Location
Bluffton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jan 24, 1894
Page
5
Local items include ministers and revival meetings at Baptist Methodist and reform churches, profits from the chair factory, new wells drilled near Liberty Center, and a rising interest in merchants selling dried fruits. Notables such as Judge Dailey and J B Eaton appear in community notices, with farm and rental prospects, post office naming, and local shop updates.
Frank Gibson of Ossian lost the ends of two fingers in a jointer at the Vail stave and heading plant last Friday. Rev. Hawk has gone to Carrollton Ohio to preach the funeral sermon of S. J. Cameron editor of the Carroll Co. Press. He will return Saturday and preach next Sabbath morning and evening.
The article notes Alaska covers about 880107 square miles, surpassing one sixth of the U S and exceeding the combined area of many eastern states. It adds Alaska would form 70 Massachusettses, is nine times England, and thrice France in size, with north to south distance comparable to Maine to Florida.
Coroner McCullough recalls a grim East End incident where Price Gentry stood in a grocery doorway and asked if an inquest would be held. The next day Gentry died suddenly, prompting the coroner to vow to avoid jokes about inquests.
In Biddeford Maine a shopper mis handed his bankbook to a grocer instead of the ledger exposing a large deposit. The grocer notified the overseers of the poor as officials record the incident. The essay argues public parks are needed and cites Woodland cemetery as a city leisure site near Philadelphia.
A Shanghai report notes Urga province Mongolia suffered a string of deadly earthquakes. About 100 native nomads perished with their horses and flocks in the disaster. The item includes other brief notices of avalanches, a courtroom pistol incident, and the release of Patrick O Keefe.
In Pene, Indiana, William Doterer, a Bunker Hill saloon keeper, was sentenced to a long penitentiary term after a jury found him guilty of pouring oil on an old man, James McDonald, and setting it alight for amusement. In Indianapolis, Marion county officials plan work for the unemployed, starting with 200 men to break stone for road use in exchange for food via township trustees.
The New York Sun reports widespread Sicilian tax rebellion as mobs in Mazzara Salemi Castelvetrano Pietraperzia and other towns burn public buildings release prisoners and threaten officials. Troops are routed in several engagements with heavy civilian casualties and shifts in local leadership amid the turmoil.
Fragmentary text mentions a slight cold congestion and coughing symptoms with unclear references to care or remedies. No identifiable people organizations or places. Further readable details are needed to form a complete news item.
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