Boycott News Sparks Widespread Rail Blockade Across West
July 4 1894 reports say the Pullman Car Co boycott cripples rail travel with trains halted on western lines. Sioux City strikers stop mail and spike switches. Blue Island clash defeats officers. Illinois guards diverted. expected federal action looms amid rising prices and coal shortages in Chicago. Several local accidents and injuries are noted at tile mills and Zion church.
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Pullman Car Co
Blue Island
Illinois
Law
United States
Sioux City
Iowa
Illinois National Guards
Altgeld
Danville
Decatur
Longest word debate sparses from papers’ claims
The Bluffton News and Marion Leader debate the longest English word. Transubstantiation is cited as twenty three letters, but a longer string appears in joked examples. The antics include a missionary coinage meant to express kneel and a wild pupils’ mock word.
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Bluffton News
Marion Leader
News
Leader
Elliott
Honduras Town Update Ranges From Harvest News
Wheat will be cut this week Clover hay nearly finished Farmers report corn in good shape Sunday visitors included Mr and Mrs Annen at Crum family Sunday school attendance was low due to rain Foreman Ritchey and families visited Al Zerkel and family last Sunday Harry Steele Ella Steele and Cora Hower of Pleasant Mills mentioned among locals
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Annen
F.crum and
Family
Foreman
Mack Ritchey
al Zerkel
Harry Steele
Ella Steele
Cora Hower
Pleasant Mills
Weather and community notes from Lebanon and surrounding area
In Lebanon and nearby towns, residents report visits by Lewis Minnich and family, Ayres Pritchet, and Wm. King of Switzer. Rains boost corn and garden crops. wheat near harvest, some hay made, crops strong though down some. A county soldiers reunion drew speakers F. M. Huff and others. G. W. Miller of Lucas, Mich., sends a two year Banner subscription and mentions frost losses to apples and cherries. Miller also patents flooring tongue ideas and seeks Wells county partners. Gerber brothers begin threshing. local business and industry activity described.
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Lewis Minnich
Colbert
Ayres Pritchet
Banquo
Marion
Levi Cline
Brown’s Corners
King of
King of Switzer
Ind
Ephart’s Woods
F. M. Huff
C. H. Wood
Warren
R. L. Erwin
Buckeye
Mr. Mofflit
Andrews
Lod
G. W. Miller
Lucas Mich
Wells County
The Mine That Won Ben Tribble on July Fourth
In the San Juan mountains Ben Tribble toiled solo since 1879 hoping for gold. A vanished dog and a letterless silence fray his heart as he contemplates suicide until Molly returns with their boy. The couple reunites, the mine proves real, and Ben chews the air with gunpowder joy as fireworks echo the valley.
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San Juan Range
Rocky Mountains
Ben Tribble
Ben
Earth
Iowa
Jonah
Betsy
San Juan
The
Tribble
Molly
Jona
Jerry
Tribbie
Pard
Silverton
Jonah Cuttin
Georgy
Minver
Benjamin
Ben Tribbie
Paradise
Jerusalem
Pay Dirt
It Will Stay Income Tax Proposal Enduring Policy
Senator Gorman endorses an experimental income tax to run for a few years to let the people decide its fate. The World notes the experiment will likely be renewed once the period ends and the tax would become a permanent feature of the fiscal system.
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Gorman
New York World
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Rollo Houck
Chas Bell
Zion Church
Mrs. Stalter
Mr. Stalter
Honduras
Snakeye
Lebanon
Pentel
G. Gerber
Gerber Brothers
Suly
American Press Association
C. E. Bohail
W. Union
Mina
Hood
Bohan
West Union
Sarsa
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