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Newspaper
Bluffton Banner
Location
Bluffton, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 30, 1894
Page
10
The article forecasts a sequence of warm waves and active storms from early in the month through late June. It describes easterly wind drives, lightning displays, and periods of heavy rain and hail, with a solstice crisis around the 11th and a Venus equinox influenced storm period around the 25th to 28th. Local street notes mention sidewalk assessments and property maintenance actions.
City Council met in the council chamber with present members Krehl Pepper Clark Venis Staver and Heller and clerk. Minutes from May 2 11 14 and 18 were read and approved. Various accounts were allowed including water works bonds oil electric and printing costs. A resolution by City Attorney Sturgis framed a sidewalk construction plan across multiple streets per chapter 9 revised ordinances with profiles by the city engineer.
A letter urging mass legislation over class interests, arguing workers deserve congressional representation. It condemns scarce money, champions cash payments, and calls editors to promote the principles, noting Congress can issue sufficient currency to meet demands. Signed J.J.M. Milver.
A New York Weekly cartoon caption notes a piano organist Patrick Blissy’r witty exchange about charges for pumping an organ. The exchange mocks the price and the machine’s noisy output.
Snicks jokes about breaking a bad egg gently in a London Tit-Bits quip. Gushby remarks Miss Chelstone lacks heart. Judge notes no information available and urges consulting her family physician on the matter.
A Kansas frontier tale recounts the capture of Susan Hodges by a Navajo-like tribe, her two year vigil in a cave on the Solomon fork, and the rescue by Hanley aided by Miss Sue. The two did not marry. Hodges later wed a Missouri farmer.
A grocer claimed a barrel of eggs left outside his store had decayed as a patrolman guarded them in the rain. A sympathetic merchant alerted the grocer by visiting his home at midnight, only to hear the man say the eggs were purposely placed and decayed, and then bid good night. The tale appears in the Fall River News. A Rosebush One Thousand Years Old is described at Hildesheim, planted by Charlemagne to honor Harun al Rashid’s ambassador. The vine, now 26 feet tall, survives despite a cathedral vault and fire.
Counsel questions a Talesman on knowledge and risk as a train approaches at 90 miles an hour. Talesman refuses to move, prompting a chorus of lawyers to urge him to step onto the jury.
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