The Senator's Servant Exposes a Senator's Stock Plot
A Buffalo Express excerpt from The Autobiography of a Senator shows a U.S. senator torn between stock speculation and duty. After learning sugar prices via telegraph, he contemplates selling, then discovers a brokered telegram alerts him to a $247,000 gain. He tries to resist but his aide sells sugar, and he finally redeems the profit, firing the servant to uphold his office.
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Ibsen
United States
Buffalo Express
Mother Country alarmed by Coxey army march on Washington
The Winnipeg Free Press repeats a London Chimes clipping claiming General Coxey leads an army of discontented hoboes toward Washington. It alleges a Delaware and Lackawanna railroad capture and a voyage via gondolas down the Susquehanna to the capital, with Cornelius Vanderbilt absent on a buffalo hunt.
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Winnipeg Free Press
London
General Coxey
Chauncey Depew
Washington
Hobo
Independent Republican Party
Coxey
Yuba Dam
Baltimore
Congressional Record
Boston
N.Y
Delaware and Lackawanna
Rocky Mountains
Fargo
Susquehanna
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Kentucky
Mystery clock becomes wedding gift joke at Sherman wedding
At a Boston Sherman wedding a guest discovers a valuable antique clock stolen from its owner years earlier. The clock had changed hands via a pawnbroker who sold it to a donor who bought it for Miss Sherman. Ownership disputes reveal the gift was a joke between two men and a pawnbroker’s tale.
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Sherman
Boston
Miss Sherman
New Beetle Found by Hopkins Aids Chestnut Timber Loss
Professor A. D. Hopkins of the Morgan town agricultural experiment station reports the discovery of a new beetle whose eggs hatch into larvae that ruin chestnut timber. The worm and its egg-laying beetle have eluded prior identification, enabling effective control. Hopkins has collected larvae and tracked their full development to the adult beetle, a species in a family known only among three prior discoveries.
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A. D. Hopkins
Agricultural Experiment Station
Morgantown
Professor Hopkins
Martinsburg
W. Va
Dispatch
Skilled Specialists Treat Eye Ear and Nervous Diseases
An able staff of skilled specialists with extensive experience treats diseases including eye and ear conditions, cancers, tumors, and nervous disorders. Dr Wenger is an occulist performing eye and ear operations with artificial eyes and ear drums inserted.
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Wenger
Best Truss for Hernia and Body Deformities Advised
An advertisement from O. D. No 135 Calhoun St offers treatises and cures for deformities, kidney and bladder diseases, nervous disorders, and male sexual health. It promises free urine analysis, home treatment, confidential consultation, and mail correspondence for cases where doctors cannot be seen in person.
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Bright
N. B
Express Co. O. D
Reading for Wells County Children Fosters Safe Youth
A local plea urges Wells County teachers to provide carefully chosen books to children to build a love of reading and shield them from vice. The list includes titles from Lee & Shepherd, Educational Pub. Co., D. Lathrop & Co., and others, plus histories and pilgrims. A separate obituary notes a Beckford man dying after a brief illness, funeral in Chester Township.
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Wells County
Lee & Shepherd
Montgomery-Green & Co
D. Lathrop & Co
Mara L. Pratt
Educational Pub. Co
Lee
Law Expands Notary Aid for Pensioners in Sparse Areas
A new act by the Democratic Congress broadens notary services to fourth class postmasters for pensioners and witnesses in pension cases. Approved by President Cleveland, the law allows postmasters to administer oaths for vouchers and affix official stamps, easing access for disabled soldiers far from notaries.
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United States
Democratic Congress
Cleveland
Obituary for Jacob Stahl a 96 year old lifelong church member
Jacob Stahl born in Lancaster county Pennsylvania around 1793 died August 7 1894 aged about 96. He lived in Champlain county Ohio Wells county Indiana and joined the Methodist Protestant church about 1644 becoming a charter member of Blanch Chapel Liberty township. He leaves six children and a widow who died April 6 1877. Three of his children preceded him. He loved the church and its fellowship.
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Jacob Stahl
Lancaster County
Champlain County
Ohio
Wells County
Indiana
Blanch Chapel
Liberty Township
Chester Township
Stahl
Methodist Protestant Church
Democrats Back Sparse District Pension Law
The measure aims to aid people in sparsely settled districts by simplifying pension access without forcing extra travel or expense. It clarifies that current officers can continue in their roles and does not interfere with existing pension affairs, presenting Democrats as supporters of pensioners.
Two Snakes and a Hoax Told in a Country Store
A Detroit Free Press item recounts a drummer's tall tale about a snake that swallowed eggs, and a skeptical countryman who claims a similar snake digested six eggs but produced chicks later. The exchange ends with the drummer offering payment if the man swears to the story.
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Detroit Free Press
Sheriff Sale Notice Delivers Decree Details
A certified copy from Huntington circuit court in the case of David B. Hoover through administrator Israel H. Heaston versus William J. Kilander requires public sale of assets. The decree amount is seven hundred three dollars and ninety nine cents with interest and costs. sale to the highest bidder will be held as directed.
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Huntington Circuit Court
David B. Hoover
Israel H. Heaston
William J. Kilander
Wells Circuit
State of
Indiana
Eorel Wm. H. Ernst &c
Elijah F. Miller
Public sale of Wells County real estate to satisfy decree
On Saturday September 22 1894 between 10 am and 4 pm at the court house in Wells County Indiana rents and profits for a term not exceeding seven years and the east half of the described tract of land eighty acres off the south side of the northwest quarter section 30 township 28 north range 11 east will be exposed to sale if the rents and profits do not fetch sufficient funds to satisfy the decree interest and costs. At the same time the fee simple of the real estate or sufficient part to discharge the decree will be exposed for public sale without relief from valuation or appraisement laws. August 27 1808. Gro W Huffman a sheriff Wells County. B M Cobb attorney for Plaintiff.
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Wella County
Indiana
Wells County
Gro
W. Huffman
Sherri Wells County
B.M. Cobb
Bluffton
State of
Wells Circuit Court
Warren Lane
Harnet Late
Sarah FE. Davis
David Qehsenrider
Elias Ochsenrider
Sammel Tewell
Jaco Cimer
Wiliam Oswalt
J. Hiram Ogalsbee
Samuel Henley
William Jamison
George W. Ogalsbee
William P. Moon
J.H.C. Smith
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Exchange
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Sixbey Block
Wilson & Todd
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Pes
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Ffi
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West Market Street
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Wells County Bank
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Webster'’S International Dictionary
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Websters « Dictionary
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