Samoa Tensions Subside After Nipsic Sinking Report
The Samoa affair shows no further trouble on or around the island. Martial law declared by a German consul is a dead letter. Mataafa awaits Admiral Kimberly, seeking U.S. support. The Samoan Times resumes after suppression, and no new disturbances are anticipated.
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Samoa
Nipsic
Olga
Mataafa
United States
Mimberly
The
Samoan Times
Frotze
Salaries of Congressmen Spark Senate Talk of Increase
The Senate debates raise to 10000 dollars a year as high as five thousand a year for lawmakers arguing pay fell short of other professions. The push aims to reduce the surplus and ease fiscal concerns while addressing imputed improprieties of living in Washington on a modest salary.
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Senate
Washington
Warrick County Before the Vincennes and Owensboro Rail Line
Survey of Warrick County Indiana highlights its rich soil forests and growing mining. It notes tobacco and agriculture driving wealth, 248,820 acres with 70 percent farm use, coal beds near Pigeon Creek, and lumber and clay resources. Boonville and Lynnville are key towns with growing industries, schools, and several coal mines. The Evansville branch rail line and DeGonia Springs nearby bolster prospects for future manufacturing and transport.
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United States
Ohio River
Warrick County
Virginia
Kentucky
Carolinas
Pennsylvania
Hooier
Warrick
Pigeon Creek
Louisville
New Albany
Evansville
Princeton
Mc ¥Ernon
Lynnville
Oakland ‘City
Beanville
Boonville
L. E
DeGonia Springs
Indiana
State Building and Loan Associations in Indiana
The State Statistician reviews building and loan associations in Indiana, noting 335 institutions with 389000 shares and assets around 10 million dollars. One hundred thirty-one report organized capital nearly 39 million, with mortgages totaling about 2.5 million. The piece compares their growth to early state banks and calls for possible state supervision.
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Idiana
Weather Crop Bulletin Reflects Favorable Planting Conditions
The weekly weather crop bulletin for March 16 1889 notes average plowing and seeding in Dakota and Minnesota with disruptions from blustery weather, favorable conditions in Missouri and Kansas, and good seeding prospects in Nebraska. Wheat is thriving in Kansas, New York and Pennsylvania report strong winter wheat, and spring planting advances across Kentucky Arkansas Tennessee and the South Atlantic Gulf states. Frosts in Louisiana mild with no damage. overall no adverse reports. week favorable for farm work nationwide.
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Wasnrxcton
Dakota
Minnesota
Missouri
Kansas
Nebraska
Indiana
Kentucky
Arkansas
Tennessee
New York
Pennsyvania
Massachusetts
New Jersey
South Atlantic
Gulf States
Louisiana
Did It Elect Harrison The Curious Minnesota Spin
A Minnesota paper quotes Democratic critics railing at their defeat and noting posters likening Harrison to a circus figure. It mentions Warner’s Log Cabin Sarsaparilla ads tied to Harrison’s father and grandfather, arguing posters helped energize a political message before the Chicago convention.
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Minnesota
Democratic Party
Fourth Street
National Committee
Harrison
Cleveland
Warner
Gin’ 'Harrison
Eithir
Velvet-winged butterfly dazzles Elsie in garden scene
In Vick's Magazine a child named Elsie calls to her mother to view a butterfly. The velvet-winged creature glides above bright pansies as Elsie watches with eager, wandering eyes against a pale blue sky.
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Elsie
Lent observance and its origins in Christian history
The Lenten season, forty days of fasting and prayer observed by Roman Catholics and Episcopalians, begins with Ash Wednesday and ends before Easter. It traces to Jesus fasting in the wilderness, notes St. Matthew Mark and Luke, and is marked by penitence, abstinence, and Holy Week observances including Palm Sunday, Holy Week, Maundy Thursday, and Good Friday.
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Christ
Jesus
Matthew
Mark
Luke
Satan
Little Girls Pull Up Stockings On Busy Street
In a three o clock scene, hundreds of schoolgirls spill from buildings and repeatedly stop to pull up stockings. A spectator notes the habit, wonders at the energy spent, and comments on elastic garters and fashion restraints across generations.
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Boorville
Cormmsret
Charley Ferguson
Pew Business
Walnut
V’elogk
Freim
Cluch P. At
Htte
Niagara Falls
A Novel Wedding in Colored Society at Richmond
A wedding at a Richmond church led by Rev. John Jasper featured ten virgins with lamps as the bride waited at the pulpit. Five lamps went out and those five were expelled, while five wise virgins escorted the groom to the bride as the choir sang Behold, the Bridegroom Cometh.
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Colored Society
Richmond
John Jasper
Papillon Company Skin Cure Promises Universal Cure
Dr C P Henry of Chicago testifies Pap ton flax extract skin cure cured 40 or 50 cases with no failures and calls it a positive cure for all skin diseases. Sold by druggists nationwide at 1 dollar per bottle or prepaid by mail.
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C. P. Henry
Chicago
Ill
Clark
Papillon Company
Wm Knowles
Rockville
Ind
Indianspulis
Clarke
Emmert Proprietary Co
Tilip
Syrup of Figs and a Deaf Mute Pitcher in Evansville
An item notes a stamp or ad for Syrup of Figs as Nature's laxative from the California Fig Syrup Company San Francisco and mentions Evansville's baseball club planning to use a deaf mute pitcher in a playful rumor.
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California
Syru, Company
San Francisco
Cal
Burti
Bres
Wildes
Evanaville
Patent medicine ads and horse liniment lots of names
A fragmented page of early 20th century patent medicine ads lists Fivent's Extract, English Spavin Liniment, Trappy Home Blood Purifier, Jaquis German Worm Cakes, Tom Locke quitting teaching with $30, Uncle Sam's Nerve and Bone Liniment. Prices 50c to 1 dollar. sold by druggists in various towns. claims include curing coughs, fevers, worms, and rheumatism.
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Tennison
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Southside Public Square
J.R. Wilson
Boonville, Ind
Debruler & Gilchrist
Jesse Link
Attorneys Aid Law
Boonville, Imd
Offen
Edward Gougeh
Boon Ville, Ind
Boonville National Bank
Chas
Park
J. A. Newton
Loonville, Mnd
W. McKinney
W. D- Ferguson
Lynnville, Ind
Fuly
A J. Baker
South Side Public Square Vine
Jacob Frantz, Jr
Veranda Hotel
John Nester
Rockport
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Farmers’ House
Frank Hart
Bohrerbros
Fulton Avenue Brewery
WM. Ullmer
Fulton Avenue
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Tell City Division
East Bound
Cannelton
Yell City
Tosa
yoOpix
Tell City
Jasper Division
Jasper
Ar Buntingburgt
Siak
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T. M. Nighols
Ville
Gokko
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M. Leer
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Fairchild
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St. Augustine
Fla
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Rusk
Canada
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Tuer American Preserver's Association
Jelly and Preserve Trust
Sylvester Grubb
Miss Downey
Fair Ground
Jeffersonville
Jesse W. Griffith
Wabash
State Department
Baine
Consular Service
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Wabash County
Lewis IP. Murphy
Lewis
Mary Anderson
Ier
Weir Mitchell
Memphis & Cincinnati Packet Co
ClOrke
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Ay.ee
J. W. Asubey &Cg i
Evansvile
Paducah
Tennessee “River “Packet Co
Ohio
Mississippi
Wisbet
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Cumberland
Tennessee Rivers
Clyde
John G.lbert
St. Louise
Ohd
Silver Cloud
Faducah
Tennessee River
Morrow
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Massengala
Evansville & Louisville Mail Company
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Guthrie
Thomas Sheerer
William Gordner
General
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Sycamore Streets
Asoor
F. A. Shell
Spencer
Owen County
Indianapolis
Marion County
Vincennes, Boonville and Owensboro
Weather Crop Bulletin
Vick's Magazine
Tego
Yhrhry
America
Miles
Wilde
Connersville
Ila
Pitcher's Castoria
Castoria
Henry Brown
G. C. Wilde
South Bend
Jenirsejewski
T. A. Slocum
Peary
Jeffersonville Car Works
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G. O. Wildes
Columbus
Harree
G.Q. Wilde
Angola
Vincennes
Jaquis
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Miami ‘County
Uncle Sam
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