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Newspaper
Bowen Chronicle
Location
Bowen, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Dec 13, 1901
Page
9
A local store announces a brighter Christmas season with expanded buying, broader stock, and improved fill of customer wants. It highlights a complete overcoat stock and an imitation chinchilla priced at 5.00, with other coats ranging from 6.50 to 20.00, framed as the best money can buy.
Two farms described near towns with schools and churches. No. 1 offers 92 acres with a 2 story house 1 room, barn 28 by 36 feet, good orchard, two wells, fencing, near a population center and school, asking 8000 a price 8500. No. 2 covers 84 acres in Adams county with 6 room house barn granary orchard peach trees oak timber and water near a shipping town, price 83500. No. 6 presents 85 acre Hancock farm all cultivated with 5 room house, summer kitchen, small barn and outbuildings, near a town, price 2900 to be sold before 1902.
News from the capital notes the President’s frank treaty message with Great Britain confirming prior reports and provoking debate among Senators about secrecy and ratification. A looming tariff fight over Cuba concessions and a Supreme Court ruling opening Philippines trade loom large as Congress confronts extending the Dingley tariff.
The article notes continued debates over federal irrigation aid for western lands, refunds for duties on Filipino imports, and a flood of bills in Congress. It highlights Rep Dalzell and Rep Brownlow, plus Miles and Wheeler anecdotes, and reports from the Senate on the Isthmian Canal Commission, the Nicaragua route, and a push for a Census Bureau and a vice admiral rank.
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