Rankin's Weekly Banner Reported April 30 1891
The issue notes political shifts including the Ohio convention and McKinley rumor, railroad commissioners appointments, and Senator Reagan moving to the railway board. It mentions President Harrison and the Rio Grande parade permit dispute, Koch lymph experiments, and a New Orleans streetcar injury. It also covers a postmaster appointment controversy in Oplousas, Louisiana with southern sentiment against black postmasters.
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St. Landry Parish
Oplousas
Ourpore
Annamaker
Difficult Times and Reform Ideas From Dr Folwell Lecture
Dr W W Folwell argues hard times follow booms and slumps due to speculation and the desire for free gain. Remedies include sound money, honest administration, schooling, a pure ballot, temperance, cooperative industries, and frugal living rather than sweeping legislation.
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W. W. Folwell
Dudley P. Chase Post
G.A.R
Congress
Mills as Leading Speaker Candidate for House
The passage endorses Hon. Roger Q. Mills of Texas as the Democrats’ leading choice for speaker of the House. It likens Mills to Cleveland as a reform zealot who seeks tariff reduction to revenue levels, serving the masses through Jeffersonian principles and pledges Mills’ earnest, honest, and frank character.
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Roger Q. Mills
Cleveland
Democrats
United States
Mills
Texas
House 3 of Representatives
Mr. Mills
England Faces India Troubles Amid Reform Moves
The Times-Democrat notes England contends with three Indian crises in Burmat Punjaub and Benares. It cites Russia’s influence and costly peace efforts, adding that after 1857 reforms England widened native forces while curbing mutiny risk with concealed precautions.
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England
Burmat
Punjaub
Benaires
India
Russia
Times-Democrat
Forecasted storms across the continent and economic reciprocity
Weather predictions by W F Foster of St. Joseph detail a major storm wave expected from May 3 across the Rocky Allegheny region to the Atlantic by May 7 with possible tornadoes and June storms. He also predicts limited rainfall and frost, and notes a forthcoming forecast. The piece discusses reciprocity with Brazil and South American nations, predicting market openings for American breadstuffs and shifts in cotton goods trade, with Brazil’s duty removals and exchange of wheat and machinery.
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W. F. Foster
St. Joseph
Pacific Coast
Rocky-Allegheny Valley
Atlantic Coast
Rocky Mountains
Brazil
United States
Europe
Earth's Unsteadiness and World-Wide Natural Curiosities
Scientific notes discuss shifts in air and water masses altering Earth's axis and Berlin latitude. zoological distribution across Asia, Labrador, and Australia. briefer items on gas cooking in Brussels, telegraph fleets, German stone-sole boots, Argentine gas, ether use in Ireland, ether effects, thunderstorm speeds in Russia, and Rome's new commercial museum aims to promote national and foreign products.
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Herr Camp
Berlin
South Pacific
Herr Schonrock
Russia
Rome
Italy
Texas News Roundup with Wells and Fires Across Texas
Local briefs report Waco and Belton artesian wells. Hillsboro waterworks near. Corsicana Fire destroys store. Fort Worth to Dallas rail and county notices. Health worries with measles and smallpox in Ellis Luling Mesquite Forney and Rockwall. cattle dehorning and crops promising. state treasury sums and May 11 16 shoot at San Antonio.
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Texas
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Jal
Corsicana
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Orange Tribune
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Raines County
Bonham
Jno. Jones
J. B. White
Meridian
Sutton County
Sonora
Ennis
Brown
District Court
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