Unified Voices Clash Over Hawaii Haiti And State Politics
The Weekly Banner from Dec 16 1897 surveys political debates in 1900 national elections with Culbertson Bailey Bryan and others, notes Hawaii Haiti policy tensions, profiles Arizona Chief Justice Kabster Street born 1847 and educated Antioch, discusses Texas governor candidate Hor Sayers and the Baxner editor's stance, and critiques union rights versus nonunion labor with a Hillsboro Herald note and Nacogdoches Chronicle crops vs unions.
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Arizona
Kabster Street
Tombstone
Justice Street
Salem
Ohio
Antioch College
Pittsburg
County law extracts and local notices from Bonhaw News
The excerpted text covers legislative fines for misbehavior by county officers, duties of grand juries, and several local notes. It includes a Bonhaw News item on broad topics, then city and regional notes: London tweed usage, New York ice consumption, a Santa Fe sighting, a Worcester bank clerk tragedy, window cleaning tips, Indiana United Brethren college funding, Staunton ugly-girls ad, a Cumberland migration of squirrels with 3,000 swam across the Potomac, and 300 killed by locals.
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Grand Jury
Staunton
Cumberland
Potomac River
Farmers report Johnson grass seed cart ridge discovery
R B Hutto and Floyd Tindell near Taylor recount a land owner between Bartlett and Davilla finding a dropped hunting cart ridge. The cartridge inside reportedly contained Johnson grass seed rather than shot, seen as a novel method to sow Johnson grass on farms.
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R. B. Hutto
Floyd Tindell
Taylor
Bartlett
Davilla
Large Texas assembly attends Houston flower carnival
The Houston flower carnival draws a large statewide delegation while other notes report an injunction on the sale of the Sherman City Bank building and ongoing political talk on trusts and silver policy.
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Houston
Four-cent cotton spurs debate on economy and reform
The Dallas Times-Herald reports farmers and citizens discuss economic questions as cotton prices fall. They call for lower freight rates and home industry growth, urging officials to act and noting growing dissatisfaction with current salaries and leadership. Results may follow.
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Dallas Times-Herald
Gulf
Oldest Man in Texas? 118 Year Old in Taylor County Tent Life
The Abilene Reporter recounts Taylor county claims of a man living in the mountains who says he is 118 and earns a living by cutting wood. He uses the name Louie Soucie, is a French Canadian with long Texas residence, and asserts he saw George Washington. Neighbors believe him, making him possibly the oldest active man in America aside from Death Valley Indians.
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Abilene
Texas
United States
Taylor County
Louie Soucie
George Washington
America
Death Valley
Rail magnate adds two more lines to empire
J Pierpont Morean, known as a government bond manipulator, expanded his holdings by acquiring two railroad companies in the past week and signals he plans further acquisitions.
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J. Pierpont Morean
Marion County Board Demands Local Printing Supplies
The new Marion County board of supervisors urges officials to buy blanks envelopes and letter heads from local printers and threatens to cut foreign printing bills. They claim home printed forms are adequate and keep money circulating locally, preferring local vendors to city printers. The board is described as a solid, sensible group by the Marshall Star.
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Board of Supervisors
Marion County
Marion County Board
Marshall Star
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New York
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Hillsboro
Nacogdoches Chronicle
Farmore
Laborers Union
London
Greater
Santa Fe Valley
New Mexico
Edward Hamilton
Worcester
Mass
Indiana
United Brethren College
Cooke County
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Sherman
R. 0. Johnson
McKinney
Terrell Insane Asylum
Gerald
Waco
Burt
Green Robinson
Farmersville
Cotulla
Sayers
Crane
W. J. Bryan
St. Louis
I, Nowakowsky
Chas. W Lemm
Nowakowsky & Co
W. Schuerenberg
West Sandy Street
Brenham, Texas
Louis Korff
Korff & Clemons
Ibutchers
Brenham
Sacaage
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