World news and notes from The Weekly Banner
A selection of 1597 items covering Nicaragua gold export duties, Bombay plague rise, Cuba tariff notes, new gold mines, Kentucky tobacco crop forecasts, frost in Tennessee and Mississippi, Col Charles A Dana illness, Australia wheat exports, political figures in Maryland and Ohio, demented Carorra death in Brussels, Washington Spain tensions, Russian wheat export ban, Mark Hanna insult claim, and the suspension of the Cleburne Morning Review plus general crop and politics remarks.
Causes of Lynch Justice Pressed by Public Indignation
The Austin Statesman notes that vigilante lynching by Judge Lynch arises not only from outrage at a crime against a pure woman but also from difficulties in obtaining legal testimony. It argues court cross examinations embarrass modest witnesses, and urges stamping out crime rather than changing settled law.
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Lynch
Austin Statesman
Farmers Unite Against Monopoly Price Control
The Longview Times-Clarion urges farmers to organize to protect themselves from monopoly power. It argues that cotton prices fall to northern and eastern buyers with money and frames the farm as a diverse economy, warning Texans to use their land and hog production to resist high prices for bacon and corn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Longview Times-Clarion
Texas
Galt
Mechanic and Morality Tale Spurred Changes in Train Route
A moral vignette contrasts a woman who scorns the label mechanic with her eventual misfortune while a man who works for a living rises to wealth and marriage. A separate note reports Conroe branch train operations shifting to Springer due to a Navasota quarantine, with Brenham departure at 7 am and possible permanence.
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Mechanic
Conroe
Springer
Navasota
Brenham
Blood Disease Cure Claims and Horse Accident Tale
An advertisement extols S S S Swift's Specific as a vegetable blood remedy curing deep seated diseases. It recounts Bertha Whitwood thrown from a horse, with a severe scalp wound that healed after S S S treatment. The writer pitches the medicine as superior to potash and mercury therapies and offers free literature.
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Bertha Whitwood
Bh, Kuhn
Marion
Kansas
S.S.S
Miscellany of curiosities from urban life and world notes
A collage of short items. Tuscan, Nebras ka and Atlantic Iowa snippets mix with statistics on languages, religion, fashion, and public health. Anecdotes cover canals in Amsterdam and a theater outing in Atlantic with a contested prize bicycle. A barbec ue plan at Giddings' pasture ends with legal notices and a peace disturbance fine.
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Atlantic
Iowa
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G. Hermann
Sandy Stret
Alex Simon
Utica
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Atlanta
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Amsterdam
England
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Giddings
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