Rushville Ameri can notes in brief and local concerns
Weekly notice from Rushville contains editorials on the end of a cold snap, comments on national figures and events, and a report on Indiana school conditions. It highlights local governance moves toward electric lines, the Soldier and Sailor Monument completion, and praise for home merchants amid a regional education outlook.
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Indianapolis
Commonwealth of Indiana
T. A. L. Gary
Sup
Joint Mass Meeting by Hancock and Rueh Counties Womans Christian Temperance Union
The Joint Mass Meeting of Hancock and Rueh County Womans Christian Temperance Union will be held at Walnut Ridge Meeting House on Saturday March 4 1899. The program lists devotional welcome address responses music papers papers and poetry readings led by local members and state officers with several Union papers and recitations. The Messrs Gothehels will be present to furnish duets.
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Hancock and
Rueh County
Womuan’s Christian Temperance Union
Walnut Hidge
Anna Nigh
Barclay Binford
Lydia Starbuck
Walnut Ridge Union
Mary Wilson
Walnut Ridge
Kate Price
Laura Parker Watureday
Boby Lilian
Carthage Union
Mias
Mary Parker
Carthage Union Sympxium
Ada New
Messra Gottehels
Clark Street
Carthage
Commisioners Court
Rush County
OTICE
Wiliam P. Henley
Indiana Yearly Orthodox Meeting of Friends
Said County
Board of Commissioners
Main Street
Water Street
Board of Rush Co
Prodigal Daughter Reclaimed From New York Lure
Carrie Millard at Cloverside boarding school Nutley New Jersey sought world life after answering a personal ad in a New York paper. She eloped and was later found by friends and returned home. The tale is treated as juvenile folly and a harsh lesson in chasing experience.
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Carrie Millard
Cloverside
Nutley
N. J
Meredith
Ouida
New York
World Fairs Draw Nations Into Peaceful Union
Amid warlike rumors nations prepare grand expositions. Paris expo 1900s, Glasgow 1901, Buffalo 1901 pan American, Detroit bicentenary, St. Louis 1903, New Orleans growth. The piece highlights global unity through labor celebrations and the dangers of winter's cold snap, plus notes on pension politics and cultural curiosities.
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France
Glasgow
Scotland
Buffalo
Detroit
St. Louis
New Orleans
Noted Artist Boots a Bad Likeness Then Traps Debtor
A sculptor displays a harshly mocked bust in his studio labeled For Debt after the sitter denied the likeness. The public flocked to see the clever revenge, and the debtor pays double the original price to claim the wartime bust and leave prison.
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New York Times
Mystery Quarry Near Mulvane Yields Cement Fortune
A Kansas tale recalls a large Mulvane tract known as smoking prairie for years. After rain it smoked, baffling locals until a stranger bought the land and revealed a fortune in cement exposed on the surface worth ten dollars a barrel, reported by the New York Tribune.
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Kansas
Mulvane
New York Tribune
Pearl sets record price for Tavernier gem
The Tavernier pearl sold for $550,000, the highest price ever paid for a single pearl. The two inch long oval gem is hailed as the largest, most perfect of its kind.
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Tavernier
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