Politician Activity and Local Elections Preview
Local political figures including James McAndrews, D. W. Mills, Denis Sullivan, and Alex J. Jones feature in endorsements and strategic talks for Cook County elections. References to drainage trustees, city treasurer, and legislative races highlight party battles, labor support, and predicted election outcomes across Chicago wards and districts.
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Democratic National Committee
Bryan
Cook County
National Committee
Chicago
Carter
Legner
Wenter
Smyth
Jones
Braden
Webb
Colorado editor calls statement a bear faced lie
A Colorado editor denounces a political statement as a bear faced lie describing it as a grizzly wild and woolly prevarication with elonawmon colored whiskers, signaling strong contempt for the assertion.
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Colorado
Henry Moore Aids Large Monroe Falls Family
Henry Moore of Monroe Falls Ohio supported a family of twenty children at eighty one fifty per day not as experiment but out of necessity. The account notes the challenge of living on cents a day and the impact of funds on daily survival.
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Henry Moore
Monroe Falls
Ohio
Fire loss in continental city vs Boston compared
The fragment contrasts estimated annual fire losses, noting a continental European city the size of Boston would incur no more than 150000 dollars per year, while Boston’s losses exceed 1500000 dollars annually. The passage implies higher risk or cost in Boston.
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Europe
Boston
European building laws could cut public costs in states
The article argues that implementing European style building laws would limit fire damage and water supply strain, reduce insurance costs, and lower annual public expenditures, noting foreign cities’ tires cause less damage and that public opinion would enforce stricter standards.
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Loston
Brussels
Amsterdam
Rome
Lyons
Marseilles
Europe
Geronimo and His Band: From War to Madness
A historical account notes the Apache chief Geronimo and his band surrendering after a costly conflict with the United States. Gen Miles and General Lawton cornered them at Four Peaks, Arizona, in 1886, leading to imprisonment at Mount Vernon and Fort Sill where Geronimo reportedly went mad after fourteen years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Geronimo
Miles
Lawton
Four Peaks
Arizona
Mount Vernon
Ala
Fort Sill
Rats Set Fires with Sulphur Matches, Says Insurance Study
A Boston fire insurance company conducted a three month test to see if rats or mice start fires by gnawing matches. In cages with various matches and cotton waste, mice did not gnaw the matches, but rats ignited several ties using sulphur matches.
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Boston Fire Insurance Company
New Italian King Faces Tax Burden and Regional Strife
The new king of Italy ascends as tax burdens across regions strain the nation. One third of citizens’ income funds taxes, with heavy divergence by region. The north pays least, the center more, and the south, mainly agricultural, pays most. Sect ionalism grows as Neapolitans lament northern dominance, risking internal strife and Vatican-government tension.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Italy
Europe
Unclear fragment hints at political tensions and press rights
The text references King Humbert suppressing press freedom and public assembly, provoking patriot opposition. It suggests the new sovereign faces the task of easing a tax burden and addressing a dissatisfied populace.
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Humbert
Legal Ruling Validates Okay as Binding Abbreviation
In Ullnoels a court upheld the use of O. K. as a legally binding signature in a compromise between two manufacturing firms. One contestant later challenged the term as slang, but the court held it conveyed universal understanding and was valid and enforceable.
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Ullnoels
Playfair Hygiene Pioneer Noted For Public Service
Lord Playfair ranked among Britain’s most honored figures for leading sanitary reforms and scientific instruction. He inspired open letters known as post cards and helped shape Anglo American accord during the Venezuelan dispute. A curious Edinburgh tale tells of him teaching the Prince of Wales science with boiling lead and ammonia.
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Great Britain
Lord Playfair
England
Playfair
Say
The
North American Review
America
Cleveland
University of Edinburgh
Prince of Wales
Edinburgh
Filthy Mountain Inhabitants of Caucasus Described
An article depicts a Svane-Han village in a remote Caucasus range between the Black and Caspian Seas. It condemns extreme squalor inside stone huts where families live with vermin, no chimney, cooking on a floor hole, and winter confinement that keeps people and cattle in close quarters for days.
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Caucasus
Black Sea
Caspian Sea
Degradation of the People and Their Industries
A New York Ledger excerpt warns that degradation comes from excessive alcohol, causing disease, and notes the culture’s four day workweek and frequent saints days. It claims no local manufacture exists, with farming, bee culture, and cattle breeding as the sole industries across the territory.
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New York Ledger
Laddites Terror and Rebecca Riots Recap from New York Things
In Derbyshire Lancashire Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire the Laddites terrorized English counties for two years with vengeance led by King Ladd and his henchmen. After sixty four were executed in one giant batch the horrors ended. Thirty years later Wales saw the Rebecca riots aimed at destroying all turnpikes. Poverty would vanish if people were paid for foolish words and deeds.
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Derbyshire
Lancashire
Yorkshire
Nottinghamshire
English
Ladd
Wales
Principality
New York
Fortune’s Bottled Beer Bottling Plant Opened
Fortune Brewing Company expands with a large bottling works adjoining the brewery on Van Buren west of Desplaines. The facility features the latest cooling and freezing machinery, keeping walls at freezing point. The firm touts its world famous beer and invites calls to telephone Monroe 40.
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Fortune
Fortune Brewing Company
van Buren Street
Desplaines
Fortune Brewery
Monroe 40
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