County road improvement act outlined with bonds and hearings
An Indiana act authorizes county boards to lay out improve and finance roads by gravel McAdam paving with bonds up to fifty thousand dollars. Views surveys damages hearings and assessments follow, with jury option and sections for completion, plus city and intercounty extensions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boards of County Commissioners
General Assembly
State of
Indiana
Board of Commissioners
Board of Comm. .Ioners
Ben Vy.ategrian
Aston
Euch Miter
Abd’ Ali
Circuit Court
Samme
Disinterested Kindness and Carpetbagger Rhetoric
A Florence tale recalls a Broadway restaurant incident where a young actress and Florence nearly faced a swindle until a stranger covered their bill with a counterfeit note exposure. The narrative shifts to Minnesota politics, debating carpetbaggers and likely their political fate as echoed by the St. Louis Republican.
Reminiscences and Jokes from an Old Society Column
A collection of light anecdotes and nursery slang origins. Remnants include the origin of wipe off your chin linked to Rutherford B. Mayes, a humorous classroom exchange about geometry and philosophy, and a Sabbath scene of a man scolding his family as he polishes boots.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Democrat
Harry Rockefield
Pallas Theater
Kerr & Wright
Jose Newsom
Pallas
Hayer
Rutherford B. Mayes
Ruthy
Ritchie
Edinburg
Mariar
Morton
Republican Party
Harrison
Indianapolis Herald
Paul Murphy
New Orleans
Cartoonish Scene At Cigar Store Sparks Laughs Over Flat Tbacker
A colored woman visits Ed Palmers on South Illinois street asking the price of flat tobaccos. She plans to mail it to her husband up north, with humor arising as Palmer questions the misunderstanding over harness and a distant locale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raboushka
Stonewall Jackson
Chancellorsville
Ed Palmer
Illinois Street
Mr. Palmer
Indianapolis Herald
Also Mentioned on This Page
Columbus
Mooney & Sons
Lodge No. 30
N. T. Carr
Ellis Patent
Hayes
Arch. Teboe
B. Busch
Washington Street
John Rapp
Shelbyville
Cooper & Duffy
Sweeney
Fair Ground
Will Stansifer
Anchorage
Ledge
G. W. Arnold
John W. Bell
W. Prest
C. H. Wert
Ree
Becy
John Engle
P. Levy
Stephen R. Eader
Treas
Gomstadtr
G. W. Cooper
Trustees
Jas. J. Bishop
Somnus
Arkansas
Barrerin
Rhaphas
Miamisburg
Ove
Bartholomew County
Kerr & Wrights
Bardwell
Florence
Winter Garden Theater
New York
Minnesota
Congress
St. Louis
Ind
Newsom's
Icolumbus
Ose
F. Marquett
Storey & Irwin's
Tipton Street
Sam Johnson
Chamberlain
South Carolina
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Union Card Co
Saraa, M
C. Post
J. B. Husted
Nassau, Rens Co
N.Y
Jas
Brown
Wood Bt
Pittsburg
A 'Xou
Kendall & CO
Boston
Maia
Mark Twain
Joan K. Hallowell
East Eight St
N. Crittenton
Sixth Avenue
Charley Ross
Robinson Crusoe
Puncoast
John E Potter & Cosee Oy
Ward & Company
Pital Grange Supply
Wabash Ave
Chicago
WowrHoo
United States
Boake
F. Davis
U.P. BR. R
Omaha
Neb
Schwartzkopf & Habig
Ir Tors
Cincinnati
G. Schwartzkopf
West Side of
Public Square
Merchant
Allan
Greenwood
Columbus, Ind
Phenix
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