Bargain Real Estate Listings Offer Many Homes and Lots
Indemnity loan and property sale ad lists numerous city blocks and rural parcels for sale or trade. Properties include cottages, six to seven room houses, several vacant lots, and large farms across Franklin Street Cottage Avenue and Brown, Jackson, Clifty, and Harrison townships. Offers feature low cash down, monthly payments, and trades for city property. some parcels near Waymonsville and Maple Grove.
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Brown County
Maple Avenue
Tenth Street
Maple Grove
Mamblen Township
Eight prospectors to Alaska aboard Elwood Mining share plan
The Elwood Mining Association organized with large membership plans to send eight Elwood men to the Klondyke gold fields. Shares sell at 1 dollar, with 500 sold and 2,000 claimed. Eight prospectors depart August 1 with a year’s provisions. stockholders share in prospecting success.
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Elwood
Inn
el- Mining Association
Klondyke
Alaska
Cars For Wheat Crop Rush Hits Rail Lines
Kansas City reports long trains of empty freight cars rolling out to Missouri Iowa Kansas Nebraska and Oklahoma. Thousands of cars will be filled with new 97 wheat within four to five weeks as a grain rush looms. Crop statisticians estimate Kansas wheat yield at 90 million bushels this year.
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Kansas City
Missouri
Iowa
Kansas
Nebraska
Oaklahoma
Annular Eclipse to Darken skies Across Nation
Solar event slated for Thursday July 28 1897 will be visible across the United States lasting about three hours and ten minutes from 7:50 a m to noon. Weather prophet Ira B Hicks predicts atmospheric disturbances severe storms and a heat peak around the event.
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United States
Ira B. Hicks
Beér Says Bo Cascearets Candy
Catharine¢, the most tor Borful medical discovery of the age, pleasant and refreshing, to the taste, act gently and positively on kidneys, liver, and bowels, cleansing the entire system, dispel colds, cure headache, fever, habitual constipation and biliousness. Please pay and try a bar of C. C. C. today, 10, 25, 20 cents. Sold and guaranteed to cure by xi druggists.
Debs’ Death Threat Sways WV Coal Strike Resolve
The piece notes Debs’s influence in ending the West Virginia coal strike as workers resume mining after he urged a walkout. It mentions Debs’s waning influence since his 1894 peak and cites Courier Journal. Also reports Miss Letha Keller’s return to Columbus per Seymour News.
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Debs
West Virginia
Courier Journal
Letha Keller
Columbus
Seymour News
Islander to Sail for Dyea from Vancouver
The steamer Islander is announced to sail for Dyea with a number of berths already taken. Departure from Vancouver is set for July 25 and July 22 is noted in the dispatch.
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Vancouver
B. C
Islander
Dyea
Wealthy Tipton men plan Alaska gold rush trip
July 22 report from Going To Alaska, Tipton Indiana notes James Hadley and A Zehner of Windfall organize a party to head for Seattle and join the Alaskan gold seekers. Both are among Tipton County's wealthiest and most prominent citizens.
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Tipton
Ind
James Hadley
A. Zehner
Windfall
Seattle
Tipton County
Monkey Cudge Dies of Consumption in Chicago Museum
In a Chicago museum a sick monkey named Cudge battles consumption while fellow apes care for him with touching devotion. Keeper Reed notes the disease mirrors human tuberculosis and predicts Cudge may die within weeks.
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Mr. Reed
Cudge
Reed
Woodchuck
Pet
Milwaukee Abandons Semicentennial Exposition Plan
A Milwaukee committee abandons the plan to hold a semicentennial exposition in 1898 for Wisconsin statehood. After efforts to raise 400000 failed to secure broad support, the group shifts to a historical celebration in Madison and requests legislative funding to publish state records.
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Kletzsch
Milwaukee
Madison
Favorable to Health Through Reasonable Athletic Sports
The North American Review notes that athletic activity can aid health when practiced reasonably. It warns against excessive rivalry and overtraining, which can harm the heart lungs and digestion. Most sound youths avoid injury, though a few exceptional competitors have died young while many participate in public contests.
Sunday Dinner at Fashion Restaurant Offers Wide Selection
Guests are invited to enjoy specially prepared Sunday dinners at the Fashion Restaurant located at 609 Washington Street. The ad promises a fashionable dining experience with a wide assortment of offerings for entertaining friends and family during the dinner hour.
PERSONALS: Local residents note sickness and visits
Mrs W J Lucas is sick. Mrs Fred D Martin returned to Kankakee Hl. Dr Rolland and daughter and Mr Will Wetz visited Dr Blend in Edinburg. Miss Mary Roope went to Indianapolis. Frank Mathews came from Elizabeth town to fresco the Christian church. Jessie Shepherd is sick on East Fourth Street. E F Tuttle returned from the Pacific Coast and home. Edna Wells returned to Edinburg. Lottie Austin of Franklin visited Mrs George Myers and left for Clifford. Conningby was a Madison passenger. Prof Cliffered Cox returned from Terre Haute. Condon was an Indianapolis passenger. Roggenkamp of Louisville visits Jonathan Smith. Jessie Mitchell of La Fayette visits Monta Wells. Carrie Fisher visiting here. Mrs Marshall Reeves left for May's Station. Effie Weaver returned to Seymour after visiting Willis Dobson family. Ella Jones of Franklin visits Mrs W J Dowell of Maple Grove. The colored Camp meeting is well attended. Thomas Noblett, scalded by boiling milk, is improving. No one plans Alaska gold hunting.
American Tried by Court Martial for Life in Havana
Manuel Fernandez Chaquito, a naturalized American, faced an ordinary court martial in Havana Cuba. The prosecution sought the death penalty, but judgment was reserved. Consul General Lee attended as a private U S citizen. Chaquito was captured near Jaruco after landing with an expedition. General Weyler was cordially received after the trial.
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Havana
Cuba
Manuel Fernandez Chaquito
Lee
United States
Chaquito
Jaruco
Insurgente
Weyler
Threats in Matanzas Prompt U S Consul to Arm
Havana July 22 Mr Brice United States Consul at Matanzas has armed the consulate after threats of a demonstration against Americans by ultra conservatives He believes the threats will not be carried out but protection is deemed necessary Observers think the war will not end soon and Weyler is facing a pacification farce as insurgents intensify fighting
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Havana
Brice
United States
Matanzas
Millinery bargains at White House of Telephone Columbus Fuel
The Tanners' Committee met Mooney and Sons at 10 a.m. on July 22 but failed to reach an agreement. They called us back at 2 p.m. and, when we wouldn’t accept their scale, became abusive and threatened reinstatement of workers at their terms. The vile and profane language used was not suitable for publication. The Republican editor witnessed but remained silent.
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Tanners’ Committee
Messrs. Mooney and Sons
SCALE OF WAGES FOR WORKERS AT MOONEY AND SONS
Wage table lists pay rates for various tasks such as skiving blacking and setting scouring flesh finishing grain finishing trimming jack ing milling and more under National Oak Scale and Starfing scales. It shows per hundred or per day outputs and daily earnings across multiple categories and includes references to weekly sums and drink advertisement.
Sultan Declares Peace After Trade Settlement
In Constantinople on July 22 the peace settlement trade was issued at 7 pm after a morning of talks with ambassadors and Turkish representatives. The Sultan acceded to the terms amid relief and satisfaction. Further sessions will be needed to finalize all details.
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Constantinople
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