Real estate bargains offer a wide range of city and county lots
An advertisement lists numerous properties for sale by owner brokers. It details houses, cottages, and vacant lots in Columbus and nearby Brown and Jackson townships, with prices from 400 to 2 500 dollars and various terms. Several larger farms in Clay, Wayne, and Harrison townships are offered with cash or trade options.
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Franklin
Swengel
Ohio Township
Brown County
Clay County
Texas
Ft. Worth
Henrietta
Alma Station
Denver Ry
Fexce
Bartholomew County
Trimblen
East
Columbus
Bryanism and the silver wheat price theory debunked
The article attacks the claim that wheat and silver prices move together under bimetallism, arguing intelligent bimetallists favor a single gold standard. It cites Bryan’s speeches asserting silver free coinage would aid farmers, and notes counterpoints from the Indianapolis Journal and public notices on cold remedies and products interspersed in the page.
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Coin
Bryan
Indianapolis Journal
Its Quite Fashionable Nowadays Sunday Dinners At FasHION
A hotel and restaurant ad invites patrons to fashionable Sunday dinners at the FasHION RESTAURANT 609 Washington street. It highlights prepared meals and past patron satisfaction with plans to continue pleasing customers in the future.
Infidel MP Opposes Telegraphs Yet Concedes Change
A Lenace resident and former MP, famed for dismissing new science, mocked telegraphs. When telegraph poles and wires appeared before his house, neighbors pressed him. He stood firm, claiming he once studied the subject and that telegraphs might handle letters but would not move cotton bales.
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Lenace
Wales Preserved Traditions Shape Quiet Character
A Scotch writer notes Wales remains little known to English readers and outsiders, preserving old superstitions customs and language. Towns near London belie easy travel yet Wales retains a distinct, picturesque culture, untouched by typical literary fame.
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Ones
Wales
Laspincott
London
Hennessey Citizens Vote Bonds for Pat Hennessey Monument
Citizens of Hennessey Oklahoma vote 2000 dollars in bonds to erect a monument to Pat Hennessey the early freighter killed during the 1874 Indian outbreak He commanded a wagon train from Wichita to Fort Reno and perished heroically his grave tended by freighters and marked with a memorial stone after the fort buried the charred body.
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Hennessey, O Te
Pat Hennessey
Govera
Arkansas Cil
Wichita
Fort Reno
Rook Island Railway
Hennessey
Indianapolis firm eyes Manchester grain elevator project
George W. Metcalf of John S. Metcalfe Co leaves Indianapolis for Manchester England to oversee construction of a vast 1 500 000 bushel grain elevator. The Webster Manufacturing Company of Chicago supplies machinery and Southern pine lumber. Metcalf and five foremen will supervise the work for the Manchester Ship Canal Company.
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George W. Metcalf
John S. Metcalfe Co
Metcalf
Manchester
England
America
Webster Manufactur
John S. Metcalf
Manchesterg Ship, Canal Company
Will
Measuring the Earth and New Timekeeping Device Highlights
Chicago inventor debuts a water powered timepiece in a circular box suspended by cords. Astronomers and geodetic surveys pursue earth measurement, noting 183 miles as the greatest visual range between landmarks in Colorado and Utah. Observers track star risings from Greenwich to Washington to convert time differences into distance. Pacific measurements involve collaborations with California and Tokyo observatories.
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Meles
Colorado
Mount Elien
Utah
United States Coast and Geodetic Survey
Philadelphia
Pacific Coast
Mount Shasta
Mount Helena
Mount Ellen
Algiers
Spain
Greenwich
Washington
Pacific Ocean
Lick
California
Imperial University of Japan
Tokio
Ornamental Crocodile Plant Thrives as Water Garden Favorite
A gardener shares how a single plant grown in both a dinner boiler and a crock adapts to indoor life. It spreads with vigorous growth, sending air bulbs into long stems and producing a very large leaf. As a house plant it remains attractive, with glassy leaves and minimal care, needing only steady water.
Moving a Brick Chimney Across Rough Ground
An 85 foot chimney weighing nearly 100 tons was moved about 950 feet over rough ground on two greased skids and blocks with one horse and four men. The move finished without harm, marking the second such chimney relocation by the same contractors.
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Manhanset
Shelter Island
Suffolk County
Bridgerampt
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