Maryland senatorial fight and library plan outlined
The Denton Journal notes the Maryland senatorial contest among Governor Lowndes Judge Louis McComas and Major Alexander Shaw with Lowndes leading. It also discusses a proposed state library fund of $100 per county, the Peninsula Horticultural Society meeting in Snow Hill, and Maryland Assembly plans at Annapolis. The piece mentions mugwump definitions and political hopes, plus Singerly’s bank troubles and Russum as a leading United States Senate candidate.
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Maryland
Lowndes
Louis McComas
Z”Alexander Shaw
Caroline
Russum
Peninsula Horticultural Society
Snow Hill
J. W. Kerr
Banks vs the Government in the money debate
From the New York Sun a critique argues that government money issuance is not banking and that government functions like the Post Office money orders, express services, coining, printing, and naval facilities rival private banking. It warns against reducing the government to a mere bank and decries calls for the government to exit the banking business as illogical.
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New York Sun
Post Office
Money Order Department
Gary
Fire Marshal report shows state wide fires and local deaths
The Fire Marshal reports 2404 fires state wide in the seventeen months to September 30 with 19 in Caroline county including 12 dwellings 5 barns and stables and 2 stores in dwellings. Two children of Fannie Johnson died in a December 26 1896 fire near Preston. Losses totaled 1192514.50 with uninsured 224563.45. Thirty six deaths were fire related mostly from gasoline stove explosions. Incendiarism arrests 32. calls for stronger investigation powers. Chamberlains Remedy praised by W H Penn for indigestion relief with local sellers listed.
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Caroline County
Fannie Johnson
Preston
Hollanders Not Leaving Maryland Says Immigration Official
Cor ne lius W Van der Hoost of the Maryland Bureau of Immigration refutes a local item claiming Tollanders are leaving for North Carolina Talbot county and the Western Shore He confirms most remain several have bought land and a Holland colony is thriving with new wharf street bridge store church cann ing factory and ten houses planned for spring
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Tanyard
North Carolina
Talbot County
Cornelius W. van der Hoost
Maryland Bureau of Immigration
Easton Ledger
Nagel
Bureau of Immigration
Wilhelmina
School Children Eyesight and Schoolroom Design
A discussion of eyesight protection in schools cites Professor Allport of Minnesota. Recommendations include ample lighting from the left, properly sized desks, comfortable backs, slightly slanted tops, well positioned boards, and upright handwriting. Principals should be trained to detect eye disorders and notify parents of defects. Transfers of real estate in December are listed with buyers, properties, and prices across Denton Ridgely Federalsburg and surrounding areas.
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Allport
University of Minnesota
Clerk Nobbs
Oliver G. Prentice
Marion BE. Griffith
Louisa Butler
Frederick Hyde
Thos. BR. Green
Wilhelmina T. Hiitts
James A. Noble
Elizabeth Tilghman
Federalsburg
Charles E. Spencer
Lacreta Spencer
Mary B. Replogle
Mollie E. Richards
Ridgely Town
Moses K. Ford
Toisaacs
Joslin
Louisa Jones
Isaac S. Joslin
David Pollock
toIsaac S
Henry R. Lewis
John 8
John L. Nichols
T. Pliny Fisher
Jas. H. Ross
John R. Lynch
Cora Callahan
Maud D. Kemp
W. E. Brown
Denton Town
George T. Redden
J. H. Nichols
Denton Bridge
Samuel B. Huey
Lucy A. Stack
Federalshare
Death of Centreville’s noted “loodoo” doctor Allen
Centreville dispatch reports the death of Dr Allen known as Doctor Allen a pompous “loodoo” fortune teller and witness at Tom Brown’s trial He collapsed after seeking warmth in the jail office Dr Troy could not help and a jury inquest returned a verdict The late Allen had a history as a influential healer among Black and some white residents and was jailed briefly as a State witness in Samuel Rash’s murder case He was released after the trial and had since lived in the county
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Centreville
Allen
Tom Brown
Troy
Justice Bryan
Samuel Rash
Rash
Murder case at Centreville linked to enemy portrait claim
In Centreville a murder case arises from testimony that a man sought advice on killing a mortal foe. Allen allegedly recommended nailing a picture of the victim to a tree and shooting it, a method the defendant is said to have tried on a photo of Rash.
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Rash
Allen
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