Alaska And Colorado Gold Output Shocks And Quips
The article notes Alaska produced just over two million in gold last year while Colorado reached twenty four million. It quotes jokes about old maids and weddings, mentions W D Owen leaving the secretary of state post to grow coffee and rubber in a 5 000 acre Mexican plantation, and reports Bash railway officials ordering train crews to curb spitting on trains with warnings and possible ejection for persisting offenders.
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Alaska
Colorado
W. D. Owen
Owen
Mexico
Wabash
Indiana Lawmakers Mileage Payments Stir House Hearings
The Indiana House exposed mileage reimbursements at 20 cents a mile with two dozen members reporting 250 to 486 miles. Totaling 1,665 dollars, the figure could cover a man’s fare at 3 cents a mile for multiple world trips plus a long pleasure run.
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Indiana
House of Representatives
Roberts
Peru Morning News
Surface coal near Mottville boosts farm wood-sawing relief
Miners near Mottville Michigan close to Goshen Indiana report easy access to near surface coal. The light bituminous coal, similar to southern Indiana soft coal, burns well and eliminates wood-sawing duties for local farm owners.
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Mottville
Michigan
Indiana State Line
Goshen
Indiana
Chicago Saloons Blamed for Crime and Poverty
A speaker asserts saloons fuel police costs prisons courts and destitution in Chicago, linking crime, divorces, reform schools, and insane cases to drunkenness. He cites widespread ruin from drink and notes 90 to 95 percent connections in various societal ills.
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Chicago
Justice Courts
Bridewell
Criminal Courts
Joliet
Reform Schools
Reform School
Pontiac
United States
Saloon vitality blamed for crime and corruption in city life
A Chicago judge in the Inter Ocean asserts that law breaking in America largely arises from saloons. He calls saloons the headquarters of town and national gerrymandering and says the liquor counter acts as a scaffold for threats to public health and virtue.
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America
Chicago
Gentle Plea for Elder Care and Compassionate Deaths
An editorial reflecting on aging, poverty, and the mercy owed to old people. It argues that society should show softening kindness to the elderly, valuing dignity and support over scorn, and contrasts youth’s vitality with aging fragility. It laments neglect and urges humane charity rather than inhumane judgment.
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Tri-County Gazette
Wanted Managers in State to Run Home Office Work
Wanted sever al trusted persons in this state to manage our business in their own and nearby counties. It is mainly office work conducted at home. Salary straight 900 a year and expenses paid. Monthly 75. References. Enclose self addressed stamped envelope. Herbert M. Heas, President, Dept. M., Chicago.
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Heas
Prest
Dept. M
Chicago
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Peru, Ind
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Albert Fouts
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