Progress of the Fiftieth Congress and Western woes
A Dixon Illinois issue reports the fifty congress closed with Cleveland vetoing 278 bills, the Reading Iron Works suspended payment throwing about 3,000 workers out of work, and sprawling commentary on inaugurations and cabinet picks. It notes a Chicago Sunday observance meeting and a massive nineteenth century railroad wreck near Illinois Central, plus farm foreclosures in Berks County and rural exodus. A Dakota letter warns readers to investigate before moving west amid droughts, taxes, and land sharks.
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Reading Iron Works Company
Illinois Central
Standard Oil Company
Berks County
New York Evening Post
Lowell
Mass
Windham
N. H
Holden
Worcester
Nashua
Dixon Sun
Rock River Valley
Dakota
Huron
M. A. Hess
First St
Record corn harvest touted as nation’s largest ever
The piece proclaims a harvest near two billion bushels on 75,672,763 acres, valued at about 700 million dollars. It cites Iowa as the banner state with 321,629,962 bushels on 7,797,099 acres and notes prices around 23 cents per bushel, comparing the crop's value to national mining and banking totals of the era.
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Seaboard
Chicago
Iowa
United States
America
Iowa Agricultural Society
Balance Sheet Summary for Lee County Bank 1889
The statement lists assets including loans and discounts, overdrafts, U S bonds, other stocks and mortgages, deposits from the national bank, premiums, checks, bills, fractional currency, and specie. Liabilities show capital stock, surplus, undivided profits, bank notes, dividends unpaid, and deposits. James A Hawley swears the figures are true. notarized by John Coleman on March 5, 1889.
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U.S
U. S
National Bank
Individ
James A. Hawley
John Coleman
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Cleveland
Madrid
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Richard Pigott
Parnell
Washington
Central Music Hall
Roche
James G. Blaine
William Windom
the Treasury
John Wannamaker
Redfield Proctor
Benjamin F. Tracy
the Navy
John W. Noble
the Interior
W. H. H. Miller
Jeremiah M. Rusk
Agriculture
Mr. Blaine
Windom
Harrison
Senate of the
Riddlesberger
Virginia
Indiana
Dixon National Bank
Dixon
Illinois
State OF Illinois
Lee
J.C. Ayres
Theron Cumings
Dodge
Lok
Total Eee
Charley’s
Charley
the Great Western Weekly
THE
Renan
Munkacsy
Christ
Pilate
the Republic
ST. Louis Republic
ST. Louis
Theo. Moller
Theo. McEller
County of Lee
Circuit Court
James B. Charters
Daniel J. Emery
Lee County
Dixon and Sterling Road
Dixon and
Sterling Road
H. Bethea
J. B. Charters
Biorton
Rochester
McRoberts Electric
S.horton
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