Illinois Attorne y General on obscene publications
James McCartney, Illinois Attorney General, opines that sale or exhibition of obscene papers such as the National Police Gazette and similar journals violates sections 223 and 224 of the Illinois Criminal Code. He argues such materials corrupt youth, urging enforcement to remove these influences from children.
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National Police Gazette
New York Illustrated Times
The
Illustrated Police News
Sam
James McCartney
Illinois items recounting crimes and misfortunes
Reports from Saybrook and various Illinois locales describe actions against horse thieves, hog losses from cholera, a fatal eye injury to a boy, a reported Lincoln mystery death, a Chicago shooting, a trichinosis case, a lightning death near Vienna, a fatal mine explosion in Nilwood, and a postal penalty over a woolen shirt sent to Chicago.
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Illinois
Saybrook
McLean County
Macon County
Eritz Scheming
Belleville
St. Clair County
Marcon County
Jacob J. Kempter
Chicago
Fortieth Street
Lake Michigan
St. Joseph
Pauline Konzac
John Lessing
Bush
Gardner
Grundy County
Vienna
Johnson County
Bud Mount
W. W. Johnson
Rockford
Winnebago County
Lincoln
Logan County
Henry Teeples
Patrick Cullinane
Nilwood
Macoupin County
Boston
Change in Time Adopted by North American Railroads
Railroads nationwide adopt Greenwich time as standard at noon on November 18, replacing 53 local times. The five divisions Intercolonial Eastern Central Mountain and Pacific align to 60th 75th 90th 105th and 120th meridians with shifts relative to solar time. The map lists differences for major towns and notes origins credited to Prof. Cleveland Abbe and Dr. F A P Barnard.
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Chicago Tribune
North American
Tribune
the Tribune
America
England
Greenwich Observatory
London
Greenwich
Atlantic
Pacific
Chicago
New York City
Nova Scotia
New Brunswick
New England
New York
Pennsylvania
Ilinois
Ohio
Indiana
Missouri
Missouri River
Pacific Coast
Cleveland Abbe
Signal Bureau
Washington
F. A. P. Barnard
Columbia College
Abbe
American Meteorological Society
First cantilever bridge over Niagara opens future rail route
Lockport NY November report notes completion of America’s first cantilever bridge over the 500 foot Niagara River gorge. Finishing pieces at Buffalo. arrival by Monday. trains to run by December 10. Canada Southern and New York Central to use their own span. seven months from start.
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Lockport
N. Y
America
Niagara River
Suspension
Central Bridge
Buffalo
Niagara
Canada Southern
New York Central
Newbern Law Fines Sunday Saloon Entry
Newbern Tennessee enforces a Sunday saloon ban with fines ranging from twenty five to fifty dollars for anyone entering a saloon on the holy day.
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Newbern, Tenn
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Illinois State News
American Geographical Society
Canadian Institute
International Geographical Congress
Venice
Imperial Academy of Sciences
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Menasha
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Stevens Point
Wausau
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Oconomonee
Geneva Lake
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la Crosse
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Berlin
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Ripon
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Waupun
Depere
Madison
Crawfordsville
Ind
Elkhart
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Fort Wayne
Goshen
Greenvastie
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