Invention Ingenuity and City Paving in Illinois News
Elison stresses money from invention needs equal ingenuity. Springfield aims to be the best paved city outside Chicago. Omaha spends 100000 dollars yearly on public schools funded largely by liquor licenses. An eighteen inch alligator was caught in the Illinois river at Peoria. Hessian fly reported in wheat stubble. burning stubble and deep plowing suggested to destroy it.
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Springfield
Chicago
Illinois
Peoria
Edison equips ballet girls with forehead electric flashes
In Kiralfy’s new production Excelsior each ballet dancer is fitted with a small battery and upon a signal will illuminate her forehead with an electric light, creating a striking stage effect.
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Mr. Edison
Kiralfy
Floods Cyclones and Birds: Mixed News Across States
Counterpointed reports outline October and November elections in several states, a Chicago river fire sparked by grease from packing houses, and a broad call by the Missouri free trade league for a regional meeting in St. Louis. Illinois leads 1881 railroad miles and earnings, while party fundraising grows with clerks’ small donations. Massachusetts enforces a ten hour law impacting women workers, and Paris hosts an insect exhibition from agriculture ministries.
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Missouri Free Trade League
West
United States
St. Louis
Incal and Quarrels Stir Late 19th Century Notes
A mash of items includes phylloxera vine destruction figures for France, new brewer returns under strict sworn statements, a deadly Illinois duel ending in both men dead, and a sharpopinion on the queen’s speech. Labor notes from college life cover wage debates, social events, slang fines, and campus reforms. Mentions include Gladstone praised, moral critiques, and student activities at Aurora and Phi Kappa societies.
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Scott
Aurora Society
Phi Kappa Society
Dille
F. K. Warwick
Louis Wesche
Louis
Nachusa
Annie Adams
Morrison
Tennyson and the King's Poet Vow over Brown
The piece muses on Tennyson’s difficulty writing verse for the death of Brown, contrasting past royal themes with the task, and imagines a brisk, satirical couplet. The Springfield Register discusses trade, tariffs, markets, and a coming reform in tariff policy to boost demand, employment, and American shipping as conditions shift toward expansion.
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Tennyson
Brown
Chaucer
Springfield
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