City Aldermen Meet Hearse, Sewers, and Fire Horses
City aldermen reported three iron culverts laid on Main street and macadamizing finished on Proctor street with Main street patches and sidewalk work. Two new fire horses and a sprinkler hook and ladder wagon were approved. sewer extension and eight inch pipe laid near Carr to Chapel Hill streets were ordered. Police reports showed eighty warrants issued, including drunkenness and larceny, with city stables space requested for the ladder wagon. Local Mission Work at Main Street church drew large crowds and enthusiastic support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of City Aldermen
Main Street
Proctor Street
Water Committee
J. D Hardy
Water Company
Woodall
County Dads in Session Addressing School Committeemen
County commissioners met in regular session to review charges against district No. 26 colored school committeemen with two discharged and replacements elected. A frivolous charge against district No. 5 white committeemen was dismissed. The board ordered a bridge across Northeast creek near the county line and discussed local bridges but took no action. Outside poor list was continued and a Polk Miller entertainment ticket sale at Yearby’s drug store promoted. Additionally, various local notices and colonial-era items fill the episode with reports from Raleigh and Raleigh-related remarks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wm. Page
Rufus Barbee
Patterson Township
Northeast Creek
Chatham County Line
Leigh
Cole’s Mill
Red Mill
Polk Miller
Court House
Yearby's Drug Store
Robert Burdette
Mr. Miller
Miller
Social clash at luncheon reveals class contrast
At a lunch Miss Sawyer, poor but bright about social lines, meets Miss Taylor, rich yet cold. Sawyer openly teases the irony of their surnames linked by ancestral trades, noting her grandfather was a tailor and Taylor’s a sawyer, and vice versa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miss Sawyer
Miss Taylor
Sawyer
Taylor
Fish City Michigan a Winter Town on Saginaw Bay
The article describes Fish City Michigan a seasonal town built on the ice of Saginaw Bay each winter. It supports families employed in catching cleaning and packing lake trout and white fish for the market. The town sits in the same cove annually and appears with a population near 3000 in 1893 94 and nearly double in 1894 95.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Fish City
Mich
Saginaw Bay
Lynching in Texas and bank raid aftermath
Report covers the Wichita Falls bank robbery by Foster Crawford and The Kid, their capture near town after a one hour fight, and mob lynching after guards abandoned them. Also notes the broader push to abolish the US district attorney and marshal fee system amid ongoing reform debates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
Fort Worn
Foster Crawford
the Kid
City National Bank
Wichita Falls
Frank Dorsey
P. P. Langford
Wichite Palis
M Rilla
Bnd
Fires Consume Homes in Eton and Statesville
The text reports two adjacent house fires in North Carolina towns Eton College and Statesville. Dr. W. S. Long Jr.’s residence burned last week, with his uncle B. F. Long’s home suffering a similar roof fire from a defective chimney. The incidents highlight a broader critique of courthouse processes and a Judiciary Committee bill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. S. Long, Jr
Eton College
B. F. Long
Statesville
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Tlissian
L. B. Turnbull
G. W. Watts
W. A. Erwin
T. B. Fuller
J. N. Cole
W. C. Tyree
Leo
W. Ballard
T. L. Troy
Durham County
J. C. Kilgo
G. I. Dowell
Liszie Taylor
Cuba
House of Representatives
Senate
Cannon
Appropriations
Hitt
House
Cleveland
Polk Miller Entertainment
W. P. Hackney
Heartt & Hackney
W. H. Hughes
Raleigh
South Carolina
Blackvinlle
S. C
South Carolina & Georgia
Windsor
Calvin Kennedy
Kennedy
Sally Webb
Weyler
Maparo
Havana
Imparcial
Gomez
Maceo
M’bride Suen
Mrrchett
McBride
Lone Island City
Michael Kramer
Kraemer
John
New York
Michael
Gacey
Evans
North Carolina
Truman
Wall Street
The
Philadelphia Ledger
Loxpon
St David's
Fairgrove
China
Hanover
Westchester
Princeton
Harvard
Red Banner
Sir Excess
Rey del Carreres
Montauk
Reading Railroad
Wayne Junction
Philadelphia
Poindexter
Ral
Elgh
Congress
Carrol
Judiciary Committee
Wood
Yauphan
Hood
Judeia
Arkansas
Porter
Sanupactwred
Paris Medicine Co
Loum
Kali Works
Nassau Street
New
Ceve-er T
York
Pridgen & Jones
West Main Treet
Old Hickory
J. L Nissen
Starke
Dixie Plows
Oliver
Clarke
Lloyds Hardware Store
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