Chicago Chronicle Emerges As First Class Newspaper
The piece notes Chicago's Chronicle earns rank as a first class newspaper and comments on the high price of a new paper. It reports Missouri Democratic committee voting 10 to 5 against calling a silver convention and mentions Fairfield pride in the local college. The Consolidated Steel Co raises wages by ten percent affecting 6,000 workers. The Supreme Court upholds Judge Woods and sentences Debs Howard and others for contempt for defying an injunction against railroad property depredations.
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Conwidated Steel Co
Chicago
Supreme Court
Woods
Debs
Howard
Drake discussed for Iowa governor nomination
The Sioux City Zirbune notes General Drake, a Chicago railroad man, may seek the Iowa governorship if nominated by Republicans. It argues he could govern from Chicago, as orders have long issued from there.
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Sioux City
Historian’s note on political push for foreign war
The Boston Herald argues the secretary of state became a target of a senseless demand for war by jingo politicians. They say the motive was not to declare war but to impeach the administration’s courage and erode its popularity.
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The
Boston Herald
Wage wages in Mexico under heavy tariff rhetoric
A Chicago Tribune correspondent in the City of Mexico notes laborers earn twelve and a half to twenty five cents daily in silver, worth half U S value. The piece questions protectionist logic arguing Mexico would tempt wage workers with such tariffs and wages.
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Mexico
Chicago Tribune
United States
Decoration Day Reflections On Confederate Memorials And Union Unity
The piece notes Chicago dedicating a Confederate monument and southern graves with northern flowers. It urges no sympathy for the lost cause, honors brave soldiers on both sides, condemns treason, preserves the Union, and calls for fraternity and peace among all citizens.
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Chicago
South
United States
Fairfield High School Graduates Largest Class Yet
The twelfth annual Fairfield public high school commencement was held at the opera house. Ten graduates, ten young ladies and ten young men, staged three hours of lectures on literature science history biography and declamations. The event highlighted strong student preparation and a proud public schools’ record, ending with diplomas and a class song.
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Fairfield Public High School
Opera House
J. F. Magill
Presbyterian Church
Mary Farrar
Sir Launfal
Una Bradshaw
Cotter
Rena Carter
Miles Standish
Mary E. Groff
Mulford Burnett
Grace McClain
William Mendenhall
Ira White
Buena Vista
June Chidester
Nauhaught
Alta Gift
Edna Hisel
Ernest Hopkirk
Robert Burns
Korea
Nellie L. Fry
China
Floyd McQuiston
Charles T. Jaques
Japan
Seward
Polar Bear Garden
Alaska
Orrin Kellogg
Marie Antoinette
Gertrude Caldwell
Phil. Sheridan
George Kennedy
George Washington
Henry 5. Stewart
Fred Douglass
Neal D. Tomy
J. S. McKenney
Board of Education
Fairfield
Republican Party Would Back Free Silver, Carter Says
Senator Thomas Carter of Montana, chairman of the Republican National Committee, declares a Republican free silver majority in Congress is certain. He says the first act would be a free silver bill, vetoed by President Cleveland but supported by a party plank to bypass vetoes. Carter urges reasserting 1882 platform and warns of a belt around the electoral college to aid free silver. He favors renomination of ex-President Harrison and plans to push the campaign without belt.
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Thomas Carter
Montana
Republican National Committee
Carter
Congress
Cleveland
Mr. Carter
Harrison
Industrial Boom and Wage Increases Across Eastern Cities
Bradstreet reports from seventy five eastern manufacturing centers show over 227 new concerns started since April, employing 53 000 workers. Wages rose for 178 000 industrial workers by about ten percent, six sevenths without strikes. Prices edge upward, especially steel and iron, with business volume slowly expanding in large eastern cities.
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Bradstreet’s
Rocky Mountains
Crop prospects brighten in Jefferson county this season
Jefferson county reports superb wheat rye oats and corn with pastures at peak and fruit prospects flattering. Hay looks likely to be unsatisfactory though overall yields should be ample and crops show strong potential for the year.
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Jefferson County
Men of virtue define true greatness beyond power
The quote argues that real greatness comes from charity and fairness, condemning those who wield authority narrowly and unjustly without compassion. It emphasizes that power alone does not confer true greatness.
Olney Named Secretary of State in President's Choice
Richard Olney the attorney general was chosen by the president on Monday to succeed the late Judge Gresham as secretary of state and has accepted.
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Richard Olney
Gresham
Cough Remedy Praised for Croup and Whooping C cough
Mothers praise Chamberlain s Cough Remedy for croup and whooping cough. It gives prompt relief and is safe and pleasant. Sold by Bradshaw Thoma druggists as customer G W Richards of Duquesne Pa endorses it.
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G. W. Richards
Duquesne, Pa
Bradshaw & Thoma
Parsons College celebrates twenty years with seventeenth commencement
Parsons college marks its twenty years with the seventeenth annual commencement. The institution, founded February 24 1875 and organized September 8 1875, has alumni numbering 190. It faces needs for a dormitory while boasting a $100,000 fund, and notes the hard but steady growth in instruction and influence in Fairfield and surrounding areas.
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Parsons College
Parsons
Fairfield
West
Rey
Ambrose C. Smith
Armstrong
Richard A. Harkness
Levi Parsons
Abram H. Conrad
Ringland
William A. Wirtz
Samuel Grant Oliphant
William J. Bollman
Hunt
Frederick Stanton Elder
John V. Bean
Eight Annual Preparatory Contest and Graduation at Presbyterian Church
The week opened with a favorable view on attendance as students competed in the eighth annual preparatory department contest at the Presbyterian church. Prizes of ten dollars each were awarded for declamation and oratory with honors given to Howard W. Johnston and Stella Phillips. Friday’s graduation saw twenty graduates, seven scientific and thirteen classical, receive diplomas after delivering orations on topics from Joan of Arc to Napoleon and Livingstone.
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John F. Magill
Alexander Rommel
A.A.C.M
Presbyterian Church
Brown
George A. Brown
Ottumwa
Lown
Marsh
Fairfield Orchestra
Lee A. King
Benedict Arnold
Gele M. Hodgens
John G. Hodgens
Mr. Hodgens
Grattan
Corry
Howard W. Johnston
Johnston
Ralph P. Loomis
James A. Garfield
Garfield
Stella Phillips
William K. Giltner
Canal
Zelma Sawyers
Abraham Lincoln
Demosthenese
William F. Giltner
Fairfield Mandolin Club
W. G. McClure
Petchaburee
Siam
Clare C. Baldwin
Sarah Esther Boyle
Joan of Arc
Elizabeth Davies
Marcus Whitman
Oregon
Kate Davies
Albert Jordan
Ralph Keirns
Napoleon
France
Charles Kilpatrick
Albert Wyllie
David Livingstone
Dr. Smith
W. &. Giltner
C. G. Sargent
Samuel L. Dana
Adda Davies
John Houghton
W. R. Houston
Esther Millard
Albert Rider
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Democratic Committee
Misouri
Jlver
Nt Te
Harlan C. Smith
South Side
Flower’s Millinery Store
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