Currency bill foe. Emerson praised. Niagara power plan
The House committee reported unfavorably on taxing legal tender notes as unconstitutional. London press praised Emerson. Bills seek condemned cannon and balls for cemeteries, while Jersey City tests India rubber stock. Niagara Falls power plan eyed to light Boston and Chicago. Missouri protests spur Kansas City support for officials against brigandage. Forestry congress warns timber scarcity with huge future demand and rising timberland prices.
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House Committee On Currency and Banking
Niagara Falls
Boston
Chicago
Merchant Smith and the Twelve Gross Grindstones Mystery
An Austin merchant named Smith ordered twelve gross grindstones from a New York firm believing he had written the exact quantity. The firm chartered a schooner with 1,728 grindstones to Galveston. Smith, paying cash on delivery, continued to buy and sell grindstones wholesale for years, undeterred by the error.
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Texas
Galveston
Nature the Healer and Kidney-Wort Cures
Nature cures disease by expelling the cause and Kidney-Wort aids this natural process. The Sun notes the herb’s effectiveness in supporting nature’s work, claiming it performs many great cures by helping elimination.
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idney-Wort
Five hundred trees planted in Vail public park
A Iowa item notes five hundred trees set out in the public park at Vail. Other items report prices and incidents including an Iowa railroad case, a fatal railroad accident at Fairfield, a death from Des Moines injuries, a cave-in burying a man named Gillespie, and a Logan city council warning to the Northwestern railway about street obstruction.
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Robert Graham
Des Moines
Linn County
Gillespie
Logan
Northwestern Railroad Company
Samuel Henderson
Cedar River
Vinton
Democritus to Democritus: touch seeds all senses
Popular Science Monthly discusses the ancient idea that sight hearing smell and taste are variations of touch. It traces embryology from ectoderm to sensory division and notes the evolution from simple pigment spots to lenses revealing the external world.
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Popular Science Monthly
Democritus
Aristotle
Telesius
Fiendish crimes and mob violence across towns reported
A May 3 sheriff pursuit near Gunnison Colorado resulted in four cattle thieves shot dead. May 4 John Davidson of Philadelphia killed his mother with a hatchet. Greensburg Pennsylvania saw a May 1 burglary where three masked men bound women and hanged one to extort loot, about $300 recovered. Reports from Greensburg Indiana describe a mob hailing O M Carrett and threats to hang Frazier and Mrs. Walton. A Texas & Pacific train robbery suspect was captured after a gunfight, with the gang believed to be active against Gulf of California and Santa Fe trains. A steam horse-cleaning machine is noted at Third Avenue stables, and a discussion of early weapon use appears in Popular Science Monthly.
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London Dispatch Reports May Day Developments in England
England report from London dated May 4 notes ongoing political tensions and social unrest. Analysts describe cautious government measures and public demonstrations shaping the domestic scene.
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