Wealthy Colorado ranchman seeks wife amid mail flood
Pavut Ware advertised for a wife about a month ago and has received heavy mail, needing barrels at the post office and a farm-wagon to haul it home. He has not yet chosen. The 1889 crop year brought record yields in wheat corn and oats, with US totals near historic highs. Z J Drake of Marlboro county South Carolina won 239 bushels per acre in corn, and Henry F Burton of Salt Lake City claimed 80 bushels per acre in wheat.
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Oldest man in world claims Bogota origin
A supposed 180 year old man named Michael Solis, a mixed race resident of Bogota in San Salvador, is said to be the world’s oldest. Doctors recall signatures dating to 1712. Solis attributes extreme longevity to strict diet, water intake, and eating only cold meals twice daily.
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Methusaleh
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Louis Hernandez
Solis
San Sebastian
State of Indiana
Allen County
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Firu Worden
Benjamin F. Williamson
Emma A Williamson
Emma A. Wil- Nansop
Indiana
Auawer
George W. Lorg
Morris Barrets
Revival among the Miami Indians and the Molly Slocum story
A Baptist revival grows among the remnant of the Miami tribe living ten miles above Peru. Molly Slocum, abducted from Pennsylvania, grew up with the tribe and married a warrior. Her brother, a Baptist preacher, educated and christened the Indians, leading to a wealthy, educated, Christianized community that owns prime land but faces eventual extinction.
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Molly Slocum
Pennsylvania
Molly
Missinnway
Mud and social notes from Waxtuen Indiana long ago
Local tidbits report ongoing ailments within Frederick Botteron's family and visitors from Illinois. Miss Ethel Shordon visits Miss Nina Harding. Mrs. Herrick returns from Fort Wayne. George Georglein hosts a corn feast. plans for a Mother Goose entertainment at Bowers Chapel. Local meetings of the farmers alliance announced and sawmill and tile machinery upgrades previewed for Grosjean Bros. in Waxtuen.
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James Anderson, Jr
Illinois
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Ethel Shordon
Nina Harding
Wm. R. Herrick
Fort Wayne
George Georglein
Alice Vordermark
Bowers’ Chapel
Florence Guillaume
Jesse Grice
H. N. Herrick
Farmers’ Alliance
Call’s
Shiner’s
Milan Center
Waxtuen
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Wallen
J. M. Sechler
Dr. Smith
Samuel Golden
Washington
George Anderson
Billy Stewart
Single Tax club outlines aims at first Fort Wayne meeting
The Single Tax club held its initial public meeting at the Business Men's Exchange on Calhoun Street with good attendance. W. E. McDermut outlined the club’s objects, the single tax doctrine, and the goal to study social and economic questions affecting Fort Wayne. He argued taxes should shift to land value while preserving equal rights and fair, growth-friendly policy.
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Calhoun Street
W. E. McDermut
Fort Wayne
Indiana election to decide Senate successor and tight legislature
The St. Louis Globe Democrat notes Indiana will vote on a U S Senate successor to Voorhees and a hard fought state legislature. Indiana’s status as a swing state is highlighted, with both parties eager for victory. The race is seen as a national plebiscite on the president’s policy.
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Fort Wayne Likely To Have Four Street Railways Soon
Indications point to Fort Wayne hosting four street railways before summer, adding an electric line beyond Abbott’s addition. The Land and Improvement company plans a new route from the Columbia street bridge to the south depot, with terminals in the new river addition. R T McDonald and Randall and Foster named among investors, power to be supplied by a local water-power station.
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Washington News Roundup on Postmasters and World’s Fair Moves
The day’s reports cover forty new postmaster nominations with Indiana absent, Morgan resolution support, and oleomargarine tax issue. Blaine illness in Wasumerson worsens to pneumonia. Secret session on a British extradition treaty. House actions include reconsideration attempts on rules, the world’s fair committee, and the New York world’s fair bill. Senate patents committee backs the Chace copyright bill. Oklahoma town site bill moves in the House committee of the whole.
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Deliberately Placed on the Market at St. Paul
Health officials in St Paul Minnesota report finding diseased meat placed on the market after thirteen hogs died of cholera at a near city slaughter house. Six hogs in one pen and twelve in another were dying or dead from the disease while being prepared for sale. The incident follows a wider report of animal sickness linked to markets and stock yards in Illinois.
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Fatal Tank Collapse Kills One in Jeffersonville Yard
An eighty thousand gallon tank in the Jeffersonville Madison and Indianapolis yard collapsed while carpenters worked. Joe Gabel of Columbus died, Lowell McLeod and Wm Hoehen of Columbus and Crothersville were injured. Ground was torn up and company loss estimated at 6000 dollars. Cause attributed to swelling of dry timbers.
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Crothersville
Flood Plague Hits Carmi and Evansville Regions
Three hundred Carmi residents fled rising Little Wabash waters and many more feared displaced as the river swelled. In Evansville Indiana the river climbed past danger and drivers report widespread inundation with farms ruined and corn destroyed while towns along Green and other tributaries face higher surges and cold hunger.
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Vatican to negotiate Brazil church state relief
Rome reports the Vatican will begin talks with Brazil over relaxing the edict limiting church privileges. The aim is to restore clerical rights while preserving friendly relations, with negotiations to seek relief for clergy affected by the government action. Dreier and Bro. promote King’s remedies with a refund guarantee.
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