Vast Chicago rail spend shapes World’s Fair outlook
The piece notes massive railroad investments to handle anticipated World’s Fair traffic, with lines like the Pennsylvania, Lake Shore, Illinois Central, and others pledging sums from 3 to 10 million dollars. It discusses Goulds’ control of the Wabash and potential routing shifts, plus community events, marriages, and local incidents in Muncie and nearby towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tor
Chicago
Chicago and Alton
Rock Island
Milwaukee and Paul
Northwest
Sant
Grand Jury Hears Indictments in Circuit Court Session
The grand jury filed a report with Judge O Rourke after visiting the county jail and infirmary and returning multiple indictments. Names include Koehneman Hibler Crance Jones Weeks Briggs Waters Shea Hartman Spangler Strayer Bollard Miser Gephart Hickman Stahley Schultz Cooper Baldwin. Wm Spain, 16, pled guilty to burglary and received a two year sentence. other arraignments followed with not guilty pleas and releases. Prosecutor Colerick praised for diligence. A divorce action Sheller v Sheller was granted.
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Judge O'Rourke
William Koehneman
Henry Hibler
Louis Crance
Frank Jones
Chas
Weeks
John Briggs
John Waters
John Shea
Maud Baldwin
Crance
Hibler
O’ Rourke
Wm. Spain
O'Rourke
William Felber
Albert Dunbar
New Haven
Phil B. Colerick
Colerick
Sheller
Bids for Erection of St. Peters Church Rejected As Too High
Bids received for Warsaw avenue church construction ranged from 55 053 to 61 633 dollars. The architect in Detroit will be asked to reconsider plans and specifications after the bids were deemed too high. Additional local resignations and appointments noted in various towns. Nickel Plate agents offer excursion tickets to western routes on Sept 26 and 27 with complete information from agents.
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St. Peter's Church
Warsaw Avenue
Father Messmann
William Brooks
William Moellering
C. Boseker
J. Selzer
George Jaap
Detroit
Nickel Plate
Pathways Through Life and Women in Modern Careers
A collection of reflective verse on resilience and duty, then panel pieces on women in insurance and law. It highlights why women enter insurance sales and law, profiles Milwaukee attorney Kate Pier and family, Tasman author Tasma, and Mary Allison of Chicago, noting careers, homes, and family roles. It closes with a critique of male delays in marriage and rising costs of modern living.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kate Pier
Kate H
Caroline
Harriet
Milwaukee
Pier
Fire at Crance residence in Stumptown destroys second floor
Fire caused by a lamp exploded Friday night at the Crance home at East Creighton avenue and Smith street. Myrtle Crance carried a lighted lamp upstairs to study, leaving it on a table. Flames spread from the second story, neighbors and the family moved furniture to the first floor as flames grew. The fire department arrived and doused the blaze, destroying all second floor furniture including five beds and badly damaging the building and adjoining store-room. Crance's loss is estimated at 700 to 1000 dollars.
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George W. Crance
East Creighton Avenue
Smith Street
Myrtle
Crance
Local Las boris Concerned in Fort Wayne
Sept 16 1892 Fort Wayne reports a Sentinel note on a 1888 speech by then President Harrison and a written question about tariffs versus free entry for foreign laborers. It details a witness, Geo Wilson, and the reply gap. The Kermess at the Battery opens with booth committees named and Ladies presiding over multiple booths for the October 18 carnival led by Major Weldon away at Washington.
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Fort Warne
Horror Sentinel
Harrison
United States
Geo. Wilson
Wilson
New York
America
Battery
Weldon
Washington
Deidrich Meyer
Metzker
Grace White
Minnie Adams
Charles Strawbridge
Wheel of Fortune
Alderman
Hood s Sarsaparilla and Pills Promise Relief
The advertisement argues many poor mortals lack relief and Hood s Sarsaparilla offers strength to build up the body, improve appetite, and fortify stomach and nerves. Hood s Pills are claimed to specifically stimulate the liver, relieve torpidity, cure constipation, and aid digestion.
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Hood
The Wife of Dumas and Other Social Notes
A column on young couples balancing income and marriage timing, plus sketches of notable women. Madame Alexandre Dumas is praised for devotion and partnership with her husband. A mining story highlights a daughter inheriting business knowledge. Queens and duchesses are cited for fashion and education influence. Various notes touch on women’s training, pensions, and honors. A humorous domestic jab ends with a quip about a college yell and a baby’s voice.
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Dumas
Madame Alexandre Dumas
Lucy Hamilton Hooper
France
Denmark
Russia
Wales
Duchess of Cumberland
Michigan
Christian
Archdiocese of Canterbury
Gurls
Fine Arts
Paris
Ernest Guirand
Ferdinand Poise
Cynthia M. Westover
New York
Parisian Inventors’ Academy of Paris
C. M. Westover
New York Weekly
Various Quick Jests and Social Snippets Card
A compact collection of humorous exchanges and social banter. A Lady asks about a birthday gift while a clerk directs her to a bargain counter. Jokes touch on marriage, engagements, dining habits, and oddities like a man dining on nails. A hotel bill quip and a toothpick jail escape in New Mexico provide quick, light anecdotes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jamie
Sully
Charlie Simpson
Maude
Watts
New Mexico
Potts
Nickel Plate Sells Excursion Tickets At Special Rates
Nickel Plate announces excursion tickets available September 26 and 27 in the northwest west and southwest regions. For full particulars, contact the nearest agent or address. Tickets offered at special rates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nickel Plate
The Little Life and a Night of Appetite Medicine
A mosaic of short pieces traces grief for a dead baby, a humorous tale of mistaken sleep and appetite medicines, and a light vignette of Helen Martin with a ham bundle on a streetcar. It then shifts to social commentary on rising pauperism, public aid, and calls for careful charity, concluding with Hon. J. Gordon visiting Antwerp.
Russian Fatalism and New Element Masrium
A clipped essay contrasts Russian peasant fatalism during famine with a tale of Uncle Tom era Kentucky slavery, then notes a new element masrium found in Egypt’s ancient riverbed. It discusses belief in providence, moral policing on plantations, and the periodic table gaps filled by new discoveries, ending with a brief medical vignette about James Mund.
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Shelbys
Blue Grass
Kentucky
Tom
Jace
William
Egypt
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