New Money Orders and Hopeful Missionary Building
A post office plan introduces a condensed money order resembling a bank draft with enhanced security and future Treasury notes featuring distinguished portraits. Separately, Des Moines County urges adoption of a portable two stove heated mission hall, designed by Mr. Crawford, to serve communities with high rents and lack of space.
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Postoffice Department
Post Office Department
Crawford
Des Moines
Moody's Institute
Chicago
Carries His Hall With Him
A Burling ton dispatch reports Missionary J. B. Craw contracts a movable house for religious services. The structure, described as a unique house of worship, stands at 1448 Avenue on West Hill, Iowa.
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Towa
Foldable tabernacle dedicated with unique services
A movable tabernacle built of iron and wood on a steel frame was dedicated that Sunday. The iron outer shell and pine interior form sections hinged to fold into a compact space. The steel frame dismantles for easy transport and storage, with interior lighted by windows.
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Win
Solon Seeds Scandal Exposed In Secretary Morton Report
Secretary Morton plans to publish a detailed annual report revealing a seed distribution scandal involving a Congress member and a department agent. The case centers on an entire quota of seeds sold to the department for 75 dollars, with the department reclaiming the lot for that amount. The report will name the involved congressman and condemn free seed distributions as an unlawful practice.
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House of
Morton
Department
Congress
Advice from a King of Unyoro in Central Africa
Vita Hassan recounts Kaberego the negro king of Unyoro enforcing strict tariffs with spies to punish overpayment. A trader paid thirty cowries for a fowl priced twenty five. the king’s dragoman returned five cowries and urged no overpay to protect the market and the seller from punishment.
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Kaberego
Unyoro
Central Africa
Vita Hassan
Emin Pasha
Equatorial
Hassan
Angoro
Africa
Ex Army Candidate’s Tale Sparks Vote Switch
A parliamentary hopeful recounts hardship facing Russians and sleeping under the sky. A heckler questions the bloodied feet and frozen ground, then the candidate concedes and the crowd votes for the other candidate.
Knights Templar Conclave Excursion Plans From Nickel Plate
A Boston August Knights Templar conclave will feature specially arranged excursion tickets over three rail lines. Travelers may visit Chautauqua Lake Niagara Falls Thousand Islands St. Lawrence rapids Saratoga Palisades of the Hudson and Hoosac Tunnel with low rates via Nickel Plate routes.
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Knighs Templar
Boston
Mass
Rapids
St. Lawrence
Saratoga
Palisades of the Hudson
Hoosac Tunnel
Melancholy Spring Wit Sparks Rural Idyl and Public Notes
The piece blends rustic verse about spring with a Detroit Free Press mention of David M. Stone and a New York Journal of Commerce executor. It notes that Stone has rarely missed church in over two decades. Commissioner Lochren’s figures imply pension appropriations will stay near current levels for at least three years.
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United States
Treasury Department
Uncle Sam
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
David M. Btone
New York Journal of Commerce
Lochren
Cold Weather Health Tonic Advertisement
In old style prose a traveler is urged to use a patent medicine before and after exposure to cold rain. The tonic claims to prevent chills fever rheumatism neuralgia and colds and to aid dyspepsia biliousness and constipation, described as a warning medicinal stimulant.
Change Of Air And Pianos In City Dwellings
This fragment notes urban living labeled as folding Bedouins due to movable furniture. A renter complains of constant piano noise in new lodgings, seeking air and new tunes. It also mentions misrendered phrases about Nickel Plate railway travel rates and ends with a proverb about a good man killed when a boy goes wrong.
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Rour
Health warning on headache powders and cure claim
A New York Tribune report warns that many women increasingly rely on headache powders containing morphine opium or cocaine. It notes addiction risk and urges laxatives and liver tonics as alternatives while promoting Doctor Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets as a safe remedy. Local testimonial from Otter Lake praises pills for curing headaches with cautions on other pills.
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New York Tribune
Pierce
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