Public Debt In September Shows Decline And Treasury Moves
Washington reports September debt reductions totaling 142 million dollars, with first quarter fiscal year debt down 23.9 million. Cash in treasury sits at 45.3 million, gold fund about 193.3 million, silver fund near 63.6 million, and trade dollars totaling over 7 million. Receipts for September reach 34.86 million. first quarter receipts about 1.0002 billion, while expenditures for September fall to 18.79 million and first quarter expenditures total 82.64 million. A final anecdote notes a quip about President Cleveland and a Jersey cow joke from George W. Childs.
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Washington
Treasury
Ustoms
Thomson
Montana Editor’s Thrilling Night in Helena Hotel
A Helena editor relates a humorous tale from St Paul about a Montana colonel staying in a top hotel. The guest is led to a bathroom by an overworked porter, jokes about the beds turning out to be coffinlike, and recounts a freezing night with a faulty running faucet leaving him drenched in cold water.
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Helena
M. T
St. Paul
Gonight
Montana
Chicago Herald
Hot Rolls Better Than Oatmeal for Breakfast
A letter from American Magazine extols hot rolls as the preferred morning food over oatmeal. It argues hot bread digests easily when well made and free from alkali, while oatmeal often passes through undigested and irritates sluggish bowels. The writer favors rolls from a first class bakery and says digestion improves with eggs coffee and meat.
Anarchist Parsons Demands Liberty In Dramatic Stance
A Texas editor recalls Josh Billings with the remark that a man who would not live always acted under circumstances that were against him. The piece ties such rhetoric to an uncompromising stance on liberty and a protest against compromise.
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Parsons
Texas
Josh Billings
Young Costrays Deported by County Officials
Deported horses listed by H. D. Williams and County Judge with owners A. T. Bass, W. D. Bellamy, and Rock Wright. Two 14-hand mares or geldings described by color, age, height, branding marks and ear notching. Also a gray mare reported with J. M. Patterson in Belknap. Date stamps Sept 21 1887 and Sept 23 1887.
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Young Costrays
HH. D. Williams
A. T. Bass
W. D. Bellamy
H. D. Williams
Rock Wright
J. M. Patterson
Belknap
Gay
Frost Line Advertises Henrietta to Graham Schedule
W F Frost proprietor announces service between Henrietta and Graham leaving Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays at 6 AM arriving 7 PM. Returns depart Graham Tuesdays Thursdays and Saturdays at 6 AM arriving Henrietta 7 PM. Connects with Gainesville Dallas and Fort Worth trains. One way four dollars round trip seven dollars.
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W. F. Frost
Henrietta
Graham
Gainesville
Dallas
Ft. Worth
EFA
Clock peddler preacher tied to escaped convict tale
A Black preacher arrested in Jefferson for selling clocks without a license is revealed as an escaped convict who had served eight months of a two year sentence. Separately, a three year old was jailed in St. Augustine Florida for stealing four plums. Before Kissane is about to outgeneral them all round.
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Steiner
Augusta
Simmons
M. Kexsu
Fort Valley
Jefferson
St. Augustine
Fla
Kissane
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J. W. Graves
Cleveland
George W. Childs
J.41
Zemlin & Co
Philadelphia
Mark
Henrietta & Graham U
Rees
Nreo
Ansociatne Fanciers
South Eighth Street
J. KR. Harris
Staple S Janey Sroceries
Davis & Crain
SAS
Cash Drug Store
W. W. James
West Side Public Square
GEM Drug
J. Porter & Son
Loggins
Dutta
Uta
Die
North Side Public Square
Elie
Rob
Whatee Reord
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