Autumn Winds Bring Revival to City Trade and Culture
The rising tide of business optimism follows a summer retreat into fall leisure as merchants and manufacturers expect better times. Crime surges in Chicago, with ‘defalcations’ and murders prompting jail crowding while educated beggars lack gumption. The season shifts with frosts and fading blooms as theaters spark renewed interest led by Joseph Jefferson at MoeVickers. The World's Fair Expo nears six weeks, drawing country visitors to the city.
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MoeVickers
Rip van Winkle
Jefferson
London
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Bi-metalism debate echoes in Tribune silver outlook
The Tribune argues for retaining both silver and gold in coinage citing European conference leanings toward bi metallic use. It notes France France Say stance and England's demonetization history, while contrasting silver’s stability in commerce with gold driven panics. It also cites rising emigration through Clifton Kansas and a Victorian butterfly anecdote.
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M. Leon
France
Europe
Germany
England
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United Kingdom
British Empire
India
New York
W. Y. Graphic
Long-wool and Merino contrasts in Cotswold debate
The writer questions winter confinement practices for long-wool and Merino flocks, citing Newton Rector and Hon. A. B. Conger. He describes methods using open housing, fresh air, and measured feeding, praises Cotswolds for hardy health, and urges Rector to share Merino weights and gum content for a fair comparison.
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Newton Rector
A. B. Conger
Haverstraw
England
Mr. Conger
Hudson
Kentucky
Samuel Clay
Mr. Rector
Wheat acreage boom across Kansas counties this fall
Western crop notes show Wichita area reports a threefold rise in fall wheat sowing over last year with Ellis county at an estimated 35 000 acres. Other counties note favorable rains, variable wheat prices, and ongoing sowing as drought and pests affect yields.
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Ellis County
Kingman Mercury
Sterling Bulletin
Ellsworth
T.C. Menry
Abilene
la Crosse
Marion County
Dodge City Times
Ford County
Alma News
Kansas
Watawafee
Independence Kansan
Rice County Gazette
Colorado Swiss Cheese Factory Sparks Local Interest
A Kiowa Colorado facility begins Swiss style cheese production led by H Wendling esq. with cheese maker Lohris. Milk heated in copper kettles, no curd salt, hard then soft with age, cured in cellar rubbed with brine, rind forms, best at six months, stores well a year. Wendling sold cheese in Denver at fifteen cents a pound, plans to expand capacity next season.
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Meneomedt
Kadu the Uganda youth joins Stanley in Europe
A Ugandan youth named Kadu travels with Henry Morton Stanley from Africa to England and Paris. The boy, a former page of Mtesa, speaks Arabic phonetics learned aboard ship, studies English, and admires European civilization. He doubts white people are mere mortals and vows loyalty to his Muslim faith despite imperial wonders.
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Malta
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Tuileries
Olmip ses of Wall Street and Wall Street fortunes retold
The article notes the Drexel building on Wall Street amid inflation highs and land values, contrasting it with a former customs house and the treasury. It recounts Edward Matthews’s meteoric rise as landlord, later bankruptcy, and the changing fortunes of brokers and rents as Wall Street's glory fades and Jay Gould endures as a rare survivor. It adds that The Cleveland Rolling Mill Company plans to enlarge its foundry and build a new pattern shop.
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Reaey
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Jay Gould
Rochester Democrat
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The Indian Raid on Sappa Country Described by Denver Tribune
The Denver Tribune reports Cheyenne raiders led by Cutting Knife devastated Kansas Sappa country in Decatur county. Estimations include seventy thousand cattle looted, three hundred horses stolen, six ranches ruined, two post offices burned, three stores gutted, and about thirteen men killed with names listed by Wallace telegraph.
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Decatur County
Buffalo Station
Kansas Pacific Railway
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Wallace
Sappa Creek
Crook City Postmaster Arrested in Mail Robbery Case
Correspondence notes Postmaster James of Crook City arrested after a staged robbery and loss of about $40,000 from a treasure coach. He was captured while fleeing and sent to Rapid City for trial. The item mentions opium licenses, stamp mills, and local weather as background.
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James
Crook City
Rapid City
Amusing Snippets and Sooty Satires Across The Ages
A collage of quips and commentary on love, law, politics, and society. Jests about court puns, a two hundred pound woman with a canary, worries over oyster origin, wheat imports, and satire on Chinamen treatment in San Francisco, with a final note from Stortardt of Cantoterde.
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Philadelphia Bulletin
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