Printing paper prices push up subscriptions nationwide
Major newspapers raise subscription rates as paper costs surge. The Second National Bank of Franklin offers a 20000 loan to a starch works company for five years at five percent first half, then legal rates. Fusion lawmakers in Maine resign after disputed elections and Gov and officers depart. Schurz dismisses Indian Commissioner Hayt, denying resignation and citing public interest.
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Kelley Plan to Pay Bonds Over Twenty Seven Years
The plan would require about 338 million annually for twenty seven years plus interest on remaining debt. It asks if the government can raise 41.5 million each year plus other essential expenses without oppressing the people.
Brooklyn organist Dudley Back wins college music prize
The Cincinnati Gazette notes Dudley Back of Brooklyn, former festival organist, has been chosen as the winner of the $1,000 College of Music prize for a composition based on Longfellow's Golden Legend.
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Old Seminary recollections and a Greensburg impostor tale
A Greensburg reminiscence recalls Tecumseh as a judge in a lively case about a Pennsylvania tramp posing as deaf and dumb. The impostor's exposure by Dan Lyman and local youths ends with mercy and a downtown crowd's weary laughter.
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Indiana Township Trustees and Political Sentiment
A Cincinnati Enquirer correspondence praises Indiana township trustees as trusted custodians of funds and cites a survey of 1,240 officers. The author notes only one theft among them and uses inquiries to gauge the political mood of the state’s best citizens regarding current candidates.
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Orths Plan for a Ship Canal From Toledo to Lafayette
Dr. Orth proposed a resolution directing the Railway and Canals Committee to survey a ship canal from Toledo Ohio to the Wabash near Lafayette Indiana. The measure was referred and a meeting set for the next Wednesday so Orth can present his case. If feasible, the Indiana stretch would be about 130 miles delivering cheap transport to a large share of the states population.
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Scratchers oppose Grant Blaine nomination in NY committee
The Independent Republican Central Committee of New York known as the Scratchers adopts a resolution opposing the nomination of either Ulysses Grant or James Blaine.
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New York
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