Canal board setup and political shifts in Illinois
Henry Illinois notes the new canal commissioners began duties. Gov Altgeld travels south delaying a collector appointment. Insurance reform proposals draw praise and scrutiny. The Nelson apportionment bill reshapes Marshall county's district, while Marshall aligns with Woodford and Livingston. Canal Commissioner Heenan says the board faces a tough task to overhaul the system and meet constitutional obligations.
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Gov Altgeld
Marshall County
LaSalle
Grundy
Will
Marshall
Woodford
Livingston
Canal
Heenan
Joliet
Amarella
Billbacks for Passes and Public Officer Reform Move
A legislator proposes a biennial bill to curb passes for railroad travel by public officers and others. Representative Moore introduces measures on education access, grand jury abolition, mortgage taxation, and election ticket printing in dual newspapers. Supreme Court vacancies rise under Harrison. multiple judicial appointments noted. Canton Register urges hard roads funding in Fulton county. debate over material and cost for permanent rural roads continues.
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State Board of Equalizers
Moore
House of Representatives
Canton Register
Fulton County
St. Bayes
Hedeine
Fulton
A Modern Valentine and a Granger Road Debate
A poem about a love letter amid a satire on Gov Altgeld's hard roads policy. The piece critiques a proposed state road commission and contends farmers should manage local roads without political machinery or convict labor. Ends with a farmer’s call to resist costly state projects.
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Henry Republican
CxHicaco
Granger
Portrait of Tennyson Frontispiece and Verse Note
The midwinter Century features a frontispiece portrait of Tennyson by T. Johnson from Mayall’s photo, praised by the poet, Lady Tennyson, and their son as the laureate’s best likeness. A Lockay Hall couplet from August 1892 appears on the reverse highlighting his sturdy handwriting in old age. An accompanying article by Rev Dr Henry Van Dyke, “The Voice of Tennyson,” includes reminiscences and critical notes on his poetry.
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Tennyson
T. Johnson
Mayall
Henry van Dyke
Voice of
Massachusetts Insurance Firms Reduced by Law Reform
Assessment insurance faced heavy abuse as a money investment scheme. Massachusetts passed a law two years ago regulating such institutions. From 255 firms, only 16 remain as many lost charters or were shut down, demonstrating a prudent, protective reform for insured security.
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Massachusetts
Traveling Agent Ill Testimony and Southern Travel Notes
Testimony praises a medicine as a remarkable cure for La Grippe and throat ulceration with less than a bottle. Includes notices of Julian Ralph’s Harper’s Magazine piece on New Orleans and various World’s Fair openings with unrelated ad content and drugstore notices.
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R.r.previs
Gro
Hives
Birdh Street
Chicago
J. W
Architectural Features of the World’s Fair
From Harper’s Magazine February. Charles Dudley Warner reviews the 1893 Columbian Exposition. He contrasts Chicago’s practical, refined grand architecture with Paris’s more ornamental style, praising the fair’s beauty, harmonious grouping, and effective layout as a model for industrial display. He notes evening vistas along Isako and lagoons reflect a fairy city of imagination.
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Paris
New World
Lagoon
Palmyra
Sea
Marmoria
Constantinople
Venice
Charles Dudley Warner
Harper's Magazine
Meant for You Hood's Sarsaparilla Appeal
An advertiser touts Hood's Sarsaparilla as a remedy for impure blood and blood disorders like acrofula and salt rheum. The promotion claims strong, ongoing results and urges readers with diseased blood to use the medicine.
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Sawyer and Taylor meet in ironic name tale
Elmira Gazette notes a lunch party where Miss Sawyer small talks with Miss Taylor about their ancestral links. Carl Schurz is chosen editor of Harper's Weekly after Curtis's death, seen as capable though Harper's Weekly makes gradual changes.
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Supreme Court
Harrison
Arthur
Gray
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Blatchford
New York
Cleveland
Fuller
Lamar
Brewer
Kansas
Brown
Michigan
Shiras
Pennsylvania
Jackson
Tennessee
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Miss Taylor
Sawyer
Taylor
Elmira Gazette
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Harper's Weekly
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Schurz
Harper’s Weekly
Electric Bitters Promoted For Health In Hazy Ad
An old advertisement touts Electric Bitters as a remedy for grippe, stomach and kidney issues, claiming quick relief from headaches and general weakness. It promises benefits after a single trial and notes a 50 cent price at Dr Powell’s drugstore amid local community anecdotes.
Wenona Masher Arrested Over Objectionable Letters
A Wenona man posing as H. S. Stone is arrested for mailing letters of an objectionable nature to a State street dry goods clerk. J W Hodge of Wenona, Ill., is charged with writing the letters and faces grand jury review after waiving examination. Decoy letters helped confirm the writer’s identity.
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Wenona
Inter Ocean
Postoffce
State Street
New Orleans
Mark Grable
Dearborn Avenue
Marshal Charles
Venona
J W. H. Hodge
First National Bank
Hodge
United States
Hoyne
Charles Howe
H. 8. Stone
P P P Medicine Praised In Texas Affidavit
In DeLeon Texas on July 23 1891 A M Ramsey swears the P P P medicine cured breathing and heart symptoms and pain after using nearly four bottles He notes a blocked nostril now clear and plans to ride a plow handle again The affidavit sworn August 4 1891 before J M Lampert NP Comanche County Texas confirms the claim.
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Texas
Messrs Lippman Bros
Savannah
P.P.P
A. M. Ramsey
Strate
Comanche
A. M. Rawazy
J. M. Lampert
N. P
Comanche Do
February Weather Prognostications and Local Notes
February forecasts by Hicks predict disturbances at month start with cold on the 1st and 2nd, warming by the 5th with rain and snow to the 7th, then a southern cold wave to the 11th and 12th. Storms bring rain, thunder, sleet and snow from the 16th to 19th, followed by a severe cold wave, then reactionary cold from the 22nd to 24th and rising temps with new storms by month end. Railroad leaders advocate pooling for uniform rates. Senator Cullom opposes and votes against pooling in the inter state commerce bill after illness. House rejects pooling amendment. Rowley to start a Gridley paper. Harper’s February issue to feature Tio Juan by Maurice Kingsley with Remington illustrations. Kemp’s Balsam touted as stopping coughs.
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Senate
Cullom
Sia
Gorman
Hill
Brice
Hischck
Brics
Ike
Baas Peas
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