Labor Day Holiday Backed By Congress and Labor Forces
The labor committee favors the Cuummings bill to make the first Monday in September a legal holiday. Organized labor already celebrates Labor Day on that date. President Cleveland yields to Senate and wins confirmation of a Supreme Court Justice. Senator White of Louisiana is confirmed. Post Office changes: endings in tre become ter and burgh losing h. Ohio considers labeling canned goods with packing date. A local tale mocks Cleveland and Lincoln on labor and work.
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Congressional Committee On Labor
Organized Labor
Cleveland
Senate
Supreme Bench
Senator White
Louisiana
Ohio
Illinois editors push libel law changes for fairer courts
Illinois editors at a press association session advocated amending libel statutes to require proof of malice or bad faith for damages. They proposed a retraction rule, protecting both publishers and the public, and urged changes to balance rights between plaintiffs and newspapers.
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Illinois
Abel F. Hatch
Chicago
Hatch
Michigan
Legislative Committee
General Assembly
Bro
Messrs
Atkins
Rosette
Snive_ly
Page
Clinton
Chicago & Alton President cites confidence issue in new year
President Blackstone argues the railroad sector faces reduced carrying business but abundant essentials and lower prices. He links business resumption to confidence in Congress and a shift from protection to free trade, a stance the Chicago Journal says unsettles workers and merchants.
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Blackstone
Chi‘cago & Alton
Congress
Chicago Journal
The
Alton
Putnam County Jurors Listed for March 5 Court
Jurors for Putnam County circuit court convening Monday March 5 include grand jurors from Hennepin Magnolia Senachwine and Granville with names such as Andrew Morse James McNabb and Herman Beidenfeld. Petit jurors from Hennepin Magnolia Granville and Senachwine are listed with multiple individuals including Isaac Boyle John Allen Frank Whitaker and Theodore Brenning. Also note an ad for Laxalive Gun Droge claiming headache constipation and dyspepsia cure.
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Putnam County
Putnam County Circuit Court
Grand Jury
Hennepin
Andrew Morse
B. B. Unthank
Henry Gardner
John Deininger
L. R. Boyle
Ondar Brenneman
Magnolia
James McNabb
William McCullem
H. K. Smith
F. Regenold
John A. Kays
Riley B. Roberts
Granville
Herman Beidenfeld
W.E. Hawthorne
John Forest
John Henning
A. Fisher
William Newport
Sen
Republicans Confer Meet in Peoria on Fourteenth District
A large Republican gathering at Grand Army hall in Peoria discussed organizing the Fourteenth District committee composed of Fulton Mason Marshall Putnam Peoria and Tazewell counties. They chose officers and debated timing for a congressional convention likely in July with Peoria hosting, aiming to back a strong Republican nominee to regain Illinois seats.
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Congressional Committee
Fourteenth District
Peoria
A. L. Sohimoff
J. B. Taylor
Putnam
Hennepin
A. G. Kingman
Tazell
Tremont
Schimpff
Manting
Hoe
Ile
Wilson
White House
McKinley
Prairie State
Lincoln
Grant
Logan
Yates
Oglesby
Cullom
Fifer
Saac
Edwards
Republican State Central Committee
Republical Party
Illinois
Ilinois
Republican Party
Times
Fourteenth
Union
Congress
Homer-of
Vermont
Fulton County
Fulton
J. W. Snyder
FB. Roach
D. W. Rieser
Mason County
F. Rich
Dr McKinney
Putnam County
Wopkins
J. 4. Taylor
Tazewell
Wallop
E. J. Unland
J. B. Irwin
A.J. Albertson
Pekin
Cyrus W. Kingman
Delavan
C. G. Kingman
Peorin County
W. C. Clark
M. C. Quinn
Martin Kingman
A. J. Daugherty
Callao
Peru
D. Clark
Isaac Taylor
Mr Quinn
Holdingland
G. A. Zeller
Post
Gon Post
Woman suffrage urged by letter to editor
A reader argues for universal suffrage for women, countering claims of female inferiority. The letter praises women's equal capacity in government and professions, cites ballot marking issues, and endorses a pamphlet titled A Sug Question Box as a spur to action. Signed J. M. Kingpatrice.
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Itepublican
Republican
Wendell Phillips
J. M. Kingpatrice
Republican District Meeting Ends With Endorsement
A fractured excerpt shows a Republican meeting in the Fourteenth district where officials endorse a candidate seen as a strong Union gen in Congress. The note mentions pay and adoption of a resolution before adjourning.
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Hig Ae
Mrs Mather Endorses Dr Bull's Cough Syrup in NYC
Mrs A Mather of 1701 Madison Ave New York speaks for herself and friends praising Dr Bull's Cough Syrup as an excellent remedy. She notes that one or two bottles cure her worst cough and that she has recommended it with satisfactory results.
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A. Mather
Madison Ave
New York City
A Ruminative View of a Girl’s Life Stages
A perceptive observer describes a girl’s shifting outlook from age sixteen to twenty five. He notes a bold early confidence at sixteen gives way to distant ambitions at eighteen and fading hope by twenty. By twenty five she senses insincerity and pursues a practical path, then marries someone not ideal and resigns to a distant heaven.
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