Jumbo the elephant dies after freight collision in New York
New York reports Jumbo the elephant, star of P. T. Barnum's show, killed after being struck by a Grand Trunk freight train near the Grand Trunk Air Line track. Barnum mourns loss. Jumbo valued at 2 million for exhibit and breeding. Jumbo died thirty minutes after the accident. he was about 24 years old and ten tons.
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Bankers Convene in Chicago Set to Tackle Silver and Trade
The American Bankers Association meets in Chicago on September 23 at the Grand Pacific Hotel. The program centers on the silver question with Southern bankers and lawmakers urging halting coinage. Extradition treaties, Northwest growth, and West Europe fruit trade are also discussed by notable speakers from New York Michigan Louisiana and Montreal.
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Michigan
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Grand Pacific Hotel
Excitement in Kansas as land dispute sparks rush
News from St Louis reports Judge Brower ruled 77000 acres once held by the Southern Kansas Railway were wrongfully held, triggering a countywide land rush in Southeastern Kansas with settlers staking claims in Woodson and Greenwood counties.
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Illinois State News Roundup Shotgun Fire and Civic Notes
Tabitha Means's suicide amid stepmother trouble is noted alongside a wide array of Illinois items. Reports include Wentworth buying Rose Hill Cemetery for a monument to himself, a First National Bank dividend to creditors, a buckshot attack in Alexander County, park plant tallies in Lincoln Park, bids for the State House at Springfield, a Rockbridge murder, jail escapes, a street-crossing fatality, a sleepwalker death in Cairo, a stabbing in Chicago, internal revenue suspensions, a county death by suicide, water testing device talk in Bloomington, burglary in Williamsville, tax on building associations, Dr. Crawford's death in Galena, a macoupin Caning, and various injuries and local incidents across the state.
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Candlemas Day Weather Lore and Groundhog Beliefs
The St Louis Globe-Democrat notes Candlemas Day links to groundhog folklore across continents. It surveys sun and shadow traditions in Latin, German, French, English, Scandinavian, and African heritage, noting folk predictions for spring and their lack of strict meteorological basis.
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W. P. Jones
Sagan
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Africa
Wales
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Journal editors denounce tight lacing while fashion images contradict
The Chicago Current laments editors who criticize tight lacing in editorials yet publish vibrant images of wasp waisted figures in French heels and latest fashions, exposing a striking inconsistency between prose and pictures.
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Railroad executives names and offices in Chicago
R. R. Cable, President and General Manager, Chicago. E. 8st John, General Ticket and Passenger Agent, Chicago.
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Chicago
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