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Notes and Comment from the World’s Fair opening and city news
Ex-President Cleveland accepts to speak at the St Louis World’s Fair opening on April 30. Smallpox spreads with public schools closed in Indianapolis. Minnesota seeks lumber tariff repeal. Mr. Teller returns to the US Senate with cross-party support. The naval tug Fortune prepares to round Cape Horn, the smallest craft yet to do so. Typhoid and rabies outbreaks appear in Creston and Hancock County livestock. Keokuk hosts grave-sleeping acts, while medical and water concerns prompt well tests in Creston. A proposed Benton statue stirs Missouri memory and local real estate shifts. A former student dies after an accident, and Boone County taxes mineral rights as coal gains prominence. A money-debt anecdote illustrates currency value.