Massachusetts State Road System Expands and Narrower Road Tests Begin
The state system stimulates city road projects as 1898 plans show 42.68 miles laid out with 86 contracted and 16.86 under construction. Funding tightens to about 500,000 dollars with shifts to narrower 12 foot and even 10 foot roadbeds in Cape Cod areas to extend length and reduce costs.
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Truro
West Tisbury
Cape
Telford Foundation
Laud
Staay
France
Pla
World Happenings and Political Rumors in Brief
A wide set of world and national items surface: alleged deadly injuries from sewer rats to Mrs Woods wards children, claims for 20 million dollars in war costs with Spain. Queen Victoria sails to the Riviera escorted by eight torpedo boat destroyers. Alleged Pittsburger thefts. a New Jersey chartered company to harness tides via William Reed’s invention. A Wyoming train with 42 passengers shows a wreck claim. 100 Italian soldiers to aid food transport. Beef charges inquiry cites filthy wagons at Camp Thomas. Wheeler denied marriage rumors and a commission. China rail and concession debates. UK press hails Peter Dunn as a new Mark Twain. Chicago police expose body parts in a butcher’s barn. Manila deemed unsafe for families. Army Secretary Alger restricts deployments. Ohio and Chicago coin seizures. Har r iş burg political deadlock looms. Legal arrests in Chicago over extortion plot target Frank H Cooper.
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Woodsward
Borteny
Spain
Queen Victoria
England
Hiviera
Charles Barnes
New Jersey
William Reed
Wyoming
Chicago
Camp Thomas
Chickamauga
Joe Wheeler
George W. Childs
Philadelphia
Wheeler
China
Olic
Pennvertud Bo
Pekin
Peter Dunn
Chi 40
Dooley
Mark Twain
August Becker
Otis
Manila
Alger
New York
C. Lee
Pittsburg
Jacob Bvb
Frank Schoenfeld
Frank Repetto
Prigit
William Feeney
C Cigo
Frank H. Cooper
Siegle, Cooper & Co
Still More Counterfeiting and Bogus Bills Spotlighted
Secret service uncovers a new band of counterfeiters and seizes a large quantity of bogus currency. The report notes fraudsters favor high value items like Hostette’s Stomach Bitters, praised for indigestion, dyspepsia, and general debility, warning buyers to beware of imitations.
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Secret Service
In Memory of Mrs 31 B Shultz
An obituary from Strongstown Pennsylvania honors Mrs. Shultz born April 19 1868 near Dixonville daughter of John and Ann Widdowson died March 8 1899 in Strongstown. She married Dr William Shadrach March 12 1890 and supported him in Columbus before settling in Strongstown. Described as devoted wife and mother with strong Christian faith she leaves husband and two children Charly and Gussie.
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Charly
Gussie
Jesus
Secret worth ten thousand promises paid to silent craftsman
Aloysius Massman of New Albany signs a five year contract with six large enameling firms to be paid 32000 yearly for doing no work and to keep his inherited enamel formula secret. The deal locks the secret from five others while Massman gardens and tends flowers in leisure. He is married with a notable family and known locally.
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Aloysius Macsman
New Albany
Massman
Louis Massman
Cincinnati
Ahert & Ott
Louisville
Dawes & Myler
New Brighton
L. Wolf, Manufacturing Company
Cribben & Sexton
Chicago
Jacob Vollrath
Sheboygan
Wis
Grain O Drink for Children Offers Coffee Alternative
A healthful grain beverage called Grain O is promoted for children and adults as a coffee substitute. It resembles coffee in taste, aids digestion and strengthens nerves, and is not a stimulant. Priced about 15 and 25 cents as a small sale item.
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Promise City
Jasys
Wnimatism
Breief
B. Shultz
Hetrick Trea
Direets Tadiane
T2net
H. Tome
Indiana
Farmers' Bank
Tisngs
Ga J. Feit Indians
Office
Farmers’ Bank
Joan P. Klein
Indiana, Pa
Elm Building
Philadelphia Street
Joan H. Pierce
J. M. Cunningham Building
J. Telford
Sutton Building
Ernest Stewart
Loop Clark
ATDA
Jiang
Jijonn L. Getty
Attorney-Atlar
DaAviv
Blair
Atiubeney-Atlaw
George W. Hood
Attorney-Atlaw
Hetrick
Ijanss Johnn
Banks
Samuel Cunningham
John 8
Fisher
M. Mahan
Court Place
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Formora Bank
Watson
Frank Keener
Stewart
Stewart & Clark
Lewis House
Isaac Griffitu
Fifth Streets
Dawson
W. H. Cunneon
NEW American
C. H. Moore
SIHAM
Diana House
Janus S. St.Crain
Central Hotel
Indians, Pa
John W. Wray
Kinter
R. D. Scott
Y Traveler
Moorhead
Court House
B. Buterbauge
Nixon Building
Sixth Street
Anest L
Hahard
Grant, Pa
Clark House
Cherrytree
J A. Crossman
Justice OF the Peace
South Ninth Street
Griffith
Grisemore
Amond
Penn Run
Tie Iz
Ferjyener
Rpilans
iEstate
John Taylor
of Orphang’ Court of
Indiana County
Blacklick
John MacTntyre
John Jack
Digis Wineman
Margaret Jane Laughlin
Joseph McCracken
Thomas J. Taylor
Adinistratore
James N. Stewart
R. N. Miler
Harry W. Fee
Administrator's Notion
E. L. Buterbaugh
Indiana Borough
Kudlang County
Siuky
H. B. Buterbaugh
John A. Scott
Alexander Gilchrist
Pennsylvania
Margaret Gilchrist
W. L. Stewart
Rachel Simpson
D. W. Simpson
J. Telforn
Thomas Sharp
Armstrong Town
Sarah A. Pettigrew
John R. Craig
John H. Pierce
W. Rankin Heffelfinger
Shelocta
James Heffelfinger
David
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Castoria
Hax
New York Weekly Tribune
Papariss
United States
North Carolina
S&s Dausherty
Lockard
The
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Indiana, Penn’a
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