Death and Debate Over Federal Court Bill in Indiana
A late 19th century Washington telegraph summary notes Congress considering a bill to move Indiana federal court operations from Indianapolis, arguing it could be a political measure. It covers cost concerns, travel burdens, and calls for judicial access equalities, with editorials praising reform and cautioning against wasteful spending.
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Washington
Indians Federal Court Ll
Joe Cannon
Ung
Federal Court
Indianapolis
Goen
Sheen Dill
Congress
Hints for Anglear and Political Banter Mix
A fractured,机 fragmentary column blends fishing hints with political gossip. It lampoons Boss Cox and invokes figures like Bryan Hearst Rockefeller and Cincinnati Enquirer lines. The text plays with hints for angling and public life, mixing advice with sharp satire in a late 19th or early 20th century tone.
From the Hills of Dream and Night Faerie Imagery
A fragmented verse-like piece evokes dream landscapes and mysterious lights. It blends imagery of dim blue hills, sleeping shadows, faerie hosts, and a surreal hunt of memories with odd invented terms and nautical dream scenes.
Flour in Manchuria reshapes Asian milling trade
An article from Flour Trade News predicts major Manchurian flour mills will open as postwar development expands commerce. Japanese capital and agricultural focus on wheat spark a growing milling industry to feed China, with U S wheat flour exports to the northern empire comprising a sizable share of annual trade.
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Manchuria
Flour Trade News
China
United States
Flatters the Sausage Joke Provokes Outcry
A New York Press item notes that the old quip about the sausage jumping from the butcher’s hook when whistled for Fido proved to be grossly flattering to the wage.
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Fido
New York Press
Interesting Notes From A Drift of Items In Berlins Paper
A Berlin paper surveys quirky items including a new device for tracking herring shoals using a submerged microphone and aviary receiver to signal passing fish. Other anecdotes cover sea signaling, whiskey for British MPs, Sweden’s tax-free telephones and schools, a Chinese bank history edict, a New Jersey horse trainer, Isle of Man debtors, Boston savings banks, stock earnings, and a comic clock-shop tale ending with a pun about wind-up clocks.
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Berlin
North Sea
Common Sense and Justice Over English Law in Local Court
Historic account of a petty Georgia case where a judge emphasizes common sense over legal technicalities, praising Dudley and George Raymond, urging a plain verdict rooted in fair dealing rather than strict English law. The tale includes remarks on a tavern setting and a driver barred from a wagon seat by an automobile.
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Vermont
Gurlurhs
Atlanta
Geor-ga
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Mi—thia
Costa
Justice Court
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State Supreme Court
Parsons
New Hampshire
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Dudley
Arthur Livermore
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Exeter
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Epping
Coke
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Foreman
Springfeld Republican
Giving the Devil His Due in a Credit Issue
A fragment from the Philadelphia North American critiques a credit trust as fair in its operations, arguing it does not pretend to a heavenly mandate to drain the public. The snippet casts doubt on the trust’s pretensions and hints at broader public judgment.
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W. J. Bryan
Roosevelt
Milliona
Bryan
Woolly
Simnessy
Gota
Wagon Collision Witness Testimony In Court
A defense attorney questions a wagon driver about a deliberate bump on a public road. The witness says the act happened because the wagon was empty, implying lacks intent. The scene includes taunts and a noisy courtroom mood with references to a parrot and a former senator.
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Saltingly
Preserving the Falls for Secretary of War Choice
The notice argues Niagara water allotment rests with the secretary of war and endorses Governor Henry Watterson or another eminent Kentucky-born figure as the preferred appointee. The brief reflects political opinion in Chicago.
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Niagara
Secretary of War
Henry Watterson
Kentucky
Chicago Fost
Fragmentary Opium Habit Notes From London And England
An assembled fragment discusses an increasing opium habit in England and in the United States. It references London’s fashionable districts and cites a Weekly Dispatch item about potential raids revealing surprising details. The text also contains unrelated musings about creation and a ChristianBelence preacher.
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England
London
Shadows Over the Valley Poem Fragment
A short literary fragment with lines about shadows across a heart’s retreat and a small dead foot, attributed to Dorothy Francis Gureae, echoing somber mood and reflective imagery.
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Dorothy Francis Gureae
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