Illinois State News highlights at Peoria fair prizes
Illinois farmers vie for $6500 in prizes at the state pair in Peoria September 26 to 30 1892. County displays in three divisions compete for best overall exhibits to represent Illinois at the World’s Columbian Exposition in 1893 with prizes from 250 to 50 dollars and a 50 dollar credit for each county making a creditable display. Also reports: long bicycle record by F E Spooner. Torrens land registration inquiry. various local incidents and notices across the state.
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Peoria
State Board of Agriculture
Boards of Association
Illinois
National Building
Illinois State Building
W. C. Garrard
Springfield
D. W. Vittuin
Farm Products
Canton
Martial Law at Homestead as Carnegie mills walk out
Sympathetic strike spreads through Carnegie mills except Braddocks Edgar Thomson works. About 8 000 workers, including 3 500 amalgamated men, expected to strike. Militia patrolled streets, provost guards ordered restraint, dynamite found and moved to safety. Strike leaders deny Pinkerton ties while seeking legal guidance on rifles. Congressional inquiry into Homestead ends with push for arbitration and anti Pinkerton measures.
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Gach
Homestead
Carnegie
Winchesters
Col. Green
City Farm
Dailey
Pinkertons
Hugh O'Donnell
Pinkerton Rifles
Pinkerton
O'Donnell
Ile
Carnegie Mills
Lawrenceville
Pittsburgh
Advisory Committee
Monongahela
Carnegie Works
Pirrsnunes
Congressional Committee
Washington
Senate
Abbreviated Elderly Life and Odd Inquiries From Fragments
A scrambled OCR item references Joan Cray planning a coffin cut and gravestone lettering, notes about Iannan Farresico of Westport never missing church services, claims a giant infant of Bates and a Nova Scotia giantess weighing 23 pounds, a Comstock family in New London with seven children totaling 512 years, Sosuca Worres from Cranberry Island is 55 and walked to town for seeds, then to work in his garden and claims vigor of forty years ago.
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Iannan Farresico
Westport
Conn
Bates
Kentucky
Nova Scotia
Hercules
Toren
New London
Comstock
Emily
Orlando
Cordelia
John
Frank
Ezra
Stephen
Sosuca Worres
Cranberry Island
Friendship
Gold Shortage Threatens U S Treasury Gold Reserve
New York July reports reveal a drastic fall in free gold in the U S Treasury as gold exports draw from the vaults and banks refuse to yield gold certificates. Analysts warn the reserve could be exhausted soon, risking a gold premium and broader financial instability.
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New Yorks
United States
United States Treasury
Treasury
Europe
Secretary of the Treasury
Carnegie Mills Resume Prep Surprises Strikers at Homestead
Frick manning the Carnegie Mills at Homestead Virginia preparatory to resuming work. Lockout tension eases as initial activity signals possible reopening. About forty workers, mainly laborers, are seen at the works with supplies and a guard militia escorting new labor onto the site. Superintendent Potter conducts a full search for explosives.
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Frick
Carnegie Mills
Homestead
Strikera
Homnstrap
Armorplate
Carnegie Works
Amalgamated Association
Carnegie Company
Cinccinnati
Chicago
St. Louis
Swissvale
Monopgahela
Homestead Works
Little Bill
Potter
Dalton Gang Rob Bank Train Hold Up in Indian Territory
Four masked robbers believed to be the Dalton gang held up Missouri Kansas & Texas passenger train No. 2 south of Adair, gouging the Pacific Express safe and escaping with about $40,000. A posse, including J. W. Kennedy and Indian officers, engaged the robbers. two posse members were slightly wounded as the attackers fled after breaching barricades and blasting the car safes. Four gang members had recently been captured near Guthrie. others pursued.
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Parsons, Kan
Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railway
Pacific Express Company
Adair Station
Indian Territory
Dalton Gang
Gurmin
O. T
Missouri, Kansas & Texas
Adair
J. T
Santa Fe Express
Red Rock
Guthrie
Dalton
J. W. Kennedy
Senate Passes 5 Million World's Fair Bill With Sunday Closing
The U S Senate approved the $5,000,000 world’s fair appropriation after striking the liquor prohibition. A Sunday closing clause requires the exposition not be open to the public on Sundays and directs the national commission to enforce the rule. World’s fair officials deplore the Sunday closing but may accept the funds.
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Senate
Washington
United States Senate
Senator Pfeffer
Gray
Del
Quay
Senator Quay
National Commission
Illinois
Herald
Death of ex Governer Newton Booth in Sacramento
July 15 reports the sudden death of former California governor Newton Booth. It notes his 1871 election win over Gov Haight, 1872 anti monopoly actions, senate appointment, and later political moves. Additional items include municipal riots in Spain over octroi duties, and Pekin steamboat disaster deaths and burials with local mourners and recoveries.
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Sacramento
Cal
Newton Booth
California
Haight
Booth
Cassidy
Hooth
United States Senate
Gov. Booth
Independent Party
John Bidwell
Prohibition
Bidwell
William Irwin
Congress
John F. Miller
Pekin
Peonia
Lakeside Cemetery
Kate Beebe
St. Paul
John McMeen
Benson
Grant Hopie
Chicago Instrument Makers Lead World Output
A Western Triumph highlights Chicago’s manufacturing surge over the past decade. Lyon & Healy are claimed to run the largest musical instrument factory, producing piano, organs, harps, guitars, banjos, mandolins, drums, and band instruments. Last year’s output exceeded 100,000 units, with expectations for further growth this year. The piece notes Chicago’s rise in arts manufacturing and regional pride.
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Chicago
Thicaga
Lyon & Healy
Through Santa Fe Route to Colorado Tourists
Column hints at summer travel to Colorado via the Santa Fe Route from Chicago to Pueblo Colorado Springs Manitou and Denver with through cars. Mentions the only through service to Manitou via Ute Pass Cascade Canyon Green Mountain Falls Buena Vista Glenwood Springs to Ogden and Salt Lake City. Advertisement notes and assorted notices accompany the travel pitch and various product promos.
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Colorado
Chicago
Pueblo
Colorado Springs
Manitou
Denver
Santa Fe
Great Colorado
Ute Pass
Cascade Canyon
Green Mountain Falls
Buena Vista
Glenwood Springs
Ogden
Salt Lake City
J. M. Connell
Clark Street
Chicago, IL
Be careful of health during heated term warns ad
The article advises seasonally careful health practices noting skin pores and excretion, urging avoidance of air drafts to prevent overloading kidneys and lungs. It promotes Reid's German Cough and Kidney Cure with claimed safety and universal availability, pricing small twenty five cents and large fifty cents, by Sylvan Remedy Co. of Peoria NL.
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Reid
Sylvan Remedy CO
Peoria
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H. H. Peasley
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Noa Barber
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