Vacant Lot Farming Proves Successful In City Trial
At the American Institute Fair a former vacant lot farmer won eight first prizes, three seconds and two special prizes totaling 55 dollars, while several men with similar plots earned 45 dollars. Expenses last year were 4500 dollars, receipts 9500 dollars. The Association For Improving the Condition of the Poor distributed hundreds of bushels of produce, praising a strong summer despite poor weather.
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Association For
New York
Nicholson Tunnel
Rip van Winkle
Michael Fernan
Mr. Fernan
Nicholson
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad
Fernan
Mike
Manise
New York Journal
Superior Race The Skhelet Diana Finds in Indiana
A burst of discoveries near Anderson and Montpelier Indiana reveals skulls and skeletons with tops of heads removed, suggesting brains were removed. Editors cite a Cincinnati Enquirer piece on a supposed superior aboriginal race. Other notes cover varied topics from Vassar appetite to Hobart autographs and a New Hampshire gunpowder anniversary.
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Skheletdiana
Anderson
Ind
Biddle
The
Daily Bulletin
Montpelier
Indiana Mounds
Cincinnati Enquirer
Vassar College
New York
Baltimore
New Brunswick
N. J
Hobart
Portsmouth
New Hampshire
Guy Fawkes
Prominent Statesmen Departing at Fifty Fifth Congress
The Fifty fifth Congress will see the retirement of many long serving figures. Voorhees and Blackburn face exit amid illness and age while Cameron and Palmer also leave. Hart and Hill frame a shifting Senate as Beok, Carlisle, and others fade from power. The piece notes Cam eron’s long service and the anti-Cameron sentiment in Pennsylvania, and references the defeat of last federal elections bill alongside tariff compromises.
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United States Senate
Voorhees
Harrison
Indiana
Turpie
Joe Blackburn
Chamberlin's
Senate
Kentucky
Blackburn
Lindsay
Beck
Carlisle
Cerro Gordo Williams
Henry Clay
Don Cameron
Grant
Harrisburg
City
Philadelphia
Bob Mackey
Don
House
Cameron
Quay
General Palmer
Illinois
America
Palmer
Senator Hill
Hill
Platt
Brice
Ohio
New York
Corcoran
House of Lords
Gordon
Georgia
Sarddy
Call
Florida
Squire
Washington
Dubois
Idaho
Pittsburg Dispatch
Public Sale At David Puterbaugh Farm Near Lanark
The undersigned will auction at his residence four miles northwest of Lanark on the David Puterbaugh farm. On Friday November 87 1906 at 1 PM 7 head of horses 1800 bushels corn 75 acres corn stalks 1800 plus hogs cattle and farm gear. Terms: cash under eight dollars, credit two months on approved paper, 7 percent if paid later, 4 percent off for cash.
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Lanark
David Puterbaugh
Grood
Lord Lancaster
Riskey
Tecumseh Sd
U.S
All Wilkes
Concord
Lesten OC
Morrett A. HL Hawn
Anet
Franck
Monster Revival Aims to Sweep Nation via New York Ministers
More than 100 New York and Brooklyn ministers plan a city wide revival movement after Moody and Sankey meetings. They call for nightly church services across the metropolis with hundreds of meetings nightly, aiming to spread to Philadelphia and beyond. Also notes Ohio university building plans and advertising health remedies from Hogan and Beggs Diarrhea Balsam.
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New York
Philadelphia
Brooklyn
Moody
Wilbur J. Chapman
New York City
Debating Thanksgiving Proclamation Across Jewish and Christian Views
A national discourse unfolds as Rabbi Wise and Rabbi Phillipson challenge the presidents plea for divine favor, criticizing perceived sectarian bias and Jewish exclusion from Thanksgiving observances. The piece also touches on Jewish attitudes, intermarriage talk, and public notices including real estate transfers and commercial advertisements.
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United States
Isaac M. Wise
Phillipson
New England
Plymouth Rock
Christ
President Clings to Office Amid Calls for Credit
The article defends the current president, arguing he will not resign with a million dollars and praise his duty. It notes the president has erred but emphasizes his good deeds and humanity. It warns the upcoming McKinley era faces Cuban and Armenian issues that could overwhelm him.
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Cleveland
McKinley
Burlington Route Travel Advertising and Wonderland Book
The Burlington route offers reclining chair cars compartments sleepers and cafe dining cars for comfortable travel beyond major cities. It promotes its Wonderland travel literature with stories by Chas S Pee and Wheeler about new places and adventures, inviting readers to request the booklet by sending stamps and contacting General Passenger Agent Me Han S. Peest in St Paul Minnesota.
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Burlington
Chicago
St. Louis
Denver
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Cree
Po Lyman
Gen
Ming
Egent
Burlington House
Pweetie
Chas S. Pee
Missenger
Wheeler
Mt. Rainier
Paettle Court
Menta
Han S. Peest Vaal
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Arthur Sewall
Thomas B. Reed
Covent Garden Theater
de Ray
Greenville
BE. Cook
Hogan
Bidlack
Caldwell
Wau. Hogan
DeWitt
DeWitts
Hood
John HH
HomRignarsen
Wheatland
Iowa
C. J. Hor
Gordon and
Nier
Pennsylvania
Llinois
Catholic Knights of America
Decatur
Rock River
Epworth League
Ilinois State Grange
Springfield
Gro
Lyman
Cabstoria
Biddack
Michigan
Alice McClong
Coloma
Alice
Sault Ste. Marie
Ziegfeld
Chicago College of Music
Benton Harbor
Mich
Reinecke
Chopin
Kunkel
Diabelli
Boston Journal
Ohio University
Athens
Rabbi Hirsh
William H. Curtis
Supreme Court
Great Sugar Trust
Grover
Trist
Etta J. Smith
Nhetvarts and Loans
Carroll
Nellie Vickert
A. KM. Wiekert
Mt. Carroll
Nellie Pickert
A. Ko M. Dieke- Mickert
Mt Carroll
City of Lanark
Tank
Elias Ko Spencer
David A. Senne
Chadwick
Lewis Imel
Wysox
William Brick
Harry
Knox
Clara Weatherwax
Samuel Spalding
Aikhorn Grove
Wm. Fr. Masters
John G. Stietter
Lima
Margaret
Keeney
Henry W. Wales
Cherry
Rebecca J. Nuse
Elmer Isenhart
Marons
McClure
Hamlin Garland
Georgetown
Ripley
Maysville
West Point
Ulysses Grant
MeGarland
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Bainess
St. Lowie
Grants
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Chicago, Milwaukee ,& St. Punt Railway
Chicago, Milwakes and St. Paul Railway
M. M. Chan
Sea Board
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Ven. Hogan
Edie Beris
Heggs
de Witt
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DeWitt's
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Mlinals
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Armerican
Patent Office
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M. Armstrong
A. J. Mates
Joliet
L. M. Brook
Mackinaw
Sewer Post
GH. Cormack
Rockford
Fo Gunther
Kewanee
J. J Haish
DeKalb
FB. Hendin
Winnetka
Wo. McPherron
Jacksonville
Als. Meek
Geneva
Core Harvester
AD. Tracy
Sterling
M. Rh. Vandervoort
Inten
Boyd
Zack
Lanaris
Win Hegan
Castoria
Samuel Putcher
Fac Sime
Gastoria
Cantoria de Pat
Miike
Inter Ocean
West
Inter Orean
Mall
Wall
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Abe
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City Drug Store
Nemorest
Printed & Coupen
Demorest
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Worthan
Carroll County
W. G. Wild
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