Ladies Go Union Suite 250 Fleeced Hose
Vendors advertise a ladies Go Union Suite 250 fleece hose and a set of handkerchiefs. The brief item lists products for sale with sparse descriptive wording and no additional context.
01 Dec 1897
Page 1
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Newspaper
Lebanon Daily Reporter
Location
Lebanon, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1897
Page
1
Vendors advertise a ladies Go Union Suite 250 fleece hose and a set of handkerchiefs. The brief item lists products for sale with sparse descriptive wording and no additional context.
Washington December 1. Congressmen arrive slowly as the new session opens. Debate focus centers on Cuba policy and Republican currency plans amid talks of retirement of greenbacks. Judge Day declines attorney generalship offer. Lovering to be reprimanded. lakefront case in Chicago highlighted.
Ex State Auditor Eugene Moore, found guilty of embezzling 23000 state funds, drew eight years in the penitentiary at hard labor. Judge Cornish cited outrage justice and reduced by two years for family mercy. Moore sobbed as his wife pleaded for mercy beside him.
Willard L. Gillham attorney and postmaster at Wilard is missing after leaving for Edwardsville on November 18. His family fears for his safety as authorities search Mitchell, the transfer point to his fost family’s home. The case involves unclear motives and a possible murder linked to a disputed motive.
Fragmentary text suggests a person claimed to have earned 97.78 before a murder and that Merry strangled his wife after she refused to give money or consent. Details are incomplete and names are uncertain.
A New York Charity Organization Society committee analyzes 500 families from 1899 to Sept 1 this year. It notes chronic pauperism stems from inability to support self and limited moral development, with most applicants being married men and women, including widows with children. Irish and US natives are heavily represented. many US natives had lived in the city under a year. Among applicants, 122 men and 231 women are cited as of good character, while the rest are listed as professional beggars, criminals, or chronic paupers.
A Georgia House committee, traveling to inspect a convict camp, was halted in the Okefenokee swamp by two men posing as railroad officials. They extorted payments totaling a sum amid the halt, then the journey continued after a second demand. Another brief item reports Louisville gateway to the south reopening with a fast vestibule train linking Chicago and southern cities, promising a Chicago to Jacksonville ride of 33 hours. A Kentucky governor pardoned Catherine McQuinn, long jailed as an alleged accomplice in a Breathitt county murder, after jurors and trial officials attested her innocence. In Ohio a hardware store clerk, Joseph User, suffered a fatal lung injury after attempting to draw oil from a barrel using a suction tube.
A Carnegie Hall audience heard Commander Booth-Tucker of the Salvation Army present a scheme to colonize the unemployed. He proposed establishing a western Colorado settlement for thousands, requiring substantial capital and a six week operation timeline to move the plan forward. He stressed the need for funding to meet the emergency and to execute the project.
A plan proposes placing 200 families on 2000 acres of irrigated land and forming a cooperative loan association modeled on the German system to provide funds for stock purchases. Subscriptions flood the effort, with donors including Elizabeth Livingston and Governor Flower, bringing total to about 80000. The story also notes various 19th century local affairs and obituaries from Oregon, Indiana, Kentucky, and beyond.
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