Maine Slump A Local Event
In Portland Maine on September 18 Republicans won the state election with Hert M Fernald of Poland elected governor over Obadiah Gardner of Hancock. Democrats narrowed the Republican lead in the presidential year vote, while four Republican congressmen won and Charles P Hatech swept as state auditor. turnout neared a record, with estimates of increased participation across counties and cities, and a likely Republican next legislature. The article notes riot claims against the county and state expenses tied to troop movements, totaling about 264 965 dollars, plus potential future claims. An associated note mentions Indiana man Jesse Parmenter elected president of the National Association of Postmasters at Gainesville Georgia.
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Portland
Hert M Fernald
Poland
Obadiah Gardner
Hockland
Tess Chan
Congress
Charles P. Hateh
Augusta
Republian
Gardner Througout
Httle
Galls Annamie
Belfast
Pilsworth
South Portland
Plu
Seavey
Gardner
Indiana
Manapolis
National Association of Postmasters
Gainesville
Jesse Parmenter
Wabash
Davis
Lowry
Clark County
Evans
Cooper
County Board of Review
Commissioners of Highways
Chas Scott Amt
Orndorff
Wallace
Schwartz
Byram
Hinkley
Williamson
Craig
Schafer
Johnson
Thompson
Lowy
Paris Bridge Co
Doyles Creek
Dolson
James Hooper
Geo. W Hurst
Supervisors Proceeding Sit through bridge petitions and taxes
Clark county board reviews bridge projects for Wabash and Melrose townships. They approve half the $500 cost for Hawk's creek and Joe's Fork repairs, authorize committees, and set up road and bridge tax levies plus town and delinquent district rates. Interurban railway petition from Charleston to Terre Haute is approved with conditions.
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Wabash
Commissioners of Highways of
Wabash Township
Hawk's Creek
Marshall
Terre Haute
Commissioners of Highways
Five Points School House
Livingston
McKeen
Schafer
Lowry and Davis
Melrose Township
Joe’s Fork Creek
Allright
Melrose
Williamson
Cooper
Craig
Harry W Drake
James Dawson
Charleston
Westfield
Board of Supervisors
Terre Heure
Lowry
Norman Bennett Amt
Market Quotations for Grain and Livestock Prices
Prevailing prices listed for Indianapolis, Cincinnati, Chicago, and New York markets. Wheat, corn, oats, hay, cattle, hogs, sheep, and lambs shown with bid figures and range notes across cities. Includes inconsistencies and typographical errors from OCR.
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Indianapolis Grain
Clivestock
Timothy
Cincinnati
Chicago
New York
Igi
East
Buffalo
Seatte
No Portrait by Existence William Lee D. Ewing
William Lee D. Ewing a Democrat served as Illinois governor from November 17 to December 8 1834 due to resignations of Governor Reynolds and Lieutenant Governor Casey. He was a Black Hawk War colonel and held multiple terms in the General Assembly and served as United States senator beginning December 20 1835. He died March 26 1846.
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William Lee D Ewing
Illinois
Reynolds
Casey
Ewing
Senate
General Assembly
House
United States
Fayette County
Farm Topics and Social Snippets From Dixons and Home Life
Farmers urged to inspect the Superior wheat drill at D ix on s to gauge merit. The piece also notes hardships of the very poor and tells of Little Marion who imagines many playmates and converses with a large doll family. Her mother overhears her saying they are poor and that she must spank her babies to keep them warm.
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Marion
Smif
Wowan
Absurd quips on illness and theft across papers
In a Cleveland Leader quip a line claims a chronic disease costs nothing for one speaker. A reply notes the other’s illness as kleptomania. The New York Press mocks a joke writer who riffs on countrymen and gas lighting failures.
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Hewitt
Jewett
New York Press
Nation of cripples: rheumatism beyond control ad
A historical advertisement promotes Uric-O as a permanent cure for rheumatism, arguing rheumatism is a blood disease. It claims the medicine cures by removing rheumatic poison from blood and offers a free test bottle via Smith Drug Co. Syracuse, with Marshall Kelfer’s Drug Store in mentions.
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Smith Drug Co
Syracuse
N. Yi
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Interurban Railway
J. W. Adams
George W. Cassel
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Lockard’s
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Wm C Schafer
R Schwartz
Miles
Geo
Shelton Davis
A Bryam
Bruce D Evans
T M Cooper
H V Johnson
John Thompson
Ij J Hinkley
John Williamson
Lowry Board
Toledo
Lulinois
William Lee D. Ewing
Dixon’s
Ekleptomantia
Cleveland
Uric Oa
Kelfer
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