Ice cream fine jokes off Sunday delivery case
In Boston a confectioner was fined ten dollars for sending ice cream to customers on Sunday claiming it was for dinner. The court ruled ice cream not a necessary of existence to justify Sunday distribution. Oregon legislators back a woman suffrage amendment with strong majorities, sending it to the people after passage in 1880. The suffrage push appears to gain momentum in multiple states.
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Boston
Oregon
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Commission named to study Yellowstone railroad line
The president appointed Thomas H. Canfield of Minnesota J. S. Pillsbury of Minnesota and Waterman Smith of New Hampshire to examine and report on 50 miles of railroad built by the Northern Pacific in the Yellowstone valley Montana territory beyond and continuous with 25 miles examined by commissioners named on August 31 1882.
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Minnesota
J. S. Pillsbury
Waterman Smith
New Hampshire
Northern Pacific Railroad Company
Yellowstone Valley
Montana Territory
Ohio election returns show narrow GOP plurality
Official returns reveal a Democratic plurality of 19,115 over Republicans and an overall majority of 1,568. Despite a prohibition plank in the Republican platform, 12,202 voters, largely Republicans, cast ballots for the pure prohibition ticket. If prohibition Republicans had supported the rest of the Republican ticket, victory would have gone to the party.
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Public land sales and acres under homestead acts last year
The last fiscal year saw 15,697,438 acres disposed of for cash under homestead acts and related programs, timber culture and bounty land warrants. The increase from the prior year reached nearly 5,000,000 acres, with 10,757,858 acres in 1881. Under the homestead act 6,347,729 acres were taken up, 2,216,244 under the final homestead act, and 2,609,797 under timber culture.
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Agricultural College
Annual liquor bill and its social costs analyzed
The United States faces a liquor bill of about X00,000,000, exceeding total taxation for all governmental levels by 100,000,000. At this rate, liquor spending could erase the national debt in two years. The piece asks how abstaining for one year would reduce criminals, paupers, wife beatings, and murders.
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United States
Connecticut Supreme Court admits women to bar
The Connecticut Supreme Court rules women may join the state bar. Mary Hall, after passing the required examination and with the bar committee certificate, will be admitted to practice law in Hartford County. Women have already been admitted in Missouri, California, and the District of Columbia, and may practice before the U S Supreme Court after three years in any state or D C court.
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Hartford County
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California
District of Columbia
Supreme Court of the United
Reforming School Curricula and Inebriation Views
The article critiques diffuse school training and stresses concentrative study to develop memory over reflection. It notes public schools focus on rudimentary knowledge and cannot easily expand to broader subjects. It also mentions growing discussion of inebriation philosophy among educated circles and references Judge Peabody on prohibition and Wayland’s views on drunkenness.
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New York
Wayland
The Inhuman Notion of Life Penalties for Intemperance
A historical argument rejects lifetime imprisonment for inebriates as impractical and unjust. It warns against punishing social pests like gamblers and vagrants by lifelong confinement, contending reform requires liberty and targeted penalties for specific offenses against public peace rather than all-encompassing punishment.
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Palentivony
Pendleton plan debate sparks partisan reform quarrel
Senator Pensetton urges immediate passage of a British civil service reform bill while Democrats warn against rushing. They favor waiting till 1984 to install a non partisan Civil Service under a Democratic administration. The piece rails at imagined Pendleton plan uses and mocks Republican firings and Obama like reforms.
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Hoelie
Tuesday Election Folly Melds with National Upset
The piece reports a sweeping Democratic surge across New York, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and Connecticut with 48th centers captured. Michigan's governor defeated. legislature expected GOP gains. It notes intraparty rifts among Republicans and signals a sober view of the Democratic triumph while warning of Southern aggression and violent incidents echoing postwar tensions.
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Detroit Free Press
Homer County News Roundup In Homer Updates
News from Homer notes street lamps may come, five thousand dollars spent on Homer mills, Osbourne House line now managed by F D Creque, and council balks at moving the band stand. Local society, travel, weddings, and arrivals mix with skating rink hopes and deer reports in this small town digest.
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Goodrich
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Coldwater Sun
Battle Creek News Highlights Local Happenings
The Battle Creek area reports 58 subscribers on the telephone system and 1,787 names registered on a recent Friday and Saturday. The amateur orchestra is reorganized, a public telephone station opens at Will R. Phillips’s store, and the skating rink planned at 60 by 80 feet will soon debut. Diphtheria cases surface, street and street car notes appear, and local officials address a mix of civic matters including a renamed Prospect Street to Calhoun Street and a new rail bridge completion near the mill pond.
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