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Newspaper
Mena Star
Location
Mena, Arkansas, United States of America
Date
Nov 16, 1898
Page
4
The Mena Arkansas short note hails Jam elections of Pingree and Roosevelt as independent leaders. It promotes expansion within national borders and a growing city with a new three story post office, water works, and many residences. Siloam Springs to host a December poultry show inviting local growers to exhibit stock.
In New Zealand a proposed annual pension of 200 dollars for every needy and responsible person aged 65 is discussed. The plan echoes Bellamy’s vision of state care for all elder citizens who have rendered good service by a certain age.
The Kansas City Journal praised Col onel Kennedy and President McKinley after the election calling the former’s bail out for a grand quail hunt and noting the off year victory as a magnificent indorsement. Some questioned why Kenney, jailed for train robbery, would share the rejoicing.
The city council passes an ordinance creating an improvement district for a waterworks system in Mena. Mayor Whayne ensures legal compliance and taxpayers will vote on real estate assessments. The piece notes Topeka, Kansas voters approving city ownership of waterworks as a model and endorses local bond sales in small denominations.
The Kansas City Star and St Louis Dispatch comment on Governor Pingree's landslide win in Michigan. They praise his equal taxation stance and frame his victory as proof that the people support social and industrial rights against party elites.
The passage praises Roosevelt for victory in New York and recognizes Pingree’s harder fought honors. It notes opposition and abuse faced, and argues Pingree’s memory will be cherished by the poor he championed, highlighting public admiration for both figures.
A Kansas City Journal editorial argues that so called socialist colonies failed due to autocratic leadership and lack of law guiding efforts. It claims true socialism succeeds when adopted by nation or city under law, citing postal services, roads, schools, water works, lighting, and fire and transit services as examples of municipal socialism.
J Pesler of Worth County Missouri plans to settle in Mena after a search along the Pittsburg and Gulf line. He has left household goods at Port Arthur and intends to send for his family once a house is rented.
Fragmentary notice describes a cool bouim and bogey offered for sale or trade for city property. Apply at this oftes.
Washington report summarizes Bristow on fourth and presidential post offices for year to June 30 1898. It lists state counts for presidential and fourth class offices, top and bottom states by post office numbers, average compensation for fourth class postmasters, per capita mall expenditure, and total appointments at 25004.
Washington reports new one dollar silver certificate designs completed by the bureau of engraving and printing. The notes emphasize clearness and anti counterfeiting features and will be issued soon. The face centers an American eagle with the capitol dome background, small Lincoln and Grant portraits, and large corner figures for legibility.
Norfolk accord reports twenty thousand six-pound shells shipped to Mare Island navy yard and three freight cars needed to move the ammo across the continent. Orders call for round-the-clock work on the gunboat Princeton to join a Hampton Roads squadron led by the New York. Naval men deem the move significant as the Atlantic to Pacific ammo flow increases, likely for Manila.
Secretary Long proposes to amend civil service laws to extend preference for appointments to applicants who served in the Spanish war. Present preference exists for civil war veterans, and he urges extending it to those who participated in the recent conflict.
Washington Nov 15 The fifty fifth congress will lose forty three members in the transition to the fifty sixth. Of these twenty six are Republicans and eight Democrats while eleven are fusionists and eight are populists. The Republicans show the heaviest losses in New York Pennsylvania and Illinois. Fusion losses are strongest in Kansas South Dakota and Washington.
Denver and Gov. Adams received a telegram from Adj. Gen. Corbin stating that volunteer regiments now serving in the Philippines will be ordered home as soon as the troops en route to the islands arrive to relieve them.
A compilation from Arkansas papers notes railroad schemes as a sign of outside attention. Various items touch on reforms, crops, taxation, mining, travel fakirs, and local developments, including a large sweet potato exhibit and telegraphy training ads. People named include Van Buren Venture, Little River News, De Queen Bee, Arkansas Gazette, Eureka Springs Plashlight, Harrison Republican, Fort Smith Elevator, Waldron Reporter, and Dallas Telegraph College. The items reflect economic hopes and local notices across counties.
The article notes Republicans winning a solid majority in the Senate and House. It reports the House will hold a fifteen vote margin against the opposition, with the final tally influenced by post election claims and party alignment. It also mentions a court of inquiry over crew abandonment of the Maria Teresa and potential consequences for Commander Harris.
Topeka voters approved issuing 440000 in bonds to buy the National Water Works plant or condemn and purchase at appraised value, or build a city plant. Bonds run twenty years at 5 percent. support margin 1703 to 616. The council now negotiates with the company for purchase under a special law.
A period advertisement warns tenderness in the back signals kidney trouble and urges immediate use of Prickley Ash Bitters as a reliable remedy and system regulator. Sold by Jackson Drug Co.
A dog in Kansas fought with a large mastiff, returned home missing large skin patches and its tail at the root. The dog's mother quips that the tail went with the hide, reflecting grim humor in Kansas animals. The piece ends noting Prickley Ash Bitters kept at home as health remedy sold by Jackson Dragov.
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