American firm lands contract for electrical plants along eastern Chinese railroad
An American electric manufacturing company has won the entire contract for equipment of numerous electrical plants to be installed along the line of the Eastern Chinese railroad. The project will mostly use temporary hitching plants and may involve about 200,000 dollars. The contractor is also said to be pursuing anarchic explorations and may travel south next. He is currently engaged in a major scientific polar exploration work.
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American Electric Manufacturing Company
Pedition
Savearatum
Chicago
Brent Nunther
Iley
Swansba
Swanson
Jackson
Kearney
Heller
Lake Bt
Smallpox spread noted in Northern Iowa and election results
Des Moines reports a growing smallpox epidemic in northern Iowa with cases in Worth and Lyon counties and possible spread into Silver Lake township. The governor election shows Shaw winning the Republican nomination with broad support. lieutenant governor Milliman trails by about 51,000 votes. Obsequies honor Judge Woolson in Mt Pleasant as Deeming faces betrayal charges in Council Bluffs. Iowa State College rebukes the label Agricultural College, noting equal emphasis on mechanical arts.
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Des Moines
Nee
H. M. Bracken
Minnesota Board of Hearth
Silver Lake Township
Worth County
Pater Loberg
Amtrey Davidson
John Johnson
Marathon
Northwoul
Gover
Shaw
Dodson
Milliman
Fred White
Mr. Milliman
van Widetes
White
Atwood
Prohibition
Lloyd
Kremer
Heacock
United Christian
Multiman
Republican
Hevns
Demour
Pugsiey
Harvey
Bronner
Socialist Labor
Leonard
Iowa State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts
Ames
Agricultural College
Institutiog
Albert Miller files bankruptcy amid robbery tale in Sioux City
Albert Miller a general merchant of George and Sutherland in Iowa filed a voluntary bankruptcy petition in Sioux City stating assets of 20132.50 and liabilities of 21987.35. Creditors doubt the robbery claim and say Miller tied up property attachments preventing payment of bankruptcy fees.
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Hobbory
Sioux City
Albert Miller
George and Sutherland
Linux City
Miller
Indian congressman nickname ties Kansas leader to chiefs
Charles Cuts of Topeka, a Republican leader in Kansas, nicknamed the Indian congressman for his mother’s direct descent from a Kansas Indian chief. He began as a bootblack and studied law by night. The text also notes a Providence company building a large emery wheel and discusses various quotes, medicines, and ad copy.
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Charles Cuts
Topeka
Kansas
New England
Louis Gonvil
Not Did Zach's Grandson
Letters from Southern Taylor family members claim Lieutenant C C Wood of the North Lancashire regiment was a great grandson of President Zachary Taylor, not a grandson of Jefferson Davis. The note cites Mrs Ann M Taylor as Wood's grandmother and mentions Confederate navy lineage.
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Zach
Taylor
C. C. Wood
North Lancashire British Regiment
Limberley
South Africa
Zachary Taylor
Jefferson Davis
Sarah
C. Wood
Ann M
Wood
Dream of Seven Brings Lottery Luck to French Laundress
A laundress who won the first prize in a large lottery credited her win to a dream of the number seven for three nights. She said three times seven equals seventeen and she bought ticket 89, which paid the prize. The note comments on lingering superstition despite education and cites a Paris exposition display.
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St. Joseph
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Twentieth Kansas
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New York
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