Paved City Official Posts And Rates Listing
The document lists names Stanley and Eastman with roles President and Secretary and notes an official paver position for the City of Moline. It shows a bookkeeping section with treasurer Ileph?ones and a business office, printing room, and issue times. Subscription rates are given as annual five dollars, six months three ninety five, and weekly carrier two cents.
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Stanley
Wwarren L. Eastman
Aurich Farnham
Wealth as a Curse Heats a Perryville Debate
The author lampoons William Vanderbilt's claim that great wealth is a curse arguing others would feel happiness in poverty, recalling a provincial farmer and Senator Cullom. The piece mocks the habit of gloating over others' misfortune and the smug politics of wealth.
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Po Wiliam HK
Vanderbilt
William
Cullom
United States
Partridgefield Mass Votes Eight Hour Day Plan
In 1792 Partridgefield Mass now Peru voted to grant 150 pounds for highway repairs to be worked out two thirds in June at 8d per day. Eight hours to be deemed a day’s work. The note adds reflections on German trade and Republican coverage of the Democratic party.
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Partridgefield
Mass
Peru
Corn Speculation Dampens Hope For Drought Hit Corn Belt
The piece notes early gloom about drought damaged corn yields in western states, then shifts to warnings against speculators driving down prices. Farmers are urged to hold grain until prices rise, while agricultural leaders press for price gains to support producers. diplomacy anecdotes follow, mentioning Istanbul intrigues and royal tours.
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Chicago
Buffalo
New York
Voyage of Waldemar and Other Items
A miscellany notes Waldemar of Denmark sailing toward York on his cruiser and hints Americans hope he will secure deeds to West Indian islands. Also mentions an inventor claiming to lure fish with an electric bulb, legal questions about publisher rights, a Canadian customs lunch seizure, 200 Mahsuds assaulting a Kashmir post, a New York court ruling on a portrait used in advertising, a Chicago snail prevalence, and Klondike fatalities rising.
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Waldemar
Sultan Talks Fight in War Threat Amid Turmoil
Vienna reports from Constantinople that the sultan vows to go to war rather than yield to demands. He studies defense plans and has ordered 800 guns from Germany. In Ankara, the French flag was removed from the embassy after Ambassador Constans left. no chargé d’affaires remains. French consuls will protect interests while relations are restored. Trade friction in Turkey worsens strains with French commerce.
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Vienna
Tageblatt
Constantinople
Germany
France
M. Constans
Turkey
M Constans
Three Boys Find Possible Loot in Omaha Yard
In Omaha on August 29 three youths uncovered three money filled paper bundles in a Ninth and Farnam lumber yard. The sum, possibly 3000 to 6000 dollars, is believed to belong to the Pacific Express company which had a driver robbed three years earlier. Insurgent arms tied to Gen. Riera in Curacao were seized in Coro by Venezuelan authorities, thwarting an insurrection plan, per Port of Spain Herald.
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Omaha, Neb
Ninth and Farnam Streets
National Bank
Pacific Express Company
New York
Arma
Riera
Curacao
Coro
Port of Spain
The
Herald
Bank President Optimistic Over Savings Bank Reopen
Cleveland August 29 President Tait of the Superior Street Savings and Banking company says the closed bank can likely pay 90 cents on the dollar and that its affairs are improving daily as it moves toward reopening.
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Cleveland, O
Tait
Superior Street Savings and Banking Company
Bohemian Editor Thomas Boukup Dies in Wisconsin
Thomas Boukup editor of the Viastenec, the lone Bohemian paper in the northwest, died in La Crosse Wisconsin from consumption. He was a prominent Democrat in western Wisconsin.
Dorado of King Solor claim sparks historical debate
Archaeologists question Dr. Carl Peters claim of discovering Ophir in ancient times. The article notes Peters' link to a supposed gold mine of 420 talents and a connection to Ophir cited in I Kings. It discusses the broader legend of Ophir and the Queen of Sheba's Abyssinian lineage.
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Carl Peters
Solor
Ophir
Dr. Peters
Bitary
Sheba
Abyssinia
Committee on credentials named for Grand Army encampment
Commander in Chief Rassieur named the credentials committee for the coming encampment with Adjt Gen Sterrett and Adjt Gens Rodgers Thacher Russon and Robbins as members. The panel will meet September 10 at Hollenden. Ernest Kretehmer as color bearer and Christian Fricke as bugler are announced from Missouri.
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Cleveland, O
Rassieur
Grand Army of the Republic
Bus
Sterrett
Appointment of William R. Bingham as Consul General
Washington August 29 The president named William R Bingham of Kansas as consul general at Cape Town Cape of Good Hope in a formal appointment announced today Bingham will lead U S consul affairs in South Africa under the Cape Town post authority
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Washington
William R. Bingham
Kansas
Caps Town
Cape of Hot Hope
Rearrested on Additional Counts in Chinese Conspiracy Case
Tucson Aug 29 United States Collector of Customs Huey was rearrested on additional counts in the Chinese conspiracy case. His bond was raised to five thousand dollars.
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Tucson
Ariz
United States Collector of Customs
Huey
Low Mississippi River Halts Dimond Boats At La Crosse
Water levels on the Upper Mississippi at La Crosse Wisconsin are unusually low for late August with the stage at two feet and falling. Die mond to boats have ceased operations and navigation may be seriously hampered if the river does not rise soon.
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la Crosse
Wis
Mississippi River
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the Journal Printing Company
Moline, Il
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Moline, Illinois
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Cash Register Company
Dayton
Ohio
Cash Register
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Reshad Pasha
Jerusalem
Duke of Cornwall
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Osage
Hall Caine
Sutherland
Canada
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Kashmirker
New York Court of Appeals
Rochester
Klondike
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Kleoks
Department of Arkansas
Grand Army
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Charles T Hutchins
West
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12Th Avenue
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14Th Avenue
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16Th Street
Biess Fire and Lite
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