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Newspaper
Mooresville Guide
Location
Mooresville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Jul 16, 1897
Page
2
The Mooresville Guide reports a deficit for the just closed fiscal year of about 25 million dollars, nearly half of what it would have been without the tariff bill impact. Revenue growth was restrained by increased imports and tariff anticipation.
Statistics show steady growth with capital rising from 6,231,120 in 1870 to 51,007,537 in 1890. Product value increased from 12,210,062 to 69,354,599 and employment grew from 6,649 to 50,913, justifying encouragement and protection for the industry.
A gigantic umbrella attraction is planned for the next Omaha exposition. The oversized parasol will eclipse existing rides like the Ferris wheel and a Nashville see-saw with arms 110 feet long.
The readable fragments mention a local public action and dates or roles, with unclear names and places. The context points to a notice about a sale or legal matter, but specific details are unreadable.
The readable portion hints at agreements and financial obligations but the text is garbled. It mentions payment on demands and indemnity expenses tied to business, with references to caps and annual totals. No clear names or locations are extractable.
Under the new statute the net annual revenue for all towns and cities in the state rose to about 3 million dollars in thirteen months of operation, while the number of saloons dropped from 23 000 to 2 800. Critics say Sunday sales hamper major cities, but revenue features meet broad approval.
Doctors challenge the free dispensary system amid 116 facilities in New York. Reports allege well to do patients exploit free care, while some physicians note long-term free treatment for paying taxpayers. Dispensaries receive funds from colleges, public sources, private donors, and endowments. critics call the system a propagator of pauperism.
The Illinois General Assembly at Springfield passed and Governor Tanner signed a bill giving city councils authority to grant street railway charters and concessions to railway companies. The measure aims to regulate routes and terms for expansion and operation within municipalities.
The Illinois charter extension bill faces graft accusations as backers allegedly spent 1 million dollars to win passage. Despite protests and veto prospects, the measure passes, pleasing streetcar magnates who plan 200 more miles of electric lines in Cook County amid talk of a fifty year graft bonanza.
President Jeffers argues that railways should prioritize public necessity over competing lines. He cites rising freight and passenger totals and calls for funding upgrades rather than building new lines, warning against parallel routes driven by profit.
Dr. Talmage argues from 1 Samuel 18 14 that deceit in religion wrecks a kingdom. He cites Saul sparing Agag and livestock against God’s command, warns that hypocrisy destroys the church, and urges complete consecration and holy living under grace.
A Detroit Free Press column recalls life a century ago with notes on wages two shillings a day imprisonment for debt copper mine prisons in Connecticut single hat factory complex cooking on open hearths six day trips New York to Boston stage coaches and social norms including fines for jeering preachers and unnamed streets and numbered houses.
A reflective meditation on restraint and timing. The author notes that effort wasted comes from acting cold, warns against masking faith, and urges careful aim to avoid harming inner lives. A contrast between worldly and spiritual insight appears through vivid imagery and aphorisms.
A historical note from the Philadelphia Record asserts news is what the public will read and pay for, as well as what readers ought to know. It frames news as factual events, ranging from commonplace arrivals to imperial falls, shaping the panorama of daily history.
The Senate approved the amended tariff bill by 38 to 28 and sent it to conference. Voters included 35 Republicans and 2 silver Republicans for. 25 Democrats, 2 Populists, and 1 silver Republican opposed. Conferees named: Allison, Addrick, Platt, Burrows, Jones of Nevada, West, Jones of Arkansas, and White.
A local note reports eggs and baskets repurposed as incubators causing several chicks to hatch. A Seneca Street grocer found three hatchlings and another egg breaking shell in the delivery case. A neighboring-town shipment yielded seven chicks as the freight arrived. A show window displays chicks with a placard noting they hatched by heat without brooders or incubators.
Four women in Paris committed suicide by charcoal fumes in a flat owned by Mme Marechal in Faubourg Poissonnerie. They were deserted by husbands or lovers, dined together, signed a joint note, and left cigarettes and a pet dog dead nearby. The affair follows long-standing melancholia in Mme Marechal and is believed she instigated the act.
Senator Isham G. Harris of Tennessee died in Washington on July 8 after a long illness. Born February 1816, he entered Congress in 1849 and served as Confederate governor of Tennessee during the Civil War. He escaped to Mexico after Lee's surrender and returned to Memphis in 1867. He was a U S Senator from 1877 until his death.
John Henry Barker a colored man was electrocuted at Sing Sing prison New York on July 6 for the murder of his wife. An autopsy found his brain lobes united with calcareous deposits making him insane and not a responsible being.
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