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Newspaper
Mooresville Guide
Location
Mooresville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Nov 19, 1897
Page
8
Captain General Blanco's edict of pardon will not relieve thousands starving in Cuban towns under the cruel orders of Weylker. The piece condemns the suffering as among the worst in modern times, citing recent accounts from the Cuban crisis.
A trial in Kansas City of turning vacant city lots into vegetable gardens benefited the poor last season by 2380 dollars while outlaying 468 dollars for tools seeds and a superintendent salary. The work proved a very practical form of charity.
A fiscal report from the Commissioner of Internal Revenue shows beer output at 34 462 822 barrels, a decline from the prior year, with earlier years showing increases. Analysts caution awaiting two more years of figures before attributing the drop to reduced beer consumption rather to other factors.
The text discusses Switzerland's referendum on government ownership of railways and a method to compensate private owners. It notes calculations based on an average earnings multiple and mentions related domestic and American media references, with broader political context and public debate.
The Commission on Pensions reports 41 122 total losses from deaths, remarriage, legal incapacity, failure to claim three years and other causes. Net rail increase is 12 gso for the year. Pensioners on rolls June 16, 1 & 7 total 667 001g. Disbursed for pensions during the year 129 049 dollars, up 1 584 480 from 1890.
The article notes amused American readers at foreign commentary on U S politics. It cites W E Curtis in London and Allan Arthur in Paris, who misstate events and mischaracterize figures as political exiles or threats to the U S presidency.
In Toronto the Women’s Christian Temperance Union expressed regret over the U S Senate’s failure to ratify the arbitration treaty with Great Britain. The group urged another effort to negotiate a treaty and anticipated broader public support for a renewed attempt.
Mayor elect Van Wyck of Greater New York plans to award patronage and rewards to thousands, claiming 5000 people may benefit directly. He will appoint by mover with salaries totaling about 63 million, plus indirect city contracts supporting many more.
The Indianapolis Journal notes Indiana's sugar beet potential, citing Purdue experiments showing feasible beet cultivation across the state. It discusses factory sites in Rome, Denver, and Nebraska as benchmarks and urges cautious investor interest with guaranteed beet supply before building plants.
A 1897 sermon links Genesis orchards to daily life, arguing fruit precedes meat and urges balance for workaholics. It traces Adam, Solomon, Pilate, and St John as orchard figures and calls religion a luxury and necessity, ending with heaven as a composite material and spiritual home.
A Chicago specialist reveals a capsule device with medicated papers and rubber tubing to view stomach processes. The self contained system can be used by any physician, with instructions on medicating the papers to be published.
An Englishwoman attends a Victorian Guards major funeral and realizes sorrow makes her see the soldier as a human being. A man questions her feeling, and she explains the dead was a brave soldier, not personal domain.
In a Newport beach scene Reginald sobs over a vanished beloved as Dorothea and his mother rush to soothe him. Reginald’s overthetop plea for his mother in law ends the crisis with a vow of continued affection despite the chaos.
The piece traces early knowledge of the potter's wheel in the Greek world of the fourth century BCE mirrors from 1279 and earlier horn and metal substitutes before glass. It notes Anglo-Saxon women wore small mirrors at the girdle and later beauties in the Elizabethan and Jacobean eras carried mirrors at the center of their fans.
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