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Newspaper
Mooresville Guide
Location
Mooresville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Sep 03, 1897
Page
4
The New York August grand jury consisted largely of millionaires with an estimated combined wealth near 125 million dollars. Each millionaire attempted to beg off but the court compelled them to serve.
A group of Town families secured a concession of 6,000 acres in Shelly County Alabama thirty miles south of Birmingham. The tract will be laid out on a colony plan with each colonist owning property. Located in the fruit and dairy belt of the State, settlers will receive a thirty acre home for about $350.
By August 26, forty eight vessels sailed from Baltimore with grain cargoes of 50 000 to 100 000 bushels each. Marine statisticians call it the largest single port outward grain movement in American history.
An unclear OCR fragment mentions runners in Alaska and Yokotte Duswsan City with scattered references to track events. It references headwater, pace, and speed, but lacks coherent details or names to form a complete event or outcome.
The damaged passage describes an event where a neighbor helped secure a knot during an attempted action leading to a death. A farmer’s neighbor is charged as an accessory with the case pending, claiming shock at the incident prevented alarm or aid.
A fragmentary report from Do Fn Wer I in Ashes county notes a unique case of paternal interference affecting courtship. The text references reactions of youths frightened by “Papa's boot” and suggests widespread unhappiness among those pursuing affection in the area.
Archie Hoffman and Min nie Reimer resist delays as a wealthy father keeps them apart with a deputy sheriff monitoring their budding romance. The elder insists she is too young but hints Hoffman could marry later, turning a simple courtship into a drawn out tussle under heavy supervision.
A French inventor proposes an artificial fog to envelop war ships by shaking the battle and following directions. The piece suggests widespread use among fraudulent cashiers and sneaks, predicting a demand for a new medicine advertised in the columns.
A chaotic rescue narrative describes three young men who entered a boat and drifted over Niagara Falls after escaping Chippewa Creek. Crowds watched as they fought to steer toward shore while large waves swept them toward the river below.
Fragmentary report shows Mrs. Charlotte Smith leading a campaign against bachelor politicians. She letters chairmen of Republican committees in Boston criticizing Josiah Quincy Edwin W Curtis as unsuitable bachelors. The missive also cites David B. Talat of New York as an example. The tone condemns bachelor status and cites a social note about many women seeking husbands.
Fragmentary OCR text mentions Thai and British places and names with unclear meaning. It references Phra Param Chulalongsorn and others, a visit pattern, and a retirement or departure context. The passage remains cryptic without coherent events or dates.
The document outlines wool tariff classifications with three classes: Merino and related wools, Down combing wools, and camel and regional wools. Duties range from eleven to twelve cents per pound for first and second class, and four cents for third class. it also notes broad scope of wool manufactures.
A sweeping, somewhat garbled panorama of Alaska praising its gold streams many fisheries and forests. It notes vast coastline length snow and ice, seal and spruce resources, plants and animals, and extreme climate with references to Dawson and Yukon activities, while mixing odd facts and errors.
The article explains mining, placer and hydraulic methods, quartz veins, and the vast gold potential in the Rocky Mountains and California. It notes Alaska as a new El Dorado with extreme distance, hardship, and a grim odds ratio, where four in five miners fail but the lure of gold keeps explorers moving toward the Klondike.
Mrs. Annie Noe of Brooklyn shot her five month old son George in the back and then cut her wrist with a carving knife. The child died within hours. Mrs Noe was arrested and said abuse by her husband drove her to the act. Mr Noe denied severe mistreatment and called her insane.
Madrid cabinet discusses mobilizing 27 000 SGU reserves for Cuba and 15 000 for the Philippine islands. Ministers deny the gathering focused on colonial reforms or political questions.
A Poland China hog named Klever's Model sold for 100 dollars at Springfield Ti marking the highest price ever paid for a hog. The sale was conducted by a syndicate called Klever's Model Breeders' Association. At the same meeting Gen J P Gobin of Lebanon Pa was elected Commander in Chief for the coming year succeeding Thaddeus Clarkson.
London dispatch reports that a cabinet debate approved sending a note to great powers protesting Crete's condition. It calls for withdrawing fleets and troops and appointing a mixed commission including Turkish delegates to legislate the island. The Sultan is said to approve the plan.
Naturalists note the ephemere born and dying in a single night on the banks of the Warne Seine and Rhine. The life begins as a worm for three years, then a rapid water to air transformation, final flight lasting six hours without nourishment. Eggs are laid before death, with species appearing and dying within days if maladies delay changes.
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