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Newspaper
Mount Horeb Grit
Location
Mount Horeb, Wisconsin, United States of America
Date
Nov 08, 1894
Page
2
The piece reports a landslide election in Blue Mounds with 414 votes cast for the winner and 345 for the challenger, noting universal turnout amid a hard times climate. It comments on Republican critique and previews a potential future refutation if a Republican signs their name to an article.
The report notes a statewide Republican sweep while Dane County hires a single Democratic official, county superintendent NIBIS district. The remainder of the section previews a tabulated election report and other results.
A long list of county officers appears, naming sheriffs, clerks, treasurers, register of deeds, coroner, surveyors, superintendents of schools, and district attorneys. The article includes several spellings and misprints, reflecting an OCR fragment from a local government roster. It ends with a note about five-cent cigars and rising prices.
In a curious note three clusters of berries grown from seeds found with a buried skeleton in a Britain barrow reveal ages of 1,700 to 2,000 years. The Gardeners Chronicle cites Roman tomb seeds that sprouted after two millennia in warm damp soil.
Bolting Nebraska democrats secured a county wide victory yesterday. County clerk ruling and district court decision allow straight Democrat ballot candidates on the official ballot in the county.
In Hyattsville on November 2 a hazing incident at Maryland Agricultural College resulted in the illness of Edwin Gott Jr., son of the secretary of state. Gott remains critically ill and unable to be moved to his Annapolis home.
The Wisconsin committee selected Signor Trentadove of Milwaukee to sculpt the Pere Marquette statue for the National Capitol in Washington. Details include a granite pedestal, bas relief life scenes, a pure white marble statue, 15 month completion, and a $6,000 cost.
A San Francisco Chronicle report summarizes a visitor’s tale of Java under Dutch rule. The speaker cites 24 000 Japanese laborers on tea, coffee and sugar estates, their meager wages, and general contentment amid a mild climate. He notes tea yields and low prices. sugar and coffee profits rise. government controls labor flows. the traveler plans travel to London and Rotterdam by the Canadian Pacific.
The Quebec government has awarded bounties totaling nearly 180000 acres of farmland to large families over four years. Each family with twelve or more children earns 100 acres per eligible child, under a Mercier era act granting privileges to fathers with twelve living offspring. Applicants must file a petition with marriage certificates and baptism proofs for each child.
An 1880s style advertisement touts the Oxygen Treatment as a universal remedy for asthma bronchitis consumption dyspepsia rheumatism and nervous prostration. It claims proven cures and offers free evidence by mail from J Starkley & Tralen at 1520 Arch Street Philadelphia and promotes a home treatment regimen with express delivery.
Wanted good men to solicit for first class nursery stock with weekly pay. Permanent employment guaranteed and outfit free. No prior experience required and success is possible for any who follow instructions. Write for terms to Irving Rouse, Take View Nursery, Rochester, N Y, mention this paper.
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