Blair bill Passage Roils Senate Amid Tea Party Turmoil
Washington Feb 21 A Senate vote 39 to 29 approved the Blair educational bill to shift public school control with a stated $75 million sum amid partisan clash. Democrats and Republicans split, with Voorhees and Turpie voting no, while Taft era leaders face tortuous fallout over tariff and reform battles shaping national politics.
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D. C
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Voorhees
Turpie
Odd Illinois Notes Include Coffin Maker and Wild Weather
Features range from Uncle Bill Watson living near Sullivan who crafted his own walnut coffin to a Champaign farmer seeking a premium for the county’s biggest fool. Reports cover a devastating Grant Vernon cyclone, hog deaths, a Decatur suicide, child marriage in Fairmount, and various state stats from school enrollment to drain-tile costs.
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Moultrie County
Bill Watson
Watson
Champaign County
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McLean County
Vernon
Illinois
Edward Skiver
Decatur
Fairmount
Grant Martin
Grace Silvers
Bloomington
Douglas County
Ernest Barbey
Emily Rose
Greenville
Interesting Letter Urges Louisiana Land Settlement from Posey
A Posey Indiana citizen writes from Sruspono La on Feb 19 praising milder winter and spring signs. He urges immigration to northwest Louisiana, touting land from 2 to 5 per acre with easy payment, large timber and water, growing schools, hotels, churches, and a southern recovery after the war. He notes politics are pure democracy but hints economic shifts, and warns against depopulation of Indiana. He expands into Indiana news summaries and local items.
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Sruspono
Indiana
Old Posey
Louisiana
Wabash
South
Hadson Key
Florida
Notable Odds and Ends From Various Local Items
Notes and News highlights curiosities and facts from across the country. A Mississippi hunter finds a possum and $192 in silver in a hollow log, Fort Keogh records extreme temperatures, an Albany estate settles heirs after years of litigation, and a Missouri post office placard jokes about stamps. Other items include a 18 year old blind canary, Russian harvest labor by women, Chinese merchants’ duties in New York, southern pig iron output, Milledgeville women becoming insurers, London's charitable totals, Florida strawberry prices and opium prospects, and Emma Abbott’s wealth.
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Chickasaw County
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Montana
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Verneilles
G. F. Bremer
Sacramento
Cal
Russia
New York
Milledgeville
London
Florida
Emma Abbott
Linn county votes on tariff reform and 1888 president
At the Linn county farmers convention free trade was rejected unanimously while Cleve lands tariff reform message was endorsed by about 600 to 27. Ballots showed 1884 preferences with Blaine at 398 and Cleve land 265, and the 1888 race with Cleve land leading 340 to 111 for Allison. Marquerie Micr reports Seymour leading Breen in Congress by about 150 votes amid labor complaints of intimidation.
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H. W. Seymour
Bartley Breen
Breen
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Blaine
New York
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Hawley
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Hiscock
Sherman
Cameron
Harrison
Freddy Grant
Gen. Sheridan
Judge Gresham
Indiana
Ben Harrison
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Wisconsin
Carrie
Marion
Linn County
Cleveland
Butler
Gresham
Lincoln
Carlisle
Weaver
Marquerie
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Democratic county committee to meet at courthouse
The Democratic county central committee members are notified to meet at the courthouse at 1 o clock on Saturday March 8 to transact business. It is hoped every member will attend. All working Democrats are invited. Andrew Waseew, Chairman.
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Mr. Vernon
Democratic County Central Committee
Andrew WaseEw
Democrats Fix July 30 Convention Date After Ballot Tally
The Democratic National Committee met in Washington on February 22 with full attendance and set the national convention date for July 30 after ten ballots with no choice. San Francisco leads with 7 votes, Chicago has 15, and St. Louis 14 in location polling.
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D. C
San Francisco
Chicago
St. Louis
Curious cases of blind crows and ancient violins across towns
Crattanooga reports thousands of blind crows with no explained cause, echoing a similar mass sight loss three years prior. Syracuse notes Rev. W. M. Beauchamp owns a possible 12th century violin from Glastonbury Abbey ruins, dating back to 12th century. Morantown features a Bonn 1526 violin with painted back. Hazelurnt mentions the Jones county belled buzzard shot by Wm Meeke, famed in Georgia. Starving woman in Indiana coughs up a pin blocking throat. Errixagain records Mrs Dutton poised to turn 108 with 73 descendants, tobacco habit ending at 100. Telegraphic Sparks notes G N Corliss’s death at 73, and measles deaths in Warrensburg. McVornen cyclone losses reach about 1 million.
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W. M. Beauchamp
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Geo. N. Corliss
Warrensburg, Jr
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