City Farmers Hopes Seed of Reform Grows in Cleveland
A lively anti monopoly meeting in Stifflemeyster Hall forms the United Order of Hayseeds to aid urban farmers. Officers elected include President Justin Robinson and Treasurer Henry Spiter amid satirical pedigrees and sharp wit as members plan by laws and future lectures on farming topics.
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Horec R Aaree Sons of Toil
Cleveland
Danbury News
Justin Robinson
Henry Spiter
Sviler
Augustus Periwinkle
United Order of
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Antess
United Order of Hayseeds
Amos Spriggins
Danbury News
Connecticut
Harrison McHenry
Mr. Swipes
Middleburg
Theological Institute
Miss Seager
United States
Liverpool
Boston
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ROYAL
Home Office
J. J. McLaren
C.G. Fothergill
Eng
Misleading Definitions in Social Vices and Virtues
A New York Graphic list offers ironic redefining of common terms. Justice, Religion, Credit, Love, Marriage, Politics, Policeman, Modern Poetry, Contract, Friendship, Sentence, Opera, Drama, Independence, Reform, Critic, and Honesty are humorously reinterpreted, revealing snappy social commentary.
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Stokes
Meteetican Independence
Qonny Co Bsoldts
Meuw York Graphic
Fairplay Poker Duel Ends in Deaths
In Fairplay Colorado a poker dispute over a four aces hand led to a draw with a six shooter and bowie knife. Graves shot after the draw, Walker had four aces, and both men died the next day, interred in the town cemetery.
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Colorado
Fairplay
Graves
Walker
Good Advice to Farmers at Mississippi Fair
Mr Gibbs of Columbus Mississippi offered sound farming guidance at the fifth annual fair of the Agricultural and Mechanical Association serving Carroll Montgomery and Choc taw counties. He urged farmers to adopt a cash and economy platform to run paying farms and avoid profitless large plantations. He warned that strong public opinion should render economy fashionable and curb idleness and extravagance, a principle applicable in Indiana as well as Mississippi.
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Gibbs
Columbus
Miss
Agricultural and Mechanical Association
Carrol
Montgomery
Choctaw
Indiana
Mississippi
Deadly tale from Dennison spurs corpse transport demand
An express agent in Dennison, Texas relates a striking incident. A stranger demanded to know the cost of shipping a corpse to Dallas. He is told thirty dollars and a disease certificate. The man declares he shot a horse thief to send him to his mother. A domestic scene follows as a gentleman compliments a pretty woman in his wife’s presence, prompting a sharp retort.
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Cincinnati Enquirer
Dennison
Texas
Express
Dallas
Millionaire in New Orleans Dodges Taxes for Years
A Negro urban magnate amasses hundreds of properties across the city, worth at least 700000 dollars, yet pays no taxes except when selling property. He claims not to loan money but earns 18 to 24 percent on mortgages, while the city taxes accrue unpaid for twelve years.
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New Orleans
New Orleans Times
Fortitude in Business and Moral Courage
Advice stresses fortitude in everyday life over battlefield bravery. It urges swift correction of past mistakes, maintaining hope, and renewed effort, warning that despair defeats progress and that disaster may come but despair never. It cites coal fuel tests in Montana and a Michigan or Iowa magistrate ruling on a cuffing incident as unrelated notes.
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Montana
Helena
Fragmentary historical exclamation in a street scene
A damaged OCR fragment records an old quote in which an African American woman threatens to fetch Abraham Lincoln if trespassers enter a house at midnight. The fragment preserves the tonal flavor of a rural or mythic past without full context.
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Thomas Jefferson
Jamies Madison
Abe Lincoln
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