Boy shoots sister with loaded pistol in Slater
A 17 year old boy named John Campbell fired a pistol at his sister in Slater Missouri. The weapon was not loaded at the time of the act and no immediate injuries are reported.
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Newspaper
Ogden Junction
Location
Ogden, Utah, United States of America
Date
Feb 11, 1880
Page
4
A 17 year old boy named John Campbell fired a pistol at his sister in Slater Missouri. The weapon was not loaded at the time of the act and no immediate injuries are reported.
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The writer laments rising expenses after Christmas and notes butcher, banker, baker, and tailor bills piling up. A letter condemns Utah politics for restricting women’s rights while arguing for equal citizenship and dower rights, praising council for blocking bond exemptions. Feb 8 1880.
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The passage argues that true faith rests on two pillars Christ’s work in the flesh and Christ’s work in us by the Spirit. It condemns reliance on human wisdom as folly and warns that sanctification, redemption, and righteousness must be grounded in Christ rather than self. Knowledge without piety is empty.
A farm of 45 acres with house, good well, and orchard for sale four miles south of Willard. Price 895 dollars. Inquire of J S Miller, Plain City, Weber County. February details ill-formed in source.
A Chicago federal suit by United States Dairy Co of New York claims oleomargarine can imitate butter and asserts a long history of patented methods. The case seeks to dispel prejudice by presenting how the fat derived product can match traditional butter in appearance and flavor.
Mass financier Royal B. Conant, former Eliot National Bank cashier, is convicted of embezzlement amid a purported democratic plot linked to the irregularGroup involved with Italian nationalist themes in Naples.
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