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Newspaper
Sumner Press
Location
Sumner, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 05, 1900
Page
8
Local report notes mention of a pass agent named Gea in St Louis Missouri with ambiguous identification. No further details available in the fragment.
The excerpt presents a rough timeline from the first U S census to later years, listing population figures such as 7,239,488 and 38,558,871 and noting a 1816 start with decennial counts. It discusses projections and a study on population growth, including a reference to a 7 July census announcer and scattered garbled OCR text.
A fragmented 1895 era column recounts a man who drank three drinks of whisky daily, neglected his farm, and fell into debt, mortgaging his land, losing crops and stock, facing foreclosure, and ending in a pauper’s grave as family misfortune followed. It notes remedies and notices amid ad copy, including doctors, tonics, and a Danish engineer’s phonograph claim.
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