Western Passenger clash on Elkins law row shakes rail travel
In Chicago on March 18 Leemis and Bumpas discuss the Elkins law meaning as the Western Passenger association faces its worst crisis after a meeting. Wabash Wisconsin Central and Great Western threaten to open party rates to the public. Other rail lines protest, fearing more power for ticket brokers. A separate New York note reports the Boilermakers union signaling an end to sympathetic strikes tied to the Shooters Island shipyard dispute.
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New York
Boilermakers’ Union
Townsend- Downey
Shoorer’s Island
Senate debates Cuban reciprocity treaty amid adjournment bid
The Senate spent six hours in executive session on March 19 weighing the Cuban reciprocity treaty. Senator Newlands urged annexation of the record while McEnery spoke two hours against the treaty, arguing it benefits the sugar trust and harms U S sugar interests as current tariffs boost domestic sugar production.
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Associatee Press Terzccam
Washington
Senate
Newlands
Roosevelt
America
Messrs. Foraker
Spooner
McEnery
Sugar Trust
United States
Fairfax County Courthouse: Hub of Civil War Actions
Fairfax Courthouse in Virginia looms large in Civil War memory. It served as a Confederate action base before Bull Run and later became Gen Beauregard headquarters as he sought to entice the Federal Army from Washington. The site also figures prominently in Grant era campaigns along the Potomac, linking to many heroic memories.
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Fairfax Courthouse
Virginia
Bull Run
Beauregard
Washington
Fairfax
Grant
Potomac
Cuba and sugar policy clash at senate and rail accident notes
Cuba was invited to become a state in the union amid a sugar policy debate in the senate where Mr. Money urged leave to print remarks on the Indianola post office closure and warned Cuba sugar could hurt beet and cane industries. A Grand Trunk railway jump near Guelph caused a fatal drowning of a two year old. sheriff McCall and wife saved by prisoners. Other items include Terre Haute vaccination fight, ex mayor Ames denying bribery charges, and Iowa’s 95 degree heat with 80s the day prior.
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Cuba
Senate
Money
Indianola
Miss
Guelph
Ont
Grand Trunk Road
Here
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Ark
James E. McCall
Black River
Local notes from South Amherst and nearby
March updates from South Amherst detail illnesses of Mrs. Gillman and Mrs. Ginard and Mrs. Solon Mellon visiting East Amherst. Nina Bryant spent two weeks in Elyria. A move to Missouri is being considered by Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Born. Martin Ruth has stone masons at work on a cellar wall for a new house east of the Gibson Vibber store. Lizzie Berg works for Prof. Shaw in Oberlin. Grammar school children surprised Master Walter Wellman with games and music at a creekside party. drum corps performed and refreshments followed.
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Nina Bryant
Elyria
Solon Mellon
East Amherst
Martin Ruth
Gibson Vibber
Grammar School
Walter Wellman
Avon Updates Include Temperance Plans and Local News
Avon notes a temperance Sunday plan at the M E church and a union gospel service, progress on local option, visits by Rev J F Stamm and Rev Dann, and family updates. The Dorcas Society served a dinner, high school entertainment drew a large audience, roofs are being replaced, and spring vacation closes public schools. Several residents travel between Lakeswood O and Gibsonburg with other local movements and visits.
Carlisle Grange Monthly Meeting Reports and Notes
Carlisle Grange held its regular meeting on Saturday March 14 with C D Bennett reading farm supply circulars and members ordering needed supplies. Edna Albrecht and D Bennett presented papers on rural schools centralization and spraying followed by discussion and a talk by J H Penfound. Future meetings set for the first and third Tuesdays monthly.
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C. D. Bennett
Grange
Edna Albrecht
D. Bennett
J. H. Penfound
Tp. m. Grange Cor
Queer Bequaert probate note and mixed clippings
In Melbourne a will lists a bequest of a feather bed and bedstead to a son and a shared oil painting with his brother. The items appear amid assorted notices including jokes, church service listings, and railroad car space ads for Colonist sleeping cars from Chicago tied to a Lake Shore promotion. the itemization is part of a larger collage of local notices and curiosities.
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Melbourne
Australia
London News
Chicago
Lake Shore
A. J. Smith
Cleveland
Ohio
London Institute Doctors Offer Free Three Month Care in Lorain
A permanent branch of the London Medical Institute opens in Lorain Ohio Rooms 2 and 3 Pierce Block over Richey’s Drug Store. Doctors will provide free consultations examinations and minor surgeries for three months until April 20 with medicines excluded. They promise to treat all diseases and deformities and to reveal if incurable at first interview.
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London Medical Institute
Lorain
Pierce Block
Richey’s
Medicies
Bright
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AVON
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Lakewood, O
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