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Newspaper
The Jefferson County Record
Location
Diller, Nebraska, United States of America
Date
Jul 24, 1896
Page
2
A Kentucky breeder tested pain tolerance on two gamecocks using live coal, leading to a fatal fight within minutes. One bird died. the winner, Defiance, crowed after victory but endured severe injuries. The article notes the cruelty of cockfighting, its illegal status, and the high earnings of Defiance in his career.
A four man four woman English vaudeville party lands at Cortlandt street ferry. A fair haired lady demands brandy and soda and tries a Jersey side saloon but is refused entry. The group ferries back to New Jersey amid banter about the Raines law.
The article compares food costs by region noting Los Angeles prices for lettuce and strawberries at five cents per dozen heads or box, and peas at five cents per pound. It contrasts with Transvaal costs where eggs run seven dollars per dozen, cucumbers two dollars each, and coal at one hundred sixty dollars per ton.
John D Rockefeller offered 25 000 for the education of women and 23 000 more was needed. Friends of the metropolitan annex rallied to secure the funds and win the donation for Barnard College in New York.
Hon Ren ee Harrison explains in June Ladies Home Journal that presidential mercy in murder cases rests on a full record or abstract of evidence. If a trial was fair, no new exculpatory evidence appears, and the sentence is not unduly harsh, the president will not intervene. The president weighs writing, not the witnesses, and mercy pleas from wives or mothers are a trying ordeal denied as a public duty.
The question of why NEC students become uniformly successful is answered by the institution’s superior equipment and faculty. With American and foreign teachers of high rank and Boston as an opera and concert hub, one year there surpasses two elsewhere. Prospectus sent free.
Wall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally with a price of 75 cents.
Irrigated Farmerno invites settlers to Milk River Valley Montana with free land for ditch projects. Ditches cost little beyond labor with plows and scrap ers, soil there is rich and ground stony-free. Groves along the river and coal lands border pasture beaches, offering irrigation farming potential and market access via mines and broad shipping routes.
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