Ruminations and rumors linger in a ready-to-ride town
A mosaic of local concerns fills the page with notes on paving, jail breakouts, incoming Spring goods, post office staffing, a free bridge question, Kangaroo courts, and calls to cleanse wards. Citizens advocate for P B Weaks as postmaster, boast a dais of preachers, schools, and hustlers, while warnings on politics and corruption thread through, including references to Governor Foster and slave factory debates.
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Post Office Department
St Louis Women Push for School Board Parity
Women of St Louis seek a joint representation on school boards across Missouri. A proposed bill would require equal numbers of men and women on governing bodies and cap boards at 12 members. The petition urges support for the measure.
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St. Louis
Missouri
Vetern
Moody's Advice to Wives and Woman's Ambition
In Tremont temple Boston Moody urged wives with complaints against husbands to seek divorce to uphold the family. He contrasted ambition in women, warning that striving for wealth or status can exhaust health and happiness, urging a balanced life centered on home contentment and the love of children.
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Tremont Temple
Boston
Moody
Philadelphia Times
GENERAL MARKET PROVISIONS PRICE LIST
Prices for bacon lard flour sugar molasses coffee tea onions potatoes cabbage kraut and livestock, plus iron and hardware items. Goods include Breakfast bacon 57-8¢c, sugar 41-5¢ to 41-8¢, coffee 13?7 1-?e, molasses open kettle 3.80, onions 1,500 per bushel, chickens and eggs, kerosene and nails, wagons and plows, hides and wool prices vary by grade and size.
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New
Louisiana
Emma
Acoe
Esculen
We Guarantee Lowest Prices in the City
A bold claim from a firm stating it offers the lowest prices of any business in the city. The notice emphasizes price leadership as its key selling point.
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Mr. Weinstock
LaPrade
Dr. Saenger
Jordan Street
Caddo
P. B. Weaks
Foster
Howard Cole
Louisiana Cycle Company, Limited
Milam Street
Denver
Denver Daughters of the Revolution
City Troop Armory
Woman's Club of
Armory
B. M. Burtch & CO
Gen. Ommission Merchants
Mitam Street
Shreveport
S. Q. Hollingsworth
Milo Booher
Prairie
Arkansas
Bkutier
Hite and Wool Market
Furs
City Hall
Queen
Alabama&vicksburs
Tiskets
Queen & Crescent
W. B. McGroarty
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