Major in the Ring and Rural Frauds Exposed
The piece features a narrator in dialogue with a Major living in a rural setting, recounting scams by agents selling lights, clocks, churns, and other goods. Betsy, a Populist, voices distrust of inflated prices and poor quality. Anecdotes include lightnin rods, pumps, and patent devices. Nearby, an elderly man, Charles Preston, is found fatally attacked, with two white assailants suspected.
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Kared
Grassy Creek Church
Betsy
China
Raleigh
Connecticut
New Jersey
Chicago
Erbout
Reidsville
Charles Preston
Patrick County
Virginia
Caswell County
North Carolina
Judge Walter Clark calls for fair tax on railroads for better schools
Judge Walter Clark argues North Carolina must tax railroad gross receipts to fund an improved public school system. He cites Michigan and Wisconsin as models with higher rail taxes and lower rates, urging an independent legislature to implement fair taxation and reduce freight and passenger charges. He accuses ties between railroads and cities of London and New York of suppressing tax contributions.
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News and Observer
Walter H. Page
Page
New York
Michigan
Wisconsin
North Carolina
Indiana
London
J. Pierpont Morgan
Rothschild
Boston
South
Union
Georgia
Virginia
Lynchburg
Greensboro
N. Y
Watter Clark
Atlantic Coast Line issues bonds and stock plan
The Atlantic Coast Line Company authorized certificates of indebtedness totaling six million dollars with one million held in reserve. The plan reduces capital stock from ten million to five million while converting half into senior debt instruments bearing 5 percent interest. The Baltimore firm Safe Deposit and Trust acts as fiscal agent. Bridgeport offices hosted the stockholders meeting with 96,383 shares present or by proxy.
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New York World
Cotton Trust
American Sugar Refining Company
Standard Oil Company
United States
The
American Cotton Company
New Jersey
Sugar Trust
John E Searles
Stuyvesant Fish
Illinois Central Railroad
Interior
R. D. Frare
Jerome Hill
C. D. Ball
Senator Jones
Arkansas
B. P. McDonald
Missouri, Kansas & Texas Railroad
Bart Moore
Waco
Texas
Baltimore Sun
Atlantic Coast Line Company
Connecticut
Bridgeport
Atlantic Coast Line
Hall's Catarrh Cure Offers $100 Reward
Readers learn of a claimed cure for catarrh with Hall's Catarrh Cure taken internally. The ad asserts cure in all stages, cites a $100 reward for any case it fails to cure, and notes availability from F J Cueny Co in Toledo with price 75 cents and druggist sale.
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Mhall
Medics
Hall
F. J. Cueny & Co
Toledo
Stroke survivor credits Pink Pills for Pale People recovery
A Schaghticoke foreman, Peter G Thompson, aged 67, attributes his recovery from a paralysis stroke to Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People. He recounts years of disability, failed medical aid, and eventual improvement after using the pills, praising Providence and advertising in a Sun article. The pills are advertised as a non patent medicine remedy for blood and nerve weakness, with claims of safety and suitability for men women and children.
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Peter G. Thompson
Schaghticoke Powder Company
Schaghticoke
N. Y
Thompson
Troy
Albany
Williams’ Medicine Company
Scshenectady
Ingenious Locomotive Engineer Saves Train With Oyster Stew
A Chicago Times Herald tale recounts a forest fire rescue where an engine crew, short on water, dumps 40 cans of milk and oysters into the boiler to create steam. The improvised oyster soup boosts power, clears the fire belt, and sparks wide coverage as residents and scientists react to the bizarre rescue.
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Wisconsin
Sayal
Chicago Times Herald
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Zeke Bileins
Jazetown Banner
Eva Hollis
Im Brown
Walter Clark
American Refining Company
Searles
Naghticoke, N. Y
Soin
S. & D. Berwanger
ONE Price Clothiers
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