Virginia Alliance Convention Shapes Fall Politics
The Virginia Alliance Convention met in Richmond with about 98 delegates from most counties. President Mann Page urged support for an unlimited coin silver and Sub Treasury plan to aid farmers amid calls to reform banking and politics.
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Richmond
State Alliance
Virginia
State House
Mann Page
Prince
Congress
Alliner Executive
Laboyer
Order
Owether
Ocala Supreme Orice
Million Dollar Fire Devastates Jacksonville Block
A midnight blaze in Jacksonville destroys 55 buildings from Bay to Beaver streets inclining Knight & Co grocery and the Hubbard block housing Western Union. The flames, driven by wind, wipe out hotels clubs warehouses and residences. losses reach one million dollars with around half insured.
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Jacksonville
Fla
Bay Street
Beaver Street
R. D. Knight & Co’s
Hubbard
Knight’s
Laura Street
Ocean Street
Monmouth Park Races At Morris Park Results
The Morris Park program lists six races with winners: Loan taka, Tam many, Rey Del Rey, Stock ton, Seayl kill, Celial. Gloucester results show six races with winners including Jack staff, Judge Mitchell, Bever wyck, Lita, Vevay, Milligan. Saratoga card reports six races with Racine, Emma Primrose, Pessara, Red fellow, Carrol as winners.
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Monmouth Park
New York
N. J
Rey del Rey
Bermuda
Poet Scout
Stockton
Terryfier
Strideaway
Seaylkill
Crocus
Fred Lee
Celial
St. John
Pearl Set
Gloucester
Jackstaff
Morristown
Judge Mitchell
Maid of Mist
Ellen
Beverwyck
Noble Duke
Caution
Lita
Repeater
Vance
Vevay
Lotion
Landseer
Milligan
Tom Boy
Mamie Hay
Acmes of Baltimore Down Winston Blue Sluggers 7 5
Acmes of Baltimore won the first game here against Winston Blue Sluggers 7 to 5. McGann Keeley and Lyston tallied for Baltimore in the fourth. L. Say and J. Say contributed runs later. Hayden homered for Winston in seventh. Baltimore pitchers Wamsley and King held Winston to seven hits, while Lyston struck out six. Tomorrow McGann brothers duel on the mound.
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Winston
N. C
Acmes
Baltimore
Winston Blue Sluggers
McGann
Lyston
Keeley
Land J. Say
Quinn
Wamsley
King
Blue
Jones
Bennett
Hayden
Keefer
Keely
L. Say
J. Say
McGann Brothers
Treasury outlook: Foster cites ample funds and gold reserve
Purmapeetina August 17 Secretary of the Treasury Foster says monetary conditions show improvement driven by the grain movement. He disputes rumors of immediate scarcity, noting over 200 million dollars available, including a 100 million gold reserve, with 53 million in liabilities and 54 million in other counts, leaving substantial usable funds.
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Purmapetrina
Foster
Cape May
Bank
Treasury
Smith and Lansley Wed in Washington County Ceremony
In Parkersburg West Virginia on August 18 a justice of the peace in Washington county united Miss Roberta Smith editor of the Beverly Dispatch and John W Lansley foreman of the paper in marriage. The couple are well known and the event drew attention. Malarial fever and its effects give way to Simmons Liver Regulator.
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Parkerspure
W. Va
Washington County
Ohio
Roberta Smith
Beverly Dispatch
John W. Lansley
Simmons
Staunton Set to Vote on Liquor Sale After Next May
Staunton opens local option campaign with Sam P. Jones addressing six thousand at the Temperance Tabernacle. Rev. John Hector leads daily meetings for the colored community. The wets plan a campaign kickoff tomorrow night with J. L. Gordon speaking. Election to decide liquor sales in Staunton after next May set for the upcoming Saturday.
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Staunton
Sam P. Jones
Jones
John Hector
J. L. Gordon
Charlottesville
Abbott's Fast Indian Corn Paint Eradicates Corns and Warts
Abbott introduces a corn paint claimed to remove corns bunions and warts where other remedies fail. The advertised remedy emphasizes fast action and topical application.
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Abbott
Race clash at Cabarrus County camp meeting turns deadly
A Camp Meeting disturbance in Cabarrus County involves three white men and two black men. a white man is fatally stabbed with intestines exposed. Police face a mob of hundreds of black men as officers attempt arrests, prompting fears of wider violence and calls for a Black Boys' Military Company to intervene.
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Cabarrus County
Concorp
N. C
Cabbarus
A'L
Concord
Concord Appealing For the Cabarrus
Loxpox
Brussels
Russia
Germany
County Board Sets Stallion Axtell At 5000 In Tax Dispute
Terre Haute Ind Aug 18 the county board assessed stallion Axtell at 5000. Farmers Alliance argues for 105000, citing full value taxation for land and claiming the horse earns a large yearly dividend. The dispute hinges on valuation rules for livestock versus land.
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Terre Havre
Ind
Axtell
Farmers’ Alliance
Polk Arrives to Shape Maryland Alliance Endorsement
President Polk of the Farmers' Alliance travels from Raleigh to Baltimore after a telegram ties Gorman influence to Maryland State Alliance talks. A tie vote had nearly endorsed the Democratic ticket, but Polk's speech at the Baltimore meeting overturned the Democratic program and preserved the third party's position.
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Washington, D. C
Polk
Farmers’ Alliance
Sheridan-at-Winchester
State Alliance
Raleigh
N. C
Gorman
Maryland State Alliance
Baltimore
Maryland Alliance
Amelie Rives Chanler sails for New York with party
Paris reports Amelie Rives Chanler, joined by husband John Armstrong Chanler and cousins Miss Page and Miss Pleasants of Virginia, departed Havre yesterday aboard La Champagne bound for New York.
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New York
Gable
Paris
the Herald
Amelie Rives-Chanler
John Armstrong Chanler
Miss Page
Miss Pleasants
Virginia
Havre
la Champage
Disturbance in Berlin and a Train Disaster at Sea
A riot among 260 immigrants at a Berlin poor-house ends with guards attacked and rioters subdued by a fire engine. Separately in California a Greenwood railway train with engine and twenty two cars plunges into the Pacific off Mendocino county. crew escape by swimming ashore as the cars sink.
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Bernn
The
United Press
Cureaco
Globe
San Francisco
Greenwood
Mendocino County
Pacific Ocean
Germany Moves Toward Independence by Wheat Use
A semi official article reports Germany plans to replace rye with wheat for military needs as a step to economic independence. Russia's rye export ban and future political factors could drive further measures. Baltimore market notes: quiet Change with wheat at 1.08 to 1.10, southern wheat down four cents, corn steady, flour selling near yesterday's prices.
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Hameere
Germany
Russia
Baltimorre
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