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Newspaper
Wakarusa Weekly Sun
Location
Wakarusa, Indiana, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1875
Page
2
The Indiana legislature debates a new fee and salary bill cutting various county and state fees. Congress ends without passing soldiers’ equalization or a new asylum plan. Toledo reports March 1875 storms and floods across the middle states, with Tennessee flooding worsening, impacting travel and infrastructure.
The Elkhart Observer notes Woodhull dodged engagements and advertised for nothing, calling it unjust for a woman to act thus. The piece criticizes her conduct as improper and questions the fairness of such behavior in society.
In a bustling local update TRUMP JR notes growing trade despite nationwide business woes. He cites Eby and Hartman’s lively sales, peanut stands at Metzler corners, and lingering carpetbagger visitors. Locke’s depot work and mockery of town efforts provoke mixed reactions among residents.
The Syracuse Enterprise rebuts a Republican paper’s critique of the civil rights bill. It denies claims of special privileges for Black Americans, asserts the bill applies equally to all races, and defends equal justice as central to free government.
Reports from Nashville and Knoxville describe the East Tennessee freshet ebbing at Chattanooga and rising again after heavy rains. The Nashville line of the Nashville Chattanooga and St. Louis Railroad faces about 10000 dollars in damage but trains will resume east of the Cumberland mountains. Widespread flooding destroys mills barns and grain, with losses up to about 1,000,000 dollars in East Tennessee and 200,000 in Cook County.
Cincinnati reports the Ohio River has risen to Cairo with boats delayed as a December 1870 shipment of 35,000 pounds of cheese to New York via the Pittsburg Fort Wayne and Chicago line suffered a 17 day delay due to brakesmen wage strike. The court affirmed a $1,100 judgment against the railroad, ruling common carriers must deliver goods within a reasonable time or be liable for damages.
Two women on Woodward avenue discuss a fortune teller who foresees the speaker marrying twice more, gaining diamonds and a camel hair shawl and six opera nights weekly. She plans to tell her husband nothing to avoid hurting him, even joking she may die first.
Readable text shows a promotional listing with prices for a 4 pound bag of coffee and sugar at 9 dollars 00 or 1 60 1 00 various figures. The fragment suggests a bargain ad from a historical newspaper page.
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