Rankin of Missouri Builds an Early American Millionaire Tale
The narrative follows Mr. Rankin born in 1825 on a Sulivan county farm. He grows up amid hard labor and frugal living, moves to Warren County Indiana, endures barefoot summers, and learns farming with a wooden moldboard plow. He turns to cattle trading in Chicago, buys an early reaper, and, after several years of struggle, enters broom corn farming and accumulates substantial wealth by 1865 through cattle, farming, and entrepreneurial ventures.
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Goous
David
Indiana
Hlinots
Warren County
Rankin
Oquawka
Lil
Mississippi River
Chicago
Paxton
New York
Itz Our Carpet Cleaner Not For Sale Card
Roy Minick promotes carpet cleaning services and rug restoration with Fairfield Rug Co agent status. Advertises phone contact at 325 Black for reliable service and quick rug makeovers. Includes claims of safe Foley's Honey and Tar product by Lemmon's and McElhinney drug firms.
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Fairfield Rug Co
Roy Minick
Foley
Lemmon’s Pharmacy
McElhinney Drug Co
Opes Bids for Big Tube in New York
Bids will be opened today by the Public Service Commission for the $125000 youth borough subway system. Contracts to be let as soon as possible and the tubes may be completed in three to five years. New York's transit is crowded and the 5 to 6 pm subway rush is fierce, the new tube system offered as a distant cure.
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New York
Public Service Commission
Manhattan
Hall's Catarrh Cure Promises Cure and Reward
Readers are told Hall's Catarrh Cure can cure catarrh at all stages, a constitutional disease requiring constitutional treatment. The ad states the proprietors offer one hundred dollars for any case it fails to cure and urges sending for testimonials from F. J. Cheney & Co. Toledo Ohio, with a note to take Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
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Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
Foelker Stands In Graft Hearing In New York
New York graft inquiry hears Otto C Foelker testify to bribery attempts by former Senator Gardner and Frank Schroeder. Gardner, under arrest in Scranton, sent a statement and invoked Fifth Amendment rights. Witnesses describe a $500,000 corruption fund aimed at defeating anti racing legislation and political retaliation for losses.
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New York
Arting
Otto C. Foelker
Brooklyn
Frank J. Gardner
Frank Schroeder
Sing Sing
Robert Elder
Kings County
Frank Gardner
Patrick H. McCarren
Brooklyn Bores
Scranton
May Yorkley
Gardner
Merritt
Wadsworth Avenue
Voelker
Albany
Jacob Esperin
Pullman
Gardner Waaid
Otto
Percy-Gray
Fights for Reform Highlight Billionaire Banquet at Blackstone
Chicago on October 20 Robert M H Gary praised anti graft efforts at a Blackstone hotel banquet of the American Iron and Steel Institute. Notable foreign guests and leaders from steel and iron firms attended as officials and business figures discussed moral improvement in the industry and public life.
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Chicago
Robert MH. Gary
American Iron and Steel
Blackstone Hotel
United States
Mount Savail eruption devastates farms in Samoa
Victoria B C Oct 20 new advices from the Makura steamship report Mount Savail volcano on Upolu Samoa continues with unabated intensity. Large lava streams have swept farm lands and destroyed many estates though no loss of life has been reported.
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Victoria
B. C
Savail
Upolu
Samoa
Children Hurt as School Hack Takes Flight
In Shelbyville Indiana on October 20 three children were seriously injured when horses pulling a school hack were frightened and bolted. The vehicle carried sixteen children with Nora Bases nine Russell Rhodes nine and Garnet Fox among the injured. others escaped unscathed.
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Shelbyville
Ind
Nora Bases
Russell Rhodes
Garnet Fox
Shively Dates Cancelled for Foot Condition
Indiana Senator Benjamin F. Shively has been ordered by his physician to cancel all speaking dates and stay off his feet for at least a week due to a corn on his left foot. An operation may be required to remove the corn. The Democratic managers were notified of the cancellation.
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Rankin
Indianapolis
Benjamin F. Shively
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Sidney
Frank L. Wilson
Tarrio
Missouri
Mr. Rankin
van County
Reaper
OPES
Foelkeron
Vv. M. Lewis
New Jersey
Elbert H. Gary
iBanquet
Keby
John
Tut
Lee
Mount Savail
Shively
Coats
Graham Opera House
Sam
Lee Shubert (Inc
Aida Johnson Young
N. Y
Schuberts
Lizzie
Carolyn Lee
Chicago Examiner
Y. Globe
Y. Times
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