Advertising Rates And A Political Crisis In Arkansas
Listings show advertising terms per year and single items while a nationwide political drama unfolds. W W Smith claims Arkansas governorship under Baxter, denounces a October constitution, seeks federal aid. War Department plans hold steady though with higher totals. Belknap trims estimates. A Chesapeake Bay collision tests naval discipline as Louisiana sinks and passengers are saved aboard Falcon with praised captain and crew.
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W. W.smith
Arkansas
Baxter
Williams
Kansas
War Department
Committee On Appropriations
Congress
Belknap
Chesapeake Bay
Louisiana
Falcon
Navy
W. R. Mayo
Progress Report on Centennial Building Works
The Philadelphia Press notes contractor Mr Dobbins advances on Centennial structures. Foundations for Memorial Hall laid. granite base on three sides ready for the superstructure. Brick interior walls rise toward the second story, showing strength and skill. Exterior work proceeds. Exhibition Pavilion grounds graded, river road access awaiting Park Commissioners’ courtesy. Piers begun, four by six feet, with iron columns to follow. first pier line extends about 1800 feet.
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Philadelphia
Dobbins
Memorial Hall
Great Exhibition Grounds Progress and Scale Revealed
The project foundation is nearly finished with piers laid at twenty foot intervals. The main exhibition building will be a parallelogram 1688 by 464 feet located 170 feet from Elm avenue north and east of Belmount. The site totals 40 acres with machinery and horticultural halls planned separately, forming a display larger and more complete than any similar European project.
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Elm Avenue
Belmount Avenue
Europe
Artesian Well on the Prairie Near New Canton
Three miles southwest of New Canton in this county a salt spring has been reactivated by shafts and iron pipes. Water shoots 23 feet high from the pipe, with six more pipes driving a 55 foot longest jet. The spray forms rainbows in sunshine, creating a 36 foot pool while the column can be seen for miles on clear days.
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Pittsfield
New Canton
Shaw & Rupert
Sec
Township 5
A Hundred Extinct Volcanoes Reported in Lassen County
The Academy of Science met with Gen. Hews ton presiding. Dr. Harkness described a 8000 square mile region in Plumas and Lassen counties with 100 extinct volcanoes. A lava field and cratered lake span three square miles with trees scorched by heat and partially burned. An old Red Bluff resident recalled flames seen in 1853. Shaved Head, a Mill Creek Indian, recalls regions once volcanically active.
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San Francisco Chronicle
Academy of Science
Hewston
Harkness
Pluinas
Lassen
Hatkuesa
Red Bluff
Shaved Head
Mill Creek
Typhoon Disaster Records Massive Loss of Life in China
A Hong Kong paper dated September 26 reports an unprecedented typhoon ravaging the colony on Tuesday night and Wednesday morning. Not a single ship escaped undamaged and the casualties exceed any prior record, indicating immense human tragedy and material damage in the port city.
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Hong Kong
Typhoon Devastates Hong Kong Macao 17800 Deaths Reported
A lengthy report describes widespread destruction across Hong Kong and Macao after a fierce typhoon and tidal wave. It details thousands dead, 4 000 plus in danger around Hong Kong, Macao laid waste, and property losses in the millions. The Alaska wreck near Aberdeen is noted with failed salvage efforts.
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Hong Kong
Macao
Alaska
Aberdeen
Church of Stanton
United States
A Love Story With a Father’s Iron Will
A pensive young woman in a doomed romance with Alphonso nicknamed Feetsy Jim faces rigid paternal disapproval. The father vows severe punishment for any meeting, delivering a comic yet stern confrontation that ends with intimations of no elopement and social shame.
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Alphonso
Jim
Family Groceries at Old Stand Troy Ills
Complete department stock aims to maintain old firm reputation through best makes and leading brands with one price system. We offer country produce in exchange for highest quotations and invite patronage at the corner of Main and Market streets in Troy Illinois.
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N.B
N. EB
Main & Market Streets
Troy, Ills
Seth Thomas
Clay Street
Troy City Mills
German Lutheran Church
Troy
Linda
Avid Seligman
Lyl
Illinois
Challenge Weed Mills
Semple, Birge & CO
Agriocul
Menye Gap
South Main Street
Louis
Finith’s
Old Stand
Cor
Market Alrect
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Leeblp
Moly
Paghes
China
Samuel Rawson
Andrew Rawson
Cam! Rawson & Bro
Risser & Rawson
C.B. Clark & Co
Retai
Grocers
Edwardsville
St. Louis
Warcash
Fred. Auwarter
Democrat
David Seligman
Dental Headquarters
Olive St., ST. Louis, MO
Liberal Commission
St. Louis Democrat Co
Jolbliwioirik
JOB Press
Osage Corn and Cob Mill
James N. Jarvis
Notary Public
Degat
Joan
Dewry
Clay and
Dewey Streets
Ilinois
F. A. Lapin
Market Street
W. W. Jarvis
Ofice
Andrew Mills
Risser & Rawson’s
F. L. Hampton
Justice OF the Peace
Main Street
Ly2y
John L. Purviance
Independent Cornet Band
Jon
Jarvis
Leaver
Rail Road
Andrew Klein
John Deimling
Markhel Street
Benet Shmitt
Troy City Exchange
Pelix Droll
Troy City
John Diehle
T. H. Bell
The
Baptist Church
I. L. Hampton
Edwin
Donoho
John H. Neary
G. S. Robbins
Doncho’s
Bulletin
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