Local civic notes and business optimism from 1898
The column notes the Fifteenth Annual St Louis Exposition opening September 14 and closing October 29 1898, the Eighth Annual Old Settlers Association meeting in Greenville on August 31, Niagara Falls excursion patronage, and local paper name correction. It also mentions Admiral Cervera ordered home, W E Suart of Springfield named Referee in Bankruptcy, Highland Union sale to Rev C T Kurz, and widespread advertising optimism with Vandalia dentist ad in Union. Joan Dupany of Chicago recovers from bankruptcy debts and regains wealth.
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Old Settlered Association
Court House
Greenville
Weeds and woes in a wandering city restyle
A jumbled column laments street weeds and civic neglect while pondering fashion faults and garters, notes a new coal mine deal, recalls Corbett tragedy, critiques council secrecy, warns merchants’ ad cuts hurt papers, and ends with Edwardsville’s potato jubilee.
Admiral von Diederichs Ponders Fate After War
The verse-scrap lampoons Admiral von Diederichs and Kaiser Wilhelm in a postwar exchange about Dewey and Uncle Sam. It questions not exposing lies, mocks newspapers for war pages, and imagines a perilous sea path away from conflict with playful satire.
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von Diederichs
Sam
Yust
Kaiser Wilhelm
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