City Officials and Township Officials Listed
Mayor Elias Burk leads the city roster while Aldermen Firt Ward Wm Norbury D Thomas Second Ward Wm Hampe and Third Ward Fred Gerfen R H Hoge City Clerk A R Snodgrass Treasurer Julius Barth Street Superintendent Police Magistrate J L Hagler Township Supervisor S B Avis Town Clerk John Deimling Collector George Liebler Assessor Wm Schultze Commissioners of Highways UW Kuhlmann GU Mills BR EB Jacobs School Trustees R C Morriss C F Edw ard e and Edward Joseph Justices of the Peace M Jarvis Philip Eckert Constables HC Kersey Robert Mould ay Pound Master Fred Schuler.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elias Burk
Avis
John Deimling
George Liebler
Asadasor
Wm. Schultze
LIFE IN THE ARMY AND VOLUNTEER LESSONS IN CIVIL WAR
The article contrasts the aristocracy of shoulder straps with the democratic ideals of volunteers in the Civil War. It notes officers enjoy better pay, rations, and comforts, while privates bear more hard duty. It also surveys international mile measures, from the English mile to kilometres and varied foreign mile lengths.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Os Sumter
Gulf
Republic
Remarkable horse and other notes from San Antonio travel tale
A traveling newspaper man in San Antonio recalls a German horse famed across Texas for endurance. The animal, hitched to a heavy buckboard, allegedly runs a 2:21 mile and was claimed to beat all rivals in state fairs. The piece also discusses the origin of hurrah and a dramatic one mile per minute hoist from Amador County mines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Antonio
Texas
Houston
Dallas
Ed. H. Benjamin
Mother Lode
Amador County
Oneida
Pacific Coast
San Francisco
Oakland
Cal
Times
Wandering Needle Traced After Twenty Years
Milas Florence Holliday of Indianapolis recalled a swallowed needle from childhood. After decades of quiet, she developed shoulder neuralgia followed by a lump. An operation uncovered and removed the needle, ending the mystery and relieving pain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milas
Florence Holliday
Indianapolis News
Miss Holliday
Bear on a railroad cowcatcher ends the ten mile chase
In Wilder's Cut near Clovut Run Penn a black bear climbed onto a moving train cowcatcher and clung on for ten miles until a crowd of locals, a shepherd dog, and a lawyer with a double barrel finally halted the animal after two shots to the head. One boy was injured during the mêlée.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wes
Wilder's Cut
Clovut Run
Penn
Brain
Bruin
That nights in Madrid reveal a great general
A visitor asks about a famed Madrid general as a man guiding him through the nights, the guide naming him one of their greatest commanders. The exchange hints at intrigue between two witnesses to a storied city.
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Madrid
Sheathing A Ship and The Crimin al Peculiarities
The article describes ship sheathing with composition metal, nails sunk flush, methods for hull protection, and rapid, neat work in dry docks. It then shifts to criminology, detailing psychic traits of criminals, impulses, vanity, lack of remorse, and the link to violent acts as observed in Lombroso’s examples, stressing puberty and the craving for noisy, indulgent lifestyles.
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Lombrogo
Science
Self-Evident Truism Laments Fatigue in Clipped Quote
A distorted quotation probes a truism about truth making people tired. The fragment hints at weary sentiment toward universal statements and self-evident ideas, but reads as partial, unclear OCR.
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R.H Hoge
A. R. Snodgrass
Presaurer
Streats
Township Officials
Troy Lodge
A. PF
A. M
Masonic Wall
Hy. Bennganor
W. MM. C
Sar
Pisgah
I.C. O. Js
Fuant Coinrina
C. P. Bor
R Wiluiamson
Mentor Lodge
Castle Hall
Schott'sa
Sam
D. C
Autiin Hensney
Amity Camp
Droll's Hall
Syary
Thorsday
S. W. Rawson
V.C. Aveust
Gisamantia Lodge
UJ. O
Jas
MM. Bosomworth
J. A. Riggin
Thos WH. Bell
Troy Dist
S. Chor H
G. J. Ennorr
TW. A. Coxeny
United Mine Workers of America
Troy
Thor
Central Hall
Geo. Hughes
Citizens’ Building
Soann Association
Yast Mayslay
Famks
A. Bese
M. FF. Auwauren
Baptist Church
Boniday
Jas, Osborne
Methodist Church
Rev. G., A. Send
Presbyterian Church
T. H. Belt
G. Plassman
Lutheran
ST. Jerome's Caapholic
Ang. Forater
Epworth I.eague
The
Little Folke
Troy Cemetery
Meliers
John A Bell
Mies Sarena Davy
Fenner, Isl
May Gilat
G. Holla
McCray-Dewey Academy
Caronor
W. W. Edwards
Janso W. Cook
France
Belgium
Holland
Norway
Sweden
Germany
Austria
Denmark
W. J. Spratley
Institute
Gazette
God
Bancroft
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