New Buildings Rise in Troy Alongside Water Works Plans
The year sees a growing list of new buildings in Troy with end-of-season expansion likely. The piece notes civic ambitions for a waterworks plant to reduce malarial diseases and improve public health, citing pure local water as a key asset and urging action in coming years. It also comments on honesty in newspaper subscriptions and the responsibility of readers to pay, warning that printers’ books will reveal truth at the final reckoning.
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Troy
Local reports I11ustrious town ships potatoes and apples
In six weeks 28 car loads of potatoes totaling 12 420 bushels sold at about 3 80 per bushel distributed 3 725 among residents. 2 500 barrels of apples shipped locally 1 500 paid out making 5 222 total. The piece urges business enterprise to sustain steady revenue and form an Improvement of Businessmen Association in Troy to develop resources and attract manufacturing.
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Nesemens Association
Troy
The Record Of Great Men And Sunday Times
A discussion on the historic record of famed American men from Washington to Lincoln noting an alleged omission about their Sundays. The author argues the record must reflect Sunday activities and questions how the record could be corrected.
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George Washington
Nathaniel Green
Alexander Hamilton
Israel Putman
Andrew Jackson
Henry Clay
Thomas H. Benton
Daniel Webster
James A. Garfield
Abraham Lincoln
George H. Thomas
Ulysessa. Grant
Law requires disposal of diseased swine by burning or burial
A state law mandates that owners or managers of swine bury or burn any swine dying from cholera or other contagious diseases to a depth of two feet. It prohibits moving or placing on public or private lands any deceased or diseased swine, with penalties from five to fifty dollars and liability for damages.
Novel canning steamer sails to southern waters
A new American novelty is described as a canning steamer designed to cruise southern waters. It would preserve fruit fish turtle and guava jelly on the spot with full canning apparatus and deliver the ready produce to southern regions for rail or other transport.
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U. S
Danish slaughterhouse stamp system for meat classes
The text urges Americans to adopt Denmark’s practice of official exam before and after killing cattle sheep and swine. Meat cannot be removed from the slaughterhouse without an official stamp marking it as first or second class food.
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Denmark
Tobacco and bicycle production figures headlined in 19th century news
The report notes tobacco grown across 42 states and territories, with Kentucky and several states supplying nearly half the crop. Cholera rages in Russian provinces, Pedolia records over 250 daily deaths, and bicycle output rose from 200,000 in 1894 to 400,000 in 1895, with expectations to reach 200,000 wheels next year. Your job work to this office.
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States
Kentucky
Virginia
Ohio
North Carolina
Tennessee
Pennsylvania
Connecticut
Russia
Pedolia
Court Scene in Hillboro Over Loyal Dog Ponto
In Hillboro last Wednesday a court heard Col Ike McLain sue Maj Mitchell Harrison over ownership of a hound named Ponto. Witnesses testified the dog bore a distinctive kinked tail and a facial spot. Ike swore the dog from puphood and trained it to trail possums and tree coons. The squire halted proceedings due to conflicting testimony. dog remains in custody with Constable Bob Hughes pending a decision.
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Randle
Ike McLain
Mitchell Harrison
Cooper
Dogor
Fred Randle
Ever
Anow
Col
Ike
Ponto
Harrison
Bob Hughes
Montgomery
Telegrams Bring News Of James And A Bloomers Run In Jacksonville
The reading of a telegram reveals James’s fate and a mother’s dread as she asks about his return, while a Jacksonville scene shows bicycle girls coasting in a bold display. An amused farmer watches bloomers crest a street as a bloomer girl shoots by like a cannonball.
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Mamie
James
New Fork Journal
Jacksonville
War reporter David Christie Murray read obituary three times
The veteran journalist David Christie Murray, famed for his frontline dispatches, has reportedly been killed three times during his career and has now read his own obituary on each occasion, reflecting on his survival and memory.
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David Christie Murray
Free trial offer for Dr King’s New Discovery and Life Pills
All free offer invites readers to request a trial bottle of Dr King’s New Discovery and a free Guide to Health. Send name and address to H E Bucklen Co Chicago for samples. Kingston’s Drugstore advertises fruit fare at Droli’s.
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Dr. King
H. E. Bucklen& Co
Chicago
Guide To Health
Kingston
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