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Newspaper
Weiser Signal
Location
Weiser, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Oct 21, 1897
Page
2
The item discusses low Weiser turnout for a state fair amid prosperity talk and farm wealth figures. It highlights attendance doubts, road conditions near Payette, and a Kansas honor for Miss Whitney, a working girl, with royal escort plans and support from Governor Leedy. Also notes strange local anecdotes and a Chinese theater incident.
The Duise Sentinel denounces the Legislature and Supreme Court for an irregular appropriation bill passage and suspending the constitution on March 8. It claims the warrants are worthless and accuses the court of misleading an investor, inviting bets on the court retracting the statement.
The Atlantic Monthly piece by Carroll D Wright argues against the view that wealth equality worsens, noting shifting scales since 1850. It cites data on per capita wealth growth: 1850 about 2305, 1860 780, 1870 870, and related contrasts between rich and poor households while acknowledging the concentration of wealth in a small fraction of families.
In Kansas bashing snobbery, Chillicothe Mo selects Edna Whitney a working girl from a tobacco factory as maid of honor for St Louis Flower Carnival. Reaction among Missouri elites. protests from labor groups and socialists rise as telegrams and public outrage brighten the scene.
An arranged list of merchants and services led by Dr. G B Shirley and J Matthews & Co includes pharmacy Weixeler, dry goods Louis Sommer, furniture A Seara, hotels Vendome and Weiser, harness E M Barton, hardware Haus Bros Opp & Davis jewelers B M Jenney, livery J Matthews & Co, lumber Thos B Kelly, meat P Korup, physicians G B Shirley and J BR Numbers, real estate O M Harvey, saloons The Mint Page & Roberts, tinner Andrew Paynton, insurance O M Harvey.
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