Hard Times in Far North Warn of Poor Fur Season
A North country dispatch reports wolves bolder and more dangerous, with many stock losses in Lesser Slave and Ashabasen region. Trappers fear a poor winter as fur bearers are scarce and trading posts restrict credit, while grain crops falter and Indians must cope with higher living costs amid a looming seventh-year hardship.
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Ashabasen
Edmonton
Alberta
New York Times
Farorth
Hundred Story Skyscraper Dream From Los Angeles Architect
A. I. Yost of Los Angeles tells the Washington Post that a 100 story building is feasible as reinforced concrete advances. He notes fire protection and elevator systems as current hurdles, cites the Sin Ger and Metropolitan Life structures, and argues concrete and steel allow dramatic urban height growth, including earthquake resistance in L A.
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Los Angeles
A. I. Yost
Shoreham
Washington Post
Dven
Sin Ger
New York
Metropolitan Life
Renunciation in a Tense Salon Exchange
In a Chicago Tribune excerpt from Sitting on a High Hat, Mrs. Lapstag confronts Mrs. Jinx with blazing eyes, declaring friendship ends over gossip about her husband. A clubman teases another about sitting a silk hat squarely, inviting a jocular wager amid garbled dialogue.
Telegraph Strike Spreads as New York Operators Walkout
At a Greater New York telegraphers meeting a motion to call out all newsroom and broker offices was adopted by large margins, despite President Small urging adherence to contracts. A Roosevelt Oyster Bay visit yielded no clear result. Meanwhile Hamburg American Line’s new President Grant arrived in New York on its maiden voyage, scaling 18 089 gross tons with extensive passenger capacity and modern amenities. An Onion remedy report claims onions help dropsy, recounting a patient restored after years of unsuccessful treatment.
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Greater New York
Small
Telegraphers’ Union
Roosevelt
Oyster Bay
Tiegraph
Mammoth
President Grant
Ine
New York
Lincoln
Natural digestant Kadol for Dyapepsia promoted
An advisory snippet promotes Kadol as a natural digestant to aid digestion during stomach discomfort. It claims Kadol contains vegetable acids and digestive juices like a healthy stomach, digesting over 3,000 grains of food, and offers prompt relief. Schultz & Roth stocks it and urges subscriptions for the Worlh.
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Schultz & Roth
H, C0
Schultz & Co
Floating luxury voyage plans by Colonel Thompson and party
Colonel Robert M. Thompson of New York will sail on an imported tramp steamer converted into a floating luxury for a months long tour to Indian, Chinese and Japanese ports. The voyage blends trading aims with sightseeing, bartering cargo for goods and potential profits, with notable passengers including Mrs Thompson, Stephen Pells, Wallace Nesbitt and other New Yorkers and Canadians.
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Robert M. Thompson
New York
Far East
New York City
High Seas
Colonel Thompson
New York Tribune
Thompson
Stephen Pells
Wallace Nesbitt
Toronto
Carlos
Mediterranean
Suez Canal
India
Asia
San Francisco
Alaska
United States
Pullman Gars to Be Dry across United States
An order from Pullman headquarters in Chicago will halt liquor sales across the company nationwide. The move aims to begin in the East and roll westward, potentially starting in New England and the Middle States by March 1, due to anti-saloon laws and declining profits. Prosecution risks for employees’ carelessness also influence the step. Big Railroad's Care of Its Employees. Since the relief department began in February 1886, total benefits reached 17,434,050.41, with 20,816,090.50 paid for disablements. death benefits account for the rest. January saw 166,735.16 in payments including 64,216.73 for death benefits.
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Pullman Gars
Pullman
Chicago
United States
New England
Middle States
Big
Relief Department of the Pennsylvania Railroad
Relief Fund
Fish Pond for Kansas City Suggests Local Angling Park
A Kansas City resident urges the city to create a public fishing pond in the Fifteenth Street grove area. The idea envisions filling a ravine basin with water and stocking it with game fish for half day outings by women, children, and others who cannot travel far. It argues stock fish would breed, trees would shelter young fish, and a small park fee could fund recreational fishing locally.
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Kansas City
East Side
Kansas
Bive
Swope Park
Independence
Noty
Parts Board
Grote
Fifteenth Street
Benton Boulevard
Park Board
Reed Place
Krove
Too Big for President Morgan Wouldn't Take That Job
The doorkeeper at Madison Square Garden introduces J Pierpont Morgan to his private entrance niece. Morgan and the child receive warm welcomes as bystanders discuss politics and joke about a Morgan presidential bid, noting he is “too big” and wouldn’t take the job.
Junior Aero Club to Train Youth in Balloon Flying
New York City plans a Junior Aero Club of the United States aimed at youths under twenty one. Miss B E L Todd organizes a nationwide movement with branches to be run by young members who build or own their own air apparatus. An upcoming meeting will formalize officers and active memberships with advisory adults.
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Aero Club
New York City
United States
Junior
L. Todd
Galax Leaves Boom With Round Peak Trader G A Holder
G A Holder of Round Peak spoke in Mount Airy about his expanding galax leaves business. He plans to pay neighborhood women and children up to 8000 dollars this winter for leaf gathering along Itile ravines. Leaves sold to florists in cities at 25 cents per bundle of twenty five. Reports say women and children commonly earn seven dollars to sixteen fifty per day gathering leaves.
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G. A. Holder
Round Peak
Mount Airy
Ganadian's Odd Misfortune in Mexican Timber Find
Howard Spendrove of St John New Brunswick traveled to Mexico to inspect timber land for investment. He struck a peculiar tree with an axe and sap spurt blinded him, ending his night journey.
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Howard Spendrove
St. John
N. B
Mexico
Digestive health remedies and patent medicines advertised
Advertises Kodol natural digestant for dyspepsia indigestion and gas relief with guarantees sold by D Breuning Co and H C Schultz Co. Also promotes De Witt’s Carbolized Witch Hazel Salve for wounds and piles sold by S D Breuning Co and Schultz. Mentions Seventy Seven remedy for colds sold by druggists and Dr Shoop Health Coffee made from toasted grains sold by Henry W Schultz.
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Breuning & Co
de Witt
DeWitt's
S. D. Breuning & Co
Shoop
Racine
Wis
Henry W. Schultz
DeWitt
Sobultz
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Cabtornaia
the Courier-Journal
Henry Watterson
Courier -Journal
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