Opium, England, and America in 1905 News
British views on American influence shift from contempt to admiration as U S innovations, journalism, and consumer life spread in England. Opium revenue in India to China is cited with high tax profits. Oxford finances improve after fee increases. Covent Garden stages a new French opera to mixed praise, with Lafitte as Jean and a donkey prop for the production.
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Masanet
Notre Dame
Covent Garienewo
Musiq
Young Hi le
Jean
Jaegier
Sean
Covent Garden
Clothing by yearly contracts and the silence cure
The article notes a Manchester firm offering to clothe a man for 100 dollars yearly with four suits two overcoats and two outfits per year, a London supply of lower prices. It also describes the silence cure for nervous women requiring one quiet hour daily to rest the brain and body. It cites a London meeting on premature burial and lists official matters including incorporations, notaries public appointments, and small salary increases for Internal Revenue officials in New Mexico and Arizona.
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West End
Manchester
Internal Revenue
Henry P. Bardshar
Washington Mall
James J Goutehy
Richart DeKuhn
Compassioner Yerkes
Mesure
Chy
DeKuhn
United States Internal Revenue
New Mexico
Arizona
House Committee On
Mexico
Oklahoma
Indian Territory
Andrews
Santa
One Arizonian's Mythical Mines
A former Arizonian, Deesting Shepard, arrived in Quincy posing as a Tucson mining magnate. He courted landlady Amanda Blunt, married her after a visit in December, then died the next day. The widow seeks his property and claims, while reporters trace his aliases and alleged Arizona gold mine schemes across several states.
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Quincy
Phoenix Gazette
Arizona
Phoenix
Deesting Shepard
Tucson
Ariz
Medora Caamberlain
St. Marys Hospital
Shepard
Steinbach
Amanda H. Blunt
Gray
Silo Springs
Ark
C. C. Brown
Artcote
Iowa
Katens City
Wagner
Shepard Youll Abe
Etty
Las Vegas Baptists lose their pastor resignation pend at July 29
Rev Harry H Treat resigns as minister of Las Vegas Baptist Church. He will move to Rochester Theological Seminary, taking effect July 29. Mrs Treat and child to Bedford Indiana. successor not yet chosen. A pulpit supply committee formed.
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Las Vegas
Harry H. ‘Treat
Congress Tl
Tuesaday Ev
Trea’ Goen
Las Veas
Rochester
N.Y
Rochester Theological Seminary
Treat
Bedford
Ind
Woman commits suicide by throwing under moving train at Lordsburg
A Westbound Southern Pacific passenger train in Lordsburg New Mexico stopped after a woman, alone with her 10 year old child, hurled herself under the wheels while attempting to reach Clifton. The mother fled and the child was saved by the girl. The woman's identity is unknown as officials investigate. The child is in the care of strangers.
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North Sea
Holland
Iver
Neil
Ayt Alian
County
Lordsburg
N. M
Clifton
Itl
Whesle
Josh Hardware Company
Ispl
Frank Zwick
Everly
Paso
Southern Pacific
The
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John Bull
China
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United States
India
Excise Department
Calcutta
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Oxford University
Lota
University Press
Milwaukee
Lafitte
London Society For the Prevention
Munich
Albuquerque
Territorial
J. W. Raynolds
Consolidated Liquor Company
O. Bachechi
G Giomi
Charles Melini
Alliquer
Treasury
Charles Me
Stern-Meyers Company
Simon Schloss
Herbert J. Hagerman
Thomas W. Lewis
Dawson
Colfax County
D. J. Grantham
Carlsbad
Eddy County
P.P. Simmons
Belen
Valencia County
Jose D. Cordova
Javales
Vale County
William D. Wasson
Batanon Torrance
Faustin Leyda
Tampa
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M. B Hickey
Bernalillo
Chariton H. Bailey
San Miguel County
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Denver & Rio Grande Railroad
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacifi * Way
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