Avalanche Strikes Skaguay Pass Buried Miners Dead
A Skaguay Alaska dispatch dated April 3 reports a massive snowslide in Chilkat pass amid a crowded mining route. About 31 bodies recovered, with estimates of 75 to 100 killed and 150 missing as a blizzard worsens the disaster’s toll. Survivors recount a rapid, deadly descent and extensive snow cover. News from Seattle, Washington, dated April 11 updates the count and notes many unaccounted for, with a statewide response and further calamities across the country including fires and deaths.
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Wash
Skaguay
Alaska
Chillat Pass
Stonehouse
Wis
J. A. Raines
Maine
Chilkat Pass
Spring Health Tonic Ad Boosts System For Summer
An early spring health warning urges readers to take Swift's S. S. S. blood tonic to purify the blood, strengthen general health, and prevent summer illnesses. Promotes its vegetable formula free of potash and mercury, claiming renewed appetite and vigor. Sold by all druggists.
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Swift
State of Trade Shows Cautious Bank Lending in 1893
R G Dun reports in April 1893 that manufacturing remains largely steady with full force employed or increased in places, despite overproduction. Banking conservatism keeps commercial loans down to about ten percent, failures total 232 in the United States and 32 in Canada, with little sign of disruption or widespread stoppage.
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New York
R. G. Dun & Co
Eity
Europe
United States
Canada
Free coinage activists convene in Indianapolis
About 00 persons attended the League of Bimetallic Clubs of the Ohio Valley convention. New officers were elected, resolutions favored bimetallism and free coinage at sixteen to one, opposed the gold standard, and praised William J. Bryan. A Cuban intervention sympathy resolution was adopted. Bryan spoke at Tomlinson hall, and the group set next year’s meeting in Lowinsville.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Reemija
League of Bimetallic Clubs
Ohio Valley
E. Morass
League
Congress
William J. Bryan
United States
Tomlinson Hall
Lowinsville
Panic in Florida as residents flee southward alarm grows
Alarm over looming war prompts mass flight from Florida towns toward the north. Key West and southern cities report rapid depopulation as families and business interests hasten to relocate. Separately, the U S gunboat Wheeling departs Seattle with government and geological survey crews bound for Alaska to conduct explorations near Haines Mission and Cook's Inlet.
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Jacksonville
Fla
Florida
Key West
Alaska
Seattle
Wash
Wheeling
Haines Mission
Cook's Inlet
Transfiguration on the Mountain Study Notes
Readings from Matthew 17 Mark 9 Luke 9 and John 1 14 outline the Transfiguration on a high mountain near Cesarea Philippi. The scene shows Jesus shining with divine glory while Moses and Elijah speak of Jesus death and exodus, with Peter James and John as witnesses and God's voice affirming Jesus as beloved Son.
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Peloubet
J the Lusson
Hermon
Cesarea
Jesus
Tabor
Galiles
Peter
James
John
dJairus
Lim
Gethsemance
Satan
Light
M. I. Vincent
Paul
Moses
Elias
Elijah
Jimbe
Luke
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Harry Murphy
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VERAS
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