Various Patent Remedies and Quack Advertisements
A mosaic of old time patent medicine pitches and mock dialogue advertorial snippets. Dr Hale's Househall Ointment claims cures for catarrh neu ralgia rheumatism piles salt rheum eyelid inflammation coughs and more with internal use and 50c boxes. Rozodoro promises freckles tan and blotches removal. Kemp's Balsam sample giveaway and De Witt's Little Early Risers touted as must buys. An undertaker quip and promotion of Ayer's Pills conclude the page.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
L. A. Sheets Drug Store
Proclamation on Twenty Day Cholera Quarantine Measures
President Harrison weighs cholera risk as international outbreaks prompt a circular ordering twenty days quarantine for all vessels carrying immigrants. Health officials, shipowners, and local boards of health are alerted to enforce the detention, with discretionary extensions by state authorities. New York hospital transfers and island disinfection operations underscore a long, cautious response to avert invasion.
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de Bubs
Qusrantine
Quarantine matters seen as properly managed by Foster
New York on New Year’s Eve sees a notable hotel gathering as Secretary Charles Foster and others arrive ahead of a City of New York voyage. Foster, here to meet family, says he does not seek quar antine inquiries and believes port management is efficient amid cholera concerns.
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Fifth Avenue
Charles W. Foater
Treasury Department
Rusk
City of
New York
Foster
John B. Hamilton
Canada
Indianapolis
United Press
City
Quarantine Circular Applies to Vessels Passed by Health Office
Secretary Foster received a telegram from Collector Hendricks in New York asking if vessels not entered but passed by the health office may be detained in quarantine until new instructions, and whether cabin passengers are included. Assistant Secretary Spaulding stated Circular 150 exempts vessels afloat at the date of the circular, and those within the exception passing quarantine will be entered if later informed their entrance may introduce cholera.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Foster
Hendricks
Health Office
Department
Spaulding
Miners threaten destruction of Coal Creek and Oliver Springs
Coal Creek Tenn Sept 4 There has been no trouble here or at Oliver Springs during the day Warden Ferris of Oliver Springs fears a ominous outlook and desires military guards A report from Tellico county says 400 miners met and swore to wipe out Coal Creek and Oliver Springs before next Saturday night Mrs Harrison condition Washington Sept 8 cabinet aide notes her nervous condition lags behind physical improvement Talton Hall hanged at Vine Court House Va Sept 2 speech on scaffold Whittier critically ill Amerbury Mass Sept 4 poet John G Whittier believed near death Strikery return to work Ryineland Wisconsin Sept 4 mills to run Fourth district Kiefer nominated without opposition Laxns Mom Minn Sept 4 convention adjourned
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Coal Creek
Oliver Springs
Tenn
Ferris
Tellico County
Talt
John G. Whittier
Amerbury
Mass
John Greenleaf Whittier
Mixs Gove
Hampton Falls
N. H
Daniel Steele Currie
Wisconsin State Historical Society
Prairie du Chien
Wis
Morocco
Lizzie Borden
Fall River
Homestead
Pinkertons
L. B. McWhirter
Fresno
Cal
Treasury Department
United States
New York Standard
Henry George
John A. Logan
American University
Methodists
Washington
Two Cholera Infected Vessels Reach New York
Two steamships from Hamburg, the Rugia and Normannia, arrive with cholera aboard. The Rugia buried five steerage and contains five living patients. the Normannia buried four steerage and one cabin passenger, with four alive, including a crew member. Health authorities order quarantine and discharge to the lower harbor as cases worsen.
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New York
Hamburg
Metropolis
Board of Health
Rugia
Normanaia
Normannia
Normannis
Jenkins Im
Atiwirg
Nine More Deaths on Board Hamburg American Steamers
Quarantine updates from September 4 report several more deaths aboard the plague-stricken Hamburg American liners Moravia Rugia and Normannia with steerage and crew losses. Mortality rises as health officers, led by Dr Jenking, push to contain cholera aboard the quarantined vessels at Upper quarantine station, while bodies are moved to Swinburne Island.
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S. L
Moravia
Rugia
Normannia
Jenking
State of New York
Allen
Messae
Edson
Iowa news items echo varied state events and accidents
Governor Boies to open Iowa campaign on September 15 at Miesount Vallay. Drownings at Otterdam after a boat capsized. Clinton packing house contract let for 90,000 dollars. Pullman tax payments resumed after seven years delinquency. Humboldt fairgrounds fire destroys stalls and five horses. Over 60,000 attend the state fair as Mrs. Lease speaks. Union Township man leaves for parts unknown amid forged note cases. Burlington features a peculiar death in an ice chest. Fatal accident near Malcom as a traction engine falls on two men. Algon jail escapees dig out during grand jury waiting. Northwood rifle accident kills Nels Rye. Old state house in Des Moines destroyed by fire. Des Moines jail escapees and horse theft cases update. Pontville woman dies after being struck by a train. Mail theft charged against Van Horne, a veteran mail agent. Chicago, Milwaukee and St Paul meat train wreck near Fayette. repeated incidents in two months. Sioux City and East investors seek 17400 acres of Kankakee marshes for drainage and farming potential.
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Clinton
Pullman Company
Iowa
Humboldt Fair
Jia Bogsingham Lont
Lease
Kansas Aliance Orater
Charles A. Morgan
Union Township
Atlantic
James Hickey
Burlington
Globe
William Hall
Robert Shimer
Malcom
Algons
G. L. Dickson
Grand
Caxton & Co
Chicago
Bennett
Nels Rye
Northwood
Ed. Eschine
Eschine
Rye
Des Moines
Senate
Ed Eschink
James Pierce
Frank Pierce
Jefferson
Henry Bartels
Pontville
van Horne
Kinnell
United States
Montgomery
Greece Earthquakes and Railway Link to Jerusalem
Foreign items report strong earthquakes in Greece and a train arriving in Jerusalem from Jaffa after completing the line. A Cape Town witness in the Maybrick case reportedly died after confessing perjury. Welch tin plate mills closed, mass layoff and emigration to America. Redfern and Co. of London fail with liabilities close to 250000 pounds. Muley Haman defeats sultan’s troops in Morocco. Mrs Maybrick petition for release presented to Queen Victoria. Political notes list Lodge candidacy and various congress nominations. Multiple other notes cover crimes, deaths, and economic shifts.
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Greece
Jerusalem
Jaffa
Ti Ja
Maytrick
Capetown
Welch Tin Plate
America
Redfern, Alexander & Co
New Zealand
London
Tangier
Muley Haman
Angheritea
Must Obey the Order Washington Sept
Complaints to the interstate commerce commission accuse the Northern Pacific of failing to comply with last April's order to equalize rates to Fargo and St Paul. The commission warns it will sue if noncompliance continues. Cattle Rustler Convicted Draper, S Dak, Sept 6 J D Little known as king of cattle thieves was sentenced to two years in the Sioux Falls penitentiary. He was immediately escorted in irons by two deputies. Little is accused of stealing about 2000 head of cattle shipped East. Prince Michael Wants to Wed Detroit Sept 6 Notorious Prince Michael Milla in Jackson prison on a charge of corrupting young girls again plans to marry Eliza Coutts, alleged active agent. A wedding date is set, but prison approval seems unlikely.
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Washington
Sept
Interstate Commerce Commission
Northern Pacific
Fargo
St. Paul
Drapwoop
J. D. Little
Sioux Falla
Little
Prince Michael
Detroit
Mich
Prince” Michael Milla
Jackson
Eliza Coutts
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West
Tutt’ T
Lutt
Tutt
Prive
Ofice
Washington Rts
George
Rozodoro
Rozodoro Co
South Bend
Ind
Gaston
Ladfly
Peterson
Dr. Hale
L. A
Harrison
Cleveland
de Witt
F. W. Dingrey
Ayer
Barry Risers
F. W. Dingley
THE
Wegman Piano Co
Auburn
J. Lister
Glidden
Hudson & Shadle
Algona
Wastmaron
Wyman
Marine Hopital
Marine Hospital Service
Boards of Health
Russia
Germany
France
Great Britain
Asia
United Stades
Hie
Alporta
Europe
Swinburne Island Hospital
Vuat
Willeam Fletchner
Hoffman Island
Jenkins
Hospital Islands
New York City Health Department
Veasela
Btl
Ryinelander
Kaw
Klefer
Minn
Col. Kiefer
Governor Boies
Miesount Vallay
Myrtle Childs
Maud Ginter
Otterdam
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul
Fayette
Sioux City
East
Kankakee
Henry Cabot Lodge
Massachusetts
Missouri
John O'Neill
Congress
Independence
Nancy Hanks
O. M. Hall
Jersey City
N. J
Crounze
Nebraska
Iona
J. Beatchamp Clark
Pennsylvania
Gillespie
Michigan
H. H. Keeler
J. A. Dyer
J. E. F. McGee
Tennessee
Josiah Pattison
Frank ©. Osborne
California
Olin Welborn
Mike Cushing
Fort Hamilton
Elizabethport
Brooklyn
New Jersey Coal Exchange
Newark
Lehigh
Blaine
Los Angeles
Emmons
Erion
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