Rheumatism Remedy Ad Claims Swift's Specific Cure
An advertisement extols Swift's Specific as a blood remedy that reaches the disease's seat to cure rheumatism. It cites a Blackshear, Georgia lumber dealer's wife, treated unsuccessfully before a complete cure after twelve bottles, and asserts S.S.5. also cures catarrh cancer scarlet fever and other blood diseases with a guarantee.
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Swift
Acta
D. R. Johnson
Blackshear
S.S
Consuls Report American Goods Aiding Trade Abroad
State Department releases reports from consuls on expanding American commerce. Monaghan notes Germany's rising Mexico trade in 1896 with textiles iron ware and machinery. O Lara cites Nicaragua bicycle and typewriter sales and condiciones for wheeled transport. Morris details a flax rotting method at Ghent for cellulose preservation. Atwell finds strong market for California dried fruits in northern France.
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United States
State Department
Monaghan
Chemnitz Fis
Germany
Mexico
Republic
O'lara
San Juan del Norte
Nicaragua
Ife
Morris
Ghent
Belgium
Atwell
Roubaix
France
California
Go Purely Vegetable Free Books Offer From Swift Specific Co
The ad promotes free mailed books by the Swift Specific Company of Atlanta. It then discusses German telephony under government control noting Berlin rents for a public phone at 150 marks and low long distance rates to Bremen. It compares foreign prices to U S rates and notes English patents expired while Bel patents in the U S have three years left.
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Swift
Atlanta
Berlin
New York
Bremen
Boston
Bel
Famine Threat Grips Ireland as Potato Crop Fails
Reports from Ireland to London describe widespread crop failure with weather still unpropitious. The St James Gazette notes distress is likely and predicts suffering though not as severe as feared by agitators. English observers report ruined harvests as famine fears rise.
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London
Ireland
St. James Gazette
Remarkable gold discovery near Santa Fe New Mexico
Captain J. H. Watchinson reports a new gold find on government land east of Santa Fe and a quartz ledge 350 feet deep at Monte Cristo mining site shows free gold in large quantities. Nuggets rival wheat grains. shafts to be sunk to test blanket lead potential. A stir in mining circles.
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Carnes
New Mexico
J. MH. Watchinson
Santa Fe
N. M
Golden South
Santa Fe County
Michael Warold
Pittsburgh
Monte Cristo Mining Company
Kansas City
West
A True Help Meet in a Congressman’s Wife
A Washington Star account notes a congressman's wife uses simple sewing to win rural voters. She knits by hand a half-knit blue yarn sack when supporters visit, saying the practice is business, not pleasure, aimed at pleasing old fashioned rural constituents who honor her husband.
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Congress
Washington Star
Getting Revenge A precocious girl with an aching molar
A Cleveland Plain Dealer tale from Cleveland about a young girl who had a stubborn tooth extracted. She wrapped the tooth and afterward poked sugar into the empty cavity to keep the tooth from hurting, claiming she was testing the ache. The ironies of childhood mischief are highlighted in this humorous misprint.
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Cleveland
East End
Acre
Boston
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Folding furniture packs entire room in a six by two box
A clever English inventor offers folding bedroom and sitting room furnishings that fit into a box six feet long by two and a half feet wide and a little over two feet deep. The box contains a wash stand, dressing bureau, mirror, cane chair, rug chair, bed, bedding, draperies, toilet set, and wardrobe, all in well seasoned hardwood and designed to fasten without nails or screws.
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Lis
Smaller Colleges Outshine Big Names in Education
In a Ladies' Home Journal piece Edeward W Bok argues smaller American colleges produce more brainpower and pioneering teaching. He cites 60 percent of prominent Americans as graduates from lesser known institutions and says direct teaching often comes from these smaller colleges, not the famous ones.
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Edeward W. Bok
Ome Journal
New York Skyscrapers Reshape Skyline in Modern Era
The skyline of New York is changing so rapidly that travelers recognize foreign cities more easily from their silhouettes than their own metropolis. Old Trinity still stands, but modern office towers rise above church spires, as business enterprise surpasses religious aspiration in the city’s profile.
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Gotham
New York
Scribner's
Europe
London
Rome
Paris
St. Paul's
St. Peter's
Notre Dame
New Amsterdam
Amsterdam
Old Trinity
Warlike Missionary in Natal Shows Soldierly Spirit
A missionary chaplain, Rev. George Smith, attached to the army in the Natal campaign, tended the wounded, aided the dying, distributed reserve cartridges, and urged a soldier to shoot enemies while saying prayers. He exemplified calm courage beyond soldiers. Also recounted are schoolyard prayer habits in Syracuse and Queen Victoria’s jubilee bowing, plus Parisian debutante detectives offering services for pay.
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Natal
George Smith
Smith
South Africa
Powerful sermon in prison walls moves Fulton County inmates
The condemned murderer Lanier killer Perry led a midnight sermon at the Fulton County jail in Atlanta. Rev R S Stevenson assisted as Perry spoke on salvation from Acts 16:31 drawing a huge crowd of inmates who wept and listened intently. Perry urged felons to reform their ways as he faced impending execution. Thousands left moved, some shaking his hand as he concluded.
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Congress
Seeaine
Fulton County
Perry
Lanier
Rev
R. S. Stevenson
Jesus Christ
Taylor Delk
Tom
Change in corn handling to divert cargo to Superior
The article reports a proposed shift in corn movement to Superior and the head of the lakes. Led by T. I. Peavey of Minneapolis, changes to rail rate basises favor Superior over Chicago, with Omaha pushing new tariffs that end Chicago discrimination. Elevators and agents are buying corn at Chicago prices to ship via Superior, Wis.
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Chicago
Superior
Lakes
T. I. Peavey
Minneapolis
Omaha
Buffalo
Southwestern
Peavey
Globe and Belt Line
Wis
Women of Boston Demand Husbands Before Politics
The Women’s Rescue league of Boston reports the manifesto by Mrs Charlotte Smith urging that bachelor politicians shirk duties and be deemed untrustworthy. Resolutions call for listing bachelor aspirants in Massachusetts and New York and for protests against election or reelection. They also extend congratulations to ex Mayor Edwin Upton Curtis on his upcoming marriage and urge a two year pause from politics for his honeymoon.
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Boxton
Charslotte Smith
Women's Rescue League
Boston
Massachusetts
New York
Women’s Reserve League
League
Edwin Upton Curtis
Palitics
Heir to a Fortune and Other Oddities
The article notes Fred Horton of Los Angeles, a 19 year old heir to Philip Horton’s estate in Mexico, after his father’s death near Guayamas. It also mentions a Book of Common Prayer translation into Uganda and a French printing by the Society, plus French unmarried women and men counts.
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Michaell
Mexico
Fred Horton
Los Angeles
Cal
Philip Horton
Ben
California
Guayamas
TitIe
Uganda
Society For the Promotion of Christian Knowledge
Probate Notice for the Estate of Gl. Land Deceased
In Kassuth county Iowa the probate notice announces an administrator will auction a sizable estate on October 2, 12807, describing many tract details and severed rights. The sale location is the east door of the old courthouse in Algona, with further particulars to be addressed to the administrator W. Ta IOSLYN.
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Kassatuh
Iowa
Distrigh Court
Kassath
Lowa
Trerest
Chitigi
Milwatse St. Paul
Seamon
Hathorthy Norehwest
sOventeen
Alban Twa
Uvohly
Srebion Ann
Navtienst
Reekar
Ponce Terity
Ste
Algown
Kossuth Ety Ty
Towa
AL D
W. Ta. Ioslyn
Sheriff's Sale Notice from Kossuth County Iowa
By order of the district court of Kossuth County Iowa and under an execution, goods and real estate owned by Nellie M. Tithha will be sold at public auction to satisfy a judgment. The sale will take place September 6 at the courthouse door in Algona Iowa between 3 and 4 pm. The property described includes a parcel in Block 22a addition to Algona and other described boundaries. Ashe Sheriff G U G Samson notes the sale date August 28, 1807.
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Kossith
Tie Court House
Ale Kona
Cossuth
Tawacom
Vo'gouk A.m
Eldgk Pon
Dee
Lunt
Utley
Kussath
Blouk
Algona
Towa
Southousa
Kossuth
Sealy
G. UG. Samson
Ashe
Kossuth County
Iowa
District Court of the
State of Iowa
Wrm
A. D
C. I. Erickson
James W. Gardner
Tla
EB. V. Swetting
Plaintii
District Court
American Board of Commissioners For Foreign Missions
Vie American Missionary Association
Congregational Lome Missionary Society
Piatuulfs
Ozias Littlefield
Clark
Section No
West Ath P. M
Ozias Litetlefield
Clarke & Conenour
Attys, Kossuth Co
Kosguth County
Everi Pleasanter Feels Better for Ladies
In a fragmentary notice, a remedy brand is touted for tiredness among ladies. The brief item hints at relief from fatigue with a product named Everi and signals a consumer health context.
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French Detective Department
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