Take Your Choice Johnson's Tonic for Fever Cure
An advertising plea argues against quinine and urging Johnson's Tonic as a faster, safer fever remedy. It claims quick blood action within 30 minutes, a 17 year success record, and near universal cure rates, contrasting the slow, uncertain quinine treatment with a painless option. The piece targets business and family impacts of fever and ends with a call to choose Johnson's Tonic.
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Johnson
Materia Medica
Boers Plan Peage as British Sweep Orange River Area
Report from Pretoria says Steyn and Delarey to meet with Schalkburger and possibly Botha to decide policy. Commandant Mears pledges to follow Boer government decisions while De Villiers seeks terms via flag of truce. British operations continue in the northwest Orange River colony with about a thousand De Wet men in cordon. Surrenders rise in Standerton district as Alberts and Hana Botha convene talks near The Springs Amsterdam. Six constabulary and native scouts were ambushed near Heidelburg with six killed.
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Pretoria
Steyn
Delarey
Schalkburger
Botha
Mears
de Villiers
Kimberly
Orange River Colony
DeWet
Heidelburg
Transvaal
Alberts
Springs Station
Hana Botha
Amsterdam
Standerton
Nome Natives Destitute in Distress Near Cape Nome
Describes severe destitution among natives near Cape Nome with women and children lacking food and clothing. Reports from R T Chestnut dated Jan 9 and corroborated by W H Francis describe fishermen failing to provide. calls for government relief. Also notes Amsterdam diamond workers settle disputes and resume work after string of tensions.
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Nome
Seattle
R. T. Chestnut
Cape Nome
Mr. Chestnut
W. H. Francis
Patrick in Tombs Ties Burned Benedict Patrick to Wife
Albert T. Patrick, condemned for murder plotting the death of William Marsh Rice, reportedly wed Addie L. Francis in the Tombs prison matron’s room. The ceremony, witnessed by two, was completed despite guards and official opposition, with marriage contracts signed in duplicate and a copy to be filed within six months.
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New York
Albert T. Patrick
William Marsh Rice
Addie L. Francis
Journal and American
Patrick
Hynes
Francis
Busse on trial for wife murder and body cremation
Des Moines report tells of Louis Busse charged with murdering his wife in June 1901 to grab $2,800 from a prior damage suit. Prosecutors say he quickly married, then killed eighteen months later, slit her throat, burned the body on a feather bed saturated with kerosene and left to let the house burn, with a purported confession obtained.
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Des Moines
Louio Busse
Waverly
Busse
Important court decision on minor enlistment in Texas
Houston March 31 im ported decision by United States circuit court of appeals in Dan Miller Texas minor who enlisted at San Antonio without parental consent, deserted, jailed pending ruling. Court holds enlistment makes prisoner a soldier amenable to military law despite minority, parents cannot block enforcement. We note plans for a pressed steel car wheels plant in New York with multi million cost at Bethlehem Steel site per Ga icnen Special.
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Houston
Tex
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
Dan Miller
Texas
San Antonio
New York
Antal
the Tribune
Bethlehem Steel Company
Deck Laborers Again Strike in Prime Hungary Port
Vienna reports dock laborers at Prime Hungary staged another strike on April 2 over a wage increase. Workers halted unloading duties, causing several vessels to wait and disrupt port operations. Local authorities anticipated negotiations to end the stoppage.
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Vienna
Prime
Hungary
Dave
Skeleton Found On Tiverton Beach Believed Mrs Manchester
A human skeleton in a white cedar box washed ashore at Island Park Tiverton R I is thought to be Mrs Gideon Manchester who vanished fifty years ago. Her husband a seafaring man was tried and released for lack of evidence. The case stirred anew as authorities revisit the long cold mystery with bones found near the old toll bridge suggesting foul play and a prolonged disappearance.
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Tiverton
Island Park
Gideon Manchester
Bis Town
New Bedford
New Beds
Manchester
Stone Bridge
Lieut Durfee Pardoned for Embezzling in Cuba
Oscar B Durfee, a Spanish American War lieutenant and former manager of the San Fernandino and Jucaro railroad in Cuba, was pardoned after arrest in Christmas 1900 for embezzling 4200 of government funds. The pardon followed efforts by Isaac Crain US Senator Allison of Iowa and Secretary Root. He has a wife and four children in Mattoon Illinois.
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Mattoon
Jil
Isaac B. Crain
Washington
Oscar
Durfee
San Fernandino and
Jucaro
Cuba
Military Road
Crain
United States
Allison
Iowa
Severe storm unroofs homes in Nelson area
A very severe wind and rainstorm hit Nelson on Saturday night blowing roofs off several houses and lifting a large residence from its foundation. No injuries were reported. Fair View Church, set west of town, suffered the effects of the storm as well.
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Nelson
Fair View Church
Thin Town
Fifteen Killed In Nelson Mine Disaster At Dayton
Sixty-eight or more people were affected as officials of the Dayton Coal and Iron Company reported sixteen dead after the Nelson mine explosion at Dayton. Investigators said the mine was not on fire, while a jury of inquest was impaneled to determine the cause. Officials claimed strict safety rules and vowed to recover all bodies as funerals were held for the fallen.
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Dayton Con! and Iron Company
Chattanooga
Nelson
Dayton
George Swafford
Dayton Coa! and Iron Company
Roy Meyer
J. M. Head
Associated Press
Shifflet
Prince George Reprimands Bavarian Scientist in Lecture
A Munich dispatch reports Prince George of Bavaria reprimanded Prof Ranke after a lecture in uniform. Ranke had stated that man descended from the ape, prompting the prince to confront him before students and demand restraint.
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Barian Jents
New Yorkns
Ranke
Munich
Journal
American
Prince George of
Bavaria
Life Guards
Prince George
Tourlats Found Half Frozen Alive After Alps Expedition
Vienna April 2 The three missing tourlats of a four man party who recently attempted to ascend the Raw Alps in Lower Austria have been discovered half frozen but alive. This Wurth member of the expedition, as
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Tourlats
Vienna
Tourlate
Lower Austria
Wurth
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Allen
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Schalkberger
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Lieut. Durfee
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