Boer Leader Joubert Dies After Peritonitis
Pretoria reports Gen. Piet Joubert dies at 11 30 pm from a stomach complaint. The government plans a temporary interment and state funeral with burial at his farm mausoleum. Joubert, 68, famed Boer commander, helped organize the Transvaal army and played a central role in Majuba Hill and the push for independence. London details: Roberts advance near Bloemfontein, Fusresmith operations, and patrol casualties.
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Pretoria
Joubert
London
Daily Mail
South African Republic
Transvaal
Paul Kruger
Sir George Colley
Majuba Hill
Republic
Kruger
Europe
Pretorius
War Office
Lord Roberts
Bloemfontein
Clements
Fauresmith
Col. Pilcher
Ladybrand
Modder River
Sloane Stanley
Sixteenth Lancers
Prohibitionists Nominate Slate in South Dakota Convention
In Huron on March 28 the prohibitionists held a state convention and nominated F. A. Carlisle of Brookings for governor. They chose J. S. Wilson N. G. Reede A. H. Reed and E. E. Osteck as presidential electors and A. Q O. Harkell and M. Rogers for congress.
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Huron
F. A. Carlisle
Brookings
McMurdo Heirs Award Confirmed by Arbitration
Washington reports that US Minister Leishmann and counsel Trehane in Berne confirm the Delagoa day arbitration award carried Thursday. The heirs of McMurdo are acknowledged in the cable dispatches as the award’s beneficiaries.
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Washington
State Department
United States
Leishmann
Trehane
McMurdo Heirs
Berne
Cleveland Shooting Ends In Fatal Head Wound
In Cleveland on March 31 Joseph Moore fired an old army musket at Timothy Driscoll during a quarrel. The buckshot blast shattered the top of Driscoll’s head, killing him.
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Cleveland, O
Joseph Moore
Timothy Driscoll
Driscoll
Successful Western Canada Farmer Builds Vast 1280 Acre Estate
Baldur Gazette profiles W Creamer near town eastward, detailing a 1280 acre mixed farm founded in 1880. It notes 800 acres cultivated, 400 plowed for next season, 40 horses, 60 cattle, 50 pigs, and vast facilities including barns, granaries with 3,000 bushels wheat, and a threshing outfit. The piece highlights modern buildings, abundant water, and snow protection, praising his industry and the era’s homestead opportunities in Western Canada.
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W. Creamer
Creamer
Canada
Western Canada
Audubon Club appoints cuckoo protection committee
A humorous exchange in Detroit Free Press style shows Dorothy recounting her club's enthusiastic resolution to appoint a committee to take immediate steps for the protection of the cuckoo in a cuckoo clock, amid a playful family conversation.
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Dorothy
Audubon Club
Detroit Free Press
Grain-O promoted as coffee substitute for all ages
Advertisement touts Grain-O as a long desired family coffee substitute made from pure grains. It claims to calm nerves, aid digestion, and provide health and strength while offering the taste and appearance of the best coffee at a good price.
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Baby
Grandma
Time Peewee and Industry Conquer All Things
The Chicago Daily News notes a blend of time management, youth sports, and industrial progress shaping daily life. It highlights how small scale athletics and industry drive community growth and reflect broader societal changes.
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Chicago Daily News
Revolver Threat Over Engagement at Family Office
A Detroit man faces an irascible uncle who orders the youth to marry or face a pistol. The exchange occurs after Lent plans and concerns a niece versus a daughter with the elder man insisting he is the head of the family. The suitor refuses to answer and defends his relations with the girl's parents.
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Sonny
Detroit Free Press
What They Really Say A Theater Conversation
A Washington Post cartoon caption parodies a couple in a theater, revealing the hushed exchange beneath their smiles. The dialogue jokes about hair, hats, and barber blows with wry banter on appearances and fashion.
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Washington Post
Feminine Consistency and Whist Prize Singled Out
Dialogue from the Boston Transcript discusses moral judgment on gambling and wealth. Mrs Greene and Mrs Gray debate Mr Slyder's betting, then a note about winning a first prize silver cup at a whist tournament last night.
Ideal man pursuit and Bitters health aid
The piece argues colleges seek the ideal man a vigorous honest intellectual figure who improves the world health comes first Health and achievement rely on regular bowels and a healthy stomach Hostetter s Stomach Bitters is recommended to cure stomach disorders prevent malaria fever and ague and improve overall well being
Good Engagement in Second Act Prompts Veteran Actors
A New York World column quips about veteran actors in a stage production noting good engagement in the second act. It mentions unclear remarks on salary and personal stakes in the performance.
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Old Riead
N. Y
Hall's Catarrh Cure Advertisement Offer
A Toledo business notice offers one hundred dollars reward for any catarrh case cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. It lists F. J. Cheney & Co as proprietors and cites endorsements from local druggists Koday Truax Walding Kinnan Marvin. The cure is described as internally taken and affecting blood and mucous surfaces. price 75 cents per bottle with testimonials free.
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Hall
F. J. Cheney & Co
Props
Toledo
F. J. Cheney
Koday & Truax
Toedo
O. Walding, Kinnan & Marvin
Don't Worry Club Dues Tighten Yonkers Woman
A Yonkers woman jokes about joining a Don't Worry club, worrying how she will pay her dues, reflecting lighthearted local humor in a brief statewire item.
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Tie
Yonkers Statesman
Free sample of Allen's Foot-Ease offered
An appeal to write Allen 8 Olmsted Leroy NY for a free sample of Allen's Foot-Ease. The ad claims relief for chilblains, sweating feet, and bunions while easing new or tight shoes. Also notes common druggists and shoe stores sell it for 25 cents. An Ohio inventor touts a chair adjustable to 1000 positions for young boys at church.
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Allen
Olmsted
Leroy
N. Y
Salzer Seed Co Catalog Offer Promises Big Return
A brief notice from the Salzer Seed Co of La Crosse Wisconsin promotes a million dollar potato product and a catalog offering cattle sheep and swine rape. The ad cites growing costs of 25 cents per ton and asks readers to send five cents to receive the catalog today.
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Salzer
John A. Salzer
It is said that care will kill a cat but a man may use bootjack
A wry maxim from the Chicago Daily News notes that apathy can be as dangerous as action, suggesting a man may lean on a bootjack or a gun as substitutes when indifference dominates.
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Chicago Daily News
Lane's Family Medicine Ad Ends Daily Bowel Habit Promise
An old advertisement touts Lane's Family Medicine claiming daily bowel movement helps health and liver function. It lists two doses priced 25 and 50 cents and asserts relief for headaches.
Nebraska Contractor Praises Peruna for Family Health
A Falls City Nebraska contractor Carl T Roberts writes that Peruna cured his three sons from membranous croup pneumonia and pleurisy and his wife’s stomach trouble. Posters claim Peruna saves doctors bills and is the greatest medicine on earth.
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Nebraska
Carl T. Roberts
Mason
Hart
James
Charlie
John
Peruna
C. T. Roberts
Falls City
Roberts
Neb
Spring Opens with Rail Excursions to the South
March and April bring pleasant trees and ripe early produce in the South. The Louisville and Nashville Railroad offers round trip tickets at about half rates on the first and third Tuesdays of March and April to major points in Tennessee Alabama Georgia and West Florida. For details contact P Sid Jones D P A Birmingham Alabama or J K Ridgely NW P A Chicago Illinois.
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Louisville & Nashville Railroad Company
Tennessee
Alabama
Georgia
West
Florida
P. Sid Jones
Birmingham
Ala
J. K. Ridgely
Chicago
Lil
The Overland Limited and Pacific Express Services
The Overland Limited runs daily from Chicago at 6 30 P M arriving San Francisco on the third day and Los Angeles the next morning with no car changes and dining cars. The Pacific Express leaves Chicago at 1030 P M with through sleepers to California. Weekly excursions on Thursdays. Tickets via Chicago North Western Railway. Information from W B Kniskern 22 Fifth Ave Chicago.
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Chicago
Union Pacific
North Western Line
Overland Limited
San Francisco
Angeles
Pacific Ee
California
Chicago & North-Western Ba Y
W. B. Kniskern
Fifth Ave
Making a Revolution and Other Tales Volume Offered
A delightful volume titled And Other Tales including Making a Revolution Susquehanna Trail Sculpture of the Elfs and Feathers of Fashion. Illustrated edition ready for distribution about May 1. Send 10 cents to T. W. Lee Lackawanna Railroad 9 Exchange Place New York City. Edition Limited.
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Susquehanna Trail
T. W. Lee
Lackawanna Railroad
Exchange Place
New York City
Phantoms of a Frontier Banter and Old Cure Anecdote
A comic exchange about chopping wood and chop suey surfaces from a Chicago Evening post style item. An 1804 testimonial from E Cady of Huntington Indiana claims Piso’s Cure cured a throat and lung trouble after three years.
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Chicago
Ens
Piso
E. Cady
Huntington, Ind
Alabastine Dur Wall Coating Promises Easy Use
Alabastine is advertised as the original dur wall coating, distinct from kalsomine prep arations. It comes ready to use in white or 14 tinted colors by adding water, sold in powder or liquid form with directions on each package. It claims to replace sealing kalsomines, wallpaper, and paint for walls and can be applied to plaster, brick, wood or canvas, even by a child.
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Alabastine Co
Alabastine Compared to Kalsomine as Hospital Cement
The text explains kalsomines as cheap temporary wall coatings made from whiting chalks and clays with decaying animal glue. It contrasts Ala bastine as a rock base cement that sets hardens with age and accepts re coating without washing. Alabastine is widely used in hospitals to prevent dirt and germ buildup due to its disinfectant properties.
Churches and Schoolhouses Should Use Alabastine Paint
The article urges churches, schools, and public halls to coat walls only with Alabastine. It claims long lasting, non peeling durability and cleanliness, and invites readers to ask dealers for tint cards and request a free booklet from the Alabastine Company in Grand Rapids Michigan.
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Alabastine Co
Grand Rapids
Mich
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the News
Pietrus Jacobus Joubert
Piet Joubert
Slien Piet
Slim Peter
South Africa
Cape Colony
Minnesota
Marley
Milwaukee
Kansas “City
ST. Louis
Texas
Omaha
Ohio
Buffalo Express
Lane
William
Youngblood
Auditor of the Interior
Washin
Hartman
Columbus
T. G. Walker
Carneiro
Peruna Company
William Youngblood
Ghost of the
W. L. Douglas
H W. L. Douglas Shoe CO
Brockton, Mas
American Exchange Bank
Taton
Guernsey
Merica Tance Mann
Lake St
Sciatica, Foust
Oulman
Dr. A. Oulman
Jackson Ave
Ill
Prict A
Tams Mfg. CO
Pr. Williams
Cleveland
Charles E. Hires Co
Malvern
Weasern
Noda
Land of
Plenty
Superintendent of Immigration — Interior
Ottawa
Addr
Immiare
Stevens Point
Wis
Detroit
OM Caven
James Ghieve
Saginaw
6Th Street
Des Moines
Iowa
Bates
Indianapolis
Ind
Uncle Sam
Aurora Remedy CO
H. H. Green
Box D
Atlanta
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