Cause and Effect at the Asylum Visitor Exchange
A visitor asks the superintendent when the hospital is busiest. The superintendent replies that crowds peak directly after Christmas shopping season.
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Insane Asylum
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Newspaper
Ames Times
Location
Ames, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Feb 09, 1899
Page
11
Cost of Nicaragua Canal Estimates Vary
Estimates for constructing the Nicaragua canal range from 115000000 to 150000000 dollars. The text discusses public opinion on Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, praising its use for indigestion biliousness constipation nervousness and sleeplessness as a pleasant remedy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nicaragua Canal
A Canada Farm Success Story From Idaho Emigrant Tolman
Former Idaho resident T A Tolman writes from Lacombe Alberta praising Western Canada’s farming conditions. He details cattle, horses, wagons, cash, homestead land, and cheap railway land. Tolman reports higher yields in 1897 and 1898 and notes easy terms, paid land, and superior school laws.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Idaho
Western Canada
T. A. Tolman
Lacombe
Alberta
N. W
Canadian Pacific Railway
Heirless Woman and Hairless Man Team Up
An heirless woman and a hairless man should make a good team. Richards' Magic Catarrh Expellant Co., Omaha, Neb. Write for particulars. A company in London insures um brellas. If you can prove that your umbrella has been stolen the company pays you what it was worth.
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Omaha, Neb
London
M. Duke
Lemon, Mias
Swanson Rheumatic Cure Co
Chicago
Sirs
Lemon
Free to Millions A Little Book on Stomach Health
A promotional note offers a free book from the F A Stuart Co on stomach diseases. It explains indigestion as the root of many ailments, promises simple remedies, and provides a digestibility table with diet tips. Include address to receive by mail from Marshall Michigan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kay
B. J. Kay Medical CO
Western
Omaha
Neb
F. A. Stuart Co
Main St
Marshall, Mich
Cuban Army Chiefs Clash Over Gomez American Deal
In Havana on February 6, Cuban army officers express anger at Gen. Gomez for striking a pay deal with American commissioner Robert Porter. Assembly members insist Gomez lacks authority to disband troops or accept U.S. money, calling the arrangement unlawful. Portuondo announces the assembly has no official knowledge of any agreement. Gen. Collazo Lacret and others demand payment be made by Cuba, not foreign alms, while the cabinet supports Gomez and praises Gov Gen Brooke for centralizing authority in Havana.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Havana
Gomez
Robert P. Porter
United States
Marianao
Jose Maria Rodriguez
Rafael Portuondo
Gen. Gomez
Porter
Collazo
Cuba
Lacret
America
Council of Secretaries
Brooke
Porter Mission Reaches Accord on Cuban Relief Funds
President and Secretary Alger praised Robert P Porter for negotiating with Gen. Maximo Gomez. Porter recommended directing $3,000,000 from the urgency deficiency bill to Maj Gen Brooke as custodian for relief payments to Cuban soldiers.
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Washington
Alger
Robert P. Porter
Maximo Gomez
Porter
Gen. Brooke
Illinois House Introducts Bills on Rail, Phones, School Months
In Springfield on Feb 6 the Illinois House introduced bills allowing two through trains daily without stopping at county seats, enabling farmers to erect telephone lines, and extending school months to six per year. The Senate met with five members, transacted none, and most lawmakers left on the noon train.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springfield
Ill
Meyer
Hamilton
Page
Senate
France protests German port concession at Haidar Pasha
A dispatch from Constantinople reports the French embassy has formally protested to the porte against granting Germany a port and dock at Haidar Pasha near Constantinople. The facility would serve as a terminus for the Anatolian Railroad across the Marmora.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Frankfort Zeitung
Constantinople
Porte
Germany
Haidar Pasha
Sea of Marmora
United States Cast Iron Pipe and Foundry formed
New York Feb 6 The United States Cast Iron Pipe and Foundry company has been organized with a capital stock of 30 900 000 to unite companies controlling three quarters of the nations cast iron pipe industry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cast Iron Pipe Trust
New York
United States
Cast Iron Pipe and Foundry Company
Spanish prisoners freed in Mayariz by Tagals
General Rios reports from Manila that Spanish military prisoners at Mayariz have been liberated by the Tagalogs and that he has paid them the arrears of wages due.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madrid
Rios
Manila
Mayariz
Tagals
Nebraska House Backs Ratification Instructions
Lincoln Neb Feb 6 the Nebraska house passed a resolution instructing Senators Allen and Thurston to vote for ratification of the peace treaty law before the senate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lincoln, Neb
Nebraska House
Allen and
Thurston
Senate
Boarding house dispute questioned by caller and Madge
In a brief exchange a caller asks Yabsley if he left his last boarding house by request with a line about taking clothes. Madge replies she did not get to take her clothes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yabsley
Madge
Catarrh Cure Claims and Various Health Remedies Adverts
An aggregation of medicinal claims and product advertisements dominates the page. Hall's Catarrh Cure is pitched as a universal cure with a $100 guarantee, plus multiple testimonials and other remedies for colds and influenza. Other items mention fashioning pills, la grippe products, and the Paris Opera House noted for size.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paris Opera House
Periods of Pain and Lydia Pinkham Remedy Praise
A period pain piece touts Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a thorough female regulator. It cites a reader, Miss Jennie R. Miles of Leon Wisconsin, praising relief after using multiple Pinkham products and seeking free advice at Lynn Massachusetts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lydia E. Pinkham
Dean
Dean Mrs. Pinkham
Jennie R. Miles
Leon
Wis
Miles
American Beauty portrait on Ledger Monthly cover
The February issue of the Ledger Monthly features reproductions from the Portrait Show at the Academy of Design in New York. The cover image by Carle J. Blenner appears in five colors, framed as an appealing keepsake. Subscribe for fifty cents and receive January for free plus issues through March 1900.
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February Ledger Monthly
the Ledger Monthly
Academy of Design
New York
Carle J. Blenner
Ledger Monthly praised in Boston Globe Opinion
The Boston Globe extols the Ledger Monthly as a bright, value packed periodical priced at fifty cents a year. The opinion highlights broad readership and appealing content for all ages within the public’s expanding literary sphere.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Boston Globe
Ledger Monthly
Ledger
Offer Prompting Small Payment by Return Mail
A notice invites the reader to obtain a service or item by sending fifty cents. The wording emphasizes a simple, low-cost request to respond by mail for access or fulfillment.
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