Burning Daylight in Alaska’s Klondike Mining Tale
Elam Harnish known as Burning Daylight celebrates a mining crowd in Circle City Tivoli where gambling with over 100000 ensues. He loses money and a mine but wins a mail contract and ventures to Yukon with a pledge to reach the new gold fields. He rapidly travels by dogs to join friends, buys flour for gold value, strikes rich, becomes a Klondike figure, battles capitalists, returns to civilization, and in New York confronts disloyal partners with a revolver over his eleven million fortune.
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Elam Harnish
Alaska
Circle City Tivoli
Harnish
Yukon
Tivoli
Hamish
Dawson
Klondike
Dayligh
New York
Daylight's casino of crime and a center of power
Daylight, a fearless financier, commands a high-stakes scheme in which he fears arrest. He confronts betrayal and personal rivals while building a fortune through bold moves on the Pacific coast and San Jose Interurban. A stenographer named Miss Mason enters Daylight's orbit, drawing his attention as he battles enemies, addiction, and shifting loyalties.
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Pacific Coast
Charles Klinkner
California & Altamont Trust Company
Klinkner
Daylight
San Jose Interurban
Lake Power & Electric Lighting Corporation
Charlies Klinkner
Mason
Kipling
Tou Ake
Misa Meson
Aoa
Poison in everyday foods and common spices warned
A St. Louis Globe-Democrat excerpt warns that common condiments and spices such as salt, rhubarb, sorrel, nutmeg, pepper, and cayenne can be poisonous in large doses. It notes caffein as a poison and cites arsenic in beer and sweets, with the liver acting as a partial filter.
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St. Louis Globe- Democrat
Barrie Quietly Rouses Playground Drama Question
In London Charles Frohman revives Peter Pan for the ninth season at the Duke of York's theater J M Barrie is approached by a prominent actor asking to be featured on the program the author replies with a sharp but nonchalant retort.
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London
Charles Frohman
J. M. Barrie
Duke of York
Barrie
Mr. Blank
Mr. Barrie
All Bets Off New York Celebrity Digs Into Supper Platter
A famed New York figure famed for size attire and appetite visits a Fifth Avenue restaurant. He orders ham and eggs sausage mush milk hash and buckwheat cakes with syrup on a single platter and slices it all together. Two women vow bets on his eating method and he consumes the feast with a spoon.
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New York
Fifth Avenue
Post
Irishman lands work as flagman on New York Central
An Irish immigrant takes a flagman job at Tarrytown on the New York Central line. He first signals danger with a red flag before the Empire State Express as brakes screech and the train stops. Crew rushes to investigate the incident.
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New York Central
Tarrytown
Empire State Express
Cure of Severe Itching Skin with Cuticura Products
Miss Sarah Calkins records relief from a years long itchy rash that covered her body. After using Cutin ointment and Cutleura Soap she reports itching vanished in days and full healing began. The note promotes free 32 page mail offer from Boston.
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Sarah Calkins
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Nathaniel Letton
Dowsett
Dowgett
Leon Guggenhammer
San Francisco
Panama Mall
Harriman
The
New York Herald Company
MacMillan Company
Dede Magon
Morrison
Sco Howe
Dees
Misa Mason
Siskiyou County
Berkeley
University
University of California
Miss Meson
Achen and
Pwiini
Shen
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