War fears ease as talks with Japan gain cautious optimism
Reports from St Petersburg and Pekin describe cautious progress in Far East negotiations. Officials see reduced danger of war if Japan assents, while Korea remains focal point of unrest. Russian troop movements toward Korea alongside mediation efforts indicate tension persists but diplomacy continues.
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Toko
Japan
ST Petersburg
Reuter Telegram Company
St Pe- Petersburg
Korea
Tien-Tsin
Seoul
Russia
United States
Wiju
Balu
Pekin
Cenlor
Mukfen
China
Busma
Jacobs' Pharmacy Robbed in Birmingham
The Jacobs Pharmacy on Nineteenth Street between Second and Third Avenues was found open shortly after noon. Between $400 and $500 in cash was missing after the robbery, with police believing no violence was used and that keys opened the outer doors and front entry.
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Sete
Birmingham
Bvingham
Jacobs Pharmacy
Nineteenth Street
Bettween
Blizzard Bites Chicago and Midwest Cold Sets Records
From January 25 to 26 a blizzard battered Chicago and the Midwest with heavy snow and record cold. Snow six inches deep in Chicago, temperatures plunging to 165 below in places, 38 below in North Dakota, and widespread school closures from Wisconsin to Minnesota. One man frozen to death, numerous cold injuries reported as streets and transit slowed and telegraph lines failed.
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Chicago
Northwest
Mercury
United States
Bremarck
Williston
North Dakota
Natonal
Minnedosa
Nwt
Gossip at the Capitol shows rewards offered for crimes
Governor Terrell posted rewards for three criminals across Georgia including a $250 bounty for the unknown arsonist who burned Toba Mims gin house in Berrien county after Mims posted his land. Other rewards of $100 target a Sumter County murder and an August Wilcox County murder. Pension payments consume funds as hundreds converge on Atlanta. memorial meeting for Confederate figures planned in Gwinnett. conference on Georgia building at St Louis postponed due to illness.
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Toba Mims
Berrien
Mims
Hong
Ming
George Broughton
Harry Horne
Sumter County
Frank Nicholson
Edgar L Strickland
Wilcox
Lindsey
Cole Clayton
DeKalb Counties
Atlanta
Fulton County
Capitol
Henry and
Gwinnett
Calhoun
Buford
Gwinnett County
United Daughters
The
Confederacy
Gordon
Longstreet
W F Smith
Georgia
Smith
Forty Second Georgia
Confederate Soldiers Home
Dudley Mt Hughes
Danville
Twigga County
St Louis
Colonel Hughes
Lantans
County Officer Under Charge In Griffin Georgia
Griffin Georgia January 26 rumor spread of arrest of Vic Champion chairman of the Spalding county board of commissioners. Grand jury heard charges against Champion regarding county purchasing while a commissioner. He posted bond to appear next Friday to answer. Friends defend his integrity amid public interest.
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Griffin
Wo W Champion
Board of County Commissioners
Sherif Freeman
Erand
Spalding County
Eaaton
Vic Champion
Bill Wag
Champion
South Ceorms
Grand Jury
J Bserves Company
Vaughns Station
Latimer and Brownlow Push Good Roads Plan Bilateral Appeal
Senator Latimer of South Carolina and Representative Brownlow of Tennessee urged National Good Roads Association delegates to support government aid for highways. They advocated covering at least one third to one half of costs and urged farmers to back a federal aid bill while urging Congress to remove politics from the issue.
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Latimer
Brownlow
Washington
South
Caroline
Tennessee
Congress
National Good Roads Association
New York Ex Confederates Fourteenth Annual Dinner
The New York Confederate veterans camp held its fourteenth annual dinner at the Waldorf Astoria with General Fitzhugh Lee and General Joseph Wheeler as principal guests. Mrs. Jefferson Davis sent regrets due to ill health. The event featured Stars and Stripes and two Confederate banners. Commander Howard Owen presided.
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Wheeler and Lee
New York
Confederate Veterans Camp of
Waldorf Astoria
Fitzhugh Lee
Remarkable self help offer book for illness cure
A panicky plea for a mail order health remedy promises to restore nerve power and inside organs through a series of books by Dr Shoop. The writer offers to fund a sick reader’s purchase, claims astonishing cure rates, and lists several volumes on heart, kidneys, women, men, rheumatism, and more.
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Monty
Irland
Shoops
Dr J C Branch Buried Today in Quitman
Funeral plans for Dr J C Branch were delayed by railroad schedule and will be held tomorrow at Dixie at 10 o clock. Numerous ministers and pallbearers will be selected from about twenty five expected to attend for final arrangements.
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Spector
Georgia Northern Railway
J O
Dixie
James P Howard
Columbus
Russell County
Alabama
Lou Howard
Howard
Seale
Wheelers Cavalry
J. Frank Quinlan
Boston
Frank Quinlan
Athens
Ja‘naja Plain
Quins
Quinlan
Fordham College
Harvard Law School
Boston University
Hoyt Sherman
Des Moines
W T Sherman
John Sherman
Sherman
Cures Colds in Germany Offer Laxative Brom Quinind
An advertisement touts a cold cure sold in Germany under the name Brom Quinind with a coax for a 26 cent price to obtain the genuine product by mail order.
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Germany
Court blocks Yazoo and Mississippi Valley merger purchase
In Jackson Mississippi the supreme court rules the Yazoo and Mississippi Valley cannot purchase the Itta Bena branch from the Southern railway. The ruling also unsettles the Mobile and Ohio Southern merger. In New Orleans a schooner hit the Pearl River bridge, causing wreckage but a replacement bridge is near completion and traffic will resume.
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Jackson
Sanavary
Supreme Court
Yazoo
Mississippi Valley
Southern Railway
Itta Bena
Southern
Mobile and Ohio
Miners Trapped as Explosions Choke Mine with Corpses
Rescue efforts continue at the West Pennsylvania mine after an explosion sealed the main shaft. Only outside rescuers remain alive as the toll mounts. engineers and officials report 180 to 190 lamps sent, none returned, while villagers gather at the shaft mouth awaiting news.
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Shoft
Imne
Cunningham
H F Hutchinson
Uttle
Wis
Hubert North
Jack McCann
Allegheny Car Company
Selwyn M Taslor
Pittsburg
Rayburn
Theey
Rayburg
Adolph Gunla
Tt B Taylor
Selwyn Taylor
Robert North
J McCann
Herwick
West Pennsylvania Railroad
Springdale
Deney
Scheetze
Associated Press
The Beauty Secret of Health and Womanly Wellness
An era-pledged advertisement extols female vitality as key to beauty, urging care for the womanly system. Dr R V Pierce of Buffalo showcases his Favorite Prescription and medical advice, promising confidential treatment and a cure guaranteed for ailments like leucorrhea and uterine issues to sustain youthful health and happiness.
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RV Pierce
Buffalo
Additon
Doctor Pierce
Pierce
Zaman
The
Invalids Hotel and Surgical Institute
Af Huffalo II
H M Rude
Sergast Street
Newark
Peoples Common Sense
R V Pierce
R. V Pierce
Explosion devastates mine shaft injures workers
Witness reports a massive blast this morning blowing two cages from the shaft over 200 feet. Three men were at the tipple. one killed, two injured but resting. About 150 miners employed, with several unreported workers feared missing.
Finding a Sweetheart rasemeting game snippet
A fragment describes a rasemeting game using Frail cards and gilt edge deck, sold by the Columbian Book Company in Atlanta. The readable text references a “Peck” of Frail cards and a mil style promotional line.
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Sec
E Columbian Boo Company
Atlanta
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