Quiet Work Signals More Signs of General Strike Spread
West Virginia reports growing labor unrest as miners and shop workers press for higher wages. Joseph W. Rea predicts multiple new picket lines and organizer activity ahead of a potential meeting with Special Judge John W. Mahon. Pants makers in New York begin a broad strike hitting 3,000 operators and 5,000 finishers idle as demands rise.
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Fainmoner
W. Va
Joseph W. Rea
Rea
Ed Davis
West Virginia
Mahon
Charleston
New River
John W. Mahon
Pants Makers' Union
Socialist Trave Alliance
Via
Greater
New York
President McKinley Receives Invitations in Plattsburg Visit
President McKinley attended church in Plattsburg at Thelhand sone Methodist Episcopal church with en route companions Mr. and Mrs. Alger and Private Secretary and Mrs. Paxser. He met a Troy committee urging attendance at an Army of the Potomac reunion in Troy on Aug. 19 and plans for Vermont game and fish commission events were discussed with Lt. Gov. Fiske of Vermont and others. He and Secretary Alger will review the Third cavalry at Fort Ethan Allen.
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Asker
Asien
Ury
Hotel Champiary
McKinley
Charch
Plattsburg
Thelhandsone Methodist Episcopal Church
Alger
Paxser
Troy
Army of the
Navy report sparks Yokohama dressing debate
Admiral McNair allegedly claimed Japanese ships did not dress ship on July 4 in Yokohama. Crowninshield dismissed the assertion as nonsense noting Yokohama is a commercial port with no warships present. He stressed dressing ships honors are at the commanding officer's invitation and not required.
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Iapa
2 McNair
Long
Washivotoy
Navy Department
Admiral McNair
Olympia
Yokohama
Japan
United States
Crowninshield
Yokobaima
Canador battle devastates Brazilian troops and fanatics
Rio de Janeiro reports a massive clash near Canador leaving more than 8,000 soldiers dead as 10,000 well armed fanatics press the government line. The president will send 4,000 troops next week to scene. Fighting persists for weeks in the area.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Canador
Striking coal miners face legal action in Allegheny County
President Dolci vows peace amid mine protests as sheriff Lowry orders disbanding of gatherings near Turtle Creek Sandy Creek and Pluto Creek. Miners at De Armitts Plum Creek Oak Hill and Sandy Creek pits clash with authorities while injunctions and planned marches ripple through Illinois Proria and other towns leaving workers idle or returning to work as leaders claim orderly conduct and possible large scale mobilizations.
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Harvey A. Lowry
New York and Cleveland Gas Coal Company
Turtle Creek
Sandy Creek
Pluto Creek
Allegheny County
Patrick Dolan
Armitia
Pierstone
Plum Creek
Oak Hill
de Armitt
Warner
Turtle and
Sandy Creeks
Pittsburg dynamite blast injures three men on Beechwood
An explosion on Beechwood boulevard Pittsburg injures three men with one believed to die. Maximo Martine was hanged at Floresville Texas for a triple murder committed on June last. The Virginia Populist state convention nominates Capt. Edmund B. Cooke for lieutenant governor. Dr. Theodore Hertz of Vienna proposed an independent Jewish state in Palestine. At Miami Chautauqua platform collapses injuring none seriously. Fastest half mile records broken at Ottawa Illinois. Forty steamers chartered to load grain for Europe, over 4,000,000 bushels needed. A drawbar collapse kills two tramps near Reno. Editors meet Aug 2 at Salem Nebraska.
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Beechwood Boulevard
Pittsburg
Maximo Martine
Floresville
Tex
Jesus Cariilo
Juanita Aconata
Edmund BR. Cooke
Baron Hirsch Charities
Theodore Hertz
Vienna
Palestine
Miami
Chautauqua
Talmage
Ottawa
Pearl C
Roy Wilkes
Coleridge
O. F. Clay
Philadelphia
New York
Baltimore
Newport News
Europas
Foley remedies touted for kidney and bowel relief in 19th century ad text
An advertising column notes Foley remedies including Kidney Cure and Colic Cure, urging early use for kidney trouble stomach upsets and bowel derangements. It mentions Vic Emmert & Co as the distributor and cites figures like Dr Curtis taking a Chicago university chemistry post and Sir Wilfrid Laurier being named a Legion of Honor grand officer.
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Foley
Lelfect Reure
Vic Emmert & Co
Prinier Laurier Hougred
Parr
Sir Wilfrid Laurier
Legion of Honor
Vie Enmart & Co
Pink Pills for Pale People Restores Rugby Farmer
A year after paralysis struck William Stimpson near Rugby Indiana he reports a full recovery after taking William Williams Pink Pills for Pale People. He credits the pills for improving his condition and cites local accounts of successful use in similar cases from nearby residents.
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Cer
William Stimpson
Rugby
Ind
L. Phillips
Peteravilla
Multiple incidents seed Chicago era turmoil across states
A string of violent and financial events echoes across 1880s America: Frank Wright found dead with a bullet in his brain at DeGratl Ohio near a gravesite, George Martina kills Andrew Balletina in Beaver Meadow Pennsylvania then escapes, B F McKinley named assistant postmaster of San Francisco, crops near Laverne Minnesota wiped out by hail, Buffalo Refining assigns for creditors, O S Newhall admits embezzling 10000 to 15000, Albert Schmitz shoots at his wife before suicide pact, Minnesota and Kansas mining workers threaten three days work, Ross Dalby dies at 67, derrick accident injures John Anderson and Hagens Nelson in Chicago, and Rev C Brown seeks reopen in Bay Conference case in Chicago.
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DeGratl
Frank Wright
Chicago
George Martina
Andrew Balletina
Beaver Meadow
Martina
B. F. McKinley
McKinley
San Francisco
Monague
Laverne
Minn
Buffalo Refining Company
O. 8
Matthews
O. S. Newhall
The
Agricultural Insurance Company of
Boston
Albert Schmltz
Watertown
Wis
Schultz
Domenstia
Kanvasg
Ross Dalby
Missouri Pacifico
Kansas City
John Anderson
Hagens Nelson
Market
van Burun
C. Brown
Bay Conference of the Congregational Church
Grain-O Helps Delicate Stomachs Says Advertiser
An advertisement touts Grain-O as a coffee substitute for delicate stomachs claiming it doesn’t upset digestion. It notes Grain-O costs 15¢ and 25¯/¢ per serving and is recommended for children and adults seeking a lighter beverage option.
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Wce
Sma
Mael Jaidial Rougel
Lucknow
Queen Victoria
Aeeting
Greece
N. J
American Sheet Iron Company
Danby
Doolittle
Racine
Wil
George Young
Brush Creek
Henry Hall
Kaw
Fred Bridgeford
Missouri
LrabviLbe
John Northerly
William Hartman
Coptenarian
Moorestown
M. J
Mre
Filetians French
Hastings
Twaarusburg
Tojnres
Bronx City
Conway Coal Company
Hovertor
Mich
Lake Superior Wining District
Excelsior
Indiana
Hixaton
Halifax
Carlisle
Terre Haute
Here
Hyatt's Ferry
Wabash River
Evansville
Grant Hammond
Abner Morriy
Charles Hines
Evanaville
Hines
Patrick Dolci
Illinois
Proria
Rognoky
Benson
Wee Iie
Atkinson
NasuHvity
Walter Clark
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Tennessee Bar Association
Ozark, Ark
Lee Davidson
Wilmot
Clants
Minyena Pony
Woalter Wilmot
Minneapolis
Little Roc
Ark
J. H. Ingram
John J. Hess
Conway
Hesse
E. E. Hess
Nashville
Christian Advocate
Hemponer, Neb
Samuel Leo
Nemaha River
Dawson
Feamps
Reno
Nev
Palisade
Mest
Salem
Troumsen
Neb
Southwestern Nebraska Editorial Association
Chautangas
Hobart
Nepew Newport
Chauncey M Depew
Curtis
Geneva
Richard 8 Curtin
University of Chicago
Hobart College
Trump
Atlansic
Cash Gilbert @tramp
Greenville
Greensburg, Ind
Oni
Tam
Nilliene
Henry Johnson
Williama
Williame
Fontain
I Post
Kine Company
Ieee
Igeal
Seine Inert
EH Westes Sreenguital
Thre Steer Neel Drewa
B. J. Penny
Sue Dae Tee
FORV
James Jones
Jones & Son
Cowden
Ill
Dr. King
Saya
Ja Grippa
Pam
Iowa Homestead
Oriel
Farmers’ Institute
Iowa
Des Moinés
John Cawale
G. W. Frandin
H. O. Bishop
D. A. Kent
Richard Baker Jr
A. A. Berry
Special Institute
Homestead CO
Des Moines
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