Imported Song Birds Thrive in Oregon Experiment
The Spokesman-Review reports an inquiry into an years old experiment releasing European singing birds near Portland. Skylark, nightingale, thrush and mai s were released. the birds thrived across a wide area though few ventured east of the Cascades. German-born sponsors say the birds sing as sweetly here as in Europe.
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Spokesman-Review
Oregon
Portland
Cascade Mountains
Spokane
Spokesman-Raview
Take In Stranger Unadvertised Hotel Room Moral
A stranger arrives in town and, hearing hotels are crowded, asks a cabman to take him to an unadvertised hotel. The clerk is awakened, and the man selects the best room on every floor, with a plain moral noted by the Hotw Mail. Also, thirty two collieries in Shenandoah, Pennsylvania, notified to shut down.
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John
Shenandoah
Philadelphia and Reading Company
Orange Blossom Cure Promoted for Female Troubles
An advertisement touts Orange Blossom as a direct external remedy for female ailments. It claims to draw out fever and pain and restore healthy secretions, urging self treatment with a paste-like pastile for conditions like irregular menses, leucorrhoea, and dropsy of the womb, with mailing details and Chicago address.
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Dr. J. A. McGill & Co
Panorama Place
Chicago
Ill
VIC Emmert & CO
Cuban filibusterer Hawkins wreck stirs New York leaders
In New York Cuban revolutionaries scramble after the J. W. Hawkins wreck off Long Island. Reports say the steamer carried arms and that Hernandez, Palma, and other leaders were involved. Palma denies official knowledge while admitting a payment to a requester. many filibusters are scattered around the city and Boston.
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New York
J. W. Hawkins
Long Island
Hawkins
Thirty-eighth Street
East River
Revolutionary Party
Baltimore
Hall
C. H. Crowell
Joseph C. Hernandez
Revolutionary
Palma
Boston
Hernandez
Leander V. Beebe
W. M. Howes
Dalzell
Pier Six
North River
Pier 40
Beebe
Helen H. Benedict
Eliziah Crosby
Portland
Woodshell
Mass
Garcia
Boata
South Street
Hotel America
Ining Place
Eeéx
Deed Worthy of Border Days
Kansas City January 29 Barton Peek a 35 year old farmer from Peoria Illinois arrived in Kansas City with a tale worthy of border days. He said six miles east of Lamar a gang of three men and a woman in prairie schooners robbed him gagged him tied him to a tree and left him without food or water for three days and nights. He lost 65 dollars and other possessions before a hunter found him near death. Peek identified the robbers description matching a gang of horse thieves arrested at St Joseph Monday.
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Kansas Oity
Barton Peek
Peoria
Ill
Kansas City
Golden City
Peek
Lamar
Missouri
Ropa
St. Joseph
McKinley and Tanner Shine at Illinois Republican Love Feast
The Springfield meeting drew about 1400 Republicans from the state with strong cheers for McKinley and Tanner. Speaker support was mixed, with Collom praised. a state convention was set for Springfield on April 29.
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Ilinois
Springfield
Representative Hall
McKinley
Tanner
Collom
Sugar beet convention to be largest ever in Nebraska
The local arrangements committee anticipates a major beet sugar convention in Lincoln with delegates from Fillmore County and the Federation of Labor. The program lists talks by Gov. Silas A. Holcomb, Prof. H. H. Nicholson, and others, plus questions and panel discussions. General Kelly of California plans a public talk in Omaha on socialist topics and the "Nieces and Nephews of Uncle Sam."
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Gutheyiga Everiold
Neoraska
Ednora
Lincoln
Garnett Kelly
Com- Mineouwers
Army
Omatia
Fremont, Neb
Dan
Fillmore County
Federation of Labor
Fremont
Nawon
Proyar
Woleomasi
Ge Ciseed Reneeves
O Promont
Wailam ‘Fried
Promduate
Cvesereercees
veeeeHon
George D
Markid John
Silas A. Holcomb
A. S
Daniel Farrel, Jr
Terelgar Allen
Thomas R. Cutter
Sugar Fartore
Gaages
Charles F. Manderson
M. Norton
Adam Fulrvide
B. W. Reynolds
Hans Pederson
W. Hawley
J. D. McDonald
Henry Meyer
Omaha
Charles T. Kelly
California
Minneapolis
Sam
Labor Temple
Kelly
Nebraska Retail Lumber Dealers’ Association
England and Spain War Hesitation in Elizabethan Era
A discussion of English Spanish relations in Elizabeth I’s time. Both courts avoided declared war while pursuing policy through cautious diplomacy and privateering. The sea dogs operated with the queen’s tacit approval, keeping pressure on Spain as broader aims persisted.
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Spain
Philip
France
Netherlands
Elizabeth
Mary
Scotland
Bach
Thorn
Aea
London
Seville
Pesco
England
Advertising Persuasion and a London Lecture Anecdote
A San Francisco Post excerpt recalls an old journalist who urged a merchant to advertise, then proves advertising pays by placing a line in a paper's obscure corner. Another tale follows Sala in Australia, recounting a humorous lecture moment interrupted by a heckling spectator.
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tFeattle
Cohen
Siaid
San Francisco Post
Sala
Australia
Parliament Street
Weatminster Gazatte
Trev de. Miles
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