Wyoming’s Bold Noon Battle in Simonoseki Straits
In a daring July clash at Simonoseki the USS Wyoming under Commander McDugall fought three Japanese gunboats in a narrow strait. Despite being outgunned, the Wyoming outmaneuvered them, burned shore batteries, and forced the Prince of Nagato to pay 300000 in indemnity, with five killed and six wounded on the American side.
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Wyoming
Alabama
Kearsarge
China
Japan
of Nagato
Straits of
Simonoseki
Tarifa
Great Britain
France
Netherlands
United States
Nagato
Nagato Throve and Flourished By the Strait of
Pembroke
McDugall
MacDugall
Prince of Nagato
Strait
Nelson
Gayly
Colonel Crockett
Treasury
State Department
Washington Post
Doctor I Met Your Wife Misused Medicine Claim
A Richmond Dispatch reader letter reports a man accusing a doctor of sending a medicine to his wife instead of himself. He says the medicine benefited her while he spent a week in the hospital. The exchange hints at a mix up or miscommunication about the drug.
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Dumley
Richmond Dispatch
Stored Up Power and Compartments Within the Self
Mr Staybolt argues that people are built in compartments of ability and must learn to draw on untapped reserves. He says most open only one shelf and live unaware of bravery until a crisis reveals hidden strength, urging active self-trust and utilization of pluck endurance energy and moral force.
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Mr. Staybolt
New York Sun
Hall's Catarrh Cure Advertisement Endorsed
A vintage ad offers a one hundred dollar reward for an incurable case of catarrh and claims Hall's Catarrh Cure cures many cases. It cites J Cheney & Co of Toledo and endorsements from West Truax and other Toledo druggists. The cure is described as a blood and mucous membrane remedy taken internally.
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Hall
J. Chenty & Co
Toledo
F. J. Cheney
West & Truax
O. Waving
Kinnax & Marvin
Dew Hall
Insurance praised for prompt settlement after loss
W. H. Chambers credits local agent and adjuster Otis A. Murphey for fair liberal handling of a loss settlement. The entire stock and building were insured and covered.
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P.S
Otis A. Murphey
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W. A. Wright
Barnesville, GA
John T. Middlebrooks
Rouss Rakes Store
J. R. Deavours
Barnesville
Siir
Charles Broadway Rouss
Broadway, N. Y
Juse
Loe
J.R. Deavours
Prop
Tex
Monarch
Stafford & Sons
Chambers
W. H. Chambers
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