Jefferson Birth Anniversary Banquet Draws Big Crowd
New York April 14 The Democratic club dinner honoring Thomas Jefferson drew about 1 700 guests at the Metropolitan opera house with 82 rose laden tables. Richard Croker Perry Belmont and others attended a pre order box appearance as Judge Augustus Van Wyck opposed tariffs and trusts. Col W J Bryan delivered the Milwaukee address predicting free silver as a 1900 issue.
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Metropolitan Opera House
W. J. Bryan
Richard Croker
Perry Belmont
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Croker
McKinley
Waldorf-Astoria
Augustus van Wyck
Col
Milwaukee
Jefferson Club
Plankington House
William
Actress Cora Tanner Targeted by Poison Plot in Omaha
Omaha on April 14 reports actress Cora Tanner near death after a deliberate poisoning attempt. A box of bonbons and a bouquet bearing no sender's name were left at her hotel. Detective force and three physicians work to determine the full scope of toxins detected in candy and flowers.
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Omaha
Neb
Cora Tanner
Miss Tanner
Louis Massen
Massen
Lee
Prairie fires devastate Nebraska ranches and deaths occur
Reports from Newport Nebraska and surrounding counties describe widespread prairie fires destroying ranch buildings hay stacks cattle and heavy stock operations. A man in Loup City George W Misner died in a fire. In Pierre South Dakota Gov. Lee urged return of volunteers from the Philippines citing fulfillment of duty and constitutional concerns. A Hastings case involves Miss Ollie Hanocker accused over arsenic candy poisoning linked to a note on a box as potential insanity defense.
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Omaha
Neb
Newport
Rock County
Henry Habercost
John Mauch
Jonas Conrad
W. Beebeesness
F. Sixberry
Opp Brothers
Holt
Garfield
Ogallala
Keith County
North Platte
Holcomb Brothers
Jonathan Smith
Farnstroms
Nebraska
Loup City
George W. Misner
Washington Township
South Dakota
Pierre
Gov. Lee
McKinley
Philippines
Spain
Mies Hannecker
Hastings
F.C. Morey
Ollie Hanecker
Morey
Miss Hanlocker
Effence
Peases
Ambushed by Samoans near German plantation
Dispatches from Apia report 105 Anglo American sailors forced to beach after an ambush by Mataafa’s warriors on a German plantation. 800 attackers, Lieut Freeman led the expedition with allied officers from Tauranga and Philadelphia. Several officers killed, heads severed, priests later presented the grisly trophies. German planter manager arrested onboard Tauranga. Previous clash left 27 Mataafa fighters dead with no European casualties.
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Auckland
N. Z
Apia
Samoa
A. H. Freeman
Tauranga
Lieut. Freeman
R. L. Lansdale
United States
Philadelphia
J. P. Monaghan
Monaghan
Lieut Lansdale
Mataafa
Three Notable Weddings In Washington D C
Three weddings were held in Washington yesterday. Jane Brown Fuller, daughter of Chief Justice Melville W. Fuller, married Nathaniel Leavitt Francis of Boston at St Johns Episcopal church. Mary Jones of Arkansas wed Frank W Plant of St Paul at Mount Vernon Place Methodist church south. Constance Ingalls, daughter of ex Senator Ingalls of Kansas, married Robert Shick of Reading Pa at the Church of the Ascension. Ingalls is Georgetown valedictorian, Shick a lawyer and graduate of Princeton and Harvard.
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Washington
Jane Brown Fuller
Melville W. Fuller
Nathaniel Leavitt Francis
Boston
St. John’s Episcopal Church
Harvard
Mary Jones
Arkansas
Frank W. Plant
St. Paul
Ingalls
Kansas
Church of the Ascension
Episcopal
Robert Shick
Reading
Georgetown College
Shick
Princeton
Need of more currency expansion debated in treasury
Washington calls for currency expansion beyond bond-secured notes as small bills rise with business. many reform proposals favor limiting bank notes to 10 dollars and above and abolishing 5 dollar notes.
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Washington
Treasury Department
Treasury
Alberta Welcome Inspires Minnesota Wisconsin Delegates
Five Minnesota and Wisconsin delegates according to the Edmonton Bulletin praise Northern Alberta. They report settlers thriving, grain yields in Alberta far above their former lands, good oats and barley, ample beef and pork markets, and affordable coal and wood. They urge farmers to move, noting open lands and plans to return next spring after buying half sections of CPR land.
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Minnesota
Wisconsin
Edmonton Bulletin
Alberta
McLean
Ada
Edmonton
United States
Floyd Dean
E. S. Dean
Beanville
Mich
Bargain Hunting and Health Pitches in A L A Bulletin
A letter urges courtesy to shoppers and describes a family’s hardship from a $2.25 clothing purchase. An advertisement extols Hall's Catarrh Cure as a constitutional remedy with a $100 cure promise, noting internal use and blood action and listing Toledo company contact details.
Diamond Ring Betrothal Ruse Quips Jewelers’ Weekly
A clever quip cites a young man giving his fiancee a diamond ring as a forfeit to insure a fight. The joke, attributed to Jewelers’ Weekly, frames the ring as collateral in a mock bet between lovers.
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Miss Fox
Mr. Fox
Jewelers’ Weekly
Grain-O the new drink to replace coffee
Ask your grocer today to show you a package of GRAIN-O the new food drink that takes the place of coffee. The children may drink it without injury as well as the adult. All who try it like it. Grain-O has that rich seal brown of Mocha or Java but it is made from pure grains and the most delicate stomachs receive it without distress. 14 the price of coffee 15 cts and 25 cts per package Sold by all grocers.
Conversation Recall From An Old Engagement
A dialogue from the Indianapolis Journal recalls a past engagement ten years ago. She notes the old gesture of his arm around her waist while he answers that his arm has not grown longer, reflecting on changing intimacy and memory.
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Indianapolis Journal
Wonderful Evangelist and the Debts of a Community
A Indianapolis Journal quote recalls a revival preacher described as the biggest ever, with a country grocer claiming that after his preaching the entire community settled all its debts. The remark highlights the preacher Brother Jarvis and his reputed impact.
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Jarvis
Indianapolis Journal
Allen's Foot-Ease Ad and Quotations Fragment
An OCR fragment promotes Allen's Foot-Ease powder for foot relief and shoe comfort, listing uses for corns bunions swelling and sweating, plus a 25 cent price and free sample offer. It includes multiple ad lines and Chicago Daily News quotations about improvement and curing coughs and toothache, all in a garbled historical ad collage.
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Allen
Rample
Olmsted
le Roy
N. Y
Swallowed Teeth Drives Man Mad Says Ram's Horn Ad
A man reportedly swallowed his false teeth and became mentally unsettled. The Ram's Horn notes the episode as evidence that stomach strength matters, then promotes Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a remedy for indigestion constipation kidney and liver troubles malaria fever and ague and nervous affections. Drugstores stock the remedy.
Chilia Tonic Adroitly Promoted For Consumption Cure
A Chicago Daily News blurb touts Hill Tonic as a iron and quinine cure claiming no cure no pay. A Harrisburg resident endorses Piso’s Cure for Consumption, noting twenty years of use. An ad warns about fire safety with the proverb climb the ladder then descend.
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