Blast Kills A Score In Lowell Dynamite Explosion
A dynamite explosion at a United States Cartridge Company magazine in Lowell Massachusetts killed about twenty five people and injured thirty. The blast shattered windows and damaged homes as far as thirty miles away prompting National Guard deployment to keep order. Authorities believe dynamite stored in the magazine ignited, causing a two‑stage explosion.
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United Sates Cartridge Company
Lowell
Mass
Wigginsville
National Guard
Boston
Exeter
No H
Massachusetts
Lawwell
Coneon River
Weather Bureau Reports Mixed Crop Conditions
The weekly crop weather summary notes favorable temperatures east of the Rockies except New England, with rain needed in central valleys and the South. Destructive storms occur in Minnesota Missouri and northern Atlantic states. California cool but favorable otherwise. corn in northern belt progressing well with rain needed in central and southern corn states. Winter wheat harvests remain in northern mid-Atlantic and lake regions. spring wheat poor in the north but improving in fall-plowed lands of northern Minnesota.
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The
Weather Bureau
Rocky Mountains
New England
Minnesota
Missouri
Atlantic
California
Kansas
Chlahoma
Minnesta
South Dakota
North Dakota
Nebraska
Dakotas
Montana
Washington
Rail projects and railroad reorganizations span the Midwest
The Alaska Central Railroad contract for 25 miles is awarded. I. E. and W. to lay 75 miles of heavy steel on main line and Indianapolis division. Half of Louisville and Nashville line from Jerico to Knoxville finished. Western district HQ to move from Chattanooga to Bir piinchim around Oct 1. Easterners plan a 93 mile Cincinnati to Louisville electric traction line. Tlineis Central reports for year end show rising gross, net earnings, and surplus after dividends. Frisco to operate Ozark and Cherokee Central as Muskogee district. Exposition feature includes a historic red-wheel locomotive and a Burlington locomotive display.
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Alaska Central Railroad
Indianapolis
Louisville and Nashville
Jerico
Knoxville
Southern
Chattanooga
Birpiinchim
Tlineis Central Railroad Company
Yorkum
St. Louis and
San Francisco
Ozark and Cherokee Central
Frisco
Muskogee
St. Louis
Immense size and value of the U S apple crop
William E. Curtis cites census figures on U S apple production, noting 243,750 barrels exported last year to Britain and Germany and other countries, with millions of backyard trees unseen in the commercial tally. The nation shows uneven yields due to climate and cultivation, New York leading in apple quality and returns.
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United States
Great Britain
Germany
North Atlantic
South Atlantic
Central States
Pec
Potal
Toarmist
Beret
Apts
Phircy
Valoal
Pnnds
Renton County
Arkansas
Titen ¢Aty
New York
Marion County
Minnela
Metros
Kay County
Plineds
Michigan
Missouri
William E. Curtis
Chiefgea Record- Herald
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Dracmasan Ec
Aidan Ces
Britain Seizes Americans During War at Sea A Century Ago
A hundred years ago David Gitchell of Philadelphia was seized by a British crew aboard an American sloop between Philadelphia and Alexandria. The Elbe blockade was begun by England in the war against France. Lord Kilwarden, chief justice, was killed in Dublin by Irish revolutionists. Three Americans Augustus Topham Joseph Hudson and Thomas Hodginson were kidnapped from the Charles Carter off Cape Henry. Topham escaped by swimming ashore.
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David Gitchell
Philadelphia
Alexandria
Elbe River
England
France
Lord Kilwarden
Court of King’s Bench
Dublin
Augustus Topham
Joseph Hudson
Thomas Hodginson
Charles Carter
Cape Henry
Boston
Topham
Jump From Passaic Falls Becomes Noted Feat
Seventy five years ago Sam Pateh leaped from high rocks at Passaic falls into the basin below. A new machine printed figures on coffee was shown to English cotton goods manufacturers for the first time. Over seven thousand slaves were reported received at Rio Janeiro in two years, with six thousand six hundred dying aboard ships.
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Sam Pateh
Passaic Falls
Rio Janeiro
Brazil
Pierce visits departments in Washington fifty years ago
Fifty years ago President Franklin Pierce toured Washington government departments without notice to gauge efficiency. He reportedly refused to leave the White House during ongoing repairs. The late Vice President King’s effects were auctioned. Massachusetts Governor and Legislature donated one day’s salary to the Washington monument fund.
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Franklin Pierce
Washington
White House
King
Massachusetts
Washington Monument
Great Flood Losses Across Kansas and Missouri Basin
A Kansas Missouri river flood devastates farms towns railroads and industries with financial losses estimated near forty million dollars. Describes impacts on Kansas City Topeka and surrounding areas, noting drowned stock desolate farms and uncertain recovery, while recalling the 1844 flood comparison and Western resilience.
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Kansas
Rebel brigades routed at Wappings Heights Virginia
Ewell's rebel brigade was routed at Wappings Heights by Third and Fourth Maine regiments under Gen Spinola. Union troops began erecting the Swamp Angel battery at Charleston. A lieutenant was arrested for a requisition to hire men eighteen feet tall for mud work. Gen Morgan's raiders burned Campbell depot Ohio, tore tracks, plundered citizens, and killed stock. Pegram's rebels defeated Union near Lexington Kentucky. martial law ordered enrollment for defense. Brutus J. Clay nominated for US Senator from Kentucky to replace John J. Crittenden, who died days earlier. Morgan and officers sentenced to Ohio penitentiary until surrender.
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Ewell
Wappings Heights
Spinola
Charleston
S. C
Morgan
Campbell
Ohio
Pegram
Lexington
Brutus J. Clay
United States
Kentucky
John J. Crittenden
John Morgan
Col. Straight
Thirty thousand Carlists under arms in Spain reported
Thirty thousand Carlists were reported under arms in Spain while the French government declined to recognize them as belligerents. Mrs Eliza Webb Young Brighams seventeenth wife sued for divorce in Salt Lake City claiming two hundred thousand dollars in damages. A Kuklux raid burned a Kentucky farmhouse and killed a negro servant as President Grant faced calls to pardon convicted clan members in North Carolina. Americans won a Vienna expo reapers and mowing machines contest as British and French exhibitors praised entries. A plan to lift gold to 125 formed by Jay Gould amid a Treasury metal shortage.
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Spain
Eliza Webb Young
Brigham Young
Salt Lake City
Owen County
Grant
North Carolina
Jay Gould
Treasury Department
Reunion reads poem for Union veterans in Kentucky
Twenty years ago a poem praising the Union was read at a reunion of Gen. Morgan’s rebel raiders in Lexington Kentucky with Gen. Basil Duke and other Confederate leaders present. The piece reflects a tense postwar sentiment amid a gathering of former Confederate figures. A separate political row involves Senator Dorsey accusing GarfielI of nominating Stanley Matthews to the Supreme Court in exchange for a campaign gift from Jay Gould and C. P. Huntington. A British syndicate seeks to bar Southern borrowers from London funding until Confederate bonds are settled, while a Rome Watertown and Ogdensburg Railroad crash near Albion, Michigan kills nineteen, including ex Mayor Thomas Hoyne of Chicago. Gladstone withdraws a Suez resolution amid parliamentary opposition.
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Morgan
Lexington
Basil Duke
Garfiell
Dorsey
Stanley Matthews
United States Supreme Bench
Jay Gould
C. P. Huntington
London
Thomas Hoyne
Chicago
Rome, Watertown and Ogdensburg
Albion
Thousands fed in Denver streets as jobless relief
The text notes thousands of unemployed silver miners fed publicly in Denver. It also mentions France notifying powers of a blockade of Siam’s coast and several banks closing or facing action, including Citizens' National Bank Connorsville Indiana and Louisville City National Bank Kentucky.
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Denver
Colo
France
Siam
Citizens’ National Bank of
Connorsyville
Ind
Louisville
City National Bank
Manchester
N. If
Bank of Bradford & Church of Chicago
Metamorphosis of Magate Travels and Signs Change
A Central Pennsylvania tale notes a local dressmaker Maggie Monaslan who after a Cook's tour of the continent spent four days in Paris. Upon return a new sign appeared Maggie’s shanty now read MLLE. MARGUERITE Rebel ed Manteaux. The anecdote ends with a quip on travel broadening the mind.
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Pennsylvania
Maggie
Continent
Strangest Illness Cured By Dodd’s Kidney Pills
Friarpoint Mississippi August reports a boy with spinal disease symptoms who improved after taking eight boxes of Dodd’s Kidney Pills. The father, Mr L Butler, says the tonic cured his son and urges others to try it. The case highlights a dramatic recovery after two months of unsuccessful medical treatment.
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Friarpoint
Miss
L. Butler
Dodd
Ife
New Use for Paper Stockings in Europe
Paper gloves and stockings are now produced in Europe. Experts praise the stockings for durability, noting the paper is converted during manufacture into a woollike substance and woven as ordinary wool, so they last nearly as long as regular stockings.
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Europe
Deafness Cure Claim Promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure
An advertisement asserts deafness results from inflammation of the Eustachian tube and cannot be cured by local applications. It promises a $100 reward for any case of deafness due to catarrh not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure and urges sending for circulars from F. J. Cheney & Co of Toledo Ohio. The notice also touts Hall's family Wills.
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Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
Deauguists
Anyon
Rat Co
Coumbus Ave
Boston
Maas
Cause and Effect in Modern Fiction and Tobacco History
The piece links contemporary fiction’s hot thoughts to erotic novels and notes nicotine’s name from Jean Nicot the French ambassador. It mentions his 16th century sending of tobacco seeds from Lisbon to Paris, calling it a valuable medicinal plant newly valued in Portugal, with origins in the Americas. It ends with a remark on soldiers preferring ornaments but disliking scolding.
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Jean Nicot
Portugal
Lisbon
Paris
America
Fits Permanently Cured by Dr Kline Nerve Regulator
Advertisement for Dr Kline's Great Nerve Regulator promising permanent relief from fits and nervousness after one day of use. Free trial bottle offered at 021 Arch St Philadelphia with sales pitch and contact.
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Dr. Kline
WH. Kline, Ltd
Arch St
Philadelphia
Miss Calculations
A witty exchange about age and majority contrasts when a youth asks why girls reach adulthood at 18 while men wait until 21. The jokester quips that every girl born in TSS2 is celebrating her eighteenth birthday this year.
Allen's Foot Ease Shoe Powder Advertisement
Do Your Beet Ache and Burn Shake into your shoes Allen's Foot Ease, 2 powder for the feet. It makes tight or New Shoes feel Easy, Cures Corns, Bunions, Swollen, Tot and Sweating Feet. At all Druggists and Shoe Stores, 25c. Sample sent FREE, Address Allen 8, Olmsted, LeRoy, N.Y.
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Allen
Olmsted
LeRoy
N.Y
The Proper Place Laughline Exchange
Kerwin seeks a silent partner for his business venture and Parker quips that the deaf and dumb asylum might be a source, reflecting a humorous exchange about finding investors.
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Kerwin
Parker
Deaf and Dumb Asylum
Elusive Cure Ads and Rare Pipes Span Age
An 1901 Buffalo advertisement notes Piso's Cure for Consumption with a testimonial by Fred Hermann of 209 Box Avenue dated September 24 1901. It also touts Turkish and Persian pipes with long flexible stems and large bowls, some valued at 1000 dollars. Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for Children claims gum relief and wind colic aid priced at 25 cents per bottle.
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Fred Hermann
Box Avenue
Buffalo, N. Y
Gratitude for Lydia E Pinkham Vegetable Compound
A Nashville reader testifies after four years of menstrual irregularities and pain to the effectiveness of Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Six bottles cured her, restoring health and sleep, with strong endorsement for other women.
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Mrs. Blanchard
Nashville, Tenn
Lydia E. Pinkham
B. A. Blanchard
Broad St
Nashville
Tenn
Lydia E. Pinkhaw
Notre Dame Course Offerings and Boarding for 1908
Notre Dame announces full courses across faculties including classics letters economics history journalism art science and engineering. Free rooms for eligible students. special rates for colonial for Ecolect state candidates at Edward's Hall. 60th year opens September 8 1908 under Rev A Morrissey C S C president Box 264.
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University of Notre Dame
Notre Dame
Indiana
Rvomas
Fr. Edward's Hall
A. Morrissey
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