Gossip and News of Washington Sweeps in Congress
Washington notes report a calm House while Senate battles the shipping bill. Western senators eye Senator Carter for Interior secretary as talks swirl around cabinet reshuffle. Tom Ochiltree visits town to press river and harbor funding for Galveston and hints at an extra session for Cuba.
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Washington
Congress
Frye
Jones
Pettigrew
Chandler
Hanna
House of Representatives
Carter
Interior
McKinley
Hitchcock
General Land Office
House
United States
Secretary of the Interior
Griggs
Root
Tom Ochiltree
Commercial Cable Company
Bhut
Galveston
Ochiltree
Cuba
State treasury report January 31 1901 totals by fund
State Treasury reports February 7 1901 show month end January 31 1901 balances and activity for State Fund General School Fund School Fund and All Funds. Totals include receipts disbursements and ending balances across funds with figures for December 31 1900 and January 1901.
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State Treasury
Queen Wilhelmina wedding gifts dwarf state needs
The Netherlands' Queen Wilhelmina marries the Grand Duke of Saxe Weimar amid reports she may have 5 million settled on her husband. Holland's asylum and reform school funding rise. the wedding gown, Paris-Lyons-Amsterdam handiwork, is described in detail. Hospital stats show 73 new patients, 41 deaths, 31 discharged, 19 released as cured.
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Holland
Europe
Lyons
Paris
Pearl Newman Escapes from Ohio Insane Asylum Breakout
The article reports Pearl Newman and six other inmates escaping the Spencer asylum in Huntington era Ohio after battering bars with a sledge hammer. A posse pursued across the Ohio river. Sheriff Ira Harshbarger led the chase. Nearby reports claim Newman was shot dead on Simms Creek, while other fugitives include Ben Higgenbotham. The text also covers asylum demographics, mortality, nativity, and related welfare funding notes for 1901 to 1900.
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Harshbarger
Newman
Simms Creek
Ohio
Mentia
Asvilum
Ohio Counts
Ireland
Coal Land Litigation In McDowell County Suit Filed Over Land Sale
Harman Newberry of Bland County Virginia and John Watts of Tazewell sue Col T E Houston of Elkhorn in McDowell Circuit Court to enforce a contract for 7200 acres of coal and timber land valued at 108000 dollars. Houston contends title defects blocked the sale.
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McDowell
Dowel County
Harman Newberry
Bland County
John @. Watts
Tazewell
T. E. Houston
Elkhorn
McDowell County
Col Houston
Col. Houston
War on Coffin Tacks Empties Smoking Cars on Rail
The New York New Haven Hartford Railroad follows rival lines in banning cigarette smoking aboard trains. The policy aims to prevent color blindness and misreads of signals, proving a strict safety move, with enforcement across all jobs for smokers.
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Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railroad
Mail boxes for Bluefield at J D Shott agency
Notice announces mail boxes available through J D Shott who holds the Bluefield agency. A Baltimore inventor created a cigar shaped train reaching seventy eight miles per hour. An article claims a cigarette shaped train would carry you off. Jobo Harper cigars praised. De Witt's Little Early Risers noted as effective for liver and bowel cleansing. H N White.
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Baltimore
Jobo Harper
de Witt
H.N. White
Subscribing for The Telegraph Dye Kit Ad
An advertisement urges readers to subscribe to The Telegraph and buy Putnam Fadeless Dye from Fiat Lop Grocery Co. It claims no experience is needed and dyeing is done by simply boiling goods in the dye.
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Putnam
Fiat
Lop Grocery Co
Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets Promote Cold Relief
Mr W A Hines of Manchester Is writing of his amot miraculous escape from death Exposure after meas les induced serious lung trouble ended in Consumption Hemorrhages coughs night and day Doctor said I must soon die Then I used Dr King New Discovery for Consumption which completely cured me It would not be without it even if it cost 5 00 Trials free at all drug stores
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W. A. Hines
Manchester
Local Man Cures Hemorrhoid with Aruba Salve
After eighteen months of suffering from a rectal fistula Redck Hamilton of West Jefferson U S A was advised only a costly operation would save him but he treated himself with five boxes of Bucklee's Aruba Salve touted as the surest pile cure. The ad claims the salve is the best in the world and sells for 25 cents a box at all drug stores.
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Redck Hamilton
West Jefferson
Bucklee
Buckeye Coal and Coke Co to Hold Annual Meeting
The Buckeye Coal and Coke Company will hold its annual meeting at the office of James B Stephenson in Roanoke on February 14, 1901. President J D Hewilit and Secretary W C Stephenson announce the gathering.
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Buckeye Coal and Coke Company
James B. Stephenson
Roanoke
J.D. Hewilit
W.C. Stephenson
De Witts Witch Hazel Salve Promises Soothing Relief
An advertisement extols De Witts Witch Hazel Salve as the most soothing and healing antiseptic balm, claiming immediate relief and cures for piles, sores, eczema, and skin diseases, while warning against imitation products by H. I. N. White.
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de Witt
The Mothers Favorite Chamberlains Cough Remedy
The Mother’s Favorite Chamberlains Cough Remedy is advertised as pleasant safe for children and suitable for coughs colds croup and whooping cough. It claims no opium or injurious drugs and can be given to babies as well as adults with confidence. Sold by H N White.
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Chamberlain’s
H, N W Bite
Dr King s New Life Pills Endorsed for Health
An old advertisement touts Dr King s New Life Pills as a remedy for stomach and liver disorders and claims they promote appetite digestion and regular health. It notes a 25 cent price and urges use for improving energy and wellbeing amid a warning of child death from croup and lung troubles with a promotion for One Minute Cough Cure as relief.
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Jung
N. Woite
Free sample pitch for Chamberlain's tablets at drugstore
A clipped ad urges readers to visit H N White's drug store to obtain a free sample of Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets, described as the best physic. The notice claims the tablets cure stomach disorders biliousness and headaches.
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H. N White
Chamberlain
Sidelights on Legislature Sidelights on Legislature in Charleston Feb 7 1905 discussions on fee abolition and banking bill amendments
In Charleston on February 7 the legislature debated measures including halving auditor and secretary of state fees for 1905 and beyond. Alderson pressed amendments to divert all fees to the state treasury, while Laughlin proposed four fifths. Other items reconsidered and passed include hotel license repeal, booms and dams funding, and a county treasurer provision. the banking bill drew long, rapid amendments.
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Star Treasury
Laughlin
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