Republican Quadrennial Gathering Gathers in Philadelphia
Philadelphia readies for the 1900 Republican national convention with the West River hall and Walton Hotel serving as key hubs. Delegates, state contingents, and visiting clubs secure housing as preparations focus on tickets, seating for 16 000, and a tor chlight parade plan for June 19 through weeklong social events.
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Roanoke Carnival Ends With Promises of Cures
A carnival in Roanoke runs July 2 to 7 offering booths and entertainments. A lookout advertises DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve as a cure for eczema and skin diseases, urging buyers to beware of counterfeits and to buy from H. N. White.
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DeWitt
Eazel
H. N. White
Grae Day Cold Cure and Dyspepsia Remedy Ad
An old advertisement touts Kerimott's Chocolates as a cold cure and promotes Kodol Dyspepsia Cure to aid digestion. It also features a Graham Virginia real estate listing for a two story dwelling on McDowell Street with terms. Also references De Witt's Little Early Risers liver and bowels pills.
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Graham, Va
W.B. Ford
de Witt
H. N. White
Mrs Curtain Beats Consumption with New Discovery
Mrs Michiel Curtain of Plainfield says a month of illness led to a diagnosis of consumption and hopelessness. A druggist offered Dr King's New Discovery, she bought six bottles and recovered, now able to do housework. free trial bottles advertised, price fifty cents and one dollar.
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Michiel Curtain
Plainfield
Dr. King
Bismar k Iron Nerve Promise From New Life Pills
An advertisement touts Dre King’s New Life Pills as boosting health and energy. It claims the pills improve stomach liver kidneys and bowels and enhance overall vitality, priced at 25 cents at drug stores.
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Dre King
Surplus in Treasury Seen for Current Fiscal Year
Washington reports a likely 75 million dollar surplus in treasury receipts over ordinary expenditures for the current fiscal year ending June 30. The year to date shows about 64.8 million in surplus, with June receipts reaching 410 thousand and pension payments half completed.
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Treasury
Donnelly Accepts People's Party Nomination for Vice President
Hastings Minnesota date letter confirms James Donnelly of Minnesota formally accepts the People's party nomination for Vice President. He thanks the convention for the honor and vows to discharge duties and uphold the party platform if elected.
16 to 1 still the plank in Chicago
Senator James K. Jones, chairman of the Democratic national committee, declares there is no truth to reports he will persuade William J. Bryan to drop the 16 to 1 plank from the Chicago platform. He says no abandonment of any Chicago platform issue. Bryan and Jones planned a final conference in Chicago before the Kansas City convention.
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Kansas City
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Boxers Fight in Pekin Streets Reported by Shanghai
London headlines from June 12 describe desperate fighting on the approaches to Pekin. Since Sunday the battle has caused heavy casualties as mobs of Boxers and their supporters attack legations defended by foreign troops using a few machine guns.
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Pekin
Shanghai
French Troops in China Move from Tien Tsin to Pekin
Paris reports four hundred French troops left Tien Tsin for Pekin with wires cut in Shanghai. The minister of marine orders six hundred more troops aboard the cruiser Sagain to reinforce Tien Tsin forces.
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M. del Casse
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Pekin
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Tien Trin
Japan Demands Audience Over Refugee Execution
Yokohama June 12 Japan faces pressure from Korea over an audience requested by the Japanese minister. The dispute centers on questions arising from the execution of a refugee and a demand for a mediated audience to settle the issue.
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Japan
Baseball Scores From Brooklyn to Boston Delayed Reports
Local box scores show Brooklyn and New York games with mixed results including five runs by Brooklyn and four by Cincinnati while New York edged Chicago by four to none. Philadelphia posted six runs to St Louis five as batteries listed Jones Criger and Donahue McFarland. Batting and fielding errors noted across the schedule with incomplete Pittsburgh data and ill formatted entries.
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Garrick
Bowerman
Callahan
Donahue
Philadelphia
St. Louis
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Criger
J Gordon Bearly May Live Refuses to Say Intent
Norfolk Virginia June 12 J Gordon Early aged nineteen of Bedford City shot himself through the abdomen at Ford's Hotel Monday evening. His condition remains serious but hopeful of recovery. Early refused to state if the shooting was accidental or intentional. An associate noted he had heart trouble and had threatened self harm during a prior period of distress.
Platt to Hold His Seat and Retire After Term
New York June 12 Senator Platt states he will serve his current term and not seek re election in 1903 He adds that after 1903 he will retire from public life and active politics confirming rumors of an earlier resignation are unfounded in his remarks
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Platt
Perdue Mystery Cleared
Norfolk Va June 12 The negroes Henry Wield William Everett George Allen J B Johnson and Gran ville Nelson under arrest in connection with the supposed murder of John W Perdue were taken from the county jail in Portsmouth and discharged on sworn affidavit by Miss Alice Wood of Petersburg The affidavit says Perdue visited Miss Wood May 28 talked for hours and stated he planned going West He said he had been married but his wife was dead
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George Allen
J. B. Johnson
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Asest
John W. Perdue
Justice Hawks
Alice Wood
Pet
Alaska Gold Ship Arrives With 4 Million In Dust
The steamer City of Seattle arrived from Alaska with 4 million dollars in gold dust and 260 passengers. By May 28 the clean up had reached 18 million with notes of a general exodus from Mawson and reports of rich strikes at Koyluk river.
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Wash
Seattle
Alaska
Cure Cold in Head with Kermott's Quinine Laxative
An advertisement touts Kermott's Chocolates Laxative Quinine as an easy remedy to cure cold in head and sore throat quickly. It markets a chocolate laxative form claiming relief and rapid action.
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Kermott's
Drink Hester Beer Best on the Market
Local note cites a user spraining a hip last fall and swelling to rheumatism. After failed opinions, a pharmacist recommended Chamberlain's Pain Balm. Half a 50 cent bottle cured the pain and the ascriber, A Bancock of Eric Pa, now recommends it to friends. sold by H N White, Druggist.
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A. Bancock
Eric, Pa
H. N. White
Drugg
Hood's Sarsaparilla and Pills Advertise Health
A bright sunny face signals good health says a Hood's Sarsaparilla advertisement. It claims to cure dyspepsia, strengthen nerves, and invigorate the system while Hood's Pills relieve constipation without irritation. Sold by all druggists.
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Plague kills 23 in Rockhampton Queensland
Queensland reports twenty three deaths from bubonic plague in Rockhampton with two new cases in Adelaide South Australia June 12. One of the new cases proved fatal amid the outbreak.
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South Australia
Rockhampon
Queensland
Putnam Fadeless Dyes Sold by Fiat Top Grocery Co
Putnam Fadeless Dyes are promoted as non staining for hands and kettles. Available for purchase at Fiat Top Grocery Co. stores.
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Fiat Top Grocery Co
Battleship Kentucky Sails to Newport for Farquhar Squadron
Norfolk June 12 The battleship Kentucky sailed for Newport Rhode Island to join Admiral Farquhar's squadron. Crews were to have several days of target practice before orders arrived to depart.
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Newport
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A Heartfelt Thanks for Chamberlains Cough Remedy
A Des Moines Iowa reader expresses lasting gratitude for Chamberlains Cough Remedy noting it aided 80 cough and lung cases and whooping cough with satisfaction. The note asks manufacturers to accept thanks and mentions local druggist H N White selling the remedy. Also promotes Kodol Dyspepsia Cure claiming it digests what you eat and helps indigestion with H N White as seller.
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H. N. White
Chamberlain
Dory
Des Moins
Iowa
H.N. White
The One Day Cold Cure Adverts
An old ad touts Ker mott's Chocolates Laxative Quinine as a simple remedy for cold symptoms with claims it cures a cold head and sore throat. It emphasizes easy consumption like candy and notes children cry for them.
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Kerimott
Kermott
Cascarets Candy Cathartic Health Ad
An old advertisement claims Cascarets cure ailments from headaches to cancer by purging the bowels. It promises natural, painless relief with easy movements and a 10 cent start, warning against imitations and noting the boxed tablets bear C. C. marks.
Coal Price Reduction Notice by W H Campbell Co
The firm announces lower cash coal prices to prevent the good man from paying for the bad man’s coal. Effective immediately cash price is 325 dollars per ton and 1.75 per nait ton. On payday price is 3.50 per ton and 1.90 per half ton. 5631 tf.
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W.H. Campbell & Co
Arnica Salve Claims Cure for Skin Ailments
Advertises Bucken's Arnica Salve as remedy for eruptions including boils ulcers burns and sores. Claims relief from fevers running sores and pains with a promised price of 25 cents per box and a guarantee of cure. Sold by all druggists.
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Bucken
Boers Retake Bloemfontein and Push Toward Johannesburg
Rumors from Laurence Marquez claim a severe defeat for Queen’s forces at Elandsfontein with 750 killed or wounded. Reports say Boers, led by De Wet with about 13,000 troops, are marching toward Johannesburg as dispatches lack confirmation.
Rumors of Boer advances unsettle London war news
London reports flood of rumors from South Africa with little official confirmation. General Dewet allegedly leads 13,000 Bur troops toward Johannesberg while Bloemfontein reportedly relapsed to Boer control. 750 killed and 150 captured in a Viadort action are cited as possible, and a Bloemfontein recapture denied by later dispatches. Prime Minister Schriner may resign and Alexander Greenberg travels from Cresot Works to Europe.
Family Slaughter Alleged in Moorewin Prairie Murder Case
A sheriff's posse returning from Welwyn reports the murder of Postmaster Alexander McArthur and four family members at Moosemin Assinibois on Saturday. A hired man John Morrison is said to have killed five and wounded others, with two more seriously hurt.
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Assinibois
Welwyn
Alexander McArthur
John Morrison
McArthur
Rail crash near Summit Montana injures passengers
A Great Northern east bound passenger train derailed at Summit Montana after a broken rail. Two engines and four coaches left the track with a score or more hurt, some fatally, following the Spokane report dated June 12 from St. Louis.
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Spokane
Great Northern
Summit
Montana
One Minute Cough Cure Promises Life Savings
Reports claim over fifteen hundred lives saved by One Minute Cough Cure. It attributes cures for goippe croup and whooping cough in early use preventing consumption, per H N White.
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H. N. White
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