Alum Baking Powder Foes Win Across States
Judge Clarke in St. Louis convicts and fines several grocers for selling alum containing baking powders. New York Health Department seized such products and dumped them. Consumers can spot alum powders by cheap price or a prize in the package while authorities push a safer domestic market. The oldest steam engine at work, the Newcomen winding engine, dates to 1809 in Glasgow.
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Javork
Farme Col
Hiery
Rutherglen
Glasgow
Return to Gibara Hailed by Cuban Exiles and Locals
Gen Tomas Estrada Palma arrives aboard the Admiral Farragut at Gibara after twenty eight years in exile. The port explodes with cheers as 6,000 locals and visiting islanders greet the president elect with flags, roses, and a procession to the city hall led by the Tenth US Cavalry.
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Farragut
Old Point Comfort
Gibara
Cuba
Tribune
Havana
Santiago
Palma
Cuba Libre
Athos
Gespedes
United States
Spain
Tenth United States Cavalry
Lieut
Hart
Shocking discovery in crowded Chicago tenement
In a State street tenement seven of a colored family's bodies lay gnawed by rats, eight days dead in a sealed room. Police favor murder and self inflicted poison as cause. Jones Butler, an upholsterer, his wife and five children perished. Butler fully clothed while others were partly undressed.
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Chicago
State Street
Jones Butler
Butler
Feud Feud Fatal Shootout Among Cherokee Nation Cattlemen
In the Cherokee nation near Collinsville Oklahoma, cattlemen William Phillips is killed and William Mayfield Jesse Skidmore and Lige Johnson are mortally wounded after a roadside gun duel rooted in a grazing feud. Skidmore and Johnson die. Mayfield wounded. authorities warn of possible further clashes.
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Vinita
I. T
Collinsville
William Phillips
William Mayfield
Jesse Skidmore
Lige Johnson
Oologah
Skidmore
Mayfield
Johnson
Phillips
Piamore
Orse Mayfield
Thei
Mill and Lumber Burned in Quincy Fire Disaster
Fire at Gem City Sawmill Co. destroyed the mill and planing mill, burning nearly ten acres of lumber and causing one woman to die from shock. Losses exceed 230000 with most insured. several bridges, freight cars, poles, horses, a large icehouse, and residences also damaged. About 300 workers employed. rebuilding unlikely.
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Quincy
Ill
Gem City Sawmill Co
Carthage
Burlington Road
Western Union and
Illinois
A. Cavanaugh
St. Louis
Hannibal
LaCrosse
Wis
Mrs Sophie Binns Praises Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
Mrs Sophie Binns of Fruitvale Bar credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with curing ovarian congestion and inflammation after eighteen months of illness. She reports pain relief and improved health within months and urges others to try the remedy noting a $5000 forfeit if not genuine.
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Sophie Binns
Young People’s Christian ‘Temperance Union
Fruitvale
Bar
Lydia E. Pinkham
Mrs. Pinkham
Odd Facts From 19th Century Almanac Notes
The text catalogs eclectic curiosities such as age-based growth spurts in youths, German city population figures rising from eight to thirty three cities over 100000 since 1871, a palm tree leaf length, and Denmark and Belgium practices. It also mentions a tragic doorstep death and a three month old cow ear ring law with numbered tags.
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Germany
Amazon
Denmark
Nnhom Eendin
Belgium
Postmaster's Diabetes Cure Attributed To Kidney Pills
Lancaster New York April 21 1900 Postmaster John Remers claimed diabetes plagued him for years but after using about ten boxes of Dodd's Kidney Pills he recovered fully. He urges diabetes sufferers to try the remedy now sold in drug stores and offers to answer letters from sick readers.
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Lancaster
N. Y
John Remers
Buffalo
Dodd
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Missouri
New York
Carter
Jenwee
J. Power Co
Boston
Mass
Gormen
Ltra
Pere Ie A It & Bro. Coo
Isville
Tomas Estrada Palma
Tata Tetiin
Reon
Florodora
STAR
Standard Navy
OLD Peach & Honey
J. T.” Tobacco
B. M. Woolley
Box
Atlanta, Ga
Sya
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