Western Canada as grain and stock empire discussed
An article discusses Western Canada as a vast grain and stock growing region adapting to wheat and cattle. It highlights Alberta Saskatchewan Manitoba and inland areas with irrigation potential from Rockies streams. Notes high wheat yields in Manitoba and the Territories and praises stock quality from Winnipeg shows. It also mentions government help and land availability for settlers and ends with a light joke about amateur theatre.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ewestern Canada
Canda
Éstern Bitle
Canada
Oantie
Alberta
Peace River
Athabasca
Pole
Rockies
Manitoba
Winnipeg
Ontario
Opening of Fifty-seventh Congress Draws Great Capitol Throng
A large crowd gathered at the Capitol for the opening of the Fifty-seventh Congress. The scene featured a redecorated Senate and House with new green and old-gold decor, preparations by Speaker Henderson, and early arrivals including Senators Allison and Jones. The day mixed ceremony with expectations as members prepared for the session’s work.
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Ems
Peeters
Mition
historieHolds
Capitol
Congress
Iowa
Allison
Senate
Committee On
Appropriations
Jones
Arkansas
Henderson
House
Hall of Representatives
Alexander McDowell
Pennsylvania
Congress Opens With War Debates And Naval Plans
The new Congress convened with the Senate led by President Pro Tem Frye and Speaker Henderson presiding. Senators Dietrich Millard Gibson and Kittredge took oaths. the House organized and adjourned. Key topics include tariff revision, Hay-Fayncefote treaty, canal construction, shipbuilding subsidies, Pacific policy, Puerto Rico and Philippines governance, interstate commerce, and Cuban relations amid McKinley’s death. The Secretary outlines army strength, coast defense, militia reform, and the enduring US duty to Cuba and reciprocal tariffs.
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House of Representatives
Senate
Frye
Henderson
Dietrich
Millard
Nebraska
Gibson
Montana
Kittredge
South Dakota
Kyle
House
Congress
President McKinley
McKinley
United States
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Truats
Department of Commerce and Industry
Union of
Oklahoma and
Indian Territory
William McKinley
Benjamin Harrison
Cullom
Lincoln
Ugrd
Regular Army
Philippines
Porto Rico
Ited
Cuba
Hawaiian Islands
China
Alaska
Pacific
San Juan
National Guard
Caba
McKinley Estate Appraised At Nearly Two Hundred Thousand
The McKinley estate appraisers filed a report with Judge Day and Secretary Cortel listing personal property totaling 133,890.18 and real estate estimated at 60,000 to 65,000, bringing the whole estate value near 200,000. The appraisal covers personal property securities bank deposits life insurance and moneys with real estate left to Mrs Archinley.
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McKinley
Day
Cortelyou
Canton
Short Crops Haunt Kentucky and Global Bets
A mosaic of clipped items notes crop strain in Kentucky with the bleakest corn crop on record, insurance views by Mr. Rathbun of Lewisville, a three week armistice in Colombia blamed on rain, Belgian crisis fears, Carnegie’s million dollar push in Pittsburgh, Findlay’s burgher bounties, Chicago’s cash bookkeeping woes, Boer moves near Pretoria threatening Cape Town, and Bulgarian brigand fears tied to a missionary failure.
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Kentucky
Rathbun
Lewisville
Colombia
Belgium
Garnegie
Pittsburg
Findlay
Ohio
Chicago
Pretoria
Cape Town
Remarkable Cure Prompts Old Painkiller Tale
Mr J Pope of Berway Road recounts a famed incident where a broken back and rheumatic pains were supposedly cured by half a bottle of St Jacobs Oil. Bowman lent the bottle, which Pope credits with turning him from a lifelong sufferer into a well man in days.
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J.’ Pope
Berway Road
Jacobs
Mie
Bowman
Pope
St. Jacobs
Thrifty Gentleman’s Run-In With City Doctor
A country man visiting the city recounts paying three dollars for a crack to his weeping sinew after a doctor’s swift and painful treatment. He warns neighbors to beware city medical costs, comparing the fee to a blacksmith’s playful work.
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New York
A Clergyman's Discovery In Kidney Cure
Fredericksburg Indiana December 2 Rev H P Stevens reports a personal cure for kidney and urinary disorders using Dodd's Kidney Pills. He claims the remedy treats incontinence, arthritis Brights disease diabetes and other kidney ailments and asserts it has cured Bright's Disease in particular.
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Fredericksburg
Ind
H. P. Stevens
Dodd
Bright
Sweetly Innocent Diary Entry Gains Light Conversation
A portly mother and father read a diary note from their 10 year old daughter who asks to attend a concert with her mother while hoping to leave part of her mother at home. The brief entry reveals a child’s innocent humor about sitting on the edge of her chair all night. Ely’s Liquid Cream Balm advertised for nasal catarrh claims soothing properties without drying secretions and is sold with a spraying tube.
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London
Drugists
Ely Bros
Warren Street
New York
Invasion of Trade and Mixed Advertisements
A collage of foreign trade boasts and American quips contrasts with personal notices and medical and consumer ads. The piece threads a foreign diplomat’s alarm, a boast about superior American alarm clocks, a death-related inheritance, a marriage quip, and assorted product pitches from Putnam and Piso’s Cure to Buckwheat Austin’s.
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America
Europe
Chicago News
Fragmented OCR shows old ad copy and notary text
The garbled passage includes names, a December date, a notary A W Gleason, and references to Hall's Catarrh Cure and Hall's Family Pills. It resembles an 19th or early 20th century newspaper mix of legal notary statements and patent medicine advertisements, with fragmented product notes about resin size and stiffening paper.
Mrs H F Roberts Speech Praises Performers And Lydia E Pinkham Ad
An aged message quotes Mrs H F Roberts praising performers and endorsing Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. It claims benefits for women with life threatening conditions, displacement, and ovarian troubles and invites readers to seek free advice at Lynn Massachusetts. The piece reflects historic elixir advertising and health claims.
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Roberts
T. UW
Kansas City
Lydia
Pinkham
Lynn
Maas
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Unionville, Mo
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Croup
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Brooklyn, N. Y
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USA
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