Epidemic Grips Cities Across the Nation
Reports from major cities describe a wide influenza outbreak with millions affected. Chicago and New York show heavy case loads, death rates rise, and factories slow. Competent authorities list tens of thousands of cases in Cincinnati Cleveland Philadelphia Baltimore Newark Pittsburg Indianapolis Detroit and St Louis amidst a national grip epidemic.
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St. Petersburg
London
Berlin
Paris
Rome
United States
Chicago
New York
Rocky Mountains
Pennsylvania
Bittsburg
Reading
Allegheny City
Wichits
Kan
Annn Arbor
Madison
Indianapolis
Ben
Cincinnati
Cleveland
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Newark
Pittsburg
Detroit
St. Louis
Anarchy's Queen for Peace Promotes End of Monarch Killings
Emma Goldman returns from the Reds convention promising immunity for monarchs from attack and outlining an anarchist vision of no crime, shared wealth, and equal living standards. Four men die in a head-on Grand Trunk Railroad collision near Locks Mill, Maine, with several injured and trains wrecked.
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Emma Goldman
America
Miss Goldman
Grand Trunk Railroad
Locks Mill
Bank Cash Shortage At Warren Deposit Bank
Warren Bowling Green Kentucky officials report cashier Luther A Porter is about 49 000 short in his accounts at Warren Deposit Bank. The error is described as a cash discrepancy with investigations underway and potential disciplinary action.
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Luther A. Porter
Warren Deposit Bank
Bowling Green
Notes of Current Evente and World News
A pithy roundup mentions Cleveland seeks snoual G encatpiest while Duke of Manchester and wife plan California visit. Marble said in twenty four states. Admiral Phelps buried at Arlington. Mrs J A Garfield widow in Jacksonville. Notes worth 1400 dollars stolen from Shiloh bank found. Havana mail service expands to five weekly. Tennessee considers kidnapping capital offense. whipping post and pillory debated. Italian counterfeiters arrested in New York. cashes 5 and 7 50 cent pieces. Postmaster Lamblion Harts confesses stealing two registered letters worth 1000. Senator Clements of Delaware advocates harsher punishments for wife beaters and abolishing pillory. Elwood Usher safely returns home after being thought kidnapped. Woman's Republican Club of Denver invites McKinley to stop in Denver en route to California. Cholera history notes in London and Paris perfumes factories with no deaths among workers. Richmond College student acquires revolver. dormitory intrigue concludes with no disturbance so far.
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Cleveland
Duke of Manchester
California
Admiral Phelps
Arlington Cemetery
JA Garfield
Preswent
Jacksonville
Fla
Shiloh
Ohio
Havana
United States
Tennessee
New York
Lamblion Harts
Senator Clements
Delaware
Elwood Usher
West Hoboken
Woman’s Republican Club
Denver
Great Railroad Unification Plan Advances Under Morgan Scheme
John G Carlisle is credited with framing a plan for a thirty-railroad system merger led by Pierpont Morgan. The combined main line mileage would reach 69 773 miles, with Vanderbilts Rockefeller Hill and Morgan already controlling eighteen trunk lines. The "community of ownership" concept seeks to coordinate vast rail interests beyond feeders, reflecting influence beyond miles or dollars.
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D. Pierpont Morgan
Vanderbilts
Rockefeller, Hill and Morgan
John G. Carlisle
Cleveland
Morgan Interests
Naval race shifts as Britain slows shipbuilding
The Boer war costs curb Britain's naval program with no battleships launched in the year while yards build two armored cruisers, a cruiser, four sloops and eighty destroyers. Russia excels with multiple first class battleships and cruisers. the U S plans many ships though Europe remains quiet. Political tensions rise in the Balkans and Spain, with Don Carlos and Nakachdize in the news as Denmark-West Indies talks near closure and Austria's elections shift power away from anti Semites toward Socialists and Radicals. Mexican Central near San Jacinto.
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England
London
France
Russia
Germany
Japan
United States
Alabama
Kentucky
Kearsarse
Wisconsin
Tinns
Liuach
Maine
Ohio
Missour
Natron
Europe
Coughs Warn Against Waiting For Consumption Cure
A health note warns that persistent coughing should not be ignored as delaying care risks progression to a serious disease. It emphasizes prompt treatment to avoid potentially incurable outcomes.
Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral Advertising Copy
An 19th century style ad urges immediate relief from coughing with Ayer’s Cherry Pectoral. It promotes quick action and lists three sizes priced at 75 cents and a sic note.
Breaking Up A Mob In The Rain Brought End To Massacre
A Les Hits Weekly excerpt notes that rain deterred mobs and armies including the 1870 Tianjin massacre where rioters burned facilities and murdered officials. As rain began, the crowd covered their heads, dispersed, and the massacre halted, illustrating superstition and weather's impact on violence.
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Les Hit@s
Tien-tsin
Carity
Rames
Taku
The Change of Life and Remedies for Women
The piece discusses the perimenopausal period with symptoms like hot flashes and fainting spells and promotes Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound to strengthen the nervous system. It also includes anecdotes and miscellaneous notes about remedies like Kemp's Balsam for grip and a Punch cartoon line.
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Lydia E Pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkham
Mus
Jensizpeenk
Keyser St
Germaprowsm
Keaip
Learned from a Woman Pencil Sharpening Lesson
A daily paper reporter is praised for precise pencil shaping with a carpenter’s chipel, revealing a skilled craft admired by male colleagues. The quip notes a discovery about sheep in Patagonia and Terra del Fuego fueling rich ranches. A brief cartoon caption and a mock accident gag follow.
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Patagonia
Terra del Fuego
Wows This: One Hundred Dollars Offer Returns
A fragmented notice offers one hundred dollars for a service or item. It hints at multiple transactions and financial details but remains unclear and incomplete in readable text. No specific person or organization is clearly identified.
Scottish Soldier Reports Encounter with Boer Ranger Girl
A Scottish soldier recalls entering a captured Boer ranger and finding a girl about 18 or 19 lying dead with a rifle in her hand and a bullet through her head.
Noisy Praise for Piso Cure and Census Stat on Education
A Norwich woman Mrs Thos Robbins claims Piso's Cure for Consumption saved her life three years ago. The note accompanies a brief statistic stating about one man in 500 in the United States has a college education per recent figures.
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Thos. Robbins
Maple Street
Norwich
United States
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Anarchy
J. J. Hil
John D. Rockefeller
J. P. Morgan
Albania
Servia
Spain
Italy
Norway
Sweden
Don Carlos
Catalonia
Navarre
Basque
Madrid
Prince Nakacidize
Czar
Nakachdize
Nice
Prince Nakachdize
Siberia
Isnt
Danish West Indies
State Department
Washington
Folkthing
Copenhagen
Financial Committee
Denmark
Reichsrath
Austria
German Empire
San Jacinto
Ayer
Mes. Jexur Nor
George
Howard
Pete
Ong Paice
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