New York Clearing House Figures Show Mixed Half-Year
New York clearing house data indicate a 20 percent drop in half-year payments versus last year due mainly to fewer new industrial undertakings. Outside New York, six months through June show a 1.5 percent rise. the West outperforms the East with gains in the midwest and Pacific states, while New England and New York City suffer losses. Chicago notes active speculative trading in grains amid crop uncertainty and doubts about government estimates, with prices fluctuating but ending not markedly changed. Weather impacts on the wheat and corn outlook remain key, as some Kansas and Nebraska areas endure heat and drought but may recover with rains and milder heat.
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Cincinnati
Kansas
Nebraska
Iowa Senator Gear Dies in Washington D C
Senator John A W Gear of Iowa died in Washington D C on a Saturday from Bright's disease. Born April 7 1825 in Ithaca New York he moved to Minnesota frontier work and became a Burlington Iowa merchant and editor. He served as Mayor of Burlington Governor of Iowa and in Congress before being elected U S Senator beginning March 4 1901.
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John HW. Gear
Washington, D. C
John AW. Gear
Iowa
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Burlington
Senator Gear
Ithaca
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Peruna touted as cure for summer catarrh by Exposition manager
Mary J Kennedy of Ar mour Co. extol s Peruna as a permanent cure for summer catarrh after an eight year travel disrupted digestion. She claims Peruna cleanses the stomach and liver, purges impurities from blood, eradicating chronic catarrh and relieving related symptoms. Also an old joke about a patient quitting cigars after meals following a doctor’s tip.
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Armour & Co
Omaha
Neb
Miss Kennedy
Peruana
Peruna Medic Co
Volumb
Ohio
Drink Water By Ice Cold Preference Sharpened
A Ladies' Home Journal note advises against ice-cold water and promotes iced water cooled without contact with ice. It suggests drinking a small amount before retiring and first thing in the morning as a cleanser and diuretic.
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Ladies’ Home Journal
Try Grain O Grain O the New Food Drink
Ask your grocer to show you a package of Grain-O the new food drink that replaces coffee. Children may drink it without injury and adults like it. Grain-O has a rich seal brown color like Mocha or Java but is made from pure grains. Delicate stomachs receive it without distress. Price 15¢ and 25¢ per package. Sold by all grocers.
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Bs All Grocers
Desert of Sahara and health cures in a Gazette notice
An old Roxbury Gazette excerpt features a fragmented romance line and then stray advertisements. Lane's Family Medicine promotes daily bowele care for liver and kidneys and cures sick headache for 2 shillings 30 cents. Hall's Catarrh Cure is advertised as constitutional. The piece closes with a remark on fame arriving in small installments.
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Lane
Notice on a Woman’s Advertised Remedy in Notre Dasse
A Notre Dasse resident promotes a home treatment advertised across papers in this continent and abroad. Mrs Summers and her assistants push the program, with endorsements from Mrs Rev G H Hunt of Mt Vernon New York. The article praises a female driven effort as a rational medical application competing with men.
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Notre Dasse
Ind
GH. Hunt
Victoria Cross recipients count among aging heroes
Of the men who won the Victoria Cross in the far-away '0s no fewer than sixty-four are living today. Thirty living holders are entitled to wear the Cross for more than forty years. Among the sixty-two Crimean heroes decorated on June 26, 1857, twenty-four are still living.
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Hegde Park
Homeseekers Excursion Tickets Sold by Railroads
On the first and third Tuesdays of June July and August the Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad offers Homeseekers Excursion tickets to Alabama Arkansas Florida Georgia Indian Territory Kentucky Louisiana Mississippi Missouri North Carolina South Carolina Tennessee and Texas. One fare plus 2.00 for round trip. Tickets limited on going trip fifteen days from sale date. returning limit twenty one days from sale. New wide vestibule train operates between Chicago and Waco and Fort Worth with through Pullman sleeping cars and free reclining chair cars. Contact any agent or Co L Stone for details.
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Georgia
Indian Territory
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Louisiana
Mississippi
Missouri
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Texas
Sile
Cage
Waco
Fort Wo Jeasi Taly
Pullagan
Chicago and Eastern Ilinois Railroad
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G. P. & T. A. Chicago
Family Plans Hotels in Kansas City and Philadelphia
A fragment from the Indianapolis Journal shows a family discussing opening hotels in Kansas City and Philadelphia to capitalize on business money. Also mentions Mex Winslow’s SooTarse for teething, claiming relief of pain, wind colic, and drooling, with a scented bottle.
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Indianapolis Journal
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Tears and sorrow in quiet moments of life
A reflective quote marks tears as glimpses of emotion, noting sorrow often arises when grief is hidden and deep sadness can exist without outward crying.
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Johnson
Image of Buddha at Kotokuin Monastery in Japan
A description notes the Kotokuin monastery built under Emperor Thoma around 737 A D. The bronze Buddha statue outside the monastery stands fifty feet high with a ninety eight foot waist circumference, a face over eight feet long, an eye four feet, ear nearly seven feet, a mouth over three feet wide, a four foot long nose, and a thumb circumference over three feet.
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Secretary Hay adds chapter from Quo Vadis manuscript
A note describes Secretary Hay's collection of literary curiosities being expanded by a chapter from the original manuscript of Quo Vadis. The fragment quotes Epictetus on living free from sorrow and ponders future events as if already occurred.
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Hay
Fragmentary quotes illustrate evasive or enthusiastic tone
Readable phrases show a speaker described as an enthusiast who pursues goals in various matters. The second line hints at someone being sent on wild goose chases and then speaking of afterwand as e sportsmsn, suggesting confusion or miscommunication in dialogue.
Grain-O Mew Feed Drink Promises Coffee Flavor Alternative
A playful ad style note introduces GRAIN-O as a new drink that mimics coffee taste while promising nourishment for students. It references costs and senior year figures, and includes a brief, non-specific address line and dated remark from Minneapolis in 1900.
Fire devastates Prescott Arizona business district
Large blaze strikes Prescott causing massive damage to shops and offices. Temporary structures rise to shield the city as merchants resume limited operations. Insurance estimates reach about 330000 while port cargo duties cost around 80000. Fire response alleviates immediate needs with local provisions and shelter.
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Prescott
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