Douglas Factory Expands to Produce 6000 Pairs Daily
Brockton Mass Times reports L Douglas plans a four story 100 by 40 foot addition adding 16000 square feet for manufacturing to lift output to 6000 shoes per day starting July 1. New 400 HP engine and 150 HP boiler boost power, payroll projected at 22000 weekly, and advertising budget rising to drive 25 percent higher sales as the operation grows.
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L. Douglas
Brockton
Douglas
Brockton, Mass
Times
Grain-O: A Healthful Coffee Substitute
If coffee poisons you grain O offers a grain based drink with none of coffee’s drawbacks. It is nourishing, pleasant tasting and comparable in cost to coffee. Suitable for children and adults, ask your grocer for Grain-O. 15 and 25c. Live and let live.
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Lydia
Iskhash
Lydian E. Pinkham
Wetmore
Provisions of the Platt Amendment synopsis
A condensed outline of the Platt Amendment adopted by Cuba’s Constitutional Convention. It bars treaties harming independence, limits Cuban debt, allows U.S intervention, ratifies U.S. acts during occupation, promotes disease control, addresses Isle of Pines, and permits land leases for U.S. bases. Senator Platt proposed the measure, and Congress added it to the army bill with a presidential withdrawal clause.
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Cuba
United States
Isle of Pines
Congress
Orville H. Platt
Connecticut
Cuba's Constitution Back to Havana for Revisions
President and Cabinet reject the Cuban constitution as substantially compliant and return it to Havana with instructions to strike redundant language and provide a clear definition of future relations under Platt amendment. The president may accept after minor wording changes and withdraw U.S. troops once conditions are substantially met.
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Root
Spooner
Pratt
Havana
United States
Washington
Congress
McKinley
Root Kand
Anxiety For Mrs McKinley After Return To Washington
Mrs McKinley remains seriously ill after a California attack. Despite rest at the White House there is no crisis, but the condition is unstable. Officials deny alarming reports while noting only slight improvements and a high risk of collapse remains possible.
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California
Alck
Washington
White House
Boers Punish British at Viadfontein in January Clash
Lord Kitchener reports 174 British killed or wounded at Viadfontein near Zonder, the fiercest engagement since Magaliesburg. Delarey attacked Brig. Gen. Dixon, Boers driven off with heavy losses. 35 dead on the field and several officers among the casualties. Also note William Furlong of New Boston Texas died in jail from starvation after refusing food.
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Lord Kitchener
London
Lord Roberts
Johannesburg
Viadfontein
Gilem Vt
Magaliesburg
Vladfontein
William Furlong
New Boston
Texas
Vast mix of society gossip and trials in century paper
The article recounts multiple tales from gossip and legal matters, including a man named Wellington Wie found with jewelry and pawn tickets, Miss Marie Wilson’s stock tips and wealth, a rumored replacement of Charles Denby as minister to China, Emily Katz influencing Utah politics, former Congressman Charles Boutelle’s death, and civic notes about Fenton’s lack of town officers, plus executions of two German soldiers in Tientsin.
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Alice
Wellington
Marie Wilson
Wall Street
John F. Manning
Allen B. Davis
Miss Wilson
James R. Keene
Iflorodora
New York
Gol
Charles Denby
China
Washington
Edwin H. Conger
Col. Denby
Cleveland
Harrison
Henry W. Blair
Pekin
Col. Denny
Indiana
Misa Emily Katz
Heber M. Wells
Utah
Miss Katz
Salt Lake
Charles A. Boutelle
Bangor
McLean Asylum
Waverly
Mass
Boutelle
Congress
Navy
C. Asboutelle
Ness
Boston
Fenton
St. Louis
United States
Tientsin
Glorious Wheat Fields Highlight Western Canada Prospects
A Duluth traveler’s letter extols Western Canada lands with wheat yields of 25 to 30 bushels per acre. He notes dense shocks, mild winters aided by the Japan current and chinook winds, and mentions forthcoming Saskatchewan Valley districts. Advertisements urge information from Government agents and promote Grain-O, Allen’s Foot Ease, Holl’s Catarrh Care, Piso’s Cure, and fishing luck products as practical buys.
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Duluth
Canada
Japan
Saskatchewan
The Little Girl's Prayer and Health Remedies
The passage cites a child praying to avoid school exams by illness, then a Kansas blacksmith's recovery from Rheumatism after using Dodd's Kidney Pills. It claims cures for Bright's Disease, Diabetes, Dropsy, and Heart Trouble, praising the medicine and asserting extensive effectiveness.
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Harper's Magazine
Goodland
Kan
N. B. Albertson
Dodd
Bright
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