Snow slides devastate Cherokee gulch town and mine workers
Two combined snow slides blasted Silver Plume Colorado with wrecked cabins and mine buildings. Eight bodies recovered, two missing, three rescued, with rescue teams still digging through a 75-foot drift. A second report notes more buried, collapsing upper slopes endangering the town as lives and property hang on the season’s perilous snows.
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Debria
Horgue
Carry City Gulch
Pelican Mines
Swallow Hen Gulch
Silver Prime
Plume
Georgetown
Denver
Silver Plume
Cheyenne Canyon
Desteffeno
Don't Drink Potash and Mercury This Spring Blood Remedy
A cautionary note warns against spring purges using potash and mercury to cleanse the blood. It urges selecting a safe blood remedy to energize and strengthen the system, noting many products risk harmful ingredients and stressing prudence in choosing a treatment.
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Swift
State insane asylum blaze kills 17 inmates in cottage fire
Yankton South Dakota February thirteenth a devastating fire swept the state insane asylum injuring freezing conditions and revealing overcrowding with forty female patients housed in the main building. A cottage laundry area burned trapping seventeen inmates who perished before help arrived as pipes froze and water could not reach the flames.
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Yankton
S.D
New Use of Cornstalks in Smokeless Powder
A 1900s news brief notes Dupont powder works in Penns Grove N J conducting government experiments on smokeless powder. Foremost finding: cornstalk pith may yield better results when ground powder is too coarse, suggesting a new farm revenue stream if lasting. Other short items: Judge Rufus Hardy's daughter Ilza dies in Texas fire. families burned. minor injuries to Mrs Hardy and Nan Hardy. Madrid and Paris dispatches. Missouri Kansas Texas charter suit. shooting near McKinney. a Chinese legation shooting in Paris. McClurg book firm fire in Chicago. four injured in Macon wreck.
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Penns Grove
N. J
Duponts
Corsicana
Tex
Rufus Hardy
Judge Hardy
Ilza
Bank Statement and Agricultural Experiments Report
A Brazos County Texas bank ledger notes capital stock of 100000, surplus 45333, deposits 198231, liabilities total 866264.20. A College Station field study reports corn variety trials with 42 varieties, Blounts Prolific yielding 40.7 bushels and St Charles White 39.5, with several other varieties producing 25-30 bushels per acre. Research details planting distances and methods, noting best yields from 4-foot rows 24 feet apart.
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Aes
College Station
Brazos County
Texas
Blount
St. Charles
Delawere
Beeville Station
Ichigiheeia
Old Cabin Home
Forsyth
Johnson
Ensilage
Hes. Ue
Murdock
Iowa
Beeville
Tefr
Divorce by Publication Notice in Brazos County
Citation by publication commands Billey Foley to appear at the Brazos County District Court on the first Monday in March 1899 to answer a divorce petition from Bedford Foley filed February 8 1899. The plaintiff seeks divorce custody of children costs and relief. notice issued by Clerk J C Williams with deputy B F Leman.
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Billey Foley
20Th Judicial District
Baid 20Th Judicial District
District Court
Brazos County
Texas
Ruan
Bedford Folyl E
Bisley Foley
J.C. Williams
Bryan
J. C. Williame
Prazos County
Tex
B. F. Leman
Sher- Prazos County
Cephalotus Guaranteed Headache Cure Ad
An old Chicago advertisement touts Cephalotus as an absolute cure for nervous and sick headaches. It promises relief within fifteen minutes and urges trial with a price of 10 cents for a triple package. Marsh Mig Co at 538 W Lake St invites customers to try the product.
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Marsh Mig. Co
Lake St
Chicago
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