Cuba Promulgates Monroe Doctrine Ties and Naval Bases
Havana reports Cuban constitutional delegates debate two future relations with the United States. One plan grows on Monroe Doctrine ties, declares war footing to aid the U.S., and offers bayfront naval bases for defense and sanitation. The other limits the convention to discussion only, while seeking reconstruction under U.S. policy. The former is seen as more likely to prevail.
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Havana
Cuba
United States
Washington
Marine death at Annapolis prompts naval inquiry
The Navy Department asked the Naval Academy superintendent to report on charges raised by Representative Rixey that marine Hobart Green of Virginia died from ill treatment while ill at Annapolis. Green reportedly died December 14 from quick pneumonia after marching ill and being washed beneath him in a hammock aboard the Santee. his father is a special pension examiner from Sandusky, Ohio.
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Washington
Navy Department
Naval Academy
Rixey
Virginia
Hobart Green
Annapolis
Green
Santee
Sandusky, O
Trichinosis Strike Hits New Sweden Family
An entire New Sweden Nicollet county family is stricken with trichinosis after eating smoked sausage not cooked. Father and a daughter are dead, others gravely ill with physicians abandoning hope for survivors. In Duluth James Richards, 82, a Civil War era ally with Underground Railroad ties, dies. Barazinski and Genkinker found dead from gas asphyxiation in Chicago. Tim Donahue to manage Duluth team. Rockefeller denies racing plans. Senator Rango introduces a bill on graded punishment in Nebraska.
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St. Peter, Minn
Forbhecook
New Sweden
Nicollet County
Huge Whitefish Hatchery visible at Detroit river exhibition
During the whitefish spawning season the Detroit river fisheries yielded about 20 000 white fish producing over 200 000 000 eggs. Eggs placed in Detroit and Put-in-Bay hatcheries will yield about five percent in spring. A variety of Great Lakes fish were penned at Belle Isle for February shipment to the Chicago International Forest Fish and Game exposition. Nine land locked salmon from Lake St John have joined the exhibit and retain saltwater traits.
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Detroit River
Detroit
Put-in-Bay Islands
Great Lakes
Belle Isle
International Forest, Fish and Game Association
Chicago
Lake St. John
Quebec
Canada
Atlantic Ocean
Maine
Starr to study Indians on six month Mexican expedition
Prof. Frederick Starr of the University of Chicago sails for six months among Mexican tribes including the Lacandones. He plans field work in Chiapas with three assistants to photograph, plaster busts, and measure 125 women per tribe while exploring a region where historical violence and a local skin disease called Pinto will be examined. This marks his twelfth and final trip to south Mexican Indians.
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Frederick Starr
University of Chicago
Mexico
Western Hemisphere
Wai
Chiapas
Pinto
Starr
Hendred
Emperor’s return plans teased by Omaha Bee echo
An Omaha Bee mockingly suggests when the emperor of China decides to go back to Peking, authorities will ensure his room is prepared with a fire lit and furniture dusted, if only he would inform them of his decision.
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China
Peking
Omaha Bee
Trick of the Trade at the Diamond Ring Counter
A jittery young man flirts with a jeweler over a diamond ring as he tests whether the purchase is for courting or engagement. The clerk explains pricing from $25 to higher stones, noting resale value if engaged, while the buyer probes costs and value.
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Washington
Palmer's Lotion Credited With Cure by Cincinnati Agent
I W Kesler, a general news agent at 524 Front Street Cincinnati, Ohio, writes Palmer's Lotion cured a two year eruption on his face after other physicians failed. First application eased soreness and pain, followed by a complete cure. He promotes Palmer's Lotion Soap and offers samples from Solon Palmer in New York.
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I. W. Kesler
Front Street
Cincinnati
Ohio
Palmer
Mer
Ist
Solon Palmer
Pearl Street
New York
Duchess cures marshal by giving grades tailored doses
An elderly soldier contracts a fever from Marshal Le Febvre and fails to recover until the duchess corrects the doctor’s error by dosing per rank. She forces the marshal to take multiple drinks and quickly restores him, remarking that the doctor has much to learn.
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Marshal le Febvre
Duke
Chicago Chronicle
Mysterious Quote and Patent Medicine Ad Fragment
A fragmentary item quotes a man emphatically about a husband who is a professor of languages and mentions terms in a garbled way. It then promotes Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic as a patent medicine with no cure no pay and iron and quinine in tasteless form, ending with price incomplete.
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Heation
Richmond Dispatch
Grove
Cook Prefers White Meat, Guests Vote Dark or White
A Baltimore American excerpt shows Mr Gooph asking guests which meat they prefer. Eight guests chorus white. The cook insists on white meat and asks guests to reconsider. The brief captures a dining quirk with a humorous dine-in moment.
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Mr. Gooph
Baltimore
To Cure 2 Cold in One Day Take Laxative Bromo Quinine
Advertisement-style note promising a faster cure for colds using Laxative Bromo Quinine tablets. Includes a claim of a full refund if it fails to cure. No verifiable medical effectiveness stated.
Getting Old and Youthful Jokes and Quotes
A collection of quips about aging and perception including a Punch joke about looking young and a line on Carter's Ink claiming quality. Contains brief witticisms and social observations with familiar names echoed in the era.
The New Cup Defender Builds Hype and Secrets
A sketchy market note touts a yet secret new Cup defender vessel promised as the fastest yet with whispers it will win. America rises in prominence, and a home remedy ad from Hostetter's Stomach Bitters claims wide health cures. Testimonials tout Piso’s Cure and other products amid mixed ad copy and brief notices from Town Topics and local vendors.
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America
Hostetter
The Change of Life Cure by Lydia E Pinkham’s Compound
A testimonial ad touts Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound as a remedy for menopausal symptoms. It claims the product strengthens nerves, relieves hot flashes, fainting spells, and anxiety, and enables a triumphant change of life. Mrs Jennie from Germantown endorses the cure after severe illness.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Jennie Sane
Keyser St
Germantown
Burnham's Hasty Jellycon described for jelly making
The text promotes a pac Mi only Burnham's Hasty Jellycon as simple to prepare by dissolving in boiling water and cooling. It claims to yield a purely clear jelly ideal for jams and jellies in orange lemon straw-trach wild cherry and calvesfoot flavors for wine and coffee jelly production. All grocers stock it.
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Burnham
Without the Frills A Town Wedding Tale
An Atchison Globe report mocks a church wedding with pomp. Guests bring poor gifts, decorations borrowed, ushers in claw-hammer coats, gloves from an undertaker, and a ring from the village jeweler. The bride is plain, the groom in old black, and the couple heads to St. Toss with scant funds.
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Atchison Globe
Gen Wheeler Relieves Umbrella Mix Up On Rainy Streetcar
In Washington a rain soaked day led Gen Joe Wheeler to aid a passenger by returning her umbrella after a woman claimed another umbrella. Wheeler apologized when accused of misplacing a share and retrieved the correct umbrella, then returned to his seat mean while the episode drew attention on the crowded car.
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Washington
Gen
Joe Wheeler
Fourteenth
Pace
Gen. Wheeler
Designing Landlord
A traveler asks why a waiter stays near a young married couple. The landlord replies that the waiter is kept nearby to maintain order and spur his removal, illustrating a terse comic exchange about social dynamics and decorum.
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Meggendorfer Etter
Fragmented quotes on conduct and society from old papers
A jumble of quotations on violence, advice, marriage, civilization, and friendship from Philadelphia Press Town Topics Detroit Journal and Emerson style musings. It contrasts fatal wounds with luck, praises prudence in romance, fancies tetraphy and tradition, and notes silence as treachery.
Night sweats signal kidney weakness and serious diseases
The passage links night sweats to systemic kidney weakness and notes they precede advanced stages of Bright's Disease, diabetes, heart disease, paralysis, or other kidney involvement. It suggests detecting brick dust or sediment in morning urine as proof you need treatment.
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Bright
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