Republican Ticket in Carthage Record Listings
The Carthage Record from Friday morning September 11, 1896 lists a full Republican ticket including President McKinley and Hobart, Governor Mount, and state officers. It also names Congressional, county, and district officials such as Henry A. Johnson, Elmer E. Roland, Thomas M. Green, and sheriff William L. Price.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Q. Thomas
Thomas M. Green
Owen L. Carr
Henry C. Thompson
William L. Price
Arvel R. Herkless
Edward I. Wooden
Idle workers and peasantry in the 1900s political debate
The article quotes Bryan and Lodge on patriotism and labor, cites a large dynamite shipment in Cuba used by insurgents, reports eleven firemen killed in Benton Harbor while fighting a midnight blaze, and notes tariff and wage politics. It includes McKinley on wages, a Columbus rescue knot story, a Bardstown aeronautic fatality, and Sen. Mitchell questioning U.S. wool competition with foreign producers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Benton Harbor
Mich
Seafaring Boa Becomes Crewman on Gracie King
A shipboard tale from Rio to New York follows a heavily smoking boa constrictor named Capstan who swayed from shrouds, puffed cigarettes, and aided the crew during a gale. The reporter relays how Capstan earned his nickname after a near mishap with the main sheet. The reptile is not yet a fully signed mariner but aims to be on the next voyage as the Gracie King nears New York harbor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rio Janeiro
Gracie King
New York Harbor
Neptune
Ship
Rio
China
New York San
Vanderbilts Choose American Husband Pleases Newport
The piece notes praise from Newport society for Miss Vanderbilt now Mrs. Whitney choosing an American husband over a European title. It mocks fashionable mothers sending daughters abroad to buy titled spouses, praising American values and urging matrons to heed the example.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newport
Miss Vanderbilt
Mrs. Whitney
Europe
A Hero on a Bicycle Saves a Woman and Child
Joseph Colley of 111 West Sixteenth Street New York rode a runaway horse to reach Mrs Johnson and her baby in Bensonhurst by the Bay. He mounted the horse’s back, wrested the reins, and subdued it after a brief struggle. He refused money but later received a $100 check for a new wheel as praise poured in from the community.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Colley
West Sixteenth Street
New York
Eighteenth Avenue
Bensonhurst-by-the-Bay
Jay S. Johnson
Bay Thirty-fifth Street
Colley
Mrs Stevenson Defends Suit in Samoa Hearing
Mrs Robert Louis Stevenson acted as her own attorney in a Samoa lawsuit over expenses tied to the Valima estate. R F Chatfield, operator of a Samoan newspaper, sued for £129 for care during her 13 month absence, but the justice awarded him half the claimed amount after a lengthy cross examination and sharp remarks from Stevenson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Louis Stevenson
Samoa
Mrs. Stevenson
California
Apia
Stevenson
R. F. Chatfield
Valima
Chatfield
Surgeon uses X rays to reveal steel lodged in hand long ago
Professor Launcelot W. Andrews of State University of Town reports a notable scragraph from an X ray showing bones in Joshua Ady’s hand. A half inch piece of steel is seen in a finger joint, lodged there for over 40 years since June 1856, discovered last night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Launcelot W. Andrews
State University of Town
Joshua Ady
Nations Clash and Curious Clinic Exhibit At Montreal
Opinions clash over nations while at a Montreal clinic cats and dogs had brains removed to show a humane science experiment under Professor Wesley Mills. A holy water fountain for St Patrick's Cathedral in New York will cost six thousand dollars and stand six feet tall. The Mexican government approves Mitla ruins exploration to shed light on early history. Chamberlains Cough Remedy is widely sold and praised by pharmacists including H M Urey of Fredonia. In Hood River a grower reports a profit of two hundred eight thousand seven hundred nine dollars from ninety six square rods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada Medical Association
Montreal
Wesley Mills
Society For the Prevention of Cruelty To Animals
St. Patrick’s Cathedral
New York
Mitla
Puebla
Arnica Salve Ad Claims and Royal Orders Note
Buecklen's Arnica Salve offered as universal healer for cuts bruises sores ulcers and skin eruptions with guaranteed refund if not satisfied价格 25 cents per box sold by Owen 8 Hill Royal Victorian Order discussed noting no ladies gazetted this year Boys will be boys remark cautions about readiness for green apple season De Witt's Colic Cholera Salve urged for households O S Coffin Co An editor paymaster at Great Bend offers a year’s subscription price to his paper if Bryan is beaten
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamberlain
Ndiana
H. M. Urey
Fredonia
O. S. Coffin & Co
Buecklen
Owen
Hill
DeWitt
Great Bend
Bryan
Dangerous Water and Health Remedies in Newsprint
An archive snippet cites dangers of impure drinking water and choleralike illness, promoting Foley’s Colic Cure and DeWitt’s products. It notes the Chicago Public Library circulating 1,173,586 volumes in a year as a world record for free libraries while mentioning silk worm cocoons in Coquille Oregon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Coffin
Chicago Public Library
Coquille, Ore
Mexican boy drops into well trying to drop cat
A Phoenix, Arizona boy holding a cat by one leg leaned over a well curb and toppled in. The water stood about three feet deep, and when he stood, the cat scrambled onto his head and scratched him, leaving him unharmed aside from a scare.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. T
Third Pear Crop of the Sea
W. T. Walker, assistant claim agent for the Missouri Pacific at Sedalia, Mo., tends a pear tree that has produced its third crop this season. The first crop was large and early, the second was half size, and the current pears are as large as pigeon eggs and still growing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. T. Walker
Missouri Pacific
Sedalia
Revolt Stirs Among Seminole Squaw Men in Reservations
In Seminole lands the squaw men threaten extermination of full bloods as council approves a law forcing white men who marry Indian women to leave the nation. About 600 squaw men reportedly live there seeking 60 acre allocations and land access.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seminole Council
No death warrant signed by British sovereign in 150 years
A historical note states that no death warrant has been signed by a Great Britain sovereign in the past century and a half, reflecting on royal authority and legal procedure. The remark highlights the rarity of sovereign involvement in judicial executions during this period.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Britain
DeWitts Witch Hazel Salve Promoted for Sores
An advertisement touts DeWitts Witch Hazel Salve as a fast healer for ulcers and open sores and claims it is the best pile remedy available, attributed to U S Collin and Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
DeWitt
U.S. Collin & Co
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Carthage
William G. Allan
WM. McKinley, JR
Ohio
Garrett A. Hobart
New Jersey
James A. Mount
W. S. Haggart
Wm. D. Owen
Americus C. Daily
Frederick J. Scholz
Wm. A Ketcham
Supreme Court
Charles F. Remy
David M. Geeting
Simeon J. Thompson
Woodfin D. Robinson
Wm. J. Henley
James B. Black
David W. Comstock
Ulric Z. Wiley
Congress
Henry A. Johnson
Elmer E. Roland
Marcus L. Sisson
Wm. M. Brooks
William T. Powell
Mr Bryan
Senator Lodge
Massachusetts
Lincoln
Grant
Tillman
Altge
Cuba
American Protective Tariff League
W. J. Bryan
William McKinley
W. F. Wakeman
W. 23d Street
Columbus
Jennie Stewart
Thomas Holmes
Bardstown
Nelson County Fair
Holmes
South America
Australia
Russia
America
Africa
Turkey
Asia
John H., Mitchell
U.S
Oregon
Germany
England
Austria
Prance
France
Westminster
St. Patrick's
Hood River
Ore
Royal Victorian Order
Coffin & Co
Great Pile
Blediy
Mercer, Henley & CO
Harness
Iran
Otto P. Aill
Weingart
Milroy
Eagle Mills
Henry C. Phelps
Stinger
East Mill Street
Tighesto
Waverly
Scorc
Belle
Indiana Bicycle CO
Indianapolis
Ind
Hill Bros
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