Fires and storms hit towns across the country
The Union Store Company's Garret Massachusetts works burned Saturday night causing $70,000 in losses and 75 workers lost tools. A yacht accident near Beach yesterday drowned Col William Chalmers of New York. Charles Holzmacher, clerk for A T Stewart Co, drowned after falling from an excursion steamer. Indians attacked Eureka New Mexico last Friday, 70 residents reported missing. Lieutenant Smith’s mutilated body fell into savage hands near Nat Station New Mexico after being killed by Indians. Typhus fever spread through the Roman Catholic Asylum on Fifty-fifth Street New York. about thirty children were moved to Riverside Hospital, one died. A hay and feed store fire in Cincinnati injured seven, four seriously, and killed Robert Warren by jumping from a window. A fierce easterly storm hit Charleston causing $100,000 in damage and deaths of three blacks and a white man on Sullivan's Island. President's condition showed slight improvement. doctors expressed hope of recovery with several days more of improvement expected.
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Union Store Company
Garrett
Massachusetts
Beach
Willian Chalmers
Maiden Lane
New York
Charles Holzmacher
A. T. Stewart & Co
Tomtatme
Arizona
Eureka
New Mexico
Smith
Natt Station
Fifty-fivet Street
Riverside Hospital
Asylum
Cincinnati
Robert Warren
Charleston
South Carolina
Sullivan’s Island
Agnew
Jr. Hamilton
Blaine
London
Scarcity of gold revives bi metal agitation in London
An earthquake at Thesme in Asia Minor near We Island of Scio caused heavy property damage. Warnament was prorogued on Saturday as the Queen's speech was read to three peers and forty members of the House of Commons. George Granville Bradley is confirmed as Master of University College Oxford and Dean of Westminster Abbey. Mr Boyton is reported healthy in Kilmainham jail after visits by two Provincial Land League members, with loss of sight in one eye. Genevieve Ward and George Jones sail for New York aboard the Lothnia after visiting Kilmainham.
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London
Thesme
Asia Minor
Scio
Warnament
House of Commons
George Granville Bradley
University College
Oxford
Westminster Abbey
Boyton
Kilmainham
Provincial
Land League
George Jones
New York Times
John Walter
London Times
Genevieve Ward
New York
Lothnia
Do Not Endorse Quack Medicines Say Reverend Hop Bitters
A Washington DC clergyman voices strong opposition to public testimonials for quack remedies but praises Hop Bitters as a meritorious, valuable family remedy. He expresses personal trust and urges others to use it, declaring it unmatched for home use. The New York Weekly publication notes his endorsement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington, D. C
New York Weekly
Thomas' Electric Oil Aids Pain and Rheumatism
The ad proclaims Thomas' Electric Oil a highly effective remedy for bodily pain, rheumatism, and neuralgia with instant relief claims. It cites positive proof and market availability at a local shop, while noting a New Orleans Picayune remark about Moses and geology, framed as opinion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H 'S
The
New Orleans Picayune
Moses
The Curious Market for Artificial Eyes in Chicago
The piece notes a high incidence of eye loss and describes artificial eyes as thin silica shells inserted under the lids. It explains that most users retain their natural eyeball, that matching color and shade is tricky due to pupil dilation, and that demand has shifted from dark to light colors. It observes Chicago’s influence from the East, and humorously recounts buyers seeking color matches while friends critique fittings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Chicaygo Later
Choean
Spotted Tail and a Sioux love tragedy remembered
Spotted Tail’s daughter is mourned after a life entwined with Lieut Livingston of the 2nd Dragoons. The couple’s son is mentioned as a memory kept by the wounded heart she bore and the native kin who raised him. Mrs. Livingston of New York seeks news of the boy.
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Spotted Tall
Crow Dog
Gordon
Art Laramie
Spotted Tail
Lieutent Stockhorst
Livingston
2Nd Dragoons
New York
Livi
Tia
Don’t throw up the Sponge warning from a bogus cure
A garbled advertisement mocks a false health claim. It warns against resignation to fate and promotes a failing remedy Burpock Bicop Birrers priced at 1.00 with a trial size of 10 cents, sold at Howarth's. The piece notes a scam where an Eastern millionaire swindled San Francisco society, with lenders and a marriage forged in its wake.
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Howarth’s
San Francisco
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Seventh Street
Penna
Gino Litzenberg
Architecct and Preaghtemas, Rea Estate
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Apurt
Hinkeen
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Chester, L’aichmaker
Jewrlere
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Market
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the Hatter
Weet Third Street
Chestex PA
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Peer L. Dannaker
Kear
Sixth and
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Elehth Street
Mysl
A. Tall
Chester Creek
Elgmont Ave
Second
Crosby Street
P. A. Welsh
South Sixth Street
Philada
East Beventhi St
Wait Chester
J . J. P. Norton
Organand
Wii
Body Brussels
Tapestry
Brussels
G. Hendricks
Drinex
Ruby
Bickley'’S
Howard Brothers
Joseph Pritchard
Merchant Tailor
Market Street
Jete-Am
City
West Fifth Street
Emlen & Ladamus
Market &T
Philadelphia
Borage F. Temple
Geo
Gilbert
Prin. Ug
Caleh
Edgmont Hall
Edgwont Avenue
Seventh Strest
Yadauw S
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Fukreriga Router
Gods
Warner
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