Weekly Leader News Snippets Span Wars Plague and Politics
A collage of items notes Postmaster General and wife with thirteen children, Sanitation in St Louis, bankruptcy petitions in New York, Hayes reception in Chicago, Butler gubernatorial petitions, Szapary in retreat, and Italian volunteer denial from Rome. It covers Japan’s empire, Mexican proclamations, and European uprisings with broad political and military chatter across continents.
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St. Louis
New York
Szapary
Rome
Bosnia
Superman
Grorar
New Orlans
Eccentric Excerpts Highlight Trade Dollars and Daily Quips
A mosaic of comic riffs and satirical lines on money and society from the era. Jokes on trade dollars woes, a Vice President hunt, and humorous vignettes about hotels, dancers, actors, and city life populate the page with social quips and cultural references.
Is Yellow Fever Contagious in Southern Cities
The piece questions yellow fever contagion amid Louisville's lax asylum policy for refugees while Pittsburgh enforces quarantine. It notes refugees arrive ill or become ill later, yet Louisville residents remain unaffected. The author poses whether yellow fever is contagious, suggesting medical authority must weigh the evidence.
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George B. Wood
Robi. B. Murray
Key West
Wm. Aitkin
Lisbon
Portugal
Prof
Hartshorne
Flint
Dowler
Don Cabanellos
Louisville
Leaprr
Pittsburg
Impending Split Rocks Belgium Clerical Party
A Puck cablegram reports an imminent division within Belgium's clerical party as the religious question stirs Belgium and Holland. Holland has progressed by freeing public schools from clerical control that harmed education.
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Belgium
Holland
Itching Piles Cure Promoted by Swayne Ointment
An 1890s style advertisement touts Swayne's Ointment as a safe cure for moist itching piles and other skin conditions. It claims relief from tetter barber's itch scald head ring worm and similar eruptions. Available by mail for 50 cents a box or three for $1.25 from Dr Swayne Son Philadelphia, with Cheyenne Wyoming wholesale contact Addams & Glover.
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Swayne
Dr. Swayne & Son
Philadelphia
Addams & Glover
16Th and
Eddy Streets
Cheyenne
Wyo
Dwi&Suéw-Ly
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