A Cavalry Drill Scene and Various Notices
A cavalry drill sergeant berates recruits at Aldershot and mocks their attitudes after calling stand at ease. The Times of India laments tea drinking in Thibet and jokes about whiskey as a remedy. Connecticut reports a sect invalidly dunking an elderly woman to “heal” her, contrasted with endorsement for Hostler's Stomach Bitters. A moral on merchants refusing to substitute proven goods.
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Aldershot
Times of India
To Cure a Cold in One Day Laxative Bromo Quinine ad
An old advertisement promises a one day cure for colds with Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets and a money back guarantee. The text notes a future Canada British butter and cheese export value of 5 million dollars annually.
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Canada
Great Britain
Hall's Catarrh Cure Claim and Money-Back Guarantee
A 8100 reward promise accompanies advertising for Hall's Catarrh Cure. The text asserts a constitutional cure for catarrh, describing internal action on blood and mucous membranes, with a $100 payoff if it fails to cure. Manufacturer J Cheney & Co of Toledo, Ohio promotes the remedy and Hall's Family Pills as supplemental treatment.
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Oii
Hall
J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Politicians and Hats Highlight Senate News
A Washington dispatch notes the Senate and House on Thursday debated fortifications funding while politics dominated. Kansas Populist Simpson mocked Dingley over a London hat claim and spoke on McKinley prosperity and New Jersey trusts. The House adjourned at 5:05 p.m. Reports covered foreign fruit bans and Corbett seat challenges. The Republican caucus convened with about seventy members shaping campaign leadership.
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Washington
Simpson
Dingley
Ways and Means Committee
New York
London
Burke
Texas
Grosvenor
Ohio
Kansas
Pitney
New Jersey
Frye
Maine
Germany
Davis
Minnesota
Committee On Foreign Relations
Senate
State Department
Caffery
Louisiana
Committee On Privileges and Elections
Henry W. Corbett
Oregon
Senate Committee On Interstate Commerce
Congress
Republican Congressional Committee
North Carolina
Pearson
Tennessee
Henry R. Gibson
R. B. Hawley
Virginia
J. R. Walker
West Virgiia
Warren Miller
Cost of Cuban War Estimated at 240 Million Dollars
Madrid dispatch reports official estimate of 240 million dollars for the Cuban war from Feb 1895 to end 1897 with 40 million dollars arrears from the Cuban treasury. Imparcial criticizes handling of treaty talks by Senor de Lome and urges appointing experts to review terms for Spain.
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Madrid
Imparcial
Spain
Cuba
United States
Senor de Lome
Washington
Twelve Months for Cooper in Involuntary Manslaughter Case
In La Grange Georgia a jury found Danson's Slayer Cooper guilty of involuntary manslaughter. The court set a twelve month sentence in the chain gang as punishment. The crowded courtroom witnessed the verdict on Thursday afternoon.
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Danson
Cooper
la Grange
Fiend in Human Form Kills Family in Arkansas
A Franklin county farmer Sol F. Autrey killed his aged father, mother and ten year old son with an iron bar and wounded his wife and three other children five miles north of Mulberry Arkansas. Neighbors found him raving with his clothing on fire. He claimed witches caused the act and that he woke after the killings. Some doubt his insanity.
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Little Rock
Ark
Mulberry
Franklin County
Sol F. Autrey
Autrey
National Biscuit Company Formed From Major Biscuit Makers
A Chicago special reports a new National Biscuit Company created to unify leading bakeries across the country. It consolidates assets and debt from American Biscuit and Manufacturing, United States Baking, and New York Biscuit, with $25 million preferred and $30 million common stock and a $23 million cash transition for plant ownership. Benjamin F. Crawford is named president with H. F. Wories as first vice president and Frank O. Lowden as second vice president. The transfer occurred at Illinois Trust and Savings Bank in Chicago.
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Chicago
Salt Lake City
Portland
St. Paul
New Orleans
New Jersey
National Biscuit Company
National Company
Illinois Trust and Savings Bank
Benjamin F. Crawford
Mansfield, C
H. F. Wories
Frank O. Lowden
C. E. Rumsey
Pittsburg
American Biscuit and Manufacturing Company
United States Baking Company
New York Biscuit Company
National
California Unmoved by German Prohibition on Fruit
San Francisco fruit exporters say German ban on American fruit affects little. Albert Castle of Castle Bros. and J. K. Armib Co. with Thomas F Porter and Rosenberg Bros. note California sent too little fresh fruit to Germany to cause alarm.
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San Francisco
Albert Castle
Castle Bros
California
Germany
J. K. Armib & Co
Thomas F Porter Bros. & Co
Rosenberg Bros. & Co
Shrapnel Shots Fail Tests for U S Army
Lieutenant E B Babbitt at Benicia arsenal conducted tests on shrapnel shots for the United States army. Of twenty six shells fired half proved wholly worthless due to flimsy shrapnel. The ordnance company of Washington furnished the shrapnel. Charles R Suter of the Pacific division holds orders from General J M Wilson to supervise mounting of modern guns for harbor defense.
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United States Army
E. B. Babbitt
Benicia Arsenal
The
Ordnance Company of
Washington
Charles R. Suter
Pacific
J. M. Wilson
Washington, D. C
Southern Confederacy of Labor Proposed in Atlanta
A movement to organize The Southern Confederacy of Labor has begun in Atlanta Georgia and may hold a convention soon to unite white southern labor groups independently of northern big labor unions and federations.
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North
Souuthern Confederacy of Labor
Atlanta
South
South Carolina Moves Telegraph and Express Under Railroad Commission
The legislature passed an act placing telegraph and express companies under state railroad commission control, matching railroad oversight. It denies these firms the right to establish offices without commission consent.
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Telegraph and Express Companies
State of
South Carolina
Columbia
State Railroad Commission
Paris Toy Trade and A Benefactress Tale
Paris sends 3 750 000 dollars worth of toys to England each year. A Benefactress tells how Dr Williams Pink Pills helped her sick daughter recover after a blood deficiency. Also notes ads for eczema cures and tobacco products plus free patent guide offerings.
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Paris
England
Subterranean Rivers and Fresh Water By Submarine Boreings
Sir Clements Markham reports Nordenskiold's idea of tapping fresh water by boring granite to 100 feet where fissures retain sweet water. Martel describes Irish caves and Derbyshire underground rivers, linking to submarine cable engineering concerns about subterranean water on continental slopes impacting deep water cables.
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Sir Clements Markham
Baron Nordenskiold
Geographical Journal
M. B. A. Martel
M. Martel
Enniskillen
Ireland
Derbyshire
Yorkshire
Institution of Electrical Engineers
Benest
Monkeys as Coal Miners Aid in Transvaal Mines
Capt E Moss of the Transvaal reports 24 monkeys employed around his mines handling debris and quartz, gathering small pieces, sorting and piling them for milling. The creatures work methodically, enter the mines when debris is cleared, and cooperate without quarrel, inspecting every detail of the task.
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E. Moss
Transvaal
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Meier
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Evening News
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Slowlyeas
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King’s
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Georgia Experiment Station
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L. Gerstle & CO
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