Ink dangers in school pens warn of fatal infections
The London Lancet notes that minor scratches from pens can trigger dangerous septicaemia due to pathogenic bacteria in ink. Nigrosin ink from a fresh bottle contained saprophytes and bacteria, with red and blue inks yielding many microbes. Dr. Marpmann cultured bacillus from nigrosin that killed mice within four days. ink stored openly for three months suggests ink in schools should be kept covered when not in use.
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London Lancet
Marpmann
Stout Backbone Tonic Ad Claims Health and Political Fiber
An ad promotes Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as essential for back health and overall vitality, linking digestion to spinal support and urging its use for rheumatism and kidney disorders. It quotes testimonials from J.8. Parker of Fredonia and a comment by Alex McClure of the Philadelphia Times regarding John Wannamaker and Tilly Haynes.
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Alex McClure
The
Philadelphia Times
John Wannamaker
Philadelphia
Tilly Haynes
Boston
New York
Wannamaker
Stewart
Mr. Haynes
Broadway Central
Leading Specialist Promises Cures for Female Ailments
Ad offers rapid healing for uterine troubles and fatigue from Dr. O Henley Snider in Atlanta Ga promising cures for chronic diseases dropsy rheumatism blood poison and private troubles with medicines mailed for 5 00 per month. Also claims cancers removed in 10 days and promotes Piso s Cure for children coughs and colds with testimonials. Includes Dr R H Kure nerve restorer and Mrs Winslow teething syrup at 25 cents a bottle.
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South
O. Henley Snider
Atlanta
Animals feign death and fear in wild cases
A Scotsman article recalls foxes deceiving hunters, a cat carrying a weasel, a dog retrieving a crake then the bird reviving, and elephants and squirrels showing death-like states. It notes how fear or nervous derangement can trigger apparent death in various species.
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Romanes
Sir E. Tennent
Ceylon
Joseph Thompson
Lloyd Morgan
Severn Tunnel
Attempt On Life Of Faure In Paris Grand Prix Route
A bomb attack on President Felix Faure occurred as his carriage passed near La Cascade restaurant en route to Long Champs. The device was a crude tubing bomb with powder and swan shot. no injuries reported. Police arrested a suspect named Gallet and another youth, plus two brothers later released after alibis. The incident echoes a prior 1867 czar shooting attempt at the same spot.
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Paris
Felix Faure
Long Champs
M. Faure
la Cascade
Bois de Belounge
Gallet
Levellers Pere
Elysee
Morta
Alsace-Lorraine
Cologne
Galbel
Laurin Garnier
M. Athalin
Berezowsky
Fancois
The Speed of Camels in the Desert
A writer claims camel speed rarely exceeds seven and a half miles per hour and that this pace is not kept for more than two hours at a time, challenging popular tales of extraordinary desert endurance.
Georgetown Sheriff Arrests 19 for Alleged Island Killings
The Georgetown South Carolina sheriff took nineteen black suspects into custody on Saturday over the alleged carving death of Jackson on a nearby island. They reportedly acted during a religious frenzy as he tried to murder their pastor. Sixteen were released on bond. others held for trial.
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Georgetown
S. C
Jackson
Desperado Sibley Slays Five in Kemper County Mississippi
News reports detail a deadly attack in Kemper County where a Black man named Sibley, intoxicated, used a public safety item to fatally strike three women and two children among five killed. Six others were wounded as a mob formed to pursue him after the assault.
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Mississippi
Kemper County
Miss
Sibley
Woods
Degree for Grover: Princeton May Honor Ex President
A Princeton dispatch reports rumors that Grover Cleveland will receive an honorary LL D from the university. Officials remain reticent and confirmation is unavailable, but professors and students largely believe the report true.
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Princeton
Cleveland
N. J
Grover Cleveland
Gladstone Excluded From Queen's Jubilee Procession
A London cablegram reports liberal anger over the queen’s Jubilee procession program. The Daily Chronicle denounces the omission of Gladstone and the neglect of civil and industrial progress, Parliament’s presiding officer, and colonial calls for pure democracy. The Chronicle concludes that both crown and country have advanced human welfare.
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London
Daily Chronicle
Gladstone
William
the Chronicle
England
Indian Outlaws In Limbo After Cheyenne Murder
Washington reports from Captain Stouch of the Tongue River agency detail the fallout from the John Hoover murder by Cheyenne David Stanley. Stanley and accomplices Sam Crow and Yellow Hair are jailed in Miles City awaiting civil court trial as federal and state authorities clash over arrests.
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Washington
Captain Stouch
Tongue River
Montana
John Hoover
David Stanley
Stanley
Sam Crow
Yellow Hair
Miles City
Captain Stench
Aldrich Goes Home for Rest Amid Tariff Strain
Senator Nelson W Aldrich Republican tariff bill committee member left Washington by order of his physician. Confined to his Arlington room since early tariff debates he suffered aggravated digestion and related complications. He attended the sugar schedule caucus before relapsing and was sent to Rhode Island for absolute rest away from tariff consultations.
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Aldrich
Washington
Arlington
Rhode Island
Treasury Eyes Florida Coast Filibuster Threat
The Treasury Department received a Spanish ministerial note claiming an important filibustering expedition is being organized along the Florida coast. It ordered all Florida patrol collectors and fleet masters to remain vigilant and prevent the departure of any suspected expedition.
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Treasury Department
Secretary of State
Florida
Department
Miles to ride near queen in jubilee parade
General Miles, representing the US Army, travels to Europe to observe the Greco-Turkish war and will ride mounted in the queen's jubilee parade in a prominent position near the queen's carriage.
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Queen Vic
New York
London
Miles
Europe
United States Army
Churches Urged to Observe July Fourth for Cuban Freedom
The Cuban League of the United States asks churches to dedicate Sunday July 4 to God liberty and humanity in support of Cuban independence and to dedicate collections to the Cuban cause. It also urges teachers to give half a day to Cuba and to make July 4 1897 a Memorial for Cuban freedom.
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Cuban League of the
United States
Churches of the Land
God
Cuba
League
Ex-Patriotic Societies of America
Turks Break Armistice as Turkey Mobilises Re-enforcements
A Athens dispatch to the Exchange Telegraph says Greece and Turkey have broken the armistice. Turkey mobilises reinforcements and fortifies Volo and Prevess, sending troops to various islands. The Turkish fleet reportedly passed through the Dardanelles Saturday night.
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Athens
Exchange Telegraph Service
Greece
Turkey
Volo
Prevess
Dardanelles
Cure of Diabetes Sold With Pink Pills in Madison County
Case from Madison County New York cites Amos Jaquays of Columbus Centre detailing a tenacious diabetes case that improved after using Dr Williams Pink Pills. He affirms full recovery after a year and a half of treatment and continued use to prevent relapse. The piece notes Woodman and Hyde recommended the pills and that the medicine is not a patent drug but a prescription.
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Madison County
N. Y
Utica
William Woodman
South Hamilton
New York
Amos Jaquays
Columbus Centre
Jaquays
Dr. Williams
Dr. Williams’ Medicine Company
Schenectady, N. Y
Not One Repelled Attack on Prince Constantine House
A mob attacked Prince Constant ine's house at Achaia but no one could read aloud American poems praising the prince to deter the assailants.
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Constantine
Achaia
Pittsburg
Tetterine Promises Cure for Skin Diseases
An advertised tonic asserts virtue and courtesy require curing skin ailments from simple abrasions to eczema and ringworm. The product Tetterine claims infallible, lasting cure for 50 cents a box. Sold at drug stores or by mail from J. T. Shuptrine in Savannah, Georgia.
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Heggard
Bright
Haggard Specific CO
Atlanta
Lamar & Rankin Drug Co
J. T. Shuptrine
Savannab, Ga
Not Afraid of Rats at Society Page
A Cleveland Plaindealer note describes Matilda calmly handling a disrupted meeting when youths threw a mouse through a window. She kept her composure wearing magnifying glasses as the animal became a townyard rat in the scene.
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Matilda
Cleveland Plaindealer
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Silkeston
Hires Rootbeer
Charies E
Aires Co
Phila
Kage
Faure
French Republic
Ayer
Grover
John P. Lovell Arms Co
BENS
Jovell
Lovell Arms Co
Lowell Arms Co
Eclipse
Avery & McMillan Southern Managers
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Rey
Sam P. Jones
Carteraville
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