Indian Spirits Carried Him Home in Shaker Country
Mount Lebanon New York correspondent writes of Granville Sproat a 79 year old Shaker Society member who died January 3rd at 1 20 p m. He was a schoolteacher magistrate and preacher who taught Chicago first public school and served as a missionary among West Indian tribes. Indians report spiritual escort to him as he passed and affirm his unusual gifts and leadership.
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Mount Lebanon
N. Y
Hartford Times
Granville Sproat
Shaker Society
Srd
Canaan
Chicago
West
Jesus
Moses
Elias
Granville
Valuable Health Franchises and Medical Remedies Offer
Advertisements promise a health franchise through Hostetter's Stomach Bitters for digestive issues and general wellness. They cite remedies for bilious, rheumatic, nervous, and fever cases, plus cures claimed for fits, nervous symptoms, and asthma testimonials. Addresses in Chicago and Philadelphia promote market advice and remedies including Dr Kline's and Piso's Cure for Consumption with endorsements from readers.
Coffee Craft in New York Hotels Reveals Hotel Techniques
The New York Times describes how major hotels like Waldorf, Imperial, Arena, and Fifth Avenue produce post dinner coffee. It details blends, grinding, and brewing methods including Mocha and Java ratios, cold-water pre-soak, and Viennese pot steaming to achieve clear, strong brews.
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New York
Waldorf
Imperial
Fifth Avenue
Java
New York Times
How Berlinars Spruce Up Before the Curtain
The New York Commercial Advertiser notes that Berlin men habitually groom in public spaces. In restaurants and cafes they comb hair and whiskers while waiting for orders, and theatre foyers feature mirrors used mostly by men. Five minutes before showtime they groom, then return tools and take their seats with self-satisfied smiles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Commercial Advertiser
Three Indians Lynched After Spicer Family Murder
A mob in Williamsport North Dakota seized Alexander Coudot Paul Holytrack and Philip Ireland from Emmons county jail Saturday night and hanged them with a windlass. Coudot had just won a new trial for the six Spicer family murders and Holytrack and Ireland confessed to assisting. The lynching involved about forty men and occurred near the jail with the sheriff away.
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Spicer
Bismarck
N. D
Alexander Coudot
Paul Holytrack
Philip Ireland
Emmons County
Williamsport
Peter Shier
Tom Kelly
Williamport
Southern Home B L Association avoids receivership
Judge Pardee in the court of appeals denied the receiver application filed by Alabama stockholders of the Southern Home Building and Loan Association of Atlanta. The restraining order from November 10 was dissolved as no grounds for insolvency or mismanagement sufficient for receivership existed. The company showed solvency and a large treasury, while plaintiffs offered no insolvency proof.
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Alabama
Southern Home Building and Loan Association of Atlanta
Pardee
Court of Appeals
Southern Home Building and Loan Association
Important Decision in Original Package Case at Atlanta
Judges Pardee and Newman of the U S court at Atlanta Ga ruled that Southern Railway must haul Bluthenal and Bickart liquor consignments into South Carolina. The decision upholds the original package law and holds that bottles packed in boxes in carload lots are admissible under South Carolina law. The ruling bears on Atlanta whiskey sales in the region.
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Atlanta
Southern Railway Company
Bluthenal & Bickart
South Carolina
Pardee and Newman
United States Court
Southern
South
Hayti Accepts $4 Million Loan Through Lazard Brothers
The United States minister reports Hayti has concluded a loan of 4,000,000 dollars from Lazard Brothers of New York at 9 percent. Funds to be delivered immediately with paper currency to be destroyed and fractional silver and copper coins recoined in U S mints.
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United States
Hayti
Port Au Prince
Haytian
Lazard Brothers
New York
New York Horse Show Opens With Parade of Stallions
New York dispatch reports the thirteenth annual New York horse show began with a stallion parade. About 300 people filled the first tier as saddle horse performances followed, with twenty six throughbreds showing attractively in the class.
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Metropolis
New York Dispatch
New York
Southern progress notes new industries and enlargements
A Tradesman report lists the week’s new industries including Batesville Compress Co in Arkansas with 30000 capital and several electric light plants in Kentucky Tennessee and Texas. It notes mills, chemical works, oil firms, a charcoal and wood products expansion and capital increases across multiple states with dates and cities.
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Batesville Compress Company
Capital
Batesville
Ark
Corbin
Camden
5. C
Brownsville
Dallas
Terrell
Tex
Wilmington
N. C
Novelty Mill Company
Parkersburg
W. Va
Gaither
Cherille
Consumers Petroleum Oil Company
Corsicana
Williamson Oil Company
Welch
Scooba
Miss
Campbellsville
Dickson, Tenn
Gilmerton
Gordon Chemical Works
Round Mountain
Ala
Augusta
Millionaire Dentist Dead in Paris Farewell to Dental Pioneer
Dr. Thomas W. Evans, famed American dentist who aided Empress Eugenie's escape in 1870, died suddenly in Paris. Born 1823 in Philadelphia, he built a Parisian practice supported by Emperor Napoleon III, owned the American Register, and amassed a multimillion fortune. He was a noted author and celebrated figure in imperial circles.
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Paris
Thomas W. Evans
Eugenie
Dr. Evans
Philadelphia
Louis Napoleon
Europe
American Register
Is It a Bluff Railroad Men Comment on Thomas and Ryan Threat
Savannah railroad officials doubt the Thomas and Ryan threat to build a Augusta to Atlanta line to steal western Georgia railroad business. They call the move a bluff aimed at extracting concessions from Louisville and Nashville in the Georgia railroad rivalry. The officials say Thomas and Ryan are too shrewd to back a line that would not pay rent and would instead pursue a direct Atlanta Augusta shortcut differently.
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Thomas
Ryan
Savannah
Augusta
Atlanta
Georgia Railroad
Louisville and Nashville Railroad
Thorn Denies Ex-Convict Claim in Guldensuppe Murder Case
New York dispatch reports Martin Thorn accused of murdering William Guldensuppe says to his custodian there is no truth in claims he was imprisoned in Pennsylvania. An official who identified him as an ex-convict may have been mistaken.
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Guldensuppe
New York
Martin Thorn
William Guldensuppe
Pennsylvania
Two Cities Involved In Vast Minnesota Land Claim
A claim covering more than seven million acres including Minneapolis and St Paul was presented to Commissioner Harmann in Washington. Claimants C B Holloway of Holland Ohio and A A Gunn of Maumee Ohio seek government data and certified papers to support their title to the land.
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Minnesota
Northwest
Minneapolis
St. Paul
Harmann
General Land Office
Washington
C. B. Holloway
Holland, O
A. A. Gunn
Maumee
Montgomery Board of Health Lifts Quarantine Restrictions
The Montgomery board of health votes Wednesday to lift quarantine on infected places starting November 18. Household goods and baggage must be fumigated with certificates, but people are advised to stay away until the killing frost.
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Montgomery
Board of Health
Brazil resident recalls ghost encounter in boyhood
A St. Louis Globe-Democrat reader from Brazil Indiana recounts a night in November when a spectre appeared near a barn. He tests the ghost with a brick-bat, which passes through the figure, leaving him convinced of the supernatural.
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Brazil
Ind
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Simple Home Fire Extinguisher and Self Help Remedies
An article promotes making a home fire suppressant using salt and sal ammoniac dissolved in water in glass bottles for quick fire control. It also attacks the idea that stomach cures skin diseases, endorsing Tetterine as a safe remedy available at drug stores or by mail from J.T. Shuptrine of Savannah, Georgia.
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J.T. Shuptrine
Savannah
The Youth's Companion 1898 Volume and Calender Offer
The Youth's Companion offers a free rest of year paper and the 1898 twelve color calendar with subscription. Includes illustrated prospectus of the 1898 volume and sample copies on application. Also mentions testimonials for Hall's Catarrh Cure and Winslow's Soothing Syrup in a mixed advertisement page.
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Rudyard Kipling
Youth's Companion
Sarah Sands
Companion
Adress
The
Columbus Ave
Boston
Mass
Onto
Crry
Toledo
Frank J. Coexry
F. J. Cheney & Co
Oie
Conny
Frank J. Chenry
A. W.ger Hall
Hall
Mia
Winslow
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Liverpool
BPO
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Ayer
Kershaw
Southern Progress
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Lucy Goodwin
Holly
Yc Uucher
Pocahontas, Tenn
M.A. Simmons
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M. A. Simmons
J. M. Clark
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Zeilin
M. A.simmons
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Alonzo
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Wangary
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Ead Cycle Co
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