Legend and fate in Queretaro and Maximilian's end
The Philadelphia Ledger recounts Queretaro as a historic Mexican city with legends of an Otomite chief converting its people through a celestial sign. It links the city to Mexico’s history, noting Maximilian’s execution at Cerro de las Campanas, Carlotta’s exile, and Juarez’s refusal to spare him, with relics tied to the trial and death.
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Queretaro
Fernando de Tapia
Tulu
Santiago
Church of
Santa Cruz
Mexico
United States
Maximilian
Carlotta
Cerro de Las Campanas
Miramin
Media
Juarez
Yturbide
Austria
Miramar
Philadelphia Ledger
Indulgent Husbands and Restorative Bitters Endorsement
A health notice emphasizes confinement indoors harms workers more than outdoor exertion and promotes Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a tonic to revive exhausted nature. It claims use for dyspepsia kidney liver and rheumatic ailments and repeats the line about husbands coming home sober.
Ogilvie Report On Yukon Klondike Gold Fields
Canadian border commissioner's report on Yukon and Klondike gold regions guides travel and investment. The extensive document includes routes climate maps and photogravures. Obtain postage paid report for 50 cents from Toronto Newspaper Union Publishers at 44 Bay Street.
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Yukon
Klondike
Prof
Ogilvie
Thiesis
Ottawa
Toronto Newspaper Union Publishers
Bay St
Toronto
Canada
EE M Medicated Smoking Tobacco And Cigarettes Ad
An old advertisement extols EE.M. medicated tobacco and cigarettes as remedies for catarrh hay fever asthma and colds. It claims no opium or harmful drugs and notes popularity among citizens. Directions urge mail orders from the EE-M Company Atlanta Georgia with payment by mail.
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Ee.m
Ee-M
Ee-M. Company
Atlanta
Altogether Improbable Speed Words in a Minute Claim
The piece questions a claim that a stenographer could record 402 words in a minute. It compares typical speaking rates: clergymen about 90 wpm, campaign speakers 110, senators up to 150 with bursts to 220, and fast readers struggling at 275 to 300 wpm.
Conference Failure in Big Coal Strike Near 69 Cent Rate
Pittsburg report says the coal operators and miners failed to reach an agreement. The miners insisted on 69 cents as the sale rate and rejected operators proposals to start at 61 cents or to delay wage decisions for 30 days. The conference adjourned with no date set and the strike continuing. Operators held secret talks to plan resumption with old workers or imports, while press statements defended their positions and warned miners of potential disaster.
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Pittsburg
S Committee of Coal Operators
National and District
Board of Arbitration
Ratchford
Greeks Urge King George to Resume Hostilities
A large meeting in Athens with over 3,000 attendees urged King George and the government to reject the proposed Greece Turkey treaty and to renew fighting after a truce interrupted hostilities.
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Athens
George
Greece
Turkey
Falling Walls Kill Four in Pittsburg Fire Disaster
A Thursday Pittsburg blaze caused two firemen and two boys to die and $165000 in property to burn. After the flames were subdued the Edmundson Perrine building collapsed burying the two firefighters and possibly two youths nearby. A panic erupted at the Seventh Avenue hotel.
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Pittsburg
Seventh Avenue
Edmundson & Perrine
Possible U S Spain convention on Cuban claims settlement
A Washington special reports that a treaty may be negotiated with Spain to settle all Cuban trouble claims by a commission similar to the 1871 panel that settled disputes between citizens of both nations after the insurrection, potentially resolving outstanding grievances.
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Washington
United States
Spain
Grand Army Men March Through Buffalo
Forty five thousand Grand Army men paraded for five hours through Buffalo New York as President McKinley led in a carriage. One hundred girls in flag colors scattered flowers while 2000 youths sang the national anthem. Officials and crowds celebrated at a Music Hall reception afterward.
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Grand Army
Buffalo
N. Y
McKinley
Delaware Avenue
Black
Music Hall
Supreme Court Rules Against Leasing Georgia Convicts
The Georgia Supreme Court declares the leasing of misdemeanor convicts illegal. The report by Colonel Phil G. Byrd revealed private camps imprison convicts unlawfully, with courts able to grant prompt releases. Officials who lease convicts face legal and damages exposure. reform is urged before the legislature meets. Prominent lawyers claim habeas corpus can free all misdemeanor convicts from private camps.
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Supreme Court of Georgia
Georgia
Phil G. Byrd
Elm of Indianapolis road linked to Van Buren joke
Improvements near the National road thirteen miles from Indianapolis threaten to remove the old elm famous for a prank on President Van Buren. The tale recalls the 1830s ride to Plainfield when the stage toppled into mire, leaving the president and his secretary splashed and the elm a memory of mockery and jokes for Quaker locals.
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Indianapolis
van Buren
William Hale
Terre Haute
Mississippi
Hale
Mason Wright
Plainfield
Wright
McCaslin
Chicago
Alabama Public Figure Francis Lloyd Killed Nearby Greenville
John A Gafford, a notorious desperado, shot Francis Bartow Lloyd known writer and public man of Alabama near his Greenville area. Gafford allegedly told Earl Lewis of the murder, then a posse formed to pursue the killer as authorities were alerted. The motive and specifics remain unclear.
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Francis Bartow Lloyd
Rufus Sanders
Alabama
John A. Gafford
Mr. Lloyd
Greenville
Gafford
Earl Lewis
Bartow Lloyd
Lewis
Faure Receives Red Carpet Welcome in Russia
St Petersburg dispatch reports President Felix Faure arriving at Cronstadt and being hosted by Tsar Nicholas II. The party attended a banquet at Peterhof and met aboard the imperial yacht Alexandria, with speeches pledging cordial relations and strong public enthusiasm in Russia.
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St. Petersburg
Felix Faure
Cronstadt
New Peterhof
Faure
Alexandria
Russia
Spanish Premier backs Weyler on Cuba stance
Advices from San Sebastian say General Azcarraga, premier and minister for war, endorses General Weyler, captain general of Cuba, while reserving right to further study the Cuban question.
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San Sebastian
Azcarraga
Weyler
Cuba
Japan's first keel plate laid for a massive new battleship
The new Japanese battleship, laid at Blackwall, is described as a colossal vessel with a displacement of at least 15,500 tons with coal, Harveyed nickel armor from nine to four inches, four 12-inch breech loaders, fourteen 6-inch guns, twenty 12-pounders, eight 47 mm machine guns, four bridge guns, circular barbettes, and a speed of nineteen knots.
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Blackwall
Strength of Steel Experiment in Vienna
An experiment in Vienna tested the resistance under pressure of corundum versus steel. Small cubes of corundum and finest steel were loaded. the corundum broke under six tons while the steel split with a gunlike report, shattering into powder and sending sparks that bored into the machine.
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Vienna
Farmers complain about new applicants crowding jobs
Two farmers debate the agricultural department in Washington. The first condemns the department for hiring many urban youths as ducks. He claims no real farmers get jobs in the whole system. The second agrees the system is unfair.
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Agricultural Department
Washington
Hull Place
Puck
Wrong Horse Wins Every Race This Week Joke
A Detroit Free Press quip about budgeting and racing humor shows a father asking about expenses and a son replying that the wrong horse won each race, illustrating a lighthearted exchange on misfortune and finances.
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Detroit Free Press
Tetterine advertised as cure for eczema and skin troubles
A local ad promotes Tetterine as a simple safe cure for eczema dermatitis ringworm and other skin ailments. It urges readers to order by mail or in person for 50 cents in stamps from T Shuptrine Savannah Georgia. The nearby bootblack is noted as improving each hour.
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Savannah
Treacherous Chemicals in Modern City Trade
The article warns of daily handling of dangerous chemical compounds in a large city. It notes thousands of gallons of liquid ferric acid gas in steel cylinders and other gases stored under high pressure in tubes. It cites risks from improper storage and transportation in ships holds, with possible dangerous accidents from chemical mixing.
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Crry
Toledo
County
Lane
Omway
F. J. Cuenzy & Ng
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Frank J. Cheney
Gleason
Acta
Jon
Ada & Co
Winslow
Georgia Supreme Court
President van Buren
England
President Faure
Ayer
Fita
Renowa Chemical Co
Broadway
H. G. Linderman
Gould Building
Atlanta, Ga
L. Taylor
Nashville
Tenn
Land
J. N. Lotspeich
Morristown
Claremont College
Hickory
N.C
Mountain Air and Water
P. Hatton
A. M
White's Business College
E. Cain St
Hite
T. Whitaker
Norcross
Irginia
Haggard
Lombard Iron Works and Supply Company
Augusta
Piso ™ S
Texas
Stieenn
Tex
A. Simmons
Zellin
Zeilih
M. A. Simmons
Randol Ky
Rick Compan Eclipse
Ee Pajoo Engine
Gotton
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