Legend of Queretaro and Maximilian’s Fall in Mexico
The Philadelphia Ledger recounts Queretaro’s historic legend of conversion after an Otomite chief’s challenge and a celestial cross. It notes Queretaro’s central role in Mexican history, Maximilian’s execution at Cerro de las Campanas, Carlotta’s grief, Juarez’s refusal to spare him, and relics tied to his trial and death.
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Queretaro
Fernando de Tapia
Tulu
Santiago
Santa Cruz
Mexico
United States
Maximilian
Carlotta
Cerro de Las Campanas
Miramin
Media
Juarez
Yturbide
Austria
Miramar
Philadelphia Ledger
Confinement and Hard Work Indoors Threaten Health
Confinement and hard sedentary work indoors harm health more than outdoor exertion. Office workers feel weary after hours and need exercise plus a tonic. Hostetter's Stomach Bitters advertised as invigoration for exhausted nature, also for dyspepsia kidney liver and rheumatic ailments. Some husbands are so indulgent they never come home.
Yukon and Klondike Gold Fields Official Report
The Canadian Government Alaska Boundary Commissioner Prof Avie reports on the Yukon and Klondike Gold Fields. The extensive document includes photogravures maps and data on routes climate and wealth for miners. Published by the Toronto Newspaper Union Publishers for 50 cents postage paid.
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Klondike
D Avie
Yukon
Celgis
Toronto Newspaper Union Publishers
Bay St
Toronto
Canada
EE-M medicated smoking tobacco claims cure rhetoric
An old advertisement piece extols EE-M medicated tobacco and cigarettes as remedies for catarrh hay fever asthma and colds. It cites endorsements from citizens and offers mail order with 18 cents per tobacco package and 4 cents per cigarette package. References to Cheneys and HaLo catarrh cure appear amid other patent medicines.
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Ee-M
Ee-M. Company
Atlanta
Improbable claim on stenographers and speech rates
The text questions a rumor about composing 402 words in a minute and compares typical speaking and reading speeds. It cites clergymen delivering sermons around ninety words per minute, campaign speakers about 110, senators up to 150 and spurts to 220, and rapid readers finding 275 to 300 words per minute hard to process.
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Messenees
Conference Ends Without Agreement in 69 Cent Coal Strike
A Pittsburg special reports the failure of a conference between coal operators and miners national and district officials. The miners stood firm on 69 cents, rejecting operators' 61 cent compromise and any plan without a fixed rate. Operators met in secret to plan resumption with old or imported workers.
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Pittsburg
National and District
Board of Arbitration
Ratchford
Greeks Urge End to Truce and Fight Greece Turkey Treaty
A large gathering in Athens with over 3,000 attendees adopted an address to King George urging rejection of the Greece Turkey treaty and calling for resumption of hostilities halted by the truce.
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Athens
George
Greece
Turkey
Falling Walls Kill Four at Pittsburg Fire
A Thursday Pittsburg blaze at the Edmundson and Perrine building killed two firefighters and two boys, with two more firefighters injured. The disaster caused heavy property losses estimated at 165000 dollars and sparked panic at the Seventh Avenue hotel as a three story wall collapsed burying rescuers and onlookers.
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Pittsburg
Seventh Avenue
Edmundson & Perrine
United States Spain May Settle Cuban Claims
A Washington note suggests a convention to settle all Cuban trouble claims between the United States and Spain. A claim commission could be formed, similar to the 1871 panel that resolved citizens' claims after the insurrection.
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Washington
United States
Spain
Grand Army Men Parade Through Buffalo
Forty five thousand Grand Army men marched through Buffalo N Y on Wednesday to the cheers of about half a million people. President McKinley led the procession in a carriage, reviewed under a grand arch, and a reception at Music Hall followed.
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Grand Army
Buffalo
N. Y
McKinley
Delaware Avenue
Black
Music Hall
Georgia Supreme Court declares convict leasing illegal
The Georgia Supreme Court rules that leasing misdemeanor convicts to private individuals is illegal. The report by Colonel Phil G. Byrd reveals that convicts can seek prompt release via habeas corpus, rendering private camps illegitimate and contracts with private lessees effectively worthless. Legal reform and action by legislature are urged.
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Supreme Court of Georgia
Georgia
Phil G. Byrd
Old Elm Walks of Van Buren Joke to Be Removed Near Indianapolis
The古 Elm on the National road thirteen miles from Indianapolis, longtime witness to the Van Buren mud dump tale, is slated for removal as improvements proceed. The scene recalls the 1830s incident when the President and his secretary slid into mire after a staged misstep by driver Mason Wright and stage operator William Hale.
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Indianapolis
van Buren
William Hale
Terre Haute
Mississippi
Hale
Mason Wright
Plainfield
Wright
McCaslin
Chicago
Alabama Public Figure Bartow Lloyd Shot Dead Near Greenville
Francis Bartow Lloyd a noted Alabama public man and writer was killed Wednesday evening by John A. Gafford a reputed desperado near Lloyds home three miles northwest of Greenville. Gafford told Earl Lewis he had just killed Lloyd and Lewis alerted authorities prompting a posse to pursue the murderer.
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Francis Bartow
Lloyd
Rufus Sanders
Alabama
John A. Gafford
Mr. Lloyd
Greenville
Gafford
Earl Lewis
Bartow Lloyd
Lewis
President Faure in Russia Arrives and Is Welcomed
St Petersburg dispatch reports President Felix Faure arriving at Cronstadt on Monday and being received by the czar on the royal yacht Alexandria. A banquet at Peterhof palace featured speeches by Faure and the czar pledging cordiality. Enthusiasm runs high among the Russian people.
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St. Petersburg
Felix Faure
Cronstadt
New Peterhof Palace
M. Faure
Czar
Alexandria
Russia
Spanish Premier Aligns With Weyler On Cuban Policy
San Sebastian dispatch reports General Azcarraga the Spanish premier and war minister states he is in accord with General Weyler, captain general of Cuba, but reserves right to further examine the Cuban question. The notice says a convocation of the cortes is planned in November.
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San Sebastian
Azcarraga
Weyler
Cuba
Pin Money Origins and Meaning in History
Before pins, dress fasteners used strings hooks and eyes buckles and more. Pins began in 1543 in England and Were costly until taxes funded queens pins, giving rise to the term pin money meaning funds for a woman my private expenses, not equal to pocket money.
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England
New Japanese battleship to rival British fleet
The keel plate of a Japanese battleship laid at Blackwall promises a vessel larger than any British ship with a displacement of at least 15 500 tons. Armor will be Harveyed nickel steel nine to four inches, barbettes fourteen inches, armament four 12 inch guns, fourteen 6 inch guns, twenty 12 pounder guns, eight 47 mm machine guns, four bridge guns, and speed planned at nineteen knots.
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Blackwall
Strength of Steel Demonstrated in Vienna Test
An experiment in Vienna tested the relative resistance of corundum and the finest steel under pressure. Small cubes faced six tons of weight. the corundum broke while the steel exploded with a gunlike report, shattering into powder and sparks that bored into the machine.
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Vienna
Farmer Grievances At Washington Over Jobs
In a dialogue from Puck, two farmers jab at the agricultural department. The first says the department serves city ducks only, blaming the bureau for not hiring any farmers in the agency. The second notes the critique and question, highlighting perceived favoritism toward urban workers.
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Agricultural Department
Washington
Hull Place
Puck
Fresh Allowance Needed in Father Son Exchange
A Detroit Free Press column quotes a father asking for tracking running expenses and a tongue in cheek reply about a wrong horse winning every race this week. The exchange frames a financial concern alongside humor about gambling outcomes.
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Detroit Free Press
Local Disease Remedies Promoted For Skin Ailments
An advertisement touts Tetterine as a cure for eczema ringworm and related skin troubles with 50 cent stamps. Kuptrine is advertised from Savannah Georgia. Another ad promises Dr Kline’s Great Nerve Restorer cures fits after one day with a $2 trial bottle and free treatise from Dr R H Kane Philadelphia.
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Ayeges
Kuptrine
Savannah
Treacherous Chemicals in City Danger Lifts Public Alert
The city processes daily handle large volumes of dangerous chemicals in steel cylinders and tubes including liquid iroric acid gas oxygen and hydrogen. Bricks of metal sodium carried in ships under naphtha pose risk as accidents have occurred from mixing treacherous chemicals in holds.
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Emperor Maximilian
Yukon and
Brats
Onro
Crry
Toledo
Lucns Court Oas
Ae KJ
Cheney
J. Cheney & Co
HaLu
Frank J. Cheney
Hail
Coe
J. Dugary & Co
O.ste
Piso
W. Pickert
van Siclen and
Blake Aves
Brooklyn
Georgia Supreme Court
President van Buren
Francis Bartow Lloyd
President Faure
Ayer
Renown Chemical Co
Broadway
H. J. Linderman CO
Gould Building
Atlanta, Ga
Rost. L. Taylor
Nashville
Tenn
J. N. Lotspeich
Morristown
Claremont College
Hickory
N.C
Mountain Air and Water
P. Hatton
A. M
White's Business College
E. Cain St
F. B. Hite
T. Whitaker
Norcross Bldg
Flrovilla Business College
CeCe
Richmond
Frea
B. A. Davis, Jr
Haggard's
Specificco
Lombard Iron Works and Supply Company
Augusta
Wes Nainesa
Texas
Phe Nororg
Ture
Earth
Walchmans
Oh. Br
Rick Compas
Eglipse Engines
Avery & McMillan Southern
Forsyth
Muller
Tsees
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