Exportant Lawsuit Decided Against Trademark Claim
A large Southern medicine company sued to enjoin the Rome Company from using the M A Thedford or M A Ford & Co. name in connection with liver medicine Black Draught. Judge Newman of the U S Circuit Court in Atlanta dismissed the suit. A related patent action against Chattanooga Medicine Co. will be argued before the U S Appellate Court in North Carolina in a few months. The Chattanooga firm, with a long trading history since 1872, is praised as a major liver remedy publisher and employer, noted for a vast factory and extensive national sales. The Times endorses Southern manufacturing and urges protection against imitation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southern Medicine Company
Ers
M.A. Thedford
M. A. Ford & Co
Newman
U. S
Atlanta
Rome Company
Chattahooga Medicine Co
Hern
Chattanooga Daily Times
Chattanooga Medicine Company
Ohio River
Union
M. A. Thedford & Co
Cardus
United States
News in General Selections From a Busy Week
The paper reports multiple events: the new United States vice president W. B. Hall arriving at Nice, the British ship Oxford burned off Point Conception with no casualties, and cholera deaths rise in Constantinople. Also noted are the Prince Alexander burial, dynamite found on Genad Island, coal mine shutdowns, and various court, railway, and political updates across Europe and the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. B. Hall
Nice
Niagara River
Buffalo
Sehuylkille
Morrison
Bush
Harrison
Kugh
Henry 8. Cochran
Philadelphia
Butler
United States District Court
Cochran
Werkesday
Berlin
Bismarely
Tle
House of Commons
London
Thuraslay
A. J. Mundell
Board of Trade
Pittsburg
New York
Lehigh Valley Railroad
United States Attorney General
Phillips
Konans City
J. W. Doane
I. P. Condert
Union Pacific Railroad
Kansas City
Missouri
Union Pacific
Kansan City
Criminal Court of
Jackson County
Darragh
Satley
T. B. Thomas & Co
Carpeta
Furniture
Cincinnati
C. B. Warrington
Thomas
United States
W. M. Green
Hamilton and Dayton
Morris
Cleveland
J. W. Bilsworth
Chicago
Vho
Gaulley River
West Virginia
National Capital Briefs: Carlisle Resignations and Hawaiian Policy
Secretary Carlisle has received Henry G. Heffron’s resignation as purveyor of customs in Denver. Logan Carlisle likely to resign Treasury chief clerkship in January for health and a Europe trip, successor to be his brother William K. Carlisle. President Cleveland prepares a lengthy annual message to Congress with Hawaiian issues likely included. Debates over U S use of naval force to restore the queen and Blount report distributions thread through committee discussions. Commissioner Lochren issues a reform in pension certificates under the 1890 act. Iron ore to be placed on the free list, wool and related items reshaped in tariff provisions, with duties repealed or reduced on carpets and wool products.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carlisle
Henry G. Heffron
Denver
Logan Carlisle
The
Treasury
Europe
William K. Carlisle
Rusk
Morton
Cleveland
Congress
State Department Tesday
Willis
Honolulu
United States
Blount
Hawaii
Porston
Commissioner of Pensions
Lochren
Ways and Means Committee
Alabama
Virginia
Michigan
The Big Coal Strike Ends in London Report
A London cable dispatch says the great coal strike ended after a conference at the foreign office. Work resumed at most collieries Monday morning, though a few pits remained closed due to fallen earth blocking access.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Foreign Office
Numerous World and Local Events Reported in One Gloomy Dispatch
Reports from Brunswick to Cape Town note yellow fever case, war end, yacht voyage, and rail accidents. Highlights include Vanderbilt’s Valiant leaving New York, a London budget bill passage, a Greenville dry goods firm assignment, and a Knoxville company liquidation. Also covers Rusk memorial in Viroqua, Detroit fire losses, and a deadly Evansville wreck with a doomed flagman.
English Coast Storm Claims Many Lives on Coast
Advices from London report at least eighty five known dead from the English gale that has raged for forty eight hours and left several boats crews missing. Newspapers continue to publish hourly fatality tallies and damage records. The Weather over England Scotland and Ireland is described as the most severe in years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
English
England
Scotland
Ireland
Smallpox Epidemic Declared in Chicago
Chicago health commissioner declares smallpox an epidemic within the city. Eighteen cases are reported in the pesthome district, signaling a worsening outbreak and heightened public health concern.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Thoreday
Trade Improves Slowly in Dan & Co Weekly Review
Dan & Co reports trade improving but slow, with heavy burdens to climb. November payments better than expected, though purchasing power remains weak. Thurber-Whyland Co failure highlights ongoing distress. Treasury cash steady, imports down, textile and woolen sectors show uneven recovery. U.S. failures rise, with several large liabilities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dan & Co
R.G. Dan & Co
Thurber-Whyland Company
Treasury
New York
Philadelphia
Boston
United States
Canada
Ohio
Counterfeit Rail Tickets Expose Major Rail Scam
A Chicago special reports a sweeping railroad counterfeit scheme. Tickets totaling over 140000 dollars were honored by multiple lines including Baltimore and Ohio Erie and Nickel Plate. Investigations have cost railroads about 11000 dollars so far. detectives are pursuing the counterfeiters as victims hold about 200000 dollars in tickets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Baltimore and Ohio
Erie
Pittsburg and Western
Disappointing Hawaii News and Queen Restoration Doubts
A San Francisco report says the steamship Australis arrived at the San Francisco Bay, bringing word from Honolulu that there was no new change in the Hawaiian political scene. The U S minister Willis presented credentials to President Dole, with expectations that the queen would be reinstated, though no explicit orders to restore her were shown. Washington expresses disappointment, but officials indicate the queen could be reinstated by force if needed. A London dispatch details a Russian earthquake near Khorassan that leveled the town of 20 000 to 25 000 people, with about 1 000 believed dead and floods sweeping the valley, endangering villages south of the area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brunswick Board of Health
Chicago
Ives
Schaefer
Cape Town
Africa
Matabels
British South Africa Company
William K. Vanderbilt
New York
House of Commons
Solomon & Blankenzie
Greenville
Miss
A.E. Tate & Co
Leland
Piefenbach
Gublonse
Gerany
Maxwell & Co
Dry Goody
Knoxville
Teen
William Shield
City National Bank
Anne
London
Mra. Gladstone
Karl Spencer
Admiralty
Countess Spencer
Windsor Castle
Nicotheroy
Auckland
Honolulu
San Francisco
Hawaiian Islands
Australia
Associated Press
Gresham
Rusk
Viroqua
Wik
Toon
Nelson, Moore & Co
Detroit
Mich
Radford Dunning
James McKay
Charleston
Board of Control
Cay
Australi
Golden Gate
Honlulu
United States
Willis
Dole
Australis
Liliankaulani
Washington
State Department
Nol
Kuehen
Frugal Health Rules From an Old Guide on Cold Weather Care
A historic health note urges light tasty baking with Royal Baking Powder and gives practical warnings about cold weather habits. Advice covers meals before cold exposure, breathing through the nose in cold rooms, avoiding frostbite by keeping the back and chest covered, not riding in open carriages after exertion, limiting hoarseness, warming air through the nose, bathing regularly, and avoiding bed with wet feet.
Facts and Fancies from a Bygone Era
A collection notes 670000 Freemasons and 650000 Odd Fellows in the United States, Welsh village choir ranks, Tur Sultan’s harem customs, machinery overtaking hand-work in grain farms, Standard Oil’s market retreat from Eastern ports, Elizabeth Banks’s London article series on life as a maid titled In Caps and Aprons, urging domestic service over shop work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Wales
Tur
Northwest
Standard Oil Company
Mediterranean
India
China
Java
Japan
Elizabeth Banks
Peru
London
The Professor's Theory and Accompanying Parlor Gag
A humorous exchange about singing lessons ends with a wry quip from Prof You Note. The item then riffs on old time advice praising Syrup of Figa and Brown's Iron Bitters, promoting their permanent cure claims and vitality benefits amid generic health assertions.
Meandering on the Farm Dream Versus Reality
A city girl reflects on farming life comparing fond dreams of a farmer’s wife with the hard, dull chores. She notes her husband leaving, cooking with splintered wood, and the clover wet with cawn, revealing that farm life rarely matches romantic expectations. Texas Sittings notes the gap between dream and daily work.
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Texas
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Pittsburg Post
Paps
Momma
Papa
Gene Boy
Hall
F. J. Cheney Co
Ioleda
Toledo
He Honey & Co
Heeoham
Hood
Diplo
Walter ‘Baker & C
Walter Baker & CO
Dorchester, Mass
General Assembly of the
Kimights of Labor
J. W. Powderly
Powderly
House of Lords
St. Etienne
France
Barcelona
Marseilles
Paris
Oboton
Pyrenees
Houvre Loubiron
Mme
Wi. Haggerty
Martinsville
N.J
Rising Sun
Dingyiate
Kinwen & Co
Areanasngn
N.Y
Scott
Scott & Bowne
Adivice
J. Re Mur
Cor
Ced
Freathe
Ville
Ala Uma
Ana
Eppard
Sheppard
Isaac A. Sheppard & CO
Baltimore
Spi
Tver
Igestarn
Er Business Universit Hillasvitla
Maclean, Clatis & Walker
Nara
California
Susstaeringt
Saute
al 'Ak
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