London Seethes for News of Roberts South Africa Move
The Chicago Record notes London restless as Lord Roberts delays a decisive blow against the Boers. Sister Isabell Wilson criticizes the South African hospital service, citing nurse shortages, poor pay, and overwork amid enteric fever and dysentery. Sister Lennie Gamble arrives from Mafeking, praising Baden-Powell’s leadership.
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Chicago
London
South Africa
Tord Roberts
de- Wet
Buker
Pretoria
Transvaal
Orange Free State
Lord Roberts
Isabell Wilson
Poysl Army Medical Service
Lietermaritzbarge
Spionkop
Lennie Gamble
Enghind
Mafeking
Tamden
Baden-Powell
St Louis Street Car Strike Ends With New Agreement
The St Promix Transit Company workers reach a settlement allowing union membership without discrimination. Dismissal is possible for anyone urging others to join or quit, while a mutual committee will handle workplace issues. Strikers gain job preference in vacancies, with eligible picks limited to nonviolent members.
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St. Louis
St. Promix ‘Transit Company
Wiese
Amy Gupleve
Lee Pembesentl
Glossary of Chinese Terms From Reform Era Officials
List of transliterations and roles from the New York Sun summary detailing Tsung Li Yamen and reform society figures such as Yeo We Chuan known as the Boxers, Kwong Yu Wai and Liang Kai Chu reform leaders coming to America, and assorted provincial titles including Fan KRwei and Totai.
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Tsung Li Yamen
Foreign Office
Reform Society
Yeo We Chuan
Kwong Yu Wai
Reform Party
Liang Kai Chu
America
Kwainge Sui
Fan Krwei
Proreisa
Fu—Aa
Chibtal
Uwe
Chun Chi
General Council of State
Chung Tranu
Totai
Hui
Iisiang
Hsien
Nei Ke
Grand Secretariat
Imperial Chancery
New York Sun
Americans Slain and Wounded in Luzon Action
Scouting in Luzon last week left eleven Americans killed and sixteen wounded while a hundred and sixty Filipinos died. Eight American prisoners were surrendered and a hundred rifles turned over to U S officials. An ambushed wagon train occurred between Indang and Naic as the Third Infantry suffered nine casualties during a delta expedition. In Panay a three hour running fight killed or wounded seventy enemies with no American losses. Insurgents increasingly accept amnesty provisions.
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Luzon
United States
Indang
Naic
Rio Grande
Antigua
Panay
Snow Holds NSW Roads In Deep Winter Paralysis
An unusually early winter in New South Wales cripples transport as telegraph lines fail and trains and freight grind to a halt. Snow covers parts of the country up to eight feet, with widespread disruption and damage. A separate tornado near Blossburg Alabama causes further devastation.
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Australia
New South Wales
General Sen Wan Lin Convert and Christian Friend of Foreigners
Gen Sen Wan Lin commands North China forces guarding against Boxer pillage. A Baptist and friend of foreigners, he is viewed as the key protector for Europeans in the region. His conversion followed a friendship with Dr Sears in Chicago, and he now leads military actions to prevent bloodshed whenever danger threatens.
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Sen Wan Lin
China
Sears
Chicago
Baptist Church
Lawless Nome Faces Martial Law With Guarded Streets
Reports from San Francisco say Cape Nome is engulfed in lawlessness as mining claim gratings spark deadly feuds. General Tan Gall has imposed martial law. the St Paul reports murders, tents line fifteen miles of beach, and property theft runs rampant. The Nome Chamber of Commerce ceded city governance to US Commissioner Rawson.
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San Francisco
Cape Nome
Tan- Gall
St. Paul
Nome
SLO
China Puzzle Sparks Foreign Power Debate
A compilation of editorials from the St. Louis Globe-Democrat Pittsburg Times San Francisco Call and New York Herald argues that if China’s interior resists foreigners and seaports fall under foreign hands China may suffer. It reflects on Boxer turmoil and suggests foreign presence could sustain order prevent partition and foster civilizational progress for commerce and stability.
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China
St. Louis Globe- Democrat
Pittsburg Times
San Francisco
Celestial Empire
New York Herald
The Silly Season in Various Papers
A collage of quips and light notes from multiple papers. The items touch on summer weather, social scenes at resorts, porch life, rising fur prices, windy western Kansas, a lake serpent sighting at Seneca Lake, coast guard duties, and the buoyant mood of readers as heat and leisure define the season.
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Philadelphia Times
Milwaukee
Wisconsin
Kansas
Harvard Herald
Seneca Lake
Washington
New York Mail and
Exprese
Cure for uterine ulceration praised by Easton woman
Mrs Eliza Thomas of 634 Pine Street Easton Pennsylvania credits Lydia E Pinkham remedies with curing a two year ulceration of the uterus after four doctors failed to relieve her suffering. She reports regained sleep and ability to work using four bottles of Vegetable Compound and three packages of Sanative Wash.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Eliza Thomas
Pine St
Easton, Pat
Sun power in well digging opens desert irrigation
William Calver of Washington unveils a sun powered pumping system using large mirrors to concentrate heat, claiming a 500 horsepower furnace equivalence. Set to operate near Phoenix Arizona, the device aims to bore wells at 25 to 250 feet depth tapping subterranean streams to irrigate 500 million acres across Arizona New Mexico Oklahoma Texas and Colorado, transforming barren land into fertile fields and boosting national wealth.
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William Calver
Washington
Arizona
Phoenix
United States
New Mexico
Oklahoma
Texas
Colorado
Terry's One-Nine Part at Charity Performance
Mlien Terry related tale of Edith Wardell who insisted her mother Miss Terry play the maid servant part in a charity benefit. The pink clad maid finally spoke one line amid loud applause, asking if home meant breaking crackers into oyster soup.
Notable Criminal Lawyer Jim Ham Lewis Defends With Queer Theories
Ainslee's Magazine recounts Jim Ham Lewis winning acquittals for George Williams who killed a tyrannical Port Blakely superintendent with an iron pipe and for Paul Page who killed a Seattle hotel proprietor amid a poker dispute. Lewis argued Williams acted to society’s duty and Page was intoxicated by cannabis, distorting perception. Jury acquitted both. medical journals debated the theories.
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Jim Ham Lewis
George Williams
Port Blakely Lumber Mil
Lewis
Williams
Paul Page
Milwaukee
Alaska
Seattle
Page
Paris
Ainslee
Grain-O new food drink replaces coffee for all ages
Ask your grocer to show you a package of Grain-O the new food drink that takes the place of coffee. Children may drink it without injury as well as adults. It has the rich seal brown color of mocha and java but is made from pure grains. Delicate stomachs receive it without distress. 15c and 2d per package. Sold by all grocers.
Caedmon Memorial Cross Planned at Whitby Cliffs
A Gothic cross will honor Caedmon on Whitby's chalk cliffs near the old abbey heights. The cross will bear Runic lines from his poem with a modern English translation for visitors.
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Caedmon
Morning Voice
England
Abbey Heights
Whitby
What Shall We Have for Dessert This Day
A family question solved with a quick Jell O dessert. No boiling or baking required just add hot water and set to cool. Available in Lemon Orange Raspberry and Strawberry at grocers priced 10 cents.
Whistling Contemplations and Millinery Market Talk
A polite exchange features a young man assuring no annoyance at his whistle, and a dapper maid reveals she is the collector for a millinery firm. Carter's Ink is praised as a favored standard by the nation's railway systems.
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Carter
United States
Never to Be Forgotten Watts Do You Ever Talk in Your Sleep
In a fragment from the Indianapolis Journal a speaker asks Watts if he talks in his sleep and recalls a moment when sleep saved his wife, conveying a terse, eerie anecdote.
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Watts
N. Peck
Indianapolis Journal
Hall’s Catarrh Cure and Other Ephemera in 19th Century Ad
A collage of old advertisements touts Hall’s Catarrh Cure at 75 cents, Longfellow quoted as McKinley’s favorite poem, Red Cross Ball Bine praised as cheaper than medicine, Air Cushion Rubber Stampe advertised as best and cheapest, and Mrs Winston’s Soornina Siver for teething easing gums and colic.
Caught In The Elevator Scandal In Morning News
In a sharp city tale Stubb reveals Fink was trapped in an elevator. The incident follows his wife catching him with a new stenographer at lunch, prompting gossip about a possible collapse of his home life.
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Stubb
Fink
Penn
Japan Anxious Over Emigration Lured by Misrepresentation
The article notes Japan’s concern over many residents leaving to a foreign country due to deceptive recruitment. It compares this ploy to false claims about Hostetter's Stomach Bitters curing indigestion constipation and dyspepsia, warning against misleading medicine.
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Japan
Jocular Exchange Over Street Names In Philadelphia Train
A passenger asks to alight at Minute street but a conductor denies it. The passenger then names Sixty-second street and the quarrel humorously continues, reflecting newspaper comic style from the Philadelphia Record.
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Philadelphia
Lane's Family Medicine Promises Daily Health Bowels
An old advertisement promotes Lane's Family Medicine claiming it moves the bowels daily to promote health. It asserts gentle action on the liver and kidneys and cures sick headaches with a price of 25 and 50 cents.
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Lane
A Wifely Surmise in a Drunkenness Case
A brief notice reports Mr. Jackson-Mose Johnson fined two pounds and costs for drunkenness. His wife paid the fine and took him home. The jesting item from Puck suggests she suspected he hoped to be jailed to avoid house cleaning.
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Jackson
Mose Johnson
Linkum
Dhat
Puck
Piso's Cure Cited as Best Medicine for Throat and Lung Ailments
Wm. O. Endsley of Van Buren Indiana says Piso's Cure is the best remedy for throat and lung affections. The note adds a general remark that people who are well off are often eager to move. Dated February 10, 1900.
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Piso
Wm. O. Endsley
Vanburen, Ind
Best for the bowel health tonic advert copy
Headline style ad touts Cascarets as a cure for various ailments by regulating bowels. Claims quick, natural relief with no gripe and emphasizes 10 cent starter cost and genuine metal box tablets stamped C C C. Includes spoof line about hypnosis and a punctured tire joke.
Feet Ease Powder Promises Quick Comfort for Shoes
Do Your Feet Ache and Burn Shake into your shoes Allen's Feet Ease a powder for the feet. It makes tight or new shoes feel easy. Cures Corns Bunions Swollen Hot and Sweating Feet. At all druggists and shoe stores 25c Sample sent FREE Ace dress Allen 8 Olmsted LeRoy N Y Sure Preventive. Say old chap there'll be no more rear end collisions after this Old Chap Why you don't say Yes They're to take off the last car on all trains Jell O The New Dessert leases all the family Four flavors Lemona Prange Raspberry and Strawberry At your grocers 10 cts Prof Agassiz exploring expedition with the Albatross has found the ocean five and one half miles deep near the island of Tonga at Bua
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Allen
Ace Dress
Olmsted
LeRoy, N. Y
Prof. Agassiz
Island of
Tonga
Bua
Hall's Catarrh Cure Constitutional Cure Price 75 Cents
Useless people always occupy the most valuable moments if they can get attention. Try Red Cross Ball Blue. England's annual dewfall equals five inches of rain.
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Hall
England
Couldn't Be Spoiled Hicks No I Don’t Supposed I Am Up to Your Plane
Dialogue exchange shows a sharp clash as Hicks claims deterioration while Wicks dismisses the idea in a terse Boston Tran Berpt style remark.
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Hicks
Boston
What Do the Children Drink Grain-O Ad
Grain-O is promoted as a nourishing coffee substitute for children. Made of pure grains, it tastes like coffee when prepared properly and costs about the same. Available at grocers in 15c and 25c sizes.
Eagle Linen Writing Table with 100 sheets sold at low prices
An advertisement extols the Eagle Linen Writing Table as superior, noting a truled and unruled 100 sheet format. Letter size priced at 25 cents and Note size at 15 cents, urging buyers to ask their dealer and take no substitutes.
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Minneapolis
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Fort Wayne
Ind
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Ayer
S. L. Spellman
Columbus
Ohio
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H. Green's Sons
Atlanta, Ga
Omaha
Ans. al S Ce
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A. Sulrop
Newline
Rockeford
Dubuqu Waterloo
Dodge
Council
Tg Unes
H. Hanson
G. P. A. Chivage
Chicas
Tolono
Kansas City
P. E. Domshaven
T. A
Toledo
R.G Thompson
A.F. Wolfschlager
Detroit
Mich. L
McClellan
D. Maxrizio
Indianapolis
B. A. Power
A. B
Its. G. & Crane
F.W.N.A
Moreton T. M. Roberts
Sea Roberts’ Supply House
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