Poisonous nail polish and restless sports amid 1899 notices
The article notes concerns about toxic German-made paint on ToYa and warns of duty judgments at jumping jacks with protruding strings. It highlights women golfers breaking records, the Wellesley charity team aiding Cairo destitution, and a sweep of social and economic topics from Mormon recruitment to pig iron growth in Britain and American nobility across Europe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toya
Cairo
Wellesley
Gaines Valley
The Night Pal Seagraves Attacked a Kentucky Lecture
A young speaker recounts teaching temperance to mountain families in Jackson County Kentucky. Pal Seagraves, a feared desperado, crashes the session drunk, mocks the lecture, and later confronts the preacher outside and at the host’s house as townsfolk fearfully watch. Seagraves eventually leaves, later seeking a calmer life, while the speaker reflects on courage and cowardice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kentucky
Richland Creek
Horse Lick
Wamer
Pal Seagraves
Madison
Will
Jess
Jackson
Ral Seagraves
Caie
Madison County
Seagraves
Pal
Pat
Iiandsa
Val
Seagroves
Folka
Pally
Palestine
Bekaso Hit
Seagraves Hiweolf
Thad
Tsoon
Songraves
Sol
Gyall
Cheaperado
Manta
Rafian
Torghten
Fragmentary moral quip in Youth's Companion text
A clipped excerpt discusses modesty and morality with a rough proverb about a man named Pall. The fragment touches on courage and action, contrasting restraint with boldness in a rural or frontier setting. It reads like a wartime or frontier era moral vignette from Youth's Companion.
Eccentric Pat Driscoll the Millionaire Arizona Bachelor
A feature profiles Pat Driscoll of Ash Fork Arizona a wealthy bachelor who lives frugally in a bare cabin. Once a miner in Nevada and California he made a fortune in Arizona earning 2000 a month from mining and 15000 to 20000 monthly from his wine stake in the Santa Fe Prescott and Phoenix Railway company. He has no known relatives and shuns city life fearing he would be a fish out of water outside mining camps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ash Forke
Arizona
Prescott
Phonix
Santa Fe Hno
Pat Drisco'l
Dhere
County Antrim
Ad Tvan
Nevada
California
Pat Driscoll
Heo
Santa Fe
Phenix
Ash Forks
Driscoll
Mississippi River
Pat
Ash Forksman
Ncarcely
Snd
Direct Advertising Truths and Learnings From Practice
A compact piece on advertising honesty and effectiveness argues against overblown language and gimmicks. It stresses direct, confident copy, proper use of space, and the value of a plain store-news approach for credible advertising performance.
Tornado Ravages Herman Omitting Few Survivors
A Curtis windstorm struck Herman destroying nearly all structures and killing over a hundred. A special train carried surgeons and supplies from Blair to treat the wounded, with forty to fifty more left to be evacuated for care at Dintr as the town lay in ruins and streets lay in desolation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Osram
Nob
Herman
Exlatsace
Washington County
Chicago
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Omaha
Blair
Trib
Dintr
Horman
Desolation Follows Tornado Through New Richmond City
The New Richmond tornado left a ruinous wake as two hundred houses and stores were destroyed or burned, with many residents missing or dead. Hospitals in St Paul and Minneapolis take the injured for care while insurance is scarce and death toll estimates vary widely.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New Richmond
Acaacon
Iy. Ing
St. Paul
Minneapally
Hudson
Omaha
New Mitchmond
A. Nelson
Jie
Lig Place
Sigier
Set
I Gallwan Brothere'yohony
New
Mixed 19th Century News From Around the World
Reported items include the torpedo boat Stringhans launched at Wilmington Delaware and a Chester Alan Arthur statue unveiled in Madison Square New York City. May horticultural exhibit in St Petersburg with 75 Turkish and 300 foreign gardeners attended. Brooklyn’s Fortieth Anniversary Latin grammar school set record with 24 000 candidates seeking admission.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Wilmington
Del
Chester Alan Arthur
Madison Square
New York City
Cleveland
Samoa
St. Petersburg
Thugslan
Todiana
Wageliet
Rranunat School
Brooklyn
Storm Sighting Causes Refuge In Richmond Area
A severe storm drove crowds from a circus to seek shelter in nearby brick structures and cellars. Many fled to underground refuges as roofs and buildings were destroyed, with at least ten people killed at the Nicollet Hotel.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nicollet Hotel
Aupper
Heavy Rains Cause Major Damage Across Wisconsin Towns
Storms drenched La Crosse Iron Bridge Wilton and surrounding areas, forcing 50 North La Crosse families to evacuate by boat. Floods damaged bridges and crops, with losses across Kickapoo Valley and Baraboo River flats. Minneapolis aid requested as relief funds open.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
la Crosse
Spastal
North
la Crossy River
Enor
Wis
Baraboo
Wilton
Elsay
Vions
Wir
Shodal
Kickapoo
Branta
Lipholty
Mob Lynching Casts Shadow Over Florida Towns
A mob of about five hundred Black residents lynched two men in Dunellon and another in Ocala after rumors of a brutal assault and murder. The incidents prompted fear and rural unrest as authorities sought to quell the violence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baunis
Aisa
Simoa Grooka
Colorad
Midaigit
Dawo
Nee Groes
Dreyfou Affair Triggers Cabinet Resignations Crisis
The cabinet resigns are accepted in a broad chamber vote as a reformist majority presses for the premiership of Charles Dupuy. Interpellation by Socialist M Vallant is viewed as a protest masking the real cabinet crisis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Panra
Cibla
Tras
Chamber of Deputies
Lonbet Bas
Bas
Charles Dupuy
M. Valliant
Governor orders detachmen t of MINIs to pursue robbers
Governor Richards orders a state militia detachment from Buffalo to pursue Union Paddy team robbers. Captain Thom is to muster mounted men with pack trains and supplies for two weeks and report to EB. K. at the U.S. Marshal. Outlaws are reported on E.K. Mountain in the Big Horn range north of the Mouse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cufresne
Wye
Richards
Milla
Buffalo
Thom
Tt. Bubl
E.K. Mountain
Big Horn Range
Boutrive
Neb
California
Russia
Siberian
Noubaix-Tourcoing
France
Portland
Oro
Northwest
St. Louis
Rostern
Philadelphia
Texas
Two infantrymen killed by accidental Krag Jorgensen discharge
Private Murphy, a new recruit in Company B, discharged a Krag Jorgensen pistol during a training incident at Camp Mende. Corporal Cummnings and Bostel of Company F were struck. Cummings died near the heart from the shot, Bosted was wounded. Murphy is in the guardhouse.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wannisotna
Penn
Regular Infantry
Camp Mende
Murphy
Company Bs
Guba
Cummings
Bostel
Dullet
Bosted
Cumming
Alurphy
New Commander Named to Monadnock at Mantla
Captain John McGowan detached from the training station at Newport BC and ordered to command the Monadnock at Mantla in a fresh assignment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John McGowan Hig
Trainiog
Newport
Mantla
Battle at Bucoor Bridge In Philippines Campaign
Reports recount an artillery and infantry assault on the Zapote River bridge near Bucoor. American forces led by General Lawton and General Wheaton faced Filipino trench lines, captured the first line, and pressed the attack with heavy shelling from Monadnock and Helena, with two American killed or mortally wounded and about twenty five wounded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maxina
Cable
Bucoor
Otis
Pio del Pilar
Zapote River
Kenley
Fourteeoth
Fourteenth Regiment
Rebots
Bacoor
Aoast
Lawton
Philippines
Tvo
Wheaton
Faltfat
Diehorn
Ovenshilno
Monadnock
Huelena
Epenny Benny
Warshiza
Henderson to become Speaker of the House of Representatives
Special from Washington says David B Henderson of Iowa is virtually assured the Speakership after Reed's resignation. Western delegates back him and New York Maryland and Massachusetts will vote for him. Henderson, 59, born in Scotland, lost a leg in the Civil War and has served seventeen years in Congress. He is noted for oratory, Civil Service support, and a fondness for patriotic songs and light singing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washinatox
D. C
House of Representatives
David B. Henderson
Iowa
New York
Maryland
Massachusetts
Henderson
Reed
Congress
Scotland
House
Dave" Henderson
Washington
Warren Bb. Hooker
Handerson
Wasarxotor
Db. C
Weather Bureau
New England
New Jersey
Colorado
New Mexico
Missouri
Mississippi
Ohio
Pacific Coast
California
Oregon
Miassasinp
Illinois
Nebraska
Kansas
Oklahoma
Kentucky
Tennessee
Atlantic States
Arkansas
Ohio Valley
Middle Atlantic
Dakotas
Minnesota
Montana
Red River
North Valley
General Luon and aide-de-camp killed at Aguinaldo HQ
Information reports the assassination of General Luon and his aide-de-camp Lieutenant Ramon Pasco by Aguinaldo's guard at Aguinaldo’s headquarters. The incident follows tensions during reconsideration of allegiance and power in the revolutionary leadership.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aguinaldo
Luon
Pasco Ramon
Luna
Ramon
Coal Miners Strike Shuts Down Verge of Pennsylvania Field
More than 3000 coal miners in Clearfield region walk out seeking two and a half cent wage rise. Berwind-White works resisted, 600 miners protested, rail traffic down, and fear of broader spread across the illinois coal region and tidewater markets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clearfield
Tooxa
Penn
Clearfald Ragin
Berwlod-White Company
Bernid-White
Clourfield
Buffalo, Rochester and Pittsburg
Clourlelt
Jefferson
Lel
Atclkers
Iltuminous
Tidewater
Philadalpata
New York
Outlaws Attacked Cuban Plantation. Robbery and Killings Reported
Report from Havana via cable describes an assault near Guanajay Pinar del Rio where ten mounted men surrounded Francisco and Naguel Montelongo's house. Francisco was killed and valuables looted while Manuel was bound. Nearby farms at Pepula and Serafina also attacked. a Cuban guard detachment drove off the attackers and an unnamed Black man was wounded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Havana
San Francisco
Guanajay
Pinar del Rio
Francisco
Naguel Montelongo
Montelongos
Manuel
Pepula
Serafina
Antonin Milrales
Lee
Senor Dols
Pinar del Ilo
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G. J. Millan
The
American Tract Society
London Sunday Mail
Foundling
United States
Great Britain
Englant
Italy
Countess von Waldersee
Hatzfeld
Germany
Duc d’Arcos
Grant
England
William E. Barton
Ene
Pall
Arizonna
Aland
Mr. MI
Archie
H. Read
Jenkins
Tnsurance Company
Thia
Endurance Company
Chicago Journal
Cuno
Lozinenn
Tig
Guy'nor
London
Nnrace
Hizicken
New Hichmond
Sturm
Richmond
John Quinn
John
Eagle Bridge
Ind Wba
Kansas City
Pittsburg
Gulf
Grandview
Aamillary
Lawoil
Wass
Hag
Froaldeat
Vo Otter Companiov
Tories
Wisconsin
Croska
suQarad
Minneapolia
Mixazaronys
Spectat
Iebmond
Mingeanolia
Tero
Dunellon
Dunellan
Dreyfue
Thie
Minis
Keeral
Reralars
Shah
Pecain Dosane
London Daily Graphic
Hobastopol
Smorphera
Vidodlegelit
Middletown
Dol
Sle
Woods
Austria
Shamsury
Wood Calleg Mowe
Leonard Wood
Santiago Proving
Cuba
Levi Kanto
United State
Loo Island
Damerad Wood
Nantiago
Lncere
War Department
Africa
Baldwin Loccomotive
Philadelphi
Canada
Corlen
Ile
Ile Water
Chin
Wie
Miection
Tenenal Luna
Commissionur of Manich Raynolda
Nogratcar Heckard
Health Department
J. Kissel
Cgdun
Utah
Thomas Brackett Reed
Lifsha Baxter
Arkansnas
Bate Ty
Batesville
Cathe
Aylin
Labrador
Clint Tila Wier Orton
Pate Loy
I. Baun
New Lork City
Hag Bren
Frown University
Providence
W Nog
Lyman
Gage
Chirietlana
Christiaan
President Lonbot
Auteuil
Paris
Joseph Chamberlain
Transvaal
Beuiah
Natal
Arsune
Santiago
General Wood
Shafter Avebue
Wilson
Hydrographic
Omeo
Chols
Pacific ‘Coast
L.J
Gs Sa
Heaslan
Geneva
N.Y
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