Muslin Underwear Line At George Wyman Co
George Wyman and Company offer a new line of muslin underwear for women misses and children with gowns from 35 cents to 5 dollars drawers from 8 cents to 5 dollars corset covers 8 to 5 dollars skirts 25 cents to 15 dollars chemise 25 cents to 5 dollars. They also sell 100 dozen manufacturer cuts at reduced prices those styles lack further trimmings for and sold at low prices. Store invites a visit promising a spring impression and even a Florida trip in comparison.
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George Wyman '&Co
Florida
January Dress Goods Sale Promises Fine Wash Fabrics
A local ad promotes a special January sale of dress goods including wash mercerized fabrics for spring shirtwaists, lawns, Swisses, and new wash fabrics for May and June wear priced from 15 cents to 1 dollar. The ad invites customers to visit to see the assortment and prices.
January Linens at Unbeatable Bargains
The ad offers table linens two yards wide at 5c, napkins 30c per dozen, towels $1 per dozen, crash 23 percent, and counterpanes priced 45c to 75c and up, claiming the greatest bargains Minens has ever offered.
Statehood Immigration and Cuban Treaty to Command Congress This Week
Washington notes that the statehood and immigration bills and the Cuban reciprocity treaty will compete for attention in the Senate this week, likely yielding to appropriation bills. Congress debates anti trust measures and coal tariff while House moves toward publicity rules and a Alaska House delegate bill set to begin Wednesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Jan
Senate
Allison
Cullom
Committee On Foreign Relations
Foraker
Burnham
Senator Vest
Messrs
Vest
Tillman
District of Columbia
Alaska
House
Efforts Under Way to Find Water for High Plains Reclamation
Washington on January 19 reports the hydrographic branch of the U S Geological Survey is seeking sufficient water to reclaim and settle the high plains region between the prairies and the Rocky Mountains. The area offers good agriculture and grazing but suffers from scarce water, with inter valley plateaus remaining largely waterless. Water may be tapped from underground sources by wells and windmills, enabling grazing and stock watering points at closer intervals.
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Washington
Hydrographic Branch
United States Geological Survey
Great Plains
Prairies
Rocky Mountains
High Plains
Richardson to Quit Congress for Masonry
James D. Richardson of Tennessee will retire from Congress to devote his time to Masonry. He is the highest Masonic official in the United States and among world Masons ranks with King Edward. He will leave a $5,000 salary and may receive $10,000 plus travel expenses and a Washington residence as a full Mason. A second item notes a large grass blade exhibited by Representative Bill Reider causing Department of Generature concern.
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Washington
James D. Richardson
Tennessee
House
Congress
Major Richardson
King Edward
Albert Pike
Bill” Reider
Department of “Ieneture
Maybrick suit prompts British testimony plan in Virginia case
Washington reports consider arrangements between the United States and Great Britain to take the testimony of Mrs Florence RE Maybrick in a suit brought with her mother the Baroness von Roques to recover coal lands in Virginia West Virginia and Kentucky The suit seeks over 5 million dollars and hinges on alleged fraudulent deeds by a U S attorney.
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Maybrick
Washington
Baroness von Roques
Virginia
West Virginia
Kentucky
Great Britain
Florence RE. Maybrick
England
United States
Chancery
Richmond
Explosion Victim A. S. Tacke Dies Aboard Massachusetts
A cablegram from Admiral Higginson reports the death of Coxswain A. S. Tacke of St. Louis, fatally injured in the powder explosion on the battleship Massachusetts off Culebra Island. General Bragg of Wisconsin, ill with bronchitis, improves and plans to return home to Fond du Lac.
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Washington
Navy Department
Higginson
San Juan
Porto Rico
A. S. Tacke
St. Louis
Massachusetts
Culebra Island
Bragg
Wisconsin
Fond du Lac
House committee to report bills on Philippine currency and judges
Washington on January 19 the house rules committee announced plans to report a rule for the consideration of the Philippines currency bill the Fowler currency bill and the federal judges salary bill. Also noted is the closure of a post office. Keokea Maui Hawaii saw the fourth assistant postmaster general discontinue the post office with the postmaster resigning earlier.
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Washington
House Committee On Rules
Philippines
Keokea
Island of Mau
Hawaii
Resigns and District Appropriation Reported
Secretary Root accepts the resignation of Second Lieut. William M. Kistler, Eighteenth Infantry, for the good of the service after duplicating his pay. The District of Columbia appropriation bill provides 7,749,255 dollars, with current funds at 8,462,923 and estimates over 10,000,000.
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Washington
Root
William M. Kistler
Eighteenth Infantry
District of Columbia
President Disapproves Findings in Hickman Case
The president wrote disapproved on the military court martial findings that acquitted First Lieutenant E A Hickman accused of water cure practices. Naval Constructor Hobson has been assigned to lead the construction department at the Puget Sound Navy Yard, Bremerton Washington.
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Washington
E. A. Hickman
Hobson
Puget Sound Navy Yard
Bremerton, Wash
Farm sale to join Dowie colony shocks Indiana
William H Lyons and his wife sold a prized Darke County Ohio farm and plan to liquidate other property to move into the Dowie religious settlement. On returning from the colony he buried meat from a recent butchering and let tobacco rot. The report notes the unusual conversion and property moves.
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Richmond
Ind
William H. Lyons
Lyons
Darke
Ohio
Man 11 Years Old at Marriage Seeks Divorce
Frank N. Walden files for divorce before Justice Jagard alleging a May 1875 marriage to a 7 year old bride in Grand Rapids Wisconsin. Walden now 38 and Mrs Walden 34. Corespondent named as Benjamin Schwitzle. He alleges wife lived with Schwitzle in Duluth from April to October 1897.
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St. Paul,Minn
Frank, N. Walden
Jaggard
Grand Rapids
Wis
Walden
Benjamin Schwitzle
Schwitzle
Duluth
Explosion wrecks Joliet barber shop injures two
An explosion of gas in Joliet's business center injured two barbers and wrecked Zeigert's barber shop. A three story block at Jefferson and Ottawa streets is in partial collapse with scores of people having narrow escapes. The gas mains leak was under investigation when the blast occurred.
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Joliet
Zeigert
Jefferson and
Ottawa Streets
Attorney General Crow Ill in Missouri
Jefferson City Missouri January 17 Attor ney General Crow is suffering with appendicitis. Doctors considered an operation but delayed it hoping for improvement.
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Crow
Jefferson City
Coasters Hurt Nine in Mulberry Street Sledting
Eight youths on a long sled on Mulberry street hill collided with a smaller sled and were hurled into a telegraph pole. All suffered serious injuries and three are expected to die.
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Scranton
Mulberry Street
Hill
Famine Threatens Russia Reported From St Petersburg
Reports from local authorities indicate agriculture is in bad condition across the Central and several Southern provinces due to an early autumn. The crop season proved disastrous, raising concern over food supplies.
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Russia
St. Petersburg
Theater bought for permanent Minstrels home on Thirty-fifth Street
A Wall Street syndicate has acquired sufficient property on Thirty-fifth Street east of Broadway to construct a theater for George Wilson and his old-time minstrels. The project will provide a permanent base for minstrelsy.
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New York
Wall Street
Thirty-fifth Street
Broadway
George Wilson
Pailey's Laxative Tablets Promoted for Constipation
An advertisement claims the first step of medical treatment is assessing bowel health and prescribes Pailey's Laxative Tablets. It asserts constipation causes many diseases by clogging the liver and toxin buildup, offering 10c size with 20 tablets and 25c size with 60 tablets from Chas. D. Rushton’s.
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Pailey
Chas. D. Rushton’s
Vanderbilt Executors Lose War Tax Suit
New York Jan 17 executors of Cornelius Vanderbilt fail in the United States circuit court to recover 311,681 dollars levied under the war tax act on Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt's residuary interest in his father's estate.
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Vanderbilt
New York
Cornelius Vanderbilt
United States Circuit Court
Alfred Gwynne Vanderbilt
Governor exaggerates banditti threat to lure French aid
Shanghai dispatch reports in Kwangsi Province the native press claims the provincial governor heightens bandit activity on purpose to prompt French military intervention.
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Shanghai
Kwangsi
Society Usurer Pariser Rearrested in Berlin
Berlin reports the notorious usurer Pariser, linked to prominent society victims and whose 1896 trial stirred a sensation, has been rearrested on new evidence.
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Berlin
Jan
Pariser
Tragic Train Suicide In Indiana Linked To Vincennes Visit
On a Baltimore and Ohio Southwestern train from St Louis to Louisville, Jacob Rapp of Louisville rushed into a closet as the train neared Vincennes and cut his throat with a razor. The incident is recorded in Washington Indiana on January 17.
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Washington
Ind
Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern
Jacob Rapp
Louisville
Dean's Ooint Ment cures for delicate skin
An advertisement promotes Dean's Ooint Ment to treat eczema and other skin diseases. It claims the remedy is gentle on delicate skin and available at drug stores for fifty cents.
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Dean
Not Guilty of Murder in Card Game Saloon
James Walker of Chadron Nebraska was acquitted of the murder charge in the November 22 killing of Hasten Broadus tied to a card game at Walker's saloon. The verdict ends the homicide case with no conviction.
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Chadron
Neb
James Walker
Hasten Broadus
Walker
Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets praised
Melard F Crait of Middlegrave NY hails Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets as the nicest medicine for lad digestion and constipation. They work their charm and do not gripe or cause unpleasant effects. For sale by Houseworth Bros.
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Middlegrave
Houseworth
Bros
Doctors Say Tillman Victim Passes Danger Period
Columbia South Carolina January 19 Gonzales editor of the Columbia State shot by Lieutenant Governor Tillman is holding his own doctors say he has passed the period of danger from peritonitis If he lives until Tuesday favorable developments would ease recovery Tillman remains in county jail with no bail request filed Coroner Maxwell appointed to succeed Dudley to be involved in quo warranto proceeding to oust Dudley from office following a meeting with Governor Durbin and Attorney General Miller.
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Columbia
S. C
Son
G. ‘Gonzales
Columbia State
Tillman
Sullivan, Ind
W. P. Maxwell
Sullivan County
Dudley
Indiana
Maxwell
Bayes
Durbin
Miller
Inter State Commerce Bill Discussed Without Conclusion
Washington reports on January 17 note the committee on interstate commerce debated Elkins proposed reforms with deep splits and no result. Other items cover Chippewa Indians’ per capita timber sale share, naval station site near Waukegan, reciprocity talks with Canada, and observance of Saturday Sabbath for a postal employee.
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Washington
Elkins
Committee On Interstate Commerce
Northwest
la Pointe
Wis
American Horse Show Association President Declines Honor
Mortimer Levering of Indianapolis who was elected president of the American Horse Show Association at Kansas City said he would not accept. The item notes his declination amid brief wartime era tone and mentions Hewitt's condition report about Adam S. Hewitt.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Mortimer Levering
American Horse Show Association
Kansas City
Cure the cough and save the life
Dr Wood with Norway Pine Syrup claims to cure coughs and colds and reach the verge of consumption, promising life saving relief through a patent remedy.
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Lee
Mary F. Suttvan
Grand Rapids
Mich
Boston McVeigh Murder Killed by Albert Ames
Akron report states Boston McVeigh was killed by Albert Ames. Marks on the body indicate Ames kicked with his wooden leg, the incident dated January 17 in Akron, Ohio.
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Akron
Boston
McVeigh
Albert Ames
Ames
Innkeeper kills his family in Bohemia tragedy
Vienna reports an innkeeper named Amiler Karlabers shot and killed his wife and four children amid financial difficulties. Separately Louisville records a smallpox epidemic with over 300 cases reported.
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Vienna
Amiler
Karlabers
Bohemia
Louisville
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Fifth Cavalry
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Adam S
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Louis M. Simpson
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J. D. Osborne
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