India College units and strange town tale headline
The India College under the Lutheran General Synod lists 40 teachers and 88 percent of students. An ad touts No-To-Bac as a cure for tobacco habits. Elsewhere reports mention Cuban exhibits, Cascarets for bowel health, and a Hungarian town mayor and council who manufactured paper money in the town hall, guarded by policemen, for two years before being stopped.
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Hall
Chenky & Co
Toledo
Green's Na
Atlanta
al Dropay
Worl
The
India College
Lutheran General Synod
Austria
Kipling Fame and a Cabman’s Confusion
Henry James, returning from his club during Kipling's illness, tells a cabman Kipling is all right. The cabman, unable to recognize Kipling's name, asks what the paper means by the “ass” and shows how fame can be misread by ordinary readers.
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Kipling
Howells
Rudyard Kipling
Henry James
London
Mr. James
O’ the
St. Louis Republic
Chicago Platform and the People's Reform Message
A political statement by A. J. Van Vorhis defending the Chicago platform against reformers and corporate influence. It denounces Wall Street and allied interests, argues the standard bearer remains sound, and warns against cosmetic changes urged by Bryan and other commercial agents. The piece emphasizes individual moral responsibility over corporate motives and calls for steadfast public welfare principles.
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Chicago
Bryan
A. J. van Vorhis
Living Issues in American Governance and Liberty
The text argues issues remain vital unless a radical constitutional change occurs. It warns against imperialism and defends national autonomy as a living Democratic concern. It links silver, gold standard, and broader welfare topics to ongoing political struggle and party loyalties.
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Democratic Party
Chicago
Republican Party
Jefferson
Washington
Lincoln
McKinley
Empress of India
Gold standard under fire in cross Atlantic critique
The piece argues the Democratic party will not abandon key issues and attacks the gold standard as failing to create a true balance of trade. It cites Count von Posadowsky-Wehner and Andrew D. White arguing Germany would drop gold standards, while noting U.S. trade gains stem from production, not gold, and that Europe and financiers overstate a six hundred million dollar annual surplus. The article questions the genuine circulation of gold and warns that persistent surpluses could deplete global money.
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Hugh
Count von Posadowsky-Wehner
Interior
Andrew D. White
U. S
Berlin
German Empire
Germany
United States
Aguinaldo interview says peace possible with 20 million payoff
A Hongkong correspondents interview with Aguinaldo, relayed via an American Philippine agent, describes a peace plan. Aguinaldo would accept repayment of the 20 million paid by the U S to Spain and allow American soldiers in Manila until the debt is settled. A republic with elected president and congress would be formed, local governments elected, and troops withdrawn with conditions and tax allocations to repay the debt in five years. The piece ends with playful children’s quips about holes in stockings.
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New York
Hongkong
Aguinaldo
Philippines
New York Produce Exchange
Manila
Russell & Co
San Francisco
Boston
United States
Spain
Congress
Philippine Islands
Senate
The Limit in Life Insurance and the Prince of Wales
A factual discussion debunks inflated claims about the Prince of Wales's life insurance, noting legal limits on policies with no insurable interest. It cites Wanamaker’s $2,025,000 as the US peak and explains global limits, reinsurance, and industry totals, concluding overall coverage remains far below £10,000,000.
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Prince of Wales
A. F. Harvey
Prince Albert
France
Germany
United States
John Wanamaker
Philadelphia
National Life Underwriters’ Association
Wanamaker
Eastern Insurance Journal
Italian Scenic Sheets Outsell Had Transport Costs in Opera
With heavy transport costs and strict customs, managers increasingly buy Italy’s scenic sheets painted on tough brown paper. These numbered sheets, joined for accuracy, allow rapid changes of production across distant capitals without shipping bulky scenery. Children’s drink Graty-O touted as a coffee substitute made from pure grains.
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Italy
America
Weather lore and coastal gull movements noted near Broadstairs
An 1890s style column cites Ben Gulls a Weather Porecasters noting gull flocks along the coast toward Dover on Aug 26. An old fisherman cites a southwest wind forecast as gulls move south. Ing alls corroborates via Weather Lore linking sea gulls from Solway Firth to Holywood with southwest winds. Also mentions Star Plug Tobacco promotions and other period items.
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Ben Gulls
Prince Kropotkin
Broadstairs
Dover
Mr. Ingalls
Solway Firth
Holywood
Dumfriesshire
Hair Vigor Promises Fit For Thick Dark Hair
Advert describes Hair Vigor as pleasing to users who report quick satisfaction and urge friends to try it. Claims include restoring color to hair that is prematurely gray and improving roughness thinning and split ends with noticeable results.
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Ayer
Bettie
Charity Feature In Berlin Jewish Mourning Aid
The London Globe recounts a Berlin charity where two linked boxes with a single key supported mourners during seven days of mourning. A purse in the first box funds the recipient’s needs, while the second box holds extras for those in modest means, with only the administration knowing donors and recipients.
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Berlin
London Globe
His Forlorn Visit Antics at Atchison
A dramatic Atchison item describes a man visiting kin with a wife who attends afternoon parties and social calls. He drifts along streets seeking company, grows restless by evening as hosts rest and guests entertain, and finally retires around 8 30 in the evening.
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Atchison
Atchison Lobe
Lights Kill the Birds at City Hall
A Philadelphia Inquirer based note reports birds frequently found injured or dead in the city hall courtyard. Debris or electric lights around the Penn statue are suspected to attract and blind birds, echoing a similar New York harbor phenomenon. Also included is a NYT vouched home remedy for stopping nosebleeds using a rolled blotting-paper insert.
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Penn
Mberly
New York Harbor
Philadelphia Inquirer
Beauty and cures blur in old time ephemera
An amalgam of ad copy and stray notes promotes Cascarets for blood and skin care, touting cheap pills as life improvers. The text oddly blends a claim about Czars remains of Peter the Great and Neva cenotaphs with an electric traction engine contract mention and Dr Klinn’s Invigorating Tonic.
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Russia
Peter the Great
Neva
Glasgow
Great Britain
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