Wisconsin Railroad Seeks Six Operators for Telegram send
A telegram from a prominent Wisconsin railroad asks for six operators. The notice offers evening classes, qualification, and guaranteed positions after training. Also promotes the Freeport Conservatory of Music with a new catalogue and enrollment options. Illinois Bankers Life reports $82,000 in seven weeks in Freeport, touting guaranteed future prosperity and flexible investment protections.
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Wisconsin
Freeport Conservatory of Music
Wilcoxon
A. G. Brock
Illinois Bankers' Life Association
Freeport
Reform at Oak Park Moral reform bill stirs Chicago suburb
Oak Park faces a proposed village reform measure that would ban billiards for money and prohibit possessing or selling alcohol if enacted. Trustees debate centers on enforcement and the risk of overreach, with one member opposing the ordinances and wary of policing residents.
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Chicago
Oak Park
Cophind
Elsors
Cairo quarantines world with strict health order
Cairo Illinois and the state board of health impose a yellow fever quarantine. Inspectors will check every train and patrol the riverfront. An order bars arrivals from Louisiana and Mississippi regions until health certificates are shown, with Cairo quarantined from the world.
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Cairo
State Board of Health of
Illnois
Kentucky
Evan
Ilinois
State Board of Health
Illinois
Louisiana
Mississippi
Baltimore and Ohio
East St. Louis
Vincennes
Ind
Old Sores and a Blood Remedy Claim
A Wheeling reader recounts severe shins injury and blood poisoning from a fall. After doctors warned of fatal outcomes if sores closed, the user advocates 8.8.8 as a cure, claiming sores healed and have not returned for twelve years. The letter is signed Gare Schmulback Brewing Co. in Wheeling, West Virginia.
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Drs. Jackson
Hettinger Block
Freeport
Dawdeod
Bree Lake
Michigan
Ak Stat
Diana
Aivnsdorf
Olay
Pringwand
Sapadles Poinia
Berolzheim
Dontors
Wheeling
W. Va
Gare Schmulback Brewing Co
THE
Swift Specific CO
Atlanta
New Beekeeping Message Carrier Demonstrated
A beekeeper tested bees as message carriers by attaching tiny packets with hand written notes to foraging bees. Bees crossed a desert to return home, delivering the notes with remarkable speed, resembling homing pigeons in their direction sense. The report also notes curios about hypodermic perfumes and early wire drawing history.
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Drames B. Carter
St. Nicholas
Optimistic New Orleans on Yellow Fever Reports
New Orleans reports a small but rising yellow fever toll with 622 new cases and 285 total deaths to a recent date. Officials note yesterday’s deaths exceed the prior two days but remain light compared to earlier epidemics. Treatments and preparations are regarded as sufficient, with health authorities hopeful for no further alarm barring unforeseen conditions.
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1. M
Set Eight Hour Day Strikes Spark City Turmoil
Report from Toronto dated January first notes the eight-hour day committee recommends an eight-hour workday starting January one next year. Adoption by the employers’ association signals a likely large strike. A resolution opposing union membership in the militia was defeated. A proposal for a Congress pension of twelve dollars weekly for twenty-one years of continuous wage work was rejected. The anti ticket scalping law was condemned.
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Toronto
Trposraphert Wantan
Congress
United States minister to Verdsnell to present credentials
William W. Russet, the United States minister to Verdsnell, will present his credentials to President Ons tra Re. Dispatches from Minnesota report disheartened farmers due to heavy rainfall. Local notes cover regatta results, executions, legal suits, and corporate consolidations.
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Wiliam W. Russet
United States
Verdsnell
Thomas W. Daewson
Paine, Webber & Co
Boston
Toosters
Mount Vernon
Cadiel
Whitwelplda
Couger
Bugennt
Warsaw
Standard Gib
Seubrimeisco Gas and Electric Company
San Francisco Coke and Gas Company
Royal Maritime Commission
Italy
Mexico
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Woolson Spice CO
Toledo, Ohio
Freeport College OF Telegraphy
Western Union Telegraph Co
Freestone
A. B. Fitch
F. A. Schulz
Yellow Jack
Harvey Avenue
Langston
Ruyent
Macomber
Egan
Rockford
Danville
Ridgefarm
Niall
Interstate Traction
Pruivitie
Dovpeston
Ulinois Traction Company Ofekinleyystom
Pagal
Thinville
Cullem
Cimi. VL
Twenty-Fourth Congressions
Cullom
Paris
America
New York Herald
Wodolpl
Nuremburg
England
New Orleans
Great Northern
Northern Pacific
St. Paul
Minn
Northern
Hige
Perban
Union
St Obdernate
Ward
Sam Houston
Oklahoma City
O. T Ang
Temple Houston
South
Woodward
O. T
Wouston
West
Oklahoma
Aus
R. T. Mills
New York
Farfield Park
Mills
Tola
Wan
C. L. Melvin
Greliner Welge
Au Ney Raat
Keen Kutter
Keen Kutter Tools
Vm Simmons Hardware Company
St Louis
U.S.A
Broadway
Gingham
WM. Walton
Stephenson
Schoefffl & Brokhausen
Silver Bell
Dr. Price
Swift
Pride
Schoeffel & Brokhausen
Galena Sé
EL Pronto
Albert Schwarze
Roy Melnick
A.W. Place
A. . Reiger
George Wall
Dward Ermick
Dr. Matter
George Hornberger
F. Rucho
William Keeler
Co. W. Harden
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