Bargains at the grocers weekly sale offer
A local advertisement highlights deep discounts on sugar 20 lbs for $1.00 and butter substitutes, alongside low prices on Peaberry coffee, Gold Dust products, maple syrup, dried peaches, canned tomatoes, and flour. It promotes large carloads of Golden Palace flour and emphasizes quality, price, and value.
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Havemeyer & Elder
Plymouth Rock
California
Golden Palace
Uze
Reymirder
Kansas
Belmont
Wekrave
Roberts to lead South Africa campaign as Buller recalled
London reports Baron Roberts of Kandahar and Waterford appointed commander in chief in South Africa with General Lord Kitchener as chief of staff. War Office orders call up all army reserve portions, mobilize the seventh division for South Africa, and raise local mounted troops and volunteers from colonies and the British Isles amid heavy losses at Magersfontein. Roberts' son Lt. F. I. S. Roberts was wounded in action.
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British Isles
John Bull
Lord Roberts
London
Baron Roberts
Kandahar
Waterford
Ireland
South Africa
Lord Kitchener of
Khartoum
War Office
Natal
Redvers Buller
Lord Whitehener
Pretoria
Joubert
Roberts
Tn Waziristan
Chitral
Nile
Imes
Losses at Tugela River Rise in British Fatalities
British losses at Tugela River total 1097 killed wounded missing in eleven battles with 38,000 prisoners from engagements including Colenso Magersfontein Stormberg Modder River and earlier actions. About 70,000 Allied troops have been involved overall. officers named in a partial casualty list include Goldie Schrieder Bacon Tenry Charley Loftus Trughes Jenkins. European press react with jubilation over Boer successes, while Irish demonstrations against Chamberlain erupt in Dublin with arrests and calls to support Boer independence.
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London
Dee
Tugela River
Colenso
LCOT
Magersfontein
Stormberg
Modder River
War Office
Ballev
Field Artillery
A. Tf. Goldie
B. Schrieder
Dubln Musiliers
A. I. Bacon
Rep. B. Tenry
Inniskilling Musiliers
J. I. W. Charley
Frank
Haelind
Paris
Arisiuns
la Libre Parole
la Vatrie
le Temps
le Journal Des Debats
la Liberte
Boers Violate Flag of Truce and More British Actions
The dispatch from General Morestier-Walker reports Lieutenant Chandos Pole-Gell was captured while approaching a flag of truce at Modder River. Methuen's forces conducted a reconnaissance with Grenadier Guards and Seventy-Sixth battery, silencing and disabling Boer guns. No casualties reported. News from Sterkstroom notes uprisings northward after British reverses, with natives and Basutoland residents unsettled. Cape Town also cites secret Boer sympathizer meetings across Cape Colony and truculent farmer attitudes.
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London
War Office
Morestier- Walker
Cape Town
Methuen
Mysterious death of Pryor wife and son linked to mystery
Lafayette Pryor of Vandalia Illinois was found dead in bed with a pistol wound. His wife and two sons aged 10 and 24 slept nearby and claimed they heard nothing. Coroner's inquest yielded no light on the killer or motive amid Pryor's eccentric life and recent dealings with his wife.
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Vandalia
Ill
Lafayette Pryor
Here
Pryor
Grover
Arthur Pryor
Cox
Not John Hahn but Reynolds An Iowa Man Identified
In Springfield Illinois on December 18 a well dressed man killed himself in a lodging house. He was initially misidentified as George Hahn of Galesburg and then J M Smith of Decatur. Li S Osborn of Springfield later identified the body as his brother in law Charles Reynolds formerly a Greenfield Indiana farmer who deeded his property to his wife and children after family troubles. Reynolds then moved to Illinois and settled near Galesburg before the tragedy.
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Dublin
Trinity College
Joseph Chaimberlain
Maud Cgonne
Joan of Arc
James Connolly
Connolly
Ireland
Joe Chamberlain
Empire
Army
Dublin Castle
Transvaal
Irish Transvaal Committee
Michael Davitt
William Redmond
J. O'Brien
Davitt
Redmond
O’brien
Chamberlain
Europe
Great Britain
Prince of Monayo
United States
Maud Gonne
Phoenix Park
Ladyrinth
Springfield
George John Hahn
Galesburg
J. M. Smith
Decatur
Li. S. Osborn
Charles Reynolds
Reynolds
Greenfied
Ilinois
Mls
Germayne J. Harrison
Oledo
First Class Alienist Must Leave Chester Asylum
Chester Ill December 18 The board of penitentiary commissioners and trustees of the hospital for the state's criminal insane received the resignation of Dr rank Auten superintendent. The trustees praised his professional management but said he lacked as a disciplinarian and business man. He quipped that as a bean buyer he was not a success reflecting on charity provisions and bean distribution.
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Chester
Ill
Board of Penitentiary Commissioners
Rank IK. Auten
Auten
Iis
State Board of Charities
Paris Inhabitants by Labor and Periodicals
The article lists varied facts including Paris housing 1,475,000 who labor by hand, Paris boasting almost a hundred more periodicals than a year prior, and notes on global data such as Brazil exporting about 50,000,000 dollars worth of rubber, along with miscellaneous social and economic tidbits. It also mentions a Snow Hill Maryland Presbyterian church history, milk nutrition equivalence, and other assorted observations.
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Paris
Brazil
Denver
Col
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Schwarze
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Supreme Command
Kitchener
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Channel Islands
United Kingdom
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Ktreet
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Bigamist
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Iowa
Chester Asylum
Bipamist
Carrollton
J. B.B. Nurton
Wier
Jacksonville
Springchild
His
Allen
United States Circuit Court
David Rankin, Jr
St. Louis and
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Iast St. Louis
Ramsey
Lls
Supreme Court
Rufus N. Ramsey
Witbeck
Chicago
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Jinjer Wayfer
Abeacon OF OF Hope, VV
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National Biscuit Company
Foley
America
Snow Hill, Md
Michigan
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Tingland
Canada
France
Pittsburg Zoo
Egypt
H. J. Moogk
W. F. Jungkunz & Co
George Schmidt
Gents
A. L. Newton
Jennie Newton
South Galena Avenue
Freeport
A. I. G. Coffees
Variety
Schoeffel & Brockhausen
Galena Street
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Oregon
Chicago, Union Pacific and
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Chicago & North-Western Railway
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