Bargains in fabrics and dress goods sale extravaganza
The ad promotes a ten day sale with deep discounts on wide cloths, serges, brintrantines, chiffons, silks, satin, and dress goods. Prices drop from regular levels to sale figures, with items like 64 inch black storm cloth at 1.00 and various wool and silk fabrics priced 19c to 99c per yard. Also listed are men and women's wear accessories, hosiery, shirts, and towers at reduced costs.
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Axtt Woon
Scuilline
Thompson
Tereisuh
Fate of the City of Philadelphia Foundered Near Falklands
Philadelphia reports a fatal shipwreck with Captain Johnson and his wife among twenty-five aboard. Salvaged goods tied to the City of Philadelphia bound for San Francisco confirm the disaster on May 14. Captain Tulloch’s Brenda sighting offered hope, but reports fade as details emerge. Weather notes close the item.
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Falkland
Philadelphia
Stanley
Johnson
San Francisco
Sandy Hook Park
Tulloch
Brenda
Frisco
Despair Over Clipper Brenda as Hope Fades
May 1 position 57 S 68 W would place her past the Falklands implying she drifted far beyond rescue. The Brenda master may have mistaken the ship and no further hopes remain. The wife of Captain Johnson is linked to a drifting survivor, fueling grief among wreckers in the Falklands.
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Falkland Islands
Brenda
Johnson
Captain Johnson
London
Philadephia
Hagar & Company
Georgia Republicans unveil white ticket for electors
An historic Georgia Republican ticket of presidential electors is entirely white men. Other items note Cecil Rhodes knowledge of the Jameson raid, Edwin L. Weeks named chevalier, a Bowling Green strike incident, and multiple regional losses and political shifts including Maine governor candidate Winslow withdrawing.
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Republicans
Georgia
Cape Colony
Cheboygan
Mich
Monroy, Boyce & Co
Ward Bros
Grand Haven
Theodore Hine
Bay City
Swift Bros
Mahoning
Shenango
Ohio
Edward B. Winslow
Maine
Nesry York
John A. Danks
Union Veterans’ League
Glenfield
Pittsburg
Danks
Fred
Winn
Pistol War at Alabama Church Picnic Ends in Massacre
At a Alabama church picnic near Letc hatchie in Lowndes county a quarrel over a flying Jennie ride led Dave Gunter and Burnet Means to draw pistols. A crowd clashed during the gunfire leaving three dead Gunter Means and Onerey Gilmer and many wounded including women.
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Birmingham
Alo
Letchatchie
Lowndes County
Dave Gunter
Burnet Means
Jennie
Gunter
Means
Onerey Gilmer
Noted crooks captured in Springfield post office robbery case
The Springfield jury failed to convict Sidney Yennie and George Carson for robbing the postmaster's private office on April 3, 1895, of 3558 in stamps and 760 in silver wedding presents. Allen and Killoran, implicated, escaped Ludlow Street jail on July 4, 1803 and are linked to a New Albury, Indiana robbery in 1804.
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Springfield
Sidney Yennie
George Carson
Ridgely
Allen
Killoran
Ludlow Street
New York
New Albury
Ind
Irish meeting at Battery D calls for release of Irish prisoners
Curcaco July 27 A Battery D Irish meeting urged release of Irishmen jailed in England for dynamite plots. Speakers included United States Senator Cullom Governor alg ld John F Finerty Rev Dr Emil G Mirsch and Colonel Marcus Kavanaugh. Finerty lampooned Ambassador Bayard provoking hisses from the audience.
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Curcaco
Battery D
England
United States
Cullom
Alg Ld
John F. Finerty
Emil G. Mirsch
Marcus Kavanaugh
Finerty
Bayard
Jewelry Store Robbery Attempt Ends With Arrests
In Chicago on July 27 James Robinson and Frank Harper attempted to rob C. M. Robertson jewelry at 187 North Clark Street. The proprietor produced a gun, overpowered them at pistol point, locked both doors, and called the police who arrested the would be burglars.
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Chicago
James Robinson
Frank Harper
C. M. Robertson
North Glark Street
Terrible Railway Wreck in India at Delhi
Bompas reports a railway collision at Delhi resulting in fifty dead and many injured. The incident, dated July 27, highlights a disastrous train crash with significant casualties and disruption.
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India
Bompas
Delhi
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Castoria
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Oxford St
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