Notable Ads and Pitches Fill a City Page
A jumble of product pitches and travel promotions targets readers with Magnetic Starch Grain-O Carter's Ink Garfield Tea and a Cerro of ads. The piece also touts a luxury Pullman tour of Mexico and Puerto Rico with all expenses included under The American Tourist Association. It notes bankruptcy for Champeny Creamery and a court-appointed receiver.
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Champeny Creamery Company
Wisconsin
Iowa
South Dakota
United States Court
Mexico
Chicago
Puerto Rico
Ponce
San Juan
New York
American Tourist Association
Beau Campbell
Marqnette Building
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway
Missionary Effort In Britain Reaches Vast Sum And Staff
The Quiver estimates foreign mission fundraising by leading societies in Britain at 206 million dollars raised and 8 000 workers dispatched, with 30 smaller societies managing 2.5 million dollars. Total foreign mission funding for the century reaches 255 million plus 75 million for property and 260 million for youth work, totaling 590 million. The report notes a lack of outcome measures for this vast outlay.
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Great Britain
Church Missionary Society
Society For the Propagation of the Gospel
London Missionary Society
Baptist’ Society
Colonial and Continental Church Society
Church of England Zenana Society
Central African Mission
Wants Anti Kidnaper Fund Proposed by St Louis Leader
Brown a St Louis tobacco executive and Mercantile Trust director urges wealthy Americans to fund a permanent anti kidnapping fund. He proposes rewards for lawmen and others who capture kidnappers and aims to back legislation in states without strict kidnapping statutes. He says he is willing to contribute and believes $100000 could be raised.
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Brown
St. Louis
Continental
Continental Tobacco Company
Mercantile Trust Company of
Farm Hand to Millionaire at Marshall Field Firm
Harlow N. Higinbotham retired from business with a $10,000,000 balance on the right side of the ledger. He started life as a farm hand nearly forty years ago and rose to become a director general of the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1892 and partner in Marshall Field & Co. of Chicago.
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Harlow N. Higinbotham
Marshall, Field & Co
Chicago
European Customs Union advocates economic federation
Paul Leroy Bennilea a French economist and writer on monetary questions argues in a Vienna Tageblatt letter that European countries should unite to meet the commercial rise of the United States. He says the country is on the verge of becoming the most important global economic factor and may become the leading industrial nation, with growing superiority each year.
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Paul Leroy Bennilea
United States
Vienna
Indianapolis Sensation Portrait and Smythe Shooting
Portrait of William 4 Smythe of Indianapolis featured amid public interest in last week's office shooting that left Smythe, the secretary of the state, at the center of a widening mystery.
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Indianapolis
Wiliam
Smythe
William H. Smythe Stand Lodge of Masons
The fragment notes a claim that a strange woman did the shooting involving William H. Smythe and the Stand Lodge of Masons. Further details are unreadable in the OCR.
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William H. Smythe
Stand Lodge of Masons
Goebel Brothers Face Lawsuit Over Medical Bills
Two physicians who treated Mr Goebel and lawyers who aided his legislative contest plan to sue his brothers Arthur and Justus Goebel for fees. The brothers believed Kentucky sympathy after his death would shield them from charges for medical care.
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Mr. Goebel
Arthur
Justus Goebel
Kentucky
Giver Halts Donations Over Secrecy Pledge
Dr. D. J. Pearsons, a prominent benefactor of southern and western colleges, says he will give no more to any college that does not vow to keep his donations secret. He will not announce future gifts, a decision to spare himself from a flood of requests following each publication.
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D. J. Pearsons
Red Hot Patriot Bjornson Urges Norway Sweden Split
Norwegian novelist Pjovnstjerne Bjornson, renowned for his literary patriotism, calls for separating Norway from Sweden in their commercial consular service. He aims to channel the Norwegian spirit through dramatic works and public discourse.
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Pjovnstjerne Bjornson
Norway
Sweden
Bjornson
Christians as Invalids in Modern Journalism
Dr. Parker, after a week as Sun editor, warned that daily papers must gamble to survive. He argued Christians are becoming invalids, the church a hospital, and nurses are needed as manliness declines. He condemned nominal Christians who send him letters.
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the Sun
Parker
Fear for Prof James of Harvard Health Deteriorates
Professor William James of Harvard, now in a tome due to ill health, shows no recovery. Diagnosed with valvular insufficiency, he first noticed symptoms while mountain climbing in California three years ago. Despite treatment from renowned European physicians, only temporary relief has been achieved. James’ Harvard work centers on post graduate courses and he is well liked by students.
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Llewellyn Jordan
Lewellyn Jordan
U. S.treasury Department
Columbia Policys
West Point
Peruna
Hartman
Peruna Medicine Co
Columbus
Ohio
Prof
James
William James
Harvard
Tome
California
Europe
Czarina of Russia Leads Women’s Reform Influence
The czarina stands out among Europe’s royal ladies for her influence on reforms benefiting women. Under her patronage, societies for female education and development bloom in St. Petersburg and spread through the guarded domain.
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Czarina
Russia
Europe
St. Petersburg
Caer
Sailing ships rebound in modern maritime trade
The piece argues steamers have not displaced sailing vessels as freight carriers. It cites Lloyds and Philadelphia Times data showing significant sailing tonnage in Calcutta and Baltimore. Scotland’s Clyde yarding more sailing ships than steamers is noted, praising sailing ships for economy and capacity. A proposed submarine voyage to Europe is described as feasible and unlikely to deter progress.
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Scotland
Loyds
Chesapeaks Bay
Baltimore
Atlantic
Philadelphia ‘Times
Lloyds
Calcutta
America
Clyde
Forefathers and Red Men Land Purchases Revisited
The piece argues that European settlers across Atlantic coast bought lands from Sagamores rather than stealing them. It notes lingering myths about Dutch English Quaker Catholic buyers, and suggests trade goods, muskets, and tools accompanied treaties. It concludes dispossession occurred as progress not robbery.
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Red Man
New York
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Atlantic
Atlantic Monthly
America
Pretty Girl Clerk's Wish in a Milwaukee Store
A Milwaukee Journal fragment describes a department store clerk with deep eyes and dark hair, answering customers while writing sales and calling cash. The weary clerk sighs I wish I had a raise or a fortune or a husband as crowds surge past.
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Milwaukee Journal
Edinburgh Poor Better Fed Than In Larger Cities
A medical committee in Edinburgh reports that the capital’s poor are as well fed as those in major towns in Britain and America. It laments the shift from porridge and milk to tea and bread, noting white bread provides better energy. It also cites Sunday schools as essential to life, always present for men.
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Edinburgh
Great Britain
America
Budapest launches up to date news service by telephone
Budapest introduces a new telephone news service with a 168 mile mainline connecting private homes and public spaces. From 7 30 am to 7 pm twenty eight editions are read into the transmitter by ten workers in two shifts, delivering reports of major daily events. Also mentions a 1890 US mineral output of 619 million dollars rising to 976 million in 1899.
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Budapest
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Isa Bon
Heidelberg
Roebuck & CO
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Department of Interior
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W. V. Bennett
N. Y
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Omaha
Nebraska
Sueuis
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Paul Brown
Marshall Field
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Sion
Europa
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Spain
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