Cranks at the White House A Look at Gatekeepers and Gates
The article describes how President McKinley’s White House guards and staff screen visitors claiming grievances. Cranks are detained early by doorkeepers Captain Chabois and Mr. Cissel, with only a Frenchman reaching the business office before departing quietly. Office seekers and the general public are kept from the president by staff and policemen, ensuring the president’s routine remains undisturbed.
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White House
Cissel
Tledias
Chabois
Prabois
Mrr
Cisse
Executive Mansion
McKinley
Porter
Charles Loettler
Loettler
Cleveland
Teoettler
Retary
Fhurber
Waite House
McKilnley
Linn
Dropped Pastor Dr Brown Dismissed by Congregational Society
A Chicago association meeting removed Rev. CLO Brown from the Green Street Church case. The conference approved regrets over irregular steps in receiving him after he was barred by the Bay conference in California.
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Congregational Society
Clo. Brown
Chicago Association of Congre
Womag
A. Tee
Green Street
Dt Haud
Brown
Cadifornia
Vessel Burns At Sea The Clara Nevada Sinking Report
The Clara Nevada steamship of the Alaskan Fleet reportedly burned and sank after an explosion off Seward City while en route from Seattle on January 28. About forty people were aboard. passengers and locals recall hearing the blast. Once known as the Hassler, the 1008 ton vessel formerly served in government surveys and had recently been refitted for Alaska service.
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Clara Nevada
Union
Gov
Nevada
Shasuay
Seward City
Kaw
Goitus
Seattle
Alaskia
Hassler
Alaska
The Little Schoolmaam and Schoolroom Comedy in Verse
A comic collage recalls the beloved teacher as a gentle queen of her classroom. The piece contrasts a playful hymn to a devoted, thrifty schoolmarm with a long excerpt on exam blunders from Austrian and American sources, including Beecher and Beecher's reading method, ending with notes on school discipline and reform debates.
A Benefactress Kind Act From the Evening News
Detroit woman Mrs John Tansey of 130 Baker Street recalls a family health crisis with her daughter once pale and wasting. She credits Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People for a dramatic recovery after three months of treatment and urges mothers to keep them for illness linked to blood and nerve weakness.
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Evening News
Detroit
Mich
John Tansey
Baker Street
John
Williame
Poor Tommy in a Gymnastic Class Tale
A neighbor jokes about Mrs Jamesby beating carpets while she insists Tommy is exhausted from his downtown gymnastic class. She says she won’t burden him with chores because he’s tired after workouts, keeping up her exercise.
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Tommy
Merit Wins for Nickel Plate in Hard Times
The Nickel Plate road showed steady progress during industrial depression, improving roadways, bridges, and safety, adding new coaches and Wagner sleeping cars, and introducing first class dining car service. Its through trains to New York, Boston, and Chicago via the Hoosac Tunnel route offer elegant coaches and premium sleeping cars at low rates, benefiting public travel and summer resort traffic on Lake Erie.
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Nickel Plate
West Shore
Fitchburg
Iloosac Tunnel
New York
Boston
Chicago
Lake Erie
Drivell Poet Prolific Contributor in Editor’s Wastebasket
A regular contributor, Drivell, is noted by the editor for nearly weekly inputs. The editor jokes that Drivell’s offerings fill the wastebasket, implying a light dismissive reception of the poet’s work.
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Drivell
Kemp's Balsam Promises Quick Cough Relief Sample Bottle Free
Coughing Leaden to Consumption, Kemp's Balsam will stop the cough at once. Go to your druggist today and get a sample bottle free. Sold in 25 and 60 cent bottles. Go at once, delays are dangerous.
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Kemp
Grain-O Introduced as Coffee Substitute in Stores
An advertisement promotes Grain-O a new grain drink replacing coffee in grocery stores. It claims to suit delicate stomachs with no distress and to cost about a quarter of coffee. It suggests children may drink it and prices are 15 and 25 cents per package.
Moral reform hinges on religious principles for society
A philosophical assertion presses that laws and social reforms cannot cure social ills without the transformation of individuals souls and the guiding influence of genuine religious principles. It argues that governments and laws lack wisdom and contentment without spiritual inspiration.
Salzer Coffee Berry claim and Dr Shepard tea note
Mr Goodman of Williams County Illinois touts German Coffee Berry as producing 300 pounds per package at 15 cents for 30 cent a pound in stores. A seed catalog from Salzer Seed Co. is offered for 16 cents stamps. Dr Shepard’s Summerville South Carolina tea sells at 1 dollar per pound and is praised as evidence tea can be grown commercially in the U S.
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Goodman
Williams County
Salzer
John A. Salzer Seed Co
LaCrosse
Wis
Mother's Powder for Children Promised Cure and Testimonies
Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children are advertised as remedies for feverishness, bad stomach, teething disorders, bowels, and worms. The ad claims over 10,000 testimonials and urges purchase at all druggists for 25 cents with a free sample, listing Allen S. Olmsted of Le Roy, New York as contact.
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Mother Gray
New York
Allen S. Olmsted
le Roy
Boston Claims World’s Longest Paved Street
Boston asserts Washington Street is the globe’s longest, stretching 1714 miles in length.
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Boston
Washington Street
Rheumatic Pain Cured by Hood's Sarsaparilla
Mrs P P Hay of Centralia Illinois says rheumatic pains confined her to bed and caused great suffering. She found only temporary relief from other medicines before trying Hood's Sarsaparilla, which she credits with her cure.
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Mer
Hood
MBS
P. P
Hay
Centralia
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Guyon
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Burke
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