Louisiana under Spain and the hangman’s tale in New Orleans
The 1760 court martial of Lafreniere and fellow leaders in Louisiana after Spain took the colony from France left O'Reilly unable to find a hangman among locals. He ordered executions by Spanish grenadiers, while Jeannot the African slave sought freedom by severing his arm but instead became overseer to the colony’s slaves, earning lasting respect.
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Alecsandro O'Reilly
Louisiana
Lafrentere
Spain
Louis XV
France
O'Reilly
New Orleans Picayune
Lafreniere
United States Mint
New Orleans
Jeannot
Mississippi Company
Company of the West
Orleans
Letter from a Western congress member recipient requests seeds
A Washington letter from a Western congress member's associate asks for seeds, fertilizer in two loads, a new barrel, and a temporary worker. The writer notes cabbage seeds grow well and promises to send produce to the recipient and the president, signaling garden support and gratitude.
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Washington
Econgress
Blank
Vaccination and the Typewriter in Public Debate
A passage cites vaccination reducing smallpox deaths in Austria from 38 541 per million over thirty years to 3745 after general adoption. It also notes the typewriter’s claimed 500 000 new jobs but questions indigent stomach disorders from its use. It ends by urging sedentary workers to use Hostetter's Stomach Bitters to ease confinement stress.
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Austria
Napoleon's bean salad claim and Louis XV budget note
A French writer claims Napoleon favored bean salad and believed that 0 cents a day should cover meals. He contrasts this with Louis XV who supposedly preferred a costly dish made from various bird eggs costing 100 dollars.
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Napoleon
Louis XV
The Gold Medal Prize Treatise and Life Science Works Sale
The notice advertises The Gold Medal Prize Treatise and The Science of Life self-preservation books priced 25 cents to $1.00 with mail option. It promotes health vigor and happiness and offers Pros tus Vade Mecum free with six cent postage. Petroleum drinking is criticized as a peculiar habit.
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Peabody Medical Institute
Bulfinch Street
Boston
Mass
America
The Turn of Life and Lydia Pinkham Ad
The Turn of Life passing through the wonderful change is Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. Write to her in Lynn Massachusetts for guidance and aid.
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Lydia
Pinkham
Lynn, Mass
Ice Breaking Steamer Proves Itself on Baikal Trial
A lake built ice breaking steamer on Lake Baikal in Siberia completed a trial trip on February 10. It voyage from Listvennitsehnoye to Pereyemnaya and back through 2 feet 7 inch ice, covering eighty miles in twelve hours. The engines showed power to keep the lake open for winter traffic.
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Lake Baikal
Siberia
Listvennitsehnoye
Pereyemnaya
Special inside price on binder twine from Sears
Mail your request to Sears Roebuck binder twine department in Chicago with how much twine you need and when you want it. They will quote a price that may beat your supplier, securing your order at a lower cost.
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Sears, Roebuck & Co
Binder Twine Department
Chicago
There goes a man who was never known to break his word
A brief Chicago News item notes Giles praising a man famed for integrity, while Miles remarks and exposes a twist as Giles calls him mute. The quip highlights character over speech in a concise, period voice.
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Giles
Miles
Chicago News
Allen's Foot Ease Powder Ad Claim Shoe Comfort
Do Your Feet Ache and Burn Shake into your shoes Allen's Foot Ease a powder for the feet It makes tight or new shoes feel easy Cures Corns Burious Swollen Hot and Sweat ing Peet At all druggists and shoe stores 25c Sample sent FREE Ad dress Allen 8 Olmsted LeRoy N Among the names proposed to the Swedish Academy of Sciences at Stockholm for award of Nobel prizes for scientific achievements are those of Prof Roentgen and Big Marconi
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Allen
Olmsted
LeRoy
Swedish Academy of Sciences
Stockholm
Prof
Roentgen
Big. Marconi
Grain-O: A coffee substitute for children and a Texas survivor
Don’t serve tea or coffee. Grain-O is a nourishing grain drink said to replace coffee. Advertisers claim Grain-O satisfies taste like coffee, costs about the same, and is available at grocers. Mrs. Julia Clark of Dallas, a California gold rush survivor, recalls leading a party from New Orleans in 1849.
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Julia Clark
Dallas
Texas
California
New Orleans
Riverside Park to Plant 40 000 Trees in New York Variety List
The announcement notes over 40 000 trees representing 100 varieties will be planted in Riverside Park in New York. Details include a price of 25 and 50e and a health claim about a medicine affecting the bowels liver and kidneys.
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Lane
Riverside Park
New York
Hall's Catarrh Cure and Convention Travel Notes
Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken internally. Price 75 cents. N. E. A. convention at Charleston, S. C., in July. Tickets good via Chattanooga Knoxville Asheville and Spartanburg and returning via nickel, etc. For ete, et AT resa J, aackes, ’S50 a6 Chicago.
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Hall
N. E
North Indiana Editorial Association Holds 31st Annual Meet
The Northern Indiana Editorial Association gathered in Anderson for its thirty first annual meeting. President F D Haimbaugh led proceedings as new members joined and officers were elected for the coming year. Delegates to the national convention and alternates were named from several Indiana papers, with the next gathering slated for Elkhart.
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North Indiana Editorial Association
Northern Indiana Editorial Association
Anderson
Commercial
Lab
F. D. Haimbaugh
Muncie Herald
James A. Burns
The
Auburn Courier
F. L. Braden
Portland Review
Adam H. Felkner
Lebanon
J. E. Statton
Logansport
Conlogue
Kendallville Standard
C. H. Bandy
Marion News
FE. Unger
Middletown News
C. W. Reeson
Winchester Journal
Lafayette Journal
Elkhart
Multiple Indiana Victims And Local Notices In Early 1900s Report
A farmer near Parksville was killed by lightning. An eight year old boy in Madison died after ingesting carbolic acid mistaken for water. A Lafay ette resident died from a porch fall and a Peoria resident died from apo plexy while making soap. Robbers stole money from a Terre Haute church. A boy named Frank May drowned near New Albany. Mormon elders left Noblesville after citizen concern. Perryville planned a $50 000 bridge cornerstone ceremony to boost grain trade. The Rensselaer Commercial Club incorporated with 100 members and a Russiaville bank plan emerged. A B and O Railroad foreman was injured when a cable snapped. The First National Bank of Richmond marked 37 years in business. Kokomo gas plant planned at $40 000. An accident on the Ohio River saved Isaac Ackman who feared he would drown. Eight hundred Ball Bros. workers were laid off at Muncie. Jonathan W. Fancher became heir to a California will after a misread figure. A Knickerbocker train near Greencastle was shot at. a glass window narrowly missed Paoli’s Tom Buskirk. John Wittenberg of Test City died after a fall but lived fifteen minutes. Counterfeit money attempt in Knightstown failed to flood town. Indiana patents granted include items from Bloomingport to Indianapolis figures. The report ends noting a Marion death by strangulation.
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Daniel Martin
Parksville
Madison
Willie Cowan
Elizabeth Kerkhoff
Lafayette
Charles Schreyer
Peoria
St. Benedict's
Terre Haute
Frank May
George May
Sugar Grove
New Albany
Ohio
Noblesville
Perryville
Rensselaer Commercial Club
Russiaville
Bank of Russiaville
James Richardson
J.M. Leach & Co
Kokomo
Howard County
Isaac Ackman
Rising Sun
Ohio River
Ackman
Edward Thompson
Ball Bros.’ Glass Manufacturing Company
Muncie
Mishawaka
Jonathan W. Fancher
Davis
Merced
Cal
Fancher
Jonathan
California
Knickerbocker
Big Four
Greencastle
Indianapolis
Thomas B. Buskirk
Paoli
State Tax Commission
Indiana
Mary A. Nicholas
Bloomingport
Gustav Kuss
South Bend
John WM. Washburn
Attica
William M. Smith
Evansville
James B. Schuman
Columbia City
Abbott M. Reeves
George A. Norcross
John R. Losey
Plymouth
Edwin Flas
John Dierdorf
Leese
Marion
Nicknames of British Regiments Revealed
The Grenadier Guards were nicknamed The Coalheavers for wearing plain clothes while doing odd jobs for private employers. The Seventh Foot earned The Elegant Extracts as officers were drawn from other corps. The Forty-sixth were The Lacedemonians after a Spartans speech by their colonel. The Gallant Fiftieth bore The Blind Half-Hundred and The Dirty Half-Hundred for ophthalmic troubles and black facings. The Hundredth became The Old Hundred and the Centipedes. The Twenty-eighth were The Fore and Arts for defending a two-front assault near Alexandria. The Cheshire Regiment was The Lightning Conductors after lightning struck men during the 1809 Irish maneuvers.
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Grenadier Guards
Coalheavers
Seventh Foot
Corpa
Forty-sixth
Lacedemonians
Egypt
Alexandria
Cheshire
Peruna testimonials tout girlhood to motherhood health claims
Advertorial notices extol Peruna as a remedy for female health from puberty to menopause. Mrs E C Everly of Philadelphia praises Peruna and Peroma, while Miss Bertha E Sargent credits it with restoring health and saving a life, urging wider use and a free book. A note mentions the cost of building a cable system at about 2000 per mile and submarine lines totalling over 200 million dollars.
What Shall We Have for Concert
A mixed column of advits and notices. includes a dessert feature Jeil-O ready in two minutes, lighthouses supplied with oil, Red Cross Ball Blue, a travel promo for a 4th of July Excursion, and medical tonic offers from Kline’s Institute with a free trial bottle.
Grain O Try Grain O new coffee substitute
Advertisement notes Grain-O as a coffee substitute made from pure grains with mocha color, claiming it suits both children and adults and is gentler on delicate stomachs. It lists prices as 15 cents and 26 cents, sold by grocers, with testimonials from John F Boyer and a note about a shoe factory claim.
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Java
Jell-O and Other Notes on Early Dessert Promos
A fragment mentions Jell-O as a new dessert, listing four flavors such as Lemon Raspberry and Strawberry. It also notes a patent application fee of 50 dollars in a section about costs and government taxes.
Hall's Catarrh Care and July Excursion Offer
An old newspaper snippet advertises Hall's Catarrh Care and promotes Red Cross Ball Blue with a Columbus-style motto. It also announces Nickel Plate Road excursion tickets for July 4 within 200 miles, round trip, valid July 3 and 4, returning by July 5, with contact through C. Asterlin, Fort Wayne Indiana.
Homeseekers Excursions Offered by Chicago and Eastern Illinois
The Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad announces Homeseekers Excursion tickets on the first and third Tuesdays of June July and August to Alabama Arkansas Florida Georgia Indian Territory Kentucky Louisiana Mississippi Missouri North Carolina South Carolina Tennessee and Texas. Round trip one fare plus 2.90 with fifteen day limit on going and twenty one day return. stopovers in Homeseekers Territory. A wide vestibule train runs Chicago to Waco and Fort Worth daily at 1 50 p m with Through Pullman sleeping cars and free reclining chair cars. For details contact any railroad agent or C L Stone G F P T A Chicago.
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Chicago and Eastern Ilinois Railroad
Alabama
Arkansas
Florida
Georgia
Indian Territory
Kentucky
Louisiana
Mississippi
Missouri
North Carolina
South Carolina
Tennessee
Texas
Chicago
Waco
Fort Worth
Chicago and Eastern Illinois Railroad
C. L. Stone
Advertising for Writing Tablets and Paper Sizes
A Victorian style ad touts ruling and unruled writing tablets with 100 Abeets, promoting Letter size at 25 cents and Note size at 15 cents. It urges customers to ask their dealer and not accept other brands.
Round Trip Nickel Plate Fare July 3 4 190?
One fare for the round trip within 200 miles on the Nickel Plate Road on July 3 and 4. Tickets good return until the sth inclusive. Write wire phone or call nearest agent or C Asterlin T P A Fort Wayne Ind. Air Cushion Rubber Stampe the Best the Cheaptet. Lend your orders to Lock Box 210 Fort Wayne lad.
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Nickel Plate Road
C. A. Asterlin
Fort Wayne
Ind
C. A
Asterlin
Fort Wayne, Lad
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