Rescued Miners Survive After Week In Inferno at Cherry Mine
In Cherry Illinois during a deadly mine fire twenty men were found alive after seven days entombed by heat and gas. Rescuers brought them to the surface as crowds cheered. two men confirmed dead and 198 missing. Survivors describe chewing bark and leather for sustenance while awaiting rescue.
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Cherry
Pays
Bosa
St. Paul
Wholesale poisoning scare at Vienna staff officers
In Vienna a mass poisoning plot targets newly promoted captains and other officers. Pills mailed to officers on the general staff contained cyanide of potassium, killing Captain Mader and injuring others. A circular urged use for nervous debility, signed by Charles Francis at a false address.
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Vienna
Mader
Charles Francis
AFL Adopts Unanimous Rerlection Of Officers At Convention
The twenty ninth annual American Federation of Labor convention adjourned after unanimously reelecting President Samuel Gompers Vice President John Mitchell and Secretary Frank Morrison. St Louis chosen as next meeting site. Gompers thanked delegates noting broad approval of labor principles.
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Toronto
Ont
Samuel Gompers
John Mitchell
Frank Morrison
St. Louis
American Federation of Labor
Gompers
St Croix Burns Off Santa Monica Coast. All Aboard Saved
The passenger steamer St Croix of North Pacific Steamship burned to the waterline Saturday night three miles off Pont Duma eighteen miles north of Santa Monica. Eighty two passengers and thirty six crew were saved by officers and crew in calm seas. All escaped in lifeboats and rafts.
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Los Angeles
St. Croix
North Pacific Steamship Company
Pont Duma
Santa Monica
Thanksgiving Dinner With a Jailbird Misplayer
A struggling entrepreneur Kirkt bee and his wife invite a penniless jailbird to Thanksgiving dinner after Aunt Bella cancels. The dilapidated guest eats a mince pie, accepts a cigar, and expresses gratefulness for the unexpected feast, remarking on the meal’s value compared with better places.
A Good Cough Mixture Promised To Cure Colds
An old remedy claims to break up a cold in twenty four hours. Mix two ounces glycerine, a half ounce Virgin Oil of Pine compound pure, and eight ounces pure whisky in a large bottle. Cure-all cough remedy said to be inexpensive and lasting a year for the average family. Virgin Oil of Pine compound pure made in Leach Chemical Co. laboratories Cincinnati Ohio.
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Leach Chemical Co
Cincinnati
Mrs Caudle at the Pole and Diyola Dyes offer
A comic domestic sketch contrasts a wife urging her husband home with a long absence. The ad promotes Dyola Dyes claiming fast brilliant color for cotton, wool, silk or blends and offers a free 10c pigment package with color card and directions to interested women who mail their name and dealer to Dyola in Burlington, Vermont.
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Dyola
Burlington
Remark on his son becoming a disruptor on the line
A fragment quotes a parent questioning if his son will elevate the wing but replies he will raise Cain. It notes Porter’s American context and mentions blood poisoning from minor cuts, urging immediate use of Wizard Oil to prevent infection, then discusses belief and human understanding.
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Cain
Baltb
Humorous Afghan Frontier Tale From Dr Pennell Book
A Britsh officer questions an Afridi in the Kurram valley about future war between Russia and England. The Afridi answers with a wry joke, saying they would watch the conflict, wait for one side to lose, then descend to loot the vanquished, praising God.
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T. Ll. Pennell
Kurram
Anid
Russia
England
Graybeard
Fighting the Slave Trade and US Support in Brussels
The article notes slave trading is outdated yet America contributes 100 dollars annually to support the International bureau for the repression of the African slave trade in Brussels. It frames the US role as part of international efforts against the slave trade and mentions ongoing expenses.
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United States
Brussels
International Bureau
Endorsement for Peruna Remedy Cites Digestion and Nerves
A reader endorses Peruna as a great remedy. The note argues that any remedy aiding digestion also strengthens nerves. It claims nerve centers depend on nutrition and that impaired digestion leads to anemia of the nerve centers and nervous debility.
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Jutia Marlowe
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