Standard Dictionary to be Issued December Fifteenth
Funk and Wagnalls prepare the Standard Dictionary in a four year effort with 230 editors and a half million dollar outlay. An award diploma and medal were received at the World’s Fair in Chicago after three hours of scrutinizing proofs. The work lists 19,736 words under A and a total of 300,000 terms for the full alphabet, far above rival dictionaries. The article also notes a bankruptcy bill vote in Congress and local notices of illnesses and Christmas events in Orion Iowa.
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Chicago
Mines and Mining
Jackson Park
Ill
Messrs. Funk & Wagnalls
Webster (International
Stormouth
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Webster
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Electric Bitters Gains Popular Favor In Medicine Field
Electric Bitters has rapidly gained favor as a pure medicine for stomach liver and kidney ailments. It promises to cure sick headache indigestion and constipation while driving malaria from the system. Satisfaction guaranteed with each bottle or money refunded. 50 cents per bottle. Sold by J. B. Wright and F. D. Merwin & Co.
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Hayes
Fonnar
J. B. Wright
F. D. Merwin & Uo
Lute Heir Found? Falcon Journal Reports Lost Heirs to California Fortune
In 1852 Nicho las Lute moved to Galena with his sister and worked in lead mines while she served in General Grant's household. A liaison with Minnie produced a son. legal trouble led Lute to California in 1853 and he vanished. Three months ago he died in Susanville, California, leaving a 1.5 million dollar estate split between his son, the son's mother, and his sister. Detectives seek the missing heir with no clues found.
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Nicholas Lute
Galena
General Grant
Minnie
Lute
California
Lutea
Susanville
Falcon Journal
One Minute Cough Cure Promoted at Clouse & Stamm's
An OCR fragment promotes a cough remedy called One Minute Cough Cure at the Clouse and Stamm store. The text is garbled but implies a sales pitch or advertisement for relief of persistent coughs.
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Clouse & Stamm
Clouse &Stamm’s
Gripe remedy praised and Republican strikes back
The piece notes Jas C Jones of Mexia Texas recovered from grippe using Chamberlains Cough Remedy and urges its use for colds. It also reports Chicago Herald protest against Republican calamity howlers and questions Republican restraint amid national administration failures.
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Jas. C. Jones
Leader
Mexia
Texas
Chamberlain
J. E. Wright
Chicago Herald
Herald
Guaranteed Cure for Coughs and Colds Ad
Advertises Dr King's New Discovery for consumption and lung throat or chest troubles with a money back guarantee after a fair trial. Trial bottle free at J B Wright's and F D Norwin Co's drug stores. Large sizes 50 cents and 1 dollar.
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Dr. King
J. B. Wright's
F. D. Norwin & Co
Winter Approaches Promoting Clarke's Rock Candy Cordial
Approach of winter brings gray skies and cold with sore throat warnings. Clarke's Rock Candy Cordial, a blend of Clarke's Pure Rye Whiskey and Rock Candy, claims to ease throat irritation and boost circulation. Sold by druggists at $1.00 a bottle, advertised as the best cure for colds and pulmonary troubles.
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Clarke
Farmers denounce Morton as unfit for secretary post
State granges and agricultural groups urge President Cleveland to remove Secretary Morton amid persistent protests. Morton counters that resolutions amuse him as farmers keep pressing the issue while unrelated notices discuss a Pleasant Prairie college and local remedies.
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Morton
Cleveland
Great Rock Island Route Inaugurates Daily Tourist Car Line
The Great Rock Island Route begins a Daily Through Tourist Car Line from Chicago to Los Angeles starting October 23, routing via Chicago Rock Island & Pacific to Kansas City and Fort Worth, then Texas Pacific to El Paso and Southern Pacific to Los Angeles.
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Kansas City
Ft. Worth
Texas Pacific
el Pago
Southern Pacific
Los Angeles
Chicago to San Francisco Tourist Line via Southern Route
Arrangement completed to run a car to San Francisco by a southern winter route. The car departs Chicago daily at 6 p m on the Great Rockstand Route. Tourists may use the shore line in addition to the double weekly Chi cago service via Hock island Denver Rico Grande and Southern Pacific through Pueblo Salt Lake Ogden to Los Angeles. Second class tickets accepted. Coupons available from Ticket Agents.
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Dition
Hock ‘Sland
Denver & Rico Grande
Southern Pacific
Pueblo
Salt Lake
Ogden
Los Angeles
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