Aldrich backs Peruna tonic in Colorado letter
Congressman W F Aldrich of Alabama writes from Washington praising Peruna as a safe vegetable remedy for debility and catarrh. The Peruna Medicine Co claims 60 000 testimonials praising its tonic effects including improved digestion sleep and nervous energy.
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W. F. Aldrich
Alabama
Washington, D. C
Peruna
Peruna Medicine Co
Columbus
Emory
Omaha
Neb
North Sixteenth Street
Ohio
Battle on as Herrera Rebels Sunlight Government Forces Near Agua Dulce
Peace commissioners routed by renewed fighting report heavy rebel losses and light government casualties. Agua Dulce entrenched lines held by government. rebels attack with fierce courage. Armistice requests and renewed supplies reported as authorities push to decisive outcome. General Moreno cites Agua Dulce fortifications as masterful military art.
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Herrera
Panama
Columbia
Agua Dulce
Associated Press
Moreno
Salazar
Moarles Berti
Berti
Agua Dules
Desirable Burial in Omaha: Widow Commits Suicide
Denver August 2 Mrs Julia C Howell who came from Chicago two weeks ago killed herself by laudanum. Her landlady discovered the death today after opening her room. Widow and daughter of J S Howell the Chicago artist wore expensive mourning gowns and left money for burial in Prospect Hill cemetery. A note cited illness as cause and coroner sent the body cast.
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Denver
Julia .C.howell
Chicago
Prospect Hill Cemetery
Omaha
Miss Hay Weds in September at Fells Newbury
The marriage of Miss Alice Hay to James W. Wadsworth Jr will take place on September 30 at the Fells Newbury New Hampshire the secretary of state and Mrs Hay residence Only intimate relatives and a few friends will attend After a brief wedding journey the couple will travel to Geneseo New York for the autumn season.
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Washington, D. GC
Alice Hay
James W. Wadsworth, Jr
the Fells
Newbury
N. H
Hay
Geneseo
N. Y
National Bank Note Circulation Rises in July 2002
Washington data shows total national bank note circulation at 368,981,184 as of July 31 2002, up 2,312,093 for the month and 2,881,281 for the year. Bond-based circulation stands at 816,614,747, up 2,875,936 for the month but down 10,424,606 for the year.
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Washington, D.C
Comptroller of the Currency
National Bank
United States
Baldwin Returns From Arctics In Fine Health
HONNINGSVAAG NORWAY August 2 Evelyn Baldwin the arctic explorer arrived reporting all his men in good health and saying We have been baffled but not beaten. Bryan New Jersey New York August 2 William J Bryan with daughter Ruth arrived from New Haven and soon left for Burlington Massachusetts not stated in full text
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Baldwin
Honningsvaag
Norway
Evelyn B. Baldwin
Great Northern Train Sent to Demonstrate Road Building
Washington Aug 1 The Great Northern Railroad has placed a train at the disposal of the United States Department of Agriculture to transport officials engineers and road machinery for practical lessons in road building. Stop cities will host road conventions with demonstrations guiding both theory and practice from Chicago August 15 toward Minneapolis in early September and onward to the Pacific coast during fair weeks.
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Great Northern
Washington
Great Northern Railroad Company
Office of Public Road Inquiry
United States Department of Agriculture
Chicago
Minneapolis
Pacific Coast
Nebraska Boy Surrenders From San Francisco Training Ship
F F Nelson one of thirty boys who ran away from the training ship near San Francisco May 7 surrendered himself at Richmond Indiana August 1. He enlisted in January as an ordinary landsman and was detached to Pensacola in the Golden Gate. On May 7 he and twenty nine others were given shore leave and missed their boat back to the island. Nelson left the gang at Ogden Utah and fearing a reward for his arrest in Grand Island Nebraska came east in search of employment. He gave himself up and will be held until advices from Washington arrive.
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Richmond
Ind
F. F. Nelson
San Francisco
Nelson
Pensacola
Golden Gate
Gast
Ogden
Utah
Grand Island
Neb
War Department
Washington
Engineer Dies At His Post In Wisconsin Train Crash
In Elm Grove near Milwaukee a collision between a Waukesha line passenger train known as the Scoot and a westbound freight killed passenger engineer Denis Cottwell. Fireman Thomas Chamberlain was badly injured and several passengers suffered various injuries. Engineer Connell's quick braking saved many lives, but he lost his own in the crash.
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TLM
Connell
Ancient English Bibles in Cottonian Library Coronation Oaths
A Latin manuscript of the four gospels housed in the Cottonian Library is claimed to have been used at English coronations 300 years before a stone in the coronation chair arrived from Scotland. The tradition holds it as the source of ancient kings oath taking.
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England
Scotland
Cat Causes Power Outage Across Western New York
An incident involving a cat climbing a rail line pole near Buffalo and Lockport set off a 22 000 volt Niagara transmission line. The cat died instantly and its body caused a short circuit that cut power to Niagara for two hours, affecting several electric railways and lighting systems in western New York. The following day a Utica car triggered a similar short circuit at a power house, blowing fuses and stalling cars briefly, though the car survived.
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Buffalo
Bower
Utica
Ives
Kidney Pills Cure Severe Kidney Trouble, Langendorfer Says
In St Robert Missouri on August 4 Mr E R Langendorfer suffered a severe kidney ailment baffling local physicians. He reports after using two boxes of Dodd's Kidney Pills he was entirely cured with no return symptoms. He states doctors failed him but the pills cured him satisfactorily.
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St. Robert, Mo
E. R. Langendorfer
Dodd
Lighthouse Keepers Forgotten on Percy Island
In 1900 twenty lighthouse keepers on Percy Island off Queensland were left without food for months as the government failed to deliver quarterly provisions. A British sloop later halted the vessel and left supplies, prompting a reminder of the islanders’ existence.
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Percy Island
Queensland
Lotte the artist and a jumble of quips in print
An artsy note on Lotte a former stage star now painting landscapes for friends. The item cites sayings on marriage street rail transfer Britain and a medical claim for rupture cure along with a 16 ounce Defiance Cold Water Starch boast and a pipe life philosophy line.
Maggie's Apology and the Missing Servant Tale
In Philadelphia a hotel corridor overheard William Pruette and a group of married men discuss a housemaid serving Mrs Pruette in a New York flat years ago The maid Maggie traveled home after a telegram said her mother was ill She promised to return but sent a letter warning of a slow return and pleaded for her job to be kept Maggie then asks to be kept her place while her mother’s condition worsens The Cleveland Plain Dealer reports the anecdote of lingering absence and reluctant departure
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Maggie
William Pruette
Waid
Philasdelphia Hotel
Mrs. Pruette
New York
Police curb horses to protect pedestrians in Seoul riot
In Seoul on May 22 1902 police ordered servants to slow running horses on main streets after horses pressed children and caused injuries. Officers stopped two horses but soldiers arrived quickly and took the police away.
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Seoul
Corea
Stockton brothers split Democratic Senate race in Jacksonville
In Jacksonville Massachusetts two Stockton brothers, Thomas and Taffair, vied for the Democratic nomination for state senator. The contest was sharp but avoided personal attacks. Taffair Stockton won the primary by a small margin of thirty nine votes.
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Jacksonville
Thomas
Taffair Stockton
South
Telfair Stockton
Wry Medical Lesson Echoes From Yale Dean
A Yale Medical School dean quips about a student under scrutiny after a patient dies, noting the time since death and stressing swift action. The text blends unrelated phrases and odd names, yielding a fragmented historical clipping with sparse coherent facts.
Ursus Featured as Not So Giant in Quo Vadis
A recent dispatch recounts Ursus not being the towering menace once imagined in Quo Vadis. It notes a Mexican toreador who tames a wild bull by the horns, among other items vindicating Acton.
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Ursus
Acton
Cholera Toll Rises Across Manchuria In Rapid Spread
Official returns show cholera spreading swiftly through Manchuria with hundreds dying daily. Inka reports 834 cases and 650 deaths between June 6 and July 18, Harbin 1,483 cases and 989 deaths since the outbreak, and Mukden and Port Arthur also show high fatality rates. Kirtin averages about fifty deaths daily amid ongoing reports from the region.
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Petersburg
Manchuria
Inka
Harbin
Mukden
Port Arthur
Kirtin
Shoots Wife as She Sleeps in Kansas City Suburb
Pred Falkenburg a teamster shot his wife while she slept at their West Argentine home yesterday night and then killed himself. She cannot recover. Jealousy likely caused the tragedy. Hon John D Lyman, noted agricultural writer, died in Exeter New Hampshire at age 79 today.
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Kansas City
Falkenburg
Ned
West Argentine
Jealouey
John D. Lyman
Exntor
N. H
Hoa
Chicago Burlington and Quincy announces mixed midsummer grain outlook
Chicago August 1 report by the Chicago Burlington and Quincy railroad notes mixed conditions across Iowa Nebraska and northern Kansas with corn oats and barley varying by region and noting delays in loading due to harvest timing and weather. The release paints a cautious view of crop prospects and transportation implications through the region.
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Chicago
Chicago, Burlington & ‘Quincy’ Railroad Company
Towa
Nebraska
Kansas
A Place to Spend the Summer in Wisconsin Minnesota Iowa
A brief travel notice extols summer resorts in Wisconsin Minnesota and Iowa near Milwaukee, highlighting Okoboji and other lakeside retreats. It notes easy reach from Omaha and unusually low round trip rates. Contact A Nash at the Western SakottC. Ad & St. P. Ry. for full information.
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Milwaukee Railway
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Iowa
Okoboj
Omaha
A. Nash
Gen'l Western Sakottc
Ad & St. P. Ry
Farnam St
Nomo Visitors Excursions List sible Ohio Indiana trips
Nomo Visitors Excursions announces tours through Ohio and Indiana from Sandusky to Louisville with stops at Columbus Dayton Springford and others. Dates of sale October 2 6 12 and 13. For information contact T F Godfrey PT A and Grow 14 Douglas Street Omaha Neb. Yellow clothes unsightly keep white with Red Cross Ball Blue all grocers 3 oz 5 cents.
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Arip Tlokete
Ohio
Indiana
Sandusky
Columbus
Dayton
Springford
Clnaippat
Louisville
T. F. Godfrey
P&t
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