Starvation story from Dawson endures harsh truth
A. J. T. Mahaney from Dawson describes 6000 Americans starving near Dawson in caves and tents. Food aid wanes as typhoid and scurvy rise. 1600 dollars raised in Washington to aid the relief effort faded in transit. Maloney disputes Klondike famine reports, recounting firsthand the desperate sights and ongoing Canadian relief work.
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A. J T. Mahaney
Dawson
Washington
Congress
Many
Wanda
Dawron
Olly
Excursion Tickets Sold by B O R N Agents
Excursion tickets will be sold to many northern western and southern cities at one fare plus 2 for the round trip. Tickets valid twenty one days. For rates and information contact O R N agents or write Morton G P Cedar Rapids Bergeson Ferguson. Hogs shipped the past week. School opened Monday with attendance noted.
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Vy Morton, G. P
Cedar
Rapids
Bergeson & Ferguson
Great Wheel of Paris Built for Chicago Exhibition
A detailed description of a gigantic rotating wheel proposed for the 1893 Chicago Exhibition, modeled after the Paris Exposition ride. The article lists the frame, axle, and balance details, dimensions, weight, and capacity of 49 cars each holding 30 people, with a 315 foot maximum height and twelve minute cycle.
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M. Blanc
Champ de Mars
Paris
Avenue de Suffern
Graydon
United States Navy
Sikkina
W. 2B
Laosshtt
Uender
Sociata Des Lorges Et Acters de Haumont
Nord
Martin
Sngland
State Board Rejects 29 Osteopath Certificates
The state board of health rejected the applications of twenty nine osteopaths to practice in the state. The board cited school standing and insufficient breadth of study as reasons, and said examinations were not thorough enough for certificates. Despite a law recognizing osteopathy, some board members oppose it and claim the law is unfair.
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Waterloo
State Board of Health
Board 8
Board of Health
Laws General Assembly
State Board
Norier I O G T Members Call Special Meeting
Norier I O G T members announce a special business meeting next Tuesday at 7 30 PM prompt. Mrs Chris Jensen and Miss Wimima Jensen were in Emmetsburg Wednesday. Freddie Kent is sick. A O Berg and family have grippe.
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Norier. I. O. G T
Chris. Jensen
Wimima Jensen
Emmetsburg
Freddie Kent
A. O. Berg
Good Mother Mary Ann Conlon Mahan Dies at Home
Mary Ann Conlon Mahan, wife of M E Mahan of Walnut Township, died suddenly after confinement. Born 1861 in Morrison Illinois, she taught school, married in Great Oak city about thirteen years ago, and leaves six children. Funeral at Catholic church led by Rev J Kelly, with six brothers as pallbearers. interment at St Johns Cemetery.
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M.E. Mahan
Walnut Township
Mr. Mahan
Thomas Conlon
Great Oak
M.’E. Mahan
Howe
Mahan
Christian
Holly
Unclear fragment hints at obituary notice in Democratic paper
Fragmentary text references a deceased person, family, and age, with partial phrases suggesting an obituary notice. No clear names, dates, places, or organizations are identifiable from readable segments.
Remarkable Maquoketa Case Baffles Doctors
A 14 year old girl Miss Pearl Gibson died at home in Maquoketa on Monday night December 26. Her body was examined and found in a well preserved state not embalmed. A funeral was postponed as doctors tested for revival with no success. A blister from a tightened match reportedly appeared, challenging the death claim. The girl had a prior trance in childhood suggesting a possible recurrent condition. The case has drawn wide medical attention eight days after the supposed death.
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Babila Gazette
Maquoketa
Pearl Gibson
Douglas Gibson
Dodge
Andrew
McKinley backs claim Aguinaldo faced foreign pressure
At a cabinet meeting yesterday President McKinley expressed belief that a foreign power backs Aguinaldo's defiant stance toward the United States. He noted growing suspicion that Aguinaldo has shown contempt for government authority, though specifics remain unclear.
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McKinley
Aguinaldo
United States
Govett
Aguin
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