Roundup recalls fifteen years of vice and loss in Halifax
An anonymous reminiscence echoes a Halifax drinking era fifteen years past with bars, doomed crowds, and graves of drowned drinkers near churchyards. It recalls a Lieut Preston Brown court martial case and a Senate promotion bid following General Miles’s recommendation, linking memories of a shoreline decade and a half ago.
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Tom
Halifax
James H. Jams
Preston Brown
Brown
Miles
Senate
Is Your Liver Tired Seek Help With Herpine Hensixe
An old advertisement promotes Herpine as a liver remedy and claims it cures chills and fever. It lists Hensixe as the perfect liver medicine and notes a price of six oe for sale by Graham Drug.
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Graham Drug
Prohibitionists rally against Sam Lanham for Texas governor
Abilene Reporter notes a Taylor county pledge and questions the wisdom of a convention to nominate a candidate against Sam Lanham, the first prohibitionist Democrat nominated for Texas governor. It asks if the pledge will hold and if the leaders will stay true to their primaries.
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Sam Lanham
Democracy
Texas
Taylor County
Abilene
Where is the deficit to come from according to Cannon
Representative Cannon states the estimated government revenue for the coming fiscal year will be 639 million dollars with appropriations to date totaling 750 million, including 50 million for the Isthmian canal. He questions where the deficit will originate.
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Representative Cannon
Wisthmian Canal
Moody and Roosevelt consider trip on exhibited submarine
Secretary of the Navy Moody dislikes the strain of the President’s plans. Roosevelt wishes to tour the submarine afloat on display in Washington, and Moody would have to accompany. The Gomez pacification cost $25,000, a policy perhaps worth the price, while Aguinaldo’s pacification would have been cheaper at twice that amount.
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Moody
Roosevelt
Washington
Gomez
Aguinaldo
Ox Learns Power Reads to Rebel Against Master
A patient Ox, long subservient to a harsh Taskmaster, finds a newspaper line about beef trusts and concludes it can challenge authority. The Ox rips loose the yoke, chases the Master up a tree, delivering a timeless moral about people realizing power when they act.
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Beef Trust
Tobacco essay and tea use in a fragmentary period piece
A Berlin printed essay by Dr Damon argues tobacco is not deleterious and may aid those with diphtheria grip or tuberculosis while being harmless in tetanus and typhoid throat infections. The report notes British tea consumption exceeds the US and Europe combined, and cites quotas of seeds and plants. it ends with Bishop Nicholson opposing tobacco use in Milwaukee.
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Damon
Paris
Berlin
Chicago Chronicle
Great Britain
Ireland
United States
Prohibition Coverage Surges in U S Despite Mixed State Action
The Philadelphia Ledger estimates about 30 million Americans live under prohibition either by state law or local option, more than a third of the population. The report lists numerous counties and states enacting or applying prohibitions in hundreds of towns and cities nationwide.
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United States
The
Philadelphia Ledger
Republic
Alabama
Try This Electric Bitters Cure Claim
Don’t fail to try this tonic says it will cure at once. It tones the stomach regulates the kidneys and bowels invigorates the nerves and purifies the blood. It is advertised as a cure for kidney and liver troubles stomach disorders nervousness sleeplessness rheumatism neuralgia and malaria with a 50 cent price and Edgar Matthews & Co. guarantee of satisfaction.
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Edgar Matthews & Co
Wong
Sim Pos
Rom
Senateigh immigration bill action this week anticipated
Anticipation grows that the Senate will act on the immigration bill this week. A clear trend toward higher barriers against foreign immigration is noted.
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Senate
Bucklen Arnica Salve Proclaimed Best and Cheapest
A shrewd quip warns against fake salves and touts Bucklen’s Arnica Salve with thirty years of cures for pies burns boils cuts and skin eruptions. It notes 25 cents at Edgar Matthews drug store and cites Londoners wearing permits to walk the earth by J Pierpont Morgan and Co to mock a ship trust.
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Edgar Matthews Drug Store
New Ship Trust
J. Pierpont Morgan & Co
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