Nine Years Since Brooklyn Bridge. Global Trade and Society Notes
In a survey of progress and curiosities, the column reports the Brooklyn Bridge yearly crossings near 40 million and farm labor pay doubling in fifty years, compares labor markets, notes steamship steerage inspections, and mentions royal marriage chatter. It also covers coffee and tea imports, banana flour discovery, corruption prose, Mississippi flood fears, immigration worries, and bicycle tests for the army amid road conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brooklyn Bridge
Illinois State News Highlights A String Of Fatal Incidents
A long Illinois dispatch reports suicides by Jesse Newton Smith in Sangamon county and Mrs. Jennie Graham in Springfield. It covers robberies in Clinton County, a failed incorporation effort at Fairmount, and various sensational crimes, accidents, and local events across multiple towns including Mascoutah, Dixon, Danville, Freeport, and Decatur.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jesse Newton Smith
W. C. Cloyd
Fairfield
Sangamon County
William Smith
Springfield
Clinton County
Queen's Lake
Herman Miller
Esquire Duncan
Squire
Fifer
William RB
Willis
Pike County
W Ward
Macoupin County
Russell Hardy
Decatur
Moule
Belleville
Julius Gaertner
William Izatt
A Hilton
United Brethren Church
Danvers
Bloomington
Herman Fleischsig
Vana
Ilinois Volunteer Infantry
Benton
Millington
Farmers' and Merchants' Bank of Freeport
Naperville
Alex Mitchell
Morris
Wilson
Illinois
Mary Abrams
Chicago
National and Western league standings and a flood of disasters
Baseball league percentages show Boston and Cincinnati near top. Western league highlights Columbus and Milwaukee. A dynamite blast kills jeweler J R Turner in Kensington PA and a woman Scheffer, with Turner’s family injured. Creede Camp fire in Colorado wipes out much of Jimtown. Platte Valley Bank closes as cash losses mount. Train collision near Carrollton, Kentucky kills four. Multiple drownings and fires across the country. oil city Titusville and surrounding towns suffer heavy losses.
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Boston
Lrdébklyn
Cincinnati
Chicago
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
Cleveland
New York
Louisville
Washington
St. Louis
Baltimore
Columbus
Milwaukee
Kansas City
Toledo
Minneapolis
Omaha
Fort Wayne
Indianapolis
J. R Turner
Kensington
Turner
Scheffer
Childern
Jimtown
Creede Camp
Colorado
Tuk Platte Valley Bank
Central City
Nebraska
Starrett
Carrollton
Loewe
Rai
Coons
Prescott
Gainesville
Gator Paris
McDonough
Brenham
Tex
McCook
Neb
Oil City
Corry
Meadville
Cheyenne
Wyo
Rouporrn Wacker
Louise Plum
Jacob Plum
Charles Carr
Neb Pinnen
Pennsylvania
Owl City
Titusville
Hunt
Warsaw
Harold
Blunt
K . Foote
Spreckles
McMian
Wilkesbarre
Buffalo
Austin Ponter
Grayson
Cnatmncey Devew
United States
Jostan Lawton
Ocean
Wabash River
Andrews
Ind
Blacksmith saves girl life and town notes
Peru News Herald reports Mincie Carvey of Lytle City Iowa survived cholera morbus after blacksmith Chase Newcomb walked four miles in storm to obtain Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhea Remedy He gave a half teaspoonful saving her life others in the area seek the remedy. Edward Reilly sisters return to Lacon plan summer stay then teachers in Heory county.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Giri —Mincie Carvey
Lytle City
Iowa
Chase Newcomb
Chamberlain
J W Neice
Edward Reilly
Lacon
Whitefield Township
Edward
Heory County
James Kelly
Keeley
Meno
Hall's Catarrh Cure advertised with $1000 reward
An old advertisement claims Hall's Catarrh Cure treats catarrh as a constitutional disease by internal use. It offers $1000 for a cure failure and invites readers to request testimonials from F J Cheney & Co of Toledo Ohio and to subscribe for reading matter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Republican
Ultta
Hall
Cheney & Co
Toledo
Dr King’s New Discovery advertised for coughs and colds
The ad claims over a million users praise Dr King’s New Discovery for consumption, coughs, and colds. It guarantees cure or money back and offers trial bottles free at Dr Powell’s drug store with large bottles priced at 50 cents and a dollar.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr King
Dr Powelie Drug Store
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David Wright
Lone Tree
Dwyer Bros
Henry
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James Quinn
Richard Mellow
Eutra
Fifth Street
City Hall
Lacom
Tom
TSE
Cumming & CO
Sparland
Avin
COE
A. S. Jones
Chillicothe, Ill
Ale
Hiram Hunter
Walter Edith
Y Glogs Crees
P. O
Lyle & Baco
Tubuar
WM. Dwyer
IIL
Hayden & Holmes
Henry, Illinois
Torner
Putnam County
Oma
Bureau
Mareball
Henry Republican
George Burr, Burror
Agricultural Department
Lloyd Steamship Co
Marie of
Edinburgh
Prince Ferdinand of
Bulgaria
Mississippi
Big
Republic
Barnatt
Raphael
England
Russia
Mies
Pullman
Nublin
Illinois State News
Fairmount
Boolkwalter
John W. Marks
Hillsboro
Emma Blam
Dauhter
Mascoutah
Wiliam Nosworthy
Dixon
Garden Plain
Wergelund
Norway
John BE. Puckett & Son
Danville
Freeport
Effingham
Strasburg
Peru News Herald
Othe
USA
Mylo
G. A. Bangs
the Republican
Santa Claus
N. N.k.fairbank & CO
L. Candeer Coo
New Haven
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C.H Fargo & CO
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