Englishman's Joke Sparks Upside Down Ten Dollar Bill Mystery
A Chicago bank clerk flagged a $10 note showing an engraving that when inverted reveals a jackass where the eagle appears. Washington officials kept the image quiet, while an English engraver in the U.S. Bureau of Engraving admitted crafting the puzzle as revenge. The act created consternation in the Treasury as the jackass design circulated nationwide.
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Treasury
Chicago
Washington
J. W. Lyons
Register of the Treasury
Ellis H. Roberts
United States
Eagle
Jackass
Eablie
Bureau of Engraving
Zopiter
Jack
Cocaine Devastates Users and Society in Short Report
A New York World summary notes cocaine as an anesthetic misuse with rising fatalities after spinal injections. Dr. Thomas D. Crothers warns cocaine addiction spreads, cheap in price yet ruinous to health and life. The piece calls for efforts to curb the drug's destructive influence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomas D. Crothers
New York
New York World
Where Women Abound and a Call to Ship Them Out
The text critiques Joseph Chamberlain urging Britain to address a gender imbalance by sending women overseas. It argues that England faces ongoing wars and a surplus of unmatched women poses a national danger, warning such a population shift is urgent to prevent potential threats.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Chamberlain
Great Britain
England
Wassal
Taneu
Savas
Jerlain
St Louis
Women Managers to Oversee Pan American Exposition
A 26 member Buffalo Board of Women Managers coordinates exhibits and programs to showcase women’s work alongside men. Honorary members from states and nations bolster committees on Education Fine Arts Clubs Publicity and Applied Arts. The women’s headquarters will be a remodeled former Country Club house with reading rooms and spaces for receptions and meetings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Americas
Buffalo
Women’s Board
Committee On Entements
N Fine Arts of the
Women's Guard
Directo
Fine Ainp
Work of America Artists
Committee On
Superintendent of Liberal Arts and Education
Women Teachers’ Assocation
Exposition Board
Committee On Clubs
Women’s Clubs
The
Chicago
Women's Board
United States
Canada
Committee On Applied Arts
New York State
Country Club of Buffalo
Wom
Marian de Forest
Travel and study clubs form for Pan American Exposition
Travel and study clubs in the United States and Canada organize to visit Buffalo Pan American Exposition next summer. Members seek companionship, transportation planning, and deep, structured study of routes, Buffalo, Western Hemisphere geography, history, resources, exhibits, and Niagara Falls. A public sale notice by Anna E Patterson in Buffington township, Indiana county, Pa, is listed for April 27, 1901 at noon.
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United States
Canada
Buffalo
Wip
Western Hemisphere
Niagara Falls
Bureau of Publicity
Anna E. Patterson
Nolo
Buffington Township
Indiana County
Pan-American Exposition Exhibit on Forest Classifications
The Pan-American Exposition will showcase how common trees like pine oak elm maple chestnut and others are classified into hundreds of minor groups. It will also display the largest guns ever built, highlighting remarkable exhibits and curiosities in nature and industry.
Stops the Coorh and Works Off the Cord
A garbled note discusses a medicine named Laxstive Biome-Qamnine Tehleta claimed to cure an elderly inciedav Necare with a price listed as 2a. The fragment mentions treatment and payment but lacks clear context or verification.
Wet It Partito Case Notice in Findley Matter 1901
Notice for John A. Findley and Eliza Boyle et al in the No. 1 June Term 1901 at the Wet It Partito court. Case involves parties and legal action awaiting court proceedings. Official notice directs interested persons to appear or respond as required by the court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. D
W. R. Calhoun
Eliza Boyle
Elizabeth Allen
Allen
Mary Wilson
Philadelhia Street
William Wine
R. W. Allison
B. B. Tiffany and Smith
John A. Findley
Pennsylvania
Chicago
E. H. Wilson
Bigmarck
North Dakota
Brooks
Sarah Brooks
Telford & Stewart
Indiana Progress
Indians
Indiana
Harry White
Kk Calhous
Elizabeth Boyle
Illinois
Sarah Boyle
E. H Wilson
Bismarck
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FAI
Travel and Study Clubs
Pittsburg
H. Kleber & Bro
Fifth Avenue
KNABE
Henry F. Miller
Straube & Crown
OPERA
Gilmore
Surdett
Apollo
Washburn
Duquesne
Virgil
Fifth Ave
Pittsburg, FA
Court OF Common Pleas
D. E. Thompson
James A
Orphans’ Court
Tadians County
Brush Valley Township
Hickory
Thomas Dies
Henry Cramer
Robert M. Morris
Inaborough
Fannie Hill
Morris
Robert
Morrie
WM. Tletams
Woolf Block
Johnstown
Stewart ,& Myers
Mey Wue
James N Stewart, Frank Myers
D. R. Crawford
Smickaburg
Nancy 8. Crawford, Dbr
Crawford, Jr
W. T. Crawford
Pesler & Felt, Attorneys
Curor's Notice
George Bists
Om Nz
Ani Ee Mae
Rowe College
Joinstown, Penna
Adress
Ph. D . Des . WE
Mos
John G. Cameron
Fire & Accident Insurance
Farmers’ Bank
Boyd
Barber
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