Slowest Railroad in World Through Honduras Adventure
A New Orleans Times-Democrat writer describes a caravan like Costa Rican style journey from Puerto Cortes to Laguna and beyond aboard a wooden rail line. The voyage includes a Jamaican engineer and a lively fire crew, a near derailment on a steep grade, and vibrant jungle scenery with palm groves and mahogany poles, ending with notes that the railroad ships most of the bananas west of the Ohio River to New Orleans.
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Times-Democrat
Netter
San Pedro Sula
Honduras
Mallee
Puerto Cortes
Hoe
New Orleans
Ohio River
Dr Pierce Golden Medical Discovery Promises Cure
An 19th century advertising blurb extols Dr Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery as a remedy for stomach and blood disorders. It links weak digestion to impure blood and touts alcohol free formula with herbs like Stone root Cherrybark and Queen's root, citing Dr Finley of Bennett Medical College. The copy promotes digestive and liver health through a tonic claim.
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Pierce
Golden Medical
I. Finley M. D
Bennett Medical College
Chirac
Wiksen
Plorea
Presbyter Ginner’s Religious Schemes End in Prison
Special to The Suz Pittsburg August 11 founder and bishop Samuel George Ginner a physician and self styled reformer founded the Order of Minnehaha in St Paul and planned a theater launch for a new sect before being jailed in the Western penitentiary for a year. He claimed inspiration from Dowie Booth and Gen Booth and once proposed uniformed followers and music to stir emotion.
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Pittsburg
Church of America
Order of Minnehahe
Oseo
Morning Star
Manufactcure
Dowie
Gen. Booth
Samuel George
Ginner
D. D
Western Penitentiary
SheMeld
Dr. Ginner
Booth
Lfe
South Africa
Order of Minnehaha
St. Paul, Minn
Longfellow
Hiawatha
Persian grand vizier inspires first national assembly
Mirza Nagrullah Khan Magished Doteh, newly named grand vizier of Persia, has persuaded the shah to establish Persia’s first national assembly. A veteran diplomat and reformer, he joined the foreign office early and rose to chef de cabinet, later serving as war minister and foreign affairs minister. His eldest son is minister at St. Petersburg. He favors European administrative methods and advised the retiring grand vizier.
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Mirza Nagrullah Khan
Persia
Parala
St. Petersburg
Oldest Western Union lineman falls from pole at Raritan
Charles Dean, aged lineman with Western Union, was killed while next to a telegraph wire at the Somerset Woollen Mills in Raritan New Jersey. The wire had been crossed by an electric feed line of the Public Service Corporation.
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Coe
New York
Charles Dean
Western Union Telegraph Company
Somerset Woollen Mills
Raritan
N. J
Bere Vice Corporation
Union Labor Battles In Maine Politics As Election Near
Special to The Sun reports Organized Labor entering politics by backing Congressman Charles E Littlefield of Maine. President Gompers plans to speak Aug 18 and campaign in major towns. Cannon Taft and Roosevelt figures referenced. Littlefield, a Maine legislator and longtime judiciary committee member, faces Labor opposition amid injunction and eight hour debates.
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Rockland
Charles E. Sattlefield
Maine
Congress
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Littlefeld
Pingley
Andros
Coggin
Sagdahos
Frank Knox
Lincoln
Oxford
Litsefeld
Bath
Auburn
Naine
Gompers
Littlefield
Cannon
Federation
Tabor
Taft
Canada
Roosevelt
Linefield
House Judiciary Committee
Bhegan
Poet Joaquin Miller Visits Portland in Auger Encampment Mood
Special to The Sax Portland Ore August 17 A late picture of Joaquin Miller the aged Poet of the Sierras drawn from a snapshot taken in Portland shows him before his eastern trip He is a G A R member and will attend the Minneapolis encampment banquet of bacon and beans He recalls Oregon childhood wrote his first poem in an Oregon forest and praises his old Steed and youthful memories while outlining plans for the G A R gathering
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Portland
Ore
Joaquin Miller
Sierras
Poat
Grand Army of the Republic
Minneapolis
Joaquin Millers
Sweet Singer
Oregon
Lu Miller
Boy burned after shampoo get carbolic acid in Conn
In Collinsville Connecticut on August 1 Paul 8, son of Stephen Zima, was shampooed with carbolic acid by a playmate. Both eyes severely burned, little hope of saving sight. The boy found the acid in a bottle tossed on a refuse heap and did not know its dangerous nature.
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Collinsville
Conn
Paul
Stephen Zima
No Doubt About It From Josiah Strong
Josiah Strong, president of the American Institute of Social Science, says that with the exception of Congress he knows of no body representing such intellect culture and influence as the General Federation of Women's Clubs, asserting it stands at the pinnacle of American pace.
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Josiah Strong
Amercan Institute of Social Science
United States Congress
General Federation of Women's Clubs
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