Louisiana convicts to farm and manufacture at Angola plan
The new Louisiana penitentiary board reports 400 convicts at Angola and 400 at New Hope with remaining still distributed. The state plans self sufficiency producing cotton cane sugar and molasses with projected profits, barring cash outlays aside from staff. Convicts will be classified by fitness to match work to strength and needs.
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New ‘Angola
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New Hope
Louisiana State Penitentiary
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Boston Rouge
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Ouisiana
Rumors of Strike in Hard Coal Fields Rise
Hazleton Pa February 22 Rumors of a strike in the anthracite coal fields grow as a joint conference between operators and United Mine Workers union leaders nears. No sign operators will recognize the union and observers note wage and organizational tensions influence the dispute. Jamies Roderick chief of the state Bureau of Mines argues wage costs and union recognition pressure shape the issue.
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Hazletor
United Mine Workers
Jamies Roderick
Bureau of Mines
United Mini§Workers of America
Cable Blunder Allegations Against Ament Cause Probe
Reports allege Rev. Ament, U S missionary in Pekin, and converts coerced funds from Chinese locals. Ament’s statements disputed by Rev. Judson Smith and Chinese officials, with claims of collected funds and misused aid for gospel work and widows and orphans.
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Bosh
Eble
Ament
China
Judson Smith
American Board
Pekin
Ines
fER STUDENT NOW A NOTED GAMBLER
Will A Darnbrough, a world renowned gambler, passes through Phoenix after toppling roulette games in Mexico and the southwest. His partner W H Adams manipulates the wheel to steer bets to Darnbrough, who has cleared over 200000 in three years in America and Europe.
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Arizona
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Illinois
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Chicago
Adams
The Canning Industry Scale in California in 1900
Figures from the California fruit canners' association show the 1900 season produced 50,868 tons of canned produce, 8,870,157 dozen, and 1,948,368 cases. It required vast inputs of flux, coal, wood, oil, gas, gasoline, solder, sugar, cans, and 600 hands with wages totaling $854,412.25.
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San Francisco
California Fruit Canners’ Association
Wildcat Attack A Farmer Rides Sleigh To Escape
Frank Robbins of Jersey Shore Pennsylvania reports a half mile ride through Gundlach hollow with a large catamount leaping onto his sleigh. He restrained the beast with a buffalo robe and rode on until snowdrifts forced a drop and escape. Burdock Bitters is praised by Miss Julia Filbridge in another note.
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Jersey Shore
Frank Robbins
Gundlach’s Hollow
Robbins
Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for Teething
An old advertisement touts Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup as effective for teething children. It claims to soothe the child, soften gums, ease pain, cure wind colic, and treat diarrhoea. A bottle is priced at twenty five cents.
Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets Promoted Against Blood Purifiers
An advertisement decries blood purifiers and tonics as useless, asserting digestion is earned through wholesome food. It extols Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets for supplying digestive principles pepsin and diastase, claiming they digest meat equivalents and prevent indigestion with regular use after meals.
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Stuart
Mountain detective halts mountain feud with arrest raid
Ken tucky Mayking report tells how Detective John W Wright and two Wright relatives entered Sol Halls cabin to seize four murder suspects. He cuffed Josh and Zack Bentley and threatened to shoot if anyone moved. Eleven more suspects remain at large as Wright vows to pursue Mrs Hall and her boy Sherwood Reynolds murder cases.
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Wright
Sol Wright
Josh Bentley
Zack Bentley
John Wright
Bentley
Martin
Wlsit
Silver Deluge Burdens Mississippi Treasury
Mississippi State Treasurer Stowers faces a silver surplus with more than 100000 dollars in coins stored in an inadequate vault. Banks push silver onto the treasury as annual sheriff settlements pass through, weighing nearly 7000 pounds and forcing costly express shipments to clear the load.
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Jackson
Miss
Stowers
State House
Largest California visitors book for Pan American expo
The California visitors register and directory weighs 400 pounds and measures 29 by 28 by 18 inches. Created by Kingsley Barnes Neuner, it contains 4000 pages with 30 blank spaces per page for visitors to sign. It will be exhibited at the Chamber of Commerce before Buffalo.
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Los Angeles
Cal
California
California Visitors Register and Directory
Kingsley, Barnes & Neuner
Chamber of Commerce
Buffalo
House Votes to Raise Governor and Supreme Court Salaries
The house adopted a bill Thursday afternoon increasing the governor and supreme court judges salaries while decreasing those of the auditor attorney general secretary of state and treasurer.
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Supreme Court
Moving Epidemic Strikes Danewood as Town Fades
S A Nebel of Danewood says a moving epidemic has hit the town and that he has contracted removal of his residence store barn and warehouse to Braham, about two miles away. Nebel has run the general store and served as postmaster for ten years. He reports others plan to evacuate and move buildings to Braham, and in sixty days Danewood may be erased.
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Wall
Braham
Danewood
Frelinghuysen Pays Bounty on Scalp and Game
In Blairstown New Jersey the Frelinghuysen township committee voted a bounty on croundhog scalps hawks and foxes. At a Markstown meeting locals arrived with trophies all day the treasury needed a short term loan to cover nearly 1000 dollars in payments.
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Blairstown
N. J
Freylinghuysen
Markstown
Turkish minister Izzet Pasha resigns over unpaid salary
Constantinople reports Izzet Pasha, the Turkish minister to Spain, has again resigned due to the government’s failure to pay his salary. He previously resigned last September but the issue was briefly resolved.
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Constantinople
Spain
Izzet Pasha
Ex Senator Stephen M White Dies in Los Angeles
Ex Senator Stephen M White died at his Los Angeles home on Thursday from a complication of diseases. Born in San Francisco in 1853, he served two terms in the United States Senate.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Stephen M. White
San Francisco
United States Senate
Wheeler's Nerve Vitalizer touted as cure for nervous disorders
Five years of nerve prostration cured by Wheeler's Nerve Vitalizer, claimed to help apileptic fits apoplexy St Vitus Dance and various nervous diseases. Testimonial from James F Hoover of Ficneer Quebec praises relief and physician endorsement. Available by mail or at medicine dealers priced $1 per bottle, six for $5 from J. W. Brant Co Albion Michigan.
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J. W. Brant Co., Ltd
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