Mexican Millionaire Pedro Alvarado Plans Five-Car Train Tour
Mexican multimillionaire miner Pedro Alvarado, once paid 85 cents daily, orders a train of five Pullman cars for a tour of Mexico with a armed bodyguard. He built the Muest residence at Parral. He offered to pay Mexico's public debt, an offer refused by Finance Minister Limantour. General Terrazas, reputedly worth 200 million, owns 20 million acres across 15 ranches and about 1,000,000 cattle, with towns and banks in his domains.
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Pedro Alvarado
Mexico
Alvarado
Parral
Muest
Republic
Limantour
Chihuahua
Luis Serrazas
United States
General Terrazas
Delaware
Dangerous Caterpillars and Odd Vending Ads Parade
A jumble of notes mentions dangerous brown caterpillar hairs causing skin eruptions, a crimelike cash drawer anecdote on the Thames embankment, and various old time ads selling Defiance Starch, Lewis' Single Binder tobacco, Mrs Windlow’s soothing syrup, and a quip about spoons being as old as Jupiter.
Cemetery counting on a Boston tram reveals grim habit
A woman, notebook in hand, records cemeteries along a trip from New York to Boston. She notes graveyards count as they pass, reaching No 261, while her husband endures the morbid tally and seeks a new seat as the tram speeds on.
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Boston
New York
Kansas
Sherp
Plants and tales from distant lands in a garbled article
The piece mentions the Japanese wax tree and other unusual plants yielding wax oil and candles, plus a telegraph plant from India. It also includes a long, incoherent personal reminiscence with garbled phrases and dates, making the overall gist hard to pin down beyond scattered botanical notes and memory fragments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pacific Islands
India
Poor White Trash Meets Napoleon in Cannes Memoir
Stanford White’s lawn statuary spurs wit as Oliver Herford jokes about “Poor White trash.” In New York Times reminiscence, Ignace Botta, 105, recalls seeing Napoleon cross the Alps, living openly in Cannes selling bread and fruit, never begging, and preferring freedom over confinement in an asylum.
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Stanford White
Gramercy Park
Lexington Avenue
Gtass
H. W. Poor
Oliver Herford
New Orleans
Herford
New York Times
Napoleon
Alps
Ignace Botta
Cannes
Big Bill Devery Opens The Pump Saloon In Brooklyn
The erstwhile New York police chief nicknamed Big Bill Devery has started a saloon called The Pump in Rockaway Bench, offering whisky at a dime a throw and even allowing credit when a man needs a drink. He rivals Bishop Potter in business.
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Big Bill
Prominent Rebecca Officer Praises Dean's Kidney Pills
Mrs. C. E. Bumgardner of Topeka Kansas a member of the Rebecca lodge writes enthusiastically about Dean's Kidney Pills reporting relief from back pains and kidney trouble after using one box of the remedy and completing a second. She endorses the product and notes a free trial offer from Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY and mentions price as 50 cents.
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Order of Rebeccas
Dean
C. E. Bumgardner
The
Rebeccas
Topeka
Kans
Kansas Ave
Andy Ches
E. Bumgardner
Foster- Milburn Co
Buffalo
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See'y
Detroit Amateur Art Association
Amies
Rita Gannon
Jones St
Detroit, Mich
Amateur Art Association
Jody
Lydia E. Pinkham
Miss Gannon
Lydia E. Pink
Prsenant
Lydia Ki
Pinkham
Panwen
Elliott Ave
St. Louis
Handy Blueing Book
Handy Blueiug Book Co
E. Lake St
Chicago
Ill
Thornton & Minor
Thompson
Kidder
Stilles
William Walder
Avior
Thames Embankment
Aston
Hebts
Lewis
Win! Factory
Peorly
Marine Eye
Adam
Noah
Moses
Sracees
Woman Traveler
Bears
Castoria
Wabash
Laure Kangar
Thio P
Louie
Union Braulen
St Louie Li
Forkankan City
Shields
McClellan
Kansas City Oil Exchange
Kansas City
Egentrg
L. S. McClellan
Western
Main Street
H. C. Shields
Billon Avenue
Cironide Ratrance
Gratiot & Wilden
Park Avn
St. Loui
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