Known Dead In Fort Wayne Fire at New Aveline Hotel
Eleven killed and many injured in a blaze that destroyed the New Aveline hotel in Fort Wayne Indiana. The known dead include Frank C Baker Auburn Indiana nurse May Burkett Mishawaka and others from Chicago Philadelphia and Mishawaka. Two men are listed as missing and Coroner Kesler opened an inquiry with witnesses summoned. Infantry company D and battery B of the National Guard assisted. Night clerk Ralph Hopkins saved many by warning guests before fleeing the rapidly burning six story brick building erected in 1852 and remodeled in 1895 valued at 80000 with interior timber replaced by tinder dry wood.
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Fort Wayne
Ind
Aveline
Frank C. Baxter
Auburn
May Burkett
Mishawaka
J. W. Deviney
Camden
N. J
Crawford & Lehman
Philadelphia
E. J. Elis
Chicago
Carson, Pirle, Scott & Co
Sarah Hathaway
Maurice Hirsch
Thee Pacific Coast Borax Company
Robert S. Johnson
Pana
Ill
J. B. Miller
Brickner Woolen Mills
Sheboygan Falls
Wis
W. A. Pitcher
Duluth
Minn
Bowser Company
Charles Benjamin
Detroit
Herman Seligman
New York
Kesler
Infantry Company D
Battery B
National Guard
Ralph
Hopkins
Sac County Treasurer's Shortfall Reaches 27000 Dollars
Sac City reports Treasurer W. J. Pettis is short at least 27000 dollars after discrepancies between tax lists and cash books. Investigators find two sets of receipts and misissued smaller receipts kept to balance the cash books. George A. Taylor expected to be named this week to fill Pettis's term as investigations reveal shortages across 1904 to 1907 tax lists. Bondsmen are protected by Pettis and wife placing deeds to two farms valued at over 120000 dollars with mortgages.
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Sac County
Sac City
W. J. Pettis
George A. Taylor
Pettis
Young couple wed despite stern father in Nashua
In Nashua a romance unfolds as Roy Fox, married to Elizabeth Swaine despite her father Herman Swaine who assaulted Fox with a buggy whip prior to the elopement. Fox then arranged a second meeting drive and, with another man, abducted his bride for a hurried marriage. The couple returned to the Swaine home and began their honeymoon.
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Nashua
Roy Tox
Ryerton
Herman Swaine
Fox
Elizabeth Swaine
Swaine
Swain
Miss Swaine
Strike seems broken at gypsum mills near Fort Dodge
Nearly all gypsum mills around Fort Dodge are back in operation except one the Cardiff Mant. The plant is run by former workers and strike breakers kept on by President B H Ward of American Independent Gypsum. Local sources say the strike is broken and most mills will soon run.
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Fort Dodge
Cardiff
American Independent Gypsum Company
B. H. Ward
Timber Lands Scandal Rumors Hit Interior Affairs
Washington May 6 Mr Hitchcock of Nebraska charged officials in the interior department with long time misinterpretation of the timber act. He said 8000000 acres were sold for about 2 million while actual value marked 77 million, aiding a lumber trust. Mondell doubted the minimum price claim.
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Washington, D. C
Department of the Interior
Congress
Hitchcock
Nebraska
Lumber Trust
United States
Mondell
Wyoming
Young Dows Man Starts on Notable Journey North
Wilbur J. Green of Dows, son of James Green, begins a 12,000 mile government voyage with a companion. Departing Seattle, they head to Sitka, Dawson, and St Michael then travel 1,700 miles along the Yukon. They will enter the Arctic Circle and perform magnetic observations including compass variation dip and field intensity, recording data during six hour sessions.
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Dows
North Dows
Wilbur J. Green
James Green
Far North
United States
Mr. Green
Coast and Reodetic Survey
Northern Wilds
Seattle
Sitka
Dawson
St. Michael
Yukon
Arctic Circle
Tornado and Flood Wreak Havoc Across Southwest
A severe May storm plowed through St Louis and environs causing widespread damage. A bridge near Belleville washed out wrecking a Louisville and Nashville freight train. Engineer Ward, Conductor Smith, and a third crewman drowned. The American bottoms flood, forcing residents to flee on improvised rafts as telegraph wires fail and transport lines halt. Large livestock losses are feared.
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St. Louis
Louisville & Nashville Road
Belleville
Ward
Smith
Schoenlannd
Edgement
East St. Louis
fEretoh
Hooger
Fast St. Laws
Alabama nicknamed robber is jailed for twenty years
William Smith known as Alabama, convicted of breaking and entering in the Porters cigar store robbery at Albia, sentenced to twenty years in the Fort Madison penitentiary by Judge D. M. Anderson. He proclaimed innocence and said he was railroaded as the jury found him guilty after twenty minutes deliberation. Typhoid cases surge in Rockwell City after a Methodist revival banquet. Robert Reedy, pastor, hospitalized in Des Moines as Des Moines nurses rush to assist with the outbreak.
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Ottumwa
Wiliam Smith
Alabama
Porter Brothers
Albia
Fort Madison
D. M. Anderson
Rockwell City
Robert Reedy
Des Moines
Editor Loses Three Toes In Press Accident
Dee Moines Iowa editor Rev O D Elliott of Marshalltown and gubernatorial Prohibition candidate suffered crush injuries when near a press. Three toes of his right foot were crushed, necessitating amputation. The incident ties to his work at the Iowa Prohibitionist and his campaign.
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Dee Moines
O. D. Elliott
Marshalltown
Iowa Prohibitionist
Fatal Fight in Breathité County Kentucky
Daniel White fought James Riday Fugate at White’s farm two miles above Jackson Breathité county. Fugate died and White was wounded in the face with a sharp object during the assault.
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Kentucky
Lexington
Daniel White
James Riday Fugate
Jackson
Breathité County
Pugate
White
Rd Sheit
Railways Face Heavy Fines in 28-Hour Law Cases
Chicago Judge Landis on Monday fined railroad companies in five government cases alleging 28 hour law violations. Total penalties amount to $13,500 as the court scales enforcement against passenger and freight lines.
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Chicago
Landis
Peruvian Outbreak Suppressed by Legation Secretary
Washington dispatch reports Secretary of Legation Neill of Togota Peru arrived Sunday afternoon and notified the state department that the Lima area outbreak has been immediately suppressed.
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Washington
Cablesram Iron
Legation Neill
Togota
Peru
Lima
Englishman Murdered in Egypt by Local Sheik
British subject Scott Moncreiff deputy inspector of the Blue Nile province and a native official were assassinated in Cairo Egypt at the instance of a local Sheik who proclaimed himself prophet.
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Egypt
Cairo
Scott Moncreiff
Blue Nile
Duet ends in fatal duel near Flit Creek in Alabama
In Birmingham, Dr. J B Garrison shot and killed Williams in a Thursday duel at Flit Creek amid long standing family feud. A coroner cleared Garrison of wrongdoing, but the case raised concerns over danger and gun violence.
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Birmingham
Ala
J.B. Garrison
Williams
Flit Creek
Willians
Garrison
Garson
Liquor Men Surprised by Odie Visit in Iowa
In Council Bluffs Iowa attorney Odie for the Ant Saloon League appeared unannounced, saying civic league neglect hindered prosecution under the mand law. He claimed the league would handle matters after four cases were resolved, and accused it of inaction. Fort Madison reports Peter Finnigan arrested for bigamy after marrying a widow in January while already having a wife and five children in St. Louis. He waived preliminaries and was bound over to the grand jury in a specified sum.
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Council Bluffis
Odie
Iowa
Ant Saloon League
Civic League
League
Fort Madison
Peter Finnigan
St. Louis
Grand Jury
Asto
Waterlooan Dies of Nosebleed in Tragic Death
Mrs. Patrick Joyce, 40, died here from a nosebleed after two weeks of hemorrhages. Wife of a Winds Central passenger conductor, she leaves five children, oldest 15.
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Waterlooan
Waterloo
Patrick Joyce
Winds Central
Ottumwa Ministers Ban Sunday Funerals
Members of the Ottumwa Ministerial Association urge congregations and the public in Ottumwa to avoid Sunday funerals, issuing appeals to restrain such services.
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Ottumwa
Ot Wmwa
Beneril
Two Headed Calf Exhibit in Pleasanton Iowa
A two headed calf is shown in Pleasanton, Iowa as a local freak exhibit. John Robbins, a nearby farmer, owns the calf which is reported to be of aqua size and part of the display.
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Iowa
Pleasanton
John Robbins
Epstein Wins Will Fight in Des Moines Probate Case
Des Moines man Eugene Epstein wins two thirds of his father Jacob Epstein's estate after contesting the instrument admitted to probate. The nine day district court battle ends with Eugene receiving the share he sought. Thompson settles for 500 dollars in a related Des Moines matter involving Mary McIntosh death case.
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Des ‘Moines
Burling
Burlington Wire
Jacob “Epstein
Eugene
Des. 'Moines
Eugene Epstein
District Court
Indictments Flag Iowa Grand Jury Actions
Three indictments returned include F I McDonald for killing George Stevens Lester Shindel for highway robbery and Charles Kray for grand larceny. Also Tempie Dull, 12, held for horse theft near Creston. dairy firm fined $23 for milk standards in Dubuque. strike costs Great Western near $150000 in losses and extra expenses.
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Dubuque
Iowa Dairy Company
Conner Secures Post Office Funds for Fort Dodge
Congressman Conner of the tenth district assures Fort Dodge residents that Congress will approve an appropriation of not less than $125,000 for a new post office. He cites the pressing need for more space and adequate funding.
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Conner
Fort
Liquor Men Emit Replies to Legislative Candidates
Davenport and Dr August P Richter chairman and John Terwald secretary have received about a score of replies to the league’s interrogatories sent to all candidates for the legislature. Two or three answer with no, a few are noncommittal, while a majority express sympathy with the German American society and its War program.
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Davenport
August P. Richter
Independent Citizen League of Town
John Terwald
League
Caucus Without Result on Currency Bill
Republicans in Congress met in a three hour caucus in Washington to agree on a currency bill but failed to reach a definite plan. The session dispersed with plans to resume at 2 pm today and Speaker Cannon met with President Roosevelt on legislative plans.
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Congress
Washington
D. C
Houses of Representatives
Cannon
Roosevelt
White House
Duchess Will Not Return To New York After Accouchement
Paris dispatch reports the widow Tie de Chaulnes will stay in France with her sister in law Duchess d Uzes until after childbirth. She will not travel to New York due to safety concerns for a long voyage.
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Paris
Tie de Chaulnes
Theo Shonts
New York
America
Theordora Ix Shonts
Duchees
France
Duchess d'Uzes
Atlantic Fleet Reunited After Stormy Cruise to Monterey
The Atlantic battleship fleet rejoined Monday as the second squadron arrived from Monterey and a flotilla of six destroyers from San Pedro. Admiral Evans returns to command aboard the Minnesota after joining the Connecticut at Monterey. The flotilla endured a fierce voyage with heavy seas as crews recovered from seasickness and limited damage was reported.
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Santa Cruz
Cal
Monterey
San Pedro
Sperry
Monterey Bay
Thomas
Connecticut
Minnesota
Evans
Kansas
Florillas
Fire kills six in Brooklyn tenement blaze on Humbolat Street
Early Sunday fire sweeps a four-story brick tenement at No 17 Humbolat Street Brooklyn killing six members of a family including mother and four children and seriously injuring four others. Police and firemen conducted numerous rescues.
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New York
Humbolat Street
Dishigi
Brooklyn
New Rector of Trinity Parish Elects Rector Unanimously
New York reports Rev Dr William Manning vicar of St Agnes chapel in Trinity parish was unanimously elected rector of Trinity parish on Monday to succeed the late Dr May Gun Dix. In South Dakota a saloonkeeper Raich shot and fatally wounded miner Mitchell Ogresa after a quarrel over a card game. Ogresa, 22, died at a Ross Metal hospital. Raich surrendered to authorities. Mons Dennis Connell of Washington DC was consecrated titular bishop of Sabate in Baltimore in a ceremony at the Catholic University.
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Trinity
New York
William ‘J. Manning
St. Agnes Chapel
Trinity Parish
May Gun, Dix
S. D—E. Raich
Mitchell Ogressa
Ogresa
Ross
Connell
Baltimore
Dennis John F. Connell
The
Catholic University At
Washington, D. C
Sabate
Accident damages Farr & Bailey figures in Camden raid
Atlantic City reports J Samuel Bailey of Camden, president of Farr & Bailey company, manufacturers of oll cloth, was injured in a collision involving his auto and an electric train. His wife and J T Tripp, their chauffeur, were severely hurt.
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Atlantic City
J.samuel ‘P Bailey
Camden
Farr & V Bailey Company
J. T Tripp
Woman Indicted for Perjury In Lima Grand Jury
Miss Mary McMurray a Canton Bridge Company stenographer and clerk is indicted for perjury by the Lima grand jury. Passenger trains collide near Cleveland as east bound No 6 runs onto a siding and crashes into a west bound train. No fatalities but several serious injuries reported.
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Toledo, O
Mary McMurray
Canton Bridge Company
Lima
Wien
Cleveland
Ice Road
Train tragedy linked to Louisville visitor
A Louisville visitor Mrs. C Parry was removed from a tram in Lincoln on Thursday after an accident. The incident involved a fur tram and led to the women being hospitalized with injuries described as serious.
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Lincoln
Neh
C. Parry
Louisville
Freight Rates to Rise 10 Percent Across Western Lines
Milwaukee reports that the Western Trunk Line association traffic officials have prepared a sweeping freight advance, pending final signatures. Under the plan, freight rates in all classes from 1 to 6 would jump about ten percent, effective July 1 from western points and likewise from eastern points to the west.
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Milwaukee
Western Trunk Line Association of Eastern and Western Lines of Railway
Tornado Wrecks Springfield Warehouse and Farms
A Monday morning tornado at 6 30 struck Springfield Missouri causing major damage to the Wag on company warehouse. Steeples were toppled and trees uprooted while livestock perished. Damage was reported across Pierce City Monett Ozark Strafford and Holman with crops and orchards harmed in Greene Lawrence Christian Wright and Webster counties. A second tornado near Paris Texas destroyed three houses two barns and a smokehouse in Ambia.
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Springfield
Springfield Wagon Company
Pierce City
Monett
Ozark
Strafford
Holman
Greene
Lawrence
Christian
Wright
Webster
Paris
Tex
Ambia
Daring Express Robbery Near Pittsburg Station
Two train robbers boarded the New York and St. Louis express on the Pan Handle line, held the express messenger at Union Station Pittsburgh, and escaped with four bags of currency. The crime occurred near Walkers station about 11 miles west while the train halted by an emergency signal. Messenger N. Roshen was bound and gagged and could not recall details.
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Pittsburg
Union
Walkers
William Lafferty
N. Roshen
Petition for Van Schaick Pardon Presented to President
A petition with 245,800 signatures seeks clemency for Capt. William Van Schaick, master of the ill fated Gen. Slocum, whose 1904 New York harbor disaster killed over a thousand. The American Association of Masters Mates and Pilots presented it. the president pledged careful consideration.
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van Schaick
Washington
William van Schaick
Gen
Sloctum
New York Harbor
American Association of Masters, Mates and Pilots
Steamer Trenton Capsizes Near Alexandria Waterway
The steamer Trenton, owned by Potomac Navigation, capsized and sank at Alexandria, Virginia. It carried 34 people, including infant Stanley Posey, an 18 month old child, and other passengers from Murray Pagey and Krooklyn, New York, with one lawyer aboard.
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Sinks
Baby Crowns
Washington
Trenton
Potomac Navigation Company
Alexandria
Stanley D. Posey
Murray Pagey
Krooklyn, N.Y
Tyron bank robbers loot Farmers Bank of Tyron
Five men blew the bank safe with seven dynamite charges, escaping with $600. In Appleton Wisconsin a man harvesting on a New London farm unearthed a claimed pot of gold valued at $30,000. Later, the farmer’s seller Mrs John Schmall faced a legal action to reclaim the treasure.
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Tyron
Oklo
Farmers’ Bank of
Appleton
Wis
New London
Lewis Wolfman
Fort
Man
John Schmall
Prominent Railroad Leader Dies In New York Area
Prominent railroad figure and farmer who chaired the Trunk Line association died suddenly at his home on Friday. The death appeared to be due to apoplexy according to early reports. Local authorities and associates mourn the loss of a longtime industry leader.
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New Yorker LP
Farmer
Trunk Line Association
Frida
WEDS COUSIN OF THE CZAR AT Tsarskoe-Selo
Prince Wilhelm of Sweden, son of King Gustave, wed Grand Duchess Maria Pavlovna, cousin of the Russian emperor, at Tsarskoe-Selo in a ceremony marked by royal pomp. A state banquet followed with vows of Sweden Russia friendship amid Baltic agreement.
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Wilhelm
Sweden
Gustave
America
Maria Pavilovna
Russia
Paul Alexandrovitch
Tsarkoe-Selo
Europe
Irussia
Baltic
Tsarskoe-Selo
St. Peter and St. Paul
Great Palace
Anxiety Over Grover Cleveland’s Illness at Lakewood
Rumors circulated Friday that ex president Grover Cleveland’s condition in a Lakewood hotel had worsened to cancer of the stomach with slim hopes of recovery. The Evening World highlighted the gossip from Equitable Life Assurance offices where Cleveland is a voting trustee. Dr Joseph J Bryant said Cleveland was “all right” and that Lakewood reports were favorable, but could not disclose any diagnosis.
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New York
Grover Cleveland
Lakewood
N. J
Evening World
Equitable Life Assurance Society
Cleveland
Joseph J. Bryant
Mr. Cleveland
Bryant
Algoma Steel Works to Close All Mill Branches
Algoma Steel, part of the Lake Superior corporations, blows out blast furnace No 1 at the Canadian side mill in Sault Ste. Marie. Furnace No 2 to be blown out this week. Rail mills have already closed. By week’s end 1,500 workers will be idled.
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Algoma Steel Works
Sault Ste. Marie
Mich
Algoma Steel Company
Lake Superior
Convicted Slayer of Stepmother in New York Trial
William Scott was found guilty of murder in the first degree by a jury in the supreme court in Norwich New York after a weeklong trial for killing his stepmother Mrs James Scott. A separate New Brunswick note reports deputy minister Willian F Fiewelling's suicide in a government building. Burglars stole a 700 pound safe from the Union Avenue hotel in Newark, carried it 600 feet, and escaped with about 3000 dollars in jewelry and cloths after blowing it open with nitroglycerin.
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Norwich
N. Y
William Scott
James Scott
Supreme Court
Fredericton
N. B
Willian F. Fiewelling
New Brunswick
Newark
N. J
Union Avenue
Irvington
Last Real D. A. R. Is Dead
Woodbury Connecticut Miss Rhoda Augusta Thompson the last real daughter of the American revolution died at her home here Friday.
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Woodbury
Conn
Rhoda Augusta Thompson
Confiscated Coffee Burned in Nashville
Eleven thousand pounds of green coffee seized by the United States government for deleterious adulterants was burned on Thursday in Nashville Tennessee. In another item from Kansas City Missouri, Mine troubles move toward arbitration as Ute labor leaders and coal operators reach a plan for settlement after a long dispute in the southwest.
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Nashville
Tenn
United States
Kansas City
Moma
Southwest
Ute Folat Conferg Ie
Western Canada crop yields extolled by settler A Kaltenbrunner
Regina writer A Kaltenbrunner reports on two half sections by Moose Jaw Creek showing 70 acres of wheat yielding 25 to 30 bushels per acre after summer fallow, 1,000 bushels of first class oats from 160 acres, and carloads shipped at 53 cents a bushel. He praises hard red wheat, notes late spring and adverse conditions, and asserts Western Canada crops remain strong. Information on free homestead lands in Manitoba Saskatchewan and Alberta is available through Canadian Government Agents.
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Regina
Saskatche ‘Wan
Central Canada
A. Kaltenbrunner
Moose Jaw
Western Canada
Manitoba
Saskatchewan
Alberta
Local grocers stock OUR PIE varieties for pies
In this vicinity every woman will be glad to know that local grocers now carry OUR PIE preparation in three varieties for making Lemon Chocolate and Custard pies. Each 10 cent package makes two pies. Order today Put up by D Zerta Co Rochester New York.
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D-Zerta Co
Rochester
N.Y
Debate on University Journalism Schools Proposal
Kalecker asks Becker about journalism schools in universities. Becker suggests three schools: one teaching how to run papers, one on avoiding them, and one on entering them.
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Kalecker
Becker
Garfield Digestive Tablets Offer From Local Drugstore
Garfield Digestive Tablets advertised with a offer from your druggist or the Garfald Tea Co of Brooklyn New York priced at 25 cents per bottle in this period notice.
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Garfield
Garfald Tea Co
Brooklyn
N. Y
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