White Chief of Poncasg Joe Miller Leads 101 Ranch
The article profiles Joe Miller and his brothers as leaders of the 101 Ranch, controlling 87,000 acres tied to Ponca lands in Indian Territory. It notes Miller as white chief, his role as advisor to Ponca and Otoe, the pending allotment and end of tribal relations, the threat of dead Indian land, tribal customs of generosity at sun dance, and their cattle and buffalo herd counts.
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Joe Miller
Indian Territory
Miller Brothers
Ponca Indiana
George Miller
Kansas
Winfield
Oklahoma
Ponca
Texas
Bliss
Joe” Miller
Secretary of the Interior
Ranch
Miller
Hyde Sails Home With 50000 For Gaelic League
Dr. Douglas Hyde president of the Gaelic League in Ireland and Mrs. Hyde sail for Ireland carrying a 50000 check raised at public meetings during his seven month visit. The item notes Paris natives and census details, a bank messenger case in Fort Worth, and Dr. Reid named to study the San Francisco quake causes.
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Gaelic League
Douglas Hyde
Ireland
Wheelock Harvey
David Melville
New York City
Fort Worth
Texas
Springtown
New York
Harvey Boy
First National Bank of New York
Dallas
Harry Fielding Reid
Johns Hopkins University
Govenor Pardee
California
San Francisco
Coated Tongue and Coarse Digestion Warns of Dyspepsia
An advertising item urges readers to treat digestive issues with Cascarets from the Sterling Remedy Company. It claims a coated tongue and lazy bowels signal poor digestion and promotes a ten cent tablet that acts as gentle exercise for the bowels without purging. The piece promises a gold plated bonbon box as a premium for stamp payments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bill
Sterling Remedy Company
Ccc
Odd Home Remedies and Quips in a Nightly Mirth
A collection of curious home remedies is described including onions easing sleep with parsley or Cologne sugar and eye brightening tricks. Homeopathists tout apomorphia for sea sickness and turpentine for wasp stings, with cautionary notes and a dash of humorous anecdotes about business and money.
Refugees Protest Abolition of City Soup Kitchens
Three hundred refugees from camps across San Francisco adopted resolutions to end soup kitchens and return to rationing. They urged a mayoral appointment to replace army supplies and claimed oppression by donors. Speakers denounced forced family separation during meals as destroying home life and manhood.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Schmitz
Fillmore
Eden Streets
Pleasure party wreck kills four on handcar ride
An empty engine on the Louisville and Nashville line in Polk County Tennessee collided with a handcar carrying a group from Patty to a nearby town. Four people were killed instantly: S. M. Blankenship, Levy Womack, Mattie Womack and E. H. Brinkley. Sarah Blankenship, James Brinkley and John Womack were seriously injured.
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Louisville & Nashville Railroad
Polk County
Tenn
Patty
Hiawassee
S. M. Blankenship
Levy Womack
Mattie Womack
E. H. Brinkley
Sarah Blankenship
James Brinkley
John Womack
Grand Forks poised as premier rail hub in British Columbia
Mining notes claim Grand Forks is the leading railway and smelting center in British Columbia with two more lines to open seven directions, pulling in wealth from distant territories. USGS data show 1905 precious stone output at 326,350 dollars with sapphire and turquoise worth noted. diamond imports dominate. Nonunion printers are photographed in Chicago for an eight hour day drive, while a Chinese Eastern train wreck at Progranitschnaia station left many dead or injured.
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Grand Forks
British Columbia
North Fork
Winnipeg
United States Geological Survey
United States
Typographical Union No. 16
Chicago
Progranitschnaia Station
Governor Pattison Dies at Milford Ohio
John M. Pattison governor of Ohio died of Brights disease at 4 20 PM at his Milford home, fourteen miles east of Cincinnati. He had returned to his residence after five months in the capital and a period of illness. His death occurred suddenly with Mrs Pattison, two daughters, and nurses at his bedside.
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John M. Pattison
Ohio
Bright
Milford
Cincinnati
Equitable Plan Changes by Stockholders Adopted
The Equitable Life Assurance Society votes 667 to 80 to authorize an amended charter creating a mutualized society. Grover Cleveland presents the resolution on behalf of trustees who hold most Thomas F. Ryan stock. Protests claim unconstitutionality.
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Equitable Life Assurance Society
Grover Cleveland
Thomas F. Ryan
Ohio Advertisements and Notices Mixed in Toledo Transcript
A collage of 19th century notices and brief items from Toledo Ohio includes Ha ll s Catarrh Cure endorsements with Frank J Cheney as senior partner promising rewards, assorted prices for metals from Leadville Assayer Howard E Burton references, and a note on Berlin's machines. It closes with Civil War veteran counts in the 68th Congress.
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State OF Ohio
Toledo
Es. Lucas County
Frank J. Cheney
F. J. Cheney & Co
HaLl
A. D
A. W. Gleason
Howard E. Burton
Leadville
Colo
Carbonate National Banck
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Poncasg
DR. Douglas Hyde
Paris
St. Petersburg
Berlin
Vienna
London
Spokane
Syphers Machinery Company
Spokane, Wash
Philadelphia Press
Silas
Mandy
Brooklyn Life
Haildren
Fac Simile Signature of
Lways
Gov. Pattison
Equitable
Rock Bay
Russia
United Hebrew Congregations of America
Iowa
T. J. Caldwell
Adel
Dr. Caldwell
St. Vitus
Kline
R. H. Kline
Arch St
Phila
Dean
John C. Coleman
Stainsboro
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo, N. Y
Ayer
J.C. Ayer Co
Ayers Tee
Middleman
A. F. R. Brydle
Sprague Ave
Wash
W. H. Stowell & Co
Stowell Drug Co
J. Cheney & CO
O. F
Consul Seyfert
Stratford
Alonzo Ledyard
Farallone Islands
Pacific
Everett
Mass
Congress
Senate
House
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