Sale of Remnants and Odds and Ends Oxford Shoes
Remnant sale offers men and women footwear, clothing, and home goods at half price. Includes men's oxford sneakers in gun metal and patent, kids and ladies options, plus substantial discounts on underwear, linens, curtains, lace, towels, hats, and more across a large department. Prices from 4 to 60 cents on many items. furniture and sewing machines also advertised at steep cuts.
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SEWIN
Healthes
Oy UK
Striking telegraph operators and the new Postal machine
New York August 16 The strike by telegraph operators may echo a tragedy from labor saving machinery as the Postal machine replaces eight operators with a single wire and the Western Union uses twelve machines doing four operators’ work each. The fight may force more machines and cut off time operators to smaller offices. The peuple machine allows four messages to run simultaneously with automated recording.
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New York
Western Union
Years in Bed and Kidney Cure Testimony
RA Gray of Oakville Indiana writes that ten years in bed with kidney disease left him unable to move much. He consulted top doctors but found no relief until Poly’s Kidney Cure was recommended, and he calls it a Godsend.
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RA. Gray, JP
Oakville
Ind
Poley
Br. J. W. Rell
Manzan 1 Pure Remedy Believes When Others Fail
Manzan 1 Pure Remedy faces skepticism as supporters claim lasting relief where other products fail. authorities weigh claims while patients report mixed outcomes across communities. product advocates cite trials and endorsements to bolster confidence amid ongoing oversight.
Comet visible to naked eye near dawn this month
The comet discovered by Prof. Daniel of Princeton is nearing Earth and now visible without aid. It shines around third magnitude with a bright nucleus, large coma, and short tail, best viewed before dawn in the eastern sky near Aldebaran and Hyades.
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Daniel
Princeton University
Pleiades
Aurns
Bull
Onderneath
Aldebaran
Hyades
Ain Ob
Foley's Honey and Tar Promises Quick Relief for Hay Fever
An advertisement touts Foley's Honey and Tar as a remedy for hay fever and summer colds. It claims immediate relief of breathing and inflamed air passages, noting instant benefits even if not a full cure. The product is described with a yellow package and attributed to Dr TW Bell.
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Foley
TW. Bell
Pinkerton Head Dies Aboard Bremen on Health Journey
Robert Pinkerton head of Pinkerton National Detective Agency died at sea on August 12 aboard the Steamship Bremen while en route to Germany for his health. He was accompanied by Lawrence Sullivan and is remembered as a leading criminologist whose agency shaped policing in the United States and Europe. His brother William Pinkerton also led the agency founded by their father Alan Pinkerton.
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New York
Robert Pinkerton
Bremen
Germany
Lawrence Sullivan
Inkerton
Robert A. Pinkerton
United States
Europe
Willam Pinkerton
Pinkerton
National Detective Agency
Alan Platerton
Mount Peasant Church Growth and Local Visitors
Mount Pleasant Augiet 198 special notes a good meeting with eight joining the church and plans for baptism the first Sunday in September at 10 o clock. The item mentions Littles Clarence Richardson ill with fever but hopes for recovery and lists several visiting relatives and residents including Rev and Mrs Spearman, Mr and Mrs Wade Harbin, Mina Ethel Cole of Anderson, and Miss Martha and Nannie Crow visiting Wad Spearman and Zolger Harlin and sister.
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Mount Pleasant
Clarence Richardson
Joan Spearman
Bastey
W. J. Spearman
Wade Harbin
Minas Fina
Royston, Ga
Mina Ethel Cole
Anderson
Wwt
Martha
Nannie Crow
Kesley
Uheir Wnele
Wad, Spearman
Zolger Harlin
Life Steter
Mies
International Paper merger eyed to control US print paper market
August 17 report claims The International Paper Company backs a large Midwest print paper consolidation. It says mills will join the merger and within a year the company will command the US print paper market by acquiring plants in Wisconsin Minnesota and Michigan. Meanwhile an unrelated note reports Mrs Alice Roosevelt Longworth’s fall into a clay pit at Yellowstone Park with Congressman Longworth’s inaction noted.
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Appleton, Wik
International Paper Company
Audi
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Michigan
United States
Middle West
Chicago
the Tribune
Spourtish, D
Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Congressman Longworth
Fairbank
D. C. Booth
United States Tah Hatchery
Spearfish
Longworth
What a New Jersey Editor Saga
M T Lynch editor of the Phillips hore CN Dally Post writes about trying many medicines for coughs and colds and praises Foley's Honey and Tar as effective, expressing uncertainty about other remedies. Dred W Boll.
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New Jersey
M. T. Lynch
Phillipshore
CN. Dally Post
Foley
Dred. W. Boll
Man from Toledo Refuses to Surrender in New York Street Robbery
A Toledo man in the Tenderloin district recounts an attempted mugging by a street robber who sprang from a dark corner and demanded money or threaten violence. The Western traveler reportedly preferred facing poverty over losing his cash, as noted by August Lippincott.
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Toledo
Ohio
Tenderloin
Simeon Ford
New York
August Lippincatt
Niagara River Sightseers Provokes Scowling Scot
A Scottish traveler returning from a Niagara streetcar ride along the New York shore voices fury at hawkers selling views and Teddy bears. He eyes the Whirlpool rapids and mutters that a great river is pointless if vendors cannot be drowned, criticizing the spectacle of the riverfront.
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Chicago News
New York
Niagara River
Hall's Catarrh Cure Firm Offers Reward in 1886
Frank uv Gueney swears he is senior partner of B J Cheney & Co of Toledo Ohio and that the firm will pay one hundred dollars for every case of catarrh cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. The affidavit dated June 6 1886 is sworn before Notary A W Gleason. Hall's Catarrh Cure was advertised as internal medicine affecting the blood and mucous surfaces. Hall's Family Pills are advertised for constipation.
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Frank Uv. Gueney
B. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Hall
Frank J. Cheney
A.D
A. W. Gleason
Notary Public
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toke Hall
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Veca
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John
Eer
Ruskin Anderson
Seneca, S. C
R. Pinkerton
Sadie
H. M. Harbin
Abbeville
Mackie Morgan
A. T. Morgan
Jos
Hix Tm
Mra
W. W. Owen
Oakway
Oscar Land
Texas
Hix
B. BE. Verner
Charleston
Velal
Haw
Commercial Club
Hibernian Society
Lucker
Jonny Owens
Boyle Tucker
Thin City
Owens
Mre. Tucker
State of
City of
Lucas County
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