A Wark Echo Reports Life of Army Vet in Maine
Samuel R. Jordan of New Portland recounts his Civil War service in Company A of the Twenty-eighth Maine Volunteers and his battle with Locomotor Ataxia. He credits Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People with restoring movement and health after years of paralysis and near helplessness. The piece notes the pills' sale and cautions against imitations, with pricing details.
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Lewiston
Samuel R. Jordan
New Portland
Maine
All. Parlin
Madison
Dr. Williams
Dr. Williams’ Medicine Company
Schenectady
N. Y
Dr. Williams’ Med. Co
New York Architecture Critique Calls for Coherent Style
A young architecture student who spent a year studying fundamentals argues that New York lacks artistic coherence. He notes many grand structures are crude massed designs mixing styles, prioritizing utility over beauty, per the New York World.
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Penc Rey
New York
New York World
Hall's Catarrh Cure Ad and Slanderous Quip
An advertisement offers 100 reward for a cure of catarrh through Hall's Catarrh Cure by F J Cheney & Co Toledo Ohio. It includes endorsements from West & Trux Walding Kinman Marvin and notes price 75 cents per bottle with testimonials free. A separate line makes a quip about a man who bangs pictures under supervision.
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Hall
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Vain
Rasa
F. J. Cheney
West & Trunx
Ohio
Walding, Kinman & Marvin
Abandoned Military Posts Turned Over to Interior
A War Department general order transfers abandonable military reservations to the Interior Department. Grants include Fort Brady Michigan three and a half acres, Depot McKinney Wyoming 640 acres, Fort Reno Oklahoma timber area, Fort Stevenson North Dakota, Fort Lewis Colorado, and a Fort Leavenworth Kansas military prison reserve with defined bounds.
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Washington
War Department
Interior Department
Fort Brady
Michigan
St. Mary's River
Depot McKinney
Powder River
Wyoming
Fort Reno
Oklahoma
Fort Stevenson
North Dakota
Missouri River
Douglas Creek
Fort Lewis
Colorado
Rio de Platte
Parrott City
General Order
Fort Leavenworth
Kansas
Albert McLain Acquitted of Malicious Mischief in Mine Blast
Albert McLain known as Dynamite Shorty was acquitted by a Colorado Springs jury after about an hour of deliberation on the charge of blowing up the Strong mine. He was immediately rearrested on assault with intent to murder and jailed for lack of bail. The verdict followed lengthy testimony but lacked sufficient evidence tying him to the explosion.
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Colorado Springs
Colo
Albert McLain
Dynamite Shorty
McLain
McDonald
Bull Hill
Harris
Will Get a Warm Welcome Denver
A Denver chamber of commerce meeting planned a reception for silver champions Warner Sibley Jones and Stewart arriving Monday. Committees will arrange welcomes with several cities named and over fifty leading women on the committee.
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Denver
Chamber of Commerce
Warner
Sibley
Jones
Pueblo
Leadville
Durango
Cattle theft suspects captured near Fowler in Colorado
Three men were caught stealing a maverick near Fowler after a six mile chase at the West Beauty ranch. William and John Finch, brothers from near Fowler, pleaded guilty in Custer County before Judge Clark but refused to name their accomplice. The pair were jailed in La Junta.
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Rocky Ford
Colo
Fowler
West Beauty Ranch
William
John Finch
Finchs
Clark
la Junta
Benton Harbor to Build First US Bicycle Path
Benton Harbor Michigan plans a six foot wide bicycle path along a public street from Sixth Street to Morton Hill, half a mile long. The city will construct additional routes along main streets funded by private subscriptions.
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Benton, Harbor
Mich
United States
Sixth Street
Morton Hill
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Cosmopolitan Electric
Ogden Gas
Palmer
Minds
Drake
Albatross
Wetzel
Thomas Coleman
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Davie Martin
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Barbe, Benedict & Goldman
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State Department
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