The Great Pessimist Addison Cammack Dies at early retirement
Addison Cammack once a renowned Wall Street broker known as the great pessimist died after a long illness. He sold his stock exchange seat in February 1897 for $18,000 to Henry I. Dittman of Lazard Brothers and lived at 46 West Fifty-seventh Street with a country home at Tuxedo. He leaves two sons aged 14 and 11.
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Addison Cammack
Wall Street
Stock Exchange
Mr. Cammack
Henry I. Dittman
Lazard Brothers
Cammack
Vanderbilts
Goulds
Charles J. Osborn
Osborn & Cammack
William H. Vanderbilt
Jay Gould
Northern Pacific
Hildreth
Washington
Hopkinsville
New Orleans
London
New York
West Fifty-seventh Street
Tuxedo
Hypnotic Offer Fails in Damages Case Joke
A New Orleans lawyer recalls advising a railroad to settle a $200000 damage suit for $1000. He recounts hypnotizing an old laborer with a brand new $1000 bill to test acceptance, only for the man to dismiss the bill and continue smoking.
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Times-Democrat
Town Crier Warns Pro-Boers In Ancient Borough
A London Leader report notes Tewkesbury town crier marching through the streets in uniform proclaiming that after this date pro-Boers will be tarred and feathered. About 200 youths followed, cheering in national anthem, then gathered at a resident suspected of pro-Boer sympathies and shouted. A pig’s head, used as a target, was sent to that home.
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Tewkesbury
Oyez
London
Senator Stout to donate farmers rest room building
Senator J. H. Stout offers to donate a two story 24 by 48 foot building with steam heat and bath facilities in Menomonie to serve as a free farmers rest room lunch room and reading room for citizens to maintain and use. The project will be built next spring and overseen by a responsible manager.
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Menomonie
Wis
Chicago Times-Herald
J. H. Stout
Pickles Used to Test Recovery From Mumps in Denver
In Denver, doctors add pickle to the treatment routine to test if children with mumps are ready to return to school. When a child bites a sour pickle and smiles, they are cleared. if the sour bite causes pain, the child must stay home, according to the Denver Republic.
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Denver Health Department
Denver Republican
Health Department
Dukes Hold Vast UK and Irish Lands Amid Aging Nobles
The Modern Doomsday Book lists Duke Leconfield as owning 66 000 acres in England and 45 000 in Ireland with a rent roll around £88 000 annually. The Duke of Sutherland holds 1 358 000 acres, while the Duke of Buccleuch earns an estimated £217 000 yearly from town property and minerals. Scotland dominates land ownership among six great nobles. The death of Lord Armstrong marks a shrinking band of nineteenth century “grand old men,” with many peers aged 80 and older, including the Baroness Burdett-Coutts at 86.
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Duke
Lord Leconfield
United Kingdom
England
Ireland
Duke of Sutherland
Duke of Buccleuch
Scotland
Sutherland
Buccleuch
Richmond
Fife
Atholl
Breadalbane
Lord Armstrong
Frederick Halliday
Earl of Perth and Melfort
Charles Nicholson
Henry A. Pitman
H. Keppel
Lord Gwyder
Andrew Lusk
Duke of Cambridge
John Tenniel
Baroness Burdett-Coutts
Pan American Medical Congress on Yellow Fever Quarantine
The Pan American Medical Congress in Havana condemns the US yellow fever quarantine as absurd. It credits the mosquito as the epidemic carrier and notes experiments showing nine of ten non immune men contracted fever after mosquito exposure. The next session will be in Buenos Aires in three years.
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United States
Pan- American Medical Congress
Havana
Cuba
Ilinois
Chicago
Jece Newman
George H. Simmons
E. Wyllis Andrews
Herb Lyford
L. H. Montgomery
Montgomery
Congress
Buenos Ayres
Siberian Church Culture Amid Monastery and City Life
A correspondent notes Siberia’s wealth of churches theaters and museums visible from villages with white walls and domed cupolas. Bells fill the landscape as domes punctuate daily labor while married priests lead ornate interiors and engage with all parishioners. The report ends with a critical aside on gender wording in the text.
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Siberian
Siberia
Help For Women Who Are Always Tired
Mrs. Ella Rice of Chelsea Wisconsin shares a personal recovery story after two years of bearing-down pains headache and backache caused by womb inflammation. After seeking medical help and trying many medicines she reports a full cure.
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Ella Rice
Chelsea
Wis
Lydia E. Pinkham
Mrs. Rice
Mrs. Pinkham
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Wilcox
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Lewiston
Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Props
Toledo
F. J. Cheney
West & Truax
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Ohio
West Point
Marshall
MAY" Hoe & Clothing CO
E. W. Grove
Jibbs
Piso
Carnegie
Primley
California
Bright
J. Pierpont Morgan
Mr. Carnegie
Mrs
Etta Rick
N. W. Hide & Fur CO
Minneapolis
Minnesota
Milton
Pas
Denver Directory
Fred Mueller
Larimer Street
Denver
Colorado
Denver Tent and Awning Co
Arapahoe
Rown Palace Hotel Sitet
Colorado Tent & Awning CO
Robert Ishall
Pres
Lawrence St
RG & CO
Sweetland Pano Co
Tirs Pleasipanos
M. Montelius
South Broadway
J. Durbin Surgical & Dental Supply Co
Curtis Br
Nver
E. Burlingame & CO
Nssay
Tascratony
Deter. Colo
A. M. Gregory & Bon
Marblehead
Rocky Mountain
H. Atwater
Canon City
N. U
Aner Carau
Steinway
A.b.chase
Everett
Fischer
Himball
Smith & Barnes
Knight-Campbell Music Co
Aic He and
Congress St
St. Louis
Eames
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