Growing Celery And A Washington Giant Tree
A celery grower shares practical steps for sowing beds, weeding, banking, and choosing soils and tools to deliver a quick, profitable harvest. A Washington giant tree, 465 feet tall, 32 feet 11 inches at base, is cut into sections. scientists confirm 454 years minimum age and no significant regional earth change in 5600 years.
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Washington
California
St. Paul
New
Whatcom
Pacific Ocean
Li Hung Chang
Cascade Mountains
Rocky Mountains
United States
Columbus
West Indies
Tehuantepec Destroyed in Major Mexican Earthquake
June 20 Tehuantepec reports continued earthquake shocks and heavy rains disrupting telegraph service. An official commission sent by President Diaz found Tehuantepec completely destroyed with about 7,000 inhabitants living in tents outside the town. Ongoing tremors terrify residents as signs of a volcano fade and a heavy smoke plume is no longer visible.
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Terrib
Oaxaca
Mexico
Tehuantepec
Tehauntepec
Diaz
Tehuuntepec
Extermination in Cuba Reported as Devastating Disease
A Havana dispatch warns the Cuban war toll is rising with a plague like death rate. A Spanish medical officer forecasts depopulation of western Cuba if the war lasts fifteen months. Contagion, fever, and dysentery afflict troops while vaccination remains largely ineffective.
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Cuba
New York
Havana
Storm in the South Hits Telegraphs and Montgomery Fire
A severe storm rages across the Gulf states and Southern Tennessee. Telegraph lines to Memphis and New Orleans collapse, disabling regional communication. In Birmingham the disturbance is described as terrific, lightning damages Western Union wires and sparks set a Montgomery office fire destroying a building valued at about 40 000 dollars. No heavy wind reports. far south of here telegraph systems remain down.
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Nashville
Tenn
Gulf States
Tennessee
Memphis
New Orleans
Mississippi Valley
Atlanta
Birmingham
Alabama
Western Union
Montgomery
Ruth
Here
Death and lasting self beyond mortal view
A thinker ponders death as a lasting imprint beyond stars yet within the world’s memory. Terrible accident report follows: Wesley Newberry, 40, farmer, was gored by a bull and dragged toward a train. onlookers intervened as the engine crew near the scene helped separate him, leaving him badly cut but alive.
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Wesley Newberry
Newberry
Newbery
Guaranteed Hay Press Endorsement From Macon Farmer
In Macon Georgia on March 6 1897 H J Lamar Jr writes praising two Hunter Hay Presses purchased last summer. He confirms the presses meet the catalogue guarantee, outperform other makes in speed and draft, and deem them the most economical on the market.
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Macon
H. J. Lamar. JR
Foreign notes and world trivia items
The excerpt reports that only thirty steam boats operate on the Amazon and its tributaries. It notes Chinese tea yields of 300 to 400 pounds per acre. Frankfort laborers earn 4 to 5 cents daily. It claims one Latin newspaper exists, published by a German in Aquila Italy. It lists the Haine Buddhist monastery in Tibet as the world’s loftiest inhabited place at about 17,000 feet elevation.
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Amazon
China
Frankfort
Germany
Aquila
Italy
Haine
Thibet
A Bandle of Nerves and a Cure for Nervous Dyspepsia
An ad asserts that nervous folk are sensitively wired and should use Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters to restore tone. After a course, they won’t notice their nerves except for pleasant sensations, improving appetite, sleep, and digestion. It claims worry from dyspepsia will fade and ends with a quip about culture.
Low summer rail rates offered by Union Pacific
Union Pacific advertises discounts for summer travel to San Francisco Salt Lake City Minneapolis Nashville Milwaukee Omaha St Louis Chicago and Buffalo with specific July dates and return periods. Tickets available at 513 Seventeenth Street corner Curtis. Also includes a dramatic aside about a doctor and a fever case.
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Union Pacific
San Francisco
Salt Lake
Ogden
Lake
Minneapolis
Nashville
Milwaukee
St. le
Chicago
Buffalo
Shiventeenth Street
Corger Curtis
From Quack Pills to Elite Music School in One Page
A mixed page presents patent medicine puffery praising No to-Hue cure alls and a bold boast of a Boston music conservatory with million-dollar facilities. It contrasts fraud and ambition while touting a practical piano and organ tuning program and the claim that the school offers unparalleled advantages to diligent students. The fragment ends with a cynical quip about fortunes and romance on a modest paycheck.
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Notution
Boston
No To Bac Fifty Cents Guaranteed Tobacco Habit Cure
A fragment mentions a patent remedy claim "No-To-Bac" for fifty cents, promising to strengthen weak men and purify blood. The text shifts to a Russian law barring trade by foreign vessels and Russians near seas, with the effective date delayed to an unspecified year.
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Fterling Remedy Co
Chicago
New York
Black Seas
Pacific Coast
Liquor Hag It Positively Cured and Other Ad Snippets
An array of vintage ad copy items appears. Claims include a home treatment guarantee for liquor hagit with Neurotico Medicine Co of Hornellsville New York. Also mentions lice powder, Denver seed company ads, and a fragmented dialogue with inserted quotes and misprints.
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Neurotico Medicine Co
Hornellsville
N.Y
Haines Seed Co
15Th Street
Denver
Colo
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Missouri
Ozark Mountain
Georgia
Michigan
Rene
Josephine
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