Insane Luce in asylum near Paris claims one manhood
The Gazette notes Luce believes he is both César and Napoleon, while other items report AmaN in New York’s suicide over a girl, trials of speed records, a Varied crop of curiosities and notices from social figures to scientific feats. The piece blends sensational anecdotes with short notices on science, race, and travel.
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Luce
Paris
César
Napoleon
Aman
New York
United States
Palm Springs man disputing rattlesnake bite cures
E. D. Bovrsv of Palm Springs declares there is no known cure for rattlesnake venom in his twenty years of study. He notes people claim whisky cures are false and suggests many “cures” involve bites from non venomous lookalikes.
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E. D. Bovrsv
Palm Springs
Cal
Arizona
Texas
World’s largest masonry dam planned in Croton valley
A massive dam in Croton valley New York will form an artificial lake to supply New York City with water. The structure will be 288 feet high and 185 feet thick at the base tapering to 20 feet at the top, built of stone in hydraulic cement mortar and designed to be as solid as a rock except for potential earthquake disturbance. The lake will hold an immense quantity of water described as 0,000,000,000 gallons.
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Egypt
Croton Valley
New York
Epitome of the Week Highlights Grain Stocks and Strife
The article lists U S grain totals for wheat corn oats rye and barley and notes a cholera disinfection certificate circular for rag imports. It reports weekly exchange totals, business failures, deaths of former governors, a miners strike ending, forest fires in Pa and labor disputes in Buffalo. It also covers cholera precautions, a world record bicycle time, coal price moves, a Lackawanna strike reprise, a New Jersey legal ruling, a Camden murder, and a bar association presidency.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Tim
Treasury Department
Tur
M. H. Clark
New York
Canandaigua
Ek. L. Lower
Maryland
Brooklyn
Ius, Rie
Upper Monongshela
United Mine Workers’ Organization
South Mountains
Carlisle
Buffalo
Sweeney
Boston
Philadelphia
Atlantic
Springfield
Mass
I. J. Dberlo
Taylor
Nax Prep
Twenty Ninth Street
Pittsburgh
Carnegie Company
Lackawanna
Reading Coal Combine
McGill
New Jersey
Ilegal
Camden
N. J
James R. Morton
Lydia Ann Newby
J. KR. Tucken
Virginia
American Bar Association
Saratoga
Thunderstorm Kills Man in Denver and Wide Civilian Toll
A Denver resident Gutlief Meyers was killed by lightning amid a thunderstorm after proclaiming there is no God. A cloudburst in Anoke Virginia caused massive flood damage. The report lists multiple cricketing posts, drownings, arson, and congressional nominations across several states, underscoring a day of disaster and political activity.
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Denver
Col
Gutlief Meyers
Anoke
J. B. Jacons
First Methodist
Webb City
Tur
B. A. Warren
Akansas Press Association
Texarkana
Ark
California
Santa Fe Road
Medill
Center Rosalla
Tennessee
N. N. Cox
Iowa
T. Updegraff
el. A. Ott
People's
James Ryan
Don Campbell
Walter IL. Butler
Ohio
Bellamy Streeter
John A. Caldwell
Georgia
John W. Maddox
Thomas G. Lawson
Pennsylvania
George F. Kribbs
Michigan
George L. Taple
Wisconsin
Nils P. Haugen
Enoch May
West
Burlington
Boston
Thomas Smith
E. C. Smeed
Iinaha
Union Pacific Railway Company
Illinois
Samuel Alshuler
Mississippi
Frank Buskitt
Texas
C. R. Kilfore
K. W. Myers
David Campbell
Thomas L. Maxwell
Killed in a Fall at Detroit Exposition Grounds
Grrrin Cannas, noted as a female aeronaut, perished after a fall from a great height at the Detroit exposition grounds. The report lists other varied national news including unions, elections, fires, and international events of the period.
National socialist convention and major fires sweep cities
The Socialist Labor Party held its national convention in New York on the 28th with delegates from five states and nominating Simon Wing for president and Charles H. Matchett for vice president. Across the country disasters include Boisseau fire in Russia burning nearly 1,000 houses, a Augusta Georgia blaze costing 400000, a New York Metropolitan Opera house fire at 500000, and a Soo line derailment near Barrett Minnesota killing six. Also reports of a lynching in Alamo Tennessee, cholera concerns in Hamburg, and a baseball league standings snapshot with Cleveland leading at .780.
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Socialist Labor Party
New York City
New York
Pennsylvania
Massachusetts
New Jersey
Connecticut
Simon Wing
Boston
Charles H. Matchett
Brooklyn
Booiseay
Russia
Bridgend
Augusta
Hiram W. Sibley
Georgian Bay
Sibley
Hamburg
Hamburg- American Packet Company
Turk Metropolitan Opera House
America
Dennis Blackwent
Alamo
Lancaster
Humphrey Best
John Campbell
Soo Line
Barrett
Minn
Northern Michigan Lumber Company
Fanderayre
Mich
Bidwell's Letter: Prohibition Candidate Outlines National Policy
Gen. Bidwell, Prohibition party nominee for president, issues a lengthy acceptance letter from Indianapolis. He urges absolute prohibition, woman suffrage, government money issued as gold silver and paper, regulated interest, immigration limits, and tariff protection with income tax. He calls for railroad government ownership, nonsectarian public schools, and rejection of foreign influence while upholding American liberty and arbitration.
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Cincinnati Platform
Lndorsed
Indianapolis
Ind
John Didwell
California
Prohibition Party
United States
Cincinnati
Bidwell
England
Democratic Party
Republican Party
Gen. Bidwell
Reading Deal Declared Unconstitutional and Dissolved
Reading deal ruled illegal and void as New Jersey court decides the trust must be dissolved. Chancellor McGill says the arrangement creates monopoly in coal and violates law. Appeals expected. main public policy issue cited. Heat waves across Europe cause deaths and crop losses. in Swansea a coal pit roof collapse kills seven and injures three. Fatty degeneration of liver claims Furman Schenck, known as the fat boy, at 41 in New Brunswick New Jersey.
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New York
New Jersey
People of
Commonwealth
McGill
Reading Combine
Lonpox
Swansea
New Brunswick
N. J
Furman Schenck
Cholera Suspect Treated at Bellevue After Hamburg Arrival
New York Aug 20 Anton Potzel an Australian arriving from Hamburg two weeks ago was taken to Bellevue hospital with symptoms resembling Asiatic cholera. He is isolated in a riverfront tent while doctors determine if he has cholera or cholera morbus Several immigrant ships arrived at Ellis Island bringing 2200 arrivals including 485 from La Touraine 554 from Gellert 655 from Augusta Victoria and 596 from the Rossian The Ellis Island physician called the immigrants clean and healthy and warned cholera could reach New York soon but not the city
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Bellevue Hospital
Hamburg
New York
Anton Potzel
Germany
Potzel
Ellis Island
la Touraine
Gellert
Augusta Victoria
Strinarieto
Illinois State Board of Health
Illinois State Board
St. Peterspure
Russia
Lublin
St. Petersburg
Parts
le Mans
Met opera house in New York destroyed by fire
Fire gutted the Metropolitan Opera House in New York on a Saturday morning. The blaze began after 9 oclock on the fourth floor over the stage, spreading rapidly through the auditorium and boxes. Stage and roof collapsed, leaving the interior gutted. losses estimated from 500000 to 1000000 dollars.
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Metropolitan Opera House
New York
Watti
Lyman
Campanini
Opera House
Broadway
Wortieth Street
Seventh Avenue
Thirty-eighth Street
Thirty-ninth Street
Old Comrades to Meet at National G A R Encampment
Preparations for the twenty sixth national encampment of the Grand Army of the Republic unfold in Washington. A white lot mall plan groups reunions with headquarters tents for each corps and navy ex prisoners of war and brigades. War governors are invited to attend in carriages or join receptions on the reunion grounds.
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Wasiuisaros
Ang
UG A. R
White Lot
White House
Navy
Grand Army Place
Grand Army
William M. Stone
Iowa
Samuel J. Kirkwood
Austin Blair
Michigan
Andrew G. Curtin
Pennsylvania
Richard J. Orlesby
Ilinois
Joseph T. Lewis
Wisconsin
Thomas ©. Fletcher
Missouri
William Sprague
Rhode Island
Samuel J. Crawford
Kansas
Leland Stanford
California
N.S. Berry
New Hampshire
Frederick T. Low
Colorado
Arthur J. Boreman
West Virginia
War Department
President's Park
United States
Supreme Court
Senate
House of Representatives
Army
Washington
District Militia
Department of the Potomac and Sons of Veterans
Army Corps
Army of the ‘Tennessee
Thirteenth Army Corps
Mead
Fifteenth Army Corps
Sherman
Sixteenth Army Corps
Thomas
Seventeenth Army Corps
Army of the Tennessee
Grant
Pythian Prizes awarded to Mystic Division at camp
Kansas City dispatch reports Knights of Pythias uniform rank judging prizes after a parade. Mystic division No. 12 Girard Kan Capt M W Russell earns first prize 1500. Other divisions from Pittsburg Kan to Indianapolis Ind win from 1200 to 100 in order. Battalion prize 500 to First Indiana Col M F Heiskell. colonel’s cap to Second Kansas Col S O McDowell. longest-distance division prize to Abbott No 12 Fall River Mass. oldest sir knight prize to T J McGinnis Indiana division No 2 Indianapolis aged 55.
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Mystic Division
Girard
Kan
Kansas City
Knights of Pythias
Carnahan
Mystic
M. W. Russell
Galaxy
Pittsburg
R. BE
L. van Winkle
Erie
C. G. Fletcher
New Albany
Ind
H. M. Cooper
Louisville
J. W. Ruccius
Terre Haute
R. C. Duddieston
Many
Indianapolis
J. C. Many
Indiana
Ed J. Stott
Logan
Logansport
George S. Shaeffer
Excelsior
H. C. Castor
Rock City
Wabash
H. C. Pettit
Grand Rapids
Mich
James Bayne
Abbott
Fall River
Mass
David Fuller
Springfield
Unfortunate Happenings Reported From Various Locales
A Maine lobster keeper lost almost 6000 catch in a pond after floodwater entered it. An elm tree at Hopkinton Newfoundland was struck by lightning and toppled during a reception in 1825. A Texan fisherman was dragged overboard while grappling a gar weighing 152 pounds, later rescued. A Scranton huckster drowned six pigs when floodwater swept them from a carriage box. Dr Hansen notes a water soluble pigment in flowers that can be decolorized by alcohol but restored with acids.
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Isaac Leadbetter
Pulpit Harbor
Hopkinton
N.L
Lafayette
Valasco
Tex
Tue
Jonas Tue
Scranton
Dr. Hansen
North Western Line Offers Low Rate Harvest Excursions
Chicago and North Western announces two low rate Harvest Excursions in August and September. Tickets from Chicago to Iowa, Minnesota, and western states priced at one fare round trip. Departures August 5 and September 27, first class, return within twenty days. information available from coupon ticket agents and A Thrall.
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Arrawgd
Great West
Northwest
Chicago
Iowa
Minnesota
North
South Dakota
Nebraska
Wyoming
Colorado
Utah
Idaho
Montana
Orto . A. Thrall
Chicago & North Western Mailway
Remedy for Cold Uses Reid's German Cough and Kidney Cure
Get a Good Remedy. When you have a cold go and get a bottle of Reid's German Cough and Kidney Cure and take a dose at once. It acts on the whole excretory system, relieving both kidneys and lungs. It contains no poison and can be repeated in serious croup cases until danger passes. Sylvan Remedy Co., Peoria, IL.
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Reid
Sylvan Remedy CO
Peoria, Il
Electric fish, thunderstorm electricity, and medical notes
Popular Science notes fifty species of electric fish found by Prov. Srimtuine. A Pakistani meteorologist claims a 300 page book proving thunderstorm electricity arises from rain and hail friction. Koch tuberculin is effective for bovine TB, raising temperature in infected cattle. Focus differences in telescopes affect image sharpness. An Industrial World method uses oxygen gas to make glass transparent during manufacture. London fires up fifty percent since 1882 with twenty five percent uninsured.
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Srimtuine
Pakistan
London
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Sonora
Mexico
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Richmond
A. W. Greevy
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Mars
Leander Schuerr
Andrew Hintenach
Abbey of St. Vincent
Mount Washington
Portland
Isting
Inter
Grrrin Cannas
Detroit Exposition
National Letter Carriers’ Association
Frank E. Smith
San Francisco
Gex. Drowser
Prohibition
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Unger
Fine
Belmont
Sulphur Springs
N.C
W. W. Brackwern
Kentucky
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BP. Graves
Seattle
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Arkansas
Hugh Linsmore
J. O. Bush
J. D. Hooker
Henry Wood
Charles L. Moses
Louisiana
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W. C. P. Breckinridge
David LB. Culbertson
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Gaston A. Robins
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Yakima
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East Saginaw, Mich
M. B. Pond
F. W. Durbin
Rochester, N. Y
Foreign Intelligence
Berne
Switzerland
Marshal Deoporm DA Fonston
Republic of Brazil
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William Vernon Harcourt
John Morley
Louisiana Lottery Company
Honolulu
Hawaii
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Berlin
Wales
Reading
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Vienna
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Tarnhum
Pat Boy
Boston Courier
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Swift
Mark
S. S.S
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Fulton
Swiet Specific Co
Atlanta
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