NOAH'S CURSE OVER AFRICA PARTITION BY EUROPEAN POWERS
The Chicago Times Herald reports on the Africa partition among Great Britain France Portugal Spain Germany and Italy with Belgian Congo and other claims. It notes Egypt Tripoli and Liberia contrasting populations and areas while warning Britain seeks protectorates and other powers may gain from unsettled boundaries.
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Great Britain
France
Port Gal
Spain
Germany
Italy
Portugal
Turkey
England
Egypt
Tripoli
Liberia
Swaziland
South African Republic
British Africa
Italian Africa
Chicago Times-Herald
New Mexico Offers 500000 Acres to Armenian Colonists
Amado Chaves, New Mexico public instruction chief, writes Chicago Armenians committee chair Cragin thanking him for the colonization idea and offering free land up to 500000 acres along the Atlantic and Pacific line or on public lands with his help. He deems Armenians a desirable settler class and calls the plan the happiest solution yet. Washington Post report.
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New Mexico
Amado Chaves
Territorial
Edward F. Cragin
Chicago
Chaves
Mr. Cragin
Valencia County
Atlantic and Pacific
Chicago Armenian Association
Washington Post
Stolen post office of Top of Alleghany reported
A series of short clippings describe the kidnapping of the post office known as Top of Alleghany in Pocahontas County Virginia. The postmaster pre-1895, T. J. Williams, moved away and deputy W. F. Williong kept the office, then Williams carried off the office paraphernalia and is last heard in Green Bank. Local patrons sought guidance from Monterey on reclaiming the office.
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Sam
Pocahontas County
Top
Alleghany
T. J. Williams
W. F. Williong
Williams
Green Bank
Monterey
New York World
Rheumatic Cure Endorsed by Chicago Doctor
Dr B B Tus of Chicago reports Groff's Rheumatic Cure as the most wonderful remedy for rheumatism in all forms. He claims long study and practice confirm its unique effectiveness and hails it as the sole cure found.
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Groff
Chicago
Davie
Books by Talmage advertised for agents in Baltimore
The notice promotes the sale of Talmage’s new religious works Items of Religious Thought and Talks to Children about Jesus by the R. H H. Woodward company of Baltimore. It claims large profits for agents selling 10 to 11 copies and highlights liberal inducements and a quick in effect healing claim for DeWitt’s Witch Hazel salve. Also advertises Electric Bitters as a tonic with no alcohol, sold at J. W. Packard's Drug Store for fifty cents to one dollar per bottle.
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R. H H. Woodward Company
Baltimore
Jesus
DeWitt
J. W. Packard
London
Mr. X
England
San Francisco
Spencer
Mr. Y
Mr. Spencer
New York
New York Police
New York Sun
Perry & Cameron
Drugeyiats
Michigan
Hogan
N. Hewkis
Welling
Anna Jornron
Riley
Terry
McDowan
J. E.twrrry
Cattaragna Co
N.Y
Sultan’s Armenian reforms risk backfiring says Curtis
English correspondent Henry Norman cites the sultan of Turkey as pursuing his own Armenian reforms through murder and terror. He warns Red Cross aid would reveal true conditions, provoking world outrage. Curtis in the Chicago Record notes Miss Barton’s influence and predicts revolt against the sultan’s methods.
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Henry Norman
Turkey
Armenia
Red Cross
William E. Curtis
Chicago Record
Indiana man claims kin to President Kruger of the Transvaal
An Indianapolis resident, David Haywood, claims his mother was sister to President Kruger's mother, asserting a Kruger kinship. He says Kruger's mother moved to Philadelphia and died aged 103, and that Kruger's early life included a disappearance near Mauch Chunk, Pennsylvania. Haywood plans to request a Kruger history of his own wanderings.
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Philadelphia
David Haywood
A. Haywood
Charles
Henry Roney
Charles Kruger
Indianapolis
Kruger
Transvaal
Mr. Haywood
Germany
America
Mauch Chunk
Krnger
Joseph Kruger
Haywood
Cape and
South Africa
South African Republic
S. J. P. Krager
Cape Colony
Vaal River
The
Republic
So St Louis hosts convention tales and old gaffes
A reminiscence recalls St Louis 1888 Democratic delegates facing noisy hotels and a forbidden third floor shelter as a faro sting surfaced in a saloon linked to John Scott on Sixth Street. Police raided, three delegates vanished then were found in court, while Cannon politics rise in Utah. Jerusalem reports 186 saloons and other brief notes.
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St. Louis
Missouri City
Intertor
Sixth Street
John Scott
Faro Bank
St Louis
Washington Post
Trilby the Gopher Snake Models in a Cold Snap
New York artist F. N. Highby keeps a studio of reptiles including Trilby a gopher snake eight feet long and a cobra. Trilby grows wheezy from the cold affecting her throat while the artist and his snake-using models describe care and attempted warms. The scene includes other snakes and human models, all coping with the chilly weather and the risks of handling venomous animals.
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Trilby
New York
F. N. Highby
East Fourteenth Street
Mr. Highby
Gothat
Orpheus
Mardi Gras Celebrations To Be Grander This Year
Mardi Gras celebrations in Mobile and New Orleans will be bigger with grand parades balls and merriment. The Mobile and Ohio railroad offers round trip fares from St. Louis and other points with liberal limits to Mobile and New Orleans, tickets via local agents and officials urged. Also mentions DeWitt's Little Liver Pills Chamberlains Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy and One Minute Cough Cure for relief and safety with testimonials from Wo Hogan.
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Mobile
New Orleans
Mobile and Ohio Railroad
Mobile & Ohio
St. Louis
Rowland
Fourth St
F. L
Harris
Sixth St
Cairo
E. BE
Posey
Gen
Ala
Chamberlain
Wo. Hogan
Dog's Sixth Sense A hunter's dog alerts to injury
L G C Meachamp of Homer Louisiana kept his deerhound Dan tied to keep him home. The hound whimpered and escaped to the woods. At six o'clock he returned with his master's hat and led his family to a ditch where Meachamp lay with a broken leg. The dog seemed to sense the accident as it happened.
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L. GC
Meachamp
Homer
Arkanans
Dan
Mr. Meachamp
Labouchere on England's Unpopularity
London Truth comments that England is currently more unpopular abroad and at home than ever, arguing the unpopularity is well deserved. The piece contrasts this view with the era’s social scene, noting Americans’ fascination with horse culture and a forthcoming book titled Society Seen From a Box Stall as reported by the New York Telegram and Express.
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New York
Ali and Express
Woman Hears Strange Voices From California
A private letter from San Jose reports Mrs. W. B. Stone hears distinct voices from afar. She identifies them after first hearing and says predictions have proven true. Friends note her unusual power and surprised by the information received about her family. Senator Hunsbrough plans a flag desecration bill and to seek a new emblem for Old Glory with a new star for Utah.
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California
W. B. Stone
San Jose
Cal
Chicago Times Herald
Hunsbrough
North Dakota
Utah
Washbington
Gold Mining In Canada Faces Slow Rush and Rich Prospects
The article notes vast gold potential in northern North America from Yukon to Ontario, with rich ore near Bad Vermillion Lake yielding about $115 a ton. It attributes limited mining activity to the need for large capital and water access, citing volcanic terrain and quartz vein deposits as core factors shaping the field.
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North Pole
Yukon
Dakota
Ontario
Lake of the Woods
Seine River
Bad Vermillion Lake
Shoal Lake
Campaign echoes of Washington in modern politics
A Lowell woman activated a mill button near Atlanta, employing 400 workers with a $200,000 capital backed by New England interests, illustrating interstate ties as Georgia and Massachusetts collaborate. The Tuskegee conference is set for March 4 at Tuskegee, Alabama, drawing regional delegates.
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Lowell
Atlanta
New England
Geoirgia
Massachusetts
Zolla Nicolaus Turns Author After Gould Suit
Information from Cincinnati Commercial Gazette notes Zolla Nicolaus, linked to fame from her suit with George J. Gould, is near completing a manuscript titled A Gilad and Sad Young Girl or The Child Adventuress. The work supposedly reflects Zella’s life. she is to visit her father Wesley Lytle in Wabash Indiana soon.
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Zolla Nicolaus
George J. Gould
Zella
Wabash
Ind
A Barrier to Progress The Drink Cures
Reverend J M Cleary argues drink is the barrier to independence for the poor, draining wages and causing destitution. He condemns saloons as robbing opportunity and education, urging removal of strong drink to free families and foster knowledge for every child.
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Rev
J. M. Cleary
Drink and decline among West Africa natives
Bishop Tugwell writing to the London Times warns gin and rum flood West Africa, hindering civilization and destroying the black man’s body and soul. Missionary society visits are hampered by drunkenness, while interior communities trade palm oil, sheep, goats, fowl, yams, and rubber for few European goods beyond liquor.
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Tugwell
London
West Africa
Kowl
Charth Missionary Society
Africa
Rules by Which the Ancient Triton Dennd Sinwell to Temperanon
A fragmentary historic pledge printed in archaic English on a Bible leaf notes vows against drinking and swearing, linked to Robert Bolton of Browgelhton Northamptonshire. It documents a 1007 dating and presents a moral pledge by Aimon R Bolton. A prior note recounts a navigator dismissed for drunkenness and a Philadelphia item on abstinence. It ends with a brief on a United Veterans Parade in New York.
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Henry Somerset
Ehronich
Robert Bolt
Gort
Browgelhton
Northamptonshire
Earth
Gould
Satan
Hell
Christ
Aimon
R. Bolton
Broughton
Two Lives Saved By Dr King's New Discovery
Mrs Phoebe Thomas of Junction City IL credits Dr King's New Discovery with saving her life after doctors said she had consumption. Thomas Rywers of 10 Florida St San Prone cisem reports a sudden recovery from a dreadful cold to near consumption after one bottle, two weeks to cure. Free trials at Packard's Drug Store. regular price $1.00. Also mentions Castoria for children and Chamberlain's Pain Balm as relief for chest pain.
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Junction City
Dr. King
Thos. Rywers
Florida St
San
Packard's
Deag
The New York Ledger America's Chaastest & Tory Paper
The New York Ledger presents its stance as Americas Chaastest and Tory paper, signaling a strong editorial voice and allegiance to conservative perspectives in national affairs and public discourse.
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