The Gold of Alaska Explorers Return From Yukon Trek
John T. Conklin and his wife recount their Alaska expedition from Juneau to Circle City. They describe routes, rapids, dangers, and the lure of Stewart river gulches as Profitable diggings shift from river bars to smaller tributaries. The tale emphasizes extreme conditions, winter mining, and the hopeful note that Alaska may rival the world’s greatest gold regions.
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Denver
Alaska
John T. Conklin
Yukon River District
Mississippi
Miles Canyon
White Horse
Circle City
Arctic Circle
Stewart River
Thirty Mile
Pny
Mr. Conklin
Yukon River
Rocky Mountain News
Protestant Episcopal Church to Form Uniformed Church Army
The Protestant Episcopal Church plans an army of uniformed evangelists under military discipline to rival the Salvation Army and American Volunteers in aiding the poor. Meeting at the Church Missions House in New York, clergy appointed a Church Army committee to supervise the project for a year, with two territorial departments and a clerical head for each.
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Protestant Episcopal Church of
United States
Salvation Army
Church Missions House
Fourth Avenue
Forty-second Street
New York
Parochial Missions Society
Church Army of England
Satterlee
Perochial Missions Society of the
Church Army
Hall
Clemiend
Parochial Missions
St. Agnes’ Chapel
E. Walpole Warren
St. James’ Church
W. B. Bodine
Church of Our Saviour
Philadelphia
Newton Perkins
Church Building Commission
Church Army Committee
Chicago ‘Times-Herald
Accepted the nomination but she delayed by mail
A Atchison man asked a girl to marry him and after six months she answered by a 8000 word letter. She explained her views on politics baking powder and housekeeping while accepting the honor, ending with a postscript about presidential nominations. Also notes on spruce gum industry and city taxation of healers.
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Atchison
Good Housekeeping
Atchison Globe
Ancient Alaskan Pompeii Unearthed in Vast Wilds
Professor Alfred Eldrige of Montreal reports discovering a prehistoric city buried by an avalanche in northern Alaska near Kotzebue Sound. The ruins include six foot masonry walls, decorated pottery, and weaponry. He believes a link to Spanish American sites and opens a new field for archaeology.
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Alaska Territory
Alfred Eldrige
Montreal
Eldrige
Alaska
Great Northern
America
New York
Professor Eldrige
Kuwalik River
Kotzebue Sound
New Mexico
Lkely
Spanish America
James S. Hammond
St Louis
Globe- Democrat
Grand Closing Out Sale of Hogs at Lanark Illinois
Auction notice for 100 head Poland China hogs to be sold Wednesday November 14 at Lanark Illinois. Includes grand herd boar King Combination Weed and prize winners from 1905 with 21 grand brown sows, 6 twelve-month boars, and many sired by noted sires. Sows bred before sale. sale at noon under cover. terms 1 year on sums over 15 with notes. cash discounts offered. Auctioneers Mervens Bros. Also included is long editorial on society and wealth versus true society, arguing for a real, inclusive social culture beyond Newport.
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Poland
Lanark
Bowie
Te Ic
PF. Tecumseh Tn
U. 4
Happy Medium
Sieck
Hadley Werk
Bin
King McKeona
Quueen Klever
Maud
H. Sanders
Hiack U
King
Happy Medium Jr
Keefer
Joe Colorad
Ihsen
Claude Jr
U. S
Ilseis
Mrvens Bros
Ik Cesta Ae ! Auctioneers
From gutter to wealth and a windfall fortune
Ernest R. Schreiber, a Bowery drunkard once found lying in a gutter, sobered at Chrystie Street Mission, became a leading sobriety worker. His mother’s death in Germany left him a fortune including $40,000, and he plans to return to Germany to claim it and fund reformation work. Charles Denison in Denver urged Colorado sanitariums for consumptives, note insurers eyeing large sanitarium projects in the Rockies to prolong lives.
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Ernest R. Schreiber
Germany
Rivington Street
New York
John Jaeger
Chrystie Street
Schreiber
Jaeger
East Side
New York World
Charles Denison
Denver
Colorado
Rocky Mountain
Whiffs From Chicago on a 65 Year Old Man’s Love Life
A Chicago piece recounts the social spectacle surrounding Mr. Watson, 65, his youthfully admired charm, a younger fiancée Miss Greene, and a nephew named Adl. As illness and rumor swirl, the tale notes the elderly man’s relapse fears, a funeral, and a fortune dispute hinging on timing of death and marriage, with townsfolk moralizing at length.
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Mr. Watson
Indies
Miss Greene
Watson
Mrs. Watson
Mr Watson
Ed Watson
Miss Green
Rock Creek Items and Local Happenings
Community notes from Mt Carroll area recounts include a rally at Mt Corral with Mortis Horner and others, a squirrel hunt by George and Will Dimon, and visits by Chadwick Sanday and Jere Rice. Local youth activities feature a senior literature exam, elocution lessons by Mr. Lindsay, and a pageant of school events. A Weather Bureau report shows a mild week with no precipitation, while local reflections urge making the most of life and critiquing the obsession with disease.
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Mortis Horner
Wos
Shilling
Jobe
W. Wivkinger
Mt. Corral
George
Will Dimon
Leona Heas
Chas
Mt Carroll
Tole
Fred Glotfelty
Caesar
Mr. Carroll
Lindsay
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Dr Ray
Greenville
Bidlack
Cotiwell
Megan
Beuys
DeWitt
Hood
Floresce
Sorews
Clearfield, Iowa
Muy
YEW Religious
Protestant Episcopal Church
Maine
Ed Thompson
H. F. Fisher
A. H. Stover
Fairfield
Lewiston Journal
Kansas City
Kansas City Journal
Pompets
Wilds
Alfred
United States Department of Agriculture
Union
New York City
London Scotland Yard
Russia
Prince of Wales
England
Tynan
Boulogne
Edward Bell
Glasgow
Kearney
Wallace
Rotterdam
Continental
Europe
Phoenix Park
Burke
Frederick Cavendish
Ireland
Dr. Cronin
Chicago
Waverly
N. J
National
St. Louis
Music Hall
Exposition Building
Armenia
Elizabeth W. Greenwood
Republic
Newport
Rome
France
Behreiber
Reformed Drunkard
Gore
After & Fortune
Jedty
Miss Maloney
Red Lair
Jeremiah
McKinley
Lim
Nepa
Flood
Wat Hogan
Beges
Rock Creek
Mienbaurh
Chadwick Sanday
Jere Rice
Chadwick
Larry Moser
Ian Sweigert
Pennssyvania
Hleney Hoover
Ay Hen
Bryan
Gust
Frank Wolo
Nebraska
Myers
The
State University
Robert Vanelstyn
U. S. Department of Agriculture Weather Bureau
M.N. Wentz
Vol
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South Africa
Pennsylvania
Elizy Brown
Paw Laurence Dunbar
Ceatary
Castoria
Samuel Pitcher
York
Castors
TT Iine
Inter Ocean
Tas
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WY Mail
Vitile Ubli
Politi I Romen
Chicago Gazette
Gil
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Astar
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City Drug Store
Burlington
Chicape
Peoria
Naneosity
Ty Wo Joy
Kenyon
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Pal
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Washington
Castotria
Pavitic
Mr. Chan
S. Moe
Polielvert
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Lever
Beeney
Petihe
Orie Am
Ceyte
Clee S. Fees Val
Ming
Wouterland
Demorest
Penorest Ss
Wadia
Free
Beiltian
Epider
Ronnie Tentites
Tenezine
Ole
Tome
Daricuts
Saenele Eepy Wel
VALCO
Coa Pertey Mead Bort Bow Demorest Publishing Co
du Avecor
Lanark Gazette
Mawazi
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