Forest fires devastate Pennsylvania region with millions in damage
Reported fires sweep from Manistee to the upper peninsula with hundreds homeless and extensive property losses. Estimates from Newaygo, Mecosta, Lake, Oceana counties reach into the hundreds of thousands. fears grow over total toll as flames threaten rail lines and remote forests.
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Teeravit
Mich
Peninsula
Manistee
Horen
Probal Jess
Newaygo County
Meconta County
Lake County
Onewola
Oceana
Walkerville
Baldwin
Wikbosei
Pituck
St Paul
Minn
Wisconsin
Kimberly
Northern Pacific
Ashland
Thomas J. Costello
Omaha
Dalush
Superior
Texxsurawyry
Penxsutawney
Kollwood
Pennsylvania & Northwestern
Infallible Remedy for Unruly Horse Ends in Gutter
A drayman backing a heavy box on Heckman Street halts pedestrians when a rusty old man with a cane and plug hat tries an unorthodox method. He claims to calm the horse by pulling the left ear and blowing, sending himself into the gutter as the crowd laughs. The crowd learns his remedy: pull the left ear and utter weo o rh.
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Baby Moree
Heckman Street
Danne
Looting at Woo Hoo Sparks British Consul Wounding
Reports from Woo Hoo the treaty port of Ngan Hovi describe Chinese participants in the burning of the mission and other European property. The British consul is wounded, his wife escaped disguised as a Chinese woman, and Europeans seek refuge on hulks in the Yangtze. The mob looted the customs house and consulate as antiEuropean sentiment cools awaiting Constant.
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Kene Smanonat
Woo Hoo
Ngan Hovi
Yang Tse Kiang
Marksmanship Record Amazingly Defies Odds at Gallery
A noted marksman astonishes spectators by hitting a bull's eye with uncanny accuracy as he defeats all challengers. He refuses a bet to hit five in succession, insisting on a test against a steel disc instead. The scene ends with a quip about wives and mothers.
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Tie
Pinaly
Chicago Tribune
Briggs
Untitled fragment hints at patent medicine satire and marketing
Fragmentary text references Carver's Lite Liver Pills and Pino's Care for Consumation as touted remedies. The garbled lines imply a period newspaper style promoting patent medicines with earnest health claims and dubious endorsements.
Dr Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets Promise Gentle Liver Care
An advertisement extols Dr Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets as a natural, mild, and effective cleanse for the liver stomach and bowels. The small sugar coated pills claim to prevent relieve and cure headaches indigestion bilious attacks and related derangements. The copy asserts vegetable harmlessness and notes imitators fail to match its efficacy.
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Wisconnin
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Pennsylvania
Kansas City
Macon
ST. Louis
Hutter
Chicago
New York
Einpead To
Bren
Fei Egen
Heuseclenn
Blicas
Carver
Corer
Pino
North Pale
Rigely Ash Bitters
Prickly Ash Bitters
Prickly Ash Bitters CO
Jeb
Pussy Willow
Abe Siwaye
Binghamton
Charles 4 Voseler CO
Gatimer
Fruda
Ladies Home Journal
Cynny H. K. Curtis
Curtis Publishing Company
Philadelphia
Love
Toostewet Et Alt
Veneto
Uway
Lenox
Piiso
Ue Nufartare
Baby Gartagé Co
Kanan
Rome
Cates Miltone
Dewiitty
Enetten Rees
Monplaing
Eng
Nini
Noleaals
BC Lowe
Bt. Louis, Mo
W.bPayoe É Co
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