Amick Treatment links to underwriting of consumptives
Reports claim a leading life insurer accepts up to 300000 on consumptive lives using the Amick Chemical Treatment. Amick Chemical Co of Cincinnati allegedly pays premiums and presents policies to parents, claiming world class consumption statistics and good risk if the Amick course is followed. Separate note mentions a Dunnellon Florida postmaster’s flight to Cuba with government funds and a streetcar robbery tale, plus a string of miscellaneous outbursts and a printer’s error about a W W Smith campaign club.
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Cincinnati
Gex
Amick Chemical Co
Cyncinnsti
Grose feud killings plague Kentucky borders
Harlan County Kentucky. Sampson Brock was shot and killed on Straight Creek Saturday by members of the Belchers. In the past three months nine or more men on both sides have died in similar feuds. The writer laments feuds and calls for an end to the bloodshed and its rubbish in the state.
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Grose Feut
Harlan Cour Honce
Sampson Brock
Straight Creek
Saturgey
Sage
Belchers
Kentucky
United States
America
Strane
Congress
Harvey
R. G. Harry& Becsuse
Grant
P. J. Devlin
Balloon trials in Austria test anti airgun effects
Experiments fired on captive balloons to gauge weathering by artillery. A 4265 ft high target struck nine times from 4400 yards but not brought down. A second trial at 2625 ft faced wind and took fifty six rounds to down the balloon, despite heavy firing.
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Austria
German Merchant Marine Surpasses French Trade Milestone
The Frankfort consul general reports German mercantile marine has outpaced France, with German steamers totaling about 860,000 tons by 1894, while French steamers total 466,000 tons. North American tonnage sits at 464,000. England leads globally with 9,585,000 tons registered. Germany at 1,485,000, still behind. Shipbuilding progress in Germany is notable but lags English pace.
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Frankfort
Germany
England
Trans Siberian rail line gains southern route and riches
The Trans-Baikal section of the Siberian Railway is finished with a southern route chosen to pass by four principal rivers and rich mining districts. About 3,700 miles remain to be completed of the 6,000 mile system, with 750 miles open to traffic from Cherabinsk to Omsk and Vladivostock to Oratskaya. The article contrasts the old, higher-altitude plan with the new route, noting increased metalliferous potential and ongoing construction.
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Siberian
Cherabinsk
Omsk
Vladivostock
Oratskaya
Moscow
St. Petersburg
St.eertons
Sereo Good Reasone, 1. Because the remonetization of a fl ver would increase the amount of per capita circulation.
The text argues that remonetizing a fl ver would raise per capita money supply, causing prices of commodities to rise to meet new conditions, with labor affected accordingly.
Two Lands May Claim ism Returns to Rogland
Dr Reuven Thomas of Brooklise faces a potential migration pattern after following the example of Dr Brooke Her ford and returning to Rogland authorities watch for shifts as Boston risks losing a skilled English expert while London benefits from a capable Yankee.
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Reuven Thomas
Brooklise
Brooke Herford
Rogland
Boston
London
Battle With a Sauger Rattler Ends in Fatal Strike
Long tale from southern Michigan reviews encounters with massasauga rattlesnakes. Seneca Williams defeats a large sauger coiled on a threshing stack with a stout club after snakes threaten workers. Other incidents recount a Jackson youth bitten by a sauger and a hog- snake fight near Liberty township ending with a barbed wire fence victory.
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Br J. R Jackson
Seneca Williams
Langer
Strick
Williams
Sanger
Ray Nelson
Jackson
Henry Marsh
Judson Keith
Nelson
Liberty Township
Lyman
Jim
Diverse postwar notes mix in far flung items
A collage of brief items reports naval counts after the war, civic park funding by streetcar companies in Kansas City, a Mexican widow’s steam launch prowess, anarchist Otto Walters von Gogh’s arrival, a sensational fiction boom aided by typewriters, a groom assaulted at his wedding, a Nevada California boundary resurvey, Carnot’s widow decorating with funeral wreath ribbons, a crowded snake show in Peru Indiana, a Paterson New Jersey woman briefly blinded by a trolley flash, Rhine navigation beyond Mannheim, canal limits, and bicycle messengers delivering telegrams in France.
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Kansas City
Senora Juanita Tomsoni
Otto Walters von Gogh
Germany
Rockford
Nevada
California
Carnot
Peru
Ind
Paterson
N. J
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Myrtle Donlven
Chicago
Chicago Evening Press
Mexico
China
Japan
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F. &. Flanders
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