Cuba Crisis Shapes Naval and Political Moves Abroad
Reports from Washington and abroad describe Cuban crisis tensions with Spanish forces, naval maneuvers, and calls for defense funding. President McKinley weighs a flying squadron, while Britain debates lending ships. Cuban leaders push for independence and relief efforts gather in New York.
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Hood's Sarsaparilla and cures for sale in Lowell Mass
An assortment of items including an ad for Hood's Sarsaparilla claiming cures, prices listed, and notes on various news items. The excerpt mentions medicines prepared by C J Unod & Co of Lowell Mass, a divisive divorce history, a prairie fire near Cimarron Kan, Grand River flood impacts, and multiple brief society and industry notes.
America s Greatest Medicine Sarsaparilla testimonial
A Cumberland resident describes paralysis following diphtheria and credits Hood s Sarsaparilla with restoring strength and appetite. After three months the boy resumed school part time, improved steadily, and emerged strong and well, with the family encouraging others to use the remedy.
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America
Hood
Frama
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Obscure 19th Century Headlines From London and Johannesburg
A turbulent wrap of late 19th century notes reports Sir Henry Bessemer’s death in London, the Woolf Joel case muted by a suspect denying Von Volthuing 2nd as American. It notes Hong Kong’s governor doubting China's unity, a Ule medical mission attacked in Sze Chwan with a casualty, Salisbury's influenza weakness and a South France retreat plan, Chamberlain’s tariff reciprocity talk, John Share’s death in London, and the shooting of Weak Joel in Johannesburg by Feldstein after a money refusal. It closes with Mme Dreyfus’s petition concerning her husband’s captivity on Devil’s Island.
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Johannesburg
von Volthuing
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Sze Chwan
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France
Joseph Chamberlain
House of Commons
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Simar
West India Islands
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Trimihal
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Weak Joel
Barney Barnato
Feldstein
Mme. Dreyfus
Deyil
Local history remembers Colonel Noyman Wiard once in Janesville
A reminiscence details Colonel Noyman Wiard an ordinance expert and gun inventor who lived in Janesville in the late 1840s. It notes his ventures at Novelty Works, his ice boat device, a breech loading cannon, and ties to J. H. Budd and the Budd family with later moves to Prairie du Chien and California.
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Minneapolis
Dtagow Bottom
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Rangers
New York
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J. H. Bodd
California
James Harris
Janesville Barb Wire Co
J. H. Budd
Janaville
Budd
Stockton
Cal
Congress
Plowing Made Easy by Fuller & Johnson Riding Plow
Madison Wisconsin firm unveils a riding plow called stone rudger to cope with stones. The plow lifts over rocks, reducing gear and driver danger. Models include single plow for three horses and double gang for four. Free express loan for inspection with return optional.
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Fuller & Johnson Mfg. Co
Madison
Wisconsin
Bein
Express
Expressage
Chainless bicycle patented by St Louis inventor
St Louis inventor William Myson, a restaurant steward, obtained a patent for a chainless bicycle using a compound crank and planet gear system. A friction wheel and internal gear drive the rear wheel with about nine to one reduction, via a corrugated or smooth rubber wheel and a lever to adjust gearing. the unit weighs about five pounds.
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William Mason
Myson
Degeneracy in Italy Revealed in 1896 Military Draft
Italian sociologists attribute the 1896 draft outcomes to poor hygiene in remote areas, bad schooling, and inadequate youth gymnastics, noting five percent fit for service, forty-nine percent deferred or rejected, and nine percent deserters among 100 young men drafted.
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Italy
First Man Asked If He Was Your First Kiss
The Indianapolis Journal quotes a playful exchange about romance with a sharp line implying the man’s concern about being the first to be considered intimate, framing a light conversational moment on courtship.
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Indianapolis Journal
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