Go Fight the Trust Octopus
The piece argues for a national labor union to oppose trusts and monopolies led by the Morgan syndicate, centered in Pittsburgh and Carnegie steel, uniting steel workers and allied trades to defend workers’ rights. It notes Edwards' successor as editor, David D. Thompson, being elected by the Northwestern Christian Advocate’s Methodist church committee, a progressive choice despite a clerical precedent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Steel Trust
Pittsburg
Morgan Syndicate
Carnegie
Allied Metal Trades
United States
Dr. Edwards
David D. Thompson
Northwestern Christian Advocate
The
Methodist Episcopal Church
Arthur Edwards
Methodist
Scholar Chief of Police Capt. Frank ONeill Chosen by Mayor
The Chicago mayor appoints Captain Frank ONeill as chief of police, aiming for a ministerial style leader. Born in Ireland in 1849, he rose from patrolman to captain, noted for his education and a private library famed among book lovers on Drexel Boulevard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Frank O'Neill
Harrison
O'Neill
Ireland
Drexel Boulevard
Regency Surmounts Empress Dowager Influence in China
The Empress Dowager schemes a regency to block reforms and keep power from the emperor, whom talk says was to be murdered. A youthful successor is named while his fate remains a mystery and Russia and Allied powers loom over court politics. The regents appear mixed, not wholly reactionary, yet the Dowager’s control persists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
China
Snd
Russia
Bigota
Names Ending in i and the Italian Assassin Tradition
A historical musing on Italian names linked to assassination, citing figures such as Orsini, Galli, Bresci, and Mazarini. The author recalls Hugo’s Cromwell prophecy and notes the recurrence of fatal endings in patronymics, paired with a sharp tongue about Italian genius and vice. The passage closes with a Petersburg witticism about czarist coronations and assassins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Romagnoli
Berlin
Victor Hugo
Cromwell
Philippi
Mancini
Torti
Mazarini
Satan
Orsini
Galli
Canovas
Bresci
Humbert
Italy
St. Petersburg
Tell Tale Letter Box Arrives in Chicago Downtown
One hundred new automatic attachment mail boxes will be installed in Chicago downtown within a week. A front device records the next collection time and reveals it when the box is opened. The box shows AUTOMATIC LETTER BOX and the next collection time, enabling the public to see when mail will be taken up again.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Fate and Enmity Compete With Love in Destiny’s Chariot
A poetic conceit contrasts two chariots racing Destiny. Enmity drives a black horse team led by a fierce rider, while Love guides Faith, Hope, and Charity on a white team toward the same fate. The piece foreshadows Love as victor in the struggle. Arthur Lewis Tubbs. Also reports a New York dispatch criticizing coal prices and hints at public ownership debates, plus notes on a new comet and Hawaii’s changing population.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Arthur Lewis Tubbs
Beet Beer Advocated As English Beverage Reform
A note on producing beer from beets in England, claiming the beer contains sugar juice but costly separation from gums acids and salts would raise prices. The suggestion argues for a beet based beer despite higher production costs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Willing to Compromise Letter Reaches Philadelphia Police
A Kansas woman’s note to the Philadelphia police offers to settle for 3500 with a woman named in an enclosed advertisement. The writer claims a facial hair removal medicine burned her face, leaving a heavy beard and lifelong whiskers, and requests 500 in exchange for silence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas
Philadelphia
Dream of beauty in Langtry English house description
The Lity's Dream. Mrs Langtry's Chelsen residence is hailed as a dream of beauty with a marble faced drawing room and lavish furnishings costing over $10,000. An ornate Omaha catalogue ad notes Verbatim details, quirky product claims, and a piano on easy payments.
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Lity
Halls Catarrh Cora and Other Patent Medicine Snippets
A garbled ad page lists various patent medicines and quack claims including Halls Catarrh Cora, Beeman's Pepsin Gum, Piso's Cure for Consumption, Defiance, Hamlin's Blood and Liver Pills, Garfielden herb tea, Allen's Foot Ease, and a note on Opals. Also mentions a Sweden Norway home for unmarried women endowed over 200 years ago by a founder who left most of his fortune to spinster descendants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ole Makis
Sweden
Norway
The Only Woman Admiral in World History
The queen of Greece was named the world’s only woman admiral by the late Emperor Alexander III of Russia for her passion for the sea, a departure from traditional regimental appointment practices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Queen
Greece
Alexander Tlf
Russia
Women Seek Relief From Painful Menstruation in Early Letters
A collection of patient letters to Mrs. Pinkham from 1899 1900 recount persistent menstrual pain and womb trouble. Women report partial relief after using Lydia E Pinkham Vegetable Compound and seek further guidance while praising the physician’s advice and free Lynn Mass address.
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Ug Vu
Dean Mas
Preemann
Lydia E. Pinkhai
Mns
Exara Kmnst
Trautman St
Brooklyn
Dn.y
Appes Co
Lynn
Mass
Lydia EB. Pinkham
Mock trial and assorted ad copy fragments
A collage of old ad copy and witticisms cites Allen’s Foot-Ease for corns and bunions, a dog obedience line, a claim about DEFIANCH BTARCH, and aphorisms on gravity versus levity, misquotation humor, and literary remarks.
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Fate
Stern
Love
New York
Ible
Hawaii
Hawaiian Islands
Schuylkill
Schmoller & Mueller
Farnam Street
Omaha
Phil Pullman
Beeman
Maple Street
Norwich
N. Y
Defiance
Hamlin
Allen
Fred
Allen 8
Olmsted
LeRoy
N.Y
Magaim Pollard
St. Richmond
Misa Macam Pornaro
4Th &T
Richmond, Va
Indianela
Gly Bank of
Lydia i. Pineuam
Eve
Original Sin
Standard Oil Co
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