Steel telegraph poles offer cheaper, stronger option
In Janesville Wisconsin J H Huntress patents a steel lattice pole built from three inch wide strips forming a triangular cage fourteen inches across and up to sixty feet high. A sixty foot pole weighs about 300 pounds and can be handled by two men, selling at 50 cents a foot to compete with wooden poles. A separate brief notes a jury censuring parents for neglect in a Christian Science case and ordering prosecution of a healer for practicing medicine without a certificate.
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Janesville
Wis
J. H. Huntress
Buruine Ton
Clarence Lay
Vanderwater
State Board of Examiners
Oregon Storm Strikes Coast as Vessels Feared Lost
A southeast gale hit the Oregon coast Monday and Tuesday, flooding streets in Portland, toppling timber and wrecking sawmills. The Gretna broke from moorings, docks were crushed, and many roads in Clatsop county are blocked by fallen trees. Twenty two grain ships lie loaded at Astoria awaiting sea.
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Portland
Ore
Oregon Coast
Coast Mountains
Willamette Valley
Astoria
Columbia River
Gretna
Clatsop County
Anxiety Over Border War Silence Spurs Officials
From San Antonio on January 2 reports say U.S. troops along the Rio Grande provide no dispatches due to downed lines between Fort Ringgold and Brownsville. Washington officials fear the border situation and General Stanley urges increased frontier forces amid uncertain news of Garza’s forces.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Garza
San Antonio
Tex
Fort Ringgold
Brownsville
General Stanley
Washington
Rio Grande Frontier
Stanley
War Department
Cleveland niece of Horace Greeley committed to asylum
The Morning Advertiser reports Pauline Cecelia Cleveland niece of Horace Greeley has been committed to an insane asylum despite friends protests of her sanity. Friends charge Rev Frank Montrose Clendennin, who married Gabrielle Greely, with instigating the move to remove her, alleging religious motivations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Pauline Cecelia Cleveland
Horace Greely
Frank Montrose Clendennin
Gabrielle Greely
Startling Facts on Restorative Cures and Catarrh Remedy
Alphonso Hempfing of Butler Pennsylvania swore his son recovered speech after St Vitus dance with Dr Miles Restorative. Mrs J R Miller of Valparaiso and J D Taylor of Logansport gained twenty pounds each. Mrs H A Gardner of Vistula Indiana cured of convulsions daily and headaches by one bottle. Free trial bottles and cures book offered by S H Scallin. Shilohs Catarrh Remedy also advertised with 50 cent price and free nasal injector, sold by L O Gale.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alphonso Hempfing
Butler
Penn
St. Vitus
Miles
J. R. Miller
Valparaiso
J. D. Taylor
Logansport
Ind
H. A. Gardner
Vistula
S. H. Scallin’s
Old remedies promise swift relief for children and coughs
An advertisement touts Mrs Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for teething pain wind colic and diarrhea with a six decade track record. It also promotes Dr Miles’ Pills for biliousness and Shiloh’s Cure for hacking cough with claims of quick relief and free samples at S H Scallin’s and L O Gale drugstores.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mrs. Winston
Miles
S. H. Scallin’s
Remarkable Cure Recounts Dr King s New Discovery
Mrs Michael Curtain of Plainfield Illinois says she caught a lung ailment and was told by her physician she was hopelessly afflicted with consumption. After using Dr Kings New Discovery for Consumption she recovered after ten bottles and can now do housework. Free trial bottles at S H Scalfs drugstore.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michael Curtain
Plainfield
Ill
Nakes
Dr. King
S. H. Scalfins
Gas explosions injure five in Minneapolis IOGT hall
Five persons were seriously injured in a Minneapolis gas explosion at the I O G T hall on Cedar avenue south. The blast followed a gas leak traced to a water closet when a janitor lit a torch to inspect the jets, threatening nearby temperance meeting attendees.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minneapolis
Cedar Avenue South
Jr. P. Swenson
Swedish Temperance Society
Swenson
T. E. Olson
Agent's carelessness triggers deadly rail crash near Pueblo
Union Pacific trains collided three miles south of Larimore due to Graneros agent failing to deliver orders. Fireman Grubb was killed. Engineer Bush Brakeman Evans and Mail Clerks Wolcott Erbrez seriously hurt. Four engines, two mail cars, and a baggage car wrecked. Passengers unharmed.
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Una
South PuebLo
Colo
Union Pacific
Rio Grande Road
Trinidad
Pueblo
Larimore
Grubb
Bush
Evans
Wolcott
Erbrez
Graneros
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Pitcher’s Castoria
Epps
Civil Service Gazette
Grovers
James Evps & Co
Homeopathle
Tondon
England
Arker
Peabody
Reaieal Institute
Eet St
Boston
Mass
Enbody
Eralid
Ork
Ee Parker
Droggista
Ur Hscox & CO
MUNN & i_Broadway
Pisa
Hazeltine
Warren, Pa
Oregon
Jan
General Garcia
War Departments
Senor Romero
Blaine
Garcia
Mexico
Larepo
Sawyer Roesch
Charles A. Doerner
Brooklyn
John Roesch
Williamsburg
Doerner
Rozsch
Roesch
Shiloh’s
L. O. Gale
Wm. Timmons
Idaville
John Leslie
Same Place
J. W. Gardner
S. H. Scallin
Shiloh
Bucklen
By. O. Gale
Osborne Hollow
N. Y
Erne Hampton
National Transit Company
Orsego
Mich
W. P. Blakeman
Blakeman
Devin’s Lake
N. D
E. Ashley Mears
Minot
National
Devil’s Lake
Mears’ Bank
Mears
Lt Sugar
Minn
Iowa
Chicago, N. I
ST. Jacobs Oil
Francis Maurer
Matt, Kimball and Sterling Pianos
Packard and Kimball Organs
John
Starr
Mitchell Music Company
Alex Mitchell
Wm. A. Moore
Mitchell, SO. Dak
Frank L. Moyer
Cor. 2d and
Lawler Streets
Security Bank
Mitchell
South Dakota
J. H. Rowley
Geo. H. Rathman
Cashier
R. N. Kratz
E. Moses
Mitchell - National - Bank
U.S
Enys Crean Ban
Wes
Atarah
LY Brothers
Warren
New-York
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