City debates jail cost and coal bids amid council actions
The city council formed a committee to study erecting and maintaining its jail and opened bids for Pocahontas mine run coal, awarding the contract to Davis & Daniels Co. The water works committee gains hiring power over engineers with Frank Moore added. several bills and salaries are approved as the session adjourns.
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Kelley, Burns and Doyle
Pocahontas Mine Run
Davis & Daniels Co
Water Works Committee
Frank Moore
Scheurenbrand
Cross- WV
Paboonnodconom
Prey Ei
School Board Meeting Sets 28 000 Levy for New East Side School
The board's regular session had little business with routine actions and several bills approved. The annual levy for the coming year is fixed at 28 000 dollars, funding the new east side school building since no bonds will be issued.
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Board of Education
Reform Chief Shippey Rules Women Excluded From Saloons
The note cites Chief Shippey enforcing reform rules in Chicago barring women without escorts from saloons. It mentions Prof Jeremiah Jenks on immigration tours for Canada and other varied notes on language, markets for English palaces, Indian languages, a marker for Lillian Nordica, and Thomas R Shipp poised for Forest Service work.
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Shippey
Chicago
Jeremiah Jenks
Cornell University
United States Immigration Commission
Canadian Northwest
Canada
A. L. Kroeber
University of California
California
D. Collamore Heath
Boston
Lillian Nordica
Norton Homestead
Nordica
Thomas R. Shipp
Indianapolis
Beveridge
United States Forest Service
Hall's Catarrh Cure Advertisement and Endorsement
An 1890s style advertisement promises one hundred dollars reward for an incurable catarrh case cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. It cites F J Cheney & Co of Toledo and endorsements from Walding Kinnan & Marvin Wholesale Druggists confirming honesty and solvency. Claims include internal use and mucous membrane action with testimonials available gratis and price 75 cents per bottle. Also advertises Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
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Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo, CO
F. J. Cheney
Walding, Kinnan & Marvin
Toledo
O. Hall
World's Debt to Fulton in Hudson Steamboat History
The New York Tribune marks a centenary since Fulton's voyage up the Hudson, noting August dates as possible milestones and recounting his inventive path before perfecting the steamboat. It recalls earlier anticipations by other inventors and Fulton's early Paris connections.
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Fitch
Miller
Scotland
Robert Livingston
Fulton
New York Tribune
New York
Hudson
Paris
Johna
Hoboken
Richmond man touts Dr King’s New Discovery remedy
A Richmond citizen appeals to others with weak lungs to use Dr King’s New Discovery. He claims it cures asthma bronchitis croup whooping cough quinsy hoarseness phthisic and lung hemorrhages and builds the lungs. Guaranteed at Diehl Brown’s drug store priced 50 cents and 1.00.
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Richmond
Ind
A. D. Williams
West Main St
Diehl & Brown’s
Health in the Canal Zone Tempting to Skilled Workers
The Panama Canal work offers high wages but fears of fevers and malaria deter many artisans. Electric Bitters is praised by users as a safe remedy against malaria and other ailments. Diehl & Brown guarantee the product at 25 cents.
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Panama Canal
Diehl & Brown
Gas Plant Generator Explodes Shuts Facility for Weeks
Saturday evening a generator at Mitchell Gas company plant exploded due to carbide gas buildup. Fire department responded thinking a blaze but no fire. windows blown, minor structural shift. Street lamps halted to supply residences. Manager White said plant will be shut for two to three weeks for repairs.
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Wis
Mitchell Gas Company
Brewster White
White
The
Republican
September Weather Forecast Warns of Storms and Frost
Reverend Srl R. Hicks, a St. Louis weather prophet, predicts a stormy September with early frost likely. He warns of multiple storm periods from September 3rd to 7th, a crisis around the 7th, followed by further unsettled conditions through the 29th and potential late-month warm spells then a Northwesterly return of frosts in northern regions.
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Srl R. Hicks
St. Louis
Jupiter
Saturn
Vulcan
Venus
Mercury
Arnica Salve Promises Cures For Burns Wounds
Bucklen's Arnica Salve is described as a happy blend of arnica flowers and healing balms. It claims to cure sores ulcers burns scalds cuts and piles regardless of age, guaranteed by Diehl & Brown, druggists, priced 25 cents.
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Bucklen
Diehl & Brown
Lost and Found Lost bilious attack remedy found at drug store
Between 9:30 p m yesterday and noon today a bilious attack with nausea and sick headache was relieved after finding a box of Dr King’s New Life Pills at Diehl Brown’s drug store. The guaranteed cure for biliousness malaria and jaundice costs 25c.
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Diehl & Brown’s
Dr. King
An Inalienable Right
In a Baltimore American column the author questions whether a wife’s access to her husband’s possessions is a guaranteed marital privilege or a constitutional right, noting that few pursue court action due to cost and dignity concerns. The piece treats it as a longstanding, accepted facet of married life.
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Baltimore
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Warren
SS. Stevens
Fire Department
G. W. Austin
J. R. Eads
ALON
M. Keith
F. A. Summers
John Slater
Werbert
Sodergren
la- Fire Department
Mitchell Gas Co
Nai Sage Aneteer
Henna Ay Henson & Hubbell
Tirie Jensen
John Nelson
Thur Allen
Kontz
Fred Ritter
Chas
Swanson
C. Cooper
Fullerton Lumber Co
W. B. Harbert
H. C. Cook
Chas. Newman
Tobin & Gormley
Account
Canal Zone
Ma Li
A. W. Chase
T. B. Roberts
Marshall St
Syracuse
N. Y
A. W Chase
Dr. . Chase Medicine Co
Buffalo, N. Y
Hart Schaffner & Marx
WMI
Youman
Longley
McKinley
Keen Kutter Goods
McKinley & Eddy
Weaver’s Squares
Bidwell Land & Loan CO
ALL Saints School
Sioux Falls, SO. Dakota
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