Brief Historical Sketch of the British Boer War
A long historical overview recounts the three year conflict in South Africa. It details initial ultimatums by Kruger, early battles at Glencoe and Elandslaagte, key sieges of Ladysmith and Mafeking, and shifts in command from Buller to Roberts and Kitchener. It notes Boer leaders De Wet, Botha, Steyn and Delarey, and ends with reflections on guerilla warfare and the road to peace.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Mafeking
Baden Powell
Dero
Roberts
Vaal
Golden Town
Cape Colony
Huzards
Transvaal
Krueger
London
Republic
Irue
Kitchener
Egypt
de Wet
Botha
Steyn
Delaray
Schalk-Burger
War Office
Modderfontein
South Africa
Plummer
Delarey
Victorian Rifles
Col. Benson
Delaney
Methuen
Wright A. Patterson
Life and Work of Paul Kruger in South Africa
A historical sketch of Paul Kruger, born October 30 1825 in Colesburg, detailing his German lineage, rise to president of the Transvaal, leadership in pursuit of independence, and later exile in Europe. Notes his early frontier life and reputed lion hunting of around 250 beasts during the Trek.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Africa
Kruger
England
Transvaal
Free State
Holland
Potsdam
Germany
Tom Paul
Colesburg
Cape Colony
Europe
Tno
Area and history of the South African Republic and Transvaal
The excerpt outlines area and population estimates for the South African Republic and Transvaal, noting about 120000 square miles and roughly 1,000,000 people with white communities including Boers and British-descent residents. It traces Dutch and British colonial milestones from 1652 through 1854, the 1835 trek migrations, 1852 Sand River convention, 1854 Orange Free State treaty, and continuing British- Boer tensions including manumission impacts, slave histories, and the 1881 London Convention granting self government under suzerainty. It then covers Kruger era events, Majuba Hill defeat, and the 1884 revised terms, leading to war and a British victory with the union jack returned to Pretoria and Bloemfontein.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South Africa
Kruger
England
South African Republic
Transvaal
Orange Free State
Ingland
Pretoria
George White
Watal
Cape Colony
Mafeking
Baden Powel
Petrus Jacobus Joubert
Majuba Hill
Natal
White
Ladysmith
Cronje
Roberta
Warren
Spion Kop
Buller
Tugela
Roberts
French
Kimberly
Paardeberg
Bloemfontein
Joubert
Sanna
Broadwood
Beddersburg
War Office
London
Methuen
Boshof
Hig
Wepener
Naffirs
Cape
Holland
Vaal River
Sand River
Vaal
Mr. Gladstone
Britain
Queen Victoria
Blyoinfontein
Mrs McKay Endorses Pinkham Medicine For Female Health
Letter from Mrs Anna McKay of Toronto praises Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for severe female troubles after childbirth damage. She reports regained health after seven months of use and urges others to seek advice from Mrs Pinkham. Includes claim of a $5000 forfeit if the letter is not genuine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Annie McKay
Sons of Temperance
Spadina Ave
Toronto
Lydia E. Pinkham
Anna McKay
Hellen of the Whitehen Mystery Prompt
A fragment from Town Topics notes a dialogue about missing eggs and a cook and chambermaid playing games. No clear event or proper names beyond Hellen and Mistress-Where are the eggs. The snippet lacks concrete facts for a full news card.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hellen
Whitehen
Hittler
Descriptive Booklet On Spirit and Okoboji Lakes
Free descriptive and illustrative booklet about Spirit and Okoboji Lakes in northwestern Iowa, along the Burlington Cedar Rapids and Northern line. Includes Minnesota and Iowa game laws. Notes boarding houses hotels and cottages for rent. By Jno G Marmer Cedar Rapids Iowa railway official.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Towa
Burlington, Cedar Rapida
Northern Ry
Minnesota
Jno
G. Marmer
PL &P. Aw
B.C. R
N. R’y
Cedar Rapids
Lowa
Denmark’s Landsthing and Folkething Reject Subpar Goods
A Washington Star excerpt notes that Denmark s landsthing and folkething resist accepting merely any old items, signaling a preference for quality and proper standards over casual compliance. The reflection frames a stance on governance and public goods.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Landsthing
Folkething
Washington Star
Quack Remedies and Patent Medicine Claims
A collage of 19th and early 20th century patent medicine pitches and dubious cures. Advertisements tout cures for consumptions, cold remedies, nerve restoratives, and foot care with eager claims and free trials. Names and places pepper the page, including Allen's Foot-Base, Dr Kline, and Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets.
Siftings of Science and Weather Notes
The column reports prizes for wind pressure gauge designs by the German government and medical notes on beer yeast for smallpox. It notes England’s coal substitute search and provides atmospheric pressure figures. A London pathologist reports a tuberculosis case in a sheep. A mud shower in Easton, Pennsylvania is described with dust lumps suggesting dust-nuclear rain formation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. Pietri
Nice
Ingland
A.G
Fouwlerton
Pathological Society of London
Eiston
A Cure for Dropsy Promises Relief from Dodd's Kidney Pills
Ashley North Dakota June 2. J It Wanson of this place reports a cure for dropsy after years of rheumatic heart trouble and swelling. He credits Dodd's Kidney Pills with shrinking the dropsical edema and easing heart rheumatism. He took seven boxes and now feels better than in five years and can work again.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ashley
North Dakota
J. If. Wanson
Manson
Dodd
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Dr. Leyds
Glencoe
Nata
William Penn Symons
Elaandslaagte
Rock
Jleing
Lock
Home
Sir Redvers Buller
Lord Methuen
Durban
Tugela River
Magersfontein
Modder
Gordon Highlanders
Gatacre
Stromberg
Nitchener
Cape Town
Gen. Cronje
Boomplaats
Majuba TH
Paul Kruger
President Kruger
The
Kirk Street
Okoboji Lakes
Denmark
Allen
Mari
Olmsted
Roy, N.Y
Philadelphia Bulletin
Ray
Dr. Kline
Dy. i, Whine, Ltd
Arch St
Philadelphia
Malice
Piro
Wy Samuel
Gaean Grave
N.d
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Uticura
Ragridah
Charterhouse
Vorten Deug
Cammy
Cour
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Bonn
J.P Allen
St. Paul
Minn
BB. M. Woolle
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