Miners warn Yukon rush may bring famine this winter
A Klondike wave of 1500 to 5000 prospectors heads for Dawson and Yukon with reports of scarce supplies, high prices, and looming starvation. Miners urge staying home this season. warnings come amid soaring food and lodging costs and tense police action on routes to Alaska.
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Seattle
Wash
Alaska
Yukon
Dawson ‘City
Dutch Harbor
William Oler
Dawson City
Dawson
St. Michael’s
Jack Smith
Variety Theater
Excelsior
Cleveland
New York World
Alaska Commercial Company
Bearcreek
Klondike
Hippocrates
Clara Wilson
Denver
Col
Circle City
Miss Wilson
Iwo
Bath tub burst floods Shelton merchant home
A Shelton merchant faced a comic crisis after a bath tub in his flat burst its hoop and began flooding the floor below. He embraced the tub to contain the water, waited for his wife, and later learned to move the tub to the sink room to drain. The tale, told by the Ansonia Sentinel, ends with the man humiliated but relieved.
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Holland
Ansonia (Conn
Sentinel
Auctioned Nantucket windmill bought by town society
The famous old windmill at Nantucket sold at auction to the town historical society for 885 dollars after a private bidder pushed the price. Built in 1747, the mill drew little sympathy from townsmen as the sale closed.
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Nantucket
Town Historical Society
Art in Architecture and the Ideal Cottage Plan
The article argues that houses define a locality with personality, praising simple, well proportioned designs over ornate ornament. It describes a 35 by 38 foot frame house with four rooms on the first floor, four bedrooms on the second, modern conveniences, and cost estimates from 1800 to 2000 dollars, noting stability and natural aesthetics as key. BE ALLEN PAYNE.
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Allen Payne
Better Than Steel Bullets and Fire-Safe Devices Reported
Articles describe a Springfield chemist and surveyor solving cartridge issues for Krag Jorgensen rifles with a smokeless powder mixture claiming lower cost bullets that outperform steel. Other notes cover a spark catcher patent in Stettin for locomotives and a furnace door that disintegrates smoke to cut fuel use. Also included are brief jokes from the Boston Transcript and Yellow Book.
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C. W. Bates
J. Jerry
Springfield
Ill
Stettin
Germany
Secret societies and Sunday meetings noted
This Chicago Tribune snippet records a remark about forming another secret society while a wife explains her husband already belongs to six and secret societies do not meet Sunday nights, highlighting social satire about exclusive groups.
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Chicago Tribune
He Whistles at Danger
A dialogue notes a locomotive engineer as the brave fellow who whistles at danger. Zigesby and Perksby exchange remarks in the New York Journal style.
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Zigesby
Perksby
N.Y
Mere Bundles of Nerves and Digestive Remedies
Peevish people are described as bundles of nerves whose temper is stirred by even slight sounds. The text urges using Hostetter's Stomach Bitters to calm nerves by improving digestion, noting relief from dyspepsia biliousness constipation and rheumatism through the tonic and corrective.
Expensive Bovine Habit at Virginia Farm
A Baltimore Fresh Air Fund child bound for Virginia’s cool hills stayed with a Front Royal family. He watched cows milked and asked how they could buy gum for all of them, a humorous remark noted by a Washington Post writer.
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Baltimore Fresh Air Fund
Washington
Virginia
Front Royal
Baltimore
Washington Post
Grain-O the new drink replaces coffee in homes
An advertisement promotes Grain-O as a coffee substitute made from pure grains with a mocha like color and aroma. It claims all ages can drink it and it costs about four cts per cup, with packets sold by grocers.
New Through Passenger Route for Colorado Utah and California
The Chicago Times-Herald reports a September 12 traffic alliance between the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul and the Chicago Rock Island and Pacific railways. A Denver sleeper will depart Chicago attached to a night train to Omaha, then Rock Island will receive it. A October 2 tourist car route over these lines Colorado Midland and Southern Pacific will begin with weekly Chicago to San Francisco service.
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Colorado
Utah
California
Chicago Times-Herald
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul Railway
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway
Denver
Chicago
Omaha
Rock Island
Colorado Midland
Southern Pacific
San Francisco
Geo
I. Heatford
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A tense exchange unfolds as an angry elder accuses a younger man of stealing his daughter. The younger man remains unflustered, warning that trouble could follow if challenged, in a dialogue quote from Puck.
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Rascal
Puck
Prosperity of Farmers in Tidewater Virginia
Rejoicing farmers in Virginia report unsurpassed crops including melons potatoes peanuts general grain and truck with record high prices in Washington Baltimore Philadelphia and New York markets. Monthly tickets for settlers from Chicago and the Northwest will be sold at reduced rates via Big Four and Chesapeake & Ohio railways. details and Virginia descriptions available from U. T. Truitt NW EP A No 234 Clark St Chicago.
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Truitt, N. W
EP. A
Clark St
Chicago
Vocalist taunted over singing as neighbors smash windows
A Tammany joke quotes Gilhooly taunting a singer about singing aloud at night. The quip claims neighbors smash windows to hear better, implying the singer is loudly entertaining them despite criticism.
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Gilhooly
Tammany
Dirt on Face Sparks Childs Court Tale
Dialogue from a historical newspaper snippet shows a child recounting a quarrel with Billy Bludking. The child explains Billy threw more dirt in his face than he could digest, prompting a mother and judgely figure to remark on the dispute.
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Billy
Keene to Open Two Months at McVicker's Theater
Thomas W. Keene, famed American tragic actor, to begin a two month engagement at McVicker's Theater in Chicago starting September 5 in Richard II. The item cites a Sunday school interruption and a quip about clerical error, with a brief note from Dr. G W Patterson of Dukster Michigan.
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McVicker's Theater
Chicago
Thomas W. Keene
America
Richard IL
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