Dr Miles Nervine Claims to Restore Nervous Energy
A testimonial from Mrs Rose Otto of Columbus Ohio asserts Dr Miles Nervine restores nervous energy and health. She describes past year illness and relief after half a bottle, recommending it to five friends. The ad notes druggists guarantee benefit or money back and lists Miles Medical Co. as maker.
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Miles
Nervine
Rose Otto
S. 3d
St. Calumbuz
Ohio
Miles Medical Co
Elkhart
Ind
Local notes from Round Hill and nearby
Round Hill items report Thad Chronister suffering a facial gash while cutting wood. Several social notes mention visits among Simpons and Wislers at Berlin and Flint Ridge Church revivals with over 200 conversions. Aegis of local events includes dividend news from Geiser Manufacturing and a murder verdict in Emporium.
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Thad Chronister
Naomi Simpson
Berlin
W. G. Simpsons
James Simpson
W. Chronister
Flint Ridge Church
May Wisler
Mamie Border
Hampton
Albert Myers
Ivie Kraver
Ail. Kraver
David Fisel
John Wisler
Joseph Fitzgerald
Martin Wentz
Hiram Trimmer
Allen Crist
David Cashman
Peter Markel
L. C. Pittentarf
Various Local News Briefs From Gettysburg Times
Mrs. Augustus Smail of McSherrystown quarantined for diphtheria after a hacking cough and household illness. A Bumbaugh news stand machine in Gettysburg was broken into Monday night with chewing gum and pennies stolen. Isash Bankett of Grangeville hospitalized in York City after surgery for tuberculosis of the bone and leg amputation. Arendtsville charter application approved. upcoming bank organization meeting planned. General DeWall, Boer veteran, sought in Harrisburg for passing bogus checks. White waistings advertised. A 14 year old Altoona boy injured in a trolley collision. serious head injuries with poor prognosis. Laws proposed to ban hunting dogs in and out of season. Wallet saved a conductor from death on a Monongahela train. Honey gathered from bees on Prof. M. W. Black’s porch. A seven year perfect school attendance record held by Landis Water’s collie dog. Muslin underwear sale advertised by Nace’s Hanover.
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Augustus Smail
McSherrystown
Bumbaugh
Gettysburg
Isash Bankett
Grangeville
York City
Bankert
Arendtsville
Comprtroller
Western Day
Arendtsville National Bank
Noel
Harrisburg
DeWall
J. BP. Landis
Landis Water
Lancaster County
Ma Landis
Weidner
Nace’s
Hanover
Pensions Issued and a Fatal Shooting in Oil City
Pensions announced at 12 a month for Charles McDaniel of Biglerville and at 15 a month for George Inglebrit Get tysburg and Peter L. Trostie Gettysburg. In Oil City Pennsylvania on January 27 W H Pienaugh of Sheffield was shot and killed while kneeling in prayer as foreigners fired revolvers nearby in celebration of a wedding, the bullet likely coming from that source.
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Charles McDaniel
R. F.D
Biglerville
George Inglebrit
Gettysburg
Peter L. Trostie
Gettysbure
Frayer
Oil City
W. H. Pienaugh
Sheffield
Prices Across Markets Show Mixed Grain and Livestock Activity
Philadelphia flour markets report weak futures with No 2 red wheat at 11.00 dollars. Baltimore steady oats and corn, butter and eggs firm, beef and pork modest. Pittsburgh live stock markets show cattle steady to high, sheep rising, hogs higher with primes near 4.65.
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Western
Baltimore
Maryland
Virginia
West Virginia
Southern
Pittsburg
Union Stock Yards
Secretary Taft on Philippines report forecasts self government wait
Washington reports Taft summaries nine years after Manila Bay era. President endorses McKinley policy and predicts a long path to self government for Filipinos. Taft notes high justice standards, popular constabulary, peace, Benguet road value, and cost concerns. He urges free entry for Philippine products, mining property access, a Philippine agricultural bank, and exemption from coastwise laws.
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Washington
Manila Bay
Taft
Archipelago
Congress
Philippines
William McKinley
United States of
Benguet
United States
B and O Cuts Wages Across the Board
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad trims ten percent from pay for all officers and staff earning over 166 dollars per month, lowers those between 150 and 166 to 150, effective February 1. No change for clerks and others earning 150 or less. further cuts possible if economy worsens.
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Baltimore
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad Company
Family burned to death as house collapses in Virginia
Richmond article reports Anthony Franklin, a Bedford County Black man, his wife and five children perished when their house collapsed while they tended a dead child. Fire destroyed the building and trapped the family as they kept vigil over the corpse on a Sunday.
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Richmond
Anthony Franklin
Bedford Cluz
Huston May Turn State's Evidence in Capitol Prosecution
On the first day of Dauphin county court trial for capital prosecutions, the Commonwealth agreed to a separate trial for Architect Joseph M. Huston amid motions for severance by four co defendants. The case alleges a $19,308.40 fraud in furnishing sofas and furniture for the capitol, with Sanderson named as supplier at $18.40 per foot, while broader conspiracy and false pretense counts total thirty seven cases against fourteen defendants.
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Harrisburg
Dauphin County
Kunkle
Commonwealth
Joseph M. Huston
Huston
John H. Sanderson
William P. Snyder
William L. Mathues
James M. Shumaker
Shumaker
Sanderson
Snyder
Mathues
Patrick Bohan
Martin B. Brandt
Joseph H. Dunkle
Howard Eichelberger
Williamh. Hoepfnagle
Harry 4. Hartman
George W. Kohler
Albert A. Poisi
William 4. Sites
William M. Sweigard
Amos H. Stoudt
Wiliam G. Stephens
H. Burd Cassel
Pennsylvania Construction
Capitol
Jury Acquits Andrew Detsch in Ferree Shooting
After a three day trial in Philadelphia a jury acquitted Andrew Jackson Detsch of murdering Harry Ferree in a boarding house last November. Detsch testified he shot thinking Ferree a burglar and the verdict drew an enthusiastic reaction in the crowded courtroom.
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Harry Ferree
Philadelphia
Andrew Jackson Detseh
Ferree
Detsch
Gassaway Davis Ill in Snowstorm Postpones Wedding
Washington January 27 Friends of Henry Gassaway Davis an octogenarian West Virginia millionaire lie ill with a cold from a snowstorm and may delay his wedding to Miss Maude Ashford. He is at his hotel under medical care as a disagreement with his daughter over the marriage is reported.
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Washington
Henry Gassaway Davis
West Virginia
Miss Maude Ashford
Miss Ashford
Lee
Misa Ashford
Saloon for Charity to Aid Miners in Huntington
Feb 1 saloon licensed by United States Coal and Oil Co holders at Holden to fund charity. Company argues sale needed to attract miners who would otherwise leave, offering to run as a business and direct profits to charity as court-directed. Poisoning case elevates concern as a five member Union Hill family survives arsenic-tainted milk rolls, with investigation ongoing.
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Huntington
W. Va
Helen
Here
United States Coal and Ol Company
Holden
Arter
Union Hill
Eva Gachwind
John Gachwind
Jefferson Street
Louis Forman
Eva
Helena Cooper
Richard Schlems
Inventor Charles Biedinger Found Dead in Troy
Charles G. Biedinger, an inventor, was found dead in a Troy lodginghouse after a period of want. He had just learned the Cincinnati superior court awarded him 93,000 dollars plus interest for a patent on a machine for making paper wrappers, a claim backed by a financial backer who refused an accounting when the inventor left the sanitariums.
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Troy
Charles G. Biedinger
Superior Court
Cincinnati
Sazicarta
Pennsy Repair Shops Closed in Altoona
Altoona Pennsylvania January 28 reports say the 5000 workers at the Altoona machine shops will be closed next Monday after months of thirty two hour weeks. The plant shut down follows a line of reductions and factory cutbacks across the Pennsylvania Railroad system.
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Pennsy
Altoona
Pennsylvania Locomotive Repair Shops
Altoona Machine Shops
Three Schoolboys Drown After Ice Breaks at Wilkes-Barre Pond
Five boys ages nine to thirteen slipped onto a frozen pond in Wilkes-Barre to slide. A two inch ice layer gave way, dumping them into twelve feet of water. Three boys John Swarrees Jager and John Shallock died. two were rescued after a fierce struggle. A lace factory van nearby alerted rescuers who saved one victim, who was the rescuer’s own son, risking his life. Several rescuers escaped drowning.
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Wilkes-Barre
John Swarrees
Ly Jager
John Shallock
Son
Fetter Confesses to Daughter’s Murder in 1894
John Fetter, 73, in South Bend, Pa, confessed to killing his daughter Elia Fetter, 39, in November 1894. He said he believed his illness would be fatal and he placed a rope around her neck before telling a neighbor she had hanged herself. The confession was given to Justice Haus and recorded by the district attorney.
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John Fetter
South B. ¢Hem
Elia Fetter
Fetter
Justicé Haus
Beck
Attormey
National Bank of North America in New York Fails
In New York on January 27 President W F Havemeier of the National Bank of North America said directors will ask the comptroller of the currency to take charge. Charles A Hanna becomes receiver. The bank's deposits fallen from nearly 20 million in August to about three million now with cash on hand around 382 thousand.
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Ottawa
Ont
Dominion
Alberta
Saskatchewan
National Bank of North America
New York
W. F. Havemeier
Charles A. Hanna
National Bank Examiner
Havemeyer
Aettle
Week's News Condensed Highlights Across Cities
Rhode Island census counts 480 080 residents. Arrests in Chicago pull in a New York murder suspect. Night riders burn a tobacco barn in Hopkinsville Kentucky. Obituaries note Brown Williamsport Pa postmaster and Gazette publisher dead at 67. Multiple killings, accidents, and political notes fill January through early February briefings.
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Rhode Island
Thomas King
New York
James Co
Chicago
Wbacco
James A Coleman
Hopkinsville
Orange S$. Brown
WiHamsport
Gazette and Bulletin
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Geiser Manufacturing Co
Warnesboro
Daniel Roth
Emans
James Cummings
Wilkesbarre
Grand Army of the Republic
Andrew Blair
Greendale Cemetery
Edward 8
Skeel
Piffer Post
Thurmons
Cameron County
Mens Clothing
G. B. Nace
Sox & Co
Carlisle St
Eauover
Madras
Cinal New Sweares
Mervin Stump
James S. Wilson
Monongahela
Wilson
Altouona
M. W. Black
Scoois
Rochester
WN. Y
Bert Phenes
Corning
Frances
Andrew Detsch
Caroline Ferguson
Saverio Curcio
Scranton
Nicholas Ferrias
Ernest Darling
University of London
England
Roosevelt
White House
Houdon
Hall of Fame
Sarah Horvitz
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
San Antonio
Tex
Charles B. Fager
Bartlettsville
Oklo
George Moyer
Pittsburg Railway Company
H. W. Reed
Washington, D. C
Pennsylvania Railroad
Plain City
Patrick Conley
John Hagan
Griffith Jones
Slatington
Racine
J. Cameron
Antonio Lubinski
Maltby
Luzerte County
Wyoming
Pittsburg Stock Exchange
Fuller
Supreme Court of the United States
Henry Vor Bargen
Rudolph Brokeep
Moundsville
Lock Haven
William Coniey
Renovo
Mary Conley
Mary Jane Guy
William Guy
Guy
Cerapolis
Sen
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