Old Indian Battle Ground and Irrigation Ditch Near Kennewick
Ancient Kennewick valley site reveals an Indian battle and burial ground with relics dated 1846 as Lewis and Clark explored nearby. The great 25 mile irrigation ditch, 20 feet wide, aims to transform the valley into orchards and gardens along the Columbia River near Wallula and the confluence with the Snake River.
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Northern Pacific Railway
Columbia River
Spokane
Seattip
Washington
Snake
Columbia Rivers
Railway Company
The
Columbia
Lewis and Clark
Yakima River
Grant
Sheridan
Kennewick Valley
Washington State
Wallawalla
Hudson Bay Company
Ft. Wallawalla
Wallula
Lewie and Clark
Wallawallah
Hall's Catarrh Cure Ad from Toledo Drug Firms
An 19th century advertisement offers a $100 reward for an incurable catarrh and promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure as an internal remedy. It lists F. J. Cheney & Co. of Toledo as proprietors and notes testimonials, a price of 75 cents per bottle, and says it is sold by all druggists.
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F. J. Cheney & Co
Props
Toledo
F. J. Cheney
Weer & Tavix
O Sts
Alding Kinnan
Hall
Timonials Free
Ayer
Brown Has Smith Names His New Country Seat
Brown Has Smith names his new country seat calling it Snizzled Silvere. The nickname references the breakfast food that funded his fortune, reported by the Detroit Free Press.
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Brown
Smith
Jones
Detroit Free Press
The Train Boy Becomes a Has Been in Rail News
Indianapolis News reports the decline of the traditional train boy as rail travel modernizes. Older boys earned money selling papers and peanuts on trains and platforms, while today’s youth struggle with lower earnings and stricter rules.
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St. Louis
Railroad
Indianapolis News
Stubbs
Jackson
Sparkles
Plainfield
British Warship Scorpion Sinks After Foundering
The Scorpion once served as a Confederate monitor and foundered off George's shoal while en route from Bermuda to St. John New Brunswick. Fifteen crewmen were rescued by a British tug named Powerful captained by Russell and taken to Boston. The report mentions plans for an industrial venture and a controversial figure associated with a local teen and neighborhood.
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Scorpion
Powerful
Russell
Boston
Bermuda
St. John
N. B
George's Shoal
Confederate Ironclad Scorpion Seized Then Sank Off Fort Hamilton
The Scorpion built in England carried four large guns in two turrets and aimed to cripple the Union navy and bombard major northern cities. It reached Bermuda in late 1864 for coal before operations, was seized by Britain, and later sank near Fort Hamilton after years afloat.
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England
Confederacy
Philadelphia
New York
Boston
Bermuda
Fort Hamilton
Native Tennesseean to Build Christian Home of Rescue on Indianapolis Dumps
James L. Jackson, a one legged aspiring minister, plans two block north of Fall Creek near the city hospital to erect The Christian Home of Rescue for the needy on Indianapolis dumps. He began work by bootblack earnings and now solicits donations as cabins rise around the main house.
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Wiggs
Louisville
Indianapolis
James L. Jackson
Jackson
Fall Creek
Christian Home of Rescue
City Hospital
Young Rockefeller Prefers Work To Wealth
Percy Avery Rockefeller, son of William Rockefeller, is nearly 27 and enjoys hard work rather than idleness. He has substantial wealth already and may inherit large sums from his father and through his wife’s Stillman connections.
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Rockefeller
United States
Percy Avery Rockefeller
William Rockefeller
Pr. A. Rockefeller
Standard Oil Company
Stillman
Isabel Goodrich Stillman
Preserving Railroad Ties by Car-Moved Plants
The article describes tie preserving plants moved by rail cars to tie delivery points. Ties are retorted in 500-tie retorts to extract sap, with a salt solution replacing it. It ends with a question about the old fashioned boy’s polite address to a gentleman.
Senator Butler Endorses Peruna for Catarrh and Dyspepsia
United States Senator M. A. Butler of South Carolina praises Peruna in a Washington letter as a cure for catarrh and stomach trouble. The ad copy argues Peruna restores natural digestion by treating catarrh wherever located and claims it has cured more dyspepsia cases than any other remedy.
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U. S
M. A. Butler
South Carolina
Peruana Medicine Co
Washington, D. C
M. Patie
Perona
Peruuna
Peruna
In Syria customs and a bride’s lament about change
The piece notes Syrian customs of keeping caps on inside homes and removing shoes, with clean rugs for prayer. A bride laments her six month marriage, sighing that her husband no longer leaves change in his pocket, highlighting marital strain with a witty exchange.
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Syria
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Hood
Old Indian Battle Ground
D. Quinn
Marseilles
1.C.A CO
Lowell, Mass
British Warship Founders
Hartman
Dr. Hartman
Hartman Sanitrarum
Columbus
Ohio
Gatarrh
M. C.baitler
Chas. H. Fletcher
Yorg City
Reaut Ol Cent
Emerson
G.qure
Laa
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