Senate approves revocation amendment to civil service bill
Washington May 8 The senate passes an amendment revoking President Cleveland’s February 22 order creating 17 million acres of forest reservations. The vote 14 to 82 defeated restrictions on revocation. The Behring Sea fur seal investigation continues and the sundry civil bill totaling 58 million is approved. Bacon introduces a joint resolution urging arbitration.
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Gray
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Committee On Foreign Relations
Attempted railway wreck near Cheyenne taints UP men
An unknown group tried to derail the Cheyenne and Northern train by misplacing a switch at the city yards. The train slowed, avoiding damage. Union Pacific brakemen confessed to City Attorney Breckens. warrants issued for two and arrests expected tomorrow.
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Cheyenne
Wic
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Breckens
Cheyenne & Borthern
Cuban Sympathizers Arrested In Mexico City Editorial Staff
May 10 report says the entire editorial staff of El Continente Americano, the Mexican Cuban insurgent sympathizers paper, was arrested at the instigation of the Spanish minister Duke of Arcos over a perceived insult. Mexican student editors gain sympathy as the case draws intense comment and legal defense preparations. The incident follows formal complaints and a government action under law.
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el Continente Americano
Duke of Arcos
Epanieh
Tragic Shooting at Ladner's Landing Near New Westminster
Vancouver report: 24 year old Harvey Kinsman committed suicide by shooting himself at Ladner's landing on the Fraser River, twelve miles from New Westminster. He worked at the Wellington Farm Creamery. The motive appears linked to recent trouble with creamery machinery.
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B. C
Harvey Kinsman
Ladner’s Landing
Fraser Rive
New Westminger
Wellington Farm
Oregon to Leave Dock for Sea Trials
The battleship Oregon will come out of the Port Orchard dock tonight or tomorrow night. Officials expect about two months before the Pepaire can be made to the ship and decide it is better to place the vessel in water to avoid strain from a long dock stay.
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Waeh
Port Orchard
War Department reshuffles across departments of the Columbia
Orders from the War Department assign General Shafter to the Department of the Columbia at Vancouver barracks and move General Otis to the Department of Colorado with headquarters at Denver. Colonel Merriam will command Denver until Otis arrives, while Colonel Anderson at Vancouver barracks leads until Shafter arrives. In Chicago heat relief arrives as proscribed by the Weather Bureau, and eleven men drown at Kelloe colliery in Durhotal. A barbie WA citizen reports seeing a daylight flying machine near Northport, with propeller fans visible against the sky. An English potato merchant offers free medical care to customers who buy potatoes.
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Otis
Department of Colorado
Denver
Merriam
Wheaton
Otie
Anderson
Chicago
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Spokane
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Barbie
Wael
Spokane Fall & Northern
Northport
Wheat Market Letter Reports Dull Week and Substitutes
The weekly market letter notes dull wheat demand with a speculative spike on a government report outlook. It records imports and exports, prices for grains, flour, hay, and livestock across Portland Oregon and Seattle Washington markets dated May 11, 1807, listing numerous price quotes and commodities.
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Industrial News reports cure of chronic rheumatism by Pink Pills
Lorenzo Neeley of Liberty township Jackson county Michigan aged 56 suffered over thirty years from rheumatic pains and dizzy spells. After trying doctors and cures he used Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People and with three boxes his pain and dizziness disappeared for over a year. The notice promotes the pills and lists price and where to buy. It also briefly mentions other local items including trees on Ben Lomond and a Colorado sawmill pay ore discovery.
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Thia
Jackson Industrial News
William A
Paine
Neeley
Dr. Williams
Lorenzo Neeley
Horton
Jackson County
Michigan
Williams
Dr. Williams’ Medicine Company
Schenectady
N.Y
Buying Farm Land and the Mortgage Burden
A Rural Home style warning explains why buying excessive land leads to financial strain. Buyers often overextend, borrow heavily, and struggle with mortgage payments, lack of improvements, and difficulty hiring help. The piece urges purchasing only what can be paid for, funding improvements, and maintaining a bank account for stability. It also notes government policy toward small land holdings and compares dwarf and standard trees in fruit production.
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Alaska
Todlan
Fattening Calves and Sweet Potato Sets
An old article discusses methods for calf rearing with emphasis on suckling versus hand feeding and its effects on calf growth and cow comfort. It advises two daily meals for calves and notes how milk stripping can dry cows when calves suckle. It also covers buying sweet potato sets from seedsmen and growing them, urging Northern farmers to plant them in warm, rich soils.
Sweet potatoes and poultry tips for farmers and gardeners
The article outlines practical farming notes including growing sweet potatoes from sets, Pekin duck care and water needs, subsoiling for orchard planting, shorthorn carrots for field crops, soil enrichment with peas and mineral manures, seed bed prep for onions, and gooseberry culture using ashes and cinders. It also covers poultry tips on duck care, egg production, cleanliness, feed, and maintaining layer hens.
Best Remedy for Rheumatism and Neuralgia St Jacobs Oil
The text urges households to keep St Jacobs Oil as a ready remedy for sudden rheumatic and neuralgia attacks amid mild but changeable weather. It claims the oil provides permanent relief across chronic or acute cases and emphasizes preparedness for indisposed periods. It also briefly mentions Caucasus tribes teaching dagger stabs to water as a separate note.
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St. Jacobs
Notable Scientists Endorse Hosteller Stomach Bitters
A class of scientists testifies to Hosteller's Stomach Bitters as a remedy and preventive for fever age rheumatism vigor and liver complaints. Experience shows its value and echoes a public verdict long pronounced. A sensational note claims a seven foot wolf was killed near Nashua Valley County, measured from tip to tip.
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America
Montana
Nashua
Valley County
Tea Warden Drips and other odds and ends
An assortment of notes and advertisements mentions Tea Warden Drips made from sugar cane with pure quality, canned for sale by first class grocers. Also includes dental and medical claims, a Toledo oath about catarrh remedy, steel tempering notes, and a wake of assorted trivial items from rail ideas to animal offerings and a sleep aid with dandelion leaves.
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Pacific Coast
Your Co
Tithe of Admiral and origins of English naval ranks
The article traces the title Admiral to later English use, noting Capitaneus Maris and other sea roles before the fourteenth century. It cites foreign adoption, French and Arabic roots, and references Henry I and King Edgar era naval dominance with ship numbers and guard. It ends with a simile about people and care.
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London Nautical Magazine
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Prynte
Henry I
Alfred
Edgar
Ethelred
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