Waukesha wreck sinks with loss of crew near Muskegon
The schooner Waukesha broke up while trying to ride out a gale at anchor near Muskegon Michigan last night. Seven men sailed with salt and apples from Manistee. Five bodies have been recovered, and one survivor Frank Delach, was found unconscious. The captain, mate and others were reportedly intoxicated before the disaster. The wreckage and missing crew are described amid a chaotic salvage effort.
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Muskegon
Mich
Waukesha
Manistee
Muskegon Harbor
Freman
City
F. H. Head
Chicago
Manitowoc
Frank Delach
Duncan Corbett
Saga
Delach
Deluhh
Revival of Business as Ohio Valley Plants Resume Work
Cincinnati November 9 Special dispatches report widespread revival in Ohio valley industry. Major railroads reopen shops and expand crews while plants in Huntington Mount Vernon Kenton Ashland and Portsmouth resume or plan reset. Firms including Griffin wood works Powell brass Ensign Car Works Pittsburg Packet Company and copper shops at Raridon return to full capacity with new orders and anticipated hires.
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Cincinnati
Ohio Valley
Big Four
Chesapeake & Ohio
Baltimore & Ohio Roads
Ensign Car Works
Huntington
W. Va
Mount Vernon
Lil
Louisville & Nashville
Niles Tool Works
Hamilton
Kenton
Ashland
Griffin Wood Works
Powell Brass Works
Pittsburg Packet Company
Raridon
Dayton Pipe Company
Burns Iron Works
Portsmouth
Millions of Gold Offered As Currency Demand Surges
Treasury reports show large gold offerings to exchange for currency at subtreasuries including a million offered in Boston. Officials authorize accepting half the amount. New York may take gold today. Currency demand remains heavy amid hopes of business revival and funds from assay checks.
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Washington
Treasury Department
Boston
New York
Tia
Treasury
Great River Open Opens Cascade Locks in Oregon
Thousands witnessed the opening of the Cascade locks near the Oregon state line with Governor Lord presenting the steel lever. Vessels including the Maria and Water Witch entered the canal as crowd cheers and military salutes filled the scene in Portland, The Dalles, Sherman and Morrow counties.
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Cascade Locks
Oregon
W. P. Lord
W. L. Fisk
United States Engineer Corps
Maria
Sadie B
J. G
N. Day
Dulles City
Sarah Dixon
Harvest Queen
Vata
Dallas Brass Band
Battery A
Portland
Dalles
Sherman
Morrow
Klickitat County
Wash
Columbia River
Cascades
Michiel
Congress
Wilson
United States Engineers
Board of
River and Harbor Act
Meassra
J. N. Day
Great Personal Events series in Ladies' Home Journal 1897
The Ladies' Home Journal launches Great Personal Events a pictorial eyewitness series recounting American spectacles from the past fifty years. Prominent figures like A Oakey Hall Henry Ward Beecher Stephen Fiske Grant and Lincoln appear in dramatic vignettes across 1897.
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Ladies’ Home Journal
America
A. Oakey Hall
New York City
Jenny Lind
Castle Garden
Henry Ward Beecher
Beecher
Plymouth
Stephen Fiske
Prince of Wales
Parke Godwin
New York
Louis Koesuth
Broadway
John Russell Young
Grant
Mr. Young
Senate
Henry Clay
Lincoln
John W. Mackay
Mackay
Remedies and cures advertised in early column snippets
A jumble of old advertisements tout remedies for indigestion and dyspepsia including Hostetter's stomach bitters and Piso's Cure for Consumption. Also claims about deafness cures with Hall's Catarrh Cure, employment offers, stray musings, and various fanciful notes about sunspots and dog wisdom, all in a fragmented yellow-page style.
Schiling’s Best Tea Money Back Offer Promised
An ad from Schiling & Company invites customers to ask their grocer about a money back guarantee if they dislike Schiling’s Best tea. The供er emphasizes action over words in promoting the product.
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Schiling
Bottled Up Cure Claims for Blood Diseases
An advertisement denounces mercury and potash treatments for blood diseases, warning they dry bones and joints and offer a dubious cure. It promotes S. S. S. as a guaranteed vegetable remedy with a $1000 reward for proof to the contrary and invites readers to request free books from the Specific Co. of Atlanta, Georgia.
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Hall
Frow
F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledy
Druggisia
Fic
Wall
Specifc Co
Auanta
Mme. A. Rupiert
United States
International and U S election markets noted in foreign press
London reports McKinley victory steadies financial policy and boosts US exports as British stocks rise and Americans buy for December. Berlin and Glasgow note improved sentiment. Washington blocks Duluth terminus change affecting Northern Pacific grant. Jacksonville records asylum commitment. Port Townsend reports a major wind storm. new civil service order expands classified service and readies justice department posts.
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London
the Standard
McKinley
United States
Westminster Gazette
Eame
Paria
Brussels
St. Louis
Glasgow Stock Exchange
Berlin
Vienna
Frankfort
The
Times
Glasgow
America
Washington
Secretary of the Interior
Duluth
Northern Pacific Railroad
Northern Pacific
Lake Superior & Mississippi
Thompson
Thompsown
Northern Pacifico
Northern Pacific Company
Congress
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Panama Canal
Istumur
Wrench Company
Pacific Ocean
Nicaragua Canal
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Victoria
B. C
George Brown
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San Francisco
E., Manley
Webster Street
Rome
Italy
Rimini
Verfue
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Wisconsin
Madison
Wis
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Basle
Switzerland
Boulonge
France
Boulogne
Colorado
Golden Circle
Cripple Creek
Syl T. Smith
Florence & Cripple Creek Railroad
Florence Southern Railroad
Florence
Silver Clit
Kansas City
Arthur Ty Snook
Arletta
Monroe Publishing House
Belmont Hotel
Snook
Bedford
Santa Crus
Arctica
Nov. C
Carlisle
Thomas E. Adama
Hostelle Islands
Bebring Sea
Ipewich Mille
Ipswich
Mass
Ipswich Corporation
Ofensive Partiawnads Lp
Harmon
James Couch, Jr
West Virginia
Couch
Department of Justice
Springfield
Spauiding & Pepper Manufacturing Company
Great River
Electrical Review
Milwaukee Harvester Works
Clothe Theater
Louie Birmed
Louis
Globe Theater
Walnut
Elm Streets
William Cgiray
Grarner Hotel
Texas
Atchison, Kansas
Piso
Hertz
Sthave
Col
Highey
Third Street
A Schilling & Company
Frazer Bes
Genereliy
the Foreign Press
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Foreign Office
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Jacksonville, Or
Anna Witt
Medford
Crowell
Salem
Barnes
Wilcox
Port Townsend
Straits of
Cape Flattery
Navy Department
Navy Yards
Civil Service Commission
Ordnance Department
Department
Poatiya
Urham
Aes
Blackwell’s
Durham
H. P. Hercules
H. P. Regan
H. P. Oriental
Sansome Street
Cal
Hercules Gas
Washington St
KINC
Portland, OR
Will & Finck CO
Market Street
San Franchsco
SS Market St
Phila
A. Ruppert
Philadelphia
Asd
Mme, A. Ruppert
Golden Rule Building
Webey
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