Fraud promoter sells a chicken infant scheme to printer
A Seattle printer confronts Major Crofoot a flamboyant promoter promoting a fake Wide World Chicken and Infant Raising Company. The con offers vast profits from incubating millions of chickens and infants with cash terms and grand promises, ending with the printer paying a bill and learning he has been duped. The scene shifts to other notices from the same era including miners returning from the field and bankruptcy rumors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sear
Abe
Thve
Irs
Crofoot
Band of Providence
Crofcot
Wide World Chicken and Infant Raising Company
Cripple Creek
Pat Aker
de Beers
Mr. Quan
Deaths and local notices in Green Valley and Oak Hill areas
Mrs. William Geisler aged 52 died suddenly on Wednesday morning November 1 at her home in Green Valley. Funeral at Koontz chapel with E O Livingston officiating. Interment Sugar Loaf Mountain church cemetery. Mrs. Ella Young of near Oak Hill died November 7 from blood poisoning. Funeral at Rocky Ridge November 9 with interment next to the church graveyard. Goldsborough touted as a leading Republican candidate to succeed Duke Wellington and to keep state headquarters open through winter for early spring legislative campaign. The Sick lists Mr C S Heller on East South street and Mrs David Frazier on East Patrick street with absence. Miss Marcie Wilcoxon improved from typhoid fever on West Church street.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William Geisler
Grean Valley
Koontz's Chapel
Bar
E. O. Livingston
Urleans
J. N. Whipp
W. H. Fook
Wm. Whit
Ella Young
John Young
Oak Hill
Dankard Church
Rocky Ridge
C. 5. Heller
East South Street
David Frazier
East Patrick Street
Marcie Wilcoxon
West Church Street
Funeral for Mrs J J Nomagle Set at 2 PM
The funeral will be from West Patrick street tomorrow at 2 oclock with interment at Mt Olivet. A public notice notes the cost and function of local want ads to reach Frederick residents, illustrating how small ads advertise opportunities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. J. Nomagle
West Patrick Street
Mt. Olivet
Unclear historical notices mix of war fortifications and wreck reports
Fragmentary dispatches describe fortification plans at Puget Sound coastal forts Flagler Casey and Worden with new batteries and defenses. Separate item notes a Nantucket wreck with crew loss likely. Additional European and Caribbean brief items cover a Croatian faction clash, Elihu Root's Caribbean arrival, and a Leavenworth escape surrounded. Medical ads and patent remedies conclude the column.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Seattle Wash
Gulioy
Puget Sound
Washington
Forts Flagler
Casey
Worden
Port Orchard
Fort Lawton
Village Shanty Fire Sparks Rescue and Remedy Claims
A village fire near Grahame rule led to the salvation of a child as liquor dealers and a village blacksmith helped evacuate. An Italian woman aided by providing a cough remedy praised for curing croup symptoms without opium, with doctors noting no danger in its use and adults allowed to give it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
S. Schley & Bro. Bruguists
Frederick
Sei
Janes Payee
Sutre
Ube Riya
Hoh
Grahame
Bollivet
A. Poerre
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Dover
Seattle Wash Ney
Nome City
Newark
X. J
Francis DL
Carley
Wall Street
Orange
N. J
United States District Court
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Carlisle Indians
Princeton
Yale
Easton
Lafayette
Cornell
Annapolis
Columbus
Naval Cadets
U. S.t Chicago
Wisconsin
Chicago
West Point
Bucknell
Lexington
Virginia
Aieitory Institute
Washington-Lee
Buffsto
Delaware Park
Hermes
Nantucket
Miss
Nantucket Island
Westerlay
Hubert Inglee Carter
Teaser
Montiuk
Mita
Perjode
Hoodia Lawmakers
London
Vienna
Daily Express
Toei
Satay
Santiago de Cuba
Elihu Root
United States Secretary of War
Gen. Wood
Leavenworth
Kan
Cravens and
Estelle
Nills Nomile
Brighton
Miving
Diwan
St. Paul
Cushman J. Davis
Berlin
Navy
Count Kanitz
Lieber
Reichstag
Bundesrath
A. L. Pesrre
B. W. Grove
Acion
Irich
N. Hess & Bro
George A. Gilbert
Frederivk
Digg
Horn Harbor
Hick
Mosshank
Chas. N. Hauer
West
Patrick Street
Masonic Temple
Chicago, I
Jesse
Sas
Uiclity
Maxy Styles
Fifth Avenue
Brande
Kibo
B. Rosenoure Sons
Anna Giering
Gasture ST
Baltimore
Carly
Carty’s Furniture Store
E. Patrick St
Fred’ K, Mc
Clothiers
Raglans
Tailors
B. H. Blackston & Son
Henry Wineberg
Frederick, MD
JAS. E. Walker & CO
Oxford
Lowenstein & Wertheimer
Ang
WM. S. Miller & CO
Etchison’s
South Market Street
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