Canal Concession Award Stands despite protest
President Theodore Roosevelt approves a Panama Canal hotel and subsistence concession awarded to Jacob F. E. Markel of Omaha. The contract, worth millions, may be abrogated by the government. Shonts submitted a report explaining his steps in granting the concession, amid protests from Hudgins & Dumas and Halte of New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Watob FE
Markel
Ooster Bay
I. L
Panama Canal
Jacob FE. Markel
Omaha
Nek
Theodore P. Soonts
Panama Railroad Company
Roosevelt
Hir Shents
Shents
Mar Hel
Shonts
Parama Railroad Company
Hudgins & Dumas and Halte
New York
Man Who Sought Audience With President to Be Sent to Asylum
Isaac Schamus arrested at Upster Bay after trying to see President Roosevelt to present a plan for handling coal output. Declared insane after examination and to be sent to Central Islip asylum. He suffers acute dementia and often raves writing letters to the President.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mineola
Isaac Schamus
Upster Bay
Phrs
Cans
Central Islip
Sehamus
Stowe
Roosevelt
Tammany Hall
Shamus
Chamberlain's Salve for Sores and Skin Ailments
The ad touts Chamberlain's Salve as soothing and healing for sores burns and chapped hands with rapid pain relief. Sold for 25 cents at A L Pearre's Drag Store.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aza
Brossen
Chamberlain
A. L. Pearre
Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for ovarian troubles
A historical advertisement urges women to avoid surgery for ovarian and womb issues by using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. It cites multiple testimonials of women saying the remedy delayed or avoided operation, improved strength, and cured various female ailments over thirty years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lydia E. Pinkham
Margrite
Lydia FE
Pinkheny
Lawrence Thore
Lydia E. Pinkhaom
Mrs. Pinkham
Lyon
Mass
Merchants Advertise More Space With Persuasive Talk
The merchants today are the ones who advertise and use more space than their competitors, filling it with the right kind of talk.
Bottle that drifted 1600 miles from Scotland to Montreal
A bottle thrown from a wrecked vessel off Scotland on March 1, 1899, carried a letter from cattleman George R B Blandford to a Montreal newspaper. Picked up at New Harbor Newfoundland by fisherman Ricd Durmond, it traveled six and a half years and about 16 miles across the Atlantic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montreal
Dominion Baer Labrador
Scotland
George RB Blandford
New Harbor
New Foundland
Ricd Durmond
Atlantic
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Ryan
Qmargret Merkin
Will
THE
Singer Store
Patrick St
Frederick, Md
Atlhar
Rosenstock Bros
OWE Price Outfitters
Pateok Street
Stendard
Bobley & Bro
Patrick
Pew
Ewwwee Doll Bros
Baturday
Bargezin Price
Se Pr
Coe Thas
Sarardey
Bassin Rice
Loe Yard
C. Thomas Kemp
Carty
Solib Oak
Carty’s Furniture Store
Patrick St. Fred
O. P. Bennett
Walker & Bennett
Frederick
Lowenstein & Wertheimer
Schloss Bros. & Co’s. Merchant Tailoring
North Window
Schloss
C. E. Cline
W.H. B. Etchison
South Market Street
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