Canadian Yukon Mineral Tax Lands Government Profit
In SF dispatches within the last year Canada has taken more than 2.5 million dollars from Yukon miners. Police and district official costs total around 400 thousand, leaving a net annual gain to the government of over 2 million. The largest share is the royalty, conservatively estimated at 200 thousand.
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Great Britain
United States
France
San Francisco
Yukon
Mounted
Dawson
Great Western Railway Reports Major Track Reforms and Freight Gains
Great Western plans to cut grades to 2 6 feet per mile, widen banks, and strengthen bridges, improving engine loads from 700 to 1 000 tons. By 1898 permanent ways and ballast were advancing, with 308 173 dollars spent on bridges and extensive track work underway. Freight earnings per mile surpassed rivals in 1897 1898, led by the Great Western.
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Great Western
Stickney
Buckney
Granger Lines
Great ‘Western
Chicago Great Western
Chicago
St. Paul
Minnipais
Omaha
Chicago & Northwestern
Rock Island & Pacific
Chicago & Alton
Milwaukiest
Young couple seeks license in wary exchange
A license clerk asks if either has been married before. The blushful candidate отвечает Naw and adds that her father believes Tam may also have prior marriages.
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Paw
Tam
Land Sale Offers Hope After War in Marinette County
In the postwar period readers are urged to secure homes now before prices rise. Marinette County Wisconsin offers prime farming land on the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway with strong markets for crops and easy access. C E Rollins Immigration Agent 161 La Salle Street Chicago will supply full information. A humorous exchange about youth and aging closes the piece.
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Marinette County
Wisconsin
Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
C. E. Rollins
la Salle Street
Chicago
That reminds me of something said by the grizzled veteran
A grizzled veteran prompts a listener to ask which war, sparking a brief exchange about past conflicts and memory. The dialogue hints at wartime recollections and the crowd’s curiosity about historical events.
Isacon Halls Catarrh Care Stitutional Care
A Kansas paper notes remarks on attire and manners amid tokens of social change. It mentions professional etiquette restraining French officials from certain travel, and includes a Sheridan quote on measuring life by deeds.
Destruction Power of the New 16 Inch Coast Gun
The article explains the 16 inch Watervliet coast defense gun could pierce heavy armor, punch holes through the Vizcaya, and unleash 2,200 to 2,300 pound shells into machinery and magazines. It cites test data comparing Krupp versus American capability, notes muzzle speed near 1,975 feet per second and 64,084 foot tons of energy, and describes armor thickness and ship structure relevant to penetration. It also discusses related 13 inch guns aboard the Indiana and Oregon and outlines the lengthy, precise gun-building process and six month timelines for components.
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The
New York Journal
Watervilet Arsenal
Vizcaya
Krupp
Spain
Prinary Range
Indiana
Oregon
Rich but not happy Mrs Midas laments empty luxury
Mrs Midas admires costly furs and a French gown yet confesses dullness in wealth. She envies a cheerful couple she spies in the park and tearfully laments missing the old, carefree days with Tom, realizing her life with Mr Midas feels empty.
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Tom
Over-curious, Wise, and a Wide-Ranging Current Mix
A collage of curiosities from public life and science. Notes include Gladstone’s funeral cost at 11 000, envelopes dating to 1839, Mexico’s fifty events since 1821, sea foam from seaweed, Lincoln New Jersey’s women council, a Toronto dentist aiding poor children, polar fox color shifts, a Cape Grisnez electric beacon of 3 000 000 candle power, women steering Chillicothe transport with conductor hats, and 144 gold crosses awarded by Empress Augusta to long-serving German maids.
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Massinger
Gladstone
Mexico
Lincoln
N. J
Toronto
Xteen
Cape Grisnez
Dover
Chillicothe
Ohio
Augusta
Married life advice from Fuller on choosing a wife
A fragmentary exchange features a young doctor praising his work while an older physician advises never forgetting to show annoyance in professional calls. Fuller adds a domestic maxim urging in marriage to marry the daughter of a good mother.
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Fuller
Business Women Study Says Wives and Employers Benefit
A commentator from the Anaconda Standard argues women in business bring empathy and restraint to marriage and work. The observer says such wives understand the boss’s pressures, earning respect, sympathy, and less friction at home. The piece portrays wage earners as focused and diligent, suggesting shared dedication improves household and business dynamics.
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Ter
Late Suppers and Ancient Dining Habits
The article argues that traditional late suppers and bedtimes do not prove supper is healthy. It notes ancestors dined at 11 and slept after 10, yet modern late meals before bed may hinder digestion and sleep. It cautions against full stomachs at bedtime and describes potential distress as digestion progresses.
Mystery on River Bridge Solved By Cable Fishing
A man in a small boat below the steel bridge attracted attention as he fished in rough weather. Authorities confirmed the activity involved a wire cable stretched from one riverbank to the other, used for fishing rather than any hidden purpose.
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Cathornia Fio Synur Co
Cativonxia Fio Srror Co
Built-up guns show American differences from Armstrong types
An article explains the construction of naval and coast defense guns, comparing American built-up designs from Arm strong and Watervliet arsenal. It details the forged steel inner tube, jacket, and hoops, noting longer American hoops provide greater girder strength and describing the shrinkage fit and hook arrangement. The piece also mentions a river fisherman who uses many hooks to catch fish, highlighting local newspaper variety.
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Spain
Armstrong
Watervliet
Costly Battleship Implacable to Cost Over Five Million
The new British battleship Implacable is to cost over 5 million dollars, the largest sum ever spent on a warship. Armor plates alone will total about 750 thousand dollars and weapons costs will be nearly as much.
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Hobson
Cervera
Cristobal Colon
Spain
Italy
Garibaldi
Sampson
Navy Department
Infanta Maria Teresa
Guantanamo
Novel output in Great Britain rises above 1896 levels
The Publishers' Circular reports British novel production last year reached 2,677, higher than 1896. The note adds a quip on Cupid and Boston maids, reflecting period humor about romantic pursuits and garden weapons.
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Great Britain
Woman argues business rewards via practical approach
A woman asserts that practical business methods pay off in domestic comfort and success. She contends that seductive sales tactics and early departures by men to entertain undermine business interests, and insists sound business practices benefit both sexes and the enterprise overall.
Marriage timelines quip from Puck issue
A humorous quip notes differing marriage timelines. Sult Work jokes about marrying a wife a month after consent, Brown retorts he wed three days after she refused him.
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Jones
Brown
Puck
Ironical IFS and social quips from Chicago News
A compact collection of wry proverbs and ironies from the Chicago News includes lines on failure and success, appearances and aging, mercy and mice, and a jab at ambition to become a prominent citizen by relocating to a country town.
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Chicago News
Kline's Great Nerve Ilestoren Trial Item Shoes
Rend for river 972.00 trial bottle and Trenton DaAWSL Ruiser Lededst Arch St Philadelphia Pa shoes. Intended ogs are made and sold in London. They are of chamois with light leather soles. They are only worn indoors and are to protect polished floors from scratches.
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I Kline
Ilestoren
Rend
River
Trenton
Arch St
Pandelphia
Pat
London
Fragmentary Notes From Island Diet and a Brooklyn Death Attempt
The text references Ladrones food staples bread fruits and cocoa nuts with a claim one cocoa nut tree can feed a man. It also mentions a Brooklyn mother Annie Mucborn attempting suicide by swallowing her wedding ring. The passage is fragmentary and includes garbled phrases about cough and teething.
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Annie Mucborn
Brooklyn, N.Y
Mother of
Sin
Wave OS Pays Mails Subsidies to Steamship Lines
Wave OS allocates over £4,000,000 annually to steamship lines for mail carriage and about $4,000,000 in general subsidies. The figures reflect substantial government and service payments amid broad subsidy programs.
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C. C. Rivey
Baltimore & Ohio South Western Railway
Riley
Isacon
Hall
Price
Kansas
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Samuel
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