Nickel Plate Pan-American Exposition Tickets on Sale
Account Illinois Day at Buffalo Pan-American exposition via Nickel Plate Road offers coach travel with Sept 44 and 18 sales, return through Sept 22, thirty-three daily trains Chicago to New York Boston service, sleeping-car upgrades, John Y. Calahan listed as general agent at 111 Adams Chicago. Also note Washington workforce female share and salaries, and a gas burner invention to blow out gas safely at a New York hospital.
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Illinois
Buffalo
Nickel Plate Road
John Y. Calahan
Adams Street
Chicago
Openings for Aristocracy in Indian Cadet Corps
A tentative plan to create an Imperial cadet corps drawing twenty noble sons from Ajmere Lahore Rajkot and Indore four chiefs colleges. They will undergo two years cold weather training and may receive staff assignments or other military posts under royal oversight. The project has the broad support of Edward VII.
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India
Ajmere
Lahore
Rajkot
Indore
Imperial Cadet Corps
Edward VII
New York
Pain Balm Saves Loogootee Man From Cripple
Josh Westhafer of Loogootee Indiana credits Chamberlain's Pain Balm with saving him from being a cripple and says he would pay five dollars a bottle for it. The ointment is praised for stiff joints sprains contracted muscles sore neck rheumatic and muscular pains and even partial paralysis. Sold by George H Harris Schnitzus Pharmacy Austin Avenue Pharmacy Oak Park.
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Josh Westhafer
Loogootee
Ind
Chamberlain
George H. Harris
North 48Th ‘Avenue
Schnitzus
Austin Avenue
Oak Park
Granite Pavements of Boston
Boston streets use granite blocks on concrete with pebbles and grout. Joints once pitched now filled with cement and sand that hardens like stone. Surface expected to last for decades.
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Boston
Sandals in Demand Sweep Private Buyers Worldwide
The Manchester Courier notes a sandal boom with a single firm reporting 12,000 pairs sold in eight weeks to private individuals rather than wholesale houses. Adults and children alike crave sandals and seaside towns are expected to see pilgrims in sandals soon.
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Manchester Courier
Casey at the Bat and Oxford boating reverie mingle
The piece blends a dramatic ballad style recounting Casey at the Bat with a vivid Oxford rowing scene. It juxtaposes the famous baseball moment’s crowd reaction and Casey’s strikeout with reflective notes on Oxford’s river life, boating, and the sport culture surrounding it.
The Mountain Devil and the Masai Encounter
Sir Henry Johnston with 100 Zanzibars fought a larger Masai force in East Africa. As hope faded, he used a box of Tom Smith’s crackers to signal a night display, causing the Masai to flee in superstition, while his men held on with renewed resolve.
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East Africa
Sir Henry Johnston
London
Native bulls for hauling carts in the Philippines lead to efficiency
Maj. R. R. Stevens endorses the carabao for transport in Luzon with carts and drivers costing 1.50 to 2 dollars daily. Eagles and trotting bulls speed up beef and vegetable supply while the chief surgeon cautions against enlistment of youths under 21 due to typhoid risk. Capt Cruse notes clothing sizes shift for American soldiers in tropical conditions. The article ends remarking that many fail to remember the poor.
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Maj
R. R. Stevens
Philippines
Luzon
Tropics
Thomas Cruse
Manila
United States
Chicago News
Wonderful Flowers That Kill Flies in Ohio Yard
A Massillon Ohio railway yard receives bouquets said to kill flies. In Hall’s office the flowers caused nearby flies to die on contact and attracted even more insects as rooms were opened. Trainmen report others placed in rooms with similar results. The plant grows in a sandy gravel pit near Maszillon and resembles a pale yellow lilac.
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Massillon, O
Cleveland, Lorain and Wheeling Railway Company
Maszillon
Responsible Care of Children
The family where the parents through idleness or indifference or self indulgence or vice neglect to protect educate or train the children committed to their care and the children following such examples prove unfilial and undutiful is wrecked as to its present happiness and future welfare.
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Pennsylvania
World facts and quirky stats from a bygone era
A collage of curiosities notes global production and trade data, such as borax output, watches from Switzerland, and the rise of Utah’s factories, plus social tidbits like Boston’s cat rescue figures and debates on smoking in French and Belgian public spaces. It also mentions historic events from Paris siege balloons to Prohibition-era illicit still raids.
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Boston
Animal Rescue League
Switzerland
Utah
Tunis
Mysore
India
Liverpool
Manchester
England
Bombay
Paris
Portugal
Georgia
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H. G. Goelitz
North Boulevard
Ilinois
Berwyn
Rassmussen
N. 48Th Avenue
John Hemwaill
North 48Th Ave
Harry F. Brown
North Forty-Eighth Avenue
the Anderson Restaurant
N. 48Th Ave
Charles
Uncle Sam
Washington, D. C
Binghamton
N. Y.) State Hospital For
Tidlan Cadata
Casey AT the Bat
Requorxt
Cooney
Burrows
Casey
Flynn
Blake
Lynn
Blakey
Eyns
Caspy
Phinney
Thayer
Oxford
Salter
Jock
the Mountain Devil
Thousimus
Evho
Wraud
The
Boya
Garfield Bedding Co
North 48Th Avenue
M. Kr.avitsky
Ont
TEL. W
WM. Wilken
Ashland Avenue
Chicago & Western Indiana
Ry and
Belt By. of
A. Tennyson
Park Ave
Ontario St
Telephone
Austin
Austin, Ill
Conrad Kampp
C. Kampp . Son
North Park Avenue
Austin 17
ROB
I. Ward
Narness
Lake 5 St
Park Avenue
Ohio
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