Does a Pretty Woman Become Accustomed to Stares
A New York Star observer describes a Brooklyn streetcar scene where a beautiful woman in mourning attracts the gaze of male riders. Her glance shifts from door to signs to ads until a disabled boy prompts a sympathetic smile, yet the crowd continues staring. The piece ends posing whether she has grown used to such public eye worship.
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New York Star
Franklin Av
Brooklyn
Broadway
DeKalbay
Sou Nomena
Blood feud erupts near Cropwell Alabama
A long simmering feud between the Fonzo and Hancock families and George Norgher exploded on the 3rd. Fonzo shot at Norgher but missed. Later Powell Hancock and five men fired on Norgher House. Hancock was killed on the fourth shot. Brothers and supporters vow to pursue Norgher, raising the prospect of further violence in the community.
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Cropwell
St. Clair County
Ala
Fonto
Powell Hancock
George Norgher
Fonzo
Norgher
RorEnEe House
Hancock
Pring Pale
Lynching Fears Rise After Mystery Slaying Near Columbia
Florence Hornsby, 15, was found dead near Columbia. Date Hagood, 18, arrested as the first to raise the alarm and locate the body. Anxious crowds tried to lynch Hagood but he was taken to jail after a knife he had was surrendered. Local residents remain highly agitated.
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Florence Hornsby
Columbia
D. C
Hagood
Golden Medical Discovery Promises Blood Purity Remedy
An advertisement touts Dr. Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery as superior to other purifiers. It guarantees a refund if it fails to benefit or cure and claims to cleanse the liver and blood from poisons. It lists ailments like dyspepsia biliousness scrofula salt rheum and other taints as responsive to the remedy.
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Dr. Pierce
Wells Elevator Fire Strikes Buffalo Dock District
A major blaze destroyed the Wells elevator at Ohio and Indiana streets in Buffalo, with losses around 200000 dollars. The fire spread to adjacent buildings and threatened ships, saloons, and tenements as crews fought back with water and steam to prevent wider damage.
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Bar
Wells
Buffalo
Wilkesan
Wella
Ohio Street
John C. Gault
Lake Erie
Riter
Mississippi Street
Ohio
Indiana Streets
Kite C. J. Wella
American Glucose Company
Mozart and Beethoven Tale of Court Improv at Vienna
A youthful Beethoven visits the Austrian court with letters but meets the emperor through a barber. Believing the barber to be a case of misidentification, he later learns the barber is actually the emperor. The king tests his skill at the piano and Beethoven improvises brilliantly, earning the emperor’s approval.
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Beethoven
Mozart
Iire
Louis Engel
Ludwig Beethoven
Joseph
Argarten
Monirt
Hetl
Ejectment Suit Over Dearborn Park Land in Chicago
David W. Kean sues the city of Chicago Soldiers' Home and others in the Chicago circuit court claiming title to Dearborn park near the lake front bounded by Michigan Avenue Washington and Randolph streets. Kean argues the city lacks title and presents Valentine scrip history as basis for ownership and a future Supreme Court challenge.
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Chicago
David W. Kean
City of
Kean
Melaid
Valentine
California
United States
Mgr
David W.kean
Dearborn Park
Supri
Opie Read Discusses Finishing The Kentucky Colonel
Opie Read, famed Arkansas traveler, is toasted at the Grand Pacific for completing his novel A Kentucky Colonel. He compares finishing the book to parting from old friends who walked with him through every scene and thought during creation.
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Opie
Chicago
Grand Pacific Hotel
Read
Chad
Ag & Man
Arkansas
Policies Cancelled for Mutual Insurance Company
Peter Barth and Joseph R Rundle petitioned Milwaukee on January 6 for the appointment of Thomas L Fennan as receiver of Manufacturers Mutual Insurance Company. The company formed February 1886 on a mutual basis but in spring 1889 sustained losses totaling $30,000 crippling the firm. The court orders cancellation of about 2300 outstanding policies with face value near $2.5 million and lists assets and liabilities including premiums, uncollected sums, and disputed losses totaling about $56,000.
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Peter Barth
Joseph R. Rundle
Milwaukee
Wig
Johnson
Thomas L. Fennan
Manufacturers’ Mutual Insurance Company
United States
Editorial on Healing Methods and Medical Quackery
A wide editorial contrasts regular physicians with homeopaths faith healers and patent medicine touts. It argues that a knowledgeable physician is better than one with little understanding and cites letters praising Warner's Safe Cure and Dr Bull's Cough Syrup as examples influencing local communities.
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Connc Cior
Rochester Morning Herald
Warner
Bright
F. Shriner
Alitor Sainte Gazette
Chillicothe
Ohio
Jimedv
Syrup of Figs Ad Text Claims Health Benefits
An OCR fragment touts Syrup of Figs as a laxative and purifier from California ingredients. It claims benefits for the kidneys liver and bowels and promises cleansing the system, dispelling colds and acne, and curing habitual constipation.
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Californie
Untitled Patent Remedy Advertised With Certainty
An old text promotes a tonic called Howets tory Stowmuich Bitters as a cure all. It claims relief from hyperpain and various bodily ailments like rheumatism and kidney complaints, presenting it as a proven remedy despite generic and unclear language.
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Mmyluyias
Stowmuich
Unclear Medical Brands Mentioned in Patient Recollection
The note lists medicines such as Cantera Castorin Castorh and CNM during illness and crying episodes. It appears to be a fragmentary, phonetic transcription of drug names connected to a child named Haley and her symptoms.
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Haley
Castorin
Cantorin
Ice wagon jokes rise amid high ice prices
A fragment notes satirical quips about ice prices and ice wagons appearing in nearly every paper, reflecting humorous responses to the cost of ice.
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Texas
Temperance supply by George Benn and Sons from St Paul
An advertisement from George Benn & Sone of St Paul Minnesota proclaims the Original Package business is replaced by direct temperance liquor supply. The firm promises high standing and easy mail delivery with prices on request.
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St. Paul
George Benn & Sone
Minn
Kansas City Forger Rollins Tingham Elopes On Short Journey
Rollins Tingham left Kansas City on the 2d inst eyed for a brief trip. He is believed to have forged debts on his stepmother Mrs. Gen George C Bingham s estate amounting to about 25000. He was treasurer of the Consolidated Missouri Mining and Manufactiving company and spent proceeds on Merrill process experiments to extract gold from tine sand. He was a well known figure in Kansas City, former captain in the third regiment with political ties. his father Gen George C Bingham had served as state treasurer and a general. Her death occurred Sept 20 and her lawyer disinherited the stepson a month earlier.
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Rollins Tingham
Kansas City
Rainsfer
Stepe Morher
George C. Bingham
Binghami
Consolidated Missouri Mining, and Manufactiving Company
Merrill
George CG. Bingham
Gam Ble
Maron
Bingham
Vaneyain
Turn Your's Compaxiox Prompts Readers with Sale Pitch
A clipped reader note markets a weekly publication, touting a large Pron tua of Turn Your's Compaxiox. It claims 450 000 families read it and urges subscriptions at one dollar for a Monday issue.
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Don
Hoatou
White Beaver Opens St Paul Office For Women Led Venture
Dn Faixe Powrn also known as White Beaver will establish a new office in St Paul aimed at women led initiatives. The move signals a targeted effort to support female entrepreneurship and community programs in the area.
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White Beaver
St. Paul
Nexteden
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