Fever concerns and nurse influx in Memphis July reports
Memphis fever inquiries show multiple possible malarial or yellow fever types with no new cases. relief groups report modest progress. Four yellow fever deaths and a government tent setup near the Paducah line are noted, while the Howard association lines show nurses briefly needed then not.
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Jowards
Brooklyn
Mearius
Paducah
Howard Association
B. E. Uellender
John Loeckard
B. Miller
Nentette Taylor
Board of Health
Ben Tolan
Aemphis
Knoxville
Louisville
Nashville
Loward Association
Floods Hit Belgium and Rhine Valley Causing Losses
Widespread floods sweep Belgium and the Rhine valley trigger heavy property damage. Floodwaters inundate towns and villages, disrupting transport and prompting emergency responses from local authorities.
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Rhine
Proberty
War news and assorted incidents from July reports
July dispatches cover Cetewayo and Zululand warfare with Ulundi notes and casualty estimates. U.S. police and court items report Skeeters arrest for murder, Betty Kidwell suicide, Miss Hinkley and Curie deaths, and others. Mississippi and Louisiana notes flag emigration, agriculture, quarantine, fire losses, and a lake steamer tragedy with deaths.
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Mlenting County
Betty Kidwell
Michigan Center
Jackson
Cora Hinkley
Curie
Privon
Drummer’s Narrow Escape From Deep Shaft Near Lone Elm
A Joplin laborer, chasing a cheating tradesman, slipped into an abandoned mine shaft near Lone Elm. He clung to a landing board for hours, recalling lies told while selling goods, praying as darkness and cold pressed in, then fell eighteen inches to a sample case and was aided by miners at dawn.
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Darien canal project gains American support claim
De Lesseps asserts U S backing for the Darien canal scheme. A church order in Home Iowa will create two bishoprics, forming eastern and western dioceses. An insubordination at West Point leads to six cadets dismissed after a recent blitz. A duel near Columbia Mississippi leaves one shot fired with no injuries.
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Iowa
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Epidemic and violence plague Franklin Kentucky region with crimes and accidents
A July roundup reports 1023 prisoners at the pen 463 white 560 black an epidemic flux strikes Franklin. Drownings shootings stabbings casualties and accidents scatter across town including Lowell Gordon’s death in a well and George Finn’s knife wound to Charles Price. Rail expansion talk and a fatal boiler accident also appear alongside a suicide and a near miss at Shepardsville.
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Shepardeville
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Elizabethtown
Rogers & Bastian
Carlisle
Nicholas County
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J. W. Summers
Three Forks
Waren County
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Lumy
Lylea
Lyles
John Wells
Stabbert
St. Louis
St. Charles
Quirky Street Life and Local Notices in a Paper Fragment
The piece surveys street music by banda bands and local gossip about neighbors. It notes fashion prices from parasols to hats and jokes about widows and marriages, ending with a stray marriage notice and a clerical observation.
Grrex’s Aves I LOWER Cures Indigestion Claims
An old medical advertisement extols Grrex's Aves I LOWER as a cure for dyspepsia liver complaints and indigestion. It states millions were given away as trials, promises relief after two doses, and offers a 10 cent sample pot with regular size priced at 75 cents, sold by druggists nationwide.
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Pierce
Miles
Grrex
United States
Local Folklore and Odd Claims Spark Debate
A quizzical note cites a hairless man over nine who lacks color, while Pompeii bread hints at souring loaves and heavy baking. It also mentions Baton Rouge as a likely bank hub and mocks bankers seeking others’ funds. The Advocate weighs in on regional finance.
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Pompeii
Personal medical consultation offer from Philadelphia dispensary
Advertises $1 per bottle delivered and written inquiry service. Applicants must provide full personal details including name, address, age, sex, occupation, marital status, height and weight, health status, illness duration, and a frank description of their case. Enclose one dollar and address to A E Fetters at Dispensatory Philadelphia.
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