Diverse 19th Century News Snippets From Berlin to Scranton
Twenty wealthy Germans plan a round the world trip from Berlin. Joseph Rhodes and his mother drown crossing the Ohio River. C W Seefield operates engine train in Manitoba. Taecherean marks eighteenth episcopal anniversary. New York architectural iron works destroyed by fire, loss under 25000. Den elected director of the French academy. Scranton mines cave in and local Presbyterian church wrecked. Mahdi followers defeated at Sinan by Gerroassis followers. One hundred Frenchmen killed by Chinese uprising on the Kwange Si frontier. Schmidt cracker factory fire leaves two girls reportedly burned.
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Sinan
Geroassis
Kwang Si
Suppressed Berlin paper and global news roundup
A mixed early 20th century digest notes the suppression of the Berlin Volks Zeitung for socialist leanings, a rescue after fifty hours of imprisonment near Ashbury Park, N J, a Belgian statesman’s death aged 83, a Romanian Baltic paper’s fear of Balkan-German ties, and various other items including opium seizure at Port Townsend and a railway workers’ concerns. It also reports on a royal warrant restoring privileges to the Honorable Artillery Company and several crime and disaster notes from Europe and North America.
Explosion at School Sparks Arrests and Casualties
An explosion at a school site Friday killed five and wounded several others. Police reported multiple arrests as investigators search for suspects and motives amid the chaotic scene.
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Zarnch
Amended Dominion Lands Rules To Aid Settlers In Northwest
Manitoba and Northwest MPs and the Interior Minister summarize amendments to the Dominion Lands regulation to ease pre emption cancellations. Settlers can appeal for relief, may take poles and timber for personal use with a 25 cent permit, and second homesteads rules are restricted to 1887 entitlement. Government will adjust upset land values and consider better land offices and public auctions for Northwest settlement.
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Manitoba
Northwest
Dominion Lands
Smith
Wade
Mr. Smith
Benalf
Watson
Ship Bains Hooked Sailor's Fate in New York Trial
An obscure report notes a Liverpool to New York voyage, a crew member named James Nolan being sentenced in New York to hang for a crime tied to a pigotts skull and a dramatic, sensational claim of splendid character and imagination.
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Hatteras Meenth
Corel
Nicholas
Liverpool
New York
Professional Opinion on Captive Remedies Since 1884
A statement praises a remedy as excellent and effective in practice and family use since 1884. It claims the product remains No 1 on a list of captive remedies and notes its three busy benefits, strong and non sting.
Wonder Sty Colonel Quaritch Update Pause
The continuation of the above story has not come to hand as of press time. Capt. Weissman has left Cairo for Zanzibar. General Doulanger's tours are deemed an insult to Republicans by journals condemning his clergy appeal. The Conservative press say the speech will have no wealth influence on conservatives.
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General Doulanger
Immigrant Tensions Rise in London Factories
In London at Us Maaf Bad a wave of German Russian and Polish workers causes bitter complaints over wages and conditions. Reports describe harsh shortages and thefts with cases of kidnaping amid bread and sustenance scarcity.
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London
Look Out for It Pectoral Balsam Ad
An advertisement urges readers troubled by cold or cough to use Hag gard's Pectoral Balsam to break up the cough and prevent the illness from settling on the lungs. The copy emphasizes longening the sneeze? and curing the chest complaint.
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Haggard
Lenten Services Announced With Lectures and Sermon
Lent services will be held in the parish church with Sunday morning worship and Wednesday and Friday sessions. Lectures on the theory and construction of prayer and an evening choral service are scheduled, the sermon topic for next Sunday evening is Temptation.
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Lee
Snodsey
Mortgage Sale Near Summerberry Station
Auction notice for a farm of about six miles north of Summerberry on the CPR line in Township Prairie, 320 acres with 100 acres cleared. Two log houses and two log stables noted. terms available day of sale or from the attorney. Dated March 7, 1689.
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Rey In & Cor
Geo
Vann
Fundies
Wooon
Bee
Eghtown
Canada
Summerberry Station
P. R
Four New States From 1899 Bill Proposal
The president signs a bill creating South Dakota North Dakota Montana and Washington as new states. The St Paul Minneapolis Manitoba Railway runs main lines to Ellandale Aberdeen Heron Watertore and Sioux Pala via routes through St Paul and Minneapolis. The narrative highlights wheat production livestock wealth and opportunities in these territories with rail access to Devil Lake Bottineau and Montana.
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South Dakota
North Dakota
Montana
Washington
Union
Great Prairie State
Peal
Mineapolis & Mantebe
Ellandale
Aberdeen
Heron
Watertore
Sioux Pala
St. Paul
Mineapolis
Manitoba
St. Sul
Minneapolis
Devil's Lake
Flor
Farge
G Forks
Devil
Lake
Bottineau
Paul
Rechy Mountains
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Newsy Notes
Boulanger
Berlin
Joseph Rhodes
Ohio River
St. Charles
Minn
C. W. Seefield
Tlain
Cording Taecherean
Episcopal
Architectural Iron’ Works
Aeanne den
French Academy
Scranton
Presbyterian Church
Schmidt
Berlin Volks Zeitung
Peter Nearshalsky
Black Diamond Collery
Ashbury Park
N. J
Mathieu Nicholas Joseph Leclecq
Flowers
Hollow Rock
Tenn
Borkip
Charkov
Russia
Balkan States
Germany
Vertejde
Oran
Algeria
Port Townsend
W.T
Victoria
B. C
Austria
Servia
Stock Exchange
Department of
Gard
France
Sir Charles Russell
Duke of Cambridge
Honorable
Artillery Company
Alf
Presbytery OF
Regina
Indian Head
John McCaul
Knox
Moose Jaw
Broadview
Urquhart
Presbytery
Saskatchewan
Crawford
C. P. Railway
Manitoba College
Synod Fund
Brandon
Ina
Nicholl
Congregation of
Aing
General Assembly
Toronto Pees
Robson
Hamilton Kay
G. W. Rosa
Judge McLennan
John McKay
Ofing
Dr. Grant
Kingston
Home Mission Committee
MecKitterick
Cut Arm Creek
Halliday
Glenadelaide
Boston Courier
James Nolan
Pigott
Loren
Wonder Sty
Colonel Quaritch
H. Rider Haggard
Capt. Weissman
Cairo
Zanzibar
Elten
Harper's Bazar
Dia
TMCT
Albininoia
Tanie
Washingtoe
Frank Marwoodd
T. Welat
Onder
J. G. McKenzie
Qu'apvelle Station
W. G Vicars
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