Turbulent week in world events and accidents
A wide array of incidents dominates the week including a nationwide telegraph strike split across major cities with executives condemned for treachery. rail and sea disasters kill and injure passengers. notable deaths include Campbell Slemp and Emperor Franz Josef. fires, legal cases, and political shifts fill the docket with both domestic and foreign items.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
America
S. J. Small
National Union
Western Union
Norfolk & Western
Montvale
Arthur Onweller
Lyons
Morenci
Mich
Ed Barrett
Peoria
Solomon Frank
Gloversville
N. Y
Campbell Slemp
Congress
Ninth
Virginia
Cyprus
Lake Superior
Deer Park
Willard Scott
Piedmont Church
Worcester
Mass
James M. Sutton
United States Marine Corps
Annapolis
Isenbolgi
Austria
Iivfo Rojan
Bravos
Juarez
Seminary of the Ladies of the Sacred Heart
Chicago
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Szechenyi
Madison
Webb Lyck
Fairview
Pikeville
Karl Liebknecht
Reichstag
Germany
Anton Tupp
Carlsbad
New Hampshire State Board of Railway Commissioners
Canaan
Boston & Maine Road
A Real Hoss Race At The Country Fair
A vivid excerpt from The Country Fair by David Lansing describes a flea-bitten gray horse at a country fair race. The horse is heavily strapped and harnessed in awkward rigging as onlookers joke about the excessive gear and the driver’s challenge of getting the animal unraveled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Martin
John
David Lansing
Cure for severe infant skin sores with Cuticura
Mrs Egbert Sheldon of Woodville Conn describes her year and a half old son suffering from sores that covered his body and nearly left him skeletal. After using Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment for two months the child fully recovered and remained free of sores.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Egbert Sheldon
Woodville, Conn
Humorous Anecdotes From A Canvasser and A Rome Visitor
A canvasser pitches a cyclopedia to a colonel who deflects by noting his sons ride mules. A visitor from Rome praises churches and cites cigarrophagusses and the Sixteen chapel, then jokes about beggar pennies to avoid a bad prestige.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Malaprop
Rome
Europe
Comrox Chats About Daughter's Commencement Essay
In a light exchange Mr Comrox recalls his daughter’s June commencement essay. He notes enthusiasm for a lofty topic while hinting she favors simple pleasures like ice cream soda. The remark playfully contrasts ambition and everyday interests.
Fifteen Years of Kidney Trouble Cured by Dean’s Pills
Mrs Margaret Emmerich of Clintonby Napoleon Ohio details ten years of disability from kidney disease. She describes back pain, vision problems, dizziness, and inability to work until Deans Kidney Pills provided relief and lasting cure. Sold by all dealers 50 cents a box Foster Millburn Co Buffalo NY.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Margaret Emmerich
Clintonby
Napoleon
Dean
Foster-Millburn Co
Buffalo
N. Y
Russian Revolutionaries Use Girls to Win Soldiers
A young woman recalls how revolutionists target the army by talking freedom to soldiers. She notes girls are more effective with peasant troops, meeting in workers’ halls and barracks, where risk is extreme as a girl caught can face court martial and execution.
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Samuel A. Ballard
Boonela
Claudia Bodey Money
Mississippi
H. D. Money
Beauvoir
Miss
St. Louis
Chicago Nationals
Placer
Lender
Wryo
T. L
J. F. Greenough
Francis Joseph of
Austria
Los Angeles
Cal
Santa Fe Railway Company
Bonansinga
Quincy
Lil
Mattoon
Maxwell J. H. Walenta
German Reformed Church of
Brooklyn
Louis A. Bauer
Walenta
Texas Guinan
Simon” Theatrical Company
Gallipolis
Roosevelt
Newellton
Bacon
Charles River
Boston
H. B. Howard
Hartwell
Cincinnati
Fred Pabst
Lake Shore
St. Clair
Henri Rochefort
Interanssigeant
Patrie
Celebes
John D. Rockefeller
Harper Memorial Library
University of Chicago
Posse
Gotho Spira
London
Thomases
Clermont-Ferrand
France
Pennsylvania
Bourbon
Ind
Charles H. Nichols
Chicago
Lillian A. Kinsella
Salem
Mass
Clifford W. Hartridge
Harry K. Thaw
New York
Arthur Herbert Osborn
Helen Maloney
Samuel Clarkson
England
Montreal
David Todd
Chile
United States
Mars
R. 1D. Evans
San Francisco
Southern Pine Line Company
P S. Traino
Frank B Kellogg
Standard Oil Company
Trainor
Lusitania
Russia
Leroy Scott
Man Whose Memory Was Poor in Court
A defense witness dodged questions for over an hour about a four or five year old event. The plaintiff’s lawyer pressed memory recollections while the witness admitted difficulty recalling exact thoughts from the time.
Willing Hands in Pittsburg Stock Speculator Mystery
A Pittsburg story tells of a young ex stock broker who lost thousands in spring speculation. He awoke to a hoarse warning in the night seeking money, and he quipped that he would rise to help search for light. The tale circulates as a curious survivor from speculative excess.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburg
Harper’s Weekly
Well Qualified Circus Ad Vance Agent Applicant
A humorous exchange shows an applicant eager for the ad vance job at the circus claiming he can stir up life everywhere. He boasts experience driving a street sweeper and stirring up millions of germs daily.
Historic Remedy Note on Stopping Bleeding
A historical fragment explains treating wounds by binding with cobwebs and brown sugar pressed on as lint or tea dust, followed by applying laudanum after the bleeding stops. It reflects period medical practices and home remedies for injury care.
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Pol
Ton
Illinois
Republic
John Mitchell
United States Mine Workers
Iola
Kan
Miss May Sapp
H. D. Reynolds Bank
Valdez
Alaska
Tensas
Kutais
Arthur E. Fowler
Mulai Hafid
Morocco
Fez
Abd-El-Aziz
United States Revenue
H. C. Moorman
John W. Myers
The
Toledo
Edwin M. Watson
Mount Holly
Thomas Ek
Leadon
Collis P. Stuntington
Cuyahoga River
Nickel Plate Railway
Walcotville
Howard Roy
Charles Craft
Charles J. Romadka
Milwaukee
Michael Cronin
McKinley
Union Bank of
Bowman Bank of
Kalamazoo
Union Bank
Idiev
Kruglikoff
Boris Nikitenko
Rudyard Kipling
Victoria
B. C
Canada
Cassie Chadwick
Oberlin
Womens Ward
Ohio Penitentiary
John C. Breckinridge
Abraham Lincoln
New York City
Enmiho Sanchez
Cunha
Magoon
Cutiura
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