Rio de Janeiro sinks off Golden Gate with heavy loss
A San Francisco dispatch reports the Pacific Mail Steamer Rio de Janeiro struck a hidden rock in dense fog near the Golden Gate and sank minutes later. About 150 are feared drowned. Purser John Rooney is missing with the passenger list. ten bodies were recovered. Prominent passenger United States consul Rounseville Wildman is believed drowned with his wife and two children. The ship carried 29 cabin and 58 steerage passengers among others. only 79 were saved. Captain William Ward went down with his vessel.
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San Francisco
Pacific Mail
Rio de Janeiro
Golden Gate
John Rooney
Rounseville Wildman
United States
Hong Kong
Frederick Jordan i
William Ward
Honolulu
Pat Jordan
Point Bonita
Wildmat
Qverland
Wildman
Lettie Aldrich
Stewart
Aldrich
Riosameien
J. Roach
Chester
Pacific Mail Steam: Ship., Company
Oriental Service
Ward
Pacific Mail“ Steamship Company
Drayman Convicted Over Fatal Beating of Horse
An English court jailed a drayman who beat a horse to death claiming self defense after the horse kicked him from its stall. The judge rejected self defense as a defense and fined him 30 shillings or 30 days in jail.
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Cap Ada
Department of Interior
Canada
Bennett
Noy
Omaha
Neb
Wise Druggist Guarantees Cure For Five Dollars
Miss Anfia P Nichols credits Dodd's Kidney Pills with curing years of rheumatism after a druggist offered to cure her for five dollars. She says two boxes helped her sleep well and that ten would guarantee full recovery, with a lasting effect noted two years later.
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Kansas City
Dodd
Miss Nichols
Putetaie
Rebekah Lodge 1. O. O
Dodds Medicine Co
Buffalo
N. Y
Butter making and selling offers steady farm income
A farmer notes that no farm enterprise yields as steady income as producing and selling good butter, highlighting dairy work as the preferred path for reliable earnings.
Trust problem and stomach ailments compared in ad
An earnest moral note likens trust issues to stomach disorders and promotes Fidstetter's Stomach Bitters as a cure for indigestion biliousness and fever related ailments. The pitch urges readers to try the remedy to prevent grippe malaria and ague.
Telegrams Costing 81 64 a Word in French Equatorial Africa
The telegram line from Brazzaville to Loangé Libreville and Stanley Pool now links with Paris. It operated in October with a Brazzaville dispatch and a Paris reply in seventy two hours. Cost is 84 percent francs per word for telegrams.
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Brazzaville
Loangé
Libreville
Stanley Pool
Paris
Hall's Catarrh Cure advertisement and testimonials
A historical advertisement proclaims one hundred dollars reward for catarrh cures and promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure with testimonials from West & Truax and Walding Innna & Marvin in Toledo Ohio. It claims internal action on blood and mucous surfaces and offers free testimonials. Ball's Family Pills are also endorsed.
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Hall
J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
E .J. Cheney
West & Truax
Walding
Innna & Marvin
Ohio
Hal
Ball
Parson's Famous Sons Rise to Fame
Colonel Baden-Powell, a bachelor and son of a clergyman, is cited as a notable example among parsons sons who have become famous, alongside Mr. Cecil Rhodes.
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Parson
Colonel Baden-Powell
Parsons
Cecil Rhodes
Allen's Foot-Case Free Sample Promotion
Readers are urged to write Allen S. Olmsted in Roy, New York for a free sample of Allen's Foot-Case powder. The product is claimed to ease sweating damp swollen feet and to help with tight shoes and chilblains. The notice ends with a quip about people who burn their bridges.
The Best Hugh Tex Garfield Tea Claims No Harmful Drugs
An excerpt touts The Best Hugh Tex Garfield Tea as free of harmful drugs and the best blood purifier known to medical science. A stray line ends with a woman sharpening pencils while preparing her potato for something unspecified.
Cure a Cold in One Day Promises and Potent Tonics
An assortment of old patent remedies promises swift cures for colds and flu like La Grippe and consumption with quack claims. Ads tout Laxative Bone Quinine Parleys and Bells Wizard Oil with money back guarantees. The text mocks medical overconfidence and includes cautionary quips about slips of the tongue and personal flaws.
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Grovers
Gas by Penny in the Slot System in London
The penny in the slot gas distribution method for London’s poorer districts proves successful and now electric light is being trialed similarly. Battersea vestry has built a large generator station and laid cables. Fixtures are provided free to customers who pay only for electricity consumed.
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London
Battersea
Foot-Ease advert boosts comfort for weary feet
Don’t Get footsore Get FOOT-EASE a powder cures swollen smarting burning sweating feet corns and bunions Age for Allen’s Foot-Ease a powder Cures Frost bites and Chilblains At all Druggists and Shoe Stores 25c Sample sent FREE Address Allen S Olmsted LeRoy N Y
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Allen
Allen, S
Olmsted
Leroy,n
Be Sad Becomingly in New York Times Style
A mournful woman attends a horse show daily, always stylish and poised. The piece notes that if sadness is needed in youth, it should be worn becomingly, echoing a quoted line from the New York Times.
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New York Times
Onova Tablets Promoted by Hida Drug Co
A local advertisement touts Onova tablets from Hida Drug Co Elgin to cure urinary system ailments with internal use injection Bermad 88 or two for a price. It lists retail and wholesale outlets J R Hurlbut Co Des Moines Iowa Rige's Pharmacy Lincoln Myers Drug Co Omaha Nebraska and notes a witty remark about short sermons awakening Christians.
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Hida Drug Co
Elgin
J. R. Hurlbut Co
Des Moines
Iowa
Rige’s
Pharmacy
O Street
Lingoly
Myers Drug Cou
Omaha
Neb
Putnam Faceless Dyes Offer Easy Dyeing Method
Boiling goods in Putnam Faceless Dyes is presented as an experience free dyeing method. The ad-like passage also claims Garfield Tea as a universal liver remedy and ties high living to champagne.
Help for Women Ta tilt by Hearsay Remedies
Help for women troubled by tiredness and womb-related pain is promoted with Mrs Ena Rice of Chelsea Wisconsin cited. Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound is claimed to cure bearing down headaches backache and malaise after medical advice and use. Mrs Pinkham is described as the most experienced advisor for women's health.
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Ena , Rice
Chelsea
Wis
Lydia
Pinkham
Mrs. Pinkham
Lynn
Masa
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Wizzard
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Node
Beemum
Jacobs Oil
Kiaa Rice
Eee An
Dick T. N.organ
Perry
C. T
Soliander S Three Guarantees
H. Gregory & Son
Marblehead
Waxy
Atvor A
Jos
Karehling
Congress St
St Louis
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Ting
Oliver
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Cabroa
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