Train wreck scatters cars into embankment near Exline
A Chicago Burlington and Kansas City passenger train derailed two miles east of Exline Iowa on October 24 after a rail tilting left track bed soft. The entire train overturned into a forty foot embankment. about thirty passengers were aboard with three fatally injured and five badly hurt. Engineers and crew escaped. Exline's lines were down delaying full reports.
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Chicago, Burlington
Kansas City
Hxline
Moulton
M. Ong
Carrolton
Ji. C. Scovern
Exline
Appanoise
Ottumwa
Standard boxcar dimensions adopted by American railway association
The American Railway Association approves a standard boxcar size of 36 feet long 8 feet 6 inches wide and 8 feet high after a two and a half year study by the standard dimensions committee. The action seen as the meeting's most important move.
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St. Louis
United States
Canada
Mexico
American Railway
Czolgosz to be Electrocuted at Auburn Prison
An Albany dispatch reports Leon F. Czolgosz condemned for the murder of President McKinley will be electrocuted at 7:00 a.m. on Tuesday October 29 at Auburn prison.
Boers Cause Effort Fails. Delta Upsilon in Session
Fragmentary notes report failed efforts to interest Russia in the Boers cause. Delta Upsilon members convene as Nebraska U hosts in Providence and the University of Washington. George Danielson, arriving from Dawson, is held on embezzlement charges. Alexander Bright is killed by Guy Bright on their farm amid a quarrel. Sbarretti of Havana has word from Rome that the pope will appoint him apostolic delegate to the Philippines and he heads to Rome then Manila on January 1.
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Delta. Upsilon Fraternity
Philippines
Rome
Manila
Horseshoe Grown Solidly in Tree Limb Displayed
A horseshoe formed solidly in the center of a tree limb, thickly enveloped by wood. Only two casks visible. Presented last week by Judge Stone to Mr. John A Tyrrell and currently in his possession. The limb stood fifty feet above ground. Louisville Commercial.
Blind Women Typewriters Feature in Treasury Work
A description highlights blind women typists as a notable part of the U S treasury department. It claims their work equals that of top operators. The item also promotes a patent remedy for menstrual regularity and includes misleading drug advertisement.
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United States Treasury Department
Japan's Export and Import Trade Totals in 19th Century Figures
The record notes Japan's export and import trade totals. figures cited include 26,246,545 yen or silver dollars and a 1890 total of 435,331,820 yen. The OCR fragment presents incomplete phrasing but anchors the historical trade value in yen amounts.
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Japan
Yellowed clothes to white with Red Cross Ball Blue
Ad promotes Red Cross Ball Blue to brighten yellowed clothes, 2 oz pack at five cents. Mentions various anecdotes about self cures and cautions about fools. Also cites free dropsy treatment by Dr. H H Green's Sons of Atlanta and a quip about jumping overboard.
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H. H. Green
Hall's Catarrh Cure Claims Deafness Cure All
Advertisement asserts deafness stems from inflamed mucus lining of the Eustachian tube and claims Hall's Catarrh Cure can restore it. It offers one hundred dollars for a catarrh deafness case it cannot cure, and promotes circulars and Hall’s Family Pills.
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Hall
Toledo
Dengarius Tac
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