Prize Bicycle Contest Advertises New York Star
A promotional contest offers a daily high grade bicycle for the largest word list formed from letters in The New York Star. Prizes include two watches and other rewards. subscribers must send 12 two cent stamps for a thirteen week trial. Open June 26 to August 21, 1899. prints winners in the Star. Also notes rapid rail service from Kansas City to Portland and travel details for tourists.
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New York Star
New_York Star
Gold Ledges Spur Nez Perces Settlement boom
Nearby Nez Perces country opens to settlement and mining after decades of isolation. Reports describe rich auriferous quartz ledges near the Buffalo Range and connected by the Northern Pacific railroad, with miners hopeful of great discoveries as transportation improves.
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Washington
Clearwater
Salmon
Nez Perces
Northern Pacific
Lewiston
Spokane
Buffalo Hamp
The Trip Economical Explains a Chicago Couple’s Journey
Will B. Hunter reviews a concise travel sketch from the Chicago Times-Herald about a couple who found affordable ways to travel and what they experienced. The piece promotes a little book available through F. M Byron, the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway Co’s general western agent in Chicago.
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Chicago
Will B. Hunter
F. M Byron
General Western
The
Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway Co
Farm loans offered at six percent interest
Money to loan on real estate security with amounts from 1000 and up. Partial payments allowed. JOHN B. BOTHWELL, Attorney Sedalia National Bank Building, advertises farm loans at six percent with moderate expenses.
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John BH. Bothwell
Sedalia National Bank
Job opening at Shepp Company in Philadelphia
Active and trusted person to work for its locally Liberal salary guar anteed. Good chance for advancement. No capite! required. For full information address Shepp Company, 1031-1033 Chestnut St., Phila., Penn.
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Shepp Company
Chestnut St
Phila
Penn
Sedalia Steam Laundry Ad Promises Guaranteed Work
Our employees are all experienced workers which enables us to guarantee satisfaction in every particular. Try us for good work. Sedalia Steam Laundry. Tel. 154. Gro W Loncan, Prop.
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Sedalia Steam Laundry
Gro
W. Loncan
Aguinaldo Speech and Depew on Philippine War
The article reprints Aguinaldo's Manila address urging independence and denouncing autonomy as deceitful while calling for continued national unity. It also covers Chauncey M. Depew's reply at a New York dinner arguing for a large American force to crush rebels in six weeks and secure occupied territories.
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Manila
Independencia
Aguinaldo
Tarlac
Tropics
Spain
United States
America
Philippines
Democratic Party
McKinley
Depew
New York
Europe
Chauncey M. Depew
Egent
Acuinaldo
Pension committee ends inquiry into G A R pension measures
Washington July 13 the pension committee of the G A R wrapped up its inquiry into pension measures and administration at Commissioner Evans invitation. No substantial basis found for allegations against the bureau and any recommendations likely target the law itself. Lille France July 13 riot erupts after the acquittal of Father Flamidine at the Christian Brothers school amid anti Jesuit demonstrations and vandalism.
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Washington
The
Evans
Bureau
Lille
France
Father Flamidien
School of the Christian Brothers
Insane Mother's Deed In Putnam River Tragedy
Mrs Chauncey Talbot aged 28 wife of a well known local businessman drowned herself and her two year old son in the Quinebaug River at Putnam Connecticut while temporarily insane.
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Putnam, Conn
Chauncey Talbot
Quinebaugh River
Epidemic of Diarrhoea Rumored in Cocoanut Grove
Mr A Sanders writing from Cocoanut Grove Florida reports a diarrhoea epidemic there and says four doses of Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy cured him He also recommended it to others and calls it the best remedy they ever used Sold by Servant Harker Drug Co Otis W Smith City Drug Store and City Drug Store locations listed.
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A Sanders
Cocoanut Grove
Fla
Rts
Chamberlain
Servant- Harker Drug Co
Ohio Street
Otis W Smith
City Drug Store
West Main Street
Woman Witnessed Jeffries Fight at Ringside
Mrs. M. E. Reardon, proprietor of Garrick chop house on Forty second Street New York, watched the heavyweight championship as Jeffries defeated the red headed champion. She ran a catering business six years and reportedly lost 550 dollars on the bout.
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Mrs. Fitzsimmons
M. E. Reardon
James
Jeffries
Reardon
Garrick
Forty Second Street
Seventh Avenue
New York
New Buffalo Hump gold region sparks Idaho growth
The Northern Pacific Railway promotes Lewiston expansion and mining claims in Idaho. Quartz ledges near Florence Elk City Grangeville and Salmon River draw prospectors while farming regions between Lewiston and the Hump offer rich lands and markets. Send cents for the Buffalo Hump folder with color map.
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Idaho
Northern Pacific
Spokane-Palouse
Lewiston
Lapwai Creek
Clearwater River
Old
Nez Perce Reservation
Buffalo Hump
Florence
Elk City
Grangeville
Salmon River
Klondike
Lewistown
Hump
Cold Springs
Camas
California
Chas. S. Fee
St Paul
Summer Tours via Sioux City Route to Northern Resorts
Travel offers reduced rate round trips via the Northwestern Lines to fishing and summer resorts across Northern Iowa Minnesota Wisconsin and Michigan's peninsula and east through the Great Lakes. Tickets on sale daily with return until Oct 31. Stopover privileges on both directions for Greater American Exposition visitors. Contact A L Fisher Tray Pass Agent 823 Main St Kansas City for details. CIRCUITOUS TRIP BY RAIL OR LAKE The Missouri Christian Endeavors select Clover Leaf route to Detroit convention travel by rail and lake with return through Chicago. Inquire at Clover Leaf 505 Olive St St Louis for itinerary.
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Sioux City
Iowa
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Michigan
Great Lakes
Omaha
L Fisher
Main Street
Kansas City
Christian Endeavors of Missouri
Clover Leaf Railroad
Detroit
Chicago
Clover Leaf Ticket Office
Olive Street
St. Louis
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TACO
J.etatitia
Davol Medicine Co
P.O
San Francisco
Cal
Servant’s Pharmacy
Landmann Bros
Fourth and
Unio Streets
Sedalie, Mo
P. Hoffman
O. A. Crandall
A. Sampson
G L. Fanhaber
F. Hoffman
C. C. Evans
Giiice
Ohio and
Fourth Streets
Sedalia
St. Paul
Minn
Northern Pacific Railway
Portland
Union Pacific
Los Angeles
Union Avenue
Union Station
J. B. Frawley
Nez Perces Lands
Crescent Hotel
Eureka Springs
Ark
Heart of Ozark Mountains
Bryan Snyder
Friscoline
New Yorker
WM. Kosted & Sons
Ohio ST
TEL
Molly E. Reardon
Nt Hue
RAND
Wwe
Joam J. Yratue, Pres
S. P-Haley
Avawm
Strvan
Bank of Commerce
di Sedalia
Ohio
Second Stre
Farmre
Pettis Emnty
John J. Yeater
L. W H. Durley
D. H. Crear
A. M. Reed
Adam S'el
W. E. Bard
Edward Hurley
J. M. Offield
W. P. Haley
W. S Baker
Hro
Boston
W.D. Wood
St. Louis, Mo
Ott’s Drug Store
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