Defiance Starch and Low Rates Promised in Advertisements
An old newspaper fragment blends product pitches with travel offers. It touts Defiance Starch refund terms, a low cost per package, and a promise of satisfaction. It also advertises Erie Railroad routes from Chicago and St Louis to eastern cities with multiple daily trains and free stopovers at notable sites. The text closes with a seasonal devotional line about the coming of violets.
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Chicago
St. Louis
Erie Railroad Company
Railway Exchange
New York
Boston
Buffalo
Pittsburgh
Jagara Falls
Cambridge Springs
Chautauqua Lake
Big drop in binder twine prompts mail order offer
An advertisement urges buyers to mail for high grade binder twine at very low prices with guarantee money back and insurance against hail or storm. Sears Roebuck & Co., Chicago, 311, is listed. The notice includes broader anecdotes and tiny items about stamps, floor finishes, starch, sermons, and dreams leading to gold finds.
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Sears, Roebuck & CO
Chicago
Two Steps The Last One Helps the First
A Georgia couple attributes relief from chronic headaches and weight loss to quitting coffee and drinking Postum Food Coffee. They claim three days of use replaced coffee, with five months of improved health and weight gain, supported by local business references.
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Bank of
Carrollton
Plum web worm threat echoes across Iowa crops
Notes from the Capital report widespread plum web worm damage in Iowa led by Webster County. State Entomologist H W Summers advises spraying with arsenites. Also covered is Populist conventions in Des Moines planning national delegates, Iowa corn stand estimates, oil meal feed shifts, and state history hall stone purchases and monument commission actions.
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Des Moines
H. Wi. Summers
Ames
Agricultural College
Webster County
Iowa
Fort Dodge
State Executive Council
le Granda
State Hall of History
Marshalltown
Cummins
Andersonville
M. T. Frussell
M. V. B. Evans
Beaman
Grundy County
D. ©. Bishop
Altoona
W. C
Russell
Brewer
Bishop
State Fair Grounds
Attendants Strike Over Reinstatement At Northern Illinois Asylum
Eighteen asylum attendants left their posts at the Northern Illinois hospital for the insane in Elgin on Wednesday morning to press for reinstatement of A. M. Mitchell, discharged for fighting on duty. Union leaders demanded his rehiring, prompting disorder in several wards before substitutes were brought in. Officials planned further action if Superintendent Whitman does not comply.
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Elgin
Whitman
Ilineis Hospital
A. M. Mitchell
New York
Court to Decide Ants Fate in Cotton Boll Weevil Fight
The Agriculture Department asks the Justice Department to resolve whether the government can conduct tests in Texas using a Guatemalan ant accused of destroying cotton boll weevil. A Texas planter seeks to block the experiments. If ruled against the planter, tests would move to Louisiana with cooperation from state authorities. The government notes the ant feeds on insects and harms only pests, but will follow court decisions.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
Department of Justice
Texas
Ends Debauch With Murder
In Dubuque Iowa James Reed a drunken fineman went on a killing spree fatally shooting Policeman Dan Norton after threatening his wife and child who escaped. Norton a veteran officer was summoned by Reed’s wife and confronted him at the home.
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Dubuque
Iowa
James Reed
Dan Norton
Norton
Reed
Tailor Returns Reward After Cash Reward Repaid
Chicago July 7 Charles Olney a tailor received 2 for returning 5000 in cash and a diamond ring after the finder J T Goodwin of Galesburg Ill offered reward. Olney gave back the money in an envelope with thanks. Goodwin later sent trousers to Olney for pressing and Olney found five bundles of bills totaling 5000 and the ring inside.
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Chicago
Charles Olney
J. T. Goodwin
Galesburg
Goodwin
Olney
Ice Cream Poisonings Strike Lykens Valley Picnic
Chicago Board of Trade quotations note today’s report of ice cream poisoning in Lykens Valley. About 300 men women and children were taken home from a picnic after eating ice cream. Prompt medical aid saved all, though several remain critical.
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Lykens
Lykent Valley
Severa
Noted Confederate General Dies
Frankfort Kentucky July 7 General Joseph H Lewis famed as commander of the orphan brigade in the Confederacy dropped dead. Lohwan Chico justice of the Court of Appeals served over twenty years.
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Frankfort
Joseph H. Lewis
Lowan Chico
Court of Appeals
Militia Fights Strikers at Sidney Iron Works
Troops clash with striking iron and steel workers at Sidney Ohio July 7 as militia are forced to shoulder bayonets to control the crowd. Reports describe violence outside the plant and ongoing tension as workers press job action amid mounting confrontations.
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Sidney
Defiance Starch promotes travel prizes and ads mix
The Defiance Starch Co offers twenty five round trip tickets to the St. Louis Exposition, awarded to five winners per state Illinois Iowa Nebraska Kansas and Missouri for sending in the most Defiance starch trade marks from 10-cent 16-ounce packages. Also advertised are floor finishes, rail travel brochures, deafness cure claims, and various household goods.
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John Downie
Iowa
Defiance Starch Co
St. Louis Exposition
Illinois
Nebraska
Kansas
Missouri
Defiance
Omaha
Nebr
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W. D. Olney
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Hoemix
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Phoenix Chair CO
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lOwig & Co
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Paxton CO
Maas
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