Cranford Road Race Promises Tough Test for Scrub Women
A Cranford New Jersey public school event plans a three mile race for colored scrub women. Weigh-in ranges from ninety eight to one hundred and thirteen pounds with a cake for the winner. The article notes Filipino troops outrun our soldiers and cites espionage talk linked to the Dreyfus affair. It also recalls Charles Pillsbury’s rise from a Montreal broker to Minneapolis millionaire and lauds long service in British civil positions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cranford
Inventors Sell Patents Amid Wide‑Scale Purchases
Thirty percent of patentees in the past week disposed of inventions before issue. Buyers included Vive Camera Company Chicago Western Union Telegraph Co New York Carnegie Steel Co Pittsburgh and Santaa Nut Food Co Battle Creek with others in Hartford Los Angeles Philadelphia and Bridgeport. For information write Sues & Co Patent Lawyers Bee Building Omaha Neb. Berlin Herald notes profit through others lessons while Cleveland Leader jokes on economists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vive Camera Company
Chicago, Ill
Astern Paper Bag Company
Hartford, Conn
Western Union Telegraph Co
New York
American Pulley Co
Pennsylvania
Fbagle Pencil Co
Singer Manufacturing Co
New
Bee Bldg
Omaha, Nebr
Dairy and Poultry Department Tips and Market News
The article discusses foreign butter preservatives versus pure American butter, dairy economics in Minnesota creameries, a new dairy venture in the Philippines, and a push by the National Dairy Unions to combat imitation dairy products. It warns against butterine and outlines honest shipping practices, poultry care, and feeding sour milk to fowls with practical methods to avoid contamination.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. S. Mitchell
Wisconsin Dairy and Food Commission
England
Humane Poultry Methods and Fall Mite Warnings
The article argues against cruel bleeding and handling of poultry and favors humane killing by a blow to the head. It notes that lame hens often fatten and stop laying, with fat preventing embryonic egg formation. As fall arrives, readers are urged to check for red mites in the poultry house.
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P. H. Jacobs
Mississippi Valley dairy exports and Pacific market opening
Secretary Wilson notes Mississippian dairy producers can access Pacific markets via China agencies, highlighting that Puget Sound imports from the valley. He cites butter worth thirty to forty cents more per pound abroad and urges dairymen to supply western markets. Texas cattle conditions improve, boosting feeder demand, prices, and feeding activity. Butter for packing must be drier and packed solidly to avoid brine leaks.
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Wilson
Department of Agriculture
Mississippi Valley
Pacific
Agricultural Department
China
Puget Sound
Texas
Texas Stock Journal
Senator Hansbrough’s rise to Chronicle editor
Dispatches from England report a famine in German East Africa with about 40 000 deaths. The text notes the drought caused by two failed rainy seasons devastating the tribes around Zanzibar and Mombasa, while Hansbrough’s career path is traced from early education to becoming editor of the San Francisco Chronicle.
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United States
Hansbrough
North Tahuta
San Francisco Chronicle
Lhe
England
German East Africa
Tbe Cenanzibar
Mombasa
The Curious C with a Tail Promotes Health Candy
A town tale about the C with a Tail a health promoting comet of happiness tied to Casearets Candy Cathartic. The ad touts its liver bowels blood brain benefits and urges readers to buy the tablets with CCC marks and request samples. It notes druggist prices and a mail order offer from Sterling Remington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Sterling Rem Sy
Chicago
Montreal
Can
Newark
Canadian Press Association praises CPR hospitality on cross continent trip
A telegram from W S Dingman president of the Canadian Press Association to D McNicoll assistant general manager of the Canadian Pacific Railway extols unremitting courtesy and hospitality during the ocean to ocean journey. It lauds the view of development along the route and Canadian skill in service. Booker T Washington to be publicly received in Atlanta on the 25th with Governor Chandler among dignitaries expected.
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D. McNicoll
Canadian Pacific Railway
W. S. Dingman
The
Canadian Press Association
Vancouver
Canadian Pacific Railway Company
Ocean
America
Booker T. Washington
Atlanta
Candler
Free liberal religious literature offered by Mrs Reed
An appeal promotes free religious readings to Mrs H D Reed of Omaha Nebraska. The notice cites an investigation into Connecticut elections showing rural native voters as most bribery prone. It reports Maryland eastern counties with 19702 natives and 45 foreign born now have 2000 buyable votes, half the electorate. It notes Ruskin Tennessee colonists forming a new commonwealth at Duke Georgia with 120 adherents.
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Connecticut
Maryland
Worcester
Water fears rise as river dams cut flow and disease risk
London officials warn that dam construction on upper river reaches could drain the Shames. May water flow plummeted from 45 million to 650 million gallons daily, risking un diluted sewage and possible epidemics amid city growth.
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McDougall
London County Council
Weddington
Most costly hat in the world made of spun glass
Samuel Sherard of Pittsburg owns a glass hat valued at $1,250. It resembles straw but has reflective properties created by an Alsatian craftsman in Pittsburg. Shakespeare’s birthplace at Stratford on Avon drew over 24,000 visitors in the latest fiscal year, with over 10,000 visiting Ann Hathaway's cottage.
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Dairy and Food Commissioner
Minnesota
Samuel Sherard
Pittsburg
Shakespeare
Stratford-on-Avon
Ann Hathaway
Cure for Consumption Praised by Florida Reader
A reader in Cheater Florida dated September 17 1895 hails Piso’s Cure for Consumption as a godsend. The St Louis Republic notes a husband who bought a bicycle when his wife needed a cook stove, highlighting wheeled spending.
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Wm. B. McClellan
Cheater, Florida
St. Louis Republic
St. Louis
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Minneapolis Journal
Minneapolis
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Foreign Office
Berlin
Cleveland
Ayer
Winchester
Winchester Repeating Arms CO
Winchester Avenue
New Haven, Conn
Hootcoehs
Uncle Sam
Arnold
Bend
Robert Purvis
Omaha
Ned
Enavlore
Eureka Appliance Constable Building
Baltimore
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Dru
Philippine Islands
Australia
Manila
United States Hospital
Islands
Congress
Farmers’ Review
New York City
Prise
H. D. Reed
N. 38Th Ave
Nebi
Co-Operative
Ruskin, Tenn
Duke, Ga
Lydia E. Pinkham
Mrs. A. Toute
Hilton St
Philadelphia
Wm. V
Western Australia
Joseph Elliott
Memphis
Tenn
Mississippi
Mark Twain
Linsberg
Baltimore and Ohio
Times
Kiine
da RM. Kursk
Biadelphia
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New York Press
John MY Mammoth
West Madison
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W. L. Douglas
W. L. Nourlas
Yan Wae
Douglas Shoe CO
Brockton, Ma
Btreat & CO
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