Ferris Plans High Dome Act At Mexico Street Fair
Mexico business leader G D Ferris offers a novel stunt to attract crowds by building a sixteen foot scaffold atop the courthouse dome. He will balance on his head each afternoon from 2 to 8 during the fair if the committee raises 50 dollars for the local brass band.
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G. D. Ferris
Mexico, Mo
Mexico
Charge
Mr. Ferris
Brass Band of
Ferris
Court House Dome
College News Notes From Historic Campus Updates
Lafayette plans two new library buildings. Radcliffe Alumnae Association exceeds two hundred members. Only five of Yale’s 300 seniors failed to graduate. Wells College Alumnae aim to raise a one hundred thousand dollar endowment. The Rev Samuel May of Leicester Massachusetts is the oldest living alumnus of Harvard Divinity School and the sole survivor of the 1832 graduates.
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College News
Lafayette
Radcliffe Alumnae Association
Yale
Wells College
San Domingo Ruler Assassinated in Dominican Republic
Gen Ulises Heureaux, president of the Dominican Republic, was assassinated at Santo Domingo after noon on Wednesday. Ramon Cateros killed him and escaped. Vice President Gen Wenceslao Figueroa assumed control. Heureaux, born 1846 in Porto Plata, had led reforms and attracted foreign capital. He had served four-year terms and was in a fifth term due to unanimous support.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. L. Dunlap
Indiana
Franklin
Ind
John Smith
Shelbyville
Massachusetts
Baltimore
Stone Wall
Winchester
Stonewall Jackson
Phillippi Tune
Gettysburg
Ulises Heureaux
Dominican Republic
Loca
Santo Domingo
Ramon Cateros
Ulises Hleureaux
Heureaux
Wenceslao Figuercam
President Heureaux
Archid
Gen. Heureaux
Porto Plata
Spain
Alaskan Boundary Settlement Seen Soon With England
Secretary Hay and British chargé d affaires Reginald Tower anticipate a temporary settlement of the Alaskan boundary with England. With Canada removed from the dispute, the American and British governments are believed to reach agreement soon. The map uses Dawson’s 1887 Canadian map and US survey data to outline the boundary.
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England
Hay
Reginald Tower
Canada
Dawson
United States
Alaska
Boundary dispute over Lynn Canal and Pyramid Harbor
The dispute centers on a dotted line near the coast dividing British territory from the United States. Canada asserts Dyea Ska guay and Pyramid harbor are in British hands while the US claims territory north and west of Lynn canal. The latest American proposal offers Canada a free harbor at the head of Lynn canal.
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Canada
Dyea
Skaguay
Pyramid Harbor
British Territory
United States
Lynn Canal
Dawson
Violence Flares in Georgia and Alabama Mob Attacks
Reported mob violence across Georgia and Alabama includes lynchings, killings, and assaults driven by heat and disorder. In Bainbridge a crowd halted by leaders, while Valdosta and Thomasville militia dispersed mobs after a jail assault threat.
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Georgia
Alabama
Bainbridge
John Williams
Judge Bower
Valdosta and
Thom@eville
Gov. Candler
Mrs Styles Is Not Guilty in Chicago Murder Case
In Chicago a jury acquits Mrs. Augusta Styles of murdering her mother Mrs. Catherine Schultz on May 4. Judge Waterman reads a verdict of not guilty after a 1 hour 50 minute deliberation. three jurors favored conviction. The killing followed Mrs. Schultz revealing the birth of Mrs. Styles' daughter Belle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Augusta Styles
Waterman
Styles
Catherine Schultz
First Chinese Pensioner Granted Monthly Pension
Ah Yuh of Shanghai a lands man who enlisted in 1884 and served on Dewey s flagship Olympia received a pension of 30 dollars per month for lung trouble marking him as the first Chinese pensioner.
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Ah Yuh
Shanghai
China
Navy
Dewey
Olympia
Poisoned potatoes cost farmer his life near Union Mo
Philip Heger aged 63 a prosperous farmer living west of Union Missouri scattered poison on his potato vines to kill bugs and died after inhaling large amounts despite medical care.
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Philip Heger
Union, Mo
Hustling Hoosiers. An Interesting, Each of the More
Fragmentary notice notes Hoosier activity and a prompt to examine more details. The readable text hints at hustle and energy around a local group or event without clear names or dates.
Indiana News Roundup Reflects Turbulent Times
A wide range of Indiana stories: urban crime and safety, fires, electrocutions, and weather disasters. Notable items include a church arson, a trolley line worker killed by 500 volts, a runaway accident injuring a Kokomo girl, a devastating Crothersville high school fire, and a bar dispute over a Black patron at Anderson. Additional notes cover prison and jail conditions, a Greentown glass factory shutdown, and local legal changes on treasurer terms.
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Peru
Lafayette Council
Marion Normal College
Methodist Church
Scottsburg
Joseph Samuel Coffman
United States
Elkhart
Joseph Hobbs
Morgantown
Anderson
William T. Hammond
Logansport
Indiana Brick Company
Alexandria
Indiana
Levia McLaughlin
Madison
Bartholomew County
William Crites
Union Traction Company
Marion
Mary Bradford
Kokomo
Clintons County
Greentown
Tableware Trust
Eddie Dean
Crothersville
William’ Galbreath
John Pentecost
Pentecost
White County
Clyde and
Frankton Window Glass Companies
Frankton
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
The
Pation
William Lee
Oliver White
Michigan City
Lee
Benjamin S. Tea
Lafayette
White
William Ellsworth
William Stevens
Elmer Garver
Abraham Downham
The Snout Fish and Its Aim at a Floating Fly
A creature called the snout fish darts water from its snout toward a prey fly, seldom missing. In China the fish is kept like goldfish to amuse watchers as it shoots at a fixed fly above a vase or globe, repeatedly striking from distances of several feet.
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China
Allen's Foot-Ease Comforts Tight Shoes
Ladies find instant relief with Allen's Foot-Ease powder shaken into shoes. It eases tight or new shoes, relieves coins and bunions, cures swollen feet blisters and callous spots, treats in growing nails sweating and aching feet. Sold at druggists and shoe stores 25c Trial package free by mail LeRoy NY.
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Alen’s
Allen
Allen S. Olmsted
LeRoy, N. Y
My Stylish Cousin's Daughter in August Ladies' Home Journal
Josiah Allen's Wife by Marietta Holley appears in the August Ladies' Home Journal as a new installment. The tale keeps her humorous tone with a purposeful twist and centers on the stylish cousin's daughter.
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Josiah Allen
Marietta Holley
Ladies’ Home Journal
Baseball’s a Great Institution Says Former Acrimonious Man
The ex argued that baseball is a valuable institution, shifting from opposition to support. He claimed it gives people topics beyond politics, citing the Washington Star for context.
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Washington Star
Piso's Cure for Consumption Ad Claim
An 1895 Seattle notice advertises Piso's Cure for consumption with a testimonial by J B Palmer from Box 1171, asserting rapid relief. The brief promotes the medicine as a quick cure and includes a date.
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J. B. Palmer
Seattle
Wash
Not on Their Hands
A Washington Star quotation contrasts a Filipino retreat leader with a non-combatant Tagal remark about fighting. The leader notes the hardship is on the feet rather than the hands.
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Tagal
Washington Star
Hamlet on Trial The Witty Villain in Courtroom Drama
A theatrical revival reinterprets Shakespearean villainy with a sharp wit. The production centers on a clever antagonist confronting moral gray areas while navigating loyalty, power, and guilt.
Nickel Plate Seventeenth Annual Niagara Falls Excursion
Nickel Plate Road will run its Seventeenth Annual Excursion to Niagara Falls on Tuesday August 15. Tickets are valid for return for fifteen days with additional connections to Toronto at $1.00 extra and Thousand Islands at $6.50 extra. Stopovers at Chautauqua Lake allowed without charge. Sleeping car reservations should be secured early. Tickets good on any of the Peerless Trio of Fast Express Trains. Inquiries to Nickel Plate Road agents.
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Wabash
Chicago
Tolono
St. Louis
Kansas City
Compaven
T. A
T. A. Yoledo, Ohio. KR. G. Tompson, P. & T. A
Fort Wayne
Ind
F.wolfschlager
P.&t
Detroit
Mich
Tho’s Follen
Lafayette
Gro
D. Maxfield
Indianapolis
Ciang
G. P
Niagara Falls
Nickel Plate Road
Toronto
Thousand Islands
Chautauqua Lake
Cape Salmon Pursuit Inspires Masters of the Hook
A report notes a skilled angler who can hook play and land a ten pound Cape salmon, earning respect as a past master in the art, while peers express chagrin at the discipline.
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Szank
Unpardonable Insult Rouses Boarder Over Butter Origin
A landlady denounces butter on her table as unfit and reveals it came from her uncle’s Wisconsin dairy. The boarder scoffs asking if the butter could have walked, highlighting comic disbelief over source and freshness.
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Wisconsin
Eagle Linen Paper and Envelopes Ad
Fort Wayne to Chicago round trip every Sunday via Nickel Plate Road costs $2.00. Mrs. Winslow’s Soothing Syrup for teething claims to soften gums reduce inflammation ease pain cure wind colic at 25 cents a bottle. Wanted case of bad health that SPAN’s will not benefit. send 5 cents to Ripans Chemical Co New York for 10 samples and testimonials. Polished people are not always bright.
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Swanson Rheumatics Cure CO
Lake Street
Chicago
Ill
Fort Wayne
Ripans Chemical Co
New York
Mrs. Anna Eva Gunter Praises Pinkham Vegetable Compound
In a letter to Mrs. Pinkham from Higginsville Missouri, Anna Eva Gunter says doctors gave up in June last year but after using the Vegetable Compound with Liver Pills and Sanative Wash she recovered from a ten week bedbound illness, reached 155 pounds, and credits the remedy with her recovery and urges friends to use it.
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Lydia B. Pinkham
Anna Eva Gunter
Higginsville, Mo
Mrs Barnhart Enjoys Life Again After Medicine
Mrs S Barnhart of New Castle Pa reports relief after using a remedy. She describes long illness since marriage with miscarriages and various pains then credits the medicine with restoring health and vitality.
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Mrs. Barnhart
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Ager
J. G. Ayer Lowell
Mass
Buckingham’s Dyeweisters
KUNE
R.p.hall & Co
Nashua
N.H
Wilhelmina
Lsebittenhouse
Canby
Sterling Remedy Company
Montreal
Atlas OF
Taiaoa
Dominion
F. Pedley
Ottawa
C.j.broughton
Monadnock Building
M. V. McInnes
Mervill Block
D. Caven
Bad
Terre Haute
Andrew Walker
Walker
MacKinley
Congress
Grant
Civil Service Commission
George William Curtis
Alexander G. Cattell
Joseph Medill
Davidson A. Walker
Fst B. B. Ellicott
Joseph G. W. Curtis
HI. Blackfan
David C. Cox
George Bruce Cortelyou
McKinley
Europe
Porter
White House
Cortelyou
G. B. Cortelyou
San Domingo
Alaskan Territory
Mrs. Styles
George Jones
Fred Smith
Jones
Dr. Kline
HK. H. Kline. Ltd
Arch St
Philadelphia
Hell
Eagle
Gunter
Wrs
Pinkham
Porto Rico
Inciosantal
Porto Ricoureau of Information
San Juan
P. H
Carter
O'Farrell
Washington,a.c
NEW York Chemical CO
Milwaukee
Wis
Deering
Rakens
Deering Harvester Company
Deering Corn
Sapolio
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