East Oregon Mines Show Infancy of Industry and Rich Prospects
A Baker City dispatch notes eastern Oregon mining still in infancy with placer work limited by water. Spring floods aid season, while reservoirs aid dry periods. Quartz mining shows promise with the Bonanza mine delivering $83,000 in a month after new ownership. Services describe potential sale value well above current worth, and a shift toward larger scale development. Messages from Geiser estate detail historic gains and a Portland sale.
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Baker City
Oregon
Bonanza
Geiser Company
Aynidcate
Standard of Magnates
Colorado
Standard Oil
Portland Fa
Geiser Estate
Geisers
Portland
Eastern
Citizens’ Bank
To Cure a Cold In One Day Adverts Laxative Bromo-Quinine
An old print advertisement touts a home remedy claiming rapid cold cure with Laxative Bromo-Quinine tablets priced at 26e. The snippet reflects period medical quack rhetoric and retail pricing.
Kemp's Bal Sam for the Throat and Lungs Ad
Local druggists advertise Kemp's Bal Sam as a free trial remedy for throat and lung ailments including chronic coughs asthma bronchitis and consumption priced 6 and 5 cents. An Iowa reader testifies One Minute Cough Cure quickly stopped a child’s croup after three doses. Brown Bros.
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Brown Hros
A. L. Spofford
Chester
Mich
Brown Bros
Tariff Pacts Sought by Germany with Russia and Austria
Condensed telegrams report Germany seeking a tariff alliance with Russia and Austria against the United States. Union machinists strike in Seattle for an eight hour day. Senator Clark accused of heavy Union Pacific stock purchases amid Wall Street turmoil. A Vienna dispatch notes a plot to kidnap and oust the Sultan of Turkey as insane, with ringleaders under arrest. Albany dispatch describes rioting with one dead, 1000 militiamen called to run streetcars with non union labor amid fears of bloodshed. Carrie Nation case in Topeka goes to the jury as insanity plea is raised. witnesses testify while Nation’s fellow crusaders stay away.
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Germany
Russia
Austria
United States
Seattle
Wash
W. A. Clark
Union Pacific
Wall Street
Vienna
Turkey
Albany
N. Y
Topeka
Kas
Carrie Nation
Humorous Local Jests In Small Town Pulpit Visit
Quohosh storekeeper Elder Spudkins is sent as temporary supply to a Po dunk pulpit. He jokes about late opening hours and hymn 103. A local boy’s art progress is quipped with a mock presidential line. A mislaid watch tale follows from a quarry foreman joke, ending with a fatal rock accident remark.
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Spudkins
Quohosh
Podunk
Quohash
Population figures for London and birth rate decline
London’s population stands at about 4 596 084, up 308 717 in ten years, while UK births drop 500 daily from twenty years ago. The birth rate decline worries English observers more than trade losses, with England’s births falling by an estimated one million in five years.
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London
United Kingdom
England
Renleton
County Council
The
Hudson
New York
New York Press
McKinley Condition Shapes White House Plans
A San Francisco dispatch reports Mrs. McKinley is improved but still fragile. President McKinley remains at her side and may skip the southwest trip if her condition does not sustain. He joined crowds in San Francisco, but a ferry building crush caused a near riot and speech was not delivered.
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San Francisco
Cortelyou
Dr. Pierce
Bethea
Tomas
J. M. Farr
Cameron, Screven Co
Savannah
Common Sense
R. V. Pierce
Buffalo, N. Y
Local remedies and wagons advertised in Brown Bros. catalog
The notice promotes Lane’s tea for stomach and breath hygiene at 50c a package, DeWitt’s Little Early Risers for constipation, and Stude baker Bros Mfg Co spring wagons and buggies. It includes a healed testimonial from W. J. Baxter of North Brook after using DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve.
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DeWitt
Brown Bros
Lane
Bown Bros
Brown
Studebaker Bros. Mfg. Co
E. Reinhart & CO. (Inc
Ingraaer
W. J. Baxter
North Brook,n
Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup Teething Cure Ad
A vintage ad touts Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething babies. It claims relief from pain, diarrhea, colic, and inflammation, and promotes energy for the child. The prescription of a leading nurse and physician, price twenty five cents a bottle, sold worldwide by druggists.
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Mrs. Winslow
They Recommend Kemp's Balsam to Cure Coughs
Advert suggests coughs run unchecked until medicine helps. It claims Kemp's Balsam cures and offers a positive guarantee. First dose shows effect, with trial size free. Sold by Brown Bros. druggists at 25 or 50 cents.
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Brown Bros
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