Fatal Street Car Collision in Chicago
A trolley on Forty-seventh Street collided with a Pennsylvania Railroad passenger train near Stewart Avenue. Eleven people were injured and four killed including Frederick O. Edwards Harriet Sutcliffe Ida B. Osler and an unidentified woman. Conductor W. P. Fulton and motorman Willis Bowman were among those affected as the car flipped and slid across multiple tracks.
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Chicago
Forty-seventh Street
Pennsylvania Railroad
Frederick O. Edwards
Harriet Sutcliffe
Ida B. Osler
Connecticut
Willis Bowman
Luther Jackson
Mary O'Malley
Kat Greenfield
Marion Branard
James Gillette
W. P. Fulton
Margaret Dwyer
Lizzie Coale
Clarissa Bigelow
J. Broadwilg
Stewart Avenue
Fulton
Royal Italian Band Plays at Willow Grove Park Penna
The Royal Italian Band, engaged at an expense of 5500 by the Spokane Interstate Fair, is now performing at Willow Grove Park in Penna and is hailed as perhaps the greatest musical organization on this continent today.
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Royal Italian Band
Spokane Interstate Fair Management
Willow Grove Park
Penna
Opium Trade Shaping Amid Turkish Crop Losses in London Express
The London Express notes English opium importers face tighter supplies as rains damage Turkish crops and American buyers corner remaining drug stock. Other items mention pension prospects, Swiss Grand Combin ascent by youths, balloon cross attempts, and various period advertisements and notes from 1900.
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The
London Express
Brooklyn Transit Collision Kills Motorman at Ken ington Crossing
A Rapid Transit car collided with a Long Branch locomotive at Ken ington crossing in Brooklyn. Motorman Lee was killed, about 20 to 22 passengers injured, three said to be in critical condition. Towerman Albert Haas reported the gates were down and the motorman shouted he could not stop. Fire, police and ambulances rushed to the scene.
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Albert Haas
Railroad
Bowman
New York
Fifteenth Street
Long Branch Railway Company
Kenington Crossing
Brooklyn
Lee
Coney Island
Twin City Pierre and Black Hills Railroad Planned
Final arrangements in New York propose a direct Minneapolis St Paul rail link to the Black Hills. The Twin City Pierre & Black Hills will run from Aberdeen to Rapid City, crossing the Missouri River at Pierre, 205 miles long, tying into a northwest to Denver route and aiming to connect with Union Pacific at Orin Junction, Wyoming.
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Minneapolis
New York
St. Paul
Black Hills
Twin City
Pierre & Black Hills
Aberdeen
Rapid City
Missouri River
Pierre
Denver
Gulf
California
Union Pacific
Orin Junction
Wyo
Walthour Beats Elkes In One Hour Race At Manhattan Beach
Bobby Walthour defeated Harry Elkes at Manhattan Beach in a one hour motor paced race. Walthour led by a lap and 4 quarters after covering 36 miles and 234 laps on the three lap track.
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New York
Bobby Walthour
Harry Elkes
Manhattan Beach
Walthour
Ecuadorean Congress Declares Plaza President by Plurality
In Quito the Ecuadorean congress declares General Plaza legally elected as president with a plurality of 65 000 votes. Guayaquil reports the decision reached in session today as officials confirm the result and transfer of power.
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Guayaquil
Ecuador
Quito
General Plaza
Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic Formula Stated On Tile
An ad notes the tonic contains iron and quinine in tasteless form with a no cure no pay claim shown on the tile. It also includes a flippant aside about women and a remark on Fortune's favorites losing due to fancied faults.
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Grove
Fortune
Passenger Train Wreck at Table Rock near Green River
Aug 18 report from Salt Lake states the Union Pacific westbound overland limited derailed at Table Rock causing injuries to three crew and 13 passengers none serious. Collision involved two light engines attempting a siding, track torn up, six hour delay, engineer Garside hospitalized but to recover.
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Salt Lake
Union Pacific
Overland Limited
Table Rock
Green River
Wyo
Garside
Timber Fire Rages Across Pine Creek Area Cresting Threat
A Pine Oregon dispatch reports a great timber fire on North Pine and Fish creeks with vast forest destruction feared. Weather favors spread and rain is needed to check the blaze. A family had to move to escape danger and ranch property faces probable loss.
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Baker City
Ore
Lawson Wins 10 Mile National Cycle Meet in Buffalo
Buffalo native Ivor Lawson wins the 10 mile championship at the National Cycle Association meeting in Buffalo. Lawson leads over Major Taylor and Kramer as they finish close together, Taylor and Kramer close behind in a tight photo finish.
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Buffalo
N. Y
National Cycle Association
Ivor Lawson
Major Taylor
Kramer
Lawson
Hulf
Taylor
Kramey
Alaska Farm Wealth and Livestock Value in 1900 Census
The census bureau reports Alaska total farm wealth on June 1 1900 at 15086 dollars. Livestock valued 2196 dollars and implements 600 dollars. Buildings and other improvements total 12800 dollars. Poultry raising in 1899 was the most profitable Alaska agriculture sector.
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Washington
Burea
Alaska
Rations Ordered for Destitute in Fort Phillip Reach
The War Department directs Jackson Barracks to issue 600 rations to destitute people displaced by a gulf storm, sheltering at Fort Phillip after fleeing New Orleans.
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Washington
War Department
Jackson Barracks
New Oreans
Fort Phillip
Cotton production in 1899 Territory West of Mississippi
In 1899 the territory west of the Mississippi produced 45 percent of our cotton crop. The idea that practicability has merit over theory applies to everyday life, reflecting a pragmatic approach to daily affairs.
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Mississippi
Unrest and fires mark tense era in early 1900s news
Reports span nationwide turmoil from Deadwood discovery and mass nonunion shop openings in Cincinnati to San Francisco strike talks and a war correspondent receiving a royal society fellowship. Also noted are the steamer Vermont fire at West Seattle, a deadly blast at Youngstown’s National Steel plant, and pension bureau figures showing 997,735 pensioners with net losses and gains across the year.
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Deadwood
Cincinnati
San Francisco
Native Sons’ Hall
James F. J. Archibald
England
Royal Geographical Society of London
South Africa
Cuba
United States
The
Freeman’s Journal of Dublin
Kruger
William Redmond
Holland
South African Republic
Vermont
West Seattle
Thomas McMillan
Seattle
Puget Sound
Youngstown
Ohio
National Steel
Cominy
Evans
Pension Bureau
World to End This Year Prediction Proclaimed
A prominent society forecasts the world’s end by year’s end though the exact day remains unfixed. The ad urges belief in Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as the best remedy for dyspepsia digestion constipation biliousness and liver and kidney troubles promising a fair trial will prove its value.
Prudent speech and tonic claims in old quotes
A reflective remark on prudent speech contrasts with an imprudent remark. An advertisement touts Grove's Tasteless Chili Tonic as the best malaria and fever remedy, describing it as iron and quinine in a tasteless form. A selling line proclaims “No Cure, No Pay,” and a note that De France consumes more wine than Germany, the United States, and the United Kingdom combined.
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Grove
France
Germany
United States
United Kingdom
Suffered Three Years Catarrh of Stomach
Evelyn Morse of Minneapolis Minnesota writes that three years of stomach catarrh resisted all medicines until trying Peruna. Skeptical at first she began to improve within a week and after three months was cured with no relapse. She recommends Peruna and requests free advice from Dr Hartman.
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Miss Evelyn Morse
Adams Street
Minneapolis
Minn
Evelyn Orse
Dr. Hartman
The
Hartman Sanitarium
Columbus, Ohio
Patterson House Moved from Lexington to Dayton
The historic Patterson home on Patterson Street in Lexington Kentucky will be relocated to Dayton Ohio by Thomas H Patterson, a Lexington founder’s grandson. Countess Tolstoi Sophia Anderona appears to be a mild wife and mother who sewed for her three children through age ten. The Spokane Interstate Fair race track is complete and top pacers and trotters from the Pacific Northwest are arriving as nine days of racing offer purses totaling $10 000.
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Spokane
Northwest
Patterson
Patterson Street
Lexington
Dayton
Ohio
Thomas H. Patterson
Kentucky
Tolstoi
Sophia Anderona
Spokane Interstate Fair
Pacific Northwest
Cure a Cold in One Day Ad Explodes with Quinine Tablets
An old advertisement touts Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets to cure a cold in one day. It claims a refund if ineffective and features W Grove’s signature on each box. The note shifts to Phoenix Arizona noting 25,000 residents and a $10,000,000 assessed value powered by irrigation canals from distant streams.
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W. Grove
Phoenix
Ariz
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Ribeli
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New South Wales
W. Samuel
Ocean Grove
Carter
Eugen
Lie Party
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Ecuuador
Berlin
Frederick
Count von Waldersee
von Waldersee
Hanover
China
Great Britain
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U. S
S. S
Phracen
Ompany
Atlanta, GA
TEMA
Chas
H. Fletcher
Bassano
W. Hw, Smith & CO
Buffalo, W. Y
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