Young Womanhood and Christian Cowboy Creed Reflected in News Text
A miscellany of didactic prose on female physical development urges young women to seek motherly guidance from Mrs. Pinkham in Lynn Massachusetts. The piece also includes James Barton Adams poem about nature as church and a fragment of a comic strip critique about a Kansas corncob factory and farmers switching to cigars.
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Gabriel
James Barton Adams
Denver Post
Kansas
Salzer seeds and Mother Gray powders promoted in ads
An assortment of old ad copy promotes Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for children to cure feverishness and stomach disorders with over 10,000 testimonials, and Salzer seeds tout large yields in potatoes and grains. It urges sending 10 cents for a seed catalogue from Salzer Seed Co. in La Crosse Wisconsin.
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Mother Gray
New York
Allen 8
Ohnsted
le Roy
Salzer
John A. Salzer Seed Co
LaCrosse
Wis
Resolution on clerks and employes defeated in committee
A Harris on resolution by Smith to cut committee clerks 53 percent and other employes about 25 percent failed 30 to 40 with Democrats largely opposing. Also ads note Hall's Catarrh Cure with a $100 reward for non curing cases and endorsements for F J Cheney Co Toledo Ohio plus druggists selling at 13 cents per bottle.
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Gringell
Iawa
Swanson
Heulmat
Chicago
Jana L
N. Wittaner
Swanson Rheumatic Cure CO
Dearborn St
Nile
Ste
Dearborn
Smith
Harrison
Hall
FR. J
Poetic Hallway Warning About Spitting in KC Office
A Kansas City office hall warning reads Please do not spit on the ex but use the cuspidore. The note hints at a silent, wet girl ignoring pleas from a wealthy suitor, a quaint social vignette from the building corridor.
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Kansas City
Maine Explosion Disaster Sparks Wide Alarm in 1898
The Maine blew up in Havana harbor with hundreds dead or missing. Officials and lawmakers debated cause, favoring accident in the magazine while Spain and Washington offered condolences and pledges of aid. Surviving officers were evacuated as divers prepared to search wreckage.
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Sigsbee
Tong
Maine
Avork
Jenkins
Merritt
Ward Line
City Hospital
Ward
Mexico
Tam
Oliver
Key West
Wainright
Holman
Hemneberger
Ray
Holden
Havana
Spain
Lodge
Cullin
Clark
The
Charles D. Sigsbee
Washington
Richard Wainwright
Goshen
N. Y
B.C. Bower
Brooklyn
KR. Morris
I. Morgan
M. O. Darwin
Red
Eiders
Bhinco Felegrapus
Madrid
Blanco
Ine
Tushi
Secretary of the Navy
Sigsletine
Havana Harbor
Rhineo
Friend W. Jenkins
Darwin W. Merritt
Navy Department
Long
Associated Press
Yorsythe
Fern
Captain Dickens
Sigshee
Dickens
Apia
The First Corn Convention Opens in Chicago
One hundred fifty delegates from corn growing states attended the historic convention in Chicago on February 17. F L Coburn, secretary of the Kansas state board of agriculture, chaired the gathering which aimed to elevate corn's value and uses. The conference highlighted corn’s annual U.S. value as more than thirteen times silver and seven times the combined output of gold and silver, matching the output of several grains and tubers.
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Ch Chienco
F. L. Coburn
Kansas State Board of Agriculture
United States
Pike's Peak Murder Conviction In Colorado Springs Case
Shirley D. Chamberlain was found guilty of first degree murder in the death of Herbert H. Kay near Pike's Peak. The crime involved a night ascent and a body in a culvert by the cog railway. An insurance office boy, Johnnie B. Edmunds of Kansas City, was suspected but later proved an alibi after Governor Stephens initially refused a requisition. The jury deliberated before the verdict.
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Chanberlin
Johnny Edanands
Colorado Springs
Celo
Feo
Shirley D. Chamberlain
Herbert
EH. Kay
Pike's Peak
Key
Johnnie B. Edmunds
Kansas City
W. G. Fraker
Insurance Money
Edmunds
Stephens
Chamberlain
Terrible Explosion Sinks Maine In Havana Harbor
News from Havana reports a violent explosion aboard the U S cruiser Maine in Havana harbor near 10 pm. Many killed or wounded. the ship is heavily burning and there is widespread fear of mass casualties. Rescue efforts are under way with assistance from Spanish warships and local authorities.
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New York
Evening Telegram
Havana
Ilone
Maine
Augustine
Senor du Boso
General Blancd
Tavana
Stiff
Blanco
du Lose
Associated Press
Dueso
London
Count de Rascon
Washington
United States Navy
Pacific Coast Squadron
Apia
Samoa
United States
Trenton
Vandalia
Nilesis
Calliope
Adler
Olga
Eber
Admiral Kimberly
Nihsis
Kimberly
Parquehar
Mitiny
Alfonso XII
Sigsbee
Manterola
Solano
Alfonso Xie
Sigs ®E
Santa Barbara
Navy Yard
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