Terrible accident at Fort Dodge claims young Isaacson
Oscar Isaacson, 21, fell into a sixty feet well being dug near Fort Dodge. A dynamite blast fractured rock, he descended to investigate, became overwhelmed by gas, and disappeared as the well caved in. Relatives oppose grappling hooks. body later recovered. Isaacson leaves a mother, two brothers, and a sister. Des Moines reports on board of control appointments and Democratic candidates. Youthful burglars caught after shop robbery in Hawarden. several suspects arrested. Corwin couple jailed in Tipton for store robbery. Cedar Rapids Democrats win key city posts.
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Fort Dodge
Oscar Ysaacson
Forts Dodge
Isaacson
Ile
Oscar Isaacson
Manson
Des Moines
Board of Control
W. J. Carpenter
Wheeler
Iowa Traveling Men's Association
C. H W. Robinson
E. H. Hunter
Shaw
Vawarden
Mareh
D. A. Wood
Farher
Marshal Whackeray
Hudson
Hawarden
Claud Allen
Wood
Allen
Hawaiien
Ife
Sam Coral
al Quint
Quint
Claude
van Dyke
General Merritt Plans Coastal Inspection Tour to Key West
General Merritt, head of the department of the east, will inspect seacoast fortifications from New York to Key West and Florida points. He will visit St Augustine and defense sites in Georgia and the Carolinas, planning a two to three week trip with two additional artillery regiments approved by Congress.
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General Merritts
Key West
New York
General Merritt
Department of the East
Atlantic
Merritt
New Orleans
St. Augustine
Florida
Georgia
North Carolina
Washington and
D Baltimore
Fort Monroe
Spain
Congress
Time to Stop the Double Game Between Spain and United States
A semi official note from Madrid discusses tensions between Spain and the United States over Fitzhugh Lee and Buono claims. It notes Spain has no complaint against Lee, while US beliefs of Spain provoking war and Spanish views of US demanding hostilities fuel ill will. The piece argues the double game must be halted to prevent an unintended war.
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Pont
Madrid
Spain
Fitzugh Lee
Bianco
Lee
Sherman
United States
No Discussion in Committee Time Fixed for Debate on Appropriation
The house appropriations committee unanimously agreed to report favorably a bill for national defense totaling 59 million dollars. There was little discussion. Sayers of Texas urged a three hour general debate plus one hour under the five minute rule to shape Democrats’ position. Chairman Cannon conferred with Speaker Reed and the plan was accepted.
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Washington
Appropriations Committee
House
Cannon
Reed
Sayars
Interesting live stock figures show large money value nationwide
Washington reports the agriculture department bulletin on January 1 livestock counts. Horses total 13,960,011 with declines, milch cows down, hogs down, but sheep and mules rise. swine value rises across regions. Total farm livestock value up about 236.2 million dollars, a 14.27 percent increase.
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Washington
Agricultural Department
United States
New England
New York
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Michigan
Indiana
Iainois
Georgia
Missouri
Kansas
Nebraska
Iinois
Iowa
Departure of Queen Victoria Postponed Due to Illness
Telegram from the private secretary at noon reports Queen Victoria’s illness not serious, delaying the planned ice tomorrow departure. The note notes the postponement while officials in Yokohama and Tokyo respond to the situation and the foreign ministers of Corea are discussed.
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Windsor
Queen Victoria
Bodies Not Destroyed Have Been Recovered at Colon Cemetery
In Havana on March 7 American divers continued attempts to access Maine wreck compartments but no new bodies were recovered. Ceremonies at Colon cemetery decorated 160 graves of Maine victims with wreaths and a flagless tribute, attended by Consul General Lee, Captain Sigsbee, Chaplain Chidwick, and Americans.
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Maine
Sharp
Merritt & Chapman
Ife
Associated Press
United States
Mangrove
Naval Court of Inquiry
Viscaya
Proctor
Lee
Sigsbee
Batabano
Cuba
Yavana
Castillian
Colon Cemetery
Chidwick
Chaplin Chidwick
George C. Ages
Chicago
Hotel Inglaterra
America
Foraker Declares There Is No Doubt Spaniards Blew Up the Maine
In Columbus Senator Foraker told a hotel party there is no doubt the Maine was blown up by Spain. Rev Dr Washington Giladden defended the administration. Foraker warned war may come if the naval board confirms Spanish treachery. He said protecting the flag justifies the cost, recalling the Civil War.
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Maine
Columbus
United States
Foraker
Great Southern Hotel
Washington Giladden
Columbus Divine
Naval Board of Inquiry
Southern War Claims Bill Set for House Consideration
Washington March 7 The house has set aside next Friday for debate on the bill granting appropriations for specific southern war claims approved by the court of claims. The measure provides more than 18 dollars? The text notes over 18 belo.
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Washington
House
Court of Claims
No armor found in the bleak vision of battle
The Pall Mall Gazette recalls a naked, shivering soul stripped of worldly pageantry facing judgment. In a dark valley the speaker meets Apollyon and vanquishes him, while the solitary combatant stands in a grim, witnessless vigil.
There Are Right Ways and Wrong Ways of Doing Things
Fragmented note about a bull and a goat failing at feats, bruises and cures, praising St Jacobs Oil as the best cure for bruises. Includes stray witticisms about dying, spiders’ thread usage, and a humorous calculation.
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St. Jacobs
Allen's Moot-Ease powder for foot ailments
An 19th century patent remedy advertises Moot-Ease powder to shake into shoes for curing corns bunions chilblains swelling nervousness sweating hot and callous feet. Sold at druggists and shoe stores for 25e by Allen & Olmsted LeRoy New York. Sample offered.
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Allen
ALIX
Allen & Olmsted
LeRoy
Primi Object and Mixed Advertisements in 19th Century Pages
The fragment notes discussions of sound money ahead of elections and promotes Holoster's Stomach Bitters for malaria liver trouble and rheumatism. It cites catarrh as a constitutional issue treated by Hall's Catarrh Cure from Cheney Co. Includes a Paris banquet gag about a Turk declining toothpicks after already eating two.
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Sonn
Hlostetter
Hall
KF. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
J. Cheney & CO
Oslo
Paris
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