Miller Pushes Nicaragua Canal Plan Before Senate Panel
Ex Senator Warner Miller, head of the Nicaragua Canal Co, urged a U S guarantee for bonds to fund the canal project before the foreign relations committee. He argued the world seeks the canal and delaying harms progress, noting Britain and others would build it if the U S does not.
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White House
Warner Miller
Canal Company
Committee On Foreign Relations
United States
England
Miller
Nicaragua Canal Company
Senate Committee On Foreign Relations
Rock Island strike gains ground claims Grand Chief
Grand Chief Ramsey reports defections but net gains for Rock Island telegraphers strike. He says freight yards are blockaded while General Manager St John claims trains run and the telegraph system functions despite the strike. Autopsy on Baron Reinach rumored to cite death by self harm or poison.
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Ramsey
Rock Island
St. John
Rock Island Road
Paris
Baron Reinach
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Reinach
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M. Bourgeois
Panama Canal Company
Conservatives Lose Another Seat In London Ward
London reports Alderman D H Davies member of Parliament for Rochester was unseated by the court on bribery charges against his election agent. The decision marks another Conservative seat loss amid contest and scandal in the period.
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D. H. Davies
Bishopgate
Rochester
Conservaties
Pension Payments Rising in Treasury Disbursements
Washington December 12 pension payments by the treasury department continue to rise and this month have exceeded internal revenue receipts by more than 1 250 000 dollars.
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Congress
House
Secretary of the Treasury
Washiggton
Treasury Department
Notable lawyers and prominent fraternal figures named in notices
Ex Judge J. T. SarpMayn a well known lawyer of Belvidere New Jersey Ties III a prominent Mason and Odd Fellow of Port Carbon Pennsylvania Darius Fizips a wealthy Michigan farmer of Kalamazoo are listed in the notices indicating their standing and locations.
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New Nerve and Liver Pills Claim Quick Bilious Cure
Dr Miles Nerve and Liver Pills advertised to regulate liver stomach and bowels via the nerves. Claims speedily cure biliousness bad taste torpid liver piles constipation. Marketed as safe for all ages with 50 doses for 25 cents and free samples at Crowder and Reeds. Northern Indiana normal school notes two Greek and two Chinese students none speaking English.
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Miles
Crowder & Reeds
Whisky Tax Talk Drives Price Rise Fears
Chicago observers report whisky trust leaders discuss Congressman Scott's bill to raise taxes on whisky as speculators eye market moves. Secretary Hennessey travels from New York for a monthly combine meeting while Mr. Robinson notes any tax increase will push prices higher and keep distillers margins unchanged.
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Whisky Trust
Scott
Hennessey
Trust
New York
Combine
Nan
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Live Stock And Produce Market Quoted Across Cities
Crop and livestock prices shown from Chicago and Detroit markets with wheat corn oats and lard quotes, and cattle sheep and hog ranges at Union Stock Yards plus regional price summaries. Local notes mention a pain balm testimonial and Crawfordsville saloon screen ordinance upcoming.
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Board of Trade
Union
Texas
Wisconsin
Hebrons
Burbanks
Michigan
Illinois
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Cape Cod
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Eugles
Electric Bitters touted as cure for liver kidneys and malaria
An advertisement claims Electric Bitters cure liver and kidney diseases boost blood purity remove pimples and acne drive malaria from the system and prevent malaria fevers. It promises full satisfaction or money back with prices 50 cents and 1.00 per bottle at Joe K Sinock’s drug store.
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Joe. K. Sinock’s
The Little Finger of Statesmen and Post Office History
An article notes Palmistry claim about Mr Gladstone's little finger signaling leadership, then traces the First United States Post Office origins from 1602 colonial projects to Franklin's 1753 role. It critiques aging systems, pitches Dr Pierce’s Golden Medical Discovery, warns about California sequoia logging, and ends with a joke telegram and health advice about bowel care via Patrick's Pills.
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United States
New York
Benjamin Franklin
Philadelphia
Mr. Emerson
Dr. Pierce
Runk Family Kinship Question Puzzles In Law
A Mascoutah Illinois cor respondent to the Chicago Tribune describes a tangled family clan. The Runk father has two sons. the sons marry the widow’s two daughters and the widow’s other daughter marries the Runk father. A final son marries the widow herself. The father asks whether he is his mother in law’s father in law or his daughter in law s son in law, and which if both.
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Runk
Mascoutah
Chicago Tribune
Protest Over Baby Ruth Chronicle Sparks Reader Complaint
A New York Advertiser cor respondent ridicules daily coverage of Baby Ruth, recounting a Thanksgiving tallyho past Mrs. Cleveland at Lakewood and her daughter’s first sounds and toys while urging focus on Hog Island hospital news.
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the Herald
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Lakewood
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Should be in Every House Dr King's New Discovery
Local residents endorse Dr King s New Discovery for consumption coughs and colds after seeing relief for pneumonia threat following La Grippe. Testimonials from J B Wilson Sharpsburg and Robert Barber Cooksport praise its effectiveness with free trials at Joe K Smock s drug store. Large bottles 50c and 1 00.
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Clay St
Sharpsburg
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la Grippe
Robert Barber
Cooksport
Joe K. Smock
Amateur English composers and two college orchestras cited
The article notes several amateur composers including the late prince consort the Duke of Albany the Duke of Edinburgh the Marquis of Devonshire Lady Baker Lady Arthur Hill Lady White and the Hon Malone as creators of melodies of lasting value. It reports the Earl of Dumfraven organizing two orchestras of forty musicians each at Oxford and Cambridge. Lady Mary Dalrymple is mentioned as a member of a successful all female orchestra. New York Press.
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Arthur Hill
White
Malone
Earl of Dumraven
Oxford
Cambridge
Mary Dalrymple
New York Press
Harcourt Named Liberal Leader and Cough Remedy Endorsement
Sir William Vernon Harcourt chosen to lead the Liberal party in Mr Gladstone's absence. He is described as a six five triple chinned Radical with Plantagenet lineage claimed to 880. The Western Branch Iowa Record editor urges Chamberlains Cough Remedy for sudden colds and croup with immediate relief and urges keeping a bottle on hand, sold by Joe K Smock.
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Mr. Gladstone
William Vernon Harcourt
Liberal Party
Royal House of Plantagenet
New York Press
Iowa
Record
Joe K. Smock
Buffalo exhibit shows famed 3000 pound bull in window
An enormous bull buffalo shot in Montana about a year ago is on display in a Buffalo store window. The creature stands nearly 18 hands high and 9 feet 6 inches long, weighing about 3000 pounds at the time of the shot.
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Europe
Paris
Etruria
Arthur Herbert
Helen J. Gammell
Gammel
Montana
Buffalo
Echoes and Oddities from a Century Ago
A collection of short items: medical notes on football injuries in Philadelphia. vast estimates of Chinese empire and population. a nursing bottle ad with a caution about cooling. English Spavin Liniment claims for horse blemish cures. an Indiana druggist ad. notes on Bartlett and Seckel pears. a petrified frog found in Elmira N Y. and a claim about an English willow story linked to Alexander Pope.
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Mancheuria
Chinese Turkestan
Kokanor
Thibet
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Woman’s Character and Truthfulness Reflected in Century Tribute
R J McNeill notes in Century that the subject valued Carlyle and Emerson, admired sincerity, and disliked social shams. Her plain speech contrasted with Candour’s civility, marking a life defined by honesty and directness toward visitors and society.
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Mr. Norton
Emerson
Shames
R. J. McNeill
Veneer family exhibition or horse show argument
Howard in the New York Recorder argues the public attended the horse show for social display rather than sport or breeding. He compares tickets and private boxes costing hundreds to six nights of spectacle, noting both Veneers and attendees pursued status over equine interest. Japanese pins described as long carved hair ornaments capped with pivoted figures amuse readers.
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Howard
New York Recorder
Baltimore Herald
Castoria and a mother's long time remedy
An old advertisement recalls Castoria as the go to remedy across generations from infancy to motherhood. The narration traces a family's reliance on Castoria through childhood illness growth and parenting.
Stenography and Electric Progress in a Distant Era
A 19th century miscellany notes stenography in the French parliament around 1830, mentions M Lagache a surviving official stenographer and French senator. It also cites the rosin weed as the compass plant of US prairies, promotes South American Ner vine, and reports on electricity drying tea leaves in Ceylon and an Austrian electric locomotive proposal at 123 mph.
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M. Lagache
France
United States
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