Mason's advertising notes and town happenings in Carlisle
A flood of short items from Mason's store and local residents. Vendors tout low cash prices on meats produce and groceries. Individuals named include Lewellyn Behm Claude Crowder Tom Hart Maggie Griffith Bessie Slammock and families visiting from Terre Haute Effingham and Philadelphia. Also notices of farming equipment trades auctions and upcoming gatherings in Carlisle and Shaker Prairie.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carl St Clair
Hartford
Mason’s
Lewellyn Behm
Pleasantville
Claude Crowder
Jim Patten
Indianapolis
Mason's
Wagons Gather Scrap Iron Across The Nation
Dozens of wagons travel nationwide collecting old iron brass and rubber including wagons corn huskers threshing machines stoves and plows. Market prices list iron at 55 cents per hundred at Terre Haute as collectors seek salvage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Terre Haute
Farm Lands Offered Near Chicago Milwaukee St Paul Rail
Central Wisconsin lands advertised for sale promises good quarter sections at 87.00 per acre with one third cash and the balance on long time at current rates. Contact W. E. Powell General Immigration agent 555 Old Colony Bldg Chicago for details.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wisconsin
Chicago, Milwaukee& St Paul
W. E. Powell
Old Colony Bldg
Chicago
Those Little Curtis Curls Add Charm to a Pretty Face
The piece notes two to three tiny curls under any hairstyle that enhance a face with quaint coquettish charm. It asserts the curls are often artificial and impractical to fashion scientifically yet remain attractive and appealing.
Smoking in a Public Library at St Petersburg
The St Petersburg public library maintains a smoking room despite general library policy. A local report notes the room exists within the library building and is used by staff and patrons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Petersburg
Grand Army G A R encampment opens in Philadelphia
The 33d annual G A R encampment begins in Philadelphia with Admiral Sampson arriving and 42000 veterans expected in a week of events. President McKinley and officials arrive for reviews and receptions as locals decorate, while campaigns for commander in chief heat up with Shaw Bassieur Johnson in contention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Grand Army of the Republic
Sampson
Ashbridge
Rockford
Ill
Grand Army
McKinley
Root
Gage
Smith
Albert D. Shaw
Joe Sprattpost
Watertown
N. Y
Leo Bassieur
St. Louis
James L. Dalzell
Company H
One Hundred and Sixteenth
Ohio
W. C. Johnson
Cincinnati
Charles Miller
Venago
Walton
Academy of Music
City Hall
Shaw
Johnson
Bassieur
Banneer
Missouri
New York
Finois
Chicas
Department of Illinois
Chicago
Denver
San Francisco
Masked Robbers Loot Spokane Gambling Room
Two masked men robbed Harry Green's gambling rooms in downtown Spokane taking 1900 dollars from tills and a safe. Policeman Gemming was shot in the groin during the chase and possibly fatally wounded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spokane
Wash
Harry Green
Gemming
Veritable Stampede of Miners Toward Nome Diggings
A stampede from St. Michaels to Cape Nome draws 650 Alaska Commercial and North American traders workers seeking new diggings. Salaries rose as miners report beach gold and pay inflated for quicksilver and copper plate. A 20-ounce nugget and a 16-ounce find spur intensifying rush along Anvil City area.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Michaels
Cape Nome
Alaska
Alaska Commercial Company
North American Transportation and Trading Company
Anvil City
Noble Wallingford
Seattle
Wallingford
Port Clarence
Bronetzen
Anvil Creek
Two Murderers Confess in Koeller Killing
Chicago reports Richard Hoeneck and Herman Hundhausen confessed to murdering Walter F. Koeller. They were arrested at Grand Crossing while boarding a train east after late Saturday night arrest. Motives linked to revenge over Koeller’s father in a past murder and school memories in Dixon Illinois.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Richard Hoeneck
Herman Hundhausen
Grand Crossing
East
Walter F. Koeller
Hoeneck
Koeller
Honeck
Herman, Mo
Hundhausen
Shiort
Dixon, Ills
Morgan's Expansion Gospel for American Cotton
Senator Morgan of Alabama foretells expansion as cotton salvation and plans a southern crusade to spread a new gospel. He envisions Manila becoming the world’s cotton market and predicts Americans in a Pacific city will handle two thirds of global cotton, reducing reliance on British brokers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Morgan
Alabama
South
Manila
Liverpool
Pacific Isles
America
Memorial services at Paco cemetery for Pennsylvania dead
In Manila a memorial service was held at Paco cemetery for Pennsylvania soldiers. Chaplain Sutherland eulogized Colonel Hawkins of the Tenth Pennsylvania, who died July 13 aboard the transport Senator. Also noted are remarks on Detroit politics and John Y. McKane’s dying condition, plus the August 31 1899 public debt total at $1,157,806,455 with a cash increase and debt decrease.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manila
Corbin
Paco Cemetery
Sutherland
Hawkins
Alexander Hawkins
Pennsylvania
Senator
United States
John Y. McKane
New York
Coney Island
Washington
Wisconsin Leaf Tobacco Deal Marks New Direct Purchases
Madison announces that the American Tobacco Company will buy leaf tobacco directly from Wisconsin farmers. A material price increase is expected and a mammoth depot will be built in Madison to sort and store its purchases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madison
Wis
American Tobacco Company
Wisconsin
Bar proprietor shot dead after bar bill quarrel
In Loraine Ohio on September 4 Philip Myers owner of the Franklin hotel bar was shot and killed by Franklin E Wheeler a representative of a New Jersey insurance company. The men argued over a bar bill Myers said Wheeler owed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Loraine
Philip Myers
Franklin Hotel
Franklin E. Wheeler
New Jersey Insurance Company
Myers
Wheeler
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Mackeral
Tom Hart
Carlisle
Morris Lake
Maggie Griffith
Bessie Slammock
Dugger
Sewell Coulson
A. G. McNabb
W. A. Jenkins
West Side
Maple Grove
Bethlehem
W. A. Jenkins, No
N. H. HW
Flora Cavins
Carlisle Lodge
A. M
Charles Rotrame
Vint Price
Singer Sewing Machine Co
Greenup, Jr
Draper
Minnie Wright
Noah Crawford
Louisa Borders
Marion R
Amanda
Effingham
Charles Ackerman
Scott Kirkham
Milton
Robert Watson
Nebraska
Wm. Brewer
Rollin Hanchett
Shaker Prairie
Sullivan
N. R. Miller
Ind
Kemp Asbury
Farmersburg
Bennett's Park
A. C. Payne
Switz
Lyons Herald
J. L. Mattox
E. J. Herald
Bertha Wade
Matfox
Vigo County
Teachers’ Institute
the Express
J. N. Blue
Danville
No. 9
W. J. Collins
Shirley van Cleaves
Curry
Jersey
Berkshire
Coffman
Edna Wolfenberger
Janie Smith
Flossie Willis
Rachael Barnard
Nellie Farley
Hester Crowder
Hercules Wilkey
Turman’s Creek
Mart Farley
B. F. McHenry
Colorado
Curtis
del McLean
Dr.j.h.mclean Medicine CO
Joe K. Smock
Quaker City
Union
Schurman
Philippine Commission
John Addison Porter
Cortelyou
Morgan’s
Memoorial Services
Alger
Detroit
R. A. Alger
Public Debt Statement
J. P. Stratton
Harness and Bicycle
Southside
Reid’s Grocery Store
J. H. Drake
Reid
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