Home Gold Cure offers at home treatment for alcohol habit
A Philadelphia company promotes the Home Gold Cure as a disease remedy for drunkenness. It claims rapid, permanent sobriety with no nerve weakening, sold worldwide for one dollar with full directions and optional physician guidance.
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Edwin B. Giles & Company
Market Street
Philadelphia
S.S. S
W. Smith
Noblesville
Ind
THE
Swift Specific CO
Atlanta
Government surveyors halt work over smallpox risk
A government survey party and helpers, who had viewed recent range work west of the Missouri, disbanded here as officials delay review duties. The postponement aims to confine smallpox, delaying the usual report preparation and westward operations to Pierre.
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Missouri River
Nebraska
Pierre
Pan American Opening Excursion Tickets to Buffalo
Nickel Plate offers round trip excursions from Chicago to Buffalo at 13 dollars on four Tuesdays in May. Tickets valid five days returning by Saturday night. trains depart 10:35 a.m., 2:30 p.m., and 10:30 p.m. with vestibuled sleeping cars and meals in dining cars. For reservations contact 111 Adams Street, Chicago or John Y. Calahan.
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Nickel Plate Road
Chicago
Buffalo
Chicago City
Adams Street
John Y. Calahan
van Ren Street
Pacific Avenue
Excursion Rates on North Western Line Announced
Excursion rates effective May 1 with especially low-rate tickets on Tuesday the 7th and favorable return limits. Di ed connections at Chicago with fast trains to Buffalo. An illustrated booklet mailed on receipt of two cents postage by W. B. Kniskern, General Passenger and Ticket Agent, Chicago.
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Chicago
Buffalo
W. B. Kniskern
Excursions to Buffalo Exposition by Nickel Plate
Travel offers from Chicago to Buffalo Exposition on May 7 14 21 and 28 at 313 round trip. Return five days after sale. Three through trains daily with sleeping cars and first class dining car service. For details contact John Y. Calahan General Agent 111 Adams Street Chicago. Depot Van Buren and Pacific venue Elevat ed Loop.
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Nickel Plate Road
Chicago
John Y. Calahan
Adams Street
van Buren and Pacific Venue
Massive May Strike Over Nine Hour Day Demanded
International Machinists predict a nine hour day with ten hours pay will halt metal trades across Washington affecting 150 000 directly and 500 000 indirectly on May 20 unless local settlements occur. Union leaders decry local deals as delays while railroads are held back for prudence.
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Washington
James O’connell
International Association of Machinists
O'Connell
International Association
National Metal Trades Association
The
Metal Trades Association
New York
Machinists’ Association
O’connell
Textile Workers Unite Into One National Labor Union
Boston May 14 75 000 textile workers in North America will join a single labor organization formed from two national bodies following their convention at the Quincy House. The new union will represent men and women employed in the textile industries.
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United Textile Workers of America
International Union of Textile Workers
American Federation of Textile Operatives
James Duncan
American Federation of Labor
International Textile Workers
Boston
Quincy House
North America
A Heroic Act Ends in Tragic Boiler Accident
In Indianapolis on May 14 William Phelps of Richmond Kentucky and James Stansbury of this city were scalded by steam from a cerealine mill boiler. Phelps sacrificed himself to save Stansbury and died after dragging the wounded man to safety. Both men are described as colored.
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Indianapolis
William Phelps
Richmond
James Stansbury
Cerealine
Phelps
Jim
Stansbury
Louisville Carpenters Strike Gains Local Support
Louisville union carpenters strike for a $2.50 minimum wage for nine hours work and non union labor exclusion. The Building Trades Council votes to enforce the union card rule and will quit any job employing non building trades workers. A conference with contractors will be requested.
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Louisville
Union Carpenters of
Building Trades Council
President McKinley Aides Move to San Francisco for Mrs McKinleys Rest
In San Francisco on May 14 President McKinley and party rushed Mrs McKinleys health needs after a sudden illness. A bone felon on her finger caused pain and fever though Dr Rixey eased it with lancing. The couple arrived at Henry T Scotts home for rest and medical consultation.
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San Francisco
McKinley
Wash
Southern Pacific
Third
Townsend Streets
Valencia Street
Dr. Rixey
Dewet Resumes Operations in Transvaal With 2000 Men
London dispatch reports General Dewet has resumed operations and crossed into the Transvaal with about 2,000 men, signaling renewed activity in the region. The Daily Mail cites sources from Pretoria for the update.
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Dewet
London
Daily Mail
Pretoria
Transvaal
Edwin F. Uhl Near Death in Grand Rapids
Edwin F. Uhl former ambassador to Germany lies near death in Grand Rapids Michigan doctors and family have abandoned hope after a long illness Brights disease and complications driven his condition to a final decline.
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Grand Rapids, Mich
Edwin F. Uhl
Germany
Uhl
Omaha Wide Open Again
Omaha resumes normal wide open city after mayor lifts blue law enforcement Saloons gambling houses resume usual business Beer gardens crowded Perfect weather Mayor Moores expresses satisfaction with liberal policy restart
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Omaha
Largest in the World Bridge Planned for Hoboken
The World reports William J. Amend, counsel for North River Bridge Co and director, says Pennsylvania Railroad backs a Hoboken to Manhattan bridge. The $80 million project would be the world’s largest with 16 train tracks, above them trolley lines, driveways, bicycle paths and footpaths.
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New York
William J. Amend
North River Bridge Company
Pennsylvania Raiway
Hoboken
Manhattan
If the Boers Had Known at War's Start
London May 14 General Pole-Carew told a Cornish association banquet that if the Boers had realized their strength and Britain’s unpreparedness at the war’s start they would have driven to Durban and Cape Town and reconquered South Africa from the sea.
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London
Cornish Association
Pole-Carew
Durban
Cape Town
South Africa
Explosion Kills Two at Pleasant Valley Mines
Charles Clabaugh and William Morrison died and John Paxton was seriously injured when a blasting shot went off at Pleasant Valley mines near Carthage Missouri. The incident occurred during a drill work when the workers struck an unexploded shot.
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Carthage
Charles Clabaugh
William Morrison
John Paxton
Pleasant Valley
Here
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Buffalo, N. Y
Buffalo Exposition
St., Chicago
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Textile Workers Combine
Scott
Mrs. Rumley
TCS
W.E. Cass
Sporting Goods
U.G. Fowler & CO
D. W. Smith
Red Cross
de Laval
Collier’s
Foremost Illustrated Journal
Hall Caine
Collier’s Weekly
West Thirteenth Street
New York City
Beadle County
WM. Waibel
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