Feiters Beware Injunction Against Bitters Salesmen
The Ghester Morning Herald reports an injunction in Michigan blocking Collatinus p ng and Warner of Reading, Mich., from selling or marketing a Ghester medicine claimed as a bit ters product. The court orders halt to manufacturing and sale of fluids labeled as bitters or similar imitations. The case names the parties and notes court action by the Court of Chancery, with the Hon. D. Warner presiding.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States of America
Warner
Reading
Mich
Henry B
Court of Chancery
D. Warner
Swindlers Target Drug Gist in Fraud Case Warned
Fragmentary text shows con artist scheme involving a druggist and agents selling tonics. Warned to beware false claims and fraud. References to HOP BITTERS and misleading sales pressures appear as part of the alleged ruse.
Invaluable Information Gleaned From World’s Advertisements
A fragmented line hints at a claim of priceless knowledge from worldwide ads. The tone suggests a promotional or editorial note about high value, free access, and ubiquitous offerings. Details are sparse but imply a broad, promotional stream of goods and services.
Eczema Trouble Recurs in Child Readers Letter
A fragmented notice describes recurring eczema and health woes of a child, with references to headaches and a medical remedy. The text mentions John F. Bradley and a Georgia address, suggesting a wartime or medical correspondence in a newspaper.
Oyster month and assorted 1886 notes
A miscellany of 1886 items covering oyster month, Sheridan, Irish and English business, Yankee crops, California mining Grover Cleveland, Old Testament revisions, and various notes on taxation, population, theater, and industry. Includes Alaska timber, New York actors, Rhode Island growth, a Bridgeport suicide attempt, Hartford factory envelopes, and poststamp longevity.
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General Sheridan
California
Grover Cleveland
Tuere
Angel
New Hampshire
London Times
Rhode Island
Bridgeport
Tax Cremation Society of
Detroit
Alaska
New York
Senator Sharon
San Francisco
Disputed Abduction Case Faces Court Mob at Bow Street
London September 7 news from Bow Street reports the abduction trial of Mr Stead Mrs Jarrett Bramwell Booth and others drawing a violent crowd. Salvation Army members were jeered while reporters clipped notes and the accused faced questions about the girl Eliza Armstrong who testified of abduction and mistreatment and of being moved to France. The court adjourned with bail granted to all defendants.
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London
Stead
Pall Mall Gazette
Jarrett
Bramwell Booth
Salvation Army
Mr. Poland
The
Treasury
Crown
Madam Maury
General Booth
Memo
Salvaion Army
Armstrong
Cost of Grant Funeral Bill Itemized Below 20,000
New York says Grant funeral costs are far less than rumors. General Perry notes estimates ranged up to 50 000 or 100 000, while the government share has been sent to Washington. The bill covers state lying in New York and Albany but not body transport or funeral train. Total expenses amount to about 14 162.75 dollars.
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New York
General Grant
General Perry
Governor’s Island
Ime
Washington
Mt. McGregor
Railroad Company
City Hall
Albany
New York City
Jersey City
Brooklyn
Perry
Merritt
Child Expels Two Foot Water Snake From Stomach
Sept 6 Hartworp Cury report describes Lillie Hahn seven years old living south of the city who endured months of stomach pain and weakness. She expelled a live water snake over two feet long from her bowels, revealed under microscopy to move its tongue and remain active in rain water. The child rapidly recovered with observers noting the reptile’s movement.
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Hartworp
Develo
Lynch Mob Hangs Murderer in Chattanooga Jail
Ex policeman and streetcar driver Pope Mitchell was shot four times by Chas. Williams a mulatto in Chattanooga Tennessee. After a long chase Williams was captured and jailed but mob violence erupted with militia on guard. By September 7 the mob broke jail doors and hanged Williams in a brutal method, while earlier a white man and a black person were reported shot during the midnight fusillade.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chattanooga
Tenn
Pope Mitchell
Chas. Williams
Williams
Batlo Nken
Gagjal
Batro Clu
Ollow
Chattanooga Cadets
Chicamauga Cadets
Chattanooga Light Infantry
Knoxville
No. 13
Mitchell Williams
Snow Storm Ends Dry Feeding Outlook in Deapwoop
Deapwoop Dakota September 6 report notes a two week spell of bad weather ending with a snow storm yesterday. Temperatures 50 to 60 degrees, daily rain, gloomy grain prospects as four fifths of crops are cut and on the ground heating. Much stacked feed destroyed, threshing minimal. Prices rise, sales scarce. Farmers greatly discouraged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Deapwoop
Dak
Potatoes Threatened by Shiny Bug In Local Farms
In Lyons on September 6 farmers report a small shiny bug invading potato hills and eating into spuds. The pest bores down stalks, lays eggs inside potatoes, and could cause crop losses in the area.
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Lyons, N
Philadephia Boy 12 Ends His Life In Private Room
Oscar Leon Parry twelve year old son of W H Parry formerly of Hartford Conn killed himself in his Philadelphia room this morning by a pistol shot to the head. No cause is given for the act.
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Philadelphia
Oscar Leon Parry
W. H. Parry
Hartford
Conn
Clergyman Chas W Price Hangs Self in Kansas City
Rev. Chas W Price a Presbyterian minister in Kansas City hanged himself this morning. Authorities say his mind was unsettled by the death of a brother and sister. He came to the city from Plattsburg Missouri.
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Kansas City
Chas. W. Price
Plattsburg
Last surviving War of 1812 officer dies at Waterville home
New York report states Major Aaron Stafford died today in Water ville, Oneida County. He was in his ninety ninth year and retained his mental faculties to the end.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Aaron Stafford
Waterville
Oneida County
N. Y
Wallulla Cleared From Duluth with 20000 Barrels of Flour
The steamship Wallulla sailed from Duluth for Buffalo carrying 20 000 barrels of flour from Minneapolis. The cargo would fill 160 freight cars, the largest shipment yet floated on the Great Lakes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Duluth
Minn
Wallulla
Buffalo
Minneapolis
Impossible for White Men to Live There in Congo Report
Army and Navy Register prints letters from Lieutenant E H Taunt U S Navy detailing fever and death among stations along the Congo. He describes long marches of 216 to 226 miles, harsh mountains, and a stark view that white men cannot live in the interior. He aims to reach Stanley Falls but fears delays and fever as he travels toward Upper Congo via launch.
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Wasutxeton
Army
Congo
E. H. Taunt
U. S. Navy
Viri
River Congo
Bam
Stanley Pool
Cape Sabine
Africa
Pounales
Tisdel
Northill
Opoldvillee
Lanriv
N’gombe
Stanley Falls
Upper Congo
Congo Free States
Falls
Eig
A Ray of Hope for Mrs Walkup
Kansas City reports an interview with Dr C W Scott who treated a man calling himself Mr Walkup an Emporia alderman. The visitor, allegedly intoxicated, sought advice on a chronic disease and later disappeared. Mrs Walkup’s attorney recently viewed Walkup’s photo among many as part of defense in her murder trial.
Vaccination and Health Inspectors Expand Control
An order in Council authorizes the Provincial Board of Health to appoint inspectors with power to board trains and steamboats from Montreal and to demand vaccination certificates or vaccinate on the spot. In Fay River Massachusetts over four thousand children are vaccinated this week, with doctors also vaccinating many during private visits.
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Toronto
Provincial Board of Health
Montreal
Fay River
Mass
Old faded Tennessee banknotes redeemed by Treasury
In Was hindon on September 4, the Union Planters Bank of Memphis Tennessee sent to the Treasury for redemption two old faded fifty dollar notes issued in February 1842. The notes, half the size of a sheet of letter paper and nearly square, show their great age. Interest on these notes is allowed for only one year under the law governing their issue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Connecticut
United States
Cairo Daily Gazette
Illinois
Alaska
Wasn Hindon
Union Planter’s Bank
Memphis
Tenn
Treasury
Keech Freed Then Held On Illinois Probe Charge
Philadelphia September 4 Frederick W Keech alias Hooker was released from Eastern Penitentiary after two four month terms for illegal mail use. He was immediately reconfined on a Governor of Illinois requisition and sent west charged with conspiring to obtain 2600 dollars from R L Gilbert of Mt Carroll.
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Philadelphia
Frederick W. Keech
Hooker
Eastern Penitentiary
Illinois
R. L. Gilbert
Mt. Carroll
Chicago Paper Dealer Killed At Vermont Mill
BRATTLEBORO VT September 4 A Chicago paper dealer T H Brown was fatally injured last night when he fell into a large revolving water wheel at Cole and Goughs paper mill He was carried around for several minutes before the wheel was stopped and died of his injuries during the night.
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Chicago
Brattleboro
T. H. Brown
Cole & Gough
Brown
Killing Diseased Hogs Condemned At Stockyards
CuicaGco reports that twenty one cholera stricken hogs were condemned at the stockyards last night and forty more were condemned on Tuesday, totaling sixty one in two days. The hogs had been shipped to the city in a diseased condition.
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CuicaGco
Cholera Toll Rises Across Spain and Marseille
Maprio reports 2,500 new cholera cases and 788 deaths in Spain yesterday. Marseille records eleven deaths from cholera today, signaling a severe outbreak across the region.
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Maprio
Spain
Marseilles
British General Babington Killed in Scotland Shooting Accident
Lieutenant General John H. Melville Babington of the British army was killed today in Dumfries Scotland by accidental discharge of his gun while grouse shooting.
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Babington
London
John H. Melville Babington
Dumfries
Scotland
A Week's Failure Across Nation Reported
New York reports seven day business failures tallying 165 across United States and Canada combined. R G Dun & Co Mercantile Agency notes 146 U S failures and 19 in Canada, compared with 189 last week and 177 the week before.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
R.G. Dun & Co
Mercantile Agency
United States
Canada
Fatal Scourge Strikes Clay County West Virginia
An alarming unnamed disease sweeps Sycamore Creek area in Clay County. It hits families swiftly, with victims dying within hours. Doctors are baffled, and spread threatens the southwestern county as aid remains scarce.
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Parkersbane
W. VA
Clay County
Sycamore
Sycamore Creek
Collins
Phelps
Phillips
McGraw
Morton
Walker
Leezmore
Patent for a clock spring powered sewing machine motor
Washington reports a patent issued to Jiencke and Mc Kee of Philadelphia for a spring powered device to run sewing machines. It replaces the treadle with clock springs, allowing variable motor speed by foot pressure on a rest and a short winding powers the device all day. The invention promises quiet operation and smooth, controllable speed.
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Washington
Messrs
Wisconsin Grand Lodge Bans Good Templars From License Voting
The Wisconsin Grand Lodge of Good Templars adopts a resolution prohibiting members from calling for elections or voting on license prices under the new law. The order opposes all license and endorses efforts to end liquor traffic, expressing support for the Prohibition party.
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Madison
Wis
Wisconsin Grand Lodge of Good Templars
Good Templar
Prohibition Party
Would-be death by own action Horribly Mangled
Geneva Illinois September 3 Henry A Ferson of St Charles in despondent mood attempted suicide by gun yesterday. He placed chin over the muzzle and kicked the hammer with his cap causing the charge to devastate the lower jaw tongue nose and cheek leaving the eyes intact. He survives but will likely not recover.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Geneva
Henry A. Ferson
St. Charles
Arrest for brutal child murder shocks Kirkville
Peoria January 3 Charles Fields colored was arrested for the murder of his nine year old adopted son in Kirkville Iowa on the 29th of last month. The weapon was driven into the boy’s left side puncturing the lung and the body was tied in a sack. Fields admits the act, saying he was drunk at the time.
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Peoria
Iun
Charles Fields
Kirkville
Fields
Wellsville
Peterson
Board of Live Stock Commissioners of
Ohio
Cincinnati
Peter Maise
Barney Braam
Ohio Wool Growers
Columbus
Congress
North Industry
Stark County
Robert Holliday
Andy Baum
May
Salineville
Herbert Fay
Eli Wright
Youngstown
Ashland
Eighty-second
Ohio Infantry
Yoho
Gallia County
Mansfield
Crestline
Massillon Company
Shelby Cornet Band
Springfield
Clark County Medical Society
Lancaster County
Abner L. Ross
Warren County
Mason
Sharpsburg
Simon Brenner
Levi Gray
Newark
Hattie Bell
Griffith
Tragedy in Burrago Woman Kills Child Then Injures Self
At Burrago on September 4 Mrs. Mary Miller killed her four year old child by throwing it before a Lehigh Valley locomotive and then attempted to kill herself by stepping in front of the train. The child was killed instantly. Mrs. Miller suffered serious arm injuries requiring amputation but is expected to recover.
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Burrago
Mary Miller
Lehigh Valley Railway
Elk Rapids Iron Company Ships First Western Charcoal Iron
Elk Rapids Michigan September 3 The Elk Rapids Iron Company received an order for four hundred tons of charcoal iron to be shipped to England, likely the first iron of Western manufacture ever sent from the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elk Rapids, Mica
Elk Rapids Iron Company
England
Three Children Shot In Milwaukee Saloonkeeper Arrested
Milwaukee on September 7 report that saloonkeeper Jos Jarvek is under arrest for shooting three children. He bought a gun on Friday and lent it to a neighbor for hunting. The gun returned Sunday unloaded. Jarvek fired in the backyard, aiming at the ground. A stray cartridge went through a fence and struck Frances Kareschowski, 15 months, in a carriage. Frank, 7, suffered chest, abdomen, shoulder and head wounds. A 12-year-old girl was also hit in the arm. Doctors fear for the children’s recovery. Police protected Jarvek from a mob until arrest.
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Milwaukee
Wis
Jos
Jarvek
Frances Kareschowski
Frank
Poisoning Sensation at St. Joseph Near Champaign
In St Joseph near Champaign Illinois an alleged poisoning case shakes the community. Mrs Peabody and Mr Peabody along with Miss Belle Hasty died suddenly within two weeks from a stomach neuralgia. Silas Peabody, once engaged to Miss Hasty, fell ill but recovered. A package of Rough on Rats was found pinned to Miss Hasty s undergarment before her death. Rumors suggest Miss Hasty poisoned the Peabodys to block her marriage and then killed herself and her lover. Miss Hasty had a good reputation.
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Champaign
St. Joseph
Here
Hiram Peabody
Peabody
Mr. Peabody
Belle Hasty
Silas Peabody
Miss Hasty
Pony
Young Peabody
Burglary at Ocean View House Seized $10000 Cash Jewelry
A large break in at Ocean View House in Nantasket Beach Massachusetts yielded about $10000 in cash and valuable jewelry after the safe was blown open and carried to the beach. Thieves also entered the Hotel Standish stealing from the wine cellar. Some papers and $100 were found near the blast site.
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Nantasket Beach
Mass
Ocean View House
Standish
Wisconsin Census Shows 1 563 930 Population Rise
Madison reports the state census totals 1,563,930 residents, up 21 percent since 1880. Gains are strongest in the northern half due to new settlement and lumber activity.
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Madison
Wis
Wisconsin
Postmaster Hughes and aide arrested over 1200 dollar shortage
Washindon reports that Thomas Hughes Postmaster at Albuquerque New Mexico and Assistant Postmaster Clark have been arrested amid a discovered shortage of 1200 dollars in the office accounts.
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Washindon
Thomas Hughes
Albuquerque
N. M
Clark
Ofce
New York City Plants Powering Gardens Sell Seasonal Boost
The New York Mail notes that at least two million power plants are likely sold each spring in New York and surrounding areas. Retail prices range from ten cents to a dollar, averaging about twenty five cents, totaling roughly 500000 dollars yearly for city and suburbs, aimed at adorning gardens and windows, excluding cut flowers.
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New Yor
N. Y
Lincoln County Woman Betty Frothingham Reported Aged 149
Lincoln County Tennessee celebrates Betty Frothingham described as a centenarian milestone figure. Local records and community accounts note her extraordinary age, with residents and officials acknowledging the historic claim and its cultural fascination.
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Lincoln County
Tenn
Betty Frothingham
Texas Treasury Woes Prompt Cautious Lands Policy
Gov Ireland criticizes funds policy as depleted treasury leads to restraint on selling lands or raising taxes. He favors avoiding large borrowing while ensuring essential expenses. Land Board actions focus on Greer County grazing lands amid boundary disputes. leases yield over $20,000 in first year rentals.
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Austin
Ireland
Texas
State Land Board
Land Board
Greer County
United States
Day Land and Cattle Company
Cholera Infected Raisins Alarm U S Traders
San Francisco reports a scheme to import cholera infected raisins from Malaga and Denia. New York health officer William Smith advised shipments from non infected points could avoid quarantine delays. Fruit trade leaders warn microbes can persist in packed fruit and pose a serious health risk. New York officers are charged with gross neglect of duty in enabling potential entry of cholera.
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San Francisco
United States
Pacific Coast
New York
Malaga
Wm. Smith
Denia
President Duncan Chosen For Vassar College
Dr Samuel White Duncan born December 19 1838 at Havers hill Bass later educated at Brown Rochester Seminary and ordained pastor. He led the Fiftieth Massachusetts in the Civil War and has served churches in Cleveland Cincinnati Rochester and now assumes the Vassar presidency aiming to raise standards curriculum and endowment.
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Boston
Vassar College
Samuel White Duncan
Havershill
Bass
Brown University
Newton Theological Seminary
Fiftieth Massachusetts
Rochester Theological Seminary
Erie Avenue
Cleveland
Ohio
Cincinnati
Rochester
N. Y
Vassar
Friends of
Georgia's New Capitol Corner Stone Ceremony
Ten thousand people witnessed the corner stone laying for the proposed new Capitol in Atlanta on September 2. The Legislature attended in full, General A R Lawton of Savannah delivered a patriotic address, and a mile long procession marked a gala day, while Ex Senator Robert Toombs, though in the city, was too feeble to attend or witness the ceremonies.
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Atlanta
A. R. Lawton
Savannah
Robert Toombs
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Henry County
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