Lancaster Millinery Display Next Tuesday and Wednesday
The Lancaster Mercantile Company announces a two day display of its millinery line on October 1 and 2. Miss Evans returns after a European summer, bringing Parisian hat making to town. The store also touts new dress goods and a full range of dress trimmings silk velvet and novelties, claiming leadership in the state.
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Miss Evans
Europe
Paris
Lancaster Mercantile Company
VaiCae
Ransom, Marriage or Death in Miss Stone Case
Constantinople reports the brigands who abducted American missionary Miss Helen H Stone and Bulgarian companion Madame Tsilka set October 8 as the ransom deadline. Stone vows she would rather die than marry a brigand, while the Sultan moves toward a Pan Islamic encyclical.
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Constantinople
Miss Stone
Helen H. Stone
Madame Tsilka
Cruel Hoax Aims at Young Woman From Newspaper Ad
A Chicago woman, attracted by a long distance marriage proposal via a newspaper ad, travels hundreds of miles to meet her supposed lover in Columbia. She finds no fiancé, discovers a squalid setting with an assumed name, and becomes a victim of a calculated hoax. Detectives seek the man’s true identity.
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Columbia
Chicago
Seventeen Die in Canadian Mine Fire at Wellington Slope
Victoria, Oct 1 Seventeen men are dead after a fire and explosion at extension mine No 2 owned by Wellington Colliery Co Flames started from a miner lamp caught on a curtain and spread along level No 3 Rescuers arrived but the miners had fled toward fresh air Their attempts to choke the mine were foiled by a massive blast Several beneficiaries escaped including James Thomas who rode a rope car down the slope and fled George Southcomb and Eugene Griffith urged him to follow but he escaped while others perished.
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Wellington
James Thomas
George Southcomb
Eugene Griffith
Scott's Emulsion Diet Ad Soothes Hungry Thin Bodies
An advertisement promotes Scott's Emulsion claiming it wakes a thin body's metabolism, making it hungry and able to use food to gain weight. It argues you can lead a horse to water but not make it drink, then asserts the emulsion excites eating and tissue growth. Free sample offer from Scott & Bowne.
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Scott
Scott & Bowne
Goo Pearl St
N. Ye See
Fi.co
Catarrh Cure Ad and Bridge Bid Notice 1901
The advertisement offers one hundred dollars reward for catarrh cures with Hall's Catarrh Cure and endorsements of its maker. Also announces a bridge construction bid for Cane Creek at Hood Mill Place near G W Williams with bid opening on October 17 at 11 am and right to reject bids reserved.
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Cane Creek
Hood Mill Place
G. W. Williams
Q. Caskey
Bloody Work in South Africa Massacre Details
Lord Kitchener reports 2 officers and 31 men killed at Col Kekewich camp Moedwill. Boers under De Larey and Kemp lose 14 officers and 114 men at night fighting. Boers believed 1,000 strong. Kekewich wounded twice. wounded sent to Rustenburg. Boers suffer heavy losses. guns at Vlakfontein recovered. Manila reports slaughter of Co C Ninth US infantry at Bulangiga. Captain Connell killed. Derussy heads battalion. 45 bodies burned. 7 uncounted. Macabebes to Legaspi.
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South Africa
Co. “C
Col Kekewich
Moedwill
de Larey
Kemp
Lord Kitchener
Kekewich
Rustenburg
Pretoria
Mafeking
Italy
Fort Prospec Tle
Vlakfontein
Manila
Samar
Co. C. Ninth United States Infantry
Bulangiga
Isaac D. Derussy
Eleventh Infantry
Connell
Their Secret Is Out In Sachevinle Ky Local Cure Claim
In Sachevinle Kentucky residents report a health improvement for Mrs S P Whitaker from a chronic bronchial trouble. The husband attributes the result to Dr King's New Discovery which also cured their granddaughter of a severe whooping cough. The ad promotes the remedy for coughs colds la grippe bronchitis and throat and lung troubles with 50 cent and one dollar bottles and free trial bottles at Crawford Bros and J F Mackey Co drug stores.
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Sachevinle
S.P. Whitaker
Crawford Bros
J. F. Mackey & Co
Indianapolis News Dialect Exchange Clip
A brief quoted exchange shows a playful dialect moment with lines about daily life and a character apologizing for seeming aloof. The snippet captures regional speech in an urban Indiana setting as printed.
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