Klondike hints and global dispatches flood the news
Joseph Ladue endorses Royal Baking Powder for Alaska use while noting his Alaska Commercial ties. Navy plans arm New York harbor boats over 100 feet for swift gun deployment. Dispatches report Spanish refugees in the Philippines and Berlin backing U.S. neutrality in a potential Spain conflict. Mexican bull girls tour draw crowds. Behring Sea sealing fleet protection and Klondike gold transport discussed. Indiana cornstalks ready for a cellulose plant. Mississippi City sheriff robbed by fishnet theft after tax collection night.
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Singapore
Phillippine Islands
Manila
Berlin
Germany
United States
Spain
Mexico
Behring Sea
Klondike
North Pacific
Linden
Crawfordsville
Ind
Mississippi City
Miss
True Gallantry Adapts With Times In City Cartoon
A Springfield Republic editorial extols genuine gallantry as timeless and shares a local incident of a water cart driver offering a wash for a woman whose hands were dirty after a bicycle fall. The simple act is praised as true gallantry translating old knightly virtue into modern considerate manners.
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The
Springfield Republican
Typographical Blunders and Proofreader Follies Explored
A New York journal blunder list yields classic gaffes from printing errors. Examples include misprints turning car into calves and major slips like Bring me my togs from toga.
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New York Journal
Mr. Black
Robert Peel
Ireland
Peel
Roxey and Bill Echo Old Dreams Across Time
A long lost western uncle sends a photo and notes Roxey once known as Bill still survives in a Maynard girl now settled with a kind husband. She recalls the old romance with guarded emotion, sensing undertones of a past attachment. The piece closes with a Japan note on doctors offering service without pay and a hint of Abe Lincoln in a local incident.
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Maynard
Roxey
Bill
Chicago Times-Herald
Fibroid Tumor Cured by Lydia E Pinkham's Compound
Mrs B A Lompano of West dale Massachusetts writes that she suffered a fibroid tumor in her womb and heavy flow. After medical treatments failed a neighbor praised Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She took it and the flow regulated. A follow up exam found the tumor had passed away and pain gone.
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B. A. Lompano
Westdale
Mass
Lydia E. Pinkham
Fifty three Japanese laborers to be deported from San Francisco
A San Francisco telegram reports fifty three men who claimed to be students but were found to be agricultural laborers will be deported to Japan. They wore varied American clothes with backward trousers and reversed collars. A separate note cites Hiram Maxim predicting a one sided war and strong American naval power counterbalancing Spanish ships. Berlin says Germany will not hinder the United States nor intervene for Spain, while Russia signals friendship with the United States. A medical tip notes that applying egg white to burns provides prompt relief.
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San Francisco
Japan
Hiram Maxim
Berlin
The
Standard
Germany
United States
Spain
Dresden
William
Franz Josef
Austria
Russia
St. Petersburg
Prominent Notices From Around The World And Nation
A mix of brief items including a 100 man naval reserve unit formed at University of Michigan Ann Arbor. Switzerland bans fresh US fruit imports. An entomologist cites 12 000 000 aphids on a cherry tree. John Jacob Astor offers Findlay Fort Wayne & Western railroad for Indiana troop and supply movement. Australia has no orphan asylums and wards receive government pensions. Barboursville Kentucky reports five more murders in the Baker Howard feud. U S censorship on telegrams to Havana. Cuba declares war and martial law under Captain General Blanco. California stockmen lease swamp lands to cope with drought. US military attaches in St Petersburg and Vienna recalled. Edward Bellamy ill with consumption in Denver. Kranke sues Mrs Weinstein for 500 over a wife arrangement. Whalers near Point Barrow send a relief courier. over 150 men jailed by ice. Georgia fixes sermon value at 33 for ministers at convict camps. Oldest Chester PA house badly damaged by fire, built 1668.
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Naval Reserve
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor
United States
John Jacob Astor
Findlay, Fort Wayne & Western Railway
Indiana
Australia
Barboursville
Key West
Havana
Blanco
Cuba
California
Drouth
St. Petersburg
Vienna
Edward Bellamy
Denver
Colo
Paul Anton Kranke
Philadelphia
Georgia
Pennsylvania
Chester
Prince Poniatowski Leads 10000 HP Sierra Electric Venture
Prince Poniatowski heads a new company to transmit 10,000 horse power of electric current from the Sierra Nevada slopes to San Francisco. Prof J W Hoffman of the Late Col Colored college at Orangeburg DC is elected a fellow of the American Geographical Society, the first colored man so honored. The tympanum is described as a drum. Korea is the size of Kansas at 2,000 square miles. The liver’s normal weight ranges between three and four pounds. Snow slide at Chilkoot Pass, Klondike, is reported to have caused up to 100 deaths, with sixty nine bodies found so far.
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Prince Poniatowski
Sierra Nevada Mountains
San Francisco
J. W. Hoffman
Colored College
Orangeburg, D. C
American Geographical Society
Korea
Kansas
Chilkoot Pass
Klondike
All Around Market Report From Local Prices
Local market report lists wholesale wheat, oats, rye and flour prices by warehouse and region, with detailed per cwt and per lb quotes. Also included are eggs, wool, dairy, produce, poultry and meat prices, plus notes on regional wheat futures and a medical advertisement. The piece closes with a brief remark on land allotment delays affecting the Ute Indians.
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Bluestem
Spokane
Daiehen
California
Portland, Or
Walla Walla
Valley and Bluestem
Tacoma
Allen's Foot-Fase advertised as instant foot relief
Promises quick cure for painful swollen smarting feet with Allen's Foot-Fase It claims to ease light-fitting or new shoes and treats chilblains sweating callous and hot tired feet Also cites over 10000 testimonials and offers mail order options and prices at 25 cents in stamps plus a free trial package Allen & Olmsted Roy NY and Canada as example locations Also references Dr Kline's nerve restorer and Piso's Cure for consumption with testimonials from users and dates.
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Allen
Allen & Olmsted
Roy, N.Y
To Sharpen Your Appetite Vitalize Blood To Overcome
A brief health feature urges readers to sharpen appetite and boost vitality through targeted nutrition and lifestyle habits. It emphasizes steady meals, balanced fats, and regular activity as keys to overcoming fatigue and supporting overall wellness.
President's Proclamation Calls for 125000 Troops for Two Years
Washington April 23 1908 President McKinley issues a proclamation calling for 125000 volunteers to serve in the United States Army for two years unless sooner discharged The call will be apportioned among states territories and the District of Columbia and details will be communicated through the War Department. Also notes about war revenue projections and a $500000000 loan with 3 percent bonds.
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Washington
United States
Congress
William McKinley
District of Columbia
War Department
William M'Kinley
John Sherman
Revenue cutter captures Saturnina at Ship Island
A Biloxi dispatch reports revenue cutter Winona from Mobile seized the Spanish steamer Saturnina at Ship Island at 1 am. The prize will likely stay in quarantine until tomorrow or the next day. The note adds that Europe is less than a quarter the size of Asia.
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Atlanta
Biloxi
Miss
Mobile
Ship Island
Iss
Europe
Asia
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Montana
G. W. Gilman, M. D
P. C. Hall
Center Broadway
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Herman Berg
Notary Public
Townsend, Mont
E.h.goodman
Attorney At Law
C. H. Baldwin
Broadway
Townsend
J. E. Kanouse
A. K. Prescot
N. Main St
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Herman Sperling
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Wallace
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C. A. Wilder
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Joseph Ladue
Teveon City
Alaska Commercial Company
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Louisville
New York
Estern
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Orecon
Bluestone
Seattle
Meere
Anp
Stewart & Holmes Drug Co
M. D. Fowler, Fox
Southington, Conn
N. Y
Piso
Uncle Bills
Abe Lincoln
Lydia H. Pinkham
Condensed News OF World
Schilding
Ceylon
A. Schilling & Company
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Paris
Lhat
DR. Archambault
U. S
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Dr. Archambault Co
Pemberton Square
Boston
Hercules
Hercules Gas Engine Works
Bay St
San Francisco, Cal
Ste. Lead
Lake
William Keith Brooks
Johns Hopkins University
Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
Tie. Halls Family
Solomon
Manly Ig Mason Chemical
Thiadelphia
John A. Miller
Au Sable
Michigan
Castoria
Samuel Pitcher
Hyannis
Massachusetts
Chas. H. Fletcher
Mothers of America
Centaur Company
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