Liquor in the Tropes and Army Health Views
Washington dispatch notes debate on alcohol use in tropical climates for soldiers. Capt Woodruff argues moderation aids health while Surgeon General Sternberg questions a fixed manning scheme. Reference to British troops in India with liver issues. Woodruff recently back from the Philippines and stationed at Fort Riley Kansas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York Herald
Washington
Saideneral Sternberg
India
Woodruff
Philippines
Fort Riley
Reduced Rail Fares Via Multiple Routes This Summer
July travel deals on Santa Fe and connections include through routes to Chicago and Detroit with one fare plus two dollars. Summer dining cars and modern safety features highlighted. Contacts listing E Warren and H M Jay in Salt Lake City for details and reservations.
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Santa Fe
Charleston
St. Paul
Missouri River Points
Chicago
St. Louis
Detroit
iChicago
Rio Grande Western
Colorado Midland
Denver and Rio Grande
Fewer English Travelers in France Reported Loss
The Paris Lyon and Mediterranean line reports a loss of $60,000 due to reduced English visitors in France, reflecting diminished travel and tourism revenue.
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France
Paris
Lyon
Mediterranean
Scenic Denver to Chicago Excursion Rates by D&RG
Cheap excursion rates quoted via the Denver and Rio Grande Railroad offer four daily fast express trains between Grand Junction and Denver with through Pullman and sleeping cars to Chicago. Elegant dining cars aboard and grand scenery promoted. Ask agents for details and tickets via D and RK G R KR.
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Denver & Rio Grande
Grand Junction
Denver
Chicago
Denver and
Rio Grande
Summer Excursions East Via Union Pacific Railroad
The Union Pacific offers one fare round trips from Utah Idaho and Nevada to Chicago Kansas City and St Louis with various July and August travel windows. Trains run daily both directions with Pullman Sleeping Cars Dining Cars and free Reclining Chair Cars. Scenic highlights include Devil's Slide Witches Rocks Green River Bluffs and Pulpit Rock. Further details from the General Agent.
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Union Pacific Railroad
Utah
Kansas City
Wee Bom
Charleston
Cincinna i
St. Paul
Colorado Common Points
Chicago
St Louis
Intermediate Point
Idaho
Arreston
Union Pacific
Nevada
Omaha
Devil’s Slide
Witches Rocks
Green River Bluffs
Pulpit Rock
Devil's Gate
Salt Lake
Pique and Duck Costumes Bring Bright Summer Frock Styles
Read about fashionable summer wear featuring piques and duck costumes in light weight fabrics with embroidery and colorings. Descriptions include blue circular skirts, sailor blouses, Eton coats with red trim, white canvases, pastel shades, and shirring accents. Bold white and striped piques, lace trims, boleros, and brocade accessories highlight the season's chic ensembles.
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Eton
Khaki Fashions and Summer Gowns Flourish in Paris
An Paris authority notes khaki’s popularity in chic racing costumes and describes intricate gown designs. Skirts with shingles, bodices of ecru lace over black satin, and belts of khaki appear with white organdy and lace trims. Elaborate garb features nun's veiling, Russian and Cluny laces, bias satin ribbon lines, and deep accordion plaits.
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Paris
Picturesque Batiste Frock Described in Detail
A fashionable batiste frock features a skirt with clustered hip plaits creating a full round silhouette. The bodice or blouse shows vertical tuck clusters adding structure and texture to the garment.
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Batiste
Lace Bodice Described for Afternoon Waists in Rich Taffeta
A detailed description of a very rich afternoon bodice featuring heavy taffeta silk and renaissance lace. It highlights a tightly fitted back and sides, a slightly drooping front, pearl button groups, a full yoke with box plaits, green-blue velvet borders, a velvet ribbon belt, pointed sleeves, and a plaited taffeta stock neck. The piece notes the bodice flatters both old and young and pairs with any formal skirt.
Turnover Bolero Feature in Victorian Garment Description
A gray nun’s ceiling model showcases a bolero with a full round skirt and plaited inverted V back revealing a high black satin belt. Embroidered white muslin sleeves and chemi sette accompany the coat shaped high collar. Turnover cuffs finish the elbow sleeves and undersleeves.
Cooking School Liver with Mushrooms and Herbs
Fresh calf liver sliced and fried in butter until dark brown. Remove and make a sauce with butter parsley onions mushrooms flour stock or water. Season with salt pepper lemon juice and serve hot.
Eggs Newport Style Scrambled with Milk Toast
Soak one pint bread crumbs in one pint milk then heat eight eggs lightly and mix with crumbs. Melt two tablespoonfuls butter in a saucepan, add egg mixture and scramble over heat. Season with salt and pepper, cook quickly without burning, serve on hot platter garnished with buttered toast triangles.
Doughnut Batter From Old Recipe Card
A concise vintage recipe describes doughnuts using one pound sugar, yolks of four eggs, one tablespoon butter, one tablespoon molasses, mixed, then added to a pint of sour milk or buttermilk, one teaspoon soda in water, and enough flour to form a moderately stiff dough.
Quotations on Love and Character Reflections
A series of moral maxims on love, money, travel, and personal growth. It highlights how wealth and action relate to marriage, judgment of character, perseverance through trials, and everyday financial worries. The tone resembles a didactic compendium of social aphorisms.
Friends Oats Promotion and Navy Pay Increase
The notice promotes Friends Oats urging purchase and saving trademarks for premiums. A separate navy department order increases pay for naval officers on shore in Porto Rico Cuba the Philippine islands Hawaii and Alaska by 10 percent under the last appropriation act.
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Navy Department
Porto Rico
Cuba
Philippine Islands
Hawaii
Alaska
Prohibition and Democratic National Conventions Mapped
The notice promotes tickets for the Prohibition convention in Chicago on June 27 and 28 1900 and the Democratic convention in Kansas City on July 4 1900 with sale dates June 26 27 and July 2 respectively. It urges travel via the Chicago Great Western railway the Maple Leaf Route offering vestibuled trains free chair cars dining service and sleeping car accommodations with a single round trip fare and directs inquiries to the railroad or F H Lord G P and T A at 113 Adams Street Chicago.
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Prohibition
Chicago
Democratic
Kansas City
Chicago Great Western Railway
Maple Leaf
Chicago Great Western
F. H. Lord
Adams Street
Arrests Mount Against Former Santo Domingo Gov Party Leaders
In the northern region of the Santo Domingo republic authorities have arrested several figures including Xollo Garcia and other leaders of the former government party.
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Republic of Santo Domingo
Xollo
Garcia
Government
Allen's Foot-Ease advertised as foot cure
An advertisement promotes Allen's Foot-Ease as the only cure for swollen smarting burning sweating feet coins and bunions. It instructs shaking the powder into shoes and lists druggists and shoe stores as retailers with a free sample offer and mail address in LeRoy New York.
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Allen
Allen S. Olmsted
LeRoy, N. Y
Various notices and advertisements from late 19th century press
Scrambled items report foreign residents in China centered in Shanghai with embassy crowding fears. Reitz sails for Europe on a Dutch warship. Medical cures promise pain free cancer treatment. Netherlands Railway faces expulsion of 1400 employees in Transvaal. Ads offer recipes, dental cures, digestion aids, and hair restorers. Prince David Kananakos leads Hawaiian delegation member. Florida Democratic governor nominee William Jennings Bryan cousin. Death of Captain George F. Towle, U. S. S. A. retired in London.
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C. E. Warren
A. T
Dooly Block
Salt Lake City
Lippincott
Fily
Ellen Olney Kirk
Jane
H. M. Jay
Oeeee
Wellington
Engle
Tephen Crane
New Lippincott
New England
China
Turnover Bolero
Shanghai
Pekin
Winston
Wind College
Laurence Margney
Reitz
Europe
J. AM. Kraft
Colo
The
Netherlands Railway Company of
South Africa
Transvaal
Walter Baker & Co. Ltd
Dorchester
Prince David Kananakos
King Kalakau
William Jennings
William J. Bryan
Florida
Parnken
Mets
British War Office
Uncle Sam
Carter
He Taove
London
George F. Towle
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