Million Dollar Express Car Robbery Rumor In New York
A reported heist claims American Express Company lost about one million dollars from a through western express car at Forty eighth street yards while a train was being made up. Company officials denied any robbery though details remain unconfirmed. Separately, clerk Braden allegedly stole five thousand dollars in bonds and five thousand dollars in cash from Consumers Gas Company in Chicago.
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New York
Evening Telegram
American Express Company
Western Express
Forty Eighth Street
Evening
Associated Press
Consumers’ Gas Company of
Chicago
Braden
Americans to Buy Welsh Property
London dispatch reports an American syndicate with £2,000,000 intends to buy the Dowlais steel works and collieries in Wales from the Wilburne family. Other notes mention Ontario public accounts showing a half million dollar surplus, a Cleveland ordinance allowing Sabbath observant Hebrews to run Sunday billiard rooms, and a quip about sinners turning saint.
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London
Cardiff
Wales
Dowlais Steel Works
Wilburne
Ontario
Cleveland
Slocum Promises Cure for Consumption in News Paper Appeal
A bold notice touts T A Slocum M D of New York as the world leading chemist with a new system of medicine claimed to cure consumption and related lung diseases. The advertisement offers three free bottles and asks readers to write for correspondence free of charge, asserting worldwide gratitude and efficacy.
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Pasteur
Rock
Slocum
T. A. Slocum
New York City
M.D
Pinestreet
New York
Erlay
Dr. Slocum
Pine Street
Qindon's Dog Cemetery and Denmark Railway Zone System
A Hyde Park dogs burying ground holds about two hundred tombs with inscriptions praising departed pets amid humorous and poignant epitaphs. The passage shifts to Denmark adopting a zone pricing system for state railways with eighteen zones, detailing ticket costs and wide travel discounts, followed by a humorous cartoon caption about a man and his possessions.
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Victoria Gate
Hyde Park
Boby
ISG
Flick
Maudie
Prnny
Jacob
Pompey
Florence St. John
Byron
Hungary
Russia
Denmark
London
Edinburgh
S&s
London Daily News
Inheritance of a Baby’s Voice Draws Complaints
Mr Cross notes the baby inherits its noise from both parents and keeps it up like its mother and father. Mrs Cross questions how so. A Detroit Free Press quip observes few are satisfied by going to law and notes much talk behind its back.
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Beth
Mr. Cross
Mrs. Cross
Detroit Free Press
Civil Service Debate Heats Up as Opponents Speak Loudly
In the House on Thursday and Friday the civil service dispute drew many speakers from the opposition while supporters urged reform. Senator Teller attacked the gold standard in the Senate as efforts on Hawaiian annexation moved to closed sessions and a vote count surfaced.
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House
Grosvenor
Ohio
Johnson
Rep
Indiana
Jackson
England
Senate
United States
Omaha
Fergus Falls
Minn
Newport News
Red Cross Society
Allen
Teller
Republican Party
Friends of the Law
Reed
Rules Committee
Davis
Senate Committee On Foreign Relations
Indian Committee
Indian Territory
Indian money crisis and murder spree in New England
The dispatch reports India inviting tenders for one million pounds of bills to settle obligations due January 22, amid currency and gold silver coinage debates. Separately in Massachusetts, Francis D Newton his wife and their adopted daughter Ethel were found murdered in Brookfield, with a hired man missing after axe killings. In Tacoma, Charles Groams is convicted of second degree murder in the Puyallup case.
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London
India
Bombay
Indian Council
Bank of England
Worcester
Mass
Francis D. Newton
Brookfield
Sarah
Ethel
Paul
Tacoma
Charles Groams
Puyallup
Bruises and Cures Mentioned in Odd Page Notes
The passage notes bulls and goats failing dramatic stunts and sustaining bruises, while claiming St Jacob s Oil is the best cure. It also mentions renewed interest in using storage battery electricity among scientists.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Jacob's
All Around Market Report Spokane Jan 10 Prices
Wholesale prices listed for wheat oats barley rye and fruits vegetables dairy and meats with Spokane and Walla Walla figures. Includes club bluestem sacked prices, butter eggs butter and cheese ranges, produce and poultry rates, and regional metals quotes.
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Spokane
Club
Bluestem
California
Concord
Walla Walla
Portland
Valley
Tacoma
Woman Sentenced to Fifteen Years in Auburn Prison
Mrs Augusta Nack jointly charged with Martin Thorn in the murder of William Guldensuppe at Woodside Long Island in June 1897 has been sentenced to 15 years in Auburn prison. She pleaded guilty to manslaughter before Judge Garretson after an agreement with the district attorney and her counsel Emanuel Friend.
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New York
Augusta Nack
Martin Thorn
William Guldensuppe
Bath
Woodside
L. I
Auburn
Long Island City
Garretson
Supreme Court
Beware of Morphine Warning and Women’s Health Remedy
A Vermont woman, Mrs Lucy Prasky of Derby Center, reports severe side pains and exhaustion along with cessation of menses and womb bearing-down pains. After five bottles of Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound she says headaches and heart palpitations eased and she feels herself again and urges others to try the medicine.
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Lucy Prasky
Derby Center
Lydia FE. Pinkham
The President on Silver and Bimetallism
Senator Chandler reports a conference with President McKinley on bimetallism. The president backs international bimetallism as pledged in the St Louis platform and plans to renew negotiations with European powers when India conditions allow. Chandler supports bimetallism and the use of both metals as standard money.
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Washington
Chandler
McKinley
St. Louis
India
Europe
Death of Seth D. Tripp Inventor of Shoe Machines
Lynn Massachusetts January 12 Seth D Tripp died at 72 he pioneered shoe manufacturing machines starting with a pegging machine that transformed the industry He later invented a counter skiver rolling machinery sole molders shank cutters heel polishers and other devices earning multiple patents which reshaped factory work
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Lynn
Mass
Seth D. Tripp
Dawson City party reports Dawson cold and scarce supplies
Nine men from Dawson City arrived in Port Townsend with advices up to December 9. They say provisions are scarce but not scarce to the point of starvation. Prices range from one to one fifty per pound for provisions and candles have dropped to fifty cents. The overland trip used dog teams and was without incident. Dawson reported its coldest weather to date at fifty five degrees below zero.
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Port Townsend
Dawson City
Dawson
Palace Saloon Holdap Threatens Patrons in Prescott
A lone gunman robs the Palace saloon in Prescott at gunpoint, taking nearly 500 dollars from about 20 patrons. Authorities believe an accomplice waited outside and both men fled toward a northbound train.
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Prescott. Ariz
Ore theft charges filed in Jefferson county case
Butte Montana January 12 Elling Ellingson rests here and Phil Murphy in Helena charged with stealing a car load of ore from the Golden Chief mine in Jefferson county. The ore worth six thousand dollars was shipped to the Colorado smelter for treatment.
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Butte
Mont
Elling Ellingson
Phil Murphy
Helena
Golden Chief
Jefferson County
Colorado
Open letter on trademark rights for Pitcher’s Castoria
Samuel Pitcher declares exclusive rights to the word Castoria and Pitcher’s Castoria, naming The Centaur Company as authorized holder, notes original signature on wrappers, and urges consumers to verify CHAS H. FLETCHER signature. Also offers a brief bird care tip about canaries and poison risk with painted cages.
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Samuel Pitcher
Hyannis
Massachusetts
Castoria
Chas
Fletcher
Mothers of America
H. Fletcher
Centaur Company
Samuel Pitcher, M
Smiley Smith Wedding in Hope Idaho Sets New Union
Brakeman Jacob R. Smith and Miss Ida Smiley were married at the bride’s uncle Congressman N G Sisson’s residence in Hope Idaho last Sunday evening. The couple will reside on Highland Avenue in Hope. Attendants included the bride’s father from Cottonwood and sister Mrs W J Mulvihill of Kaslo B C.
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Hope
Idaho
Jacob R. Smith
Ida Smiley
Nope
N. G. Sisson
Cottonwood
W. J. Mulvihill
Kaslo
B. C
Highland Avenue
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C. S. Perry
Old Patriarchian Building
Broadway and
Spruce
G. W. Houghton
Gen
Agt
Helena, Mont
Townsend and
Hassel
Dewell & McDonald's
PLA Uies
Dewell & McDonald
Montana
W. E. Kerney & Co
J. R
G. W. Gilman, M. D
P. C. Hall
Center Broadway
Herman Berg
Townsend, Mont
E.h.goodman
C. H. Baldwin
Attorney At Law
Broadway
J. E. Kanouse
A. K. Prescot
N. Main St
Montana Centra
Tdiennat
Helona
Norman Tripp
Herman Sperling
Townsend
Henry Heneberg
E. F. McRae
Wallace
C. A. Wilder
South Side Broadway
Miller
Wyandotte
Kan
Qindon's Dog Cemetery
Topsy
Treasure Jack
H. Setop Gordon, Bart
Duke
Tippy
Peter
Darling Chin Chin
Carlo
Minnie
Littlent
Chinchilla
Figaro
Zone System of Fates
Jim
Kansas City Journal
Hawaii
Slocum Laboratory
Lake Copper Quiet
Senator Chandler
Mix
Wood
Piso
John A. Miller
Au Sable, Michigan
Walker Baker & Co
Dorchester
U. A
Dietetic and Hygenese Gazette
Cofon
Hondurs
MOTH
Smiley-Smith
Maso! Chemical CO
Boz
Philadelphia
Cook County
Til
Schilling
Southington
Conn
Walter Baker & CO
Walter Baker & CO. Ltd
Erie Medwal Co
Spest
Erie Medical CO
Niagara ST
Buppalo
N.Y
FEDS
Illustrated
Portland, OR
Moore
Wholessie Drug House
Stewart & Holmen Drug Co
Seattie
Alice Biker
Woidard-Clarker CO
N,n. OU
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