Through Georgia Notes on Roads Schools and Taxes
Cherokee county shows a $3,690 surplus in the treasurer’s office while Americas public schools enroll over 1,400 pupils. A $60,000 tunnel project near Braswell is awarded to a Knoxville firm with 150 workers and a year to finish. Governor Atkinson names state depositories and a code printing contract is let in Atlanta.
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Cherokee County
Knoxville, Tenn
Braswell
Southern Railway Company
Americas
Harper
Code Committee
Atkinson
Atlanta
Horrible Mine Disaster Claims Seventy One Victims
An explosion and fire at Cleopha's mine in Kaittowitz Prussian Silesia killed at least seventy one miners with eighty entombed and seventy one corpses recovered. Rescuers race to locate remaining missing workers as families gather at the shaft mouth amid tragic scenes. Four volunteers died during rescue efforts and about fifty miners are still unaccounted for.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleopha
Kaittowitz
Prussian Silesia
Nebraska Snow Storm Thwarts Travel Across State
Dispatches from Nebraska and western towns report heavy snowfall from three inches to a foot, with Omaha alone recording a full foot. Strong winds threaten blizzard conditions as rail traffic remains open only by constant use of powerful sweepers.
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Nebraska
Western
Omaha
Trolley Cars and Pills in Newark Evening Notes
A Newark woman, a 26 year old candy shop operator, narrates a relief tale after severe head pains and body cramps. She credits Dr Williams Pink Pills for Pale People, reporting weight gain and pain relief after starting the regimen purchased at drug stores.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newark
N. J
Market Street
Evening News
Dr. Williams
Dr. Williams’ Medicine Company
Schenectady
N. Y
Heating Freight Cars for Cold Weather Shipping
A German report describes heated freight cars tested from Coblentz and Wiesbaden to Berlin to prevent spoilage of perishable goods during the 1894-95 European winter. A central exterior stove and visible thermometer allow inspectors to manage heat. slight rate increases accompany the service, which is praised as a success.
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Coblentz
Wiesbaden
Berlin
Europe
The Methodist Minister and His Plug
A Melbourne Spectator editor and Methodist minister Rev Lorimer Fison recalls facing examiners who objected to his smoking. He promised to quit after smoking the plug in his hand and kept the plug as a token of his vow, later recounting he has not smoked since.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Melbourne Spectator
Lorimer Fison
Board of Examiners
Fison
Westminster Gazette
Gold Comes and Catarrh Cure Sales in Fragments
An excerpt discusses gold hoarding with a bank sighting and a quip about gold coming in quartz. It then shifts to medical ads claiming catarrh is constitutional and promoting Hall's Catarrh Cure from Toledo. Testimonials and addresses follow, with a note about Piso’s Cure and local Brooklyn names.
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Manchester
Birmingham
Pepno
Hall
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
FE. J. Cuenxzy & Co
Toc
Piso
W. Pickert
van Sielen
Blake
Interesting Personalities from a Bygone Era
General Sewell of New Jersey is described as the only genuine Irishman in the U S Senate born in Mayo at sixteen. The Duke of York stamp collection sold to a Rothschild carrier insured for 600000 dollars. The widow of Alexander Campbell lives at ninety four in Bethany West Virginia and her daughter is Mrs W B Thompson. Rain-in-the-Face, once a Custer massacre leader, is now a Standing Rock policeman in government uniform. George Vanderbilt buys 125 Jersey cattle from Pittsford herd near Rochester for his Biltmore farm. The herd sale by Frank W Hawley follows state health actions on cattle tuberculosis and court of appeals confirmation.
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General Sewell
New Jersey
United States Senate
County Mayo
Ireland
Duke of York
Alexander Campbell
Bethany
W. Va
W. B. Thompson
Louisville
Rain-in-the-Face
Custer
Standing Rock Agency
George Vanderbilt
Biltmore
Ashville
N. C
Jersey
Pittsford Farm
Rochester
Frank W. Hawley
New York
State Board of
Let the Earth Rejoice with Hardy Grasses and Seeds
An advertisement promises soils rehabilitation in a year using Hardy grasses, clovers, and fodder plants to transform poor land. It touts crops and a free mammoth catalogue with sample grasses and grains after mailing 10 cents to John A. Salter Seed Co. at Crosse Wisconsin.
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Valley
The
Nile
John A. Salter Seed Co
Crosse
Wis
Syrup of Figs Promotes Health through Gentle Laxative Action
Gladness comes from understanding that many illnesses vanish with proper gentle effort. The California Fig Syrup Co markets Syrup of Figs as a safe internal cleaner that relieves constipation without weakening the body.
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California Fig Syrup Co
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Georgia
Tifton Northwestern
Fitzgerald
Speer
United States
Savannah
Douglas
Georgia Loan and Trust Company
Americus
North
Southern Bank of the State of Georgia
Blackshear Bank
Griffin Banking Company
Citizens’ Bank of Valdosta
Bank of University
Athens
National Bank of Columbus
Bank of Thomasville
Neal Loan and Banking Company
LaGrange Banking Company
Bank of Way@cross
Rome
Georgia Northern Railroad
Albany
Moultrie
Sparks
Georgia, Southern
Florida
Atlanta Lumber Company
Southern Railway
Lemuel Johnson
Waycross Air Line
W. Pike
Wythe County
Virginia
Waycross
Clough-Hilliard
Ware Lumber Company
Scriven County
Zeigiers
J. R. Smith
James R. Smith
Douglas County
House of Representatives
Smith
General Assembly
Bullock
Macon
Georgia State Sunday School
Reppard
Sunday Schools of
Georgia Prohibition Association
Frank J. Sibley
H. L. Cook
W. C. Sibley
Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
Temperance Reform
Moody Tabernacle
J. B. Grambrell
Mercer University
P. Jones
J. G. Gibson
Friends of Temperance
Mineola Mill
James M. Smith
Oglethorpe
W. B. Thomas
Mineola Lumber Company
W.b.lowe
J. R. Young
J. T. Roberts
Valdosta
A. O C. Mcleod
Jacksonville
Messrs. Smith and
Thomas
Mineola
Valdoste
Chas. E. Currier
Atlanta National Bank
Tyner
Parker
S. Shoptrinesir
Tetterine
Enka Rei Ema
Nassau St
Samteta
Marietta
A. B. Campbell Co
Freyer& Bradley Music Co
South
Kranich & Bachaves
Rosghood
Veees
Ianeed Jose Tee
Vaees
Haines Bros
Uae
Farrand & Vot . A
M-Hand Organs
Eeeseeeeeneese
Amlin
Walnut
Ieat
Ianos
F. C. B. UsSic CC
B. F. Manier
Mer
Jacksonville, Fla
E. Forsyth St
Freyer & Bradley
Atlanta, CA
Peachtree St
M Inmager
C. F. Brewer
Chattanooga, Tenn
Market St
Aermotor CO
12Th
Rockwell and
Fillmore Streets
Chicare
Osborne
Agd School of
Augusta
Athern City
Fischer
Smith & Barnes
Abastine CO
Gran
D Rapids, Mich
Mons
Brown
Browns Cxerment Co
Baltime
Mac
Popham
Dox
Mickiesy
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