Death and Disaster on the Gulf Storm Toll Surges
New Orleans dispatch details the Great Gulf storm’s devastation with names of districts and totals. Cheniere Caminada reports 1312 dead, Bayou Cook 316, and 184 lost at sea, with 950 buried and many more bodies unburied in swamps and wreckage.
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New Orleans
Cheniere Caminada
Bayou Cook
Bayou Shure
Grand Bayou
Bayou Ferrand
Bayou Chalard
Cypress Bay
Tropical Bend
Mississippi River
Bayou Cook Country
Dalmatia
Chandleur
Cat
Mississippi
Chandleur Sound
Louisiana State Board of Health
Slavonian Society
Creole Gap
Doe Island
Slidell
Wrens Island
Cheniere Cominada
Bayou Cook County
Grand Isle
Plaquemine
Lake Borgne
Louisiana Coast Island
Mississippi Sound
Corinne
Hope
Anne
Govella
Victoria
Nabella
Roma
Clementine
Idonia
Georgiana
Rosalie
Pauline
Made
Messenger
Daniele
Mary B
Villara
St. Barthomew
Sydilare
Dema
St. George
Beddecke
Julia
Sarah
St. Helena
Caminada
Mr. Lafon
Aiser Petre
August Bonamour
Valence Brothers
John
Auloine
Perie
John Valence
Cheniere
Barataria Bay
Gulf of Mexico
Chandleur Island
Tambalier
Lost Island
LaFitte
Caminadayille
Camimidaville
Deis
Sion
Bay of Caminada
950
National capital items and silver compromise summary
Lovick Pierce named chief clerk at the bureau of education in Columbus Georgia. Democrats approve Tucker bill repealing federal election laws and unify in the house under Speaker Crisp. Secretaries and generals named to posts and a Rio de Janeiro surrender cited. Hatch pushes anti option bill, Curtis opposes Atlanta subtreasury, Georgia delegation to press Ways and Means. Cleveland and Carlisle arrange a silver compromise continuing purchases to 1895, then bonds to preserve gold, aiming for free coinage if voters back bi metalism.
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Lovick Pierce
Columbus
Bureau of Education
House
Crisp
Herbert
Pickens
United States
Charleston
Rio de Janeiro
Associated Press
Rio
Harbor Bay
Senate
J. D. Hall
Connecticut
San Juan
Porto Rico
Anson Mills
United States Army
International Boundary Commission
Mexico
Hatch
Missouri
Atlanta
Curtis
Ways and Means Committee
Southeast
Georgia
Ways and Means
Livingston
Carlisle
Congress
Cleveland
Treasury
Faulkner
Secretary of the Treasury
Growth of the South Reports Steady Industrial Rise
The South’s industrial and financial sectors show no material change over the past week. New industries remain strong, banks previously closed have resumed operation, and activity grows in iron, sugar, and rice. Cotton growers expect higher prices, and 33 new industries plus several enlargements and buildings were announced, with notable firms including Michigan Bar, Lamar Grove, Northwestern Manufacturing, Columbian Manufacturing, Gates Desk, Yazoo City stave, McClel lville canning, and others in Dallas, Columbus, and Grand Ridge.
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South
Gulf Coast
Michigan Bar Company
Capital
Little Rock
Ark
E. E. Moss
Lamar Grove Company
Houston
Texas
Northwestern Manufacturing Company
Charleston
W. Va
Columbian Manufacturing Company
Wheeling
Gates Desk Manufacturing Company
Greenville
8. C
Yazoo City
Miss
L. P. Cooper and Beeleveen Tenn
McClellanville
S C
Dallas
Columbis
Tenn
Grand Ridge
Fla
Arene N. G.tradesman
Chattymoog
Congress in session briefs on silver bill and Chinese exclusion
The 54th to 56th days cover senate and house activity with debates on the Geary act and silver purchases. In the senate Dolph's resolution on Chinese laborer registration shifts to private session and McPherson backs the Sherman act link to troubles while Squire pushes a silver plan. The house pursues the Chinese exclusion act amendments, votes on elections bills, and considers the Vesuvius penalties and forest reservation protections amid tense roll calls.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dax
Dolph
State Department
Senate
Sherman
Mr. Dolph
McPherson
Squire
United States
Secretary of the Treasury
Allen
Bate
Lincoln County
Tennessee
Memphis
Cockrell
Nebraska
Voorhees
Peffer
DuBois
Idaho
Vilas
Stevenson
du Bois
Mr. DuBois
Butler
Mays
Yeas
House
Finance Committee
Martin
Kansas
Congress
Hunter
Illinois
Outhwaite
Committee On
Vesuvius
Flynn
Brunswick Appeals for Aid as Fever Strikes Brunswick
Governor Northen publishes Mayor Lambs plea from Brunswick describing severe fever, hunger, and depleted resources. The letter asks Georgians for liberal donations of money and provisions as the city faces starvation and disease with police aid scarce.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Northen
Thomas W. Lamb
Brunswick
Georgia
W. J. Norruzy
Lamb
W. J. Northen
Sir
Thomas W. Lame
Amick’s Fame Extending to World Medical Circles
Cincinnati’s Amick cure for consumption gains global notice as Dr. C Howard Strong of Cape Town brings back medicines for sixty patients after a week in Cincinnati. Dr Joaquin Cuenas of Cuba orders Amick supplies for delegates to the Pan American Medical congress, while a Venezuelan delegate also obtains a supply. In Alaska Dr Arthur Jordan treats natives on St George Island with Amick aid. The discoverer offers free test medicines to physicians worldwide, welcomed in both the frozen north and tropical south.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cincinnati
C. Howard Strong
Cape Town
South Africa
Joaquin Cuenas
Cuba
Pan-American Medical Congress
Venezuela
Alaska
Arthur Jordan
Island
St. George
Amick
Tropics
Happenings of a Day From the Brunswick Board of Health Report
A compact daily digest notes eighteen new yellow fever cases in Brunswick, a warehouse blaze near Fort Worth causing about 300000 dollars in losses, and various regional items from Chicago, Knoxville, Memphis, Raleigh, Providence, Pottsville, Abbeville, and North Carolina. Contained are political re-elections, pay cuts for transit workers, habeas corpus trials, a St. Louis or Canadian arbritration item, bank suspensions, fire losses, and agricultural crop reports. Notable entities include M T Bryan, Hart, DeLesseps, Wilbur Jackson & Company, Sheldon & Benny, J Allen Smith, Abbeville, North Carolina agriculture, and Behring arbitration references. The summary reflects a snapshot of late 19th century news across multiple locales.
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Bruswick Board of Health
Manchester
Fort Worth
Tex
M. T. Bryan
Tennessee
Southern Interstate Immigration Association
Chicago
Hart
Atlanta, Ga
Consolidated Street Railway Company
Richard Drummond
Criminal Court of
Knoxville
Tenn
Sneed
Paris
Ferdinand DeLesseps
Supreme Court of North Carolina
Memphis
Raleigh Springs
Raleigh Dispatch
North Carolina
Furman
Wilkes County
Providence
R. I
Wilbur, Jackson & Company
Sheldon & Benny
New England
Wilbur Jackson, & Company
New Boston
Pottsville
J. Allen Smith
First National Bank
Abbeville
8. C
London
C. H. Tupper
Direct Trade Begins Between Port Royal and Europe
Port Royal celebrates a new era in southern development as the Port Royal Shipping Company, linked to William Johnson & Co of Liverpool, inaugurates direct trans Atlantic trade. Two ships Lochmore with 7000 bales and Mayfield with 8000 bales lay at the wharves while 200 Georgians and Carolinians attend a barbecue and speeches. Governor Tillman sends a telegram pledging support though he is delayed.
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Port Royal
William Johnson & Co. Steamship Company
Liverpool
Port Royal Shipping Company
Europe
Lochmore
Mayfield
Tillmwan
Chicago
St. Louis
South Carolina
B.br Trustas
Gary
Elliott
J. W. Thomas
Nashville, Chattanooga and
Powder Explosion Wrecks Freight Train Near Alliance
A freight train on the Pittsburg Fort Wayne and Chicago line near Alliance Ohio exploded after a powder car ignited. Five minutes after passage, the blast wrecked the train, fatally burning the engineer and fireman. Estimated damage 25 000 dollars.
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Pittsburg, Fort Wayne and Chicago
Lawrence
Alliance
Ohio
Mammoth Bel Hive: Largest Natural Honeycomb Located in Kentucky
The world’s largest hive is the Mammoth Bel Hive in Kentucky, a cavern 150 feet high and about ten acres in area. French api culturist M. Bertrand reports 26 rows per hive, double the usual English hives. The United States leads honey production with 2.8 million hives and 61 million pounds yearly. Other nations show varied hive counts and outputs, including Greece, Denmark, Russia, Belgium, the Netherlands, France, Germany, and Austria.
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Kentucky
Bertrand
M. Harbison
California
United States
Greece
Denmark
Russia
Belgium
Netherlands
France
Germany
Austria
Opal Scholars Varied on Luck and Love
Older authorities call the opal an emblem of hope while Rabbi Beno ni in the fourteenth century warned it fatal to love and disruptive to givers and receivers. Later writers tie opals to fashion decline after Anne of Geirsten and link unlucky lore to Miss Grant and Mr Sartor is marriage.
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Rabbi Benoni
Walter Scott
Anne of
Steamboat Rivalry Echoes Rail Speed Wars
The Detroit Free Press recalls 19th century Missouri river trade when 100 boats each season navigated to Fort Benton and back in two months. Profit margins depended on high freight and fixed rates, as independent captains set tariffs with no competing reductions.
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Missouri
Fort Benton
Montana
St. Louis
Detroit Free Press
Journalism schooling and practical newsroom craft
The piece argues that newspapers can teach writing and journalism as well as schools. It criticizes early journalism schools for being impractical and inadequately run. It contends instruction in literary art and journalistic method benefits students with talent, giving them an edge over sole experiential learning.
A Babe for 73 Years and a Life Remembered
Funeral notices detail Charles Talley of Brandywine Hundred Del buried at Chadd's Ford Penn after a remarkable life. He never fed or dressed himself yet retained clear mind and memory. He began progress late, and despite physical limits, functioned with simple acts. He was 73 years old and the story reflects Patience Pays.
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Charles Talley
Chadd’s Ford
Penn
Brandywine Hundred
Del
Philadelphia Record
The Drummer's Advice and the Boomton House
A traveling man asks a drummer for travel tips as they ride a railroad. The drummer, retroactively boastful, recommends the Boomton House and notes he has visited nearly every other hotel on trips, implying familiarity with Boom City and its lodging options.
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Boom City
Boomton House
Now Teaching What He Learned in Counting Rooms and Banks
R. W. Jennings heads Jennings' Busi cs College in Nashville with over thirty years as teller and bookkeeper in banks and as partner in mercantile houses in New York and Nashville. The college is touted as highly practical, with nine of ten graduates securing good positions. Write for catalogue. If a reader has sore eyes, use Dr Isaac Thompson’s Eye-water, available at price per bottle.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
R. W. Jennings
Jennings’ Busics College
Nahville
Tenn
New York
Nashville
Isaac Thompson
His Good Point Anxious Mother and DaughterDialogue
An anxious mother warns her daughter about her fiancé noting the suitor’s rigid expectations. The daughter retorts that the man avoided marriage until meeting her, claiming she changed him. The exchange highlights humor and social tensions over courtship.
Obscure Promos and Odd Bits From Historic Papers
A collage echoes early 20th century ad copy and lore. It cites Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters, Brown’s Iron Bitters, and Hall’s Catarrh Cure, with testimonials for Che ne y and druggists in Toledo. It also mentions Edgar Allan Poe as an early lecturer and reader.
A Wonderful Clock at St Petersburg Demonstrates Talkative Phonograph
A newspaper note describes a remarkable phonograph clock shown in St Petersburg that can announce fixed times and remind users of tasks. It envisions future phonograph watches delivering domestic prompts, from bills to clothing, forecasting a millennium of perfect household felicity.
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St. Petersburg
Gray Hairs and Youthful Envy in Society
The text mocks women who fear aging while admiring younger beauty. A 35 or 40 year old woman tells a companion she feels old like a 35 year old. It ridicules dressing room reflections on gray hair and vanity. The speaker would choose a mature, sensible partner over flighty beauty.
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New York Times
Jinks and Wink Forecast a Rainy Thunder Shower
Comic exchange between Jinks and Wink as they note threatening weather and ask to borrow an umbrella. The dialog captures a light humorous moment about impending rain and a missing umbrella.
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Jinks
Wink
Remarkable Relief Reported for August Flower Remedy
L C Frost of Springfield Mass states his wife suffered years with sick headache and heart palpitations despite treatment by eminent physicians in the city and Boston. After trying August Flower she received immediate relief and expresses high praise for the remedy.
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August Flower
Boston
L. C. Frost
Springfield
Mass
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Gulf
Outhwait
Committee On Rules
Burrow
Mr. Eacey
QUR
S. C
Gov't
New York Weekly
Poly
Far West
Hostetter
Peerles
Hall
F. J.cursey & Co
Toledo
F. J. Cheney
Rob Tatax
Nio
Waterse, Kisvan & Manvis
Hal
Edgar A. Poe
Ise Brown
Jensworth Jr
Owego
Tiogate
Beecham
California Fig Syrup Co
J. P. Stevens & Bro., Jewelers
Bradfield
J. M. Johnson
Malvern
Braphero Reouiator Co
Lars
Cop Reserv Co
Njure
Steve Pullah
Ener Mrs. Titus
Hood
Thomson
Ian
Judson L. Thomson
Fppard
Sheppard
Isaac A. Sheppard & CO
Baltimore
Packere F
Irene Z Ripans Chemical i
Third St
Mhiladelphia
Bird Food Co
Bird Manua
Diladelphia
Phyamau
Baxter Court
Nankville
MO. B. Harris
Fort Paras
Als
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