Buffalo defeat shocks racing fans and far flung readers
A collage of oddities and notices from Belle Hamlin’s defeat to Nancy Hanks, rising gate receipts in Buffalo, a coat of Christ view, grass widows on an avenue, licensing drinkers in Kansas City, and a spectrum of curiosities from post offices, land deals, grafted crops, to beetaloo dams and natural gas strikes.
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Belle Hamlin
Nancy Hanks
Buffalo
Chautauqua
Buffalo Express
Lily Dale
Kansas City
United States
A Wonderful Career Fredrick Douglass Resigns Harsh Haiti Mission
Fredrick Douglass, 75, the famed colored representative, resigns as Minister to Haiti after a long public career. Born a slave in 1817, he escaped to join anti slavery efforts with Garrison, urged emancipation and colored troops, served as Marshal of the District of Columbia, and led a Hayti mission that ended with his resignation.
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Fredrick Douglass
Republic of Haiii
William Croyd
Lincoln
San Domingo
Grant
Hayes
District of Columbia
Cleveland
Europe
Flarrison
White House
Hayti
Census shows Pennsylvania leads in Catholic church counts
Census bulletin reports Harrisburg diocese with 61 organizations and 26,262 communicants, Philadelphia diocese 251,262 communicants, and statewide totals of 654 organizations and 651,577 members. Counts by counties include Allegheny 98,919 and Philadelphia 163,658, totaling 541,577 across the state.
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Harrisburg
United States
Pennsylvania
New York
Philadelphia
Pitsburg
Erie
Scranton
Adams
Allegheny
Armstroog
Beaver
Bedford
Burks
Blair
Bradford
Bucks
Butler
Cambria
Cameroun
Carbon
Centre
Chester
Clarion
Clearfield
Clinton
Columbia
Crawford
Cumberland
Dauphin
Delaware
Hik
Fayette
Forest
Franklin
Greene
Huntingdon
Indiana
Jefferson
Lackawanna
Lancaster
Lawrence
Lebanon
Lehigh
Luzerne
Lycoming
McKean
Mercer
Mifflin
Monroe
Montgomery
Montour
Northampton
Northumberland
Pike
Potter
Schuylkill
Somerset
Sullivan
Susquehanna
Tioga
Venango
Warren
Washington
Wayne
Westmoreland
Wyoming
York
Worm Threat to Hemlocks in Potter County Recalled
The New York Tribune notes that green foliage worm outbreaks occurred years ago in Maine and Casco Bay, later spreading across the coast. Secretary Edge of the state board of agriculture links the insect to the larch saw fly larva, predicting irregular future outbreaks but eventual natural checks by parasites. In Potter County, hemlocks show scorched slopes and potential second leafing depends on late frosts.
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Potter County
United States
New York Tribune
Maine
Casco Bay
Edge
State Board of Agriculture
New York
The Parent of Insomnia and Stomach Bitters
The article argues insomnia stems from stomach upset and that digestion fixes sleep. It promotes Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as a reliable remedy, claiming it stabilizes the brain stomach connection, improves liver and bowel action, and avoids sedatives or narcotics that harm stomach tone.
United States as a leading and growing fruit nation
The United States spans climates enabling growth from tropical bananas and pineapples to winter apples in New York and Michigan. Postwar demand shifts favor Florida and California for oranges, while berries and grapes rise. Imports run 15 to 20 million dollars annually, with fruit values fluctuating since 1883 and exports rebounding in recent years to over 4 million dollars.
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United States
New York
Michigan
Florida
California
Austria
Hungary
France
Spain
Sicily
Italy
West Indies
Central
South America
A Fatal Mistake in Medical Claims
A newspaper blurb reviews Dr Franklin Miles’s new book on Heart Disease and promotes his New Heart Cure. Morris & Mullens offer the book free and guarantee the remedy, claiming it treats nervous and organic heart disease and related symptoms. Cousins Bros. advertise whiskey, urging readers to call.
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Franklin Miles
Morris & Mullens
Miles
Sun Spots Forecast Yet Weather Remains Uncertain
An unusual surge of sunspot activity is reported with predictions of atmospheric disturbances, yet weather forecasts remain uncertain. The ad promotes Klein's rye whiskies including Silver Age and DuNesse, with prices and physician-backed claims, plus other brands and a mail-order catalog from Max Klein at 82 Federal St Allegheny, Pa.
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Klein
Gibson
Fince
Guckenheimer
Elein
Max Klein
Federal St
Allegheny
Gun Boat Niagara to be shown at Chicago World's Fair
Capt. D P Dobbins, Erie life saving official, will exhibit the gun boat Niagara at Jackson Park naval exhibit alongside the modern Chicago. The Niagara lies underwater in Erie with guns preserved, a relic from the Lake Erie engagement about 80 years ago. The Lawrence was raised to Philadelphia in 1886 and burned there.
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Cid
Niagara
Cleveland, O
D. P. Dobbina
Life Saving Service
Lakes Erie
Ontario
Ohio River
Chicago
Erie Harper
Jackson Park
Lawrence
Lake Erie
Philadelphia
Dobbins
Erie
How to Succeed and Nervine Restorative Remedy
This brief item discusses the challenge of life solvable by grit and health, praising the Restorative Nervine from Dr. Miles for nervous ailments. It invites readers to Morris & Mullens drug store for free trial battles and testimonials. It also notes Jay Gourp’s tale of grasshoppers delaying a train in Colorado and humorously criticizes Wall Street insects.
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Miles
Morris & Mullens Drug Store
Jay Gourp
Colorado
Jay
Wall Street
Miles Pills Claim Nerve Regulated Liver Digestive Aid
An advertisement promotes Dr Miles' Nerve and Liver Pills claiming to regulate the liver stomach and bowels via nerves and curing biliousness bad taste torpid liver piles and constipation for men women and children with 80 doses at 25 cents samples at Morris Mullen's drug store includes testimonials on Ely's Cream Balm easing catarrh and a push for East Warren Bazaar for paints oils wallpapers and shades with favorable prices
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Miles
Morris & Mullen’s
The Great Pain How to Make Dimples by Plaster Frames
This piece describes a dubious beauty method using four tiny plaster strips placed crosswise under the eyes, at the mouth corners, on knuckles, elbows, shoulders, and ankles to create dimples. The frames must stay on for three days, yielding a lasting hollow that may persist about a fort night. Also notes a sulfur bitters testimonial and advertising for a grand low rate excursion with river steamer to Alexandria Bay, touting hotels, rates, and trains.
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Pennsylvania
New York
Rochester
New York Central
Hudson River BR. R
Syracuse
Rome
Watertown
Ogdensburg
BR. R
Clayton
St.Lawrence
Alexandria Bay
Round Island
Thousand Island Park
Nobby Island
Pullman Island
Livingstor
Warren
B. Newton
Islands
Pickett & Co Move Into Expansive New Warehouse
W H Pickett & Co are expanding into a vast new warehouse measuring 36 by 120 feet over four stories. The basement stocks sewer pipe nails and brick items, the first floor holds iron and steel plus hardware, the second floor features plows and farming equipment, and the third hosts a 10,500 square foot shop with about thirty workers. They ship to eight states and offer plumbing, heating, roofing, and sheet iron work at low prices with a full hardware line including axes and lubricants.
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Syracuse Wrought Steel
Syracuse Oliver
Gowanda
Gale
Pickett
Kassons
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Jim Blaine, Jr
Sioux Falls
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Single Tax League
Beetaloo
South Australia
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Los Angeles
Labrador
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New York World
New Orleans
Foster
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Gulf
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Rheu
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Cousins Bros
R. G. Vassar
Warren St
Cily
S A. Lovell
Franklin, Pa
East Warren Bazar
Soho
Eva
Thousand Islands
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Arizona
Mrs. Bowser
Kss M. Quad
the World
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W.H. Pickett& GO
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Boston
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Warren Ledger
Winston, Rand & Watson
Goodrich & Fehlman + WINSLOW
Rand & Watson
New York City
Roquefort
Goodrich & Feldman
Holmes & Coutts
Agble Oil CO
Akron
Ohio
Goodrich & Fehlman
F. Schumacher Milling CO
Nelson Greenland
Undertaker
Pitcher’s Castorfa
D. J. A. Partridge
New Waters
Berry Street
R &H.E. Brown
Attorneys AT Law
Warren, Pa
First National Bank
H. EB. Brown
E.G. Knapp& CO
Prop’s
Penn's
E. W. Seely
Court House
Archibald G. McIntyre
Office With
D M. Schermerhorn
Judge Scofield
Hazeltine Building
Liberty Street
ST. Neill
New Exchange Block
Leonhart Bros
BA & Thompson
Beatty Block
A. A. Davis & Co
D. J. Ball
C. C. Thompson
Toesscor, Cable & Peterson
G Smith
Water Street
Scofield
Hunter & Son
Chas. Dinsmoor
Jas. Cable
Chas
A. Peterson
W. A. Graves
Hail Block
Episcopal Church
Pee Revere
Frank Metzgar
D.A.V
W.N.Y
P.R.R
J. H. Donly
W. G. Trunery
Donly & Truneey
Librty Street
W V. N. Yates
Warren Savings Bank
L. G. Noyes & Co
D. T. A. Love
Schaeffer
Hickory Street
Third Street
Water Streets
Hutter
Second Street
Golden Horse Shoe
W. Freeman
Hazeltine
McAlpine
Third St
M.E Church
Jackson Mkoehler
Bud Wise
Cessius Bros
J Danforth
Second and
Liberty Streets
Kodak
Geo. Ball’s
Pemna
Meadville Conservatory of Music
Pena
A. Rev
Figed
Chautauquan
Board of
Tes
Juvia U. Wan
Mary Beno Pioncy
New England Conservatory of Music
J. W. Conant
American College of Musicians
Suvia Hull
Meadville
E. C. Knowles & Son Oil City
Humphrey & Nemoyer