President's Message to Fifty-fifth Congress
The president extends greetings to the Fifty fifth Congress, notes unity and nonpartisan aims, discusses currency reform, gold reserves, and bond policy, and calls for measures to stabilize the economy while outlining positions on Cuba, annexation of Hawaii, and other national issues. He urges preserving gold parity, notes debt reduction progress, and addresses naval needs and Indian Territory questions.
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Senate
House of Representatives
Fifty-ffth Congress
Legislative Service
Congress
United States
Treasury
Secretary of the Treasury
Hawaian Islands
Republic of Hawaii
Hawaiian Islands
Japan
Hawaii
Hag
Dr. Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery And Public Notices
A lengthy excerpt reviews Dr. R V Pierce of Buffalo promoting his Golden Medical Discovery for digestion blood and wasting diseases claiming high cures. It also quotes a public sale decree suggestions on Nicaragua canal commission civil service reforms and government budget notes from President McKinley December 6 1897.
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R. V. Pierce
Tavalids
Buffalo
N. Y
Pierce
Crawford Co
Golden Discovery
Common Sense
Spensory Association
Main Street
Buffalo, N. Y
Pitiful Fate of William Martin in Klondike Camp
A Missouri man named William Martin is executed by miners in a Klondike camp for stealing a side of bacon and sugar. He admits mortgaged hopes and writes a final note to a loved one before the mob hanged him near the camp lake. His body left with a St Louis postmark on torn envelope.
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Nicaragua
Salvador
Costa Rica
William L. Merry
United States
San Jose
Merry
Honduras
Republic of
Central America
Congress
Baker
Managua
Wiliam G. Martin
Missouri
Martin
Danaon City
Klondike
Skaguay
Ted
St. Louis
Ingenious rabbit trap ends in tragic frost death
Mr William Hillammond of El dred New York built a bonfire in a snow covered woods to lure rabbits. The rabbits gathered, slept warmed by the fire, and froze to death as dawn broke. Hillammond then killed 150 rabbits with a hatchet and sent them to market.
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William Hillammond
Eldred
N. Y
William
New York
Poisonous wild flowers list after child death
A letter notes a boy’s death after eating buttercups and warns that several common wildflowers are deadly if eaten by children. The published list includes buttercups, celandine, wood anemone, daffodils, narcissus, lily, snowdrop, jonquil, wild hyacinth, monk’s hood, foxglove, agrebriony, mezereon and henbane.
Snuff from Baltimore Reaches Vatican High Priced Item
The Pope’s snuff is manufactured in America, travels directly from Baltimore to the Vatican, and commands the world’s highest price after Italian customs. His Holiness prefers refined scents and the snuff is scented with rose attar before packaging.
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America
Baltimore
Vatican
A Valuable 1634 Shakespeare Edition Bought in Monton
Theodore Reynolds of Monton Massachusetts purchased a 1634 Shakespeare edition valued by experts near the second richest after the 1623 issue. It is estimated to exceed $2,000. Reynolds, who owns a large Bible and Shakespeare collection, notes the rare find. Scientific men estimate the earth’s age at about 500000 years for nebular and stellar periods and around 25000000 years with 15000000 past for organic life.
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Yukon River
Congress
Dyea
North Pacific Ocean
Bering Sea
Japan
Russia
Washington
Itas
Great Britain
Etcom
Pribloff Islands
Secretary of the Navy
Pacific Coast
Atlantic
Indian Territory
Five Civilized Tribes
United States
Territory
Secretary of the Interior
National Council
Commission
Theodore Reynolds
Monton
Mass
Reynolds
Hair count differences spark authorities to study hair quality
A London Figaro report recounts a curious study by so called hair scientists who measured a square inch of scalp across several individuals. They concluded heads with dark hair average 105,000 hairs while red haired scalps average 29,000, and overall a head contains about 143,000 hairs. The explanation offered is that fair hair is finer and red hair coarser, affecting counts.
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London Figaro
Jealous circus lovers lure Sicilian tragedy of lion cage
Fiorina the lion queen of a traveling circus discovers her athlete lover’s faithlessness and plans revenge. After a brilliant performance she coaxes him aside and asked if he still loves her. When he proclaims affection she declares she would kill him and pushes him into the lions’ cage, where the animals maul him as she prods them with her whip.
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Sicily
Fiorina
Florina
Sunday Train Schedule From Dunkirk To Titusville
Train 5 departs Dunkirk at 3 30 PM reaching Falconer 4 43 PM Warren 5 35 PM and Titusville 6 56 PM. Train 2 morning and Train 4 afternoon connect with NLE and WRY at Falconer Junction for all points east. H Parry General Agent 308 Exchange Ave and H Daniels General Passenger Agent.
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Sheffield
Philadelphia
New York
Pullman
Harris
Phila
New
Sunbury
Lancaster
Pisa
Batta
Washington
Warren
Baltimore
Harrisburg
Erie
Williamsport
Phiadelphia
Kane
J. B
Hinson
J. R. Wood
Dunkirk
Falconer
Titusville
Falconer Junction
N. Y
H. Parry
Eo. H. DaniEis
Gen’l
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McClure’s Magazine
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Anthony Hope
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Anthony
Rudyard Kipling
Robert Barr
William Allen White
Jan Ren
Octave Thanet
Stephen Crane
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Namie
Lord Kelvin
Herbert H.hassblin
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Hamlin Garland
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Col
George E. Waring, Jr
Mark Twain
Nansen
India
South Africa
Frost
Peter Newell
Andrée
Strinberg
Swen Hedin
Asia
Lan
Jackson
Great Arctic
North Pole
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A D. Gibson Howard Pyle
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Dana
S. S. McClure CO
East 25Th Street
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Harper’s Magazine
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David Turpie
Worthington C. Ford
Siberia
Stephen Bonsal
Henry Seton Merriman
W. D. Howells
Richard Hardin Davis
Brander Matthews
Frederic Remington
Ruth McEnery Stuart
Canada
Mexico
Harper & Brothers, Pub
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Gen
Lew Wallace
D. Howells
C. D. Warner
Owen Wister
Ltia
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Somes History
S. R. Crockett
Caspar Whitney
Howard Pyle
John Kendrick Bangs
Mary E. Wilkins
LS AN
Middle West
B.S. Martin
RED Axe
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Associated Hermits
Frank R.stockton
Poultney Bigelow
Arnold White
WerKxty
Siam
Bangkok
Germany
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New York City
F. R. Stockton
Henry James
Klondike Justice
Harpersbazar
T. W. Higginson
Katharine de Forest
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Paris
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William Black
H. P. Spofford
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Bigelow Club
Margaret H. Welch
Harper & Brothers
Popes
H.B. Marriott Watson
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Albert Lea
Ures
Ories
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Stanley J. Weyman
Watkins
Sydney Brooks
Tiller
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James Barne
Sophie
Copper Princess
Xirk Munroe Ip Ate Ea Eee
John B. Spears
Morgan Robertson
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W. G. van Tassrel Butphen
Harper & Brothers, Publishers
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N. Y. City
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Castoria
Pennsylvania
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Lessee
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Sheffiel
Bhet
Lamona
Lemeee
Sheed
Shetiod
SheMeld
Jerry Crary
Mali
Chicago
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St. Lexis
East
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