Long career ends as Hon John Sherman dies in Washington
Washington mourns the death of Hon John Sherman a long time leader in finance and national politics He served as speaker Ways and Means chairman senator and secretary of the treasury He helped pass the Morrill tariff and the Sherman anti trust act Funeral services are planned in Washington before burial in Mansfield Ohio
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Supreme Court of
Ohio
Charles
Mansfield
Sherman
Philadelphia
Zachary Taylor
John Sherman
Congress
N. P. Banks
House
Kansas
Ways and Means
Hie
Senate
Treasury
Hayes
Shermen
Finance
the Treasury
Garfield
McKinley
Chicago
James A. Garfield
Grant
Harrison
Washington
Mackay Smith
St. John’s Episcopal Church
Stevenson Addresses Rainy Grand Rapids Meeting
Adlai E. Stevenson arrived at 1:30 p m and spoke in an open air Grand Rapids rally for about 30 minutes on trusts and imperialism despite a drenching rain. He then went to Muskingum for an evening event and departed by midnight for Petoskey.
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Grand Rapids
Mich
Adlai E. Stevenson
Mr. Stevenson
Muskingum
Petoskey
Cuba Governor General Wood Details Civil Work
Maj. Leonard Wood outlined Cuba’s civil progress in his forthcoming report. Hospitals and charities cover major towns, orphan asylums reduced, and plans for four state institutions. Prisons overhauled, sanitation improved, and many detainees released. Over 3,000 schools opened, 600 teachers employed, about 150,000 students, with expectations of 250,000 by year end. Rural police led by Cuban guards, health gains noted. 60,000 immigrants expected. finances strong with a $1.5 million unincumbered treasury.
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Washington
Leonard Wood
Cuba
United States
Spain
Manila government notes heavy Manila expenditures
Maj. Gen. Otis report on Manila governance shows spending on police, roads, buildings, disease control, and a 250 man native police battalion exceeded city receipts by about half. Funding came from the general fund as revenues were insufficient. The liquor trade was tightly regulated under a strict license system despite widespread native intoxication.
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Washington
Otis
The
Philippines
War Department
Manila
Spain
Embezzlement Charge Tumbles Roe From Jail To Psyche
Francis H Roe former assistant paymaster in the British navy was moved from Ludlow Street jail by U S deputy marshals and placed aboard the British cruiser Psyche Roe faces embezzlement accusations in New York on October 23.
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New York
Francis H. Roe
S Navy
Ludlow Street
United States
Psyche
Roe
Boiler blast kills fifty on steamer Eugenia
London reports 50 dead and many scalded after a boiler explosion aboard the steamer Eugenia per a Daily Express dispatch from St. Petersburg.
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London
St. Petersburg
The
Daily Express
Day By Day Verses and a Red Haired Bride
Poem stanzas by George Cooper on daily kindness and sowing seeds of goodness. Rushed memory lines recall a red haired past love with a humorous twist as a Washington Star quotation.
Two Natures Struggle Within Me Poem Reflections
A Chicago Times-Herald piece quotes S. E. Kiser describing an inner battle between two natures. One urges doubt and sin while the other seeks joy, honor, faith, and perseverance. The author claims the struggle is self directed as an umpire naming rules and choosing outcomes. The text contrasts daily prayer with a final solitary fate.
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S. E. Kiser
Chicago Times-Herald
Maidens Debate Airs in Verse at Boston Courier
A trio of maidens voices their preferred lifeways. One favors mountain air as the zest of life, another longs for ocean air in a white yachtsman’s attire, while the third, lounging in a hammock, declares she will marry a millionaire.
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Boston Courier
Drifting away to the Shore of Light
A poem by Mrs. Lisa A. Fletcher in the N Observer contemplates drifting away “to the Better Land” and the Isles of the Blest. The verse moves through white waves, angels songs, and a serene Shore of Light as a final peaceful rest.
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Lisa A. Fletcher
Observer
Remarkable Cure Proclaimed by Cincinnati Woman
Mrs Anna F E V Bartley of Cincinnati Ohio credits a Lotion with curing her long running eye ailment after years of doctors and leeches. She reports five years of good health and urges fellow sufferers to obtain samples from Solon Palmer New York if their druggist does not carry it.
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Anna F E. V. Bartley
Baymiler Street
Cincinnati
Ohio
Solon Palmer
Pearl Street
New York
Beware of Mercury Containing Catarrh Ointments
An Atchison Globe notice cautions against ointments for catarrh containing mercury and promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure by F J Cheney Co Toledo Ohio. The internal remedy claims no mercury and is sold by Druggists at 75 cents per bottle, with testimonials offered.
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F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Ohio
Hall
Lane's Family Medicine promotes bowel health and organ care
A terse Town Topics snippet notes Lane's Family Medicine claiming bowel regulation aids health, mentions liver and kidneys, and lists prices 25 and 50c. A quoted dialogue with Edgely and Stacker hints at a gambling or dealing question.
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Lane
Edgely
Stacker
Cascarets Candy Cathartic Offer Health Boost
Advertises Cascarets as a universal cure from headaches to cancer, claiming they restore bowel health with easy natural movements. Notes the genuine product in metal boxes stamped C. C. C. and warns against imitations, priced at 10 cents to start.
Seeking the Details The Dismissive Doctor and the Cure Ads
A humorous collection of quips and ad lines from early 1900s newspapers. It weaves jokes about death and heart failure, cures for colds, laughing, dyes, and blunt proverbs, with brief misquoted phrases and taunting witticisms. The tone mirrors light editorial miscellany.
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Chicago Post
Star of Remembrance and Farewell
A cheeky man departs on a long journey and asks his beloved to gaze at a star each night to remember him. She agrees, choosing the very star as a symbol, noting it stays out late and looks pale by morning.
Public office as a public trust linked to historic quotes
The Kansas City Journal notes that Ex President Cleveland popularized the phrase public office is a public trust. It cites two years before his 1874 death Charles Sumner who said the phrase had become common property, plus Dor man B Eaton 1881 Calhoun 1835 and Thomas Jefferson 1807 who framed offices as public property or trusts.
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Cleveland
Charles Sumner
Change of life remedies praised in Pinkham letters
A historical advertisement extols Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for menopausal symptoms. It cites Mrs. Charlotte Johnson of Monclova Ohio and other testimonials describing relief from womb ulcers pain and flowing and improved health after using the remedy. The letters claim cures during the change of life with many women reporting benefits and recovery.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Charlotte Johnson
Monclova
Ohio
Q Ohio
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