Favorite Prescription Promises Relief for Female Ailments
An advertisement touts Dr. Pierce s Favorite Prescription as a remedy for period pains headaches faint spells and related female maladies. It claims to strengthen regulate and invigorate the pelvic organs without alcohol or habit forming drugs and offers confidential letters to consult Dr Pierce and a free medical adviser with stamps.
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Dr. Pierce S. J
Pr. Pierce
Doctor Pierce
R. V. Pierce
Buffalo
N. Y
Weather Crop Bulletin Update Retarded
A weather crop bulletin notes delayed release or suppression of forecast details. The fragment hints at agricultural reporting but provides minimal actionable data. No specific locations dates or entities are readable beyond general weather and crop notes.
Five Thousand Range Horses to Be Corralled at Spokane
Des Moines Iowa May 18 warm and cloudy week with frequent showers restrained field work. Rainfall 4 to 5 days. some localities over four inches. Southern and eastern counties hit hardest by moisture and hail storms. Corn planting 50 to 75 percent. progress expected to finish next week. Grass and small grains benefit. hay crop outlook favorable. Rye heading. early corn up in southern areas. Late frosts damaged tree fruits in southern districts but berry crops look promising statewide.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Roundup of Five Thousand Range Horses Under Way in Washington
Spokane May 19 Five thousand range horses are to be corralled and several hundred colts branded during the spring roundup in the Kittitas valley southwest of Spokane. Bill Taylor veteran ranger has marshalled the best riders with work expected to finish before June ends.
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Spokane
Wash
Kittitas Valley
Bill”’ Taylor
Taylor
Washington
Chicago Mayor Not Mandated to Close Saloons Sundays
Chicago May 19 The appellate court ruled the mayor cannot be compelled by mandamus to close saloons on Sundays. Justices Holdom Adams and Brown affirm the prior ruling. The decision warns against turning executive duties over to the courts and notes the case mirrors a prior petition to enforce Sunday closing. It leaves open whether the state Sunday closing law binds Chicago.
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Chicago
Holdom, Adams and Brown
Chytraus
Trine
Supreme Court
Dunne
China apologizes to France over Tonking rumor
Pekin May 19 M. Bapst the French minister to China has received a dispatch from China withdrawing the allegations based on a report from Viceroy Hsi Laing that the Tonking railroad and certain French officers were implicated in the recent revolutionary outbreak in Yun Nan province.
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China
France
Pekin
M. Bapst
Hsi Laing
Tonking
Yun
Nan Province
Roosevelt to review twenty four battleships at Hampton Roads
President Roosevelt will review 24 battleships at Hampton Roads on February 22, 1900, marking the Atlantic fleet's return from its world cruise. Secretary Metcalf, retired from San Francisco reviews, praises the cruise for improving machinery and boosting officers and men alike. He notes enhanced ship efficiency and unprecedented cordiality between officers and enlisted personnel.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Hampton Roads
Metcalf
San Francisco
Unwritten Law Denounced as Blackmail in New York
Jennie Blunt, who shot Brooklyn lawyer Charles M. Sanford after he refused her money, is sentenced to three to four years in Au burn state prison. Judge Dike brands her a blackmailer and perjurer while noting other victims. jury praised upholding the law. Chariton report reveals Castros P. Crocker paid Chicago firm millions in stock speculation before his death, with vast losses in final days as he dumped $30,000 to $40,000 daily.
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New York
Jennie Blunt
Charles M. Sanford
Brooklyn
Dike
Aubern
Miss Blunt
Sanford
Tike
Chariton Ta
Woman shoots husband to save children in Memphis home
Memphis May 19 Mrs Dessie Ellis Deeson shot her husband Hardiman S Deeson through a window to stop his gunfire while intoxicated. Police say he was wounded fatally or dying and she acted to save her three children and herself.
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Memphis
Teun
Dessie Ellis Deeson
Hardiman S. Deeson
Leeson
New York Bank Seeks Morse Securities Compensations
May 19 report outlines a plan to organize a security fund to cover assets of Morse and related creditors. Morse previously led Nations People of North America. The bank had suspended operations January 27 while Morse served as president and director.
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New York
Liorse Securities Compensat
W. Llorse
North America
Friends of Morse
Morse
Indiana coal operators link miners strike to socialism plan
In Indianapolis on May 19 operators claim the miners strike reflects a deliberate push for socialism in the mining district. They contend socialist influence grows among miners as delegates attend conferences and conventions, opposing operators on proposed measures.
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Indianapolis
Indiana
Las Americas Market Destroyed By Fire In Madrid
Fire gutted the famous Las Americas market in Madrid on May 12, consuming the market and 200 wooden cabins. About 300 families fled the flames, losing all possessions as the blaze raged through the bazaar.
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Madrid
Las Americas
Dresden Meissen Porcelain Anniversary Exhibition Planned
The 200th anniversary of discovering the secret to hard porcelain will be celebrated in Dresden in January with a grand exhibition. The show will trace porcelain making’s history in Saxony and also cover developments in France England Prussia and Denmark.
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Dresden
Saxony
France
England
Prussia
Denmark
Chicago Women to Wear Sandals This Summer
Nearly a thousand Chicago women will wear sandals this summer, Chicago shoe dealers predict. One retailer has stocked hundreds of adults and children sizes. Shoemakers say urban women need no gym club to give them courage to go sandal wearing.
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Chicago
Back in five minutes sign sparks streetwide grin
An optimistic Wall Street broker dashed from his office with a door sign promising a five minute return. A cynical bystander replied beneath, asking what for, capturing the street mood in a brief exchange of wry humor.
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Wall Street
New York
Eynic
Upderneath
Awakening of Chinese Women Teas Spark Language Race
Wives and daughters of Chinese noblemen vie to learn foreign languages fastest, hosting many tea parties to compare progress and showcase their linguistic advancements.
Presbytery Adjourns After Advancing Students for Licensure
The Keokuk presbytery meeting at First United Presbyterian church adjourned after noon. R Frank Galloway presented a progress specimen and became a second year student. Alvin L Godfrey gave three trials for licensure and a lecture. Mills J Taylor completed final ordination trial and was ordained. Godfrey licensed and Taylor ordained. Godfrey to Allegheny Seminary, Taylor to Cedarville Ohio.
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Keokuk
First United Presbyterian Church
R. Frank Galloway
Alvin L. Godfrey
Mills J. Taylor
Godfrey
Taylor
Allegheny Theological Seminary
Nenia Theological Seminary
Cedarville
Ohio
Washington High School Commencement at Graham Thursday
Washington High School graduating exercises will be held at the Graham on Thursday evening May 28 at 8 o clock. Tickets and reserved seats will go on sale at Lemmon's pharmacy starting 8 o'clock Tuesday morning May 25. Admission is twenty five cents.
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Washington High School
Graham
Lemmon’s
Colonel Bell to speak at Clay Decoration service
Colonel Bell will go to Clay to speak at the Decoration service. He praised Clay residents for their temperance and anti slavery stance, noting they began life right with their church. J B Meeks left for Canadian Texas to tour the country for a few days.
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Colonel Bell
Clay
J.B. Meeks
Milwaukee
Canadian
Texas
Cedar View merchant touts King’s New Life Pills as gold value
B G Stewart of Cedar View Mississippi claims customers receive the worth of gold in weight with each box of Dr King’s New Life Pills. The guarantee is offered at Lemmon’s Pharmacy, priced at 25 cents.
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B. G. Stewart
Cedar View
Miss
Dr. King
Lemmon's
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