Regiments Ready for McKinley War Call Across States
Reports from Minnesota Wisconsin Michigan Iowa and Missouri show governors promising swift mobilization for the presidents second call for 75000 volunteers. State camps at Camp Douglass state fair grounds and emergency quotas are described with plans to assign units by township and district.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
McKinley
Lansins
Mich
Pingree
Michigan
Camp Eaton
Madison
Wis
Schofield
Wisconsin
Camp Douglass
Milwaukee
Drs Moines
Shaw
State Fair Grounds
Txptayarouis
Ind
Indiana
Mount
Winona
Springfield
St. Louis
Adjt
Bell
Missouri
Kansas City
National Guard
Jefferson City
Dev. Stephens
Guards of Zion Form 100 Strong for Illinois Regiments
About 190 young members of Chicago Zion association join the Illinois volunteer regiments under Col. McGrath. They form Companies I and M and will be known as guards of Zion. The Chicago Jewish Courier will fund the effort with a subscription drive.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guards of
Zion
Chicago
Ilinois
Zion Association
Guards of Zion
Tlmois
Col. I. MaGrath
Companies
Chicago Jewish Courier
Co operation talks with Garcia officers in Cuba
Secretary Alger and Gen Miles met with Gen Garcia staff officers Colazo and Hernandez who arrived from Garcia's Bayamo camp bearing credentials. They described Garcia forces, logistics, and a 12 000 to 25 000 strong field, with 3 000 at Bayamo and 6 000 dispersed. Rowan accompanied the party back to Nassau then to Boston with reports of cordial Cuban assurances for cooperation with American forces.
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Alger
Miles
Garcia
Errque Collazo
Charles Hernandez
Lieut
Rowan
United States Army
Cuba
Nassau
Quesada
Collazo
Col. Hernandez
Bayamo
Commercial Street
Rabi
South Bayamo
Puerto Principe
Commercial
Florida
Gen. Garcia
Callazo
Gomez
The Worm Turns Suffering Humanity and Affability
An affable stranger seeks a victim aboard a train or public space, touting power of conversation. He tests his target with a line about resemblance, only to be rebuffed as the other man sharply declines contact. The scene captures social friction and the persistence of casual probing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Klondike
Puck
Our American Policy on Foreign Complications
Our policy will stay conservative. The Monroe doctrine will be sustained, but official prudence will curb public exuberance. For rheumatic and malaria sufferers the wisest course is Hostetter's Stomach Bitters, which also claims to cure kidney complaints and dyspepsia.
Wartime Rivalry and Humorous Ads From Chicago Papers
The excerpt blends a victory remark about Dewey with a wary note on the wheels a figure rides, from Chicago Evening News. It also parodies medical ads with Laxative Bromo Quinine tablets and a gimmicky refund claim, and ends with a satirical line from Chicago Time era about gifting a cookbook to a wife, reflecting period newspaper humor and ad culture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wheeler
Dewey's
Sprocketts
Chicago Evening News
Lydia E Pinkham Product Praised by Patient
A distressed woman credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with restoring her health after hormonal and digestive troubles left her bedridden. She stopped her physician's remedies and adopted the medicine, reporting renewed strength and the ability to resume work. She urges other women to seek Mrs Pinkham's sympathetic advice in Lynn Massachusetts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lydia KH. Pinkham
Allen's Foot-Ease Promises Relief for Tired Feet
Shake Into Your Shoes Allen's Foot-Ease powder cures painful swollen nervous feet and instantly takes the sting out of corns. makes tight or new shoes feel easy. A nightly test and trial package free. Sold by druggists and shoe stores for 25 cents. Allen S. Olmsted Le Roy NY.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allen
Drugeista
Grain-O Promotes Sleep Over Coffee Substitution Ad
An old advertisement fragment promotes Grain-O as a coffee substitute that does not stimulate, claims it nourishes and aids sleep. It contrasts with coffee and targets nervous people children and families. Also includes a Teething powder product note and a joke about optimism and pessimism.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tolay
Better He Wealth Will Not Buy Happiness
A compact nineteenth-century adage note and humor piece reflecting belief that wealth does not guarantee happiness. Posed as aphorisms from up to date commentary, with a dated signoff from Inkster Michigan November 5 1894. Includes quotes on silence valuing over speech and unrelated witticisms.
Hall's Catarrh Cure Advertisement and Testimonials
One hundred dollars reward for catarrh cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. W. F. Cheney & Co. Toledo. Endorsers West Truax Walding Kinnan Marvin vouch for Mr Cheney. Cure taken internally with price seven and a half cents per bottle. Druggists sell it. Also notes on Family Pills and a Puck joke about Clara and engagements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hall’s
F. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
J. Cheney
West & Truax
Toeda
O. i Walding
Kinnan & Marvin
A Cheap Farm and a Good One for sale and travel
An advertisement offers a choice of farm life in Alabama with outdoor work and self-foraging stock, plus railroad excursions on the Louisville & Nashville Railroad on the first and third Tuesdays for two dollars over one fare. Details and a pamphlet request are provided by P. Sid Jones, Dr. R. B. Crawford, and Mr. Atmore.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
P. Sid Jones
Tosvengee Agen
Birmingham
Ala
R. B. Crawford
Rookery Building
Chicago
Ill
Louisville & Nashville Railroad
C. PB. Atmore
Louisville, Kye
Atmore
Ayer's Hair Vigor Heralded as Great Remedy
An advertisement extols Ayer's Hair Vigor as a solution for hair loss and gray hair. It claims the product stops shedding, cleanses dandruff, restores color, and adds gloss and thickness. Endorsements from Mrs Herrmann in New York and Frank M. Grove of Alabama accompany a free carebook offer from J C Ayer Co.
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Ayer
Dr. Ayer
J. C. Ayer
Lowell
Mass
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Orleans
Colton
Isville Wheat
Mra
Mary Rocchietts
Linden, New Jersey
Mra. Pinkham
ELL Caquearseei
Ars
Rube
Indianapolis Journal
G. W. Patternon
Inkster, Mich
Clara
Arthur
Cincinnati
New York
Detroit
E. Haale
E. 0. McCormick
Warren J. Lynch
Menager
Louisville
Hamlet
Sapolio
John Clerk
Ridpath
Jerome
Rowe & Libera
JONKE
Fublishing CO
University
Crattford
Rashvilley
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