Saturday 1899 items mixed news from Troy and beyond
A collection notes Troy advertiser wishes for 1900, mentions The Call's Troy interests, and reports The Mississippi Valley Blade at Venice suspending. Claus Spreckels hailed as sugar magnate turned electrician. St Louis World's Fair 1903 eyed for regional benefit. Alabama speed test hits 17 knots. Eucalyptus touted against malaria. Rumor of icebergs sighted off Cuba. Beards town fish fry fed 2,000 loaves and 5,000 pounds of fish. Gazette Marine sold to J. Petterman of St. Louis. W R Ambrone moves to East St. Louis Big Four.
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The
Gazette
Marine
J. Petterman
St. Louis
Petterman
W.R. Ambrone
Big Four Railroad
East St. Louis
Dawson Klondike to rival Johannesburg as gold boom
A. H. Hanaper, Reuter's special living commissioner, predicts Dawson City will become a great stock investment center within one to two years, with a large exchange forming and Dawson seats valued like South Africa’s palm oil era. He notes Klondike and Transvaal reefs compare, and Klondike could be 250 percent richer, with vast yet unknown gold country beyond hundreds of square miles.
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A. H. Hanaper
Reuter
Klondike
Dawson City
Johannesburg
South Africa
Dawson Exchange
Transvaal
Farmer harvests 5000 cucumbers on a single vine
A Benton Standard item reports a farmer near Christpher traveled a mile to reach the cucumber vine end and gathered 5000 cucumbers. He cut the bud with an ax to keep the vine within his township.
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Benton
Christopher
Troy in '99 a growing mining and trade hub
Troy Illinois, on the Vandalia Line about 21 miles from St. Louis, shows a population around 1500 with coal mines, grain elevators, and numerous shops. The town benefits from coal and water, two elevators, mills, churches, schools, and an idle mill site awaiting rebuilding, with future railroad and mine projects planned to spur growth.
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Troy
Madison County
Illinoia
St. Louis
Rock Road
Consolidated Coal Co
Angeline McCray Dewey
Bible texts used to hold gold leaf in nondealer packs
Reports describe paper leaves cut from Bibles and the Book of Common Prayer used to separate sheets of gold leaf sold to artists. A Chicago gold leaf dealer explains the practice, noting scripture indentations aid gold adhesion and that some customers object while others view it as incidental scripture circulation.
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Chicago
Pneemad
Po O
Ife
London Meat and the Navy League’s Oceanic Thank You
London’s meat supply relies on vast imports from North America Europe and Australasia. Cassell’s Magazine argues the city’s annual 140000 tons of meat and 150000 cattle underpin its economy and fleet morale, warning what would happen if sea power failed and foreign supplies halted.
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London
Andalusian
Cassell
Canada
Australia
Hamburg
Rotterdam
Navy League
America
Holland
Neiher
Rose Islands
Business Colleges Open in St Louis and Cuba Links
Prof J P Draughon opens a well equipped business college in the Emile building St Louis at 6th and Olive with his brother in charge. Brother formerly led Draughon’s Nashville college. Crangh tours Cuba planning one next year and has opened Savanna Ga and other southern colleges claim high patronage with job placement help and bank tuition deposits. Address J F Draughon Pres Nashville Tenn for catalogs.
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Cuba
J.P. Draughon
Emile Buiilding
St. Louis
Cor, 6Th and
Olive Streets
Draughon
Nashville
Tenn
St.Louis College
J.P. Cranghon
Savinnah
Gia
Weonto Dias
Gnaivesten
Pexarkana
Tex
Isis
St. Louie
J. F. DravGnox
Legend of the Indian Log Breaker on the West Branch
The Aroostook Pioneer recalls river drivers easing a log jam on the West Branch. A cool Indian worker is asked to brave the snag. He mutters Dead Injun looks a nice on paper and walks off, sparking a grim note on fame.
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Aroostook
Perils of Early Housekeeping in a Chicago Trib News
A lighthearted Chicago Tribune quip sketches domestic mishaps as a young wife sends long bundles home. The husband jokes about misused wood and a partition plan upstairs, while a rash of playful corrections ends with a gentle rebuke about levying household duties.
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Harry
Maria
Levy
Chicago Tribune
Good Things in the Days Work Echoed in Verse
A Chicago Record verse extols the value of light work and leisure, praising wages that fund easy days and the joy of delaying the daily grind before returning to duty. The light poem frames work as a necessary rhythm with pleasant breaks.
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Chicago
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Micnolis
Mississippi Valley Blade
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W. H.temme
Claus Spreckels
Alabama
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Atlantic Ocean
Beardstown
Bearde
City OF
J. F.clepper
London's
J. W. Gornet
Iron Building
West Clay Street
George Libbler
South Main Street
the New Home Sewing Machine Co
Orange
Mass
Uaro
N.Y
Tul St. Loui
San Francisco
Cal
Atlanta
St. Louis, Mo
Jnth and
He Emilio
Totin
Galveston
Savaninah
Toxarkatia
Citizens’ Shaving Parlor
Julius Peter
Main Street
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