Capital prospects loom for Indiana marl beds cement boom
Geologist Blatchley outlines rich marl deposits in northern Indiana with potential Portland cement production. Letters from capitalists and a Michigan delegation signal large investments, especially in Kosciusko and St Joseph counties. A Kosciusko plant cost $140000, Portland cement priced 33 or Ha per barrel. Portland cement demands outpace supply.
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Blatehley
Indiana
Portland
Blatchley
Michigan
St. Joseph
Kosciusko
Doctor WAUKE MAUGH treatment praised by patient
Mrs Belle Annis of Benton Harbor Michigan writes to praise Dr Wauke Maugh for a bladder inflammation cure claimed after years of blood and sores. She says the herbal therapy restored her health, and offers to answer letters for other sufferers.
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Belle Annis
P. O
Benton Harbor
Mich
Popular Music Pub offer promotes piano organ sheets
An advertisement invites readers to send three or more performer names and fifteen cents to receive sixteen pages of current popular songs with full sheet music and a three month subscription to American Popular Music. It touts the Graphophone as affordable entertainment and a device to record and reproduce voices and sounds, directing inquiries to Columbia Phonograph Co. in Chicago.
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Columbia Phonograph Co
State Street
Chicago
Pioneer Limited Runs Nightly Between Chicago and Twin Cities
The Pioneer Limited is touted as the world’s only perfect train operating nightly between Chicago St Paul and Minneapolis via the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway. An illustrated pamphlet of scenery along the route is offered free for a two cent stamp to interested readers.
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Pioneer Limited
Chicago
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Milwaukee & St. Paul
Pioneer Road of the West
Geo. H. Heatford
Ill
Home Seekers Low Rate Excursion Via Nickel Plate
Special excursion tickets for home seekers to designated points northwest west and southwest and southern destinations are offered via Nickel Plate road on June 7 and 2 at lower rates than via other lines. This promo targets home seekers with discounted travel options.
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Serkers
Nickel Plate Road
Kek Agente
Photographing the Czar Wins Exemption for Lillian Bell
Lillian Bell in Russia for the Ladies Home Journal gained permission to photograph the Czar, known for forbidding cameras. She photographed him from a close distance as he reacted to the click of the shutter. She will recount the feat in the Journal's next issue.
President McKinley Honored With Ladies' Home Journal Issue
The July Ladies' Home Journal will be titled The President's Number. It features McKinley on horseback on the cover with a fighting flag, includes The Presidents March by Victor Herbert, access to a direct photograph of the Declaration of Independence parchment, and about twenty new unpublished anecdotes and stories from his friends.
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McKinley
Ladies’ Home Journal
Victor Herbert
State Department
Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin Aimed Suffering Dyspepsia
A Waterloo Indiana reader Rev S P Klotz relates twenty years of dyspepsia relief from Caldwell's Syrup Pepsin. He reports taking nearly one large bottle and feeling like a different person after use.
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Waterloo
Ind
S. P. Klotz
Caldwell
E. T. Scott
Baxter's Mandrake Bitters Promises Spring Health
An advertising note claims eight tenths of American ailments stem from constipation and asserts Baxter's Mandrake Bitters cures it. It promises druggists guarantee or money back, price 25 cents, urging readers to buy at their local drug store for health through spring.
Electric Bitters for Yellow Jaundice Cited by Satisfied Patient
A Lexington Kentucky testimony praises Dr Bell and Electric Bitters after six months of jaundice failed treatment. The letter endorses the remedy as a cure and recommends it to others. Also notes discounted excursion tickets via the North-Western Line to Omaha for AMA and Federation meetings with stopovers and return limits.
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M. A. Hogarty
Lexington, Ky
E. T. Scott
Chicago & North-Western
Denver
Omaha
Neb
American Medical Association
Federation of Women's Clubs
D. W. Aldridge
the Arcade
Cleveland
Ohio
W. B. Kniskere
Fifth Avenue
Chicago
New Sleeping Car Line Fastest St. Louis to Colorado Springs
A through sleeper will run between St. Louis and Colorado Springs via the Wabash-Rock Island Short Line beginning May 15, 1898. The service will depart St. Louis at 9:20 a.m. and reach Colorado Springs next morning at 11:00, then return from Colorado Springs at 2:45 p.m. to arrive in St. Louis the next evening at 6:15, offering daylight travel through Missouri and night through Kansas and mountains.
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Colorado Springs
Rock Island
Denver
Colorado
Missouri
Kansas
Amountain Crouery
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