Abduction of a Judge's Son by Apaches Leads to Rescue Attempt
A band of hostile Apaches massacred Judge H C McComas and his wife near Silver City New Mexico. Their boy Charley was captured and later killed after a failed rescue bid led by Sidney Shaw-Eady, a traveling correspondent. Geronimo's camp and the Sierra Madre regions figure in the pursuit and fate of Charley.
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H.C. McCommas
Nannwal Charley
Silver City
New Mexico
Chatto
Arizona
Chihuahua
Sonora
Mount Vernon
Alabama
Judge McComas
Charlie
Fort Bayard
Little Charlie
Sierra Madre
Southwest
Charley McComas
Sidney Shaw-Eady
el Paso
England
Crichton
el Paso Times
Richard Hunter
Kansas
Ossawattomie Brown
Shaw-Eady
the Times
Crook
Charley McComeas
Janos
Geronimo
San Carlos Reservation
Janes
Little Charley
Deming
Chief Ju
Casas Grandes Valley
Meseal Ranch
Casas Grandes River
Ford
Shaw- Eady
Naches
Sydney Shaw-Eady
Shaw-Mady
Geronine
Shaw-Kady
Neo
Charley
Lawton
Badesi
Chuhuahua
Voting Methods in Japan Election Law Summary
New York Times describes Japan's House of Representatives election law. Districts fixed, local governors oversee polls, district chairmen by rural or municipal heads, costs paid from local taxes. Electors require 25 years age, one year residency, 15 yen direct national tax. income tax payers for three years. Officials ineligible. priests and teachers eligible. Public electoral lists, 7 A M to 6 P M voting, double-key ballot boxes, uniform ballots, voters stamp and sign. Scrutin de liste used for multi member districts. Ballots destroyed after 60 days. Relative majority with ties broken by birth seniority or drawing lots. Elections every four years, four year terms. electors must accept within 10 days district, 20 days otherwise. Bribery prohibited. weapons barred. numerous fairness measures.
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House of Representatives
Japan
Guneho
Shieho
Imperial Household
New York Times
Social Statistics from the London Gazzette
The London Pall Mall Gazette reports per 1000 marriages 861 bachelors and 139 widowers for men and 98 previously married and 2 spinsters for women. Twelve percent are second marriages. Avg marriage ages are 27 for men and 25 for women. Per 1000 persons 602 unmarried, 345 married, 53 widowed. over half of women aged 15 to 45 unmarried. About 5 percent of marriages are barren. English nobility 19 percent childless. Married women live about two years longer. If the mother dies first, the mother survives eleven and a half years if the father dies first, nine and a half years. England sees 2441 births daily. February highest, June lowest. Average births per marriage 4.55.
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London Pall Mall Gazette
England
Jubilee of Phonography celebrated with Pitman medal
At a dinner in London Lord Bury presented Isaac Pitman with a gold medal to mark the jubilee of phonography. He praised Pitman for public service and predicted shorthand would become part of children's education, urging organized support for the cause. Pitman spoke on spelling reform as equally important as shorthand.
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Holborn
London
Isaac Pitman
Lord Bury
Pitman
St. James's Gazette
Honest medical dishonesty and Warner's Safe Cure
A long critique condemns dishonest doctors who avoid advertised remedies like Warner's Safe Cure. It argues many physicians charge high prices while these medicines cure kidney and liver diseases, urging readers to distrust professionals who shun promote and use of proven treatments.
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Warner
Adee
Igdneys
Bright
Messrs. H. H. Warner & Co
Whitechapel Economy and Daily Rations Described
A Whitechapel woman lives on weekly relief rations including coal tickets a loaf tea and vegetables with small sums for clothing oil meat soap butter and fruit. The account notes coal as essential in summer and mentions a radical cure letter to readers offering a free sample and addressed to H G Root New York.
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Whitechapel
Lond
Hesp Y. H.G. Root. M
New York
Advertising a Patent Medicine Claiming Quick Cough Relief
A fragment describes Kemp Paisam promoting Comics and Colds with sample bottles from druggists to entice trials. It mentions large bottles priced at $1 and claims it may prevent consumption. The note also references an old January wedding anecdote.
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Kemp Paisam
Fragmentary OCR Note From Local Page
A partial OCR readout hints at a local item mentioning a person and a street scene. Details are unclear but suggest a brief, neighborhood level notice or column snippet with names and places left incomplete.
Medicated remedy for common colds and feverish affections
A historical notice promotes a remedy called par-exce:k for ordinary colds and feverish affections. It references medical authority Connutng M.D. and describes the product as a delicate emulsion intended to ease symptoms.
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M.D
Hoods Sarsaparilla Promotes Health And Vitality
A collection of testimonials extols Hood's Sarsaparilla as a spring health tonic for clerks teachers housewives and workers. Patrons claim increased strength relief from fatigue and improved blood purification aiding recovery from winter weariness and ivy poisoning. Users report better appetite energy and ability to work after taking Hood's Sarsaparilla during spring.
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Hood
Lerner Nason
Lowell
Maes
P F. Grovrn
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