davidaulloa/AmericanStories huggingface dataset:
Middletown transcript., 1898-09-03

season S Stored-up pWarmneSs. Why,
the mercury floated in the sos on
October days last year.
organdies, foreign cloth, American print
ing, 10c.
OrgandieS, our French-printed CSC dainti-
ness, 121<c.
Fancy Figured Swisses, 371zc that were
75c
Genuine Irish Dimities = figures and
stripes, plain navy blue and red. The
full seasons price 25c. These, 15c.
Some staple dress goods for au-
tumn wear are on show. Condi-
tons of ownership let US name
lower prices than we believe will be
charged for the next lots that come.
Diagonal Cheviot, an all-wool melange,
in four grays- 46 in., soc.
Two-toned Granite Cloth; seven color
plays. Just like the 81 lots of year
ago. AZ in, Soc.
Fancy brocade silk-mixed Suitings-
color combinations. "A in, CSC.
Bayadere-Stripe Covert Cloth, Is in, SOC.
Four shades.
IS in Serge, navy, brown, myrtle, gar
net, gray and cadet blue. SOC.
And these always-good Black fab.
RIGS are worth a look
Atwood Serge
~ in, soc so in, 75c
"A in, 60e 52in., 81
Atwood Cheviot-
42 in, SOC 4S in, SL25
Sn IN ~ TX ose or5 81
Women's stylish tan Shoes,
S1.75.
It's this way: The owners of
some splendid footwear couldn't
count profit until the last shoe of
the season was coined into cash.
So they asked US for a bid; parleyed
q bit; and accepted.
But that isn't the worst of it.
These fine Shoes came, and they've
made our regular lines look mighty
dear-so dear that we've marked
down twelve styles of our own
good fresh stock to the bargain
price of the lot we bought.
NeSull-
s2.4o, 1920 and So shoes at
e1.75.
They are made from the worlds |
three finesttannings of kidskin, and
the shoemaking is worthy of the |
feathers.
Button and lace-and the care of |
making is shown in the siIk-wofked1
eyelets of the lace shoes, while the
'front.' stay is either of vesting or fine
kidskin inlaid.
Some have welted and stitched |
'oles; the others, daintily turned |
'oles. All sizes when the selling
Itarts.
John Wanamaker.
Middletown transcript., 1898-09-03
WANAMAKER,S
PHILADELPHIA, Monday, August 20, 1893

PHILADELPHIA, Monday, August 20, 1888
Wanamaker'sis always thronged.
Home folks take it for granted,
but visitors-especiaIIy merchant
Visitors-look on in wonder.
Crowds on hot days; crowds even
on rainy days-crowds of pleasant
people whose very elbowing is
good-natured.
The store is made pleasant, at.
tractiye thoroughfare-with rest.
places for people and their parcels.
1t is place to come to. It is a
store that does things-that even
In August takes in and shows more
bright good goods than one runs
across anywhere else, even in the
months when all hope to be busy.
This very activity keeps the store
different and In advance. And
makes it the logical exchange place
where prudentpeople and especially
critical people turn for supplies.
There's newness always; there's
right economy-very decided econ.
omy In this store that never wastes
time through do-nothing duIIness.
Cotton dress goods.
Economy, even to buy for next
years uses-saying nothing of this
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1898-02-18

According to recent London estl-
mate only about $4,000 American
tourists visited the English capital in
the course of the past season, and this
is regarded as a very poor catch. The
Jubilee was great disappointment as
an attraction for cousins from over the
water. 1t was expected to bring them
over in Aocks, all eager to spend
money, but it seems to have mad a
deterrent effect, on the whole, and
shop keepers and hotel keepers suf-
fered rather than profited by the
festivities. Still, even $4,000 Ameri-
cans are very much better than none,
and the calculations as to how much
better are decidedly interesting. The
average tourist from ''the States, we
are told, scatters about $1,000 while
making three months tripin Europe.
This, multiplied by $4,000, makes
$25, 600, 900, and of that amount, it is
believed, London received at least
two-tifths Paris gets more American
money than Lcndon does, not because
more Americans go there, but because
the French capital wins the trade OF
all the women, and this is both larger
and more profitable than that of the
men, to whose needs and tastes the
London shops more especially cater
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1898-02-18
NO. A..
THE RUSH BEGUN.
Combined Carrying Northwest
ern Trade Inadequate.
A Chartless Coast-American Ports
viii Yet BE Utilized.

VANCOUVER. B. C.. Feb. lj-Aithough
steamer dav Is leaving the rDa-t Tor the
kl1udike, block j. threat t'ncd on the Pa
ciiir coast. The combined carrying trade of
the coast il not equal to the demand
put upuu il for the hlUuiike
trade az present. II is vet early
in the rush aud though "A steamer day lea'es
Victoria, Vancouver and Seattle, berth-
and freight room have to b. secured Il week
ahead and a large demand cannot be salts
fed Dan Mann. the rtilroad contractor
who is TO open up the all-British route.
via Tr-lin lake. by bgIlding $50 miles of
railroad in l2O days. has offered any
steamship company on the coast double
money to convey 5000 men and supplies
to Wrangcl for him. His offer has not yet
been accepted. In the meantime the un-
wiyldy mass Of humanity from all over the
globe j. being rushed by scores of steamers
to Skaguuy. Dyea aud Nraugel before the
passes are naygaD!e, to herd together in the
already ovrrcrowdtd towns. The narica-
ton north j. prriiou- in the extreme, there
ben. many hidden ana uucharIered ROCKS.
The best nayigltor~ on the coast have
to trust to providence and the tides
to pull them thrOUgH. "A. numerous
unseaworthv craft and poorly manned
have been pressed INTO service
fcrthe rush. 1t may be eypsn,rl that many
steamers hull will Yet rot away on the
rocks in the narrow channels Of the north
rru waters The rush has almost entirely
rras ID national icaIousies. There is no time
for sentiment. The contractors Of the
Yukon river have established their permd-
uent camp "a, Stikine island. Uait-i states
territory. at the mouth ofStikiur river, and.
IL supplies raunot he trans ported in Canada
at present to the gigantic extent desired. It
Is stated that hiI steamers may eventually
bee secured in the states ami the railway
army supplies shipped from a. American
NurL.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1898-02-18

BOSTON, Mass. Feb 15-Boston people
especially the frequenters OF the shopping
district and more especially old ladies aud
children. will learn with regret amounting
to positive sadness that the stout patrolmau,
who for many years has done duty at the
crossing on the corner OF Washington street
and Temple place, has been retired from
the police force. In the regular order
just promulgated he was retired from the
force with half pay. or 5000 year
Patrolman David 0. Felt has been in the
service twenty-five years, and was connected
with the Lagrange street station. He was
driver and conductor on the old Ne
trOpolitan horse car line. and was known
then as now by acquaintanres as Fatty
Felt. He weighed about 800 pounds He was
born in West Wandsboro. Vt. and is 81
years old He served in the war in the
Tenth Vermont regiment. He is wel-to-do.
so his retirement will not force him to Labor
for which he is not fitted.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1898-02-18

With respect to the number of
fatalities charged to suicide during
the year 1897, the Chicago Tribune
finds that not less than $500 persons
killed themselves during that period
of time. AS is usually the case, quite
a large percentage Of these victims
were physicians; but the list also in
cludes lawyers, actors, editors, bust
ness men and clergymen. The various
causes assigned by investigating
authorities for these suicides are given
in the following table: Dependency,
1889: insanity, 467; liquor, 270; i'll
health, 356; domestic infelicity, 301;
disappointed love, 271; business losses,
1914, and unknown, 1922. OF the total
number of suicides above indicated,
1884 were brought about by taking
poison, 2138 by gun or pistol shots,
SO by hanging, 500 by drowning and
537 by throat cutting. As to the re-
naming cases there can be no classi-
tication made. Some of the parties
met death in front Of locomotives,
others by hurting themselves from
high attitudes and others by blowing
themselves up with dynamite.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1898-02-18

The New York Mail and Express
says: "Secretary Wilson is a cheer
ful optimist, and while his estimate
that the discovery of q successful
method Of treating hog cholera by in
oculation means saving of 500, O00,-
600 q year to the farmers of this coun-
try may be somewhat extravaCant, il
is undeniably an achievement of enor'
nous practical value. The expert
ments which led up to this great dis
coyery were all conducted by the Agri
cultural Department under Mr.. Will
sons immediate supervision and then
success is another token of the com.
mon sense policy which lie has stead
lily applied to the affairs Of his office.
Un[e' former conditions hog cholera
was fatal to upward of sixty per cent.
of the animals thus affected, but un-
der inOcu}ation with sorum elghty-tive
per cent. are saved, and it is expected
that after awhile ninety per cent, or
even more, will be permanently cured
by this new application. This extraor-
dinary saving, and the fact that the
use of the cure need not cost more
than fifteen cents head for the ami
mails so treated, mean saving to the
farmers of the West which Mr.. Wilson
is certainly justified in reckoning by
millions of dollars"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1898-02-18

AUBURN Me. Feb. l5-Dr. George L.
Crockett formerly a practising physician
in Lewiston. and who mysteriously disap-
prared from that city in the fall Of 1896 Oh
account Of an alleged connection with a
criminal ca-e has been here and stopped at
the Maine hotel. Dr.. Crockett is widely
known in Maine. first becoming prominent
through his connection with football in the
colleges and high schools as a coach
aud authority. In the presidential cam
paign of 1896 ne stumped Maine for
Bryan. gaining the title of "the boy
orator OF the Androscoggin." He and his
friends have always protested that he was
innocent Of any charges made against him
and always intimated that politics was the
basis Of statements made against him. The
doctor says that when he left Lewiston he
first went to his parents home in Ninal
Haven. then to New York and took passage
for England. Since then he has been study
ug in the hospitals in different places in
Europe and has travelled extensively. The
,.l affair with which he was charged has
been settled.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1898-02-18

The present Emperor of Germany, Will
liam IT, was born January u, 1859, in the
Crown Prince palace in Berlin The same
day his grandmother the Queen of England,
inquired 10y cable as it a fine boyY' The
emperor is a Hohenzollern. a family whose
greatness dates back to Frederick Will
liam. the Great Elector. in 1910. The
emperor is just past 80 years of age
and is vigorous and erratic. His dispo-
siton was affected by the attempts
to assassinate his father, who died aged
81 years. on June Is. 1883. The young man
at once became William II. emperor of
Germany, king of Prussia. eighteen times a
duke, twice a grand duke, ten times a count,
fifteen times a seigneur and three times a
margrave. His mother was the first child
of Queen Victoria, and this leads to the sug-
gestion of William as the successor Of Queen
Victoria. In 1878 he married Princess Vic
tora, of the dispossessed SchIeswig Hol-
stein family. The marriage was arranged
by Bismarck and Emperor William |. They
have eight children, the Oldest being boy
ID years OF age.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1898-02-18

Movement for Monument Banishcd
to Cunurctirut

HAETFORD. Conn. Feb. l5-The move
mcnt in q. 4, R.rirrl"s TO erect monument
over the grave of Henry ClHy W1r,. reviye-
the fact THAT his father was once confined III
the Missouri prnitrntinry on the charge aid
ing slaves to escape from the state of Mis-
souri, to Illinois When the elder Work was
released one of the conditions of hi
pardon WIS that he should return to the
state Of Connecticut. via nee nc came orig-
inaly. and remain there for the rest of his
naturu life This obligation be faithfully
kept. The son. Henry G, Work. was born ut
Mlddletown Conn, and saw the end Of
American slavery while hundreds OF thou
"Marrhing Through Georgia and The
Year of Jubilee"
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1898-02-18

The central figure in the American railway
stage today is William Kissian Vanderbilt.
His recent purchases will enable him Ito or
ganize all the Vanderbilt roads into one sys
TEN. and he expects to make it "a belt clear
across the continent. He is 49 years old
and is the strongest of all the Wander
bits. 1t is said he is the only one who
can take the place OF his father, William
H. Rumor has it that Mr.. Vanderbilt
proposes to relieve Chauncey NJ. De-
pew OF the presidency Of the New York Cen
lral. His father left him less Of the Wander
bilt fortunes than fell TO his older brother
Cornelius, but Cornelius is not strong and
does not like activity while William X. has
abundant health and enjoys industrial sway.
He was born on December II, 1853, on
Staten Island. He was first employed in tho
transportation department Of his fathers
company. His training was thorough. In
1877 he became second vice president Of the
New York Central. and in 1882 president OF
the Nickle Plate. \ few years ago he was
divorced from his wife.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1898-02-18

Professor Schooling, in paper be-
fore the statistical society, of London,
gives for the eight principal causes
of insanity, the following percentage
of every one hundred lunatics: Drink,
thirty-threo and six one-hundredths;
domestic troubles, fifteen and one one
hundredth; mental anxiety, thirteen
and one one-hundredth; old age, thir-
teen and two one-hundredths; adverse
circumstances, thirteen; accidents,
six and five one-hun,lredths; religious
excitement, four e-hundredths; love
affairs, one and two ne-hundredths.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1898-02-18

PITTSFIELD. Mass, Feb 15-Lebbeus
Scott, jailer at the Berkshire County jail
twenty-seyen years, has resigned. Nearly
ever since the Jail has been located in Pitts
field, he has held the position of iailer un-
der the various sheriffs. His term of service
began with the late Sheriff Root,
following with Sheriffs Wellington and
Crosby, and later with Sheriff Fuller. MIR.
Scott is Il native Of Hatfield, where he was
born in 1927. He began teaching winters
at the age of eighteen and worked on IL
farm summers. He went to New Jersey in
1S49 and took charge of an academy there
which ranked with our grammar schools.
Later he came to Springfield, and for some
time taught school, having charge of the
first evening schools for adults ever carried
on in western Massachusetts,. He was su-
perintendent of Pittsfield schools for few
years, and was also for two years chief en-
gineer of the fire department.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1898-02-18
A PRECIOUS MEMENT0.


NEW YORK. Feb. 15 15-Addi5on i. An
drews. son of the late Rufus F.Andrews, who
was surveyor of the port of New York under
Abraham Lincoln. has presented to the New
York Press club the pen with which Abra-
ham Lincoln signed the proclamation of
emancipation. This pen was given to Mr..
Rufus L. Andrews by Mrs. Lincoln shortly
after the presidents death. when she was
distributing personal mementOes to the vari-
Gus intimate friends of the president The
gentleman who now presents it the Press
club is Il life member Of that club. Rufus I.
Andrews was one of those at the death bed
OF Lincoln.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1898-02-18

Professor Gates. of the Smithsonian
Institution, claims that human vicious
ness is caused by poisons in the cells
of the brain, and that it can be eradi-
Gated by medical treatment. Since
the removal Of Il human stomach
without harm to its owner, we are pre-
pared to believe anything, but vicious
ness is so superabundant throughout
the world that we cannot think the
medical fraternity will ever be equal
to its determination. even though
Professor Gates's theory may be true.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1898-02-18
SUMMONS COMES SUDDENLY.
Treasurer of Manchester National
Bank Dies of Heart Disease.

kEENE. Y. H.. Feb. II Hon. Henry Ab-
bott. cashier of the Winchester National
bank, is dead of heart disease lie was ap-
par,ntly in the best uf health. until
death overlook him. He was born in
Keene IS years ago. In hi, early life
he taught school. In 1868 he
Joined the United States sanitary com
mission. serving later with the Ninth corps
from the Rapidan to the james rivers. He
was treasurer of the town of Winchester
many years and was member of the Lrgis-
lature several terms. In lS6g-7O he was Il
member OF the lower House and Ia ls73-74
was a member of the Senate.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1898-02-18
DISCOVERED NORWAY OAT.
spent Millions in Ten Years-Death
of David w. kamsdeU

SOUTH ROYALTON, Vt. Feb. 15-David
W. Ramsdell who gained fame by the dis
covery of the Norway oat," has just died
at the home here Of Mrs. L. L. Fish, his
niece. He was born in Washington, vt. in
1924. In 1861 he discovered in package of
seeds received from the agricultural de-
partment, the oat he named the NORWAY
oat, and from the sale of its product he
made and spent or lost in the ten succeeding
years fortune that ran into the millions.
About $3.OOO,OOO was spent in advertising
bn
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1898-02-18

The Uganda Railway has now al.
0anced seventy miles into the interior
of Africa. \ missionary writes that
bicycles are seen every day in the
streets of Uganda, and that the mis-
sionary rode on his wheel all the way
from the coast to Mengo-a three
weeks trim.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1898-02-18

Mrs. Mabel Briefly, of Matamoras,
Penn, big aud brawny. is the leader
in new sphere of usefulness for
women. She has just been appointed
Il substitute "motorman" on the cars
of the Millletown tN. " trolley
company. We may now expect to
hear OF women as policemen and fire
men. calculates the New York Herald.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1898-02-18

1t is but natural that Elisha Gray, the in
ventor of the telephone should be of pessi-
mistic disposition. His name should be as
well known throughout the world as those
of Edison and Tesla. but he is really very
little known. He began lite as a farm boy,
his parents living in Belmont county, Ohio,
His father died when he was 12vears Of age.
He secured work as a blacksmith's 5 appren-
ticc. He then became n carpenters appren-
ttce until he was u. lie went to
OberIin college. working his way
through that institution. He married
Della Shepard and they moved upon a
rented farm. He had a room arranged as
an electrical laboratory. His first discovery
was Il self-adiusting telegraph relay. In
1874 he rugged up Il machine to conduct
sounds by wire. This suggested him the
transmitting of words by wire and he per-
rected tine telephone in 1876 He was beaten
in suits 'on his patents. but the scientific
world recognizes him as the inventor thereof
He now lives at Highland Park. H., penni-
less and in want. though others have made
millions out of his brain.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1898-02-18
VOL. XIV.
Essex County Herald.

" is the opinion OF Mr.. Gladstone
and o. economists who understand the
forces at work and the characteristics
Of the people interested, thar the
United States will he victorious in the
struggle for industrial supremacy,
with England following.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1898-02-18
"NO ONE TO BLAME. "
Fire Commissioners Report Re
garding Late Big Fire.

BOSTON, Mass, Feb. 15-Commissioner
John s. Damrell reports that the collapse of
the Merrimac street building on Saturday,
Fen. 5, was due to the fire burning the beams
supporting the roof, letting it down, and
that the shock of the fall of the roof to the
overloaded grders and iloor timbers of the
0fth tloor carried down the fifth, and in turn
the successive floors. Commissioner Dam
reu finds no reason to cenSure any one, and
decides that no one connected with the de-.
nartment of inspection of buildings is at
fault This is in plain denial of unofficial
testimony that the building was inherently
weak.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1898-02-18
Mayor Says "Mum's the Word. )"

LYNN, Mass, Feb. 10 Mayor Ramsdell
of this city has issued an order to the police
that hereafter no information of robberies
shall be made public, and also has stated
that any policeman who speaks to any per-
son about police information will be slls-
pended. Mayor Ramsdell says that Lynn
has had all the notoriety in criminal matters
that he desires herto have at present.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1898-02-18

PROVIDENCE, Ii. l.. Feb. 15-NIiss Annie
Josephine Dexter the accomplished daughter
of Alvah H. Dexter, the we'll known theatr-
cal manager whose home is in Boston, Mass,
and Mr.. c. A. de Costa, Jr., u prominent
business young man of this city, have Just
been quietly married here. Mr.. and Mrs. de
Costa, who are at present at the brides par
ents' home. will live in Providence.
Essex County herald. [volume] (Guildhall, Vt.) 1873-1964, 1898-02-18
STRIKERS FIRM.
Last Weeks VaCillating Ones
Recover Determination.
Comparatively Comfortable at End
of Five Weeks Fight.

NEW BEDFORD. Mass. Feb. lj-Not-
wtHs.uudias tn. fact that the strike has
rounded ont urt-ly lbs fifth full week uf rN-
i-iyur". hh differences between capital and
Labor ar" no nearer settlement. the
wage ga sion No nearer u solution,
thtu when the 300 operative, of the
r!ula ullIs Of this city left work in RE-
,..aurc OF the 10 per cent. cut down. The
past week has been one of greatest anxiety
IN uii quarters. Tue strikers are r8mmeac-
ins t1 realize the full mrauing IT absolute
Unemployment in the midst ~ winter. Pow
rr,y has pressed hard on not few, and more
or less real desti.ution is reported. But for
the most part the strikers have diligently
guarded against actual hunger and sturya-
iiuu. the soup houses and phianthropic groc-
cry aud provision dealers have made heroic
strides t. give the strikers enough to eat. the
public at large has contributed Literally. and
the poor department OF the city has dlSbursed
ratiou- hy the wholesale. There ore, the
end of The month luds the strikers cumpara-
tiyriy cnmfortahl" $40 far aS food and shelter
ar- concerned. but numbers OF them are de-
apJudrnt a. the sorry promise for settlement.
Oue week ago there was very mate
rial spirit Of dissensiOn manifested among
the strikers, and had n chance been offered.
p,rhass a third of them would have abau-
iuned the strike. But now the breach has
been comparatively healed. The labor
leaders strenuous ly denied any discOrd, but
they. none the less, got to work IN u desper-
ate effort to restore unity They treated
the nuH-unioni~t- with a new run-idera-
upu. and now they are rewarded 10y lind
iuL whatever there was of division prar-
t.ca,ig removed. So iitr u- that danger
j. concerned. tn" past week was notable
one Meetings were uI nightly occurrence.
The most sensational developments have