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Calamity Not New to Valparaiso GOD BLESS THE ELECTIONEER WINS WRESTLING MATCH IS CALAMITY NOT NEW JAMES TREATMENT TO BE VERY EXCITING GREATEST IN TEARS TO VALPARAISO WHICH BROUGHT HAPPINESS TO HOME. Joan is Second and De- Has Beeo Twice Before Shaken Pope r— SAYS MRS, LOUIS GANN mund Third by Great Earthquakes ANNOUNCE THEIR DIRECT IMPORTATION OF * She Also Says: "Words Can Not Ex- KEENE HORSES FAVORITES BLIGHT OF EVIL DESTIN press Our Heartfelt Thanks for Heath London Hats the Blessings the James Lakeland Entry Heavily Backed In City Has Been Twice Sacked, Three Treatment Has Bestowed DERBYS, $5.00. SILK OPERA HATS, $8.00. Last Five Minutes Made Victory Times Upset by Eearthquakes, Upon Every Member of Fire the Most In Thrice Scourged by Our Family by Curing Popular Fall and Winter and Once Flooded. Styles Years. My Husband, Two Years Ago of — Are Now on Sale. From the Kansas City Times. That Aw- New York, September 1.—Down a lane of Valparaiso has heen twice sacked, thrice gray-brown earth, which had all the soft- Manufactured by ful Drink has it been racked by earthquakes, thrice ness of velvet beneath the tread of the has it been scourged by fire and once HENRY HEATH, Ltd., LONDON, ENGLAND. Habit.” flying thoroughbred hoofs, fifteen of the has it been drowned by flood. No city of fleetest 2-year-olds the American turf has Hat Manufacturers, by Appointment, to Smith America has received so many vis- ever produced raced madly today to a goal His the King, itations of evil as this "Valley of Para- Majesty, three-quarters of a mile away, where lay It is evident that the woman who wrote Prince of dise." Inaptly so named by a Spanish dis- H. R. H., The Wales, tho following testimonial had suffered a purse rich enough to pay the ransom coverer in the sixteenth of Etc. many heartaches on account of her hus- of a king. It was the nineteenth run- century. The Imperial Family Germany, Don Juan de band's dissipation, but like the true, good ning of the Futurity at beautiful Sheeps- Saavedra, a captain under HEATH-FELT RIGHTLY NAMED THE and loving wife she was she never desert- Almagron, and soldier of HATS, thead and as a roar rrom nearly 40,- Spanish voyager ed her unfortunate husband. She still Bay, a fortune, sailed into the crescent bay fhad of his final redemption from 000 throats rent the air, Electioneer, hopes where the NNssipatlon which had made their home well-named colt, by Voter-Quesal, flashed city afterward stood in tho hus- year 1532. He was struck of a resort her Hats” (unhappy, and as last under the wire a winner by three-quarters by the beauty "King visited the James Sanatorium, of the iband finally of a length. spot, and immediately christened where the wife for men who want he best. They combi/ic noticeable elegance of style Memphis. Tenn., good this new on Another champion had been bay the little-explored west- Post Cards from some three her 'husband was restored to good proclaimed with luxurious Quality. London; thousand [claims ern coats by the name that It has borne Sole for • health and sobriety. She states in her tes- and William Lakeland, a horesman by in number, announced their coming to Biachs', Agents Birming- are now on sale. timonial. which Is given below, that their profession, who trains his breadwinners through much tribulation since. Pedra de ham. The Hats home since her husband's reclamation is himself, and sleeps in the barn when Valdivia visited the place In 1543 choice of now full of sunshine and happiness and necessary, had snatched tne richest prize the name given the then struggling col- ;that she has bright 'hopes of the future, of the from half a score of million- ony by its foster father. Don Luis de Blach’s Store Will Close LABOR BAY, Sharp, At Noon 'and in her late letter gives the consent year *©f herself and Husband to the publication aires, who race for the pleasure of the Alvala, pne of the early governors of New of a letter written the James Sanatorium, sport. Spain, made the settlement a municipality ‘Memphis, Tenn., which Is ns follows: Joan a Close Second. under royal charter In 1791, after It had "Chas. B. James, care James Sanatorium, Pope been tried of mis- ties, the Odeon theatre and the Museum of time not too conspicuous to wear with- Tenn.: Back of the winner at his quarters was sorely by many years Memphis, out coat or on hot fortunue. Natural History. wrap nights. "Please let me speak to you through the Pope Joan, the fastest of the year, filly The cerros, or cliffs, behind the lower Their economy is apparent. In these silent language of my pen, and say us R. In 1578 Sir Francis Drake sailed Into the and the best of the trio which James made accessible by the inclined rail- days of costly dress and still costlier others have often said: city, Keene sent to the to ne as harbor of Valparaiso and bombarded tho the sites of upkeep, a gowi. of sufficient in post played roads, had lately been made pretensions "I cannot convey to you my feelings and short town, afterward it of Its treas- I residences and summer yet of some simplicity, that will to cure of that favorites by the public at the price sacking many' beautiful regard my husband's serve a dual ore Cerro and Cerro purpose, is likely to be a awful 'drink habit.’ 'TIs now two years of 8 to 5. Demund, the Goldfinch colt, for and putting many of it sinhabitants villas. The Conception the chosen spots popular and long-lived mode. ago when he returned to ohr home from J. lo the sword. Sir John Alegre were particularly which Paul Rayner paid $45,000 early Hawkins, gentle- On these summer evenings in almost '■the Sanatorium, sunshine Into man, slave trader of the elite. bringing In the season was third, beaten for second and pirate, visited the any theatre the of Vina del Mar, a suburb five' miles from. occupants boxes, •his home, and speaking peace, as It were, He had Spanish settlement later, and the honors by the shortest of heads. again of all Chile, stalls and dress circles are devotees of to the souls of his loved ones. town Valparaiso, was the Trouvtlle run a most Creditable race. Next came was given up to pillage. the of the mountains lace, chiffon, or muslin "restaurant” "Words cannot express our heartfelt Situated In the midst Yankee Gun, an added starter, Peter Pan, The year 1730 witnessed the first great gown; It adds its cool charms to the for In a natural the little town thanks to the James Treatment the to which of the Keene earthquake that shook Prac- garden spot, the frantic players Valparaiso. all the beauty of the theatre, and when the .blessing It has bestowed upon every mem- was made the gathering place for stable had pinned their faith; Yankee "PAKiVlCR" LiURNb, tically the whole town was destroyed In temperature is high its' filmy softness Is ^ber of our family by curing this man of this elect of Chilean society every summer. Girl, owned by C. R. Ellison: Ballot, Who Will Wrestle William the at the Audi- convulsion, and only after many years more pleasant to the wearer than that-awful "drink habit." He has not Demetral, Greek, Skating Here the legation people from Santiago which had been added by Mr. Keene to of slow progress did It recover. In 1822 a weighty materials and costly jewels. touched or tasted n drop of any Intoxi- torium Next Thursday Night. made their summer homes, and here the take the place of Zambesi, who wag second earthquake came to shake dow'n Fashion writers have cants since he came home, even of came to take already pro- though one the most wide- what had wealthy folk Valparaiso scratched; Conville, When Farmer Burns and William De- the the two men, been rebuilt. In this Catastro- claimed the doom of the "restaurant” •he has had it offered to him time and by agreement signed by the waters, attend the races and pass ly tipped 'horses in the race; Horace E., phe many lost their lives. A great fire dress, as they have written of the metral, the Greek, meet on the mat at the and the considered the most con- pass- again. the famous western strangle hold, away the summer with promenade colt, bought by Roy j sw’ept the city in 1843. destroying $1,000,000 ing of the blouse for years; but, like the "He seems to have no wish or desire skating auditorium Thursday one I of will be at- dances and gaming. Rainey for $25,000, with tne Idea of win- night dangerous all, probably worth of had the for- certs, blouse, the "restaurant” is and property. Hardly gown far If or whisky at any time, his family the of the best matches men. miles east of Valparaiso ning Futurity In view: Don Enrique, wrestling Birmingham tempted by both tunes of the to mend Seventy-nine too useful and to be but a re- | community begun pretty mode and many devoted friends are today the is the of Santiago, the capital of the Belmont representative; Kentucky has ever seen will probably be the re- | The match will be catch-as-catc*h-can, when a second fire five times as city of the moment. because he has been licked up joicing with him backed down from an the best kind oi of Chile and a place containing Beau, opening price sult.
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