Grim satire and global quirks in Aberdeen column
The Aberdeen Herald column mocks snuff trusts, costume posters, and indecent drama while noting new terri tory open settlement, a crusade against indecency, and comic valentines’ impact. It cites polar expeditions, hepaticocholecystostostomy, and a Leslie’s Weekly Manila series with American businesses, watches, shoes, hardware, routes, and crafts, contrasting capital and labor.
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Manila
Leslie's Weekly
Philippines
Corn and science shape a humanitarian future for Europe
The essay argues for expanding corn meal use to feed hungry Europeans, noting corn is cheaper and nutritious. It also urges practical science education and skilled labor, predicting tropical disease research will boost global commerce and that nations invest in safe, economical expansion of tropical exploration and medicine.
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East
Europe
Curious Bibles Hide Wires in London Churches
In London churches a number of so called Bibles are hollow dummies. They are actually boxes packed with wires and discs serving as transmitters for an electrophone company. Preachers explain the devices deliver sermons to sick subscribers through hidden transmitters.
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London
Exempt from Jury Service and Earth Shrinking Theory
In New York City about 100000 people are legally or circumstantially exempt from jury service. A scientist asserts the earth is shrinking at three inches per year which may explain some people’s urge to gain possession before it dwindles away.
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New York City
Various Global News Tidbits From The Day
A digest of events includes McKinley ratifying Hague treaties, Mayo's death at 76 in Washington, Lee named to Havana command, Nicaragua landing troops in Colombia, and a fatal scalding accident near Ashland Oregon. Also notes delimited conflicts, strikes, political nominations, and court decisions.
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Lee
Havana
Pinard de Rio
Nicaragua
Ashland
Bert Horton
United States
China
Naval estimates total thirty million pounds for Britain
The report states Great Britain's naval estimates amount to 30 000 000 pounds. Buffalo Bill claims 30 000 Mormons from Salt Lake will found a city in Wyoming. The Steamer Prairie with American exhibits for the Paris exposition has arrived at Havre. It costs 4 400 000 dollars annually to maintain 24 royal palaces of the German emperor throughout the empire.
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Willamette River
Oregon City
United States Supreme Court
Hundling Ve
Chicago
Peckham
Isaac M. Wise
Isaiah Temple
Emil G. Hirsch
Jewish Union College
Cincinnati
Hirsch
Wise
Peking
Wu Chang
University of
Detroit
Marblehead
Bennington
Concord
Great Britain
Buffalo Bill
Salt Lake
Wyoming
Havre
William
German Empire
Open Paris Exposition 1900 Opens Amid Splendor and Chaos
Paris April 17 The exposition of 1900 opened with lavish ceremonies but mixed order and crowding. President Loubet viewed displays as officials and guards lined the grand stairway, while weather and crowding created delays and disarray for attendees and diplomats arriving by carriage.
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Paris
Loubet
Republican Guard
Louvre
Thouse
Exposition
Salle Des Fetes
Italian Strikers Stand Firm at Cornell Dam
About 300 deputies guard Croton Landing near the Cornell dam as Italian laborers refuse to return to work until wage increases are met. Leader Angelo Rotella says outsiders will be fought and the state should protect workers, while Consul Bianchi seeks settlement.
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Croton Landing
N. Y
Cornell Dam
Bianchi
Angelo Rotella
Jealous Real Estate Man Shoots Woman Then Kills Himself
Carbondale Illinois April 16 Gus Young a Murphysboro real estate man shot and wounded Miss Kate Van Cloester before shooting himself in a temporary jealous act. The woman is from a prominent Southern Illinois family and is expected to recover.
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Carbondale
Gus Young
Murphysboro
Kate van Cloester
Young
Illinois
Tornado Strikes Rouse Texas Aliased Town
A tornado hit Rouse Texas at midnight causing multiple presumed fatalities and extensive property damage. Fire fights houses were wrecked and the town awoke to great excitement as authorities assessed the destruction.
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Texas
Dallas
Tex
Rouse
Blues Buy Pitcher Chum My Gray from Pittsburg
Manager Manning of the Blues closes a deal with Pittsburg to purchase pitcher Chum My Gray, formerly of Buffalo, for 750 dollars. The transaction took place in Kansas City in April.
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Kansas City
Manning
The
Blues
Pittsburg
Chummy Gray
Buffalo
Wheat Imports Rise as Chile Rates Prices Up
Chile importing wheat due to poor crops with prices advancing. Wheat shipments expected from California aided by transport through Galveston, Texas, as of April 17.
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Santiago de Chile
Galveston
Tex
California
Chinese Reign of Terror Exposed in Peking Meeting
Shanghai reports detail a March 5 meeting in Peking where the empress dowager faced protests from nine provinces against her terror policy. Viceroys warned they may rebel if reformers are persecuted, with 180 million people in the provinces united. Kin Lien-Shan, linked to telegraphs, was captured in Macao, facing defalcation charges and possible execution. Kang Yu Wei fled to Singapore. the empress dowager set a high price on his body and a list of 300 reformers is proscribed.
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Shanghai
Peking
Grand Council
Chin
Nanking
Kiang-Su
Anhui
Kiangei
Hunan
Hupeh
Chekiang
Fookien
Quangsi
Kwangtung
Kin Lien-Shan
Portugese
Macao
South China
Li Hung Chang
Kin
China
Soo Chow
Weng T’ung-Ho
Shen Pong
Kang Yu Wei
Singapore
Four story Pittsburg building collapses injuring and killing
A four story brick building at Second Avenue and Wood Street in Pittsburg collapsed during remodeling by McGovern Lyte, burying workers. Three people died, five were badly hurt, several more slightly injured. about 40,000 dollars is the expected loss to Armstrong McKeivy Lead and Oil Company.
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Pittsburg
Second Avenue
Wood Street
Armstrong, McKeivy Lead & Oil Company
McGovern and Lyte
Mashona Refused Transit to Delagoa Bay by British Fleet
Cape Town April 16 report says the admiral in charge blocks the Mashona from leaving Durban to proceed beyond the port. Agents say cargo bound for Delagoa Bay will be landed at Durban. The steamer, seized December 8 by the Partridge, sailed New York November 8 for Algoa Bay with flour for the Transvaal. cargo condemned but ship releasedMarch 13.
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Mashona
Cape Town
Johnston
Durban
Delagoa Bay
New York
St. Vincent
Algoa Bay
Transvaal
Plague Riots in India Reach Cawnpore After Camp Destruction
In Bombay on April 14 riots erupted at Cawnpore with the segregation camp destroyed and ten killed. Five constables died and their bodies were discarded in the barbing camp. Order was restored but business halted and crowds remained sullen as troops and volunteers guard mills and factories.
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India
Bombay
Cawnpore
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