Colombia Senate Rejects Panama Canal Treaty Amid Sovereignty Debate
The Colombian senate rejected the Panama canal treaty amid claims of encroachment on sovereignty. Officials consider reopening talks with the United States under a modified basis, though ratification remains impossible in its current form.
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Colombia
Buena Ventura
Colomian Senate
Maroquin
United States
Congress
Senate
Panama Canal Company
Washington
State Department
Beaupre
Roosevelt
Atlee
Legation
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Herran
Rios
Government of
Panama Senate Rejects Canal Treaty Stirs Isthmian Opinion
In Panama on August 18 a unanimous senate rejection of the canal treaty echoes through all circles. Locals fear future impacts while the rest of the republic faces higher exchange rates and an uncertain economic outlook.
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Panama
Senate
Republic
Canal treaty rejection shocks Isthmus investors
Aug 18 Colon reports the Colombian senate’s rejection of the canal treaty. The defeat surprised locals who expected passage with changes, dealing a heavy blow to property owners who had invested heavily in prospects tied to ratification.
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Colon
Colombia
Irondequoit Wins Canada Cup in Final Race
The American boat Irondequoit won the fifth and deciding race for the Canada cup in Toronto by one minute. The 21 mile triangular course favored Irondequoit despite light initial winds and 5 to 4 betting on the American boat. Excursion steamers at first refused to cheer but later saluted the victorious crew.
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Toronto
Ont
Irondequoit
Strathcona
Canada
Bristow Reports Near Exhaustion of Free Delivery Funds
Disclosed by Fourth Assistant Postmaster General Bristow in Bristow Washington on August 14. The $12,500,000 appropriation for free delivery for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1904, is nearly exhausted by Machen, leaving funds only to establish new routes up to January next year.
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Washington
General Bristow
Machen
Bill, My Pardner: A Miner’s Remembrance of Friendship
A San Francisco Bulletin reminiscence portraits a rugged miner recalling his partner Bill. The speaker honors Bill’s steadfast friendship through hard times from 1849 onward, noting how gold fever faded beside true companionship and the lasting claim of partnership.
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Bill
San Francisco Bulletin
English Girl and the Wounded Officer at Dawn
In a sunlit veranda scene Bessie Brown introduces Phil Estes Brown from South Africa to Miss Mackay and Ethel. Phil recounts a Boer War ambush rescue mission in which Lieutenant Rogers saved comrades and was later revealed to be Mackay, his rescuer’s name.
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Bessie JE Brown
Philp Estes Brown
South Africa
Phil
Bessie
Miss Mackay
Crimea
Rogers
Leutenant
Besstie
Ethel
Mackay
Brother Believed Wounded Man Saved by Hero
In a tense scene, Ethel learns her brother survived after a hospital stay. Phil consoles her, hints at a future request, and a whispered gospel line signals hope as the New York Daily News quotes the moment.
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Phil
Father
Ethel
New York Daily News
Salted Wells and Mules in Desert Tales From Old Trails
A composite paragraph recounts an audacious salt water well fraud along the Gila River where Wells Fargo and the stage line paid out for water scooped from a shallow wooden box. a later tale praises a desert well using a mule to raise water and notes military and royal guard lineage in 17th and 18th century Britain. The passage then shifts to public notices on regiments, then brief social statistics about England and Japan.
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Gen. Ainsworth
Gila River
Stage Company
Wells- Fargo & Co
Gila
Ainsworth
Hero of Heppner Leslie Matlock Saves Many Inhabitants
Leslie Matlock a young stockman rode through the Heppner flood warning towns down the valley racing for lives. With Bruce Kelly he rode sixty seven miles in seven hours across dark streets and fields to alert Arlington Ione and others of the rising wall of water.
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Oregon
Leslie Matlock
Matlock
Del
Morrow County
Palace Hotel
Keppner
Bruce Kelly
Kelly
Hadeen
Arlington
Ione
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