Mayors Invite Dewey to Return as Volunteers Travel Plans
The article notes officials from San Francisco Omaha Denver Portland and Los Angeles inviting Admiral Dewey to visit and return from Manila. It discusses the Manila campaign and doubts about volunteers returning, with remarks on transport and deployment of troops to the United States if needed.
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Francisco
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Filipino Peace Prospects and River Patrols Reported
Reports from May 12 claim Philippine congress at San Isidro amid peace talks while General MacArthur may replace exhausted forces at San Fernando. In St Louis the third steamer to reach the Mississippi River arrived with 21 guns saluting the city as guards fired a response. Dealers in broom corn near Nashville agreed to raise prices by 1 cent per pound on a record sale totaling many tons.
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Ace
San Initbur
San Isidro
MacArthur
San Fernando
Nashville
St. Loutaig
St. Louis
United States
Rebel Stronghold Discovered Near Baliuag by U S Troops
Two companies of the Second Oregon and equal Minnesota troops found San Ildefonso nine miles north of Baliuag the strongest insurgent fortifications yet seen by General Lawton. Earthworks and trenches defend a large force as natives seek aid. Baliuag gains a Filipino mayor under a new municipal government. A separate skirmish near San Miguel wounded Major Diggles and a private, ten typhoid patients evacuated to Manila. The steamship Don Jose, kept by insurgents, was located by the gunboat Manila at Batangas.
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Manila
Oregon
Minnesota
Lawton
San Ildefonso
Baliuag
San Isidro
San Miguel
Minnesota Regiment
Oregon Regiment
Diggles
Don Jose
Batangas
Bravery of our soldiers in the Philippines heroes named
Manila April 11. Captain Charles Clay of the Seventeenth Infantry a Lexington Kentucky native and grandson of Henry Clay is lauded for cool leadership in Cuba and a Philippine neck wound after MacArthur's advance. Lieutenant Gregg of the Fourth Infantry dies heroically during Marianna fighting. Otis rejects foreign claims for Ilo Ilo property destruction citing lack of proof and war risk.
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Manila
Philippines
Orient
Charles Clay
Seventeenth Infantry
Clay
Lexington
Henry Clay
Cuba
Santiago
Hale
MacArthur
Gregg
Fourth Infantry
Mariouina
Hall
Washington
Otis
Ho Ilo
War Department
United States
Cruiser Charleston Sails From Hong Kong to Aparri
The cruiser Charleston sailed yesterday from Hong Kong for Aparri on the extreme northern coast of Luzon. The cablegram from Hong Kong gives no explanation for the visit to Aparri.
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Aparri
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Long Kong
Diverse World News Tidbits Across Continents and Topics
A roundup of late 19th century items reports Hobart’s gradual recovery and stalled joint commissions. Casts light on Chinese immigration issues, beef trust pressure on General Miles, and a broad mix of incidents from riots in Duluth to shipwrecks near Kangaroo Island.
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West Duluth
Nts
Miles
Wade Beef Court
Industrial colony in Long Island for Southern negroes
A long list of diverse items follows, including a planned industrial colony in Long Island for African Americans from the South, multiple Cuba indemnity claims by Britain France and Germany, a drowning in Puget Sound, a Manila to Mindanao naval relief plan, a Southern Pacific freight wreck in Cow Creek Canyon with fatalities, clerical moves in New York, Oregon prune crop failures, Finns fleeing to avoid Russian service, and various military, postal, and international notes.
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Cuba
Great Britain
France
Germany
Winnie Holmes
Kent
Wash
Des Moines
Manila
Mindanao
Zamboanga
Otis
Washington
Southern Pacific
Cow Creek Canyon
Oregon
James McCalley
James Merriman
Charles A. Briggs
Presbyterian Assembly
Episcopal Church
New York
Charles A. Snedeker
Potter
Minneapolis
Philippines
McKinley
Dewey
Standard Bank
Bowmanville
Toronto
Henry Metcalf
Metcalf
Sandy Hook Proving Ground
Dumarais
Porto Rico
United States
Post Office Department
Posts
Elliott
Lincoln birthplace farm sold for park near Hodgenville
The Lincoln birthplace farm two miles south of Hodgenville Kentucky has been sold to David Grear of New York City. It is expected to be developed into a public park. A whisky aging plant is under construction in Louisville Kentucky aiming for 24 hour aging. The census will require 45000 men next year to complete data collection.
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Washington
Cuba
Meiklejohn
Louisville, Ky
Abraham Lincoln
Hodgenville, Ky
David Grear
New York City
US Troops Rout Insurgents In Jungle Cannonade
In Manila on May 16 the tinclad Laguna de Bay and launch under Captain Grant opened rapid fire, killing 20 insurgents and wounding several as they cleared a bush nest near Calumpit. Second Oregon and Minnesota troops, with scouts under Captain Case and Berkheimer, captured San Ildefonso after a brief fight. insurgents suffered heavier losses and retreated to San Miguel. The report notes 20 percent of rebel forces killed or wounded since May 1 as Lawton advances.
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Laguna de Bay
Cavadonga
Grant
Rio Grande
Calumpit
Utah
Oregon Volunteers
Sae
Minnesota
Case
Berkheimer
San Ildefonso
San Miguel
Lawton
China Rejects Russian Demand for Peking Manchuria Railway
Shanghai May 16. The tsung li yamen replied to M De Giers that China cannot concede to Russia’s bid for a new Peking to Manchuria railway. Officials note the proposed line would threaten northern railways backed by British £2,000,000 in investment. Russia aims to project strength despite recent Britain Russia influence pact.
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Tsung-Li- Yaman
Foreign Office
Peking
M. de Giers
Russia
Manchuria
Port Arthur
Shan Hai Kwon
St. Petershurst
Northern Railways
Great Britain
China
Otis Issues May 16 Dispatch on Filipino Negotiators
Major General Otis reports from Manila that Lawton has taken Ildefonso and San Miguel with minor losses while pressing northward with 1,500 troops and gun boats up the Rio Grande from Calumpit. MacArthur holds San Fernando as Aguinaldo seeks peace talks, and a commission may be sent to Manila to negotiate terms.
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Otis
Washington
War Department
Manila
Lawton
Baliuag
Ildefonso
San Miguel
Rio Grande
Calumpit
MacArthur
San Fernando
Aguinaldo
United States Commission
Navy to Convert Gunboats for Active Service
Under Secretary Longs orders two gunboats Annapolis and Vicksburg will be taken out of training service and refitted as gunboats. They will be replaced on the Atlantic coast by Monongahela and on the Pacific by Hartford and Pensacola, the change reflecting their small size for training duties.
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Long
Annapolis
Vicksburg
Monongahela
Atlantic
Hartford
Pensacola
Pacific
Dewey Portraits Reflect Public Demand for Hero’s Image
A discussion of why Admiral Dewey’s likeness appears uniform across prints while others vary. The piece recalls a Bell’s Gallery photo from years earlier, rediscovered after Dewey’s victory sparked a flood of portraits, and notes a modern Washington game misidentify Dewey from a Manila shot.
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Dewey
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Sampson
Shafter
Hobson
Miles
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Kautz
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Manila
Advertising as a dull season money maker
The piece argues advertising should target slow periods to draw customers. It portrays merchants chasing busy seasons and paying rents, then neglecting ads when sales slump, urging ads to strike “between the eyes” during dull times to drive demand and profits.
Gate of Tears and Bridge of Sighs
The Straits of Babelmandeb are called the Gate of Tears by Arabs for their perilous twenty mile-wide passage with many shipwrecks. The Bridge of Sighs in Venice links the Doge’s Palace to the State prison and earned its name from conveyance of prisoners to execution.
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Gate of Tears
Babelmandeb
Persian Gulf
Red Sea
Venice
Judgment Hall
Oldest City Claim: Damascus as World’s Ancient City
The piece argues Damascus in Syria is the oldest city, predating Rome as the eternal city while noting a cliché about doctors being rough. It asserts Damascus has been known since written records began, and ends with a quirky aside about doctors.
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Damascus
Syria
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