House Orders Inquiry Into US Ports Used by Britain
From Washington comes a report that the Republican majority in the House acknowledged that the United States is largely supporting Britain's war in South Africa. House committee chair Hitt reported a favorable resolution urging army officers to buy horses and mules, with plans to ship up to fifty thousand more animals.
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Britain
Washington
United States
Great Britain
South Africa
New York
Lord Stanley
British War Office
House of Commons
Hitt
House Committee On Foreign Affairs
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Ministerial Union Bars Divorced From Marrying in Cedar Rapids
The Cedar Rapids Ministerial Union adopted a resolution opposing officiating at marriages for divorced individuals. An exception allows ministers to preside only if the divorced person is deemed an innocent victim of a scripturally dissolved marriage, and to remarry both parties who seek to reunite.
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Cedar Rapids
Ministerial Union
Century Scene Inaugurates Edward Sixth Proclamation
The London Telegraph recalls a vivid medieval pageantry as Edward VI is proclaimed king and emperor in vast capital scenes. Heralds, pursuivants, and lord mayors reenact old ceremonies echoing historic triumphs, while the queen mother receives solemn homage in a modern world setting.
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Edward ViI
London Telegraph
Earl Marshal
England
Froissart
Rouge Dragon
Old London
Treasury Secretary asked to report export of horses to South Africa
Resolution directs the Secretary of the Treasury to inform the house whether ports or waters have been used to export horses mules and other supplies for South Africa and to give the extent actions taken to prevent it and the number of horses and mules shipped since the war began including shipments from each port and dates.
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Secretary of the Treasury
South Africa
Defeat for Dewet and British in South Africa campaign
Reported dispatches describe British and colonial forces pressuring Boer forces across Transvaal and Cape Colony. The British rely on American horses and mules sent from the United States to sustain campaigns, with heavy losses and ongoing pursuit of Boer remnants after key engagements.
Editor Assaulted After County Book Contract Article
D Norris Jr editor in chief of the Times Republican was assaulted on a Marshalltown street Saturday evening by county auditor F Hargrave who took a column as personal to Limcek. The fight ended with the parties separated and no serious injuries.
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Marshalltown Times-Republican
D. Norris, Jr
Times Republican
F. Hargrave
Limcek
Flawed Ottumwa Grand Jury Leads to Dismissals
In Ottumwa district court a grand jury that returned over twenty five indictments was found illegally drawn. Two men had pleaded guilty and were sent to the penitentiary, but the judge dismissed all defendants after the error of a single petit juror’s misplacement was revealed.
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District Court
Ottumwa
Buv
Senator Smith
Roberts
Petit Jurar
Impure Water At Independence Hospital Typhoid Cases Rise
Three new typhoid cases reported among inmates and employees of the Independence hospital for the insane. Suspected in-attic water tank germ buildup during prior outbreak. city water blamed later. Hospital water main end likely contaminated. town free of typhoid. Unrelated ad-like line about indigestion remedy follows.
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Independence
A Mammoth Index at Last Completes British Museum Catalogue
The St James Gazette reports the British Museum index of books is finally complete after twenty years. The 1881 start brought a 4,000,000 reference manuscript catalogue for about half as many books and cross references. Since then about 500,000 new books arrived, averaging 40,000 per year. Printing costs rose as volumes issued grew from 15 to 30 annually, lowering per volume price and reducing revenue. Only about 250 civic slips are printed and 80 circulated, half given away. In total over 600 volumes hold files for 2,000,000 books and the subject index will be the major task for the new century, to begin immediately but not ready for 16 years. Jerrold and Harold also appear in a humor snippet about a charity bazar.
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British Museum
St. James
Lince
Lengt
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