General Clay's Young Wife Leaves Whitehall for Brother's Home
Dora Clay, nearly seventeen and wife to Cassius M Clay, has left the Whitehall home to visit her brother Clell Richardson at Valley View Kentucky. Neighbors and friends note unhappiness with her unusual life, yet General Clay plans to recall Clell to the estate. Dora, once favored, cooks for him and is educated and devoted, while Cassius remains markedly older. Local gossip questions Diana’s return as the General weighs bringing Clell back.
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Clay
Whitehall
Clell” Richardson
Valley View
Kentucky River
Cle
Gen. Clay
Dora
Clell
Azid
Don. Clay
Trade With Hong Kong Sparks Fraud Reputation
Consul Wildeman in Hong Kong reports to the state department that Americans are perceived as practicing fraud there. He notes that flour and petroleum are the largest imports from the United States, and adds that selling lumber would face no trouble if the market conditions held.
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Hong Kong
United States
Wildeman
State Department
Weds in a Hurry. Georgia Marriage Sparks Sudden Union
Karvan Courin and a Georgia widow wed within weeks after a chance meeting in Marietta. W. M. Comes of Iowa traveled to visit friend William Glassman, learned of his death, then pursued the widow, courted Sunday, engaged Monday, license Wednesday, and married Friday. Comes says matrimony was unplanned.
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Karvan Courin
Marietta
Gao
W. M. Comes
Iowa
William Glassman
Glassman
Comes
Girl in pulpit fills in for ill minister daughter acts
The 16 year old daughter of Rev. Charles J. Hatch, Ma bel Hatch, preached at the Agawam Massachusetts Methodist Episcopal church replacing her suddenly ill father. On the same day she led the pulpit at Central church near Wareham Center. She had won a gold medal at her high school for proficiency in elocution last April.
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Methodist Episcopal Church
Agawam
Mass
Mabel
Charles J. Hatch
Central Church
Wareham Center
Miss Hatch
Jon
Refused the Title Role by French Courts Victory for Miss d Arzac
The Pall Mall Gazette reports a French theatre dispute where Milo Rita d Arzac declined a leading role in Cannes. The manager cut wages, she sued, and she won, upholding proprieties in French theatre and securing her payment.
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Pall Mall Gazette
Cannes
Milo
Rita d'Arzac
Mlle
d'Arzac
Mile. d'Argue
d’Arzac
France
Civil Service League Reelects Carl Schurz President
The National Civil Service Reform League, in its seventeenth annual meeting at Cincinnati, reelects Carl Schurz as president. It adopts resolutions urging faithful enforcement of the federal civil service law, opposing repeals or weak enforcement, and supporting merit-based selection and merit-based extensions. It endorses President McKinley’s removal policy only for good cause with due notice and calls for enforcement with proper penalties for evasion.
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Carl Schurz
Cincinnat
National Civil Service Reform, League
Committee On
Charles J. Bonaparte
Baltimore
National Civil Service Reform League
League
House of Congress
McKinley
Av Aluminium Yacht Roving Craft Weighs Half Steel Counterpart
A ten ton roving yacht built from aluminium cost ten thousand dollars and weighs about half as much as a comparable steel vessel. The project showcases lighter, durable marine craft and may influence future yacht designs in buoyant metal use.
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Av Aluminium
Windoo Children Precocious and Ideal Food Myths
A traveler reports Hindoo children show precocity in crafts and weaving with boys as young as seven contributing to trades while others their age study. The London Chronicle lauds baked banana as ideal food for nervous workers. Mrs. Mary Elizabeth Lease says lecture earnings lag and plans a populist congressional canvass in Kansas Seventh District.
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The
London Chronicle
Congress
Great Bend
Kun
Mary Elizabeth Lease
Kansas
Schooner Susan P Thurlow Lost Near Portland
The schooner Susan P Thurlow bound for Hillsboro N B then New York with plaster rock aboard went to pieces near Cushing Island three miles from Portland at eight o clock in the evening. The captain and five crewmen were lost one sailor reached land.
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Susan P. Thurlow
Hillsboro
N. B
New York
Cushing Island
With His Own Money Mrs Benham Henry Christmas Question
A terse Chicago Tribune item notes a humorous exchange about spending and economizing for Christmas. Mrs Benham Henry asks what to get, the reply says Benham Nothing, highlighting thrift and humor in gift giving.
Iron and trade forecast lifts spirits for new year
Dradstreet reports broad optimism across iron, glass, cotton, and sugar sectors with renewed industrial activity and fewer business failures. Western trade shows encouragement as holidays end. cotton, grain exports edge up or remain steady despite higher risks.
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Dradstreet's
Opana
Northwest
Louisiana
Florida
Woal
United States
Canada
Lost with All on Beard in French Steamer Louis
Marseilles reports a French steamer Louis bound Cardiff to Marseilles with coal foundered off Bauduck about 25 miles west of the port on January 1. Fifteen crew were lost, four bodies recovered. The vessel was hailed as foundered with all hands last Thursday.
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Beard
Marseilles
Bauduck
Louis
Cardiff
Moses P Handy Dies Aged 54 At Bon Air Resort
Moses P Handy longtime editor and writer for the Times Herald Chicago and a special US commissioner to the Paris exposition died at the Bon Air hotel near here at age 54. Born in Virginia he served with the Confederate forces and later held senior editorial posts in New York Philadelphia and Chicago. He helped found the Clover Club of Philadelphia and led publicity efforts for the World's Columbian Exposition.
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Allania
Go. Aupista
Gidan
Moses P. Mandy
United States
Times- Herald
Chicago
Bon Air Hotel
Here
Moses P. Nandy
Virginia
New York Tribune
Virginius
Philadelphia Ttmes
Philadelphia Daily News
Clover Club
Philadelphia
Heme
New York
Revenge by Mob Burns Seminole Men in Oklahoma
In Fort Smith Arkansas on January 10 a mob seized J Markis McGeisey and Palmer Simpson both Seminole Todians and burned them at the stake. They were accused of outraging and mur dering Mrs James Simmons near Wewoka Oklahoma. The two were captured near Maud and brought to the scene where their houses were burned and they were bound to stakes and slowly burned to death. The mob dispersed afterward. This marks a second such mob action in Oklahoma in 25 years with cross border origins. Indians in the area fear retribution and farmers arm for defense.
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Ark
J. Markis McGessey
Palmer Simpson
James Simmons
Oklahoma
Wewoka
McGeisey
Maud
Naval demonstration pledge and storm tied to losses and crime
Special dispatches report Japan aligning with Britain against Russia, a Morganfield cyclone killed a city marshal Harvey Sellers in St Louis, a tobacco warehouse fire in St Louis caused over 100000 in losses, a Knox Indiana man received life term for murder, a Bedford Indiana man killed his wife and then shot himself, Springfield Illinois approves 30000 annual for soldiers home, Britain may guarantee Chinese loan opening ports, Chicago burglary nets 100000 in mining stock, Elchert dies in churchyard heart disease.
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Republican
Morganfield
Old Methodist Church
Parsons Hotel
Harvey Sellers
Cuban Relief Appeal Proclaimed By Secretary of State
Secretary John Sherman announces a central Cuban relief committee led by Stephen E. Barton and Louis Klopsch to collect funds and supplies for Cuba. The proclamation urges national coordination with Red Cross, New York Chamber of Commerce, and religious leaders to ship aid via Havana, with Spanish compliance and no tax on consignments.
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Cabata
Washington
Department of State
United States
Cuba
Cooperaon
American Red Cross
New York Chamber of Commerce
New York City
Stephen E. Barton
Stairman
American National Red Cross
Charles A. Schieren
Louis Klopsch
Christian Herald
Havana
Seaboard
John Sherman
Counterfeit ten dollar gold pieces seized in Danville area
Washington reports three counterfeit ten dollar gold pieces received by Acting Chief Brackett of the secret service. The coins are well made and resemble real coins, but weigh 81 grains less. United States Commissioner Parksdale of Danville says many such coins circulated in the area. police captured tools and equipment but no arrests yet.
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Brackett
Secret Service
United States
Parksdale
Danville
Treasury
Corn King in Kansas: Corn Exceeds Wheat in Value
Topeka, Jan 8 Secretary Coburn reports Kansas farmers earned more than 1.3 billion dollars from farm products and livestock in the last decade. Contrary to belief, corn topped wheat in value, totaling 177 million dollars more over ten years.
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Topeka
Kan
Coburn
State Board of Agriculture
Kansas
Detroit Free Press political editor dies at alma sanitarium
Judge Albert G. Boynton, 25 years political editor of the Detroit Free Press, died Sunday evening at Alma sanitarium after kidney troubles and related complications. He relinquished work last September and had been in Alma for three weeks. The Louisiana sugar crop report notes season end as factories finish, with sugar yield estimated between 820,000 and 860,000 tons and molasses from 5,000,000 to 27,000,000 barrels.
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Judge Boynton
Detroit Free Areas
Detroit
Mich
Albert G. Boynton
Detroit Free Press
Alma
New Orleans
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