Diverse 1900s Telegram Snippets Span Navy to Politics
A compiled set of brief telegram notes covers the launch of the torpedo boat destroyer Kiji at Kure and other navy items. political moves including Governor Higgins backing Roumanian Jews and Secretary Hay’s work. financial reform talks on Macedonia. court and legal notices. notable deaths and honors. labor unrest in St Peterburg and San Juan. and diplomatic plans with Secretary Taft visiting Tokyo.
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Kiji
Kure
Higgins
New York
Hay
Macedonia
Thurston
Nebraska
Portland
Ore
Mitchell
Frederick EB. Steel
The
Patriotic Order Sona of America
Philadelphia
Diane
Roosevelt
Chicago
Stewart Dingwall Fordyce Salmond
United Free Church College
Aberdeen
Scotland
Hot Springs
Ark
Bishop Spalding
Putlloff Works
St. Petersburg
Bantingo Iglesias
American Federation of Labor
San Juan
P. R
Ponce
Naval
John Paul Jones
United States Naval Academy
Annapolis
Sands
Korea
Panama
Randall
H. A. Mudge
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railroad
Rock Island System
Ann Arbor Railroad Company
Gould
Rudolph Kleybolte & Co
Equitable Mutusi Fire Spearance Company
Mercantila Mutual Fire Insurance Company
St. Paul, Minn
D. K. Pearsons
Albert F. Fiete
McGregor
Geneva
Taft
Tokio
Philippine
Foreign Office
Defiance Cold Water Starch Promises No Stick Iron
Advertises Defiance Cold Water Starch with 16 oz per package at 10 cents. Claims superior performance by resisting sticking and omitting harmful chemicals. Warns grocers may push smaller 8 oz or 12 oz packs to clear stock.
Wildcat Road Test Baffles Forester in West Virginia Camp
A forester at a West Virginia lumber camp asks directions from a strawboss foreman from Minnesota. The foreman warns the route is so rough a wildcat could not travel it, but adds the wildcat might go over it in a different way.
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West Virginia
Strawboss
Aantenant
Minnesota
Heights and Depths of Man and Gaelic Revival in Ireland
A Horace Mann quote critiques privilege and toil in society. A four day letter from Kilronan Aran Island Galway translates to Mrs Gouran, Private Hotel, Harbor View, Kilronan, Aran Island, Galway, illustrating an effort to revive Gaelic.
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Horace Mann
Kilronan
Aran Island
Galway
Punishment Tale Turns Secret Pantry Joke
A teacher asks a juvenile class what capital punishment means Tommy replies with a joke about a naughty boy being locked in a pantry with cake and jam. The humorous misinterpretation highlights child logic and ironic moral instruction.
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Tommy
Piso's Cure for Consumption Saves Life in Norwich
A Norwich reader recalls cures from Piso's Cure for Consumption that supposedly saved his life three years prior. The note dated February 17 1900 mentions Mins Tiros Romig Map o Street.
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Romig
Norwich
Rights of German landlords and tenant obligations
A discussion notes that powerful German landowners can compel tenants to render service on demand. It states that on several estates tenants, described as trading people, must provide labor to their landlords without pay whenever required.
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Germany
British Leaven Counts 8.6 Million Abroad
The British empire outside the United Kingdom holds about 8.6 million people of British descent, representing roughly one in forty of its total population.
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United Kingdom
Perfect Timing Device
In Australia an electric clock is praised for its perfect work making it impossible for timers to deceive or err.
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Australia
Sensible Housekeepers Prefer Defiance Btarch Over Money Value
Readers are urged to choose Defiance Btarch for better quality and one third more for the same price, appealing to sensible housekeepers seeking superior starch.
Reflections on Persecution and Social Pressure
The author argues that religious persecution stems from vanity misused by good aims. A vague accusation gains substance when noticed, turning shadows into fact. The piece critiques the idea of control in marriage and the burden of floating debt on a man’s life.
Defiance Starch Promises White Clothes and Quick Return
A bold sales pitch promises satisfaction and a money back or extra value offer. The advert urges trying Defiance Starch with a one third extra for the same money and emphasizes keeping clothes white with 16 ounces for 10 conta, while warning against interference from a headstrong fellow.
Defiance starch offer review message
Promotional text urging customers to buy Defiance starch for best value with a 16 for 10 offer. Claims of repeated use and universal appeal across genders.
Notable actor Joseph Jefferson dies in Palm Beach
West Palm Beach Florida Joseph Jefferson famed actor died at The Reefs home at 6 16 Sunday evening after days of illness and struggle. His body will be taken to Buzzards Bay Massachusetts with his family accompanying him. he had recently visited Hobe Sound to meet friends including former President Cleveland.
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West Palm Beach
Fla
Joseph Jefferson
Palm Beach
Hie Sone
Charles B
Frank Jefferson
Mabel Bingham
R. B. Potter
Carl Kettler
Mr. Jefferson
Porter
Buzzards Bay
Mass
New York
Hobe Sound
Mr. Cleveland
Charles B. Jefferson
Florida Home
Worley
St. Augustine
Western Pacific Rail plans swift Salt Lake City to San Francisco line
San Francisco promoters declare George J. Gould and his Overland system back the railroad project. Construction will proceed without delay from Salt Lake City to San Francisco.
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San Francisco
Western Pacific Railway Company
George J. Gould
Overland Railroad System
Salt Lake City
Health Report From Panama Shows Improving Conditions
Washington dispatch reports a March health summary from Colonel W C Gorgas chief sanitary officer of the Isthmian canal zone. About 000 commission employees remained at month end with 153 hospital patients and eleven total deaths, a 14 per 1 000 rate deemed favorable. Four yellow fever cases occurred in the isthmus in thirty days, one in Panama, with mass fumigation of Panama City homes ongoing.
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Washington
W. C. Gorgas
Iathmlan Canal Zone
Gorgas Saya
Panama
Panama City
Fete for the German Emperor Aboard Hohenzollern
In Messina Italy the German imperial yacht Hohenzollern is lavishly decorated for Easter. Dr Goens court chaplain arrives from Berlin to conduct a chapel service aboard with Emperor William present. The imperial family and ship crews attend as the emperor delivers a biblical sermon.
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Messina
Italy
Goens
Berlin
William
Death of Actor Joseph Jefferson at Cape Cod Home
Cape Cod townspeople mourn the death of Joseph Jefferson at his Buzzards Bay summer home near Buttermilk Bay. The renowned actor, a longtime Cape resident, served as president of the Old Colony club and was famed for painting and sea fishing trips with former President Cleveland.
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Buzzards Bay
Mase
Joseph Jefferson
Cape Cod
Jefferson
Buttermilk Bay
Thomas
Joseph
Josephine
Mr. Jefferson
Old Colony Club
Cape
Cleveland
Brooka
Bourne
Sandwich
No representations to Russia on Admiral Rojestvensky stay
The Associated Press reports no representations have been made to Russia via the French embassy about Admiral Rojestvensky's camp at Kamranh Bay. A direct line to Kamranh Bay does not exist, and any neutrality violation must be proven before replying to Japan or France.
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ST. Petersburg
Associated Press
Russia
Rojestvensky
Kamranh Bay
Fe Junquieres
Saigon
Rosestvensky
Kamranh Hay
Nehogatoff
Madagascar
Japan
United States
Rosentvensky
Philippines
Longevity Compare: Germans Live Longer Than Americans
In Wiesbaden Dr. B. Laquer reports American life expectancy lags behind Germans. He cites per thousand figures: ages 60 to 60 sixty? wait. Germany 179 vs America 170. over 80 Germany 78 vs America 65. He provided no explanation, merely presenting findings from United States inquiries.
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Wiesbaden
B. Laquer
United States
International Congress of Medicine
Germany
America
Laquer
Automobile Inspection Car Sets Test Run in Minnesota
A railroad inspection car developed by Great Northern officials in Minnesota shows a capability to view tracks and roadbeds up close. The car travels over ten miles on three gallons of gasoline and can reach speeds well above thirty miles an hour for practical use.
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ST. Paul, Minn
Brown
Great Northern Road
Davis
Jenka
di Vision
Lockland
Northern Division
St. Paul Union Depot Yards
Rumors on Russian Pacific Squadron Movements Near Hainan
London reports no confirmation of firing off Kamranh bay and says the second Pacific squadron may be near Hainan. Rumors suggest Rojestvensky's fleet could assemble there to coal and possibly enter Chinese waters for operations.
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London
Kamranh Bay
Rojestvensky
Hainan
Liencham
Senator Orville Hitchcock Platt Dies at Connecticut Home
United States Senator Orville Hitchcock Platt of Connecticut died at his summer home in Washington New England ideas man aged 78 from pneumonia and abscess complications. Funeral likely Tuesday with services in his native state, recalling a career as judiciary committee chair and Swann impeachment court presiding officer.
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Washington, Conn
United States
Orville Hitchcock Platt
Connecticut
Ford
Senator Platt
New England
State Capitol
General Assembly
General Hawley
Hawley
Platt
Senate
Senator Hoar
Judiciary Committee
United States Senate
Swarne
W.e H. Barnum
Orras Ferris
Nine pension examiners resign from Board of Review
Nine of ten pension examiners on the Board of Review left government service after Commissioner Warner sent resignations to Secretary Hitchcock with a recommendation to accept. The ex-examiners claim they were led to resign by presumed promises of relief and restoration, which Warner denies making to Hitchcock. The dispute centered on pension approvals for Civil War volunteers whose service was not used by the government.
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Washington
Board of Review
Government Service
Commissioner of Pensions
Warner
Thening
Hitchcock
Seccretary
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Manchuria Sails to China With Contraband Freight
The Pacific Mail steamer Manchuria departed for China and Japan via Honolulu. It plans a stop at Mild Way Island for war-situation updates while transporting machinery and other freight alleged to be contraband for Japan. Passengers include W W Rockhill former assistant secretary of state and new minister to China with his wife and daughter, and Captain Henry Leonard military attaché.
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San Francisco
China
Japan
Honolulu
Mildway Island
Orient
W. W. Rockhill
B. E B. Conger
Roosevelt sends condolence to Mrs Platt after Senator Platts death
President Roosevelt expressed grief over the death of United States Senator Orville H Platt and sent a message from Glenwood Springs Colorado. The message also regrets inability to attend the funeral and Mrs Platt decided the body will not lie in state.
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Washington, Conn
United States
Orville H. Platt
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Lydia
MM. Wright
de Laval
DE Laval Separator Co
Randolph & Canal Sts
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