Early Victorian London Etiquette and a Penny-Pun in Faith
A historic slice contrasts royal wit and clerical quirks with a London ritualist scene. Queen Victoria admires loyal London, Dr Creighton finds Father Stanton’s service brisk but incense costly, and a Mississippi congressman recalls a blunt funeral sermon about a fond partygoer.
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Queen Victoria
London
Earl of
Father Stanton
Stanton
John M. Allen
Mississippi
Darkey
Quotations from Sages on Public Spirit and Humanity
A compilation of aphorisms on publicity, temperaments, religion, pain and pleasure, mutual aid, and moral influence. Notable lines discuss charity as a character trait, religion as a thread through ages, life’s price, collective duty, the soul’s impressions, and the interconnected fabric of society.
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Sterne
Hibberd
John Foster
Stopford Wentworth Brooke
Mazzini
John Inglesant
Lyman Abbott
D.D
Ruin and Fire After Locust Street Explosion
A blast on Locust Street above Tenth in Philadelphia demolishes five of six nearby buildings. Death toll unclear but at least ten killed, over twenty injured, many may die. Fire erupts within minutes as rescuers fight to save victims and clear wreckage.
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Philadelphia
Locust Street
Tenth Street
Jefferson
Pennsylvania
Drowned farmer Sam Magee near Lockhart Texas
Sam Magee 72 a Caldwell county farmer living three miles south of Lockhart drowned in a barn yard watering trough Saturday evening. He was known to suffer epileptic fits and likely fell forward while reaching for water for poultry. He was buried Sunday at Clark's chapel.
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Lockhart
Texas
Sam Magee
Caldwell County
Magee
Clark’s Chapel
King Cotton Dominates Foreign Trade in Last Fiscal Year
Washington reports cotton as the leading American export for the year ending in 1901 with a daily value surpassing 1 million dollars including both raw and manufactured forms. Competitors were breadstuffs iron and steel and meat provisions, while total cotton exports reached 314 million dollars and cotton goods and by products 305 million dollars.
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Cotton
Washington
King Cotton
Treasury Bureau of Statistics
Starvation Tale Surfaces From Nome Mining Trek
A Nome to Nome voyage report describes George Dean dead after forty three days of starvation in the Agiapug mining district. Jack Houston and Joseph C Thiery are near death with Houston likely recovering and Thiery unlikely to survive. Cannibalism was practiced briefly as they cooked a portion of Dean after severing his thigh. Dean left a farewell letter for his Canton Ohio family.
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Port Townsend
Wash
Agiapug
Nome
Centennial
George Dean
Jack Houston
Joseph C. Thiery
Houston
Thiery
Good Hope
Adapag River
Teller City
Dean
Canton
Ohio
Thtory
Davenport
Iowa
Sovereign
First National Bank Failure Triggers Raymond Firm Suspension
In Mit Hard Austin on August 6 the failure of the First National Bank led to the suspension of payment by James H. Raymond & Co. The bank held over 300000 in cash and securities for the state treasury, which had 50000 on deposit there. cashier H Pfaeffin attempted suicide, slashing his throat.
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Austin
First National Bank
James H. Raymond & Co
First National
Robbins
Treasury Department
State Treasury
L. M. Logan
State Department
Ted
H. Pfaeffin
Gomez Denies Annexation Charge in Letter
General Mzimo Gomez writes to General Vega denying annexationist claims. He scoffs at the idea that Palma and he favor annexation, notes Cuban interest in a move, and cites the Platt law and constitutional convention as decisive factors in steering toward independence.
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Omes
Havana
Mzimo Gomez
General Vega
Senor Estrada Palma
Puerto Principe
Senor Palma
Twenty Producing Wells In Beaumont Field Gushes
Beaumont Texas August 3 two more wells finish and join the field total at twenty J M Guffey Gladys No 4 spouts around 3 pm followed by Yellow Pine O1 Co near it at 4 pm Guffey line will supply production while Yellow Pine a six inch well on an unchartered acre drawn by local investors sits 100 feet east A W Hammill contractor and George A Baughton handled drilling Manhattan well also progressing with casing to shut off sand and water while labor importers face immigration crackdowns in El Paso Texas with Mehat enforcing rules against contracted pauper laborers from Old Mexico seeking railroad work in New Mexico Arizona and Texas
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Guffey
A. W. Hammill
No. 1
Columbia
Yellow Pine
Gladys No. 4
John L. Keith
John ©. Ward
Joe Carroll
George A. Baughton
Manhattan
el Paso
Texas
Actin
Mehat
New Mexico
Arizona
Old Mexico
United States
Boy Dies After Fall Into Hot Water Kettle
The four year old son of Mr. Mateo Lopez fell into a kettle of hot water and is not expected to recover. A few hours later his baby died in an hour. Raoul, president of the Mexican National railroad, was passing through Laredo en route to Mexico City. A shower fell nearby but the drought lingers over the area.
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Laredo
Texas
Mateo Lopez
Raoul
Mexican National Railroad
City of
Mexico
Land Dispute Ends in Fatality Near Medina Texas
An elderly man named Sexton was killed yesterday morning four miles below Medina over a land line dispute. Freeman went to the sheriff after the accident and Sexton died about two hours later.
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Medina
Texas
Sexton
Vaan c. Freeman
Bane
Alamc
Drawing Closes El Reno Lottery as 40,000 Come and Go
After 13 000 names were drawn from wheels last night the 150 000 names were moved to the school house for continuation of the draw. No records beyond envelope numbering and owner notification were kept. It is believed 20 000 names per day will be drawn. Prairie schooners fill the streets as visitors depart. El Reno, Oklahoma.
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Goversnan
el Reno
C. T
Hanged in San Antonio for brutal city murder
Juan Rocha was executed by hanging in San Antonio Texas today for the murder of John Grimsinger in what was described as the most brutal crime in the city’s history. The trap was sprung at 11 o clock Rocha dropped six feet and died in fourteen minutes. He stood nervy to the last on the trap and made no statement as the jail crowd saw the event behind a screen.
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Juan Rocha
San Antonio
Texas
John Grimsinger
Rocha
Big Doom
Drifting Lennox Passengers Rescued Off California Coast
Seven men from the disabled transport Lennox bound Manila to San Francisco were picked up by a small boat near Piedras Blancas lighthouse and brought to the city. They described a broken shaft, food shortage, and drifting currents that carried the ship. The Lennox carried seventeen cabin and forty-five second class passengers, almost all discharged English officers, and a Chinese crew of about thirty. no women aboard. A tug was sent to assist and the Lennox was reached this morning.
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San Francisco
Lencos
Manila
Piedras Blancas
Lennox
Four Legged Chicken Attracts Hillsboro Curiosity
H L Thompson, a farmer west of Hillsboro Texas, displayed a cross of game and leghorn chick on August 3. The two rear legs are undeveloped and very tender while the two front legs are normal, making the chick two days old and drawing much attention.
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Hillsboro
Texas
H. L. Thompson
Fatal sunstroke near Shiner and fatal railroad accident at Enroe
In Texas two incidents reported from August 3 include the death of Mr. Joan Sontag near Shiner from sunstroke after walking home from town. An inquest by Justice of the Peace Thrauss returned a verdict of sunstroke. A Texas Midland work train collision near Enroe left Conductor Gal dead and injured several others.
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Shiner
Texas
Joan Sontag
Sontag
Thos
Hurt
Justice of the Peace
Thrauss
Paris
Texas Midland
Enroe
Int Gal
Ain Alles
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Alpine
Toby Carroll
Depot
G.W. Blackburn
L. N. Halbert
Hrewater
SAGES
V. E. Gladstone
Philipingo
Miguel Malvas
Aguinaldo
Hong Kong
Batangas
Cailles
Malvar
Agoncillo
Europe
Song Kong
Mit
Gaffey
Grady
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