320 Money Boxes for Galveston Schools
Money collected in Manhattan and prone schools for Galveston public schools occupies 12 by 6 by 5 feet of space. Counting began Saturday as pennies weighed by box and currency, with an expected total between 18000 and 10000 dollars. A German child sent a miniature portrait of Bismarck. President Miles O'Brien will disclose only the grand borough totals.
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New York
Manhattan
Publi Schools
Galveston Ia
Bismarck
Miles O'Brien
Tennessee Law On Cigarette Sales Upheld By Court
The Supreme Court today issued an opinion in the Austin v. Tennessee case challenging a state law regulating cigarette sales as an interstate commerce issue. The Tennessee Supreme Court upheld the law and sustained the verdict by a narrow margin with four justices dissenting and Justice White joining on different grounds.
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Washington
United States Supreme Court
William KB
Austin
Tennessee
Congress
Tennesee Surpeme
Justice White
Justice Brown
Judge Advocates University Chair For Dumb Animals
Hon Wells Thompson district judge visited Edna Texas with Mrs Thompson and S J Styles as court opened. He warned the grand jury on cruelty to animals and urged endowing a university chair to study animal welfare taught from childhood at home and in schools.
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Dom Animala
Edna
Texas
Wells Thompson
Thompson
J. Styles
Key
Confederate Captain Everett Dead in Kentucky Asylum
Captain Peter Everett, who served under General John Morgan in the Civil War and was famed for bold acts against Federal forces, died of erysipelas in the Lexington insane asylum. His exploits included attempting to capture General Burbridge, burning a bridge town, and torching Mount Sterling courthouse used as a prison. Also reported, Wm. Johnson notes Cuba’s improving conditions, with better tobacco and sugar cane prospects and a larger 1900s acreage outlook after a island tour.
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Lexington
Peter Everett
John Morgan
Burbridge
Mount Sterling
Ruan, Brazos Co
Texas
Wm. Johnson
Cuba
Island
Train Collision Injures Five On Chicago Elevated
A northbound local train crashed into a rear of an express at the Chicago avenue station injuring five and shattering car windows. Injured include Haas Lippert Roan Spellman Webber and Siller. cause listed as motorman’s inability to operate air brakes.
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Chicago
Northwestern Elevated Railroad
Chicago Avenue
W. Hh, Haas
Otto Lippert
A. Roan
Frank Spellman
A. I. Webber
Joseph Siller
Vicksburg Canal Project Began to Create Permanent Harbor
In Vicksburg Mississippi on November 20 actual work started to deflect the Yazoo river through Old River and Lake Centennial into the Mississippi about two miles below the city. The canal runs nearly seven miles at an estimated total cost of 1.5 million dollars. The project aims to give Vicksburg a permanent harbor.
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Beaumont
Texas
Stowell
Vicksburg Canal
Vicksburg
Miss
Yazoo River
Old River
Laxe Centennial
Mississippi
Yazoo
Bank Shortage Shocks Newport Bankers After Missing Clerk
United States Bank Examiner Tucker took possession of the German National bank in Newport Kentucky and posted a closure pending exam. Frank M Brown assistant cashier and bookkeeper is missing with a suspected shortage of about 201000 dollars, exceeding the bank's assets and capital. Witnesses report a life of fast living and a jealous denunciation by a Cincinnati woman triggering the crisis.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
United States Bank
Tucker
German National Bank
Newport
Frank M. Brown
Brown
Alvord
New York
First National Bank of
Youtsey
Odin
Commercial Tribune
Examiner
Paris C. Brown
Yellowstone Park
Battle near Bugazon on Panay Island reported in Manila dispatch
Manila reports two hundred bolomen with fifty rifles attacked Bugazon on Panay October 80. American losses include three killed Lieutenant H. M. Koontz Sergeant Kitchen and Corporal Burns all from company F forty fourth infantry. Enemy casualties totaled 100 killed twenty one wounded and twenty prisoners.
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Manila
Bugazon
Panay
H. M. Koontz
Kitchen
Burns
Shorter Working Day for Machinists in U S
George Warner of the International Association of Machinists announced that the nine and a half hour work day takes effect tomorrow for all machinists in the United States. The shorter work day is scheduled to begin nationwide on May 18.
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New York
George Warner
International Association of Machinists
United States
Thoughts on Religion From 19th Century Figures
A compilation of quotations on religion from Burke Goethe Stewart Beecher Cuyler Trench Busswell Henry Trench Cobden Gladstone Beecher Bacon Colton and others. The passages praise duty to God, humility, compassion, and daily faith guiding life.
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Stewart
H. W. Beecher
T. L. Cuyler
Horace Bus
God
Trench
M. Henry
Cobden
Gladstone
Bacon
Colton
Social Philosophy Aphorisms on Hate and Effort
A compact moral reflection asserts hate flares briefly while wisdom can fail. Love endures and loyalty to self is key. The text notes violence corrupts communities and warns against lazy effort, while quiet speech tricks appearance.
Scrappy Maxim Fragments and Odd Sayings
A collection of folk proverbs and quirky statements on money luck marriage and self restraint. The tone suggests a dry wit cataloging lifestyle cautions and ironic observations rather than a single narrative or news event.
Social trends and etiquette for domestic life
A column notes homemaking quirks such as cutting magazine leaves with a can opener and keeping a wood pile on the porch. It argues women should purify politics and criticizes social strife, calling it a field for beneficial effort. It also observes impatience and country life as signs of breeding.
Kitchen Measures From Ladies' Home Journal
A historical guide lists common kitchen measurements converting eggs butter flour sugar and liquids into pounds and pints. It includes ten eggs one pound four cupfuls of flour per pound a pint of liquid weight and related conversions for sugar cornmeal and pepper with notes on teaspoons and tablespoons.
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Ladies’ Home Journal
Professor Oliver Lodge Appointed Birmingham Principal
Professor Oliver J. Lodge, recently named principal of the University of Birmingham, England, is a leading authority on electricity and author of several scientific works.
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Oliver J. Lodge
University of Birmingham
England
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Alpine
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