Eighty-Six Rebels in Suchow Behead
Berlin notes the German foreign office condemns the Chinese list of culpables as incomplete and calls for high-ranking punishments to deter future massacres. The reply to the French note outlines U.S. views on reparations, arms interdiction, indemnities, and guarded legations in Beijing. Washington discusses monitoring, arbitration, and a phased approach to negotiations amid Chinese upheaval.
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Suchow
Uncle Sam
Berlin
China
Conger
Germany
Hanghai
Indian Tax Clash Draws Ejectment Threats in Ardmore
Chiefs Jack Ellis and Indian police arrived to enforce tribal taxes on noncitizens in Ardmore Indian Territory. Merchants refuse to pay, disputing Attorney General Griggs ruling that the tax is valid. If ejectment proceeds, trouble is anticipated as noncitizens may be ejected.
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Ardmore
I. T
Jack Ellis
Griggs
Married Woman Rights in Foreclosure Case
Madison Ind Oct 13 Judge Bear held that a married woman may mortgage her property to employ counsel for any court case in the foreclosure suit of Charles A Korbly of Indianapolis against Mary Hauck.
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Madison
Ind
Charles A. Korbly
Indianapolis
Mary Hauck
Bear
Lincoln Nebs Tally Predicts Bryan Electoral Advances
A Omaha dispatch reproduces a People's Party secretary J A Edgerton statement listing states deemed certain for Bryan and others likely to back him. The item also notes Henry C Payne forecast classifying states into four groups, with margins for McKinley and Bryan and several battlegrounds.
Tragic Crossings Crash Near Newcastle Pa
A Saturday night grade crossing wreck at Robinsons Crossing west of Newcastle kills three people instantly and injures one. The double seated buggy was struck by a passenger train No 16, and the four occupants are counted as a man and two children among the dead with the injured man brought to Newcastle. The bodies were taken to Duttons undertaking. Coroner Porter finds thirty dollars on the deceased with no identifying papers.
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Newcastle
Robinson’s Crossing
Pittsburgh & Lake Erie
Dutton’s Undertaking Establishment
Porter
Will Try Arbitration Over Chinese Indemnities
The Russian charge d affaires in Washington, M de Wollant, submitted to Secretary Hay a plan to refer Chinese indemnities disputes to the Hague international court of arbitration. The move has the backing of the United States, France, and Russia, following discussions between Paris and Moscow on the six French proposals. The note's public release is pending.
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Washington
State Department
Thiebaut
United States
France
China
Peking
International Court of Arbitration of the Hague
Legislative Branch
Taku
Tientsin
Hay
Pao-Ting-Fu
Li Hung Chang
M. de Wollant
Hague Tribunal
Typhoon Devastates Formosa and Chinese Coasts
A Tacoma dispatch reports a recent typhoon on Formosa and southern China coasts. Nineteen hundred houses were washed away or inundated at Taipei and numerous towns were destroyed with many lives lost.
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Minneapolis
Minn
The
Times
Tacoma
Wash
Formosa
China
Taipei
Vatican Official Arrested Over 350000 Lira Theft
Rome October 15 a minor Vatican official was arrested for helping thieves gain access to the room from which 350000 lire was stolen. The arrest follows the theft at a Vatican facility and identifies the official as a key access point.
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Vatican
Rome
Record Ocean Liner Deutschland Sets Steamship Mark
The New Ocean Greyhound Deutschland costs 3 332 000 displacement 23 200 tons and accommodates 1 passenger with 525 crew. It established a new record for ocean steamers. Also mentioned are Hoa tetter s Stomach Bitters claims of curing constipation indigestion and biliousness with a private revenue stamp on the bottle neck.
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Ocean Greyhound
Hoatetter
Antiquities of Baseball Quips From The Chicago Chronicle
A north Missouri editor retells early baseball lore in playful biblical inflections. The piece spins classic outs and hits as sacred moments with figures like Adam, Cain, Moses, and David, casting ancient stories as humorous ballpark anecdotes.
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North Missouri
Devil
Evye
Adam
Isaac
Rebecca
Sampson
Moses
Cain
Abel
Abraham
David
Red Sea
Chicago Chronicle
Hall's Catarrh Cure Patent Medicine Ad
Franklin J Cheney signs affidavit as senior partner for F J Cheney Co in Toledo Ohio promising 100 dollars for each catarrh case not cured by Hall's Catarrh Cure. Notary A W Gleason verifies December 6 1836. Cure advertised as internal medicine with testimonials and retail price 75 cents. Family Pills recommended as best.
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Strate
Onry
Crry
Toledo
Luecas County
Frank J. Cheney
F. J
A. W. Gleason
H Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Hall
Golf Sermon Turns Up National Salvation Hype
The Boston Journal quotes a speaker claiming golf will save the nation by shaping athletic descendants and extending lifespans, while noting ancestors once ignored the sport and are now dead.
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Boston Journal
Excursion to California by Rail from Chicago and St Louis
Travel offer from F B Bell city passenger agent inviting readers to join Wednesday departures from Chicago and St Louis toward Denver and Salt Lake City with a stop to view scenery and Ogden. Special agents oversee each party and sleeping cars are described as comfortable and exquisite. Request 6 cents postage for a 72 page illustrated California book.
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Chicago
St. Louis
Denver
Rio Grande
Salt Lake City
Ogden
Iean
California
F. B. Bell
Clark Street
Plainspoken father's warning frames suitors in 1910 era
A Philadelphia Press excerpt shows a father disapproving of Mr Kraft, calling him smooth but potentially dangerous. He notes Kraft’s charm hides flaws, though he occasionally runs short on time, implying unreliable behavior around his daughter.
Business Oneness on the line for CGW rail towns
Industrial agent W. J. Reed invites firms and entrepeneurs in Illinois Iowa Minnesota and Missouri to list openings for blacksmiths doctors dressmakers furniture grain and live stock buyers general stores hardware mess tailors cold storage creameries and canning factories to receive assistance in locating suitable business sites and customers.
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Chicago Great Western Ry
Illinois
Iowa
Minnesota
Missouri
W. J. Reed
C.G. W. Ry
Endicott Big
St. Paul
Minn
Side-Splitting Tale Report From Wayside Cottage
The Chicago fly News notes a playful exchange as Sandy Pikes-Did teased Billy Coalgate about a funny tale. Billy denies, saying a wood splitting story was told, prompting a light dismissal.
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Sandy Pikes
Billy
Billy Coalgate
Chicago Fly News
Wind power mills boost farm efficiency
Old notices include ads for Aermotor Co. catalogs, a quip about broom women, and testimonials for medicines and gum brands, reflecting turn‑of‑the‑century advertising and social wit in the Philadelphia era. The fragment mentions water pumping, woodworking, and fodder grinding.
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The
Aermotor Co
Chicago
Quotations on credit and endorsement from railroads
A boarding house keeper who buys the best butter never gets credit for anything but buttering. Carter's Ink has the endorsement of the United States to and of all the leading railroads. There is no individual eerge apart from social responsibility.
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Carter
United States
Ram’s Horn
Peruna praised by Virginia woman in testimonial letter
Mrs Col E J Gresham of Hernden Fairfax County Va writes that Peruna saved her life after severe catarrh of head and lungs. She used six bottles to cure her and urges others to try it. The Peruna Medicine Co Columbus Ohio notes thousands of grateful women and offers a free book Health and Beauty for women.
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Col. E. J. Gresham
Daughters of the Confederacy
Hernden Village
Hernden
Peruna Medicine Co
Columbus
Mrs. Gol
E. J. Gresham
Peruna
Union
Columbus, C
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