World’s Columbian Exposition Opens In Grandeur At Chicago
The article lauds President Cleveland opening the fair and the grounds’ vast scale. It notes $60 million total value, with $30 million on grounds and buildings, plus $20 million in exhibits, and immense international diversity. It highlights fountains, machinery roar, and crowds arriving by train, predicting enduring reflections on the fair’s magnitude.
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ChicaGo
Ill
Grover Cleveland
Ald Forticn
Paris
Hoa
Aladdin
Wil
Chrateferr Solumbo
Great White City
Faber's Tower
Congress of Nations
Grand Vista of World Fair Grounds and Parade to Jackson Park
The article describes the vast grounds facing Lake Michigan with hundreds of international and U.S. buildings, the lagoon, islands, and notable pavilions including the United States fisheries and government buildings, the statues and promenades, and the grand avenues leading to the administration building. It also covers the grand procession escorting President Cleveland and guests from the Lexington hotel along Michigan Avenue to Jackson Park.
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Lake Michigan
Chicago
Auditorium Hotel
du Tant
Grant's Park
Fenest
Addite
America
States of the Union
Fine Arte
United States Fisheries Building
United States Government
Manufactures
Liberty
Grand Avenue
Cleveland
Stevenson
Duke de Veragua
Lexington Hotel
Michigan Avenue
Michigan Boulevard
Duke of
Veragua
Jackson Park
Grand Boulevard
South Park
Hayard Avenue
Palmer Avenue
Midway Plaizan
President Cleveland Opens Electric Age at Chicago Exposition
Chicago May 1 The electric age began as President Cleveland pressed the button to start the machine and waterworks at the World’s Fair. A fountain shot seventy feet, crowds surged, and the vast machinery hummed to life amid a spectacle that transformed early morning apathy into vivid action and modern progress.
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Cleveland
Chicago
Fountane
Manufacturera
Bullliog
President Cleveland Opens World's Fair With Ceremonial Launch
A vast crowd at the Chicago World’s Fair witnessed President Cleveland and dignitaries inaugurate the Columbian Exposition. The day featured a grand stand of governors senators and generals, a prayer by the blind chaplain Milburn, musical selections, and the president’s address praising American achievement and education before pressing the electric button that signaled official opening.
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Armerican
Altgeld
Hingis
Harrison
Chica
Earl and Countess
Aberdeen
John C. Black
Miles
Lambert Tree
Crafts
Illinois House
Gill
Iinois
Paul Palmer
National Commission
Lyman J. Gage
Chicago
F. W. Peck
Higginbotham
Cullom
Ilinois
Ashley
Massachusetts
Campbell
New York
Barwig
Wisconsin
McDonald
Buckner
Afitchel
Allison
Springer
Houk
Ohio
O'Neill
Pennsylvania
Durburon
Illinois
Henderson
Iowa
Black
McGann
Winder Bradley
B. Smalley
G. W. Allen
George A. Barbour
W. D. Grover
James Hodge
Thomas B. Keogh
A. E. Ewing
James Breslin
J. W- St .Clare
Thomas B. Bryan
J. Ellsworth
W. D. Kerfoot
W. BP. Ketcham
BE. F. Lawrence
A. H. Ravell
C. H. Wacker
James W. Scott
C. H. Schwab
W. T. Baker
Teday
Cleveland
Duke de Veragne
Diplomatic Corpu
Congress
John K. Paine
Davie
W. H. Milburn
United States Senate
Louie Gemsley
Home of Representatives
Washington
Milburn
Panic on opening night at the world’s fair crowds
A crowded platform surge during President Cleveland’s address led to a brief panic at the United States world’s fair. Police cleared the jam as guards and cavalry formed passage while a woman and a boy were carried to safety amid cheers and concern.
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Columbia
Natio
Allence
United States
Cleveland
Sea of
Burnham
Fred Douglass
Higinbotham
Aorse
Devi
GREAT FRESHET SWEEPS ST LOUIS AREA RIVER RISE CONTINUES
The People of St Louis face renewed danger as the great freshet floods East Carondelet and surrounding districts. Homes collapse, telegraph offices wreck, and bodies are found in the rising water. Across Illinois and Missouri towns wrestle with rising rivers, damaged bridges, and widespread inundation threatening lives and livelihoods.
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St. Louis
Moore
East Carondelet Street
Mobile and Ohio Railroad
Belleville
Richland Creek
Venice
East St. Louis Dock
Cicero Pate
Meath
Alton
Hill
Missouri Point Farmersere
Wood River
Burlington
Chicago and Alton
Hinchton
Missouri Point
Cincinnati
Ohio River
Ine
Hat Row
Sansage
Frisco Railroad Yard Damaged in May Cloudburst
A cloudburst and storms in Paris Texas May 1 swept away miles of Frisco railroad track near the Boston mountains. Northbound traffic audible from Saturday, trains halted at Greenland and Guntalnburx unable to proceed. Arkangar river eight miles wide and farm areas near Fort Smith wrecked by whirlwind. In Knoxville Tennessee May 1 Mrs. W H Peck prominent McWinn county resident killed by lightning while in the Grady telegraph office.
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Dayton
Miami
Tremont City
Springfield
Ohio
Mver
Arkansas
Little Rock
Ark
Little Hock Gooperage Company
Zeh Ward
Conway County
Harvey Lewis
Missouri
DeSoto
Mineral Palat
Milles
Frisco
Paris
Tex
Boston Mountains
Carrie
Guntalnburx
Greenland
Arkangar
Fort Smith
Knoxville
W. H. Peck
McWinn County
Grady
Riot at May Day in Marseilles Involves Red Flag Waving Socialists
May Day unrest in Marseilles led to clashes between police and socialists waving red flags. Troops and hussars were deployed after crowds attacked officers and stores. Several police and rioters were injured as troops separated the mob and restored order downtown and at popular spots.
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Marseilles
M. Flo
Bameinal Connector
Hussars
Cary
Everal
Bullitt Seeks Ejectment Clash in Dominica
New details from the island of Dominica describe a failed attempt to eject tax defaulters. Police, auxiliaries, and Royal Navy helped restore order as rioters attacked officers with stones and blades, injuring four police and multiple sailors.
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Bullitt
New York
Dominca
1Ntes
Antigua
Baying
Henry Wellim Haynes Smith
Tyaci
Baller
Blue Jackets
War to the Knife Governor Tillman Attacks Tax Plan
Governor Tillman of South Carolina denounces the railroads implicating Receiver Chamberlain’s tax arbitration plan. He asserts courts will settle such questions and vows not to arbitrate taxes, warning that aggressive measures could ruin railroad credit and promising continued resistance until victory.
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Tillman
Columbia
3. C
Chamberlain
South Carolina
Randa
Tande
Indignation Meeting Denounces Denmark Lynching Criticism
In Columbia South Carolina on May 1 a meeting at Barnwell voiced anger at newspaper criticisms of the Denmark lynching. Speakers denied rape accusations while denouncing the act and urged punishment for any white assailant. The gathering defended lynching as a response to rape.
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Gonsales
Denmark
Columbia
8. C
Anay
Ignation
Barnwell
J. W. Miller
F. M. Slagner
G. Mayfield
Sir. Weeks
Bamberg
Millionaire C Camp Faces Divorce Suit for Adultery
Knoxville, Tenn May 1 A high profile divorce suit accuses E C Camp a Knoxville millionaire of adultery and neglect. Mrs Camp charges serial affairs with multiple women resulting in a separated marriage from 1881 onward and alleges he spent lavishly on other women while abandoning her. The case seeks absolute divorce and alimony.
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Tenn
Citzen
C. Camp
Sunthbury
Connanly
Tonn
Camp
Vancus Womet
Caan Mice
Lex ‘ Hugwu
Angie
Kanesville
Ville
Ie Seung
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Duke de Varagua
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E4win Booth
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Europe
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