Charles A. Pillsbury a Titan of Milling and Charity
A portrait of Charles A. Pillsbury from Warner New Hampshire born 1842 who built Pillsbury’s Best flour and a global business empire. It credits him with rapid mill expansion, innovations in machinery, wheat logistics, and cooperative wage sharing while highlighting relief work after Hinckley and support for anti option legislation. He is praised for leadership, integrity, and civic duty.
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Relief Commission
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Oddities About Water and Cloud Covered Hills
The piece notes water comprises hydrogen and oxygen with two hydrogen to one oxygen, yet heavier oxygen yields eight pounds of oxygen per nine pounds of water while hydrogen remains one. Proof uses voltaic electrical battery and devices. Also mentions Firle hill Beacon of South Downs and the term teap as clouds or mist.
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St. Louis Republic
South Downs
Latest in Fors. Fashion Furs Mix Varieties for Remodels
The Fors. fashion page highlights a mix of fur types for one garment. Tips include sable tails, chinchilla, sealskin, Persian lamb, and light gray acuffion. Short capes, boleros, and trimmed jackets offer stylish options for transforming old furs into chic pieces. costs are described as modest with looser fronts.
Banews City Printers Strike in Kansas City
A printers strike started when 22 union workers at Berkowitz & Co. walked out refusing to work with nonunion hires. The walkout follows two weeks of conflict between the Typographical union and the Typothietae, with local shops now open to both union and nonunion labor. Union men express strong dissatisfaction with current conditions.
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Banews City
Kansas City
Berkowitz & Co
Secretary Lamont's Report on Army Reorganization
Secretary Lamont renews support for reorganizing the infantry into three light mobile battalions per regiment, urges larger artillery force due to coast defenses, and calls for state armory funding and weapon upgrades. He cites progress in modern guns, evaluates river and Apache matters, and notes rural free delivery trials with cost concerns for broader adoption.
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Washington
Sherman
Sheridan
Schefield
United States
War Department
Department
Grant Declines Secretary of War in McKinley Cabinet
New York Nov 27 Colonel Grant told police he would not serve as secretary of war in McKinley’s cabinet. In Mason City Iowa Elizabeth M Blythe mother of James E Blythe ex chairman of the Republican state central committee died suddenly at 74 at her home.
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Elizabeth M. Blythe
James E. Blythe
Republican State Central Committee
Kansas City
L. E. Irwin
Bright
Missouri
Second
Missouri Cavalry
Fourteenth
Report of Coppinger on Platte department forts and garrisons
Brigadier General Coppinger reports Army operations this year were not eventful and relevant improvements are urged for Fort Meade Niobrara D A Russell and Fort Crook. He favors larger post courts and a separate service corps for extra duty plus measures to keep troops near rail lines and prevent drinking at post exchanges.
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Department of the Platte
Jackson Hole
Chaffee
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Posta
Fort Meade
Fort Niobrara
Fort
D. A. Russel
Fort Crook
Erne Defeats Dixon To Claim Featherweight Title
Frank Erne of Buffalo wins the featherweight world title by decision in a 20 round bout with George Dixon at the Broadway club arena New York. Dixon and Erne fought to a draw in their prior meeting and both trained hard for a full 20 rounds.
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New York
Frank Erne
Buffalo
Broadway Club
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Erne
Slavesuit
Tom O'Rourke
Tommy West
Professor DeForest
Krno
Charley White
Mike Leonard
Frank
Pher
Colored man hanged in Columbia for murder
Frank Johnson, a colored man, was hanged at Columbia for killing Austin Ray after a failed robbery attempt on August 1. He confessed. The execution was witnessed only by jail officials, physicians, and reporters.
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Nashville
Frank Johnson
Columbia
Austin Ray
Johnson
Idaho Official Vote Shows Bryan Plurality Over McKinley
Idaho canvass reports Bryan 23192 votes and McKinley 6824 giving Bryan a 16869 lead. State vote rises about 5000 since 1892. Woman suffrage amendment majority recorded at 584. In Manchester Lancashire handicap, Diakka owned by Beresford Lorrillard ran third. Easter Gift won. Eleven horses started.
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Boss
McKinley
Bryan
London
Diakka
Beresford- Lorrillard Stable
Manchester
Captain Matchell
Dockers Strike Extending from Hamburg to Bremen
Hamburg reports 5 500 dockers on strike with 40 threatening to extend beyond the port unless wage gains are granted. Employers will decide in three days. The London Seamen's union plans financial support and to refuse cargoes from nonunion Hamburg vessels.
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Hamavre
Bremen
Nen
Hamburg
Asilors
London Seamen's Union
Opinion Split on Tariff Path as Senate Mulls Dingley Vote
Washington Nov 25. Republican senators show a wide range of views on future tariff action with a caucus likely early in the next session. Some back Dingley while others doubt its passage. Chandler favors a short term loan of 50 to 100 million dollars to avoid government holes. Roach of North Dakota and others express cautious support or neutrality toward upcoming majority plans.
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Sherman
Chandler
Congress
Cleveland
Lava
Roach
North Dakota
Senate
Thanksgiving Turkey to Grace McKinley Dinner in Canton
A large Rhode Island turkey arrives in Canton for President elect McKinley’s Thanksgiving dinner. The crate bears humorous inscriptions, including lines about a Platte boy, the Cross of Gold, and Populists. Mrs. N. P. Converse of Pearl Kansas sent the liberal gobbler. Democratic celebrate McKinley win in New York with a dinner honoring Governor Flower. Metropolitan Kennel Club hosts first dog show in Brooklyn with 660 entries across 140 classes.
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Canton
Rhode Island
McKinley
N. P. Converse
Pearl
Kan
Crator
The
Platte
Salt River
Democratia
New York
Democratic Club
Flower
Edward Lauterbach
Curtis
St. Lawrence County
Bryan
Waller
Connecticut
W. E. Curtis
the Treasury
Isador Strauss
John Dewitt Warner
Jefferson M. Levy
Chairman Bynum
National Democratic
Cox
Metropolitan Dog Show
Metropolitan Kennel Club
Old
Cut In Fiies of Nails in Cleveland Market
In Cleveland on November 25 the wire nail pool ceased subsidies to wire manufacturers, lowering the base price of wire nails to 1.75 dollars from 3.60 dollars the previous week. The move follows the pool's decision to pull subsidies and reduce market interference.
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Cleveland
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