The House with the Eyes in 1895 Chicago
Dr John Windom, a nervous physician in Chicago in 1895, moves through a mystery of eyes in a park facing his library. A telescope maker Caleb Strong and his daughter Mary reveal a hidden Mars world seen through giant lenses before a fatal roof collapse ends the revelation.
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Mary
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Hii Selses
Caleb Strong
Wiseacres
Louis
Chicago Evening Papers
Chicago Record-Herald
West Point hotel tales and Lincoln joke
The text recalls Albert Craney at the West Point hotel sharing stories about cadet relatives. It recounts a moment with then Secretary of War Edwin Stanton Lincoln, who corrected a visitor asking for the “Epidemic building” to the “Academic building.” The editorial tone notes such crowd scenes and ends with a quip about guilt and talkativeness.
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Albert Craney
West Point
Craney
Yarch
Ed T. Lincoln
Mr. Craney
Lincoln
New York Press
General Crop Conditions Report Favorable Temperature Across Midwest
The weather bureau notes widespread favorable temperatures for the corn belt with drought intensifying from Virginia westward and heavy rains in parts of Texas and Missouri valley. Wheat harvest delays persist in the lake region while oats and hay progress vary. tobacco and fruit face drought and pests in several states.
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The
Weather Bureau
Virginia
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Tennessee
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Mississippi Valley
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Middle Atlantice
Merchant Ends His Life In Chicago Home
Abraham M. Rothschild, a millionaire and former president of A. M. Rooths child & Co., died by suicide Monday afternoon in his Chicago residence bathroom. Insomnia from overwork and ill health last May led to retirement. friends suggest temporary derangement. He rose from poverty in the Black Forest to prominence, leaving an estate estimated at over $1,000,000.
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Abraham M. Rothschild
A. M. Roothschild & Co
Chicago
Mr. Rothschild
Rothschild
Black Forest
Germany
Steamer Service Increased Between New York and South Africa
Due to higher trade after the war, two steamship firms launch bi weekly service linking New York with South African ports. Demand grows for American lumber building materials grain and agricultural implements.
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South Africa
New York
Bank president resigns after organizing Equitable National Bank
Postmaster Cornelius Van Cott, who helped organize and was elected president of the Equitable National Bank in New York, resigned his bank post due to other business pressures. In Virginia, a gas leak at the Clinton blast furnace left Master Mechanic Martin Harrihill and two pipe-fitters unconscious after a repair mishap.
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Equitable National Bank
New York
Cornelius van Cott
Clinton
Wittsburg
Martin Harrihill
Michael Mustin
Michael Reckswith
Judge Jackson Jails Seven Mine Worker's Organizers
In Parkersburg West Virginia Judge Jackson jailed seven United Mine Workers organizers for contempt of his June 19 injunction. Haggerty gets ninety days while Morgan Rice Wilson Blakely Bacon and Laskavish receive sixty days each as miners fill the courtroom. He denounces Mother Jones and calls labor agitators professional and conspiratorial while warning the strike could cripple 12 000 miners in the Fairmont field. Mitchell vows an appeal arguing the decision betrays civil rights and threatens constitutional respect.
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Fairmont
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Clarksburg Fuel Company
Poresa
Mother Jones
Pinnickinnick Mines
Morther* Jones
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Weills
Leraca
Conasa
President Leubet Signs Sugar Convention Bill
Cholera spreads in the Philippine Islands while rationing continues in Manila. Major Low criticizes New York refuse disposal as barbaric and proposes energy from heat. Berlin dispatch claims the American China Development Company may issue bonds to finish the Hanukow to Canton railroad. Sir Norman Lockyer links West Indian volcanic activity to sunspot cycles and notes large eruptions align with sunspot maxima and minima.
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Philippine Islands
Manila
Major Low
Frankfurter Zeitung
Berlin
Pekin
American China Development Company
Multiple fatal railroad wrecks reported across states
A cascade of fatal train disasters hit Pennsylvania Ohio Nebraska and nearby areas. The Keystone Limited derailed near Xenia Ohio after colliding with a coal car, six passengers perished in flames, many were injured, and the fire spread for hours. A separate wreck west of South Omaha left an express passenger dead and injured the conductor.
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Nebraska
Panhandle
Xenia
Keystone Limited
St. Louis
New York
Pulmans
Darton
Greaiersles
Zanesville
Ohiachhie
Littl Kanawha
Baltimore and Ohio
Rock Island
South Omaha
Neb
Urs
Losses in the Philippines First Compilation of Casualties
The Adjutant General reports American losses in the Philippine insurrection from its start Feb 4 through July 16. Total deaths 139 officers and 4,010 enlisted. wounded 190 officers and 2,707 enlisted. Overall killed and wounded 4,470. deaths other than by disease 282 officers and 4,188 enlisted. Major Parker notes 2561 engagements, many in ambush or small skirmishes, with few retreats or surrenders.
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Philippines
Insurgenta
Mes Parker
Adjutant General's Office
Parker
Northwestern improves sleeper service and railroad expansions
Northwestern management enhances the Chicago to Portland tourist sleeper service. Southern Railway buys Savannah to Jacksonville trackage and runs its trains into Jacksonville. Burlington learns government plans a new overland stage road from Cody Wyoming to Yellowstone’s eastern outlet. Burlington notes Nebraska’s record winter wheat harvest and low crop estimates for wheat and corn. Burlington lines see extended grade reduction, curves removed, double tracking, and new steel bridges. Northwestern announces a Chicago to Missouri River double track completion at Omaha with cost about 15.4 million, boosting tonnage capacity by over 80 percent.
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Chicago
Portland
Southern Railway Company
Savannah
Jesup
Jacksonville
Fla
Southern Pacific
Mary
Burlington Road
Nebraska
Burlington
Mnes
Midal
Chcago
Missouri River
Jemaha
Pulats Batok
Cabinet Tales and Political Campaign Dispatches
A reminiscence of pension pleas and officials on the campaign stump. Roosevelt plans speeches in Maine Iowa and Massachusetts while Moody Hay Hitchcock and Paste prepare appearances across key states. The piece notes staff habits and a private snuff box in the Senate and reports on military and treasury actions including pneumatic dynamite guns sales and a wireless station plan.
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Iown
Moody
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New Hugh
Hay
Hitchcock
Paste
Ina
Dad
Pagney
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