Famine Disease and Roaming Vultures Hit India
Louis Klopsch reports from Bombay on famine cholera and smallpox devastating India. He describes shocking scenes with corpses left on roads and fields and relief stations overwhelmed. Cholera deaths in Godhra and Dohad numbers referenced amid crippling public health crises.
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Bombay
Louis Klopsch
New York
The
Christian Herald
Strienen Browsn
Efatz
Fis
Sm S Ih
Godhra
Dohad
Reform for Filipinos Continues Under U.S. Governance Plan
The article outlines a plan to shift from military to civil rule once the insurgents disband. It emphasizes that General MacArthur will remain as executive until the President appoints a civilian authority and uses the army only in emergencies. Officials pledge justice for Filipinos and stable, lawful governance while reserving military action for armed resistance and calling for equal rights and careful political decisions.
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MacArthur
McKiniay
United States
Philippines
Mother Eddy’s Annual Message Themes and Growth
Mary Baker Eddy’s Christian Science movement faces shifts as 2800 new members join the mother church, with 419 branch churches by 1899 and 3000+ qualified practitioners. Boston hosts annual meetings and a new reading room at 1% Boylston Street as delegates plan sessions in Mechanics Hall.
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Washington
Norway
Falmouth
Mary Baker G. Eddy
Christian Science
Eddy
Haseen
Church of Christ, Scientist
Boston
Directory of the Christian Science Journal
Concord
Chicago
Cincinnati
West
Mechanics’ Hall
Boylston Street
Park Squire
Portieres
Malden Scientists Open New Church Hall Amid Crowd
The First Church of Christ Scientist Malden held services in a new hall at the Malden Autorium yesterday. The large congregation included about 160 members and many visitors from nearby towns. Readers Artie H. Pope and Carrie A. Barrington led the service as others joined the annual communion in nearby Boston.
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Church of Christ, Scientist
Malden
Malden Autorium
Acres
Boston
Artie H. Pope
Carrie A. Barrington
Boers Refuse to Surrender as Senekal Skirmishes Enfold
Reports from Senekal and surrounding towns describe Boer forces retreating under cover of smoke as General Rundle withdraws to Senekal. Boer prisoners are to be released, while a Times correspondent notes demoralization and potential abandonment of Ing’s Nek.
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Rundle
Sundown
Senekal
Lindley
de Villiers
The
Times
Transvaal
Pretoria
Louis Botha
Lord Roberts
Irene
Daily Telegraph
Sprigg
Duke of Cambridge
Ing’s
Nek
Pongwana
Lord Roberta
Boers may turn to mountains after Pretoria fall
Montagu White, former Tr a South African agent, says the Boers plan to move to the mountains if Pretoria is lost. They may seek independence, resist imperial suzerainty, and reject terms that include disarmament or concessions on franchise and language. He predicts renewed guerrilla resistance for a year.
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Chicago
Transvaal
Pretoria
Montagu White
Tremevaal
London
The Liver's Duty and Relief with Stomach Bitters
The liver cleanses blood and makes bile while a lazy liver causes constipation dyspepsia biliousness and dizziness. Flostetter's Stomach Bitters makes the liver do its duty and calms the stomach bowels and nerves. Private Revenue Stamp covers the bottle. CURES AND AGUE.
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Flostetter
Devastation in Bombay Presidency Amid Famine and Plague
A witness paints a dire scene from Godhra, Dohad, and Ahmedabad with death rates near 90 percent and 10 percent in poorhouses. He describes burning heat, decaying corpses, widespread dysentery, flies, and corpses seen with dogs and vultures. Officials are blamed for inefficiency as famine, plague, and cholera devastate families and threaten the monsoon season.
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Godhra
Dohad
Ahmedabad
Virigam
Bombay Presidency
Davis Ogden Wedding Lights Riverton Society Scene
Elizabeth Marter Davis daughter of Mr and Mrs John C Davis married Hugh W Ogden of Boston in Christ Protestant Episcopal Church Riverton. The ceremony featured a large procession with bridesmaids and ushers followed by a reception and dance at Banks Barn then a yacht departure for their honeymoon aboard the family yacht.
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Riverton
N. J
Elizabeth Marter Davis
John C. 8. Davis
Hugh W. Ogden
Boston
Christ Protestant Episcopal Church
Elsa Reath
Gertrude L. Hale
Pioverice
Italy
Frances Fell
Marco Fuller
Rochester
N. Y
Marguerite Ogdine
Portland
la Tourette
Oak Lane
Penn
Chaplin
Wayne
Katherine Middendorf
Baltimore
Philip Ogvien
Johnsopkina University
Mceesrs
William R. Sears
John Harwood
Robert Cashman
R. Davis
D. H. Paneers
Colored woman to attend club convention as delegate
Mrs Josephine Ruffin of Boston is set to be a featured delegate on the preliminary day of the club women's convention in Milwaukee. The Phylis Club Milwaukee, a group of colored women, has applied for admission to the general federation.
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Milwaukee
Wis
Josephine Ruffin
Boston
Phylis Club
General Federation
Taft Pledges Broad School System for Islands
The Taft commission plans a comprehensive school system across the islands and signals policy shifts. Filipinos in Manila await an official statement as Hong Kong reports indicate possible delay until September and Washington backs General De Arthur's campaign plan.
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Manila
Hong Kong
Armado
Cortex
Washington
DeArthur
Otis May Land Today From Meade Quarantine
San Francisco June 8 The transport Meade may be released from quarantine after fumigation and any smallpox developments are settled. General FE S Otis is expected to land today if no new cases appear aboard.
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San Francisco
Meade
Otis
Dartmouth Trustees Name Several New Instructors
Dartmouth College trustees meeting before commencement announced appointments including George Hay Wicker in economics, rescott O Skinner in French and Spanish, Richard W Husband in Greek, Arthur A Bacon in mathematics and astrophysics, and H H Horne as a professor of pedagogy and philosophy. The president noted gifts to the college, mostly for scholarships.
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Skinner
Harvard
Boston University
Paris
Richard W. Husband
Leland Stanford University
University of Califorfornia
Arthur A. Bacon
Jonner
H. H
New Brookline Pastor Ushers In First Baptist Brookline
The Rev Ave A Shaw began his tenure at First Baptist Church in Brookline with his first sermon. He spoke of the minister's office as a charge given by the apostles and urged reverence for the church as a place where Christ meets his people. He expressed joy at the crowded service and hope for a full church, warning against methods that would undermine divine dignity.
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Ave A. Shaw
First Baptist
Brookline
Doctor Morris Denies Costly Wedding Rumors
Dr Lewis Rutherford Morris husband of Senator Clark's daughter spoke with a Post reporter at the Hotel Touraine in Boston. He denies wedding costs and Lawson yacht plans, confirms a quiet wedding and future international honeymoon routes ending with a return to New York in early autumn.
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Lewis Rutherford Morris
Clark
Boston
Post
Miss Clark
Morris
Mrs. Morris
Touraine
Halifax
Arms Apartments
Ray Oxford
Thomas Lawson
Mr. Lawson
Sue
Parkhill to Build Cotton Mill Near Huntsville
Arthur E B Lowe president of Parkhill Manufacturing Company of Fitchburg Mass has secured sixty acres near Huntsville for a 6000 spin e cotton mill bleachery and print works. Ground donated by citizens and the industry will enjoy seven years of tax exemption.
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Huntsville
Ala
Arthur EB. Lowe
Parkhill Manufacturing Company
Fitchburg
Mass
Despondent Jamaica Plain woman dies by own hand
Minnie Colpitts 31 wife of David Colpitts of 8 Hoffman Street Jamaica Plain hanged herself in Cleve lands woods near Jamaica Park between dusk Saturday and early Sunday after months of illness from grip. She left a note on her hat amid cautious signs of despondency and had been a patient at East Concord Street Homeopathic Hospital since May 13.
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Minnie Colpitts
David Colpitts
Hoffman Street
Jamaica Plain
Jamaica Park
J. H. Johnson
Thomas Street
Pickets Pierce Body Of 72 Year Old Miss Kelley
Woonsocket Rhode Island June 3 Miss Kate Kelley 72 lived with relatives at 72 Cato street. Suffered fatal injuries when she fell or jumped from a second story window onto a picket fence injuring her body and bowels. Family awoke to her moans and she was taken to hospital where doctors deem the injuries likely fatal.
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Woonsocket
R. I
Kate Kelley
Cato Street
Kelley
Extradition fight looms for poet’s son Julian Arnold in San Francisco
Julian T. Biddulph Arnold, son of poet Ead win Arnold, resists extradition to face embezzlement charges in London. Amid speculation, U S and British authorities tightened the search, tracing him to a San Francisco hotel where a deputy marshal kept watch.
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San Francisco
Julian Arnold
Sir Edwin Arnold
Gan Francisco
Julian T. Biddulph Arnold
Eadwin Arnold
England
Eminons Couiagl
Pickercgtt
Arno Ais
Walworth
Berkeley
Pagiisn
London
Keighley, Arnold & Keighley
Arnold
McKay
Engish
United States
California
Mariner
Secret Service
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Edward A. Kimball
Filam P. McKenzie
Tremont Temple
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Udge 8
J. Hanna
Malden Scientists’ Church
Taft
Philippine Commission
OGDEN
DAVIS
Riverton, N. J
Mrs. Ruffin
Dartmouth College
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Earl OF
Man's Southern Mill
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