Quarantine Sparks Chinese Aid Debate in San Francisco
San Francisco health officials seek daily food estimates for indigent Chinese in Chinatown as quarantine policy triggers a heated dispute. Mayor Phelan opposes city feeding, urging Six Companies to provide for residents. autopsies to be held for suspicious deaths. plans for detention stations on bay islands are discussed.
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Phelara
San Francisco
Board of Health
Chinatown
Board of Supervisors
Cuenatown
Ho Yo
Wong Dueng
Phelan
City of
Peking
Australia
Port Farley
Commission Arrives Manila as Philippine Commission Begins Work
The U S transport Hancock arrived in Manila with the Philippine commission aboard. Judge Taft and others met by Gen MacArthur’s staff. Taft outlined limited powers and plans for a civil government with MacArthur remaining as executive head until a civil government is appointed. The report notes immigration worries and famine relief efforts elsewhere.
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Manila
United States
Hancock
San Francisco
Philippine Commission
MacArthur
Palace
Twenty-sixth Infantry
Miter
Wim. H.taft
Commission
Filipino Supreme Court
Remy
Asiatic Station
Gen. MacArthur
Taft
Japan
Judge Taft
Iiic
Gew. Otis
McKinley
Philippines
Gomvnt
Amy
Spooner
Hong Wong
Hong Kong
Amado and
Mebers
Cortez
Ie Commission
Washington
Messages From Philadelphia Courier Reaches Boer President
A Philadelphia schoolboy arrives in Pretoria with a message of sympathy to President Kruger. The scene in the executive chamber includes tears as Kruger thanks the boy and British forces near the city are noted. The boy travelled 12,698 miles to deliver the message and is warmly congratulated.
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Philadelphia
Kruger
Pretoria
South African Republic
Capitol
Republic
James Francis Smith
Caesar
Reitz
Carsar
United States
America
Smith
Reit
Public Finances May 1900 Deficit and Surplus Report
The May monthly statement shows receipts $45,165,053 and expenditures $40,051,525, producing a surplus of $4,814,523. Customs $17,396,573. Internal revenue $23,361,326. Miscellaneous $5,908,153. Exports include Civil $9,149,172. War $8,656,636. Navy $5,149,621. Indians $586,885. Pensions $42,959,679. Interest $3,598,229. Receipts exceed exports by $63,455,000 in 11 months. prior year had a deficit of $104,620,000.
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Washington
United States
Public debt and currency figures for May reports
The May 1900 public debt shows 1 122 608 511 dollars outstanding after cash in the treasury, down 2 193 274 from the prior month due to bond redemptions with 729 584 179 in certificates and notes offset by cash. The Comptroller notes May 31 1906 national banknote circulation at 300 488 8804 with year and month gains, bonds on deposit totaling 276 829.99 to secure notes and public deposits at 22 353 550.
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Washington
Treasury
United States
Ae Cree
Treas
Aredia
Insurance Firms Ordered to Pay War-Era Gold Claims
London June 2 Justice Matthews of the queen's bench division rules insurance companies must honor policies covering gold seized by the Transvaal just before the war. Two claims, each for £100,000, are decided in favor of mining companies, with the judge ruling no state of war existed at the time of seizure.
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London
Matthews
Queen’s Bench
High Court of Justice
Transvaal
Jnndage
Pionieber Brewer Charles Engel Dies in Kaiserslautern
Philadelphia reports the death of Charles Engel on Thursday at his Kaiserslautern residence. Born 1816, he immigrated about 60 years ago and founded Pennsylvania’s first incorporated brewery. He retired in 1356 and did not return to the United States.
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Philadelphia
Charles Engel
America
Kaisers-Lautern
Rhainpfalse
Mr. Engel
Pennsylvania
Engel
Senate Passes Cockrell Amendment for World’s Fair Funding
Washington June 2 The Senate approved Senator Cockrells amendment to the sundry civil bill allocating 5 000 000 for the St LouisWorlds Fair commemorating the Louisiana Purchase centennial. The amendment was adopted without a division and the bill passed.
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Washington
Senate
Cockreil
St. Louis
Louisiana Territory
Better Blood Better Health Claim Ad for Hood's Sarsaparilla
An advertisement promotes Hood's Sarsaparilla as a pure blood maker that cures tiredness pimples sores salt rheum scrofula and catarrh. It urges readers to start taking it now to raise their blood to a good health point.
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Hood
Resourceful clergyman praises gardener in gibe
A kind hearted clergyman dismissed a clever gardener who stole produce but gave him a character note praising his two year loyalty and productivity. The item, quoted from Collier's Weekly, includes various short jokes and advertisements from the era.
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A. B
Collier’s Weekly
Clara Kopp Praises Mrs Pinkham Advice and Remedies
Clara Kopp of Rockport Indiana reports four years of illness with back pain, nervousness, irregular menstruation, and shortness of breath. She credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound after receiving Mrs Pinkham's guidance and says she is now healthy and urges others to seek her advice.
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Clara Kopp
Mrs. Pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkham
Clara Kapp
Rockport
Ind
Mmery
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India
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Boy Shit
Transvaal Republic
Public Debt Statement
Pioneber
Germany
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Wm. O. Endsley
Vanburen, Ind
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