Grain owners clash with board over flood ruined grain ruling
Kansas City reports a dispute among grain men over grain ruined by a flood. The Moffatt Commission Company sought injunctions to stop the board of trade from suspending members who refused to pay for grain ownership disputed as involved. Directors ruled cases not subject to arbitration and ordered payment, prompting many members to threaten expulsion rather than accept arbitrary settlement.
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Kansas City
Moffatt Commission Company
Board of Trade
Panic on Street Car Wounds Four in New York
Panic aboard a trolley car left three injured and a score cut or bruised as fuses blew in the controller box sending jets of fire through the car. A woman leaped off and struck her head on an iron pillar, badly hurt, her husband and their young daughter escaped with injuries, and a man broke a leg.
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New York
Frisco to Examine New Orleans Terminal Plans
Charles A. Fairchild president of the New York Securities and Trust Company visits New Orleans to study financing options for a heavy mortgage on the St. Louis and San Francisco Railroad. Plans include an extensive terminal system in New Orleans to be shared with the Southern Railway.
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New Orleans
Charles A. Fairchild
New York Securities and Trust Company
St. Louis
San Francisco
Southern Railway
Landowners oppose Mississippi levee system at Memphis
A convention of land owners from western Tennessee and Kentucky met in Memphis and adopted resolutions protesting the current Mississippi river levee system. A five member committee was appointed to present the protest before the river commission at its annual meeting.
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Memphis
Tenn
Tenessee
Kentucky
Mississippi River
River Commission
Toto
President to release post office investigation findings
Washington reports that once the pending inquiry into the post office department is finished, the president intends to publish the investigation report along with his own remarks and comments as he deems appropriate.
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Washington
Post Office Department
Folk Charges Ryan With Grand Larceny In Turf Scheme
St Louis Circuit Attorney Folk has filed an information in the criminal division accusing turf investment promoter John J. Ryan of grand larceny. If he is convicted, similar charges may be brought against other turf promoters.
Dreamed Too Heavy of Burglars Ends New Jersey Manufacturer’s Life
John Edelstein a wealthy New Jersey manufacturer and politician died after an odd accident linked to a dream of burglars. He leaped from bed during a night terror, struck his head on a projection, and a blood clot formed on the brain causing merengitis and death.
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New York
John Edelstein
New Jersey
Desperate cattlemen clash on Apache reservation
A fight between Feeney Barrett and Prime Coleman over grazing permits on the Apache Indian reservation ends with Barrett dead and Coleman fatally wounded. Both men are leading cattlemen, and the dispute centers on limited seasonal grazing rights of high value.
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Holbrook
Arizi
Feeney Barrett
Prime Coleman
Prince Henry to visit United States incognito for World’s Fair
London reports Prince Henry will tour the United States next year for the World’s Fair in an unofficial capacity and travel incognito. He will visit sites across the country including the Pacific coast, and the Crown Prince of Germany is also expected as a World’s Fair visitor.
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Prince Henry
New York
London
the Limes
United States
Pacific Coast
Crown Prince
Germany
Peru braces for Congress as government acts to prevent disorder
A Lima dispatch reports Peru prepares for the opening of Congress with measures to ensure order. President Candamo issues a proclamation. The government seeks a geologist from the United States or Europe on a three year contract to study Peru's fossil formations.
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Congress
Peru
New York
Lima
Candamo
United States
Europe
A Singular Will Prompts Heir Search in New York
A Newark man seeks New York residents he says are heirs under a peculiar will of James Russell who died in California with a large estate. The will reportedly leaves 400000 dollars to his son if the son marries a New Jersey girl, with other bequests to several individuals.
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New York
Newark
N. J
James Russell
California
Russell
Hs Son
New Jersey
Rumor claims plot to blow up Ottoman Grand Vizier palace
A Budapest dated dispatch reports panic in Constantinople as rumors spread that the grand vizier's palace narrowly escaped dynamite attacks. The telegraph notes threatening letters received by the vizier and several recent arrests.
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Paris
Budapest
Constantinople
Fatal mine explosion in Tamaqua No 4 mine claims life
In Tamaqua Pennsylvania a gas explosion in No 4 mine badly burned fourteen men. One miner Daniel Lewis died. Two English speaking miners and three foreigners remain critically injured. Authorities suspect a defective safety lamp caused the blast.
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Tamaqua
Daniel Lewis
Boston Submergence Warned by Water Authority Ex‑Member
A former Metropolitan Water Board member warns Boston and nearby areas are sinking toward sea level. The report on the Charles River dam cites subsidence at about one foot per century, signaling long term risk to the city and environs.
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Boston
Metropolitan Water Hoard
Charles River
Historic School in Ruins in Bay St. Louis
St Stanislaus College in Bay St Louis Mississippi was totally destroyed by fire. Flames spread rapidly forcing students to abandon trunks and clothing. the incident involved $5,000 in property and $26,800 in insurance.
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Bay St. Louis
Miss
St. Stanislaus College
Lee
Moslems Pray and Dress Rules Across Daily Life
A lengthy old account outlines Muslim daily rituals from dress and grooming to prayer before clothing, splashing water blessed with Koran verses, beard and mustache care, combing the hair, and punctual prayers. It also covers meal etiquette, almsgiving, modest mirror use, and sacred cautions about transitions between tasks.
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Satan
Imam Jafar
Mohammed
Sense of Hearing in Prayer and Speech Practices
A fragmented description notes how hearing guides Muslim devotional acts, from listening to the muezzin and the Sureh Sajdeh to prostration and recitation after the prayer leader. It mentions responding to birds or animal cries and saying peace or healing phrases after a sneeze, though the text cuts off mid sentence.
Doings and Beliefs of Mohammedans in Daily Life
A compact list of Muslim daily practices and taboos notes that meals begin with salt and end with vinegar for health and prosperity, the host leads meals, toothpicking is praised, prayers and Koran passages frame meals, ablutions precede sleep, and Muslims favor early rising. It also mentions sleeping positions for prophets, angels, and believers, with believers urged to sleep on their right side.
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Gabriel
Owl Makes Long Flight to Save Itself Aboard Ship
A white owl stranded on an iceberg above the Newfoundland waters followed a drifting ice floe toward the whaleback Forest Castle from Liverpool. Exhausted and starved, the bird flung itself aboard the ship after a desperate chase across open sea. The sailors were astonished as the owl clung to life and beat the odds in the long pursuit.
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Forest Castle
Liverpool
Newfoundland
Philadelphia Press
A Costly Break
A New York Press item notes a woman pushing into society as her husband attempts to break through his bank account, illustrating social and financial pressures in ascent.
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New York Press
The Sermon on Lady Forever by Grace Church Rector
The Rev Dr William KR Huntington preached to a fashionable school for girls in New York City, arguing that true ladyship is about a woman’s dignity gentleness and fortitude grounded in religion and culture. He contrasts civic pride with inner treasures of the soul and urges young women to embody dignified gentle strength rather than superficial status.
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New York City
William KR. Huntington
Grace Church
Asaiah
Babylon
Rome
Venice
London
Chaldea
House of
Euphrates
Jerusalem
Isaiah
Amoz
Amor
the Hudson
Wwe
Inia
England
Heralds’ Office
Pilepe
America
Humber
Nish
Ean
Sparta
Egala
Jon Ile
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Kwang Si
Pekir
China
Kwang Xi
Hong Kong
Ma Tila
Malanican
Frisco Terminals
Imam Hussein
W. R. Huntington
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