Exhibits From Old Mississippi for World’s Fair at St Louis
State Commissioner R H Henry issues a circular naming desired Mississippi products for the World’s Fair. Exhibits include agricultural crops, cotton and cotton byproducts, corn and cereals, fruits vegetables and canning, timber and lumber, minerals, corks and more. County collectors to assemble samples, ship to Jackson, then to St Louis for winter display.
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Henry
Grand Old Common Wealth
R. H. Henry
St. Louis
Jackson
Mississippi
Exposition Seeks Wildlife and Woman's Work for Display
State exhibit seeks mounted wild animals birds and fish by tax idermists with payment by the state commission. Canned fish oysters and shrimp wanted. Education displays will show latest methods from schools colleges universities and institutes. Woman's work solicited though no dedicated building. Patents relics and curios sought with careful preservation and return at end free of cost.
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Pasig
State Commission
Historic Beauvoir exhibition calls for oil portraits
Historic matters are sought for display in the Mississippi Building representing Beauvoir, Jefferson Davis home. The expo invites oil paintings of notable locals and offers space assistance to firms, factories, corporations, or individuals, free for states and people.
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Mississippi Building
Beauvoir
Jefferson Davis
Tragedy at Leaf River Bridge ends in gun duel between neighbors
J C Burt and B T Courtney, rivals in a Mississippian lawsuit, were in buggies near Leaf River Bridge when Burt shot Courtney with a shotgun. Both farmers and neighbors, Courtney’s horse ran as the fatal shot was fired. In Vienna the Neue Freie Presse reports talks between Chancellor von Buelow and Count Goluschowski on giving Turkey greater freedom of action to quell the insurrection.
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Hattiesburg
Mobile
Ala
J. C. Burt
B. T. Courtney
Leaf River Bridge
Miss
Courtney
Burt
Vienna
Neue Freie Presse
von Buelow
Count Goluschowski
Turkey
Loving Cup Awarded for Best Sugar Beets Display
Ogden Utah The loving cup offered by H A Havenmeyer of New York for the best display of sugar beets before the irrigation congress was awarded to A Rhodes of Garland Vieh
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Ogden
Utah
H. A. Havenmeyer
New York
A. Rhodes
Garland
Vieh
Gen Hamilton Coming Liverpool
Gen Sir Ian Hamilton has sailed for New York on the steam er Lucania with a brigade and staff aboard reflecting a major movement from Liverpool as part of wartime naval activity.
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Liverpool
Ian Hamilton
New York
Lucania
Will Hold Beavers Charged With Postal Conspiracy
G W Beavers the indicted postal official faces trial as Commissioner Hitchcock overrules a defense motion to dismiss the proceedings. In Knoxville Tennessee a strike by brickmasons halts Federal Soldiers' Home construction at Johnson City, the fourth strike there, with possible government action to end labor troubles.
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Will
Beavers
New York
G. W. Beavers
Brant-Dent Manufacturing Company
Hitchcock
Knoxville
Tenn
Federal Soldiers’ Home
Johnson City
Soldiers’ Home
Shipments of yellow pine report and local notes
Summary of Gulfport lumber shipments for first half of September totaling over 4.4 million feet, with destinations in San Juan New York and England. Also notes on Yazoo City coin possession, Illinois Central lawsuit, a bloodstained cap mystery, shrimpers versus canneries, Yazoo schools schedule, new Hattiesburg wood plant, Yazoo City letter carrier exams, and the death of Capt. E. W. Brown supreme court clerk.
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Holy Land
Yazoo City
Capt
E. W. Brown
State Supreme Clerk
Big Land Business
Gulfport
Alice Lord
San Juan
Porto Rico
H. Weston Lumber Company
Logtown
Beatrice
Reeves-Powell Company
New Orleans
Rotterdam
Holland
Guiana
Dantzler Lumber Company
Moss Point
Beunos Ayree
Argentine
W. G. Radcliff
Bristol
England
Pendleton Sisters
New York
Jacob Rexenger
Rexenger
Israel
Jerusalem
B. C
Smithsonian Institute
Tate Extends School Term For Seven Months
A neighboring county reports an extended school term while Tate county levies an extra mill tax for school purposes to run the county schools for about seven months.
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Tate
Tate County
Bogus transfer checks shock Boston railway system
Boston and Northern Street Railway exposure details a vast fraud involving bogus transfer checks printed and sold to conductors at a nominal price, then redeemed at full value by the company. Separate items report unrest in Morocco and the death of Mrs Elizabeth Saunders in San Francisco, with notes on her acting lineage and career.
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Boston
Boston & Northern Street Railway Company
San Francisco
Elizabeth Saunders
Conference ends miners operators raise wages in district
Eleven week conference between coal miners and operators in the Kansas City district ends with wage increases and higher coal prices to consumers. Other items note suspected suicides in Wisconsin, Germany, and Ohio, a ship loss with no deaths, and Panama treaty ratification doubts.
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Kansas City
American Tourist Injured In Bolbere Automobile Crash
In Havre, France, American tourist Vanfleet Saddler and his wife were riding in a car down a steep Bolbere street when the vehicle lost control and struck the sidewalk. Saddler sustained a broken knee and facial injuries while Mrs. Saddler suffered contusions.
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Havre
France
Vanfleet Saddler
Bolbere
Saddler
Palma Arrives in Santiago Amid Crowds and Veterans
President Palma arrived from Puerto Principe to Santiago. Villagers crowded stations, guards secured bridges, and veterans embraced the President in a festive, patriotic procession through the eastern capital as officials reported no new insurgent activity. A second item notes the Red Dragon wreck near Atlantic City with presumed loss of the crew.
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Santiago
Palma
Puerto Principe
Unba
Victoria de Las Tumas
Alto Cedro
Atlantic City
Philadelphia
Maritime Exchange
Red Dragon
J.clark
John Swanson
Sinbad Ducasse
John Adams
Clee
Ducasse
Queries at Finlay in London on Alaskan boundary
Attorney General Finlay faced sharp questioning by War Secretary Root and Senators Dodge and Turner as the Alaska boundary commission reconvened. The dispute centers on a boundary line from the head of the Portland Canal westward to where Canadian claimed mountains meet the fifty sixth parallel. The United States argues the line runs up Bear River valley to the fifty sixth parallel.
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London
Alaskan Boundary Commission
Finlay
Root
Dodge
Turner
Portland Canal
United States
Bear River Valley
Demanded Half a Million at Seattle Bank
Martin Errickson, described as insane, entered the Scandinavian American Bank in Seattle and demanded $500,000 threatening to detonate nitro glycerine. He showed a bottle claiming it contained the explosive and was about to demonstrate when a deputy sheriff intervened and arrested him. The bottle’s contents were harmless.
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Seattle
Wash
Martin Errickson
State Senator Binghampton and Greene Surrender in Postal Bribery Case
State Senator Francis Binghampton and State Senator George A. Greene of this city have surrendered to United States Marshal Black. Charged with conspiracy and bribery in connection with a postal investigation. Bond set at 10000 with Jonas M Kilmer as surety.
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Binghampton
George A. Greene
Black
Jonas M Kilmer
Emperor at Vienna with Hungarian premier and archduke shooting
The German emperor hosted Count Hedevary the Hungarian premier in Vienna and later went hunting with Archduke Francis Ferdinand, continuing royal duties in the capital.
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Vienna
Count Hedevary
Archduke Francis Ferdinand
Militiamen Volunteer to Aid Macedonia in War
Illinois militia members volunteer their services to Macedonia in the war against the Turks, as stated by the local Macedonian committee.
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Chicago
Illinois
Macedonia
Masons Resume Mork on Home
Knoxville special says brick masons who struck at the Soldiers Home returned to work after contract terms were restored and reemployment promised. No further trouble is expected as Ankefer agreed to rehire the discharged workers and strikers back at their posts.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Sentinel
Johnson City
Ankefer
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Illinois Central
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Williams
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Yazoo
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Copiah County
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Morocco
Henry McLean
Pilymoth
Adda
Chippewa Falls
Wis
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Charles P. Nettleton
Nettleton
Texas
Berlin
Franz von Protter
German Archaeological Institute
Athens
Wemyss Bay
Mazatlan
Mexico City
Washington
Beaupre
State Department
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Edwardsville
Ill
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Joseph Gillespie
Madison County
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Crowns
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Ohio
Fred Qc.clarke
Ohio State University
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