The Presidential Campaign Machinery in 1896
An analysis details the scale of a national campaign office on Fifth Avenue in New York and Chicago in 1896. It covers massive staffing, extensive departments, and the elaborate funding and information networks supporting political advertising, songs, poetry, cartoons, and speaker bureaus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fashington
Jeant
Telegraphic News Association
New York
Fifth Avenue
Chicago
Metropolia
Ghiccago
Union Square
The press bureau and document mill in political campaigns
The article outlines campaign operations from press bureaus to large document mills that produce leaflets and pamphlets. It notes reliance on telegraphic and metropolitan networks, ready print houses, and translators, with treasurers coordinating vast funds and frequent visits by vice presidential candidates.
Damage to Wheat Report Highlights Poor Moisture
Snow's Crop Bulletin warns spring wheat faces deterioration without prompt moisture. It notes limited rain in southwest Minnesota and adjoining Dakota territories, with dry seed beds and May heat heightening risk. Winter wheat harvest begins amid expected crop failure in the Ohio valley. Texas Water Pierce Oil Co. gains a charter, disputed as a trust.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Snow
Minnesota
South Dakota
North Dakota
Red River Valley
Ohio Valley
Transas
Kansas
British and Russian Forces Bombard Taku Forts in China
Reports say the northern Taku forts were captured after a ten hour battle as allied ships pressed from Manila toward Tientsin. Casualties include British one killed and four wounded, German three killed and seven wounded, Russian one killed and forty five wounded, with Chinese losses high after the magazine explosion at Mandshar.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taki
Berlin
Barkentine Algerine
Manila
Tientsin
Shanghai
Yorktown
Associated Press
Chefoo
Tukurg Boy
Mrs Gladstone Dies in London After Long illness
Mrs. Catherine Gladstone widow of William Ewart Gladstone died in London in the late afternoon after a long illness. She married Gladstone in 1830 and was in her eighty second year. She aided his political career with tact leadership and insight and supported benevolences including an industrial school and a home for incurably diseased orphans. She mothered eight children, two daughters and six sons, one son becoming governor of Beak Ham and another named Stephen, a Church of England clergyman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jwiaow
Gladstone
William EL Gladstone
London
Beak
Stephen
Church of England
Tess
Foreign powers rush troops to China amid legation fears
Warships at Takui totalling 200000 tons with 300 guns threaten Pekin legations as Kin Kwang warns foreigners to leave Ku Ling and Nan King Chang. German 4000, French 10000, Russian 3000-5000 troops head toward Taku and Port Arthur to restore order.
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Takui
Adibirn Seymour
Tientsin
Legations
Pekin
Shanghai
Legation
Nin Chwang
Kin Kwang
China
Saigon
Cochin China
Port Arthur
Taku
St. Petersburg
London Daily Telegraph
Russia
Chicago News in Briefs From the Era
Chicago sends a five thousand dollar aid gift to India. Northwestern Avenue in Chicago opens. Bank consolidations possible between Chicago First National and Union National. Reports claim torture of a Korean minister ended fatally. Venezuelan troops capture General Hernandez in a revolution. New Zealand sends nearly two thousand troops to the South Africa front. Restoration of the Bloody Tower in the Tower of London completed. Near Fort Scott Kansas a boy accidentally shoots and kills his seven year old brother while mimicking a shot. Pine and hemlock stumps and old clothing gathered in northern Michigan for lath manufacturing. Seward’s Kansas admission manuscript secured by the Kansas State Historical Society.
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Chicago
India
L” Road
Chicago First National
Union National Banks
Hernandez
New Zealand
South Africa
Tower of
London
Fort Scott
Kan
Michigan
Kansas Into the
Union
William H. Seward
Kansas State Historical Society
Reward Offered for Kill Leung Chi-teo in China Scenario
A sensational notice promises a $65,000 reward for assassinating Leung Chi-teo, a reformer, with threats extended by the empress dowager of China through Li Hung Chang and a Chinese consulate in Honolulu. The plan centers on a Hawaii-based suspect watched by friends.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Leung Chi-teo
China
Leung Chi-tao
Waiian Islands
Li Hung Chang
Teung Chi-tso
Honolulu
South African War Enters Perplexing New Stage
The Chicago News notes a shift in the Transvaal war as British supply lines face disruption near Roodeval and Die Derbyshire battalion surrenders after heavy losses. Boer tactics aim to prolong the conflict by swift detachments, while British moves under Roberts Methuen and Kitchener push into the Free States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lord Roberts
Pretoria
Chicago News
Europe
America
Lord ‘Roberta
Roodeval
Derbyshire Regiment
Lord Methuen
Heilbron
Bloemfoxtein
Johannes
Barg
Lord Roberta
Bloemfontein
de Wotrat
Johannesburg
Kelly-Kenny
Roodegal
Transvaal
Poodeval
London
England
Kelly-Skenny
Buller
Drakfensberg
Orange Free State
Laing
Nek Unstrate
Botha
Roberts
Methuen
Kitchener
Dewet
China
Rail and Transport Developments Hit Era of Change
Multiple rail changes unfold including a 214 percent semi annual dividend on preferred stock. A new link from Princeton Wisconsin to Marshfield is planned on the Chicago and North Western system. Erie carries a larger shipment percentage than rivals. Northwestern adds parlor and observation cars between Chicago and Milwaukee. A Toledo St Louis and Kansas City plan of reorganization is issued after banking control. Chicago lines adopt ten day freight charge settlement. Chicago Milwaukee St Paul trains receive new parlor cars. Sioux Falls Northwestern Railway forms to acquire right of way for a new line to Madison. A sale foreclosure decree in the Air Line case is issued, with substantial sums involved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Santa Fe
Chicago and Northwestern
Princeton
Wis
Marshfield
Erie Road
Northwestern
Chicago
Milwaukee
Toledo, St. Louis and
Kansas City Railroad
Milwaukee, and St. Paul
Milwaukee,St. Paul
Minneapolis- New Parlor
Sioux ‘Falls
Northwestern Railroad
Sioux
Falls
Madson
United States
Sehfigfeld
Decrease in Wheat Acreage Across States Reported
Government statistician reports reduced winter wheat acreage on June 1 to 27,908,000 acres with 2.0 percent fall from fall sowing. preliminary spring wheat area down about 2.9 percent. States show varied gains and losses while oats acreage and conditions also noted. several deaths described in unrelated incidents.
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Department of Agriculture
Ohio
Michigan
Indiana
Illinois
California
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Oregon
North Dakota
Nebraska
South Dakota
Washington
Minnesota Falls
Iowa
New York
Pennsylvania
China executes murder suspects as a warning to foreigners
The Department of State reports that Chinese authorities executed one man by beheading and imprisoned six others for the murder of Missionary Brooks in Chan Tung. The village church will bear a monument with a warning inscription, and 7,500 taels were allocated to fund a nearby chapel. Some claim the executed were substitutes for the real assassins.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Department of State
Brooks
Chan-Tung
Ont Man
China
Fates of Current Events and Political Nominations
Kentucky district 4 unanimously renominated Davis Smith for Congress. Julian Rilph, war correspondent, has returned to London. Smail gunboat Mindova misidentified by the Tarlac, leading to a friendly-fire incident. Florence Leonard of Arlington Ga suffers nervous prostration at Niagara Falls observation tower. Miss Florence Leonard was left all night in pain atop a 250 foot tower. The Chicago Board of Trade plans to curb quotations from bucket shops as currency plates rollout extends four to six months under the March 14 currency act.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kentucky
Davis Smith
Congress
Chicago Board of Trade
Welland Canal
Florence Leonard
Ariington
Niagara ‘Pulls
N. Y
Julian Rilph
War
London
A. Ware
Smail
Afarsla Town
Attleay Nay
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S .Algo
Itv
Jobs H' Thor
Treasury
the Statistician
Water Pierce Oil Company
Texas
Saya
The
International
Fleck
Taku Forts
Japan
Germany
France
Argeles
London Daily Mail
Eedhiee-Of- Nacht
Ministry of War
Mandshar
London Daily News
Forta
Seey,mrs, Gladstone
Leung Chi-Ts8o
Kruger
Hotha
Maurice Binley
Elmer Link
Raya Boke
Galusha A. Grow
Grow
John Sherman
Sherman
Itt
Harrison
White House
Col. Bingham
Gage
Roswell Beardsley
North Lansing
Tompkins County
United States Supreme Court
J. A. Burnham
Ludia V
Ed C
Secretary of War
Capt. Carter
Engineer Corps
Leavesworth Prison
Speaker Henderson
Battle of
Corinth
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