Browne's Big Show Amazes Hangtown Miners
The Hooley show opened with Browne's Big Show featuring Fleurette the flying fairy, aerial feats, and exotic acts. Miners packed the tent amid glassy displays, while Hooley courted the star, prompting a comic love triangle with Pierre the other artist as the crowd watched a perilous finale high above the ground.
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Side Hooley
Browne
Rocky Mountains
Hooley’s
Hang Town
Hooley
Hindoo
Marco Brothers
Hangtown
Paris
Mademoiselle
Ai Angtown
Pierre
Fleurette
Honey
Hooely
Indian scouts survive rattlesnake near buffalo skeleton
Jack Stilwell and Pete Trudeau, border scouts, evade discovery by Indians on the Arikaree River plain in southern Kansas. Hidden behind a buffalo skeleton, they face a rattlesnake within inches as horsemen breakfast nearby. A sudden spit to dislodge the snake frees them, but they wait hours before moving.
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Jack Stilwell
Pete” Trudeau
Kansas
Arikaree River
Jack
Trudeau
Odd Facts From Far Afield To City News Briefs
A miscellany of curiosities notes thumb counting as a finger in music, pigs drawing small wagons in China farming districts, birds facing the wind as weathercocks, and a full moon enabling seven miles of visibility in Zululand. It cites street improvements costs, fish sizes in the Philippines, an ant circus in Berlin, and a biestle lamplighter in Paris.
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China
Zululand
Hay
N.S. W
Rue de Rivolli
Paris
New Cannon Street
London
Philippines
Goby
Berlin
Willam Pitt
Great Britain
New York
Chicago
Jersey City
Hoboken
Chago
King of England
Prussia
Seybold
Stuttgart
Tuebingen University
Drases
Mintioned as Ambassador Whites Successor
The rumor that Dr. Andrew D White would retire soon from the ambassador ship to Germany has brought into prominence the candidate Dr Hill living as a probable successor. Hill has served as Assistant Secretary of State since 1896 and aided diplomatic efforts including Prince Henry of Prussia's U.S. tour, The Hague peace conference, the first Philippine commission, and the Pan American Congress, with social grace bolstering his public duties. Mrs Hill complements him in Washington social functions with fluent German French and Spanish.
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Andrew D. White
Germany
Ambassador White
Europe
McKinley
Hill
Prince Henry
Prussia
United States
The
Hague
Mexico
Dr. Hill
Record West Weather Rages with Tornadoes and Blizzard
A vast heat wave across the middle West spawned violent storms from Wisconsin to Nebraska. Tornadoes wreck barns and kill a man while a girl is fatally injured. Blizzard conditions cripple rail and shipping lanes, with heavy snow in the Black Hills, Chadron, Spearfish, and New Richmond. Crops suffer yet rains bring some relief to droughted regions.
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West
Middle West
Wisconsin
Ilinois
Indiana
Dakotas
Black Hills
North Dakota
Nebraska
Montana
Wyoming
Creat
Lake Superior
Lake Erie
Rockies
Hebron
Gilbert Reed
Johnson's Creek
Jefferson County
New Richmond
Arthur Roetger
Chadron
Custer
Weather Bureau
Jmunsas
Newspaper Snippets Reflect Turbulent Global Tone
A collage of critical remarks from major papers highlights tensions over a railway merger, Cuban affairs, and U S politics. Headlines mock figures like Funston and Rhodes, praise civic virtue yet expose hypocrisy, with blunt takes on trusts crime and elections.
Philippine Trade Growth Shown in 1901 Imports Exports
The insular War Department division publishes a bulletin comparing Philippine commerce for 1901 and 1900. Imports rose to 30.16 million dollars from 24.86 million, exports to 22.99 million from 22.99 million, up 21 percent and 7 percent respectively. US-origin merchandise value reached 3.53 million, up 1.38 million. US exports in 1901 totaled 1.55 million, up 1.36 million. Also noted are the drowning death of Barney Dickens in Eureka Springs and a Chicago murder trial denial for Dr. O S Burnett.
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Insular
War Department
Publication & Bulletin
Philippine Islands
United States
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Terra Firma
Murphy
Ange
W. A. P. Martin
Cathay
Ruber Stores
D. J. Bill
Washington Post
House of Commons
United States Senate
Buffalo News
Kitchener
Detroit Tribune
Detroit Free Press
Funston
Neely
Cuba
Detroit News
Philadelphia Record
San Francisco Bulletin
Freddie Funston
Miss Stone
Cecil Rhodes
Napoleon
Bismarck
Congress
Susan B. Anthony
District of Columbia
Salt Lake Telegram
Charleston
S. C
Iowa
Cleveland Plain Dealer
New York Evening Sun
United States Steel Corporation
Boston Herald
Jan Kubelek
Brooklyn
St. Paul Dispatch
Oakland
Cal
Cincinnati Post
Leopold
Failadelphia
Barney Dickens
Eureka Springs, Ark
White River
O. S. Burnett
Charlotte Nichols
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