Jacksonville Fire Reduces City to Ashes and Losses Soar
A massive Friday blaze devastates Jacksonville Florida with winds fanning fires across 130 blocks. One thousand three hundred homes burned and 10,000 to 12,000 left homeless as key public buildings hotels churches and the armory destroyed. The fire started from a defective wire in a palmetto fiber factory and spread rapidly despite efforts of the overwhelmed fire department.
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Belimatea Radb
Jacksonville
Fla
Ihs
County Court House
Criminal Court
Bulding
Mount Vesuvius Erupts Again Endangers Nearby Areas
Dispatches report Mount Vesuvius in active eruption with residents fleeing to Naples by rail. First signs appeared a week ago as the crater eruptions intensified, lava-like flow rising from the crater and showers of cinders spreading for miles. Nighttime lava glows illuminate the surrounding countryside while tremors have been felt, and observers warn of continuing danger to the region.
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Vesuvius
Perin
Naples
Coleuring
Xmouke
Java
Manila Establishes Civil Form of Administration
Manila forms civil administration as a step to general civil government. The Philippine commission restricts Manila elections for now while Taft signals imminent municipal government. Lepanto and other provinces may follow Benguet in a special setup. Manila census totals 244,732.
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Philippine
Manila
Philippine Commission
Taft
Lepanto
Benguet
Board of Health
Divorces Sought By Four Individuals In Telegraphic Brevities
President appointed S A Stapleton consul at Nuevo Laredo Mexico Mrs Fannie Miller of New York and two daughters seek divorces from their husbands Chicago plans to oust Illinois Steel from lakefront land claiming city ownership Great Eastern dwarfed by Celtic tonnage 10300 fewer tons Alfred Yngve of Castle Valley keeps a tame chicken that follows him like a dog and walked twelve miles Indian corn in Peru likely indigenous to plateau soil
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S. A. Stapleton
Virginia
Nuevo Laredo
Mexico
Fannie Miller
New York
Chicago
Illinois Steel Company
Lake Front
Great Eastern
Belfast
Alfred Yngve
Castle Valley
Ike
Peru
Chicago Tenement Fire Claims Dozens In Horror Blaze
A deadly blaze at 9316 Marquette Avenue Chicago destroyed a wooden tenement early Sunday. Prison walls and prevented access delayed aid as inmates leaped from windows. A 16 year old boy John Schmidt heroically saved five people with a clothesline. A man named Christensen caused a disturbance resisting medical help for his wife and child.
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Marquette Avenue
Chicago
Ias
John Schmidt
Douchette
Joseph Zraminski
Zook
Christensen
Hawaii Legislature Resents Excessive Session Costs
Governor Dole refuses extra session despite Hawaiian Legislature near end of first session. Officials fault lavish spending, with $35 000 initial appropriation depleted in month and $20 600 more spent. Typewriter rates, stationery, and pens inflating costs while routine bills stall. A sugar tax appears only revenue effort. a fish price bill fails.
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Dole
Aiway
Litiouka
Fragments of 1900s headlines ripple through time
Series of satirical and garbled notices touch on a glue trust, a Russia related shot at Pobiedonost, proofreading slights on the Logan statue, talk of a telephone trust, Vancouver bankers and death by own action, busy butcher shops in China, seeds political jab in Congress, women gaining voting rights, a Denver arrest for voting, Britain barring American beef, baseball town explanations, McKinley train sightings, Chicago money schemes, Czar attire humor, and farmers seeking higher corn prices under Mr. Phillips.
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Pobiedonostrefi
Washington
Logan
Vancouver
Canada
Canad
China
Denver
Britain
McKinley
Chicago
Sam
Mr. Phillips
Condition Of Crops A Warm Week Boosts Planting Progress
A favorable week improves farming prospects across regions. Central Mississippi and lower Missouri valleys see rapid ground preparation for corn planting, while Ohio valley and mid Atlantic states lag. Texas Oklahoma report insect damage to cotton and pests. fruit, oats, wheat, and tobacco show varied gains. frost losses noted in the cotton belt and North Pacific coast.
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James Berry
Weather Bureau
Ohio Valley
Atlantic Coast
East Gulf
North Pacific Coast
Mississippi
Missouri
Hocky
Middle ‘Atlantic
Sinais
Nebraska
Kansas
Iowa
Central
South Atlantic States
Oklahoma
Texas
North Pacific
California
Dakotas
Middle Atlantic States
Cotton
Louisiana
Alabama
South Carolina
Rocky Mountains
Pacific Coast
Michigan
Lower Peninsula
Wiscomdn
South Dakota
Corn dominance shapes dairy and hen product value
The latest returns show corn as the leading crop in the United States with dairy and hen products valued highly, dwarfed only by corn. Other lines reference cotton and unclear figures, suggesting a comparative market snapshot from an old agricultural section.
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United States
Center of Population Moves West Yet Slows Down
The census bulletin places the U S center of population six miles southeast of Columbus Indiana on June 1 1900. Over ten years it moved about fourteen miles west and three miles south, while the median point sits at Spartansburg Indiana. The trend suggests a waning western surge and a continued shift eastward due to population growth in the Atlantic states and movement into Indian Territory Oklahoma and Texas. The center lies near northern Kansas and around latitude 39 55 north and longitude 98 56 west, about three quarters of a degree south and over thirteen degrees east of the area center.
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Spartansburg
Ind
North Atlantic
Indian Territory
Oklahoma
Texas
Alaska
Hawaii
United States
Kanaas
Trading In Wall Street Paralyzes Brokers
Wall Street brokers face record trading volume that strains strength and resources. New York dispatch notes unprecedented activity taxing bookkeeping and raising questions about adding night staff. Demand for competent brokerage accountants far exceeds supply amid extreme value advances.
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Wall Street
Saya
New York Dispatch
Buffalo Fair Opens Pan-American Exposition Gates Wide
President McKinley pressed an electric button to open the Pan-American Exposition at 8 30 on opening day. The gates were thrown open amid saws hammers and workmen cries as the six month fair began with dedication day planned for May 20.
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McKinley
Vicksburg
Odds and Ends Collage of 19th Century News
Col J C McCook US consul for the Klondike is reported dead at Dawson City. Frank Coles pardoned burglar in Richmond Va vows to be a missionary. Toronto prison cells called Black hole with vermin. Youngstown Ohio buys land for steel plant capital one million dollars. Jacob Wichman in German hospital has stomach removed for cancer. Everett Wheaton 20 fatally shot by father James Wheaton at Crow Summit W Va. Naval Academy at Annapolis to cost 3 million and house 500 cadets. Yukon cold brings haze nationwide and rabies outbreak among dogs in Dawson.
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J. C. McCook
United States
Klondike
Dawson City
Frank Coles
Richmond
Toronto
New Steel and Iron Company
Youngstown
Ohio
German Hospital
New York
Jacob Wichman
Crow Summit
W. Va
Everett Wheaton
James Wheaton
Naval Academy At
Annapolis
Washington
Yukon
Dawson
Illinois County Fair Dates Set Across 102 Counties
Illinois counties announce fair dates for 102 counties with venues and periods. Adams Camp Point Sept 3-6, Champaign Champaign Sept 3-0, Clark Martipsville Oct 1-5, and the Illinois State Fair runs Sept 30-Oct 5 in Springfield.
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Illinois
Adams County
Camp Point
Boone County
Belvidere
Bert
Brown County
Mount Sterling
Bureau County
Princeton
Carroll County
Champaign County
Champaign
Homer
Clark County
Martipsville
Coles County
Charleston
Cumberland County
Greenup
de Witt
Clinton
Douglas County
Camargo
Edger County
Paris
Effingham
Watson
Fulton County
Avon
Gallatin County
Shawneetown
Greene County
Carrollton
Hancock County
Carthage
Henry County
Cambridge
Kewanee
Iroquois County
Watseka
Jackson County
Murphysboro
Jasper County
Newton
Jo Daviess County
Galena
Warren
Kane County
Batavia
Kankakee County
Kankakee
Kendala
Knox County
Knoxville
Lake County
Libertyville
Ounty
Fairbury
County
Atlanta
Madison County
Highland
Macoupin County
Carlinville
Marshall County
Wenona
McDonough
Bushnell
Pinckneyville
Platt County
Monticello
Pike County
Griggsville
Pope County
Golvonda
Putnam County
McNabb
Richland County
Olney
Rock Island County
Joslin
Stark County
Wyoming
Woodford County
Ell Paso
Springfield
Restore Illinois soil the experiment stations plan survey
The University of Illinois Agricultural Experiment Station seeks a $10 000 appropriation to conduct a partial statewide soil survey. Officials note widespread soil exhaustion from half a century of cultivation and aim to prevent decline like eastern farmland while detailing that average fertility elements in 200 soils show nitrogen 29 percent phosphorus 24 percent and potash 20 percent. A St Clair County tract revealed nitrogen 8 percent phosphorus 3 percent and potash 21 percent.
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Agricultural Experiment Station
University of Ilinois
Illinojis
Illinois
Department of Soil Physics
Winvsis
St. Clair
Tragic murder suicide near Edwardsville shocker
Mollie Randle shot and killed her two year old daughter then turned the revolver on herself in a North Edwardsville farm home. Insanity is blamed by relatives and friends as the motive as the servant screamed and alerted Freeman Randle who rushed to the scene and carried the dying child to safety.
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Mollie Randle
Freeman Randle
Edwardsville
Peoria Coliseum Opens After $60,000 Build Remarkable Dedication
Peoria's new coliseum costing sixty thousand dollars was opened to the public in elaborate ceremonies. Thousands attended as Mayor Lynch, Mayor-elect Bryan, Aldermen Gorham and Bartholomew, Congressman Graff, N C Dougherty, Rt Rev John L Spalding, and others spoke. The red brick building with Bedford stone trimming seats six thousand and features one of America's largest stages.
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Peoria
Lynch
Bryan
Aldersmew Gorham
Bartholomew
Graff
N. C. Dougherty
John L. Spalding
America
A Poor Choice in a Surreal Polemic Scene
A year-old Poland China pig taunts its mother with a bizarre choice between being ground into country sausages spiced with sage or becoming a Pigskin and being kicked around a football field. The Indianapolis News frames the odd vignette with a darkly comic tone.
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Indianapolis News
Piano Men Downstairs Surprise Freddie in Life Fragment
A child named Freddie rushes from the drawing-room exclaiming that two men downstairs are playing the piano with their hands. The scene captures a domestic moment of astonishment and humor from a life magazine excerpt.
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Freddie
Large Doses Fortieth Friend By Jove Cold Remedy
A humorous dialogue from New York Weekly features a sufferer asking what to take for a fierce cold. The response is plain Advice. The strip parodies medical quackery and old fashioned remedies with witty banter.
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New York Weekly
Reapportionment and tax bills pass House voting records
Multiple measures cleared the Illinois House including reapportionment, exemptions from inheritance tax for charitable bequests, Busse Senate tax bill passage 118 to 1, and a garnish ment bill. Other actions included state school for delinquent boys funding, street railway consolidation defeat, and a broad public accounting bill advancing in the Senate. The session adjourned with officers planning to meet again, Governor Yates receiving congratulations.
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House
Senate
Lapsley
Jandus
D. BD
Sullivan
Chicago
Milchrist
McKenzie
Cook County
General Assembly
Sherman-Mueller
Gook County
South Park
Davenport
Iowa
Drainage Board
Representative Crafts
United States
Sherman
Drew
Neese
Hunter
Winnebago
Sa Andrus
Yates
Multiple Local Incidents and Tragedies Reported in The State Metropolia
Fred Peatsch the tailor did not trust banks and hid $300. Janitors in schools plan a June 11 meeting to air grievances. Three vacation schools are funded by an unknown donor. A passenger bit off an ear of John MecConachie on a Halsted street cable car. Louis Lowski was killed when kicked by a horse. Miss Margaret Haley’s train watch was stolen on a Springfield-bound trip. After 34 years at Kuh, Nathan & Fisher, Joseph Kirschner hanged himself in a woodshed. F. L. Fairbanks, Eureka Bath Co. manager, injured in a collision with a Rock Island train at 45. He is hospitalized with skull fracture, arm fracture, and a broken leg.
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Metropolia
Fred Peatsch
John MecConachie
Halsted Street
Louis “Lowski
Blue Island
Margaret Haley
Teachers’ Federation
Springfield
Kuh, Nathan & Fisher
Joseph Kirschner
F. L. Fairbanks
Eureka Bath Company
Englewood Union Hospital
Rock Island
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