The Leader’s Miscellany of World News Reels
A digest of brief items from various locales and topics. Highlights include scientific notes on anatomy and disease, a navy reconstruction plan, a proposed Mexico City Puebla rail link, and new postal money order designs plus a note on sugar demand in Morocco. Also mentions a Russian prison escapees tale, a Paris sea water therapy claim, and an Ansonia roof farm with Temple Stokes’ 700-chick shipment.
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Mexico City
Puebla
Japa
Brazil
Morocco
Paris
State Department
Guenther
Frankfort
Quinton
Academy of Medicine
Ansonia
New York
Long Branch
N. J
W. E. D. Stokes
Fight Yet Won As Yellow Fever Rages In New Orleans
August 22 1878 New Orleans yellow fever outbreak prompts Tulane Prof Metz and Dr White to urge citizens to keep up efforts. Deaths approach fifty to eighty daily with new cases near two hundred as fortifications and vigilance are advised.
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New Orleans
New York State
Collins
Metz
Tulane University
White
Indictment Likely for Holmes in Government Reports Scandal
Edwin S Holmes Jr associate statistician of the Agriculture Department will face possible indictment after a federal grand jury heard testimony from Secretary Wilson and Assistant Secretary Hays. Roosevelt directed pursuit, with evidence linking Holmes to stock speculators via manipulated crop reports. Several names tied to profits, including Moses Haas and F A Peckham. Holmes is abroad but expected to return when needed.
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Holmes
Washington
Edwin
Holmes, Jr
Department of Agriculture
Roosevelt
Federal Grand Jury
Wilson
Hays
Moses Haas
F. A Peckham
New York
John Hyde
Bureau of Statistician
England
Jordan Addresses Georgia division of Southern Cotton Association
On August 22 in Atlanta, the Georgia division gathered with wide county turnout. President M. L. Johnson outlined plans for marketing the new cotton crop and concerted future action. Delegates submitted sealed crop-condition reports. President Harvie Jordan of the Southern Cotton Association gave a featured address before adjournment until tomorrow for committee reports.
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Georgia
Southern Cotton Growers’ Association
Atlanta
Southern Cotton Association
M. L. Johnson
Harvie Jordan
Czar Yielding Stance Sets Off Russian Reply Rumor
Witte aides decode a long St Petersburg cable likely signaling a Russian refusal to yield further on peace terms. Authorities in Portsmouth report excitement as the message is translated sheet by sheet. American flag insult incident reported from Amoy with local authorities ordering calm. immigration data show July arrivals include 98 U.S. citizens and 14 others. A peonage case in Georgia ends with arrest for involuntary servitude. Washington reports canal purchase graft probes expanding.
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Portsmouth
N. H
St. Petersburg
M. Witte
Nabukoff
Plancon
Washington
Amoy
President Roosevelt Keeps Hope For Peace Conference
President Roosevelt has not abandoned hope for a successful Washington Peace Conference resupply and continues efforts to prevent a rupture as conferees regroup at Fortamouth. Baron Kaneko arrived in Nassau Bay with a general invitation to meet, but discussed his mission only privately, noting Japan’s concessions and the need for secrecy in the intermediary role.
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Roosevelt
Washington
Sagamore Hill
Japan
United States
M. Witte
Baron de Rosen
Russia's final word on settlement at Portsmouth
Russia signals sincere desire to settle peace as Witte prepares for Portsmouth talks. Officials stress concessions already made on eight articles, with disputes over indemnity and Sakhalin deemed unlikely. Roosevelt’s diplomacy cited with gratitude as hope for an acceptable settlement persists. Heber Robinson dead in Camden at 65 after heart attack. wood arrival in Washington noted.
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Sakhalin
Russia
Japan
Heber
Robinson
Camden
N. J
Philadelphia
Lincoln
Bull Rus
Western Union Telegraph Co
Gen. Wood
Washington
Leonard Wood
Italians Honor Bennington Glenster Victims at Point Loma Cemetery
In San Diego on August 2, Italian cruiser Umbria officers and men joined Col McClellan and Capt Scott to lay a six-sailor, five-foot wreath at the common grave of nearly fifty Bennington sailors at Point Loma. The wreath, white roses and maidenhair fern, bore the inscription Royal Tusian Navy Umbria to the victims of the U S S Bennington. The captain of the Umbria voiced Italian navy condolences and praised the dead and wounded.
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Ean Diego
Cal
Bennington Glenster
Fort ‘Rosecracs
Col. McClellan
Scott
Point Loma
Bennington
California
Royal Tusian Navy
Umbria
U. S
Platform collapse at corner stone ceremony injures hundreds
In Pittsfurs Pennsylvania on August 21 a platform at the corner stone ceremony for Hebh David Rim Sian Habrow synagogue gave way. Over five hundred people fell into a 15 foot cellar as a brass band and Zionists surged to sign the roll. Rabbis Ashchinsky Graffman Bloom and Nathan Nathanson and Policeman Adam Lefteweski were among the injured but no fatalities reported.
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Pittsfurs
Miller Street
Washington
Ashchinsky
Graffman
A. Bloom
Nathan Nathanson
Tor
Adam Lefteweski
Mississippi county formations stir politics amid harvest reports
The Mississippi bulletin discusses new county formations in Lawrence Covington Perry Green Harrison Pearl River and Jackson areas with Wiggins Gloster as proposed seats. It notes tax indebtedness disputes and a governor backed emergency funds for the State Board of Health during quarantine.
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Ress
Mississippi
Lawrenes
Covington
Prentiss Ss
Perry, Green
Harrison
Pearl River
Jackson
Wiggins
Wilkinson
Franklin
Amite
Gloster
Yellow fever outbreak hits Gregory Missouri town
Gregory Missouri Aug 22 three yellow fever cases all Italians. One died. two others very low. Four more Italians from Greenville Mississippi employed at Burlington track work. After infection they were quarantined. townspeople angry at quarantine breach. Gregory is a Mississippi River lumber camp 15 miles from Keokuk Iowa.
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Gregory
Greenville
Miss
Burlington Railway
Mississippi
Mississippi River
Keokuk
Earthquake Felt Across Mississippi Valley in Seven States
A strong quake near St. Louis at 11 pm was reported across Missouri Tit Doll Tennessee Indiana Iowa Mississippi and Kentucky. Cairo Illinois reported the strongest tremors with two shocks two to three minutes apart Bed beds shook and chandeliers rattled as residents fled their homes in the west part of the city.
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St. Louis
Mississippi Valley
Missouri
Tit Doll
Tennessee
Indiana
Iowa
Mississippi
Kentucky
Cairo
King’s Highway
Henry J Heusack Hanged In St Louis Murder Trial
Henry J Heusack was found guilty of killing his father in law August Raphael in St Louis on March 16 1904 and paid the death penalty at the city jail. A deranged man later sought to take Heusacks place claiming life was worthless. Other items note a ten year sentence for a different murder and various crimes across Missouri and Mexico from August 190?
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St. Louis
Henry J. Heusack
August Raphael
Heusack
Clark
Elsleben
Chiia Becker
South Second Street
City Hospital
Niehaus suicide ends hanging sentence in Missouri
Lambert Niehaus, condemned to be hanged for killing his brother in law Thomas Fleudel, died by suicide minutes after the death watch began. He reportedly groaned, slept fitfully, then stabbed himself in the abdomen and heart with a pocket knife. Deputies tested the scaffold as the trap fell, but Niehaus died before a doctor could arrive.
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St. Louis
Lambert Niehaus
Thomas Fleudel
Niehaus
Packed His Trunk and Left in Aug News
New York broker J. T. Raplee aged about 50, once worth $506000, was committed to the Westchester county poorhouse. A stylish New York woman claiming to be his niece visited him and said she would care for him for life. He packed his trunk, wore silk hat and patent shoes, then left for New York. inmates described him as aristocratic.
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New York
J. T. Raplee
Westchester County
Supt. Long
Manston
Fifth Avenue
Wall Collapse at Avenue Theater Hurts Fifteen Italians
In Pittsburg Pennsylvania a wall collapse at the Avenue theater ruins injures fifteen Italian laborers. thirteen are pulled alive from wreckage, five seriously hurt, none expected to die per hospital physicians. The fire-destroyed theater had burned about a month earlier. Oldest legislator dies in Fredericton.
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Pittsburg
Avenue Theater
Old Time Baseball Tale and Ads From Philadelphia
A fragmentary 19th century style baseball score scene shows a pitcher, catcher, and umpire with a dramatic strikeout as a crowd reaction flares. Interwoven are faded advertisements for Dodd’s Kidney Pills touting relief for backache and kidney trouble, plus a quip about body shapes and a Philadelphia setting.
Sores Hands Feet Promised Relief by Cuticura
A nostalgic ad touts Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment as a fast, economical remedy for sore hands and feet. It recommends soaking hands or feet in a hot creamy lather, drying, then applying ointment to soothe red irritated skin, brittle nails, and painful fingertips.
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A &i Pepe
Cuticura
Sony
And John Got His Place In The Forefront Of A Strike Tale
The report recounts a chaotic scene with a large crowd of motormen and gatemen at Interborough offices during a strike. A wife dominates the narrative, urging her husband forward and dismissing onlookers as she drives the action. The World notes the striking workers and their allies as the couple negotiates the station crowd.
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Interborough Way Company
New York World
Mart
Satana
Norris
Seperi
Wrong sort change aids Weldon woman with Grape Nuts
A Weldon Illinois woman describes severe stomach trouble and headaches last spring. She tried various foods until trying Grape Nuts, which she says agreed, aiding digestion and restoring strength within weeks.
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Weldon
Heresy and strange riddle puzzle in Chicago scene
Fragmentary OCR reads like a jumbled public notice. Mentions Chicago, Peking, and a puzzling riddle about a "Nia" cry and a priestly extremism. References a supposed mother and Charles, with shop ads at the end urging a brand sold by Bruggats and Sloe Stores and a Le Roy New York address.
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Bruggats
Sloe
Semple
Olmsted
le Roy
N.Y
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