Mixed historical notes on world events and local anecdotes
A collage of brief items covers Paris exposition prospects for the United States, a Chinese plan near Shunglenl, a Pennsylvania bride choice, a Manhattan wagon motto, a Bayville wedding, Mark Twain dinner quips, Athenians and Greeks on bachelors in parliament, naval updates on Spanish ships, railroad safety promises, Paris taxi training, U S Africa trade gains, wreckage museum loot, California sugar beet expansion, H M Vreeland’s rail leadership rise, and South Dakota initiative success in a constitutional amendment proposal.
Doings of a Week A Global Happenings Review
A weekly digest notes Cuban relief efforts with 600 tons by society agents, Spanish troop withdrawal statements, Manila arrivals of the Zealamlin with First Tennessee, and improved U S army mortality reports. Washington hosts Cuba talks with Gen Garcia, Navy releases on Santiago, and ships moving troops and rations. Multiple domestic and foreign items include bankruptcy law, naval attaches, port disasters, and political races.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cuba
Butler
Zealamlin
First Tennessee Regiment
Manila
Inet Iro Mortas
Garcia
Washington
Ihs
Admiral Sampson
United States
Mert
Santiago
Cervera
Navy Department
Marshal Bianea
Havana
Spain
Villaverde
Merritt
Norfolk
Comat
New York
Sevanah
Chester
Manitoba
Savannah
Mississippian Turmoil and Local News Highlights
Morgan and Foster clash near Hernanda in a pistol dispute ending with a shot that wounds Mrs Foster and a hat bullet through Foster. The Southers Farm Gazette notes profitable cattle grazing in Oktibbeha County with Florida scrub steers turning a modest profit. A drunken killing near Wesson leads to the arrest of 18-year-old Butlin. Obituaries and appointments populate the week, alongside safeblowing in Alcorn County and lumber shipments for U.S. barracks in Havana. Mississippi treasurer reports a healthy balance and prison releases rise.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morgan Foster
Hernanda
R. K L. Morgan
Mr. Padell
John Foster
Padell
Foster
Morgan
Mra. Foster
Southers Farm Gazette
Starkville
Mississippi
Gazette
Oktibbeha County
L.A. Sauniers
Wilt Botlan
Tom Ellgey
Wesson
Elizey
Rutlan
Elszer
Lincoln County
Butlin
Linccoln County
Brookhaven
Brilliant imperial service marks anniversary in Vienna
A grand religious ceremony at St Matthew's Church commemorates Emperor Franz Joseph's throne accession. Austrian delegation led by officials attended with full diplomatic corps. Vienna gleamed with lights, cannon fire, and jubilee regalia as crowds wore black and red with white medals, while decor reflected solemnity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Celal
Francia Joseph
Austria
St. Matthew's Church
Moltiples
Hoy
Vierpo
Vienna
Rathaus
Elizabeth
Johnsons Report Details Bureau Printing Costs and Output
Washington December 30 Claude M Johnson director of the bureau of engraving and printing reports a year of large scale work with 92 87 475 sheets of stock and government securities printed at cost 147 08 including stock and machinery expenses. The cost per thousand sheets fell to 47 cents saving 48700 and average output per employee rose 67 50 percent. The bureau also resupplied adhesive stamps for internal revenue and handled coin notes silver certificates and treasury notes while issuing a new series for the Omaha Exposition and urging direct appropriations for postage stamp printing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Claude M. Johnson
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Internal Revenue
United States
Omaha
Health of the Army Shows Large Improvement
Washington reports a major improvement in army health over two months. Chickamauga park hospital is emptied. division field hospitals at Camp Hamilton Lexington and Jacksonville are closed. A hospital train with nearly 4000 sick moved to general hospitals now idle in Washington. Fort McPherson Fort Monroe Fort Myer Fort Thomas hospitals report hundreds of vacant beds and reduced patient counts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Teld
General
Chickamauga Park
Camp Hamilton
Lexington
Kentucky
Jacksonville
Fla
General Hospitals
Fort McPherson
Georgia
Josiah Simpson
Fort Monroe
General Hospital
Fort Myer
Virginia
Fort Thomas
Gov
Tanner
Carlinville
Virden
KH. Shirley
John KR. Tanner
Illinois
Wheeler
Blunteville
Ala
Joseph Wheeler
Huntsite
November storms and naval militia report on wartime reserves
Weather notes show November had extreme gales on the Great Lakes and a notable Indian summer before a cold wave. In Washington, Lieut. W H H Southerland reports to the assistant secretary of the navy urging a continuous annual appropriation of 200000 dollars to build a naval reserve of 7000 men in three years. General Gomez appeals for aid to relieve starving Cuban women and children in Las Villas Sanctus Spiritus and Trinidad. A Missouri farmer was murdered for money by two negroes across the Mississippi, one captured and killed. another hunted. Pittsburgh shippers told no more coal would enter lake ports this year, endangering workers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Highland Light
Portland
Hoston
New York
Pred W. Gunter
Pamelia
Pennsylvania
W. H. Graham
New Jersey
Vooris
Toby D. Rockefeller
United States
Cape Cod
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Preston
Commodore G. W. Meleville
Washington
Princeton
N. J.) University
Richard Hurley
Peabody
Mass
Rochester
Academy of Maste
Forecasy Cox
Weather Bureau
Great Lakes
Weather Office
Naval Reserve
W.H.H Southerland
Naval Militia
Ald
Jove Gomez
Stephen E. Barton
Red Cross
Las Villas
Sanctus Spiritus
Trinidad
Santa Clara
Mrs Money
New Madrid
Nova
Lake Porte
Clapewybe
Sason
Shevesudolaere
Loss of Portland Steamer Off Cape Cod In 1900s Storm
News reports detail the Portland steamer wreck off Cape Cod during a fierce northeast gale. More than 150 passengers and crew are feared dead, with hundreds of vessels wrecked or driven ashore along the coast. Wreckage and bodies drift toward Nantucket as Cape Cod is patrolled and rescue efforts continue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston and Portland Steam Packets Company
Portland
Cape Cod
Cape
Boston
Thatcher's Island
Lath
Orleans
Mass
Cortland
Nantucket
Tr Ay
Provincetown
Fall River
Paihor
New York
Thomas Hall
John Hall
Alaska Needs Congress Action and Better Revenue
Washington December 2 The Alaska governor Brady calls for urgent congressional action this session citing Alaska’s larger value than Cuba and three years in possession. He urges a high license liquor law a salmon tax ten cents a ton wharfage and extension of land laws plus representation in Congress. He also proposes Japansky Island as a naval station and cable communication with Alaska.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Brady
Alaska
Cuba
Congress
Japonsky Island
United States
Filipinos Will Resist Cession and Set for Last Stand
Madrid reports insurgents refuse to recognize the U S cession of the Philippines and vow to resist to the end. US forces may need 70,000 troops to quell the rebellion, with 10,000 Spanish prisoners pressed to fight alongside Americans. Movila troops attack insurgents in a costly sortie. insurgent movement targets Americans, not Spaniards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ponce
Michigan
Savannah
Porto Rico
Brook
Manila
Madrid
Philippine Islands
United States
Rios
Visayas Islands
Movila
Domestic Problems and Trade Aims In Secretary Wilson Report
Secretary James Wilson’s annual report discusses domestic issues and cultural relations overseas. It calls for emergency funding for future inquiries, expansion of agriculture in new territories, and opening foreign markets for American farm products including butter and grains.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
James Wilson
Wilson Sayre
United States
Wall
Daly
Europe
France
Germany
Kure
Japan
China
Nevensky
Ile
Silver as Basis in Philippine Currency Report
An official report by Edward Wy Ilrden for a special Philippine commission reveals silver as the island currency base with a five dollar per capita circulation on silver terms. It notes heavy foreign control, a Mexican dollar predominance, a $40,000,000 bond issue floated as a forced loan, and exports exceeding imports by about $22 million in 1907. Major industries cited are hemp, sugar, copra, and tobacco, with a cordage plant deemed likely profitable.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Philippines
Edward Wy Ilirden
Inst Miguat
Ween
Inge
Union Dissolved In Central America Federation Collapse
The attempt to form the United States of Central America failed as Nicaragua Hon d auras and Salvador resume sovereignty. Honduras troops misfired on Salvador to force union. Salvador’s President Regalado proclaims himself in control. Carlism grows in Spain with Sagasta warned of uprisings. Texas battleship Texas sails to Fortress Monroe. U.S. election returns favor Piagee by 73,000.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Managua
Nicaragua
Galveston
Hond Auras
Salvador
United States of Central America
Honduras
Thomas Regalado
Revolutionary
Font
Washington
Senate
House Joint Commission
Capitol
Shellenberger
Teace
Congress
Masing
Abel Princeton
N.J
Alexander Hall
Princeton University
Texas Salle
New York
United States
Texas
Charles D. Sigsbee
Fortress Monroe
War Department Volume Chronicles Cuban Philippines Campaigns
A sweeping official history outlines the Cuban and Philippine campaigns, noting army size from the 1898 war, surrender negotiations at Santiago and Porto Rico, casualty data, and the overall achievement of mobilizing about 276,717 men including volunteers. It highlights surgeon counts, death rates, and long-range plans for force expansion in American territories.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ban
Bates
Alles
Cuba
Porto Rico
Philippines
War Department
Ahaffer
Miles
Ehafire
Bay of Wace
Rhafter
Waling
Toral
Shatter
Tropics
Lerolemin
Aemy
United States
Hove Islands
United States Service
Vario
Cub
Santiago
Kington
M C Butler
Havana
Spain
Fragmented vintage quips mix in scattered newspaper chatter
A collage of snappy lines from era papers touches on humor and social quirks. Wry lines reference a man scaling a coatroom wall, a carpet tack misstep, calls for grandmothers and mothers, a foolkiller joke, eye-brushing dust, a feline noting a catless night, and a saying about money and a mare.
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Sen
Teresa Ip
Ron
Shunglenl
Manhattan
Kan
Missouri
Mt Bayville
T. 1
Wiliam Cornell
Overton
Mark Twain
Lavoyer
Twain
Courrier de Paris
West Indian
Paris
Africa
Bureau of Statistics
Treasury Department
Wreckage Company
Norfolk Navy Yard
Maria Teresa
Colon
Uncle Sam
Middle Western
California
H. OL. Vreeland
Metropolitan Traction Company
Raillub
Vreeland
Long Island Railroad
South Dakota
Peea
Naval
Hobson
Secretary of Agriculture
San Francisco
W Tane Routh
Oberlin (D.) College
John Henry Barrows
Chicago
Ilinole
Charles Hen Darwin
Callifornia
Napa
Aisin City
Decorah
John Gross
Tillie
Toledo
Wade Bank
Donn
Wenin
Nurub
Kt. Lowrey
Sarah R. Lowery
M. P. Lown
Blue Mountain
W. Lowrey
Misissippi Collee
Clinton
Pref i
G. Lowery
Time Mountain Fermale College
Booth Lowrey
Southwestern Baptist University
Jackson, Tenn
R. W W. Graves
McLaurin
Jeff Truly
Payette
Jefferson County
Sixth Circuit
PB. Cassady
Fayette
I. W. Truly
Traly
Kossath
Alcorn
W. F. Jones
Korseth
Cab
Laurel Lumber Mills
Wastman, Guediner & Co
BE. W. Brown
Surpreme Coun
May
State
Vicksburg
Greesville
Gason City
Clarksdale
A.M. Lowe
Fentress
Mr. Lowe
Tawamaung
Sagen
Francis Joseph of Austria
Johnson
Bureau of
Euring
Chicago Weather
New England
Vonsels
Stroms
Edward O'Brien
Honolulu
Puget Sound
Horn
Trust
Fitzhugh Lee
Seventh Corps
Columbus
Oberlin
Randay
John Henry Chicago
Tts
Hevana
Dee Lone
Marechel Biaceat
Aul Bis Suite
Test
Ommissioner Harden
Sale
Collapxen
London
Biarritz
The
Daily Mail
Senor Sagasta
Lansing
Piagree
Corbett
Sharkey
Tom O'Rourke
Sys Sharkey
Filppines
Army
Telis
Alger
Leak Estates
America
Mood
Ulwerust
Tay
Peripatetics
Irene DaWied
Chicago Chronicle
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Chicago Post
Thorn
L. A.W. Bulletin
Boliesin
Ager
J. C. Ayer
Lowell
Aioe
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