Disjointed 1904 Dispatches Cover Weather, Science and Society
A Copenhagen dispatch remarks Wing Lan’s illness was mild and he left Schwerin. Reports note Minneapolis post office receipts rising from 7.98 to 12s7 30542. various global notes discuss a Denver marriage to an Indian, views on woman suffrage, and the passing of civil engineer Samuel S. Robinson. Other items mention Dowager Queen Margherita’s U S visit, John Holland’s flying machine, and experiments in hydrogen solidification at the World’s Fair.
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Minneapolis
Samuel 8. Robinson
Detroit
New Hampshire
Queer Margherita
Italy
St. Louis
John Holland
Emily Edson Briggs
National Capital
Olivia
Washington
Topics of the Day and Mews From Everywhere
A digest of items: Louis Eizel heirs protest indemnity from China after his death near New Chwang. Carrie Nation struck by chair at Neighbors' saloon, sustaining a scalp wound. Colombian relations advance with full credit letters for Herran as envoy. Judge Parker to be notified of nomination on August 10. Mary Nixon, 103, dies in Burnt Mawar suburb. Cardinal Merry Del Val resigns amid cardinal opposition. pope reportedly undecided. William Lilly of Sullivan, Ill., dies by morphine. Dewey to receive prize money for Manila Bay actions. Paul Kruger fortune estimated 750k to 1m pounds in European securities. Wilson Barrett funeral in London follows. Roosevelt plans St Louis World’s Fair visit in October. Davis and Reynolds marriage rumored in fall. Dynamite explosion injures five on Houston streetcar. Japan orders smelter shipment from Joplin for shipbuilding. Atchison Topeka & Santa Fe train derailed near Kansas. 5,000,000 feet of timber destroyed. Handy Brothers claim $70,000 coverage.
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Louis Eizel
New Chwang
State Department
Carrie Nation
A. R
Elizabethtown
Natoon
Nation
United States
Parker
Heppus
N. Y
Mary Nixon
Burn Mawr
Philadelphia
Merry del Val
Rome
France
John P. Lilly
Weekly Herald
Sullivan
Ilnois
Dewey
Manila Bay
Don Juan de Asturia
Paul Kruger
Transvaal
Wilson Barrett
West Hampstead
London
Roosevelt
St- Louis
Theodore Roosevelt
Henry G. Davis
West Virginia
Katherine Reynolds
Davis
Houston
Tex
A. T. Smith
Japan
Joplin
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Colorado
Ey, Kas
Handy Broa
Jose
Mississippi Tax and Education Expenditures Highlight State Growth
Mississippi public finance details show 1903 collections of state tax ad valorem, privilege, polls and insurance tax totaling 1,992,262.71 with 1,250,000 for common schools and funds for Chickasaw, Blind, Deaf, A and M, university and normal schools. The report notes 78 percent of collected funds support education and predicts larger appropriations for the coming session, while praising the state’s public school system and road improvements in Alcorn and Copiah counties, and urging continued investment in agriculture, stock raising, and Delta developments.
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Supt
Whitield
Miller Rindly
Chickasaw School Fund
Woage
Agricultural and Mechancal College
Alcorn A. & M. Collene
Einessee University of Mississippi
Holly Springs Normal
Mississippi
Union
Missouri exhibit builds model rural school at World’s Fair
A Missouri educational display shows a complete rural school built east of the Palace of Fine Arts with modern conveniences at under twelve hundred dollars. Superintendent Buchanan designed it with a cold air heating system, a jacketed stove, and a water system costing about 100 dollars, including a pressurized tank, enabling an indoor toilet. The exhibit’s impact reaches Christian county Illinois, inspiring campaign efforts among district directors.
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Iowa
Tinols
Montana
Palace of Fine Arta
Buchanan
Missouri
Mise Annie L. Barbarie
Christian County
Linois
Mis Eouri
Pilgrimage of Automobiles to St Louis Begins
St Louis ward of automobiles plans a grand procession starting Monday. From every direction red green yellow and other colored skidoodle wagons will converge singly and in clubs to participate in St Louis day at the fair on August 11. They will assemble across the river then cross the bridge into the World’s Fair grounds in a stately formation.
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St. Louis
Reported flogging of ex-Alderman Bersch denied
A Jefferson City dispatch to the Star says the Chronicle’s Saturday report of ex Alderman Bersch of St Louis being flogged at Denlea Penitentiary is false. The inmate is reported to be doing work as other prisoners with no incident of punishment. The motive for publication is questioned.
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Berech
St. Louis
Denlea
Star
Jeffrson City Enya
The
Chronicle
Bersch
Copeland Lecturer Dies Suddenly in Bloomington
Col. L. F. Copeland of Harrisburg Pa famed Chantaugua and lyceum lecturer died suddenly at St Josephs hospital Bloomington. He was 63, a New York native, and had chaired lectures for 46 years after a career beginning in New York.
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Bloomington
L. F. Copeland
Harrisburg
Lyceum
St Joseph's Hospital
New York
Remains of Mr. Kruger Laid on Train for Hague
The remains of former Transvaal president Kruger were placed on a train from Clarens to The Hague. The funeral car bore flowers and the coffin was covered by the Transvaal flag as the body made long journey.
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Clarens
Switzerland
Kruger
Transvaal
Hague
Transvaal Republic
Russians Retreat Toward Ha Cheng in Major Turbulent Action
Dispatches from Paris and London describe heavy fighting as Russian forces retreat east of Tatchekiao toward Haicheng. The battle, lasting hours, reportedly pushes Russians from New Chwang, with Japanese positions extending 15 miles and a late afternoon Japanese flank forcing further Russian withdrawal.
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Lew Chwvang
New Chwang
London
Daily Mail
Tatehekion
Haitheng
Tatchekiao
Taping Mountain
Tangtaditueno
Tienghuahuén
Ilge
Russia
Scolding Set to Music in Wagnerian Style Beer Garden
A New York Times report describes a one hundred twenty fifth street beer garden where a brass band played Wagnerian selections while a woman shouted insults at her husband. The couple drew stares as the man demanded quiet and refused to engage, the scene punctuated by the band’s blast and the man’s curt reply to his wife. The anecdote captures a vivid street-corner tableau of public decorum and personal clash in a noisy social setting.
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Copiah
Pine Hill
Abyss
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