Desperate Siege Report At Guantanamo Amid Filipino Tensions
Reports from Kingston Jamaica describe Cama sera inhabitants fleeing through streets with straw and pil as famine and bombardments threaten the town. Spanish defenders at Caimanera brace for possible fall while marines prepare for a likely attack and Cuban insurgents aid communications along the coast.
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Ivaxrasane
Kingston
Jacmaica
Camasera
Josept
Tts
Caimanera
McGilla
Marble
Head
Hantington
Metalla
Marblehead
Sholphin
Scorpion
McCalla
Bova
Evra
McCaine
Muntington
Guantanan
Santiago
Morrejo
Watching Santiago from Cuban hills and ships
A despatched field report describes daily skirmishes near Santiago Bay with Spanish forces concentrating at eastern entrenchments. Cuban forces, now better supplied, guard a base near Cuero while Vesuvius observed bombardments, and ships like Marblehead are reported capturing a Spanish sloop for fleet support.
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Cabany
Weil
Toole
Col. Debreee
Mantingus
Admiral Correra
Sampson
Paci
Lyre
Giantanamadune
Tin
Forii
Sta
Smith Clay
Santiago Bay
Santiago
Shafter
Mole St. Nicholas
Maytl
Cuero
Marblehead
Cape Maysi
Lave
First Mississippi Troop Menace and Mayhem at Camp
The First Mississippi unit reports a lively day as two elderly visitors arrived at the camp, endured a schoolboy punishment, and the recruits receive new tents and vaccination work begins. Delights include ham cakes from Natchez as the men settle in. a major windstorm near Tupelo causes crop and property damage, with Verona and surrounding areas also affected.
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Urickamangs Anattasonos
Tenn
Tolay
Natches
Hibernian Relations and Fatal Bombardments Across History
The article surveys Irish kinship tactics during faction fighting and notes a quip about extending relations. It then shifts to medical and historical observations on marriage by purchase, burial customs, and depictions of warfare. It cites Sambon on parasite theory, then details bombardment casualty rates in Alexandria and wars, concluding with a reference to China’s financial dealings with England.
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Pat Meehan
Ireland
Boyle Roche
Mary
Mai Maloney
Lapland
Sambon
Alexandria
Helfort
Strasburg
Paris
First Telegraph Office Marked in Baltimore History
An old Baltimore and Ohio site in Mount Clare yards is described as the first telegraph office in the United States. The piece recounts early Morse experiments, the support from Tt. & C. officials in the 1840s, congressional funds, and Latrobe's role, noting the building’s aging condition and its planned replacement with modern facilities.
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Mississippi
Honorea
State University At
Oxford
Hob” Stowers
Oxford Globe
Hon Price
Woods
Terral
State Supreme Court
Mangia Taylor
Alabama
United States
Spain
St. Louis
The
the State University
Mount Clare
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Baltimore
von Muse
Congress
Don. H, i, Latrobe
Genersl
Exuntenor
J. J. Madily
Ht. A
Feetell
New England Pies Keep School Lunch Debate Alive
A historical note shows public school officials debating food choices and nutrition in Breton schools. Officials consider limiting pies and other foods, seeking hygienic, scientific options and proposing an approved menu to guide lunch offerings in city schools.
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New England
New York
Bastion
Eegland
Semphotanshrople
What God Hath Wrought and a Sunstroke Theory from Samson
A fragmentary report notes early telegraph triumphs and cites Dr Samabon proposing an infectious theory of sunstroke. He claims high temperatures fail to cause illness, instead pointing to a specific organism, with epidemic regions mapped from the Nile to the Atlantic and Indo-Gangetic plains. A menu of meals and prices appears in passing.
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Samaban
Los Angeles
Sambon
Europe
United States
Appalachians
Love and Law of Lapland Marriage Customs
A fragment describes Lapland courtship where lovers race to win consent. Ur is handicapped to allow a win if she chooses, but parental consent is required under the Inn law. The suitor sends gifts and awaits invitation to enter, with a sign of parental consent marked by a bumper of brandy and a promise of gifts.
Dr Williams Pink Pills Save Woman Life in Induced Cure
A Goshen Indiana woman credits Dr Williams Pink Pills for People with curing a long battle with neuralgia including headaches nervousness paralysis apoplexy and locomotor ataxia. After two years of suffering she read a newspaper item about the pills and after taking twelve doses she was completely cured and has remained free of heart trouble. The claim notes that thousands have been cured and doctors prescribe the pills.
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Democrat
Goshen
Ind
Williams
Odd Jobman in Porch Death Prank Ends in Panic
A Cleveland Plain Dealer report recounts a bizarre East End incident where a handyman, while repairing, lay on his back under a porch and accidentally drilled a deadly hole with an auger. A neighbor on a porch watched as the scene unfolded, nearly triggering a scream before realizing the tool was being used to bore a hole through the floor. The episode ends with the neighbor relieved the danger was accidental and not a murder.
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East End
Avas
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Fragmented antique ads and scraps mingle with weathered prose
A collage of disjointed snippets from old newspapers includes stray quotes about quiet apartments, jewelry sales and engagements, teething remedies like Dexturea and Tasative Bromo Quinine, plus references to Hall’s Catarrh Care and boarding-house fare. The text blends marketing blurbs with odd dialogues and filler street prose.
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Ally Enggiste
Denver Times Sun
Hall
Atehiaon Globe
Old Bully Biliousness and Dr Ayers Pills
A short, vivid ad style claim denounces biliousness as a bully over appetite and health. The piece promotes Dr J C Ayers Pills as effective for fifteen years, citing testimonials from A Swaneen of Texarkana, Ark, and another user praising relief from stomach disorders and general bilious symptoms.
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J.C. Aver
A. Swaneen
Tezarkana
Ark
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Guantanamo
Hobfol
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Manilla
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Alameda
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Honolulu
Nicholas
Dune
Here
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Key West
Germany
Philippines
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Trans-Atlantica Company
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Meas
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Mapnip
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Cervera
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Picut
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August
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Laos
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Pena
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Tate County
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George Carney
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Melenry
Truttlesburg
McHenry
Adolph Goodman
Come
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State Board of Election Commissioners
Jackson
E. T. Nall
Hoard of Health
Steei
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Geo. W. Boswell
Steiner
Sunflower County
Greenville Inn
Sam Finley
Holly Springs
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Southern Pacific
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Richmond P. Hobson
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Santiago Harbor
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Washington
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Telegrath Orrick
Toy Land
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Atehisan Globe
BOK
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Steum Bee
Chicago
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poUisville
Catsronnxia Pia SyRve Co
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Yorwta Pia Syaer Co
California Fig Syrup CO
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Magers
Indianapolis Journal
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Denver
Time Sun
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Cyeling
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Tesat
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Shark
Aye
Chee Saw
Moville
Sapolio
Isbell
CANBY
Kaleo
Cagis
Clenam
Gladstone
Kecerinn
Jake Chace
Gearon
Monroe
Arier
Manccove-Pioceon Iron Co
Memphis
Tens
Avasts, Ga
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