Provisions Arrive for Cuban Forces As Insurgents Seek End to Hostilities
At Havana and other ports reports describe 900 tons of provisions from the British steamer Trayan, cargo ships Lyndia Franklin and Klondike bringing food and tobacco buyers note rising prices. Insurgents in Pinar del Rio express willingness to cease fighting due to shortages while officials discuss government plans with Paris commission.
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Havana
Trayan
Jamaica
Cienfuegos
Lyndia
New York
Franklin
Key West
Klondike
Clinton
Clara Barton
American Red Cross Society
Pinar del Rio
Sagua la Grande
Santa Clara
Colonial Secretary of the Treasury
Cuba
Paris Commission
July War Stamp Average Reaches 22,775,527 Daily
The daily average of war revenue stamps issued in July was 22,775,527. In Oregon a threshing machine boiler explosion on a farm near Eugene killed one man and wounded several others. In Wisconsin Charles Johnson hanged himself with barbed wire, bending a tree to do so.
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Washington
Eugene, Ore
J. F. Kirk
Iron River
Wis
Charles Johnson
Courtmartian Ahead for General Miles
Washington reports an extraordinary court martial expected for General Miles amid charges by him against the War Department. Secretary Alger or Adjutant General Corbin likely to request investigation as Miles arrives in the United States. Details unsettled, with debate over garbling of messages and military legality.
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Washington
Comal
Tampa
Havana
Cuba
A. D. Niskerne
Lotus Miles
Artillery
United States Army
Ponce
Porto Rico
Obden
Charleston
Miles
Rice
United States
Pennsylvania
Wisconsin
Illinois
Ernest
San Juan
Guayana
War Department
Alger
Corbin
Secretary of War
General Miles
Adjutant General
Whitecaps terrorizes Paris County teacher and more notes
In Paris Texas two notices to quit preceded whitecaps drive the colored schoolteacher from the county scene. Also Ada a colored girl burned fatally in Paris when coal oil exploded. In San Marcos Anderson Booker and John Harrison Brown were charged with assault on a girl under 12. In Buffalo the Corbett McCoy bout set for Cheektowaga on Oct 1.
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Paris
Tex
Whitecaps
Ada
Charles Guthrie
San Marcos
Anderson Booker
John Harrison Brown
D. W. Dailey
Justice of Peace
Clara Thomas
Tudor Place Palm and Inkstands in Early American Lore
A tour through Tudor Place in Georgetown highlights the historic sago palm linked to Martha Washington’s kin and the famed inkpot of the Council of Ten. The palm’s journey from Boston tea ships to Mount Vernon, Pratt gardens, and its ongoing, distinctive presence. plus a note on inkstands and Venetian intrigue.
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Georgetown
Martha Washington
Brittania W. Kennon
Boston
Mount Vernon
Gov. Morris
Morrisania
Pratt Gardens
Philadelphia
Venice
Council of Ten
Consiglio Dei Ciece
Lemon skin and bath use in old washstand remedy
Instructions advise saving lemon peels after baking pies and making jellies and placing them in a water pitcher on the wash-stand to make fragrant toilet water. Additional lemon slices in the bath are said to benefit the skin, but peels must be fully removed to avoid plumbing damage.
Swift's Specific Touts Blood Remedy With Personal Testimony
An advertisement extols Swift's Specific as a universal cure for blood diseases, citing testimonials from R. J. McKinney of Dicey Texas and others. It claims the product purges deep-seated diseases like scrofula eczema boils and cancer risks, promising permanent recovery without minerals or mercury.
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Swift
S. S
Richard
Clement J
R. J. McKinney
Dicey
Parker Co
Texas
S.S
Swift Specific Co
Atlanta
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Tracy
General Tracy
Peace Commission
Whitelaw Reid
Mr. Reid
Platt
Reid
Ah Oun
Pascal Martin
United States Navy
Shanghai
Sam
China
Bailey
Sherman, Tex
Fifth Congressional District
Joe Bailey
Indorsed Hobson
Louisville
Floyd County
Indiana
New Albany
Richmond Pearson Hobson
Merrimac Fame
Dennis Flynn
el Reno
O. T
Dennis Fynn
Flynn
Terrel
T. Jackson
Rockwall
Lamar
San Francisco
D. A. Botkin
J. P. Dunning
Buffalo
N. Y
Cheektowaga
Bago Palm
Tudor Place
Doston
Minnesota
Trousseau
Chicago
England
Long Island
Schilling
R. M. Wilson
Kandy
Lowney
of Brazos
Madison
Grimes
Robertson
Burleson Counties
Frank W. McConnico
Equitable Life Assurance Society of
Pacific Mutual Life
Am. Union Life
Fidelity and Casualty of
Bryan
A. D. UcConNnnNiCco
A.P. Franklin & Son
Unders Academy For Music and Next
John Mike’s
Tyler Haswell
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