Sick at Camp Wikoff and Camp Thomas Investigation
New York dispatch reports Camp Wikoff doctors deny deaths from yellow fever amid scattered malarial deaths. Dr Nicholas Senn says sickness tied mostly to southern fevers, with typhoid risk from contaminated water feared. camp improving. Camp Thomas investigation by Gen H V Boynton finds generally favorable conditions.
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New York
Camp Wikoff
Montak Point
Nicholas Senn
United States Army
Cuban civil governor proclamation for Havana Province
A Havana civil governor proclamation declares independence achieved and calls for unity and reconstruction. Havana evacuat ion awaits Cuban military commission action and possible American governor. General Rodriguez orders troops to protect property and civilians while allowing necessary military assets.
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New York
Washington
Havana
Senor Gonzalo de Quesada
Francisco Dominguez Y Roldana
Cuba
Cespedes
Mari
Rodriguez
Military Department of the West
Yale and Harvard to be released from government use
A Washington dispatch says auxiliary cruisers Yale and Harvard will be returned to their owners, the American line, after discharging ammunition and guns at Tompkinsville. The Army has stopped paying charter rates and the Navy must restore original condition. six months of use could cost nearly two million for charter and over five hundred thousand for repairs. The Madrid correspondent reports peace commissioners named to Paris include Leon y Castillo Urrutia Najera Marcoartu and Abarzuza.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Camp Thomas
Chickamauga
H. V. Boynton
Chickamauga National Military Park Commission
War Department
Washington
Anniston
Ala
New York
The
Tribune
Yale
Harvard
American Line
Tompkinsville
Quartermaster’s Department of the Army
Navy Department
London
Madrid
Daily Mail
Senor Leon Y Castillo
Paris
Senor
Urrutia
Brussels
Duke of
Assassination of Constable Gamble in Taylor Texas
Constable S A Gamble was shot dead late last night in Taylor while playing dominoes at the Grande hotel. He was hit by buckshot through a back door as three or four shots struck him in the face and chest, killing him instantly. Simultaneously a major fire destroyed Philip Hatzfeld’s dry goods store, causing about 135000 in losses with 80000 insured.
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Taylor
Tex
S A. Gamble
Grande Hotel
Austin
Philip Hatzfeld
Marriage and mayhem at the Frolique Theatre wedding
From the Klondike Lyre reports on Miss Gussie Lammermore and Three-fingered Slade wedding at the Frolique Theatre. The reception included little shooting and good liquor after a prior incident where Howling Bill was struck by a bottle and died. the coroner's jury absolved the bride. The Lyre also mocks tariff and feathering and notes a Connecticut gent’s wealth scheme and high prices for champagne and haircuts.
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Connecticut
Therc
Reform Committee
Gussie Lammermore
Frolique Theatre
Three-fingered Slade
Golden Fleece Poker Parlors
Gussie
William
Bladsoe
Kentucky anecdotes and punch lines in a patchwork of letters
A mixed page of humorous anecdotes and conversational snippets from Kentucky life. It cites Colonel Tom Stuart as a famed storyteller, recounts a political shootout incident, and includes light exchanges about letters and social mishaps with a wandering, folksy tone.
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Kentucky
Col
Tom Stuart
Swift's Specific praised as miracle blood cure by families
A testimonial letter from R. J. McKinney of Dicey Texas extols Swift's Specific as the sole cure for deep blood diseases. It recounts a son with brain fever and stubborn sores, a daughter with a leg infection, and a third case of internal trouble cured after taking S S S. The piece asserts the remedy goes to the disease origin, cures permanently, and contains only vegetable ingredients with no minerals.
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Swift
Richard
Clement J
R. J. McKinney
Dicey
Parker Co
Texas
Swift Specific Co
Atlanta
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DR. Senn
Boynton
Chicago
First
Ilinois Cavalry
Fort Sheridan
Daniel Healy
Wyman
Marine Hospital
Key West
Galveston
Fort Point
San Francisco
Joseph Matthews
Presidio
Camp Merriam
Havana Province
Spain
Taylor, Tex
Constable Gamble
Austin Heavy
Puck
Tom P. Morgan
Miss Daisy
Pyramid
Egypt
Great
Napoleon
Mr. Wigsby
Miss Bloomerine
Ree
Texan
Schilling
R. M. Wilson
Tre Kandy
Lowney
of Brazos
Madison
Grimes
Robertson
Burleson
Amy
Frank W. McConnico
Equitable Life Assurance Society of
Pacific Mutual Life
Am. Union Life
Fidelity and Casualty of
Bryan
A. D. Caccooonn Tco
A.P. Franklin & Son
Academy of Music and Next
John Mike’s
Tyler Haswell
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