American Troops Surround Mant Make A Final Push On City
A dated dispatch from Cavite via Hong Kong reports the First California Volunteers nearing Manila, two miles from siege lines. The Tenth Pennsylvania artillery stands at Malabon while Parangue batteries prepare, with Major General Green coordinating forces.
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New York
Cavite
Hong Kong
California
Jando
Manila
Anila
Lorado
Utah
Parangue
Ips
Pennsylvania T
Artilery
Malabon
Francis Y. Green
Seventy-first of
Anderson Rein
Censured Cervera and Toral in Spanish papers report
Madrid reports the government ordered the censor to bar declarations by generals and officials The World notes generals Weyler Palavieja La Climbre Lopez Dominguez and Carellet banned for criticizing Cervera and Toral The dispatch mentions Santiago de Cuba and naval actions near Nipe Bay Key West hails US gunboats silencing forts Samp son reports heavy Spanish losses with no American casualties Independence rumors and martial law in Hong Kong cited by General Anderson report
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New York
Madrid
Weyler
Palavieja
la Climbre
Lopez
Dominguez
Carelett
Cervera
Tonis
Santiago
Key West
United States
Topeka
Annapolis
Wasp
Leyden
Nipe Bay
Province of
Juan Jorge
Sampson
Brooklyn Leads Warships In Battle Against Spanish Squadron
Reports based on examining ship hull damage show the Brooklyn fired the most 8 inch shells and landed 20 hits in the Vizcaya Oquendo and other vessels. Iowa and Oregon followed with fewer 8 inch hits. Indicated shell counts illustrate each ship's role in the engagement near Santiago de Cuba.
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Santiago de Cuba
Cervera
Espirit du
Iowa
Infanta Maria Teresa
Almirante Oquendo
Vizcaya
Brooklyn
Infante Maria Teresa
Almirate Oquendo
Cristobal Colon
Oregon
Indiana
Tresa
Oquendo
Teresa
Texas
Schley
Will Attempt to Annul the Contract With Spain
A New York lawyer hired by steamship companies that lost bids to move 22 000 Spanish prisoners from Santiago to Spain will seek to have the contract with Compagnie Transatlantique Espanola set aside. The claim: the successful bidder is a licensed foreign corp potentially at war with the U S and that half the receipts would go to Spain under a wartime measure.
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New York
Santiago
Spain
Compagnie Transatlantique Espanola
Beach Hotel Destroyed by Fire at Galveston
Fire swept the Beach Hotel in Galveston around 4 30 this morning destroying the 183 cost structure insured for 825000. The hotel, built in 1883 and once the finest in the South, had been foreclosed for taxes and purchased by W W Hughes of Dallas. An insurance filing of 25000 had been placed yesterday. Police investigate possible incendiary cause as officers work on the case.
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Galveston
Beach
Ww. E. Hughes
Dallas
Rand
Aphasia Confuses Townfolk In Salt Lake Visit
Hardy Graddles returns from Salt Lake City claiming to have witnessed aphasia a disorder that makes a person forget how to talk He uses a $10 note demonstration to illustrate the problem and stumbles through explanations while friends grope for their money The tale ends with a weary farewell and a sharp jab at science from Red Pete Ruble.
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Hardy Graddles
Teton Basin
Salt Lake
Tabernacle
Dooley Building
Si Redee
Hardy
Redee
Watts
Red Pete Ruble
Pete
Ruble
Intensely Practical and Humorous Exchanges Collage
A collage of snippets shows playful dialogue and social satire. Humorous captions from newspapers feature a country sweetheart joke about cows, a brisk commentary on verse writing, and a punchy exchange between an employment agent and domestic chatter.
White Heather Legend and Whimsical Daily Bits
A column blends folklore on white heather and luck with a narrated street scene of a silver haired woman giving a boy a red apple from her pocket while riding a bicycle. It mentions wheel related gear, a hospital joke, and notes on golf stockings for wheelwomen.
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Upper Nineteenth Street
Washington Star
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Steamship Companies
Tampa
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Boston
Roxbury
Draper
McKinney
Tex
Ellis County
Well Digger
Big Sandy
Fred Wright
New Haven
James H. Donly
New Hapost
Fers
Ans
Donnelly
Irs
Paris
Leveland
Walker Fufacturing Company
Charleston
Danta
Son of the United Confederate
S.C
Southlina City
Louisville
Harry Downtown
Miss Milkyweigh
New York Weekly
Dalby
Wilby
Chicago
Beatrice
Highlanders of
Balmoral
Osborne House
Hone
Canterbury
Scotland
Burns
Hiumor
Ruth McEnerey Stewart
Fleischmans
R. M. Wilson
Kandy
Crear
Lowney
of Brazos
Madison
Grimes
Robertson
Burleson Counties
Amy
Frank W. McConnico
Equitable Life Assurance Society of
Pacific Mutual Life
Am. Union Life
Fidelity and Casualty of
Bryan
A.D. McConnico
W.P. Franklin & Son, i
Academy of Music and Next
John Mike’s
Tyler Haswell
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