Manila affairs grow worse as insurgents defiant
Reports from Manila describe worsening conditions with Aguinaldo acting as dictator and large forces needed to defeat him. General Wesley Merritt has arrived. transports are due in four days. Starvation affects Spaniards and foreigners while insurgents gain strength and Americans face idle forces amid calls for intervention.
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Hong Kong
Spain
Caroline Is
Ladrone Islands
Philippines
Adel
Wesley Merritt
Aguinaldo Assumes Bold Attitude Defies Forces
Admiral Dewey reports Aguinaldo has taken a bold stance in the insurgent situation and asserts it would require a large foreign force to subdue his followers. The dispatch from Washington notes the defiant posture and the scale of force needed.
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Washington
Dewey
Inaldo
Merritt Reaches Philippines Amid War Dispatches
A Washington telegraph reports Major General Merritt has arrived in the Philippines with transports four days behind his command. Adjutant General and Admiral Dewey send confirmation of Merritt's arrival and health being good, as rest of fleet trails. Separate dispatches note casualties and disease statistics from Santiago and a local enlistment notice for the Dodge City band.
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Washington
Hong Kong
United States Army
Cavite
Merritt
Dewey
Santiago
Dodge
Ty-Fourth Infantry
Maria
Guantanamo
War Department
Michael McGoldricks
First Infantry
Shapter
Corbin
Shafter
Segruranca
Knickerbocker
Saratog
Irquois
Tampa
Miami
Mattewan
Coppinger
Porto Rico
Merchants in Santiago fret over American troop withdrawal
Reports from Santiago indicate local merchants fear loss of order if U S forces leave. General Shafter seeks authorization to assure continued presence. Immune regiments will remain to guard the city while a request for bonded warehouses grows.
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Santiago
General Shafter
Corbin
United States
Gen. Shafter
Shafter
Alabama
Mississippi
Ward Line
Philadelphia
New York
Don Aldeon
Porto Rico
Curious Ending to a Woman's Life in Secluded Town
A letter describes a widow who lived with her spinster daughter in isolation, guarded by a dog, and attended only by local tradesmen at her funeral. The pallbearers were the butcher, baker, grocer, and coal dealer, and the piece wonders how Balzac would have treated such a tale.
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Bagehot
Gaster
Balzac
The Gentlemanly Highwayman and the Bicycle Tire Swap
A pedestrian is confronted by a polite footpad in a dim street. The rogue tries a hold up but focuses on selling a bicycle tire. The victim reveals $9 and a plan to buy a Fladger & Skimmerhorn tire while noting the highwayman wears a Fladger & Skimmerhorn button and has $67.50 elsewhere.
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Scott
Preparing for the Worst and Other Quips
A collage of wry quips and aphorisms from old newspapers including remarks on fighting Spain and a king’s odd musings. It also recalls a Wichita counterfeit dollar tale and witty exchanges about honesty, wealth, and talkers.
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Wichita
Kan
Dawson
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