Chinese immigration pretexts and national character debate
Bryan's Commoner argues that Chinese exclusion is driven by labor protection fears and urges maintaining a homogeneous American nation. It decries universal brotherhood as a misreading of the term and stresses family as a national unit, warning that admitting Chinese would provoke friction and undermine national character and global influence.
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China
Pacific Coast
Oriente
Universal Brotherhood
United States
Indian Chief Urges War Prep For Crazy Snake Band
An Indian Territory report from Old Hickory near Muscogee notes Chito Harjo Crazy Snake and his small band have gathered again. He recently talked with the President in Washington who said the territory may become a state, prompting orders to assemble and follow the Old Warrior’s counsel to refuse government demands.
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Muscogee
Suit Against McCurdy for 4.5 Million Damages
The Mutual Life Insurance Company pursues a $4,524,120 suit against former president Richard A. McCurdy, his son Robert H McCurdy, Louis A. Thebaud, and Chas H Raywood. Summonses served. defendants enter appearance. Pending actions include accounting claims and recovery of premiums routed through Raymond & Co, with commissions under scrutiny. McCurdy salary increase from 100,000 to 150,000 and related campaign contributions cited. $90,000 to Republican Committee, $2,500 to Congressional Committee, plus New York state campaign contributions. Senator Platt reportedly received $10,000 yearly from the Mutual Life.
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New York
The
Mutual Life Insurance Company
Richard A. McCurdy
Tis Son
Robert H McCurdy
Louis A. the ‘Baud
Chas. H Raywood
Mutual Metropolitan Agency
Mutual Life
Joseph H. Choate
Dallen Davies
Raymond &c
Raymond & Co
Robert H. McCurdy
Mo ‘Curdy
McCurdy
Armatrong Investigating Committee
Republican National Committee
Republican Congressional Committee
New York State Campaign Committee
Platt
Beautifying the Town From Harper's Bazar
The article outlines a simple town improvement structure with a president secretary and treasurer and flexible committees. It urges engaging town officials teachers and youth, small dues or work promises, and emphasizes sanitation through water sewer drainage cleanup ash piles and regulated refuse. It calls for neat green rubbish boxes and hedges to hide facilities away from central areas.
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Harper's Bazar
Citizens Ticket at Sedalia Election Plan
Citizens expect Sedalia to field an eliction ticket in April pending unforeseen events. The plan mirrors prior efforts that have worked, with organizers aiming to mobilize voters and present a coordinated slate for local offices.
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Artees Sedalis
Eltiaens
Endorsed Digest of Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery
Leading medical writers and teachers endorse Pierce's Golden Medical Discovery for digestive and liver disorders including weak stomach dyspepsia catarrhal stomach liver complaint torpid liver biliousness chronic bowel affections and related conditions. The preparation is claimed to cure lingering catarrhal affections bronchial and gastric issues with severe coughs and to be free of poison or dangerous ingredients, asserting safe, concentrated glycine extract roots as its basis.
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Pierce
John
Hahnemann Med
Golden Medical
Cromaital
Aviv
Satan Worship in Paris and Europe Revealed
A writer details rumored occult practices in Europe, noting Luciferian rites in Bruges Paris and Montmartre. He names chapels, rituals, and supposed high‑level adherents, calling the attempt to revive Fallen Archangel worship a striking sign of modern occultism.
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Vance Thompson
Bruges
Lucifer
Pantheon
Paris
Pandemon
Rue du Ruisseau
Cathedral of the Sacred Heart
Montmartre
Satan
Belzebub
Archangel
Initiation Ritual For Republican Office Visitors
A fragment describes a ritual at a Republican office where visitors are welcomed with courtesy and flowers. It instructs advancing to the inner door, reporting three incidents, and providing name address and years owed, then addressing the editor with a counter sign and extending a hand to receive a $10 bill.
Gen Grosvenor Loses Nomination on First Ballot
Alber Douglas won the Republican nomination for Congress over Gen. Grosvenor on the first ballot by 78 to 20 at Lancaster Ohio on February 26. Douglas, 53, a Chillicothe lawyer, Kenyon College and Harvard Law School alumnus, was electoral elector at large and Ohio electoral college president in 1896, and had led Roes county politics for years. Grosvenor served in Congress for twenty years.
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Lancaster
Alber Douglas
Congress
Gen. Groevenor
Gen. Grosa
Chillicothe
Kenyon College
Harvard Law School
Ohio Electoral College
Roes County
Grosvenor
Bush Soldiers Toward China Mobilizes Troops for Philippines
New York reports twelve infantry companies will sail from San Francisco aboard the Logan on March 5 bound for the Philippines. Four from New York, two from Fort Ocean, four from Fort Niagara, and two from Columbus, Ohio, depart via Governor's Island and travel by rail. The move aims to back a potential suppression action amid rising anti foreign sentiment in China. The four New York units are from the Eighth Infantry.
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New York
San Francisco
Philippines
Logan
Fort Oceon
Columbus
Fort Niagara
China
United States
Eighth United States Infantry
Governor's Island
New Orleans
Daughter Weds Mother Ends Life in Tragic Note
A Decatur, Illinois dispatch reports Mrs. Peter Hobson of Lawton, Oklahoma, drowned herself in the river Monday night after learning her daughter, who was to marry a man she disliked, wed. A note left behind said she would be found under the bridge. Her body was recovered.
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Lawton
O. T
Decatur, Ll
Peter Hobson
Railroads and Standard Oil Inquiry Heads to Kansas City
The Interstate Commerce Commission will launch a sweeping investigation in Kansas City next month into railroad controls by Standard Oil and the use of those railroads to crush independent oil producers.
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Interstate Commerce Commission
Kansas City
Kansas
Standard Oil Company
Ex-outlaw Frank James Returns Home to Missouri
Frank James and his wife, after a winter near Fletcher Oklahoma Territory, left for Kearney Missouri. James said he plans to visit Okishona village next winter. his health is frail and North Missouri weather disagrees with him.
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O. T
Frank James
Fletcher, O. T
Kearney
James
Okishon
Missouri
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Sayer
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South Side Square
Butler, MO
Cryer
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