Gossip From China on Loot, Missions, and Boers
New Yorker J Martin Miller reports from England via Ceylon detailing loot sales in Pekin’s Boxers palace. He cites Dr Ament handling proceeds against mission property claims and a Shanghai American buyer of loot. He recounts Li Hongzhang’s stance, and notes Am ericans among Boer prisoners in Ceylon with mixed attitudes toward the war.
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New York
J. Martin Miller
England
China
Ceylon
Boxers’ Palace
Dr. Ament
Pekin
Shanghai
Li Hung Chang
Russia
Manchuria
South Africa
Convicts Consider Road Work Expansion in State
A bill in the lower house would allow county commissioners courts to hire short term convicts for road and highway labor. Short term convicts are those with four years or less to serve. The measure aims to provide labor for roads while reducing state jail costs and expanding maintenance. North Carolina uses inside penitentiaries for long term convicts and supplies material to counties at nominal cost.
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North Carolina
Convict Labor Seen Boosting Public Highways
The San Antonio Express argues that short term convict labor on public roads would improve road quality at low cost, provide healthy work for convicts, and support the county’s goal of better highways, supplementing scarce free-labor effort and county funding.
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San Antonio Express
Southern cotton mills spark northern ties across the South
A Cincinnati delegation toured the South visiting Knoxville Asheville Gaffney Gastonia Charlotte Columbia Savannah Aiken Augusta Macon Columbus Birmingham Mobile Atlanta Chattanooga. Local mill owners funded early mills, building a strong regional industry amid postwar recovery and northern markets.
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Texas
Red Hills
Georgia
Alabama
Carolinas
Knoxville
Tenn
Asheville
Gaffney
Gastonia
Charlotte
N. C
Columbia
8. C
Savanah, Ga
Aiken
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Augusta
Macon
Columbus
Birmingham
Mobile
Ala
Atlanta
Chattanooga
The
Cincinnati Enquirer
Southern
Cincinnati
D. A. Tompkins
Seni
Cotton mills transform Texas into manufacturing hub
The article tracks the growth of southern mills driven by cheaper labor and new machinery, led by Texas expansion. It notes investment by Goulds in Gastonia and Columbia, New England capital in Augusta and Columbus, and New York fertilizing plants in the south. By 1925 Texas aims to lead U.S. cotton manufacture as the factory moves to the field.
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Sunta
New England
Goulds
Gastonia
New York
Columbia
Boston
Augusta
Columbus
Duck Trust
Philadelphia
Gaffney
Red
Texas
Waco Times-Herald
Ambition of Aspiring Artist Ends in Humble Wipeout
A Bingley youth praised by indulgent friends pursues art and is delighted to see his work in a London dealer window. He asks for its price and recoils at three shillings, learning the frame is included. The tale pivots to a discussion of heredity, facial development, and nasal anatomy, noting how chronic nasal issues affect health and appearance, and ends with a brief survey of European rulers and their incomes.
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Bingley
Strand
London
Scott
Facial Changes Linked to Dyspepsia Claims Stir Odontological Debate
A writer in the London Lancet notes persistent claims that mouth breathing shapes facial structure including high palate and prominent nose. At a meeting of the Odontological Society the topic sparked strong criticism with officials arguing heredity explains the observations and little more can be said.
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Odontological Society
London Lancet
Eame
How The World Is Ruled
There is now only one woman ruler in the world Queen Wilhelmina of Hellind represents the dex as it is scoplered. This is one way the world’s power is apportioned: Twenty two presidents Sixteen kings Eleven dukes.
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England
India
Willian
Germany
Sidi Ali Pacha
Bey
Tunis
Alfonso
Spain
Holland
Ropean
Poent
Turkey
Edward
Bavaria
Oucen Wilhelmina
Hellind
Dex
Dropped Lincoln Blood Relic Acquired by State Society
The Kansas State Historical Society received a fragment of a theater program bearing drops of President Lincoln's blood from T. D. Bancroft of Ottawa Kansas. Bancroft witnessed the assassination on April 14 1865 and preserved the relic in a dark place. The report also notes London cabmen aged 60 and older and a speech by the Earl of Crewe at a Cab Drivers Benevolent Association dinner.
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Sas State Historical Society
Lincoln
Topeka Journal
The
Historical Society
T. D. Bancroft
Kantes Oth Kan
Bancroft
Preside
London
Earl of Crewe
Benevolent Association
Épent
Age in Which We Live and the Mulh Genre
A columnist asserts men are stuck up and that the era is defined by such attitudes. The piece critiques gendered behavior and reflects a Chicago Daily News tone of social commentary.
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Chicago Daily News
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Bradd Pesmlator CO
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Milam Hospital
Cameron
K. N. Shaw
W. W. Greer
Ferguson
M. D
E. &. Ferguson
W. L. Luther
J. W Coleman
John Houston
Jonn T. Coleman
Kinga
Emperors
Kaneag
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