Random Notes From Around The World And Nation
Dr Parkhurst travels to Paris seeking chatter and material while Corunna Spain claims the oldest lighthouse dating to Trajan. The Paris exposition showcases America’s corn kitchen with hopes Parisians will “acknowledge the corn.” London plans electric underground motors to curb smoke. Massachusetts Supreme Court bars Sunday cigar sales by druggists after a long dispute with retailers. The U S Industrial Commission reports on national and state labor laws urging uniform standards though cautions on extending northern statutes for political ends.
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Supreme Court of Massachusetts
Boston
United States Industrial Commission
Boundary Marks Propose Final Fix On Mexican Frontier
More than fifty years after the Mexican War, the boundary between the United States and Mexico is being finalized. Early surveys from 1849 to 1856 used few permanent monuments. The 1891 boundary commission re surveyed the western frontier and installed hollow iron posts filled with concrete. Completion on the Rio Grande is expected to end disputes over the frontier.
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Rio Grande
International Boundary Commission
Grand Army bill expands widow pension eligibility
The Grand Army pension measure raises the widow income limit from 90 to 250 dollars per year and aims to broaden pension coverage. Pensions to widows tend to last longer, and strong demand grows from Spanish and Philippine War veterans, with potential 25,000 new claims.
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Philippines
Plague telegrams show spreading outbreak worldwide
Reports from Mauritius Bombay Calcutta Port Said Teheran Manila Hongkong Melbourne Sydney Nouméa Brisbane Perth Auckland and Buenos Aires detail deaths and new cases as rats plague cities. Amid this, Dr Rudolf Philippi of Santiago de Chile nears his 70th degree from Berlin and 92 years old, noted as botany professor and museum director.
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London
Mauritius
Bombay
Calcutta
Port Said
Teheran
Persia
Manila
Hongkong
Melbourne
Sidney
Noume
New Caledonia
Brisbane
Perth
Auckland
Buenos
Rudolf Amandus Philippi
Santiago de Chile
Berlin University
Philippi
Santiago University
Natural History Museum
Alexander von Humboldt
Ambassadors and mules mark early 20th century notes
A social analogy contrasts appearance with reality among elites. The Sultan of Turkey long relied on Christian envoys in Western capitals, with a Christian ambassador in London serving 44 years. Today a Greek Christian heads London, with Christians in Brussels and The Hague. Meanwhile 3000 mules sailed from New Orleans for South Africa as American forces in the Transvaal grow.
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Turkey
London
Brussels
The
Hague
New Orleans
South Africa
Transvaal
Congress adjourns after brief session outlines key laws
The Fifty sixth Congress adjourned after a short session, enacting a broad financial reform, an Alaska civil code, and Hawaiian and Puerto Rican government acts. It also advanced a Nicaragua canal bill and a Hawaii cable project while debating army reorganization and shipping subsidies. The Senate resolved contest cases including Quay and Clark, and investigated Utah’s Beerts.
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Congress
Alaska
Hawaiian Islands
Puerto Rico
Hawaii
Carlisle
Klondike
United States
House
Senate
Nicaragua
Neely
Quay
Pennsylvania
Clark
Montana
Beerts
Utah
Free Homes Act and peacemaking in the Fifty sixth Congress
The article reviews the Fifty sixth Congress praising its legislative output including the Free Homes Act allowing settlers to claim remaining public lands as homesteads with minimal fees. It commends measures restoring order, notes partisan obstruction by Democrats, and suggests the Republicans will campaign on these records in the next election.
The Philippines plank in the Republican platform
The piece argues Republicans should affirm the Philippines policy without apology, saying actions were driven by necessity. Dewey’s Manila voyage, troop deployment, and suppression of insurrection are framed as essential to protect the nation, honor obligations, and maintain faith abroad. It urges a platform pledge to uphold national interests and self government where possible.
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Philippines
Dewey
Manila
Pacific
Indian
Spain
Republican Party
Fire destroys Fort Wingate post exchange and canteen
Fire at Fort Wingate on the 6th wiped out the post exchange buildings and canteen. Soldiers from the Ninth Cavalry saved a large quantity of provisions but a insufficient water supply allowed the blaze to consume the boi use. The blaze started from an oil stove explosion.
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Fort Wingate
Ninth Cavalry
A Queer Revenge In Denver Hotels and Halls
The piece recounts two rival schemes of vengeance tied to millionaires Stratton and Train. Stratton forces the Brown Palace hotel owner to sell to him after a parade of favors to a vaudeville star, while Citizen Train built a rival hotel in Omaha to “get even,” slashing prices and offering superior service to force competition. The tale links wealth, power, and retaliation in late frontier commerce.
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W. S. Stratton
Maxey Tabor
Denver
Mr. Stratton
Victor
Col
Stratton
Cripple Creek
H. A. W. Tabor
Colorado
Tabor Opera House
Brown Palace
Plains
Tabor
Omaha
George Francis Train
Citizen Train
Train
New York
Chicago
Swiftest Ocean Current Gulf Stream’s Speed and Heat
The Gulf Stream is the swiftest of twenty five major ocean currents, moving four and a half to five miles per hour. Its waters average 81 degrees Fahrenheit, remaining warm for 3,000 miles north to 40 degrees latitude and beyond. This warm current shapes climate, tempering European winters and warming adjacent seas and coasts. It was discovered in 1612 by Ponce de Leon.
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Ponce de Leon
Militeracy Levels in European Armies Reported
A 19th century examination shows Russia and Servia with 79 percent illiterates in their armies. Italy 45 percent literate, Hungary 80 percent, Sweden and Denmark zero literates. Britain 97 percent can read and write, 20 percent have a liberal education.
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Russia
Servia
Italy
Hungary
Sweden
Denmark
Great Britain
Durban A6 8 Winter Resort Wonders And Views
Durban is a winter resort with notable Sost residences offering ocean vistas. It features tropical trees and flowers that enhance the setting and hints at competition if Pugilist Corbett runs for Congress. Milwaukee Sentinel
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Durban
Corbett
Congress
Milwaukee Sentinel
The Elk Creek Hermit’s Treasure Legend Ends in Denver
A Colorado tale closes with Anton Glasmann, the Elk Creek hermit famed for the lost treasure legend, dying in a Denver notary office after revealing nothing of the treasure. The confederate treasure, once sought by Jim and John Reynolds, remains buried as Glasmann dies without disclosing its location.
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Denver
Colorado
Elk Creek
Anton Glasmann
Rockies
Jim
John Reynolds
Texas
New Mexico
Chivington
Glasmann
Pine Grove
Notary
Fasting Cure Ends in Tragic Death for Mrs Meyer
A Philadelphia woman, Mrs Hermina Meyer, died after 35 days of absolute fasting under a fasting cult advocate. Once food was tasted on day 35 she quickly weakened, and three weeks after breaking the fast she died. Her physician attributed death to starvation, while the promoter cited heart disease.
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Hermina Meyer
Philadelphia
River powers Los Angeles from Santa Ana stream
Scientific American notes the Santa Ana river from the San Bernardino mountains now supplies electricity to Los Angeles about eighty two miles away. Nine thousand horsepower powers machinery street cars and city buildings while also lighting nearby towns. After power generation the water is diverted for further use downstream.
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Scientific American
Santa Ana
California
San Bernardino Mountains
Los Angeles
Strange tale of maternal love and rural malediction
A baby girl born in a woods near Wyoming Pennsylvania is found alive after days in a soap box. Jennie Lamereux, a sixteen year old girl, allegedly gave birth there and nursed the child by night while hiding from her parents. The mother and baby are in the care of United Charities and expected to live.
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Wyoming
William Jones
Jennie Lameroux
Bertela
United Charities of
Why Wells Create Trouble in India
The water-well issue in Indian communities is shaped by two castes the purer Hindus and the Gonds on one side and the weavers on the other. Weavers may not draw from Hindu wells nor drink from Hindu hands or veils. Communities must dig two wells or assign Hindu water bearers to supply the lower villagers.
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India
Father of 41 children recorded in old French family tale
Levi Bresson an elderly French man of North Foater R L celebrated the birth of his forty first child a son of ten pounds born to his third wife who has fourteen children with him His first wife bore fifteen children and the second twelve Thirty two of the children survive Bresson once kept all grandchildren names but quit when the list topped a hundred.
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Vron van der Laag
Johanna
Krimpen
van der Laag
New York City
Adelaide
Martina Johanna
Paragoric
Mamma
Krimpin
Europe
Levi Bresson
North Foater
R. L
Bresson
Fatal shooting in Frankfort court house armory
Private Thomas Kane of Lexington was shot and killed by Private James Robertson in Frankfort Kentucky. Both men belonged to the Beckham militia and the shooting occurred on the court house second floor used as an armory. Robertson says the gun discharged accidentally.
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Court Houe
Thomas Kane
Lexington
James Robertson
Frankfort
Beckham
Court House
Robertson
Cigarette Making Dextery Boosts Worker Output
The text notes workers in cigarette manufacturing show great dexterity from long practice. Some produce 2,000 to 3,000 cigarettes daily and earn about 2½ dollars weekly under piecework at high rates per thousand.
Duke of Argyll longed for home in final hours
The late Duke of Argyle clung to Iverany in his last hours insisting he be taken home. Friends showed him the home from the window and he replied it was very like but begged to be brought home.
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Duke of Argyll
Duke of
Argyle
Iverany
Manila's Other Epidemic Vaudeville Drift 1899
Two American vaudeville companies have salted for Manila with a few kegs of salted coon songs and pickled jokes of the 1899 vintage. People who are very positive that they have a right to their opinions, deny the same right to others.
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Manila
Minneapolis Journal
Iceman and Sammy Discuss Ice on a Cold Day
Fragmentary dialogue blends with disparate notes about cottonseed oil production in Mexico, a plant near Du Tango to process oil, an advertisement for Allen's Foot-Ease, and a conversational line about choosing a flat that fits the Navajo site.
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Mexico
Juan Brittingham
du Tango
du- Trango
Allen
Olmsted
LeRoy
Clara
Clarence
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Eee
Ene
O'Parrgll
New York Avenue
D.C
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