News of the Week Update on Public Health and Commemorative Stamp
In Washington a conference between Assistant Secretary Taylor and marine hospital service officials led to sending two more surgeons from San Francisco to Seattle and Cape Nome to fight the smallpox outbreak. The post office announces commemorative stamps for the Buffalo Pan American Exposition replacing the earlier series name. The Census Bureau reports District of Columbia population at 278,718, up 45,326 from the prior census, a 20. US percent increase.
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Washington
Taylor
Marine Hospital Service
San Francisco
Seattle
Cape Nome
Post Office Department
District ‘of Columbia
Maine Democrat Nominates S. L. Bards for Governor
The Maine Democratic state convention nominated S. L. Bards of Bates for governor and endorsed the Kansas City platform. News from Pittston Pa reports a mine explosion injuring four, including miner John P. Perternish, after disobedience in an abandoned shaft. Judge Colt in Boston appoints a receiver for the Maine Real Estate Co. and a Massachusetts address is listed. The Hamburg America steamer Deutschland sets a record Atlantic crossing in five days 15 hours 46 minutes. Steel producers seek price controls with pig iron makers. Adams Yorkes Baking Co. files deed of assignment liabilities 56 091 assets 110 201. Newark banks face turmoil as Dime Savings closes. theft charges filed against bank official Charles Westervelt. Somerville Mass. oil tank explosion injures nearly 100 and kills two. Fire at Sewickley Pa. destroys coal and ice stores. animals killed. National business failures for week ending July 1 total 196 in U S and 26 in Canada. New York clearing house shows cash hoarding rise. Fall River mills shut down to curb production. Widows and orphans of Hoboken dock fire victims to receive added pensions. A new New York parcel delivery firm forms for fast freight. Window Glass Cutters reach last year’s scale with minor changes affecting about 2,000 workers.
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S. L. Bards
Bate
Kansas City
John P. Perternish
Coxey
Newtown Coal Co
Pittston
Anyl
Massachusetts Real Estate Co
Colt
United States Circuit Court
Boston
Renal
Iowa
Minnesota
Massachusetts
Deutschland
Ney York
Hamburg
Cherbourg
Plymouth
Atlantic
United States
Bessemer
Adams Yorkes Baking Co
Newark
N. J
Dime Savings Bank
Charles Westervelt
Somerville
Mass
Sewickley
Sammel Woods
Canada
New York Clearing House
Fall River
North German
Liovd Co
Regent Dock
Hoboken
New York
Ity
Br Express
Window Glass Cutters’ League
American Window Glass (0
Pittsburg
Camps at Presidio reorganized for five thousand men
In the west and south, the Presidio camps near San Francisco are to be ordered for 5000 men. Last year's fixtures remain, enabling quick preparations. Repairs have progressed rapidly, with 3000 men already accommodated. A discovery on Hawaii Island reveals vast subterranean water streams 1500 to 2000 feet below sea level.
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Presidio
San Francisco
Hawaii
Fragmented 19th Century News Patch Remains Unclear
A garbled OCR teases multiple 19th century items including labor union canvassing in St Louis for funds, prohibition era drys in the South, Chinese quarantines in San Francisco, a Delaware Lackawanna wreck with deaths and injuries, a Fresno fire over 20 square miles, a judge ruling on underage debt repudiation, a Minnesota baking powder case upheld, and a Kansas strike imprisonment reversed by habeas corpus.
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Ita
San Francisco
Delaware, Lackawanna , & Wester
Wildcat
Paradise Valley
Sinte
Fresno River
California
United States
Supreme
Minnesota
Mhayer
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John F. Reese
Kansas
Paris Exposition Salaries Cut and Global Conflicts Rise
United States commissioner general to Paris exposition, Ford W. Peck, orders large salary reductions by August 1, affecting most staff. In other reports colonial revolts see Popayan captured and nearby towns seized. Filipino mutineers include a former Aguinaldo lieutenant. Cebu and Tu muco affected. Heavy rains flood cities in Chili. Caucasus earthquakes kill six, injure nine, destroy villages and churches.
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Paris
Ford W. Peck
United States
Popayan
Department
Ciued
Tumuco
Perth
War's End Looms Overseas Migration and Naval Mobilizations
News briefs report 10000 Boers naturalizing in Transvaal preparing to emigrate to the United States after the war. Irish-Americans organize the movement while Gen Heywood plans a second marine battalion for the Far East. Also, Rev Henry B Smith is ordained, becoming the first Cherokee priest in the Episcopal church. Hurry orders fill at Midvale steel for ships’ shells. Frankford arsenal to deliver 27,000,000 cartridges. A Suburban Co wagon collision injures 12 excursionists near St Louis. one dead, firemen injured in a Brooklyn blaze destroying a stable, small factory, and a home. Navy plan provides harbor protection. L H Bailey & Co announced for brokerage amid exchange expulsion. Philippine silver money fuels counterfeiting in Manila. Mexican dollars and brown $5 notes imitated. Tornado at Peoria devastates area near Dallas, killing Mrs Nelson and two children. churches and homes destroyed.
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South Africa
Transvaal
United States
Heywood
Marine Corps
Far East
San Francisco
Henry B. Smith
St. Paul's Church
Ardmore
I. T
Brooklyn
N. Y
Navy Department
L. H. Bailey & Co
New York City
L .H. Bailey
Consolidated Stock Exchange
Philippines
Manila
Peoria
Dallas
Tex
John Nelsom
Tye
McKinley Nominated at Canton Unity Rally Anew
The Canton crowd greeted William McKinley as he received a second nomination by the Republican National Convention. Senator Lodge delivered the nominating speech praising his war leadership, and McKinley answered with a broad defense of his foreign policy and the Philippines, China, and open markets. The event drew a host of prominent figures including Hanna, Bliss, Payne, and Smith, with Mrs. McKinley in attendance and Fairbanks declaring Ohio and national support for a second term.
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Oyu pArgic
Senator Lodge
Senator Hanna
Smith
Cornelius S. Bliss
Henry C. Payne
Edge_ Day
R. C. Kerens
Representative Taylor
McKinley
Barber
Mary Saxton
Judge Day
Charles Aives
Union
United States
Republicanational
Philadelphia
Republican Party
Perrol
Washington
Lincoln
Lodge
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Stague
Europe
Samoa
Pacific Ocean
China
Congress
Far East
Party of Liberty and Emancipation
Party of Lincoln
Hanna
Col. Grant
Senator Fairbanks
Indiana
Fairbanks
Ohio
Charles Emory Smith
Kansas City
Roosevelt Notified for Vice Presidential Nomination
Gov Roosevelt learns he has been named the Republican vice presidential candidate. The notification party traveled from Philadelphia by special train to Sagamore Hill Oyster Bay where Roosevelt thanked supporters and pledged to work for McKinley’s reelection while expressing mixed feelings about leaving New York politics.
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Gov. Roosevelt
Sagamore
Philadelphia
New York
Senator Wolcott
Ned
Watcott
National Committee
Gold All Gone At Nome Cape Prompts Famine Warnings
An Alaska mining report from Cape Nome describes brutal costs and scarcity as thousands face starvation with high prices for food and fuel. Sailors and miners report little gold left on beaches, frozen creeks, and widespread destitution. an estimated 1,500 men work across Anvil Glacier Snow and Dexter creeks, with many more arriving weekly.
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Secretary of the Treasury
G. Rudolph
Broadway
Brooklyn
Cape Nome
Alaska
Rudolph
Nome
Klondike
Anvil
Anvil Creek
Glacier
Dexter Creeks
San Blas
St Michaels
Aberdeen
St. Michaels
San Tlas
Explosion Kills Child in Williamsburg Residence
Unidentified assailants planted dynamite at a Williamsburg Ohio home of Henry Wilson. The blast wrecked a room above the site, killing ten year old William Wilson and injuring Miss Kate Tucker. Other occupants escaped unharmed.
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Williamsburg
Henry Wilson
William Wilson
Kate Tucker
Museum Robbery Hits Milwaukee Public Library Relic Coins
Officials report a large collection of rare coins stolen from the Milwaukee public museum in the new public library building. Value estimated between $5,000 and $10,000. No clues to the culprits at this time.
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Milwaukee
Milwaukee Public Museum
New Public Ivrary Building
Chicago Manufacturers Consolidate Sash and Door Company
Chicago cash door and blind makers unify into the American Sash and Door Co. incorporated in New Jersey with an authorized capital of 6 million dollars.
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Chicago
The
American Sash and Door Co
New Jersey
Garland chain works fire destroys Rankin plant
Pittsburg July 14 The Garland chain works at Rankin Pa were destroyed by fire Friday Loss estimated at 100000 The fire followed an explosion of a tank of chemicals No injuries reported
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Pittsburg
Garland Chain
Rankin
New Surgical Fix For Broken Necks Described By Old Teller
An old Cleveland Plain Dealer tale describes a dramatic medical repair for a broken neck. The method includes aligning spinal ends, using adhesives, zinc rods, rivets, and a bootjack to stabilize the head until glue sets, with a final claim the patient will be sound again. Also recounted is a traveler’s quip about Paris pin prices, illustrating American caution abroad.
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Cleveland Plain Dealer
John Bowman
Josh Bowman
Cake Walk Documented by Archaeologist Figure
An archaeologist from the distant future explains that these pictures depict the cake walk of the ancients. He notes the dance moves were designed to aid the digestion of sake, reflecting a cultural practice described in the Detroit Journal.
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Detroit Journal
Campaign chatter and grim reports in Detroit journalism
A Detroit Journal fragment quotes a candidate fearing damaging reports in circulation while the campaign chairman dismisses money concerns. The piece pivots to a baffling natural mystery about a pie that melts in the mouth yet feels solid like a brick in the stomach.
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Detroit Journal
Peruna Cited as Cure for Summer Catarrh by Mary J Kennedy
Mary J Kennedy of Armour & Co describes Peruna restoring her digestion after eight years of travel disrupted by stomach catarrh. She credits three months of Peruna use with feeling revitalized and permanently cured. The company claims summer catarrh stems from chronic catarrh, stomach and liver derangements, and impure blood, with Peruna eradicating causes and symptoms. Summer Catarrh free to any address by The Peruna Medicine Co.
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Mary J. Kennedy
Armour & Co
Omaha
Neb
Miss Kennedy
Peruna
Peruna Medicine Co
Columbus
Ohio
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