Whales Stranded on Scottish Coast in Unusual Year
A shoal of 71 bottle nosed whales was driven ashore at Sand and captured in one day on the Shetland coast. It is the first whale appearance here in 44 years, though strandings occurred in earlier times. London is cited as the world’s largest city with a population equaling the combined totals of Paris Berlin St Petersburg and Rome.
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Shetlands
London
Paris
Berlin
St. Petersburg
Rome
San Francisco
Remembering the Aders on Clapman Common South Side
Early memory recalls adders once common on Clapman Common south side London where a warning sign was needed to keep children safe, now rare in England.
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England
Clapman Common
London
Nettles Cause Pain From Formic Acid and Similar Toxins
The pain from nettles is partly due to formic acid and partly to a chemical like snake venom. Some varieties in India, Java and other regions can cause pain lasting weeks or months, similar to snake bites.
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India
Java
Bullet in Laport near Fountainebleau Causes Suffering
Marrize Laport remains at Lemais near Fountainebleau with a bullet in his back causing great pain and preventing upright posture. Doctors plan to remove the bullet by first freeing it from the muscle, hoping a skin incision will suffice to extract it.
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Marrize Laport
Lemais
Fountainebleau
German Lebensversicherung Act 1889 Creates National Sickness and Old Age Insurance
In 1889 Germany passed a law requiring every resident with an income of 750 dollars or more to insure life against sickness and old age. By 1898 about 11.2 million people were insured, many suffering from pulmonary consumption, prompting 87 insurance companies to fund a sanatorium for their care.
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Germany
Child labor figures in Coburg-Gotha factory report
An official inspector’s report from Coburg-Gotha details child workers under 14 making buttons and toys at home. They labor between four and a quarter and six hours daily, earning from 15 to 16 of a cent up to 7 cents in buttons and from 2 cents to 14 cents in doll making.
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Coburg-Gotha
Pilgrims flock to Rome as Vatican plans unveil
The Vatican secretary of state reveals a program where at least 1,200,000 pilgrims will visit Rome, averaging 8,000 daily. Peter’s Pence may total 10 million dollars, while Italy spending is projected around 300 million.
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Vatican
Rome
Peter
Italy
Chinese minister in America cites American women clash
Tine Fane, the first Chinese minister to America able to converse in English, has begun paying the price for his knowledge. An interview reveals his opinion of American women, saying gentleness is not American quality and that he prefers the women of China to those in the United States.
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Wer Tine Fane
America
Law Proposed To Ban Buff Hunting Clothes
The Main legislature is urged to pass a law banning buff colored hunting attire to prevent mistaken deer shots. Officials cite frequent accidents where hunters are shot by companions who mistake them for deer, making ordinary hunting clothes a danger in northern woods.
Great Salt Lake Recedes as Irrigation Drains Persist
The Salt Lake area faces a shrinking lake due to irrigation withdrawals. The lake relies on Jordan and other rivers, not underground sources, so when streams are diverted for farming the water input drops and evaporation continues, potentially leaving a dry salt bed.
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Great Salt Lake
Jordan
Salt Lake
German Emperors’ Black Stone Talisman Royal Ring Legend
A legend describes a black stone handed from dying emperors to successors as a talisman. The stone allegedly fell from a huge toad onto a princess’s bed cover after a birth in the family. Frederick the Great’s father had the stone mounted as a ring and the present Kaiser wears it on major occasions, with archival documents referenced.
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Frederick the Great
Kaiser
Fire god dance as Japan endures rapid house fire
A vivid scene in Japan shows residents fleeing from spreading fires, moving between houses with calm urgency. A man atop a roof dances with a paper fire god to avert danger, only to see his house ignite and collapse, yet in three days the houses are rebuilt and fire traces removed.
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Japan
Two Big Battles Near Gras Pan Across Belmont Front
Reports from Gras Pan and Belmont describe heavy fighting as Gen Lord Bethuen’s forces clash with Boers. Early 6 am assault carried by naval brigade and mounted infantry, with 81 killed and 48 wounded among Boers and 20 buried. 50+ horses dead. British need rest and replenishment before further operations.
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Lanner
Satur A
Mounted Corps
Gras Pan
Belmont
Kimberley
Cape Town
Stormberg
Cape Colony
Strike Probable In Omanna Job Offices
The outlook Sunday night is excellent for a strike of union printers pressmen press feeders and bookbinders in job offices. The nine hour day goes into effect Monday and workers demand nine and a half hours pay. the ty pothetae refuses to grant.
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Omanna
Ned
Typothetae
Saloon Passenger Dies En Route to Mediterranean Ports
On the Hamburg American steamer Fuerst Bismarck arriving from New York November 18 and reaching Genoa and other Mediterranean ports, it was announced that George Clark died of heart disease.
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Grpratt
Fuerst Bismarck
New York
Genoa
Mediterranean
George Clark
Churchill Visits Model School After Wounding
Puetoria November 2 Through Transvaal authorities a press party including Mr P G Grobler and Mr De Souze was allowed to visit Winston Churchill at the Model school where he is confined with captured officers. He bears a slight bullet wound in the right hand and appears well though bored by enforced idleness.
Quiet Sunday in Kentucky as Goebel holds conference
Franxfort reports no major developments at Goebel headquarters while talks continue. A possible move this week includes a mandamus suit to block the state election board from counting Jefferson, Knox and Johnson counties’ votes. Court actions loom regarding certificates of election and party plans unfold in a tense political clash.
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Franxfort
Goebel
State Election Board
Jefferson
Knox
Johnson County
Bradley
Taylor
Court of Appeals
Nelson County
Ellis
Pryor
Frankfort
W. P. Taylor
W S. Taylor
Jones
W. S&s Taylor
Maj. Howards Remains Arrive in Omaha From San Francisco
The remains of Maj. Guy Howard son of Gen. GO Howard killed in the Philippines arrived in Omaha on Monday over the Union Pacific from San Francisco. Services were private. Maj. Howard was well known in Omaha having lived here during his father command of the department of the Platte. His marriage here was a prominent society event.
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Omaha
Neb
Guy Howard
GO. O. Howard
Philippines
Union Pacific
San Francisco
Howard
Department of the
Explosion Routs Farmington Undertaking Shop in Hartz County
Terrific blast in Farm erburg across the county line damages the W J Wood undertaker business, wrecking the building and shattering windows townwide. Police seek a detective to identify the unknown perpetrators, with heavy losses reported for the structure and contents.
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Terre Hartz
Ind
Farmerburg
W. J. Wood
Wood
Captain Edwin V. Holcombe Dies on St. Paul Street
Captain Edwin V. Holcombe, superintendent of dining and sleeping car service for the Great Northern, collapsed and died from heart disease on a St. Paul street Sunday. Born in Cincinnati in 1834, he was a noted figure in the Mississippi river service era as captain and pilot.
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St. Paul
Minn
Edwin V. Holcombe
Great Northern Railroad
Holcombe
Mississippi River Service
Cincinnati
American Fishing Schooner Fined in St. Louis
The American fishing schooner A. E. Why land, Capt. Peoples, loading herring in the Bay of Islands, was fined $100 for breaching colonial fishing regulations. Authorities say the rules are rigorously enforced this season to protect fisheries.
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St. Lonis
N. F
A. E. Whyland
Peoples
Bay of Islands
Electric Fan Makers to Organize
A series of meetings of electric fan manufacturers across the country at the Imperial hotel have resulted in plans to form a permanent organization called the American Association of Electrical Fan Manufacturers.
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New York
Imperial Hotel
American Association of Electrical Fan Manufacturers
Natal governor proclaims prize court for naval captures
Durfax November 27 Wil Keabusha Frise reports that Sir Walter Hely-Hutchins, governor of Natal and vice admiral, has proclaimed a prize court to handle prizes captured by British war ships.
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Wil Keabusha Frise
Durfax
Natal
Walter Hely-Hutchins
Vessel Overdue Near Nov 27 Report
The British steamer Boanaviagge, Captain Frazer, from Montreal bound for this port, is three days overdue as of November 27. It is feared the vessel suffered damage during the Regent gales in the Gulf of St. Lawrence.
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Jouns
N. F
Boanaviagge
Frazer
Montreal
Gulf of St. Lawrence
Funeral services for Vice President Hobart in Paterson
Reports detail Hobart's final illness and death on Tuesday at 8 30 am at his home. His interment is in Cedar Lawn Cemetery after a public church service at the Church of the Redeemer with President McKinley and cabinet in attendance. Washington mourns as officials attend Paterson ceremony and ships flags at half staff.
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Paterson
N. J
Hobart
David D. Magie
Supreme Court
Senate Police
Cedar Lawn
Church of the Redeemer
McKinley
Congress
Magie
Senate
Miss Hobart
Washmeton
Washington
Robbers Blast Kansas Bank Safe. Loot Totals $1,000
Robbers set off dynamite at Buurs City State Bank in Buurs City Kansas on Saturday night wrecking the safe and front end and fleeing with about $1,000 in gold plus silver and bills. It marks the eighth Kansas bank robbed by safe crackers in three weeks. Earlier, the State Bank of Clearwater Kansas lost $200 in cash and several notes when its safe was blown Friday night.
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Buurs City
Kan
State Bank
Kansas
State Bank of
Clearwater
Trinity River floods threaten Fort Worth area
The Trinity River's rapid rise to 30 feet endangers property and cattle. Reports from the north of Fort Worth indicate several families are isolated by high water with little chance of immediate rescue as the river continues to climb.
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Fort Worth
Tex
Trinity River
Death of Mrs Henrietta H McCormick in Chicago
Mrs Henrietta Hamilton McCormick widow of Leander J McCormick a founder of the McCormick reaper works died Sunday night at 77 from cerebral apoplexy. A pioneer Chicago resident wife of a business founder her death marks a notable local obituary.
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Henrietta H. McCormick
Cutcaco
Henrietta Hamilton McCormick
Chicago
Leander J. McCormick
McCormick Reaper Works
First Ta Lien Wan Line Train Reaches Port Arthur
The first train passed through from Ta Lien Wan on the New Chwang and Munkden railway and departed Friday for Port Arthur marking a milestone for the line.
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Ta Lien Wan
Chwang & Munkden
Port Arthur
Kentucky battleship speeds to 16 877 knots on trial
The Kentucky set a speed record on a government course from Cape Ann to Boone Island during a rough head sea and northeast wind. Officials expect a revised figure near 17 knots as tidal allowances are applied, beating her sister ship Kearsarge on the same run.
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Boston
Kentucky
Cape Ann
Boone Island
Kearsarge
Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Co
United States Naval Board of Inspection and Survey
Rr. Adm
Frederick E. Rogers
Robley D. Evans
Charles Roelker
Seaton Schroeder
A. Y. Zane
Orcutt
United States
Brave Bill Anthony dies after cocaine overdose in New York
William Anthony known as Brave Bill Anthony died at Presbyterian hospital after ingesting cocaine near a Central Park entrance. He had gained fame for reporting the Maine's explosion to Captain Sigsbee in 1898 and later received hero’s welcome and naval promotion before his decline. A note to his aunt and a photo of his newborn child were found among his belongings along with a Spanish American War medal.
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New York
William Anthony
Biill” Anthony
Presbyterian Hospital
Central Park
Maine
Havana Harbor
Sigsbee
Anthony
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Cabinet Resigns In Valparaiso Coalition Government
The coalition cabinet led by Senor Rafael Soto mayor formed in September has resigned. President B. Arrazuiz has consulted Senor Rafael Balmaceda and Senor Joaquin Gogos about forming a new ministry.
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Valparaiso
Coalation Cabinet
Senor
Rafel Sotomayor
Rafael Balmaceda
Joaquin Gogos
B. Arrazuiz
Agreement Reached in Illinois Miners Strike
Decatur Illinois reports a settlement ending an eight week miners strike with operators granting an eight hour day and union recognition. About four hundred miners had been out nine weeks.
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Decatur
Ill
Retirement of Gen Shafter to major general in regular army
Wasaierom November 25 The president will ask Congress to pass an act retiring Gen Shafter with the rank of major general in the regular army He has already been retired as brigadier general The move aims to keep him in the volunteer service until Congress acts and his chances brighten by remaining in active duty until then
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Wasaierom
Congress
Gen. Shafter
Snake Remains Spark Ozark Farm Rotation Joke
A Ozark humor tale recounts a scientist asking a farmer why he arranges dead snakes in the furrow after plowing. The farmer explains rotary effects on composting and plant nourishment, concluding that whisky would increase snakes, a quip on regional agricultural rotation.
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Ozark
St. Louis
Globe-Democrat
The Coliseum's Ruin Inspires A Builder's Awe
A western theater builder, famed for his lifelong work in promoting and maintaining theaters, toured Europe after a busy career. In Rome the Coliseum impressed him as a theater old and ruined, as he remarked that it was “a blamed good house once, but it's in ruins now.”
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West
Europe
Rome
Coliseum
Detroit Free Press
Women Farmers Count As Eight Thousand Plus In U S
A quotation from the Indianapolis Journal notes that there are more than 8,000 women farmers in the United States. The exchange adds humor as a husband jokes about relying on his wife for farming duties.
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Billy
United States
Indianapolis Journal
Quote from Cornfed Philosopher on Paying Bills
A pointed proverb from the Indianapolis Journal notes that among men, the least respected is not paying debts and only less respected is the one who cannot. The remark frames debt and responsibility in concise moral terms.
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Indianapolis Journal
Lydia E. Pinkham's Compound Praised by Recovering Patient
A testimonial from Marrna M. Kine of Attleboro Mass credits Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with relieving severe long standing backache stomach and bowels pain after one bottle and continuing benefit thereafter. The letter urges other women to seek Mrs Pinkham's advice at Lynn Mass hoping to improve health and happiness.
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Mrs. Fineham
Lydia E. Pinkham
Marrna M. Kine
Nostra Attleboro, Mass
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