President McWinter Accepts Mediation for China Crisis
Secretary Hay delivers McWinter's offer to Wu Ling and Pekin officials. The president agrees to act as mediator using U S influence to secure Chinese cooperation and protect American life and property amid anti foreign unrest and by preventing wider war.
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Emperor Kuang Hsu
United States
China
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Pekin
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Tse
State Department
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Chingera
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States
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Porto Rico Census Highlights Dense Population and Rural Majority
The Puerto Rican census of October reports Porto Rico with 600,245 inhabitants and a density of 80 per square mile, making it the most densely populated U S possession. Four-fifths live in rural districts. farming and sugar tobacco and citrus dominate land use. urban growth trails rural expansion.
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Sanare
Porto Ries
Dperta Dies
Cupa
Spain
Torta Rica
Duarto Ricn
Powers case heats up with political clashes in court
Georgetown Ky Mon during the Powers trial ex Governor John Young Brown and Judge Cantrill clashed over politics as K E Combs testified Gov Brown claimed Goebel and allies aimed to oust Republicans. Prosecution witness John Rickets testified of Goebel threats and Goebel retaliation plans. Adj Gen Murray produced letters by Lowers with little value.
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Jade
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Powers
Georgetown
John Young Brown
Cantrill
K. E. Combs
Glasgow
Caleb Powers
Goebel
Kentucky
John Rickets
Knox County
Frankfort
Youtsey
Towers
Adjt
Murray
W. P. Reeder
Charles Pintes
Boers' Bold Stroke Cuts Roads and Captures Highlanders
Telegrams from Cape Town report Gen. Dewer cutting lines north of Loniiespruit and capturing about 100 Highlanders. Gen. Knox notes Boer commando of 2000 men with four guns, movement toward the north, while railways and telegraph lines near Pretoria are cut. Casualties listed include five killed and seventy six wounded.
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London
Green
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Dinver
Panrdektal
Steyn
Tonets
Loniiespruit
Pretoria
Poederstrom
Dewet
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Joomfontein
Op Cee Pean
Enemin
Holmespruit
British War Office
Foresties Walker
Trunter
Bruce Hamilton
Spitzray
Cameron Highlanders
Camerons
Admiral Seymour report refutes killing of wounded tale
The San Francisco based dispatch on Admiral Seymour’s Pekin relief voyage dismisses claims he killed his wounded to spare them from the Chinese. It states the report details bravery of allies guarding the wounded, as troops and marines towed boats downriver while fighting. It notes dispatches about ministers to Tianjin and Sheng’s telegram on escort and food for officials.
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Pekin
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Orient
Hong Kong
Seymour
Tien- Tsin
Washington
Sheng
Shanghai
Tien-Tsin
Yellow fever outbreak hits Cuban camp at Pinar del Rio
Nine deaths and eleven cases reported among Seventh Cavalry and First Infantry at Pinar del Rio Cuba. Gen Lee orders camp moved three miles inland and quarantine enforced with disinfection preparations before embarkation.
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Seventh Cavalry
Cuba
Lee
Grasshoppers plague South Bend merchants in fabric damage
Swarms of grasshoppers invade South Bend shops damaging clothing and fabrics. Merchants report extensive holes in cloth and higher loss than moths, with no clear cause identified amid citywide nuisance. Land owners plan emigration drive to Transvaal from Indiana swamps. Gas plant sale cited as a major oil and gas deal near Marion. Doctor Casto found not guilty in Terre Haute arson trial.
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Dom Paul
Casto
Guildesas
Terre Traute
John Hill
Pierceton
Clyde Jones
Jeffersonville Reformatory
Nellie Berger
Catherine Wirkwood
Indiana
Muncie
James II
Schoepelin
Joseph D. Keith
Boothville
Nora Wifer
Pigeon Creek
Keith
Terre Haute
J. W. Morrison
Morrison Hotel
Whitcomb
Highest Cross Tower Erected on Hartz Peak
A colossal cross tower, standing 120 feet high on Josepushaehe Mountain in the Hartz range, dominates the peak 1,731 feet above sea level. The tower rests on a quadrangle hall for 500 people with a 200-step stairway and a forthcoming hydraulic elevator to ease ascent.
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Worta
Hartz Mountains
Josepushaehe
Millions for Baseball and Health Remedies
The piece contrasts annual baseball spending with health expenditures urging readers to try Hostetter's Stomach Bitters. It claims the tonic strengthens the stomach aids digestion cures dyspepsia constipation biliousness and weak kidneys.
Victoria Cross living holders and long survivors
Among Victoria Cross recipients from the 1850s, at least sixty four are alive today and more than two fifths have held the Cross for over forty years. Of the sixty two Crimean heroes decorated in Tryde Park on June 26 1857, twenty four remain living.
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Tryde Park
Family Plans for Big Money Across Cities
A family contemplates expanding by opening separate ventures in Kansas City for the boys and Philadelphia for the girls, aiming to share profits and pursue opportunities in new markets. The dialogue reflects entrepreneurial ambition and a shift toward independent business ventures.
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Kansas City
Philadelphia
Indianapolis Journal
Grain-O promoted as nourishing coffee substitute for children
A pitch extols Grain-O as a grain based drink that can replace coffee for kids. It claims to be delicious, nourishing, costing about the same as coffee and widely available in grocers at 15 and 25 cents. The snippet also includes a light dialogue about a baby growing fast while awake at night.
Allen's Foot Ease ad promises relief for sore feet
Do Your Feet Ache and Burn The powder from Allen's Foot Ease makes tight or new shoes feel easy It cures corns bunions swollen hot and sweating feet Free sample by mail from Allen S Olmsted LeRoy New York
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Allen
Allen S. Olmsted
LeRoy, N. Y
Not So Very Strange and Other Odds and Ends
A mixed brief of stray notes and advertisements. References to McSpitters-Heupeck and a wife, Piso's Cure for Consumption, a Czar visit to Moscow and a church project, Lane's Family Medicine claims, desert size of Sahara, Carter’s ink, Jell-O flavors, a fort Wayne stamp supplier, and Nickel Plate Road train excursion details to Niagara Falls with Toronto and Thousand Islands add-on pricing.
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MecSwatters
Nickel Plate Road
Niagara Falls
Chautauqua Lake
Toronto
Thousand Islands
C. A. Asterlin
Fort Wayne
Ind
Lake Chautauqua
Grain-O New Drink Replaces Coffee for All Ages
Try Grain O the new food drink that replaces coffee. Children may drink it without injury and adults like it. Grain O has rich seal brown Mocha and Java flavor yet is made of pure grains and gentle on the stomach. One half to one third the price of coffee per package. Sold by all grocers. A Berliner receives 108 letters and writes 138. Hamburgers 80 letters and 90 writes.
Speculators Urged to Trade Wheat Quickly for Small Capital
Advertisement from E.G. Gussouus & Co. at 15 Board of Trade Court Rialto Blag Chicago promotes quick fortune in $1.00 wheat with Reck free fury and small capital. It quotes a cautious line about pride in mischievous boyhood as a slogan.
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Fury
E.G. Gussouus & Co
Board of Trade Court
Rialto Blag
Chicago
Dessert Dilemma and Summer Ads Parade
A lighthearted note promotes Jell-O as a quick two minute dessert with flavors Lemon Orange Raspberry and Strawberry. Also featured are a remark on talkers, a bleaching blue product, a quote from Victor Hugo, an Eagle Linen writing set, and an eighteenth annual Nickel Plate Road excursion to Niagara Falls with stops and prices for Toronto and Thousand Islands.
Ovarian Troubles Promised Cure by Lydia E Pinkham’s Compound
Two letters from women praise Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound for ovarian and womb issues. Mrs Magy Suiru of Arlington Iowa reports swelling relief and recovery after five weeks bed rest and one bottle of the remedy. Mrs Exim Bryan of Otisville Michigan says six bottles restored her health after two years of falling womb and inflammation with bearing down pains and inability to walk.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Magy Suiru
Arlington, Iowa
Priveham
Pinkham
Exim Bryan
Otisville, Mich
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