Crisis in Cuba Stirs Debate Over U S Policy
In a Chicago American editorial, General Fitzhugh Lee’s warning that Cuba’s birth may end in anarchy is tied to American policy. The piece blames the Republican Party and protectionist tariffs for Havana’s woes, arguing Congress and the President have failed to aid Cuba and urging action by the American people.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fitzhugh Lee
Cuiutoy
Cuba
Lee
Republican Party
United States
Havana
New Republic
Congress
American Congress
Guba
Senate
Republic
Chicago
Cummings
Iowa
Des Moines
Cummins
Alison
Philadelphia Record
Philippines
Washington
Louisville Currier-Journal
Collapse or surplus in economy sparks party shift
The piece warns of a looming market collapse and possible small surplus this year, urging the Democratic Party to let Republicans stay in power until the crash. It argues for rational economy and national sanity, and cautions against endless boom assumptions and treasury risk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
Democratic Party
Republican Party
Chicago Chronicle
July federal receipts and expenditures show first post war tax repeal deficit
The July fiscal report shows receipts about 49.3 million and expenditures 50.8 million, creating a 1.5 million deficit. Secretary Shaw notes heavy early-year spending and cites Civil War equipment payments in Illinois as an example of extraordinary July outlays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shaw
Illinois
Congress
Roosevelt uses presidential yachts in political visits
The New York World questions Republicans for criticizing Cleveland’s use of a fourth-rate government boat while praising President Roosevelt for using the Mayflower and Sylph as a family yacht and dispatch boat to bring Senator Platt and Colonel Dunn to his home for a political confab.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Roosevelt
Maylower
Sylph
Senator Platt
Colonel Dunn
Oyster Bay
New York World
Does Not Prove Them Right About Miners and Labor
The Cedar Ronida Gazette argues that jailing a few miners does not prove miners are well paid or that operators and coal roads do not systematically rob workers and the public. It says labor conditions are such that even punishing an advocate for fair play would not settle matters in favor of monopolies.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Insbor
New York Journal
Cedar Ronida Gazette
Mackay Mausoleum in Greenwood Cemetery Brooklyn
The $300000 Mackay mausoleum in Greenwood Cemetery Brooklyn is an elaborate Venturkian design completed two years ago. It features a granite cross on top, life size figures at corners, marble mosaic floors and ceilings, a chapel interior with an altar, automatic lighting from bronze doors, and 22 crypts. John W. Mackay Jr. and Mrs. Mackay’s mother are interred there, Marcus Daly’s body rests in a crypt pending a Daly vault, and Mr Mackay’s crypt lies under the altar.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mackay
Greenwood Cemetery
Brooklyn
United States
Venturkian
Mr. Mackay
John W. Mackay, Jr
France
Posters for World’s Fair Highlight Columbian Series
A description of designs submitted for the Louisiana Purchase Exposition shows a poster in the Columbian series with an American flag draped over a figure. The design aims to inspire Americans abroad by circulating patriotic imagery in foreign countries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louisiana Purchase Exposition Company
Dees
Gold cradle of Queen Ulrica’s child found sought
In 1720 a German prince sent a solid gold cradle to Queen Ulrica Eleonora of Sweden. A wreck on the Island of Tjorn saved the cradle after pirates killed the crew. The King now offers 0,000 kronen to anyone who locates the cradle. An island tale and a London church seat anecdote conclude this curious report.
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Ulrica Eleonora
Sweden
Tjorn
Ulrica
Bandit Tracy Identified as Larry Tracy Severens
Warry Tracy, the bandit terrorizing Oregon and Washington and blamed for nine deaths, is identified as Larry Tracy Severens from Grand Rapids Wisconsin. He grew up in Pittsfield Wisconsin.
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Warry Tracy
Oregon
Washington
Grand Rapids
Wis
Larry Tracy Severens
Pittsfield
Favorite of Kings Wounder of Her Age
Penniless and paralyzed, Mme Janauschek once a famed European actress and American sensation lives in a Saratoga boarding house. Sold jewels to survive while friends deserted her, after dazzling royal patrons and bringing $200,000 in jewels to America in 1867.
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Wounder
Mme
Janauschek
Panny Janauschek
Europe
America
Saratoga Springs
Mme. Januaschek
Lfe
Russia
Bavaria
Holland
Louis Napoleon
United States
Hermit Woman of Oban Shifts to Cave Life Amid Storms
Christina MacMaster, about forty, has drawn Scotland's notice by choosing a hermit’s life in a cave near Oban. The cave lies below high water, preventing eviction by landowner Marquis of Breadalbane. She endures wet weather and has now strewn bracken across the entrance. She speaks English and Gaelic.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oban
Scotland
Breadalbane
Christina MacMaster
Absentminded Professor Orders Fried Eggs with Ova
A language professor visits a restaurant and asks for fried eggs. The waiter inquires Over and the professor echoes Ova claiming Latin familiarity. The miscommunication leads to eggs arriving overdone, with a humorous misinterpretation of ova galnae as extra well done.
Universal Brotherhood and the duty of all men
The sermon asserts the universal fatherhood of God and the universal brotherhood of man. It argues that real brotherhood spans past present and future, urging debts to the past, responsibilities to the present, and duties to future generations, with caution about public franchise burdens and the need for a broader horizon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
God
Jesus
Ers
Board of Public Works
Defines Christianity. By Rev. R. W. Rogers
The article argues religion is companionship with God revealed in nature and truth. It explains faith and righteousness as guides, not definitions, and stresses that dogmas serve as aids rather than substitutes for a living relation with the divine. It notes 140 denominations reflect varied divine attributes. Christianity is friendship with God through Christ begun on earth and carried into eternity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
God
Socrates
Daniel
Bacchus
Paul
Luther
Earth
Sermonettes on Faith and Religion From Various Pastors
A series of brief sermons from bishops and pastors in Chicago Baltimore Pittsburg and Cleveland discuss faith in God as essential to patriotism the limits of religious confession the divine nature of Jesus Christ and the Jewish roots of biblical religion. The writers emphasize peace doctrinal clarity and religion as the core of civilization and culture.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bishop Fallows
Episcopal
Chicago
L. M. Zimmerman
Lutheran
Baltimore
Christ
God
Jesus Christ
F. W. Sneed
Presbyterian
Pittsburg
P. F. Sutphen
Cleveland
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World's Fair VostT.h
London
Wall Street
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Janausciier
Universal Brotherwood
J. W. Barrett
Ph. D
Schilling
Father
R. W. Rogers
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