Bryan address draws ten thousand in Columbus audience
Ten thousand people greet William Jennings Bryan at the Columbus auditorium. He defends the Democratic party as principled and unpaid, attacks the currency bill and international monetary commission, and condemns trusts and imperialism while praising Boer support for England in the South African war context.
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Columbus, O
Wiliam Jennings Bryan
Columbus Auditorium
Nebraska
Colonel Bryan
Democratic Party
Republican Party
Congress
International Monetary Commission
Bryan
England
America
Philippines
Transvaal
Chittenden
Co- Tumbusz Board of Trade
Finnish Colonists Consider Alaska Settlement Wave
Lutheran advocates in the United States promote Finnish emigration to Alaska to escape czarist pressure in Finland. A 5500 person colony is planned, with potential relocation to the Dakotas or Alaska due to climate and fishing resources. If successful, further colonists may follow, aided by Lutheran fundraising while the U.S. government offers hospitality.
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Congress
Alaska
Yukon
Free America
Dakotas
Finland
United States
Mother's Offer Fails to Save Dying Child
A distraught mother, Mrs. Vincent Geralde, offered large sums to five Brookish physicians to save her daughter Annie, whose lodged button in the windpipe could not be removed. Despite repeated attempts and escalating offers up to ten thousand, doctors declared the child dead.
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Siausdarien
Vincent Geralde
Annie
Geralde
Ais
Littl Annie
New York Times
Auction yields high prices for Boer camp goods
An auction in Ladysmith featured items from Boer camps. A bunch of grapes sold for 25 shillings, tomatoes 18 shillings, a dozen matches 13 shillings, a package of cigarettes 25 shillings, 60 cigars £10, and plug tobacco 4s 5d per quarter pound.
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Ladyith
Ladysmith
Senator Bullfrog at Cherokee Congress in Cherokee Tongue
The Cherokee senator Bullfrog, in a pink calico shirt and riding boots, addressed the president in Cherokee with an interpreter translating. He warned against cheap lawyers and quipped about hog recovery, while colleagues lounged and exhaled toward the stove. Ravages of forest fires near Menominee wipe Arnold, fourth town destroyed. losses reach 30000 dollars with no insurance as lines go down and rail traffic halts.
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Bullfrog
Senate
Goingsnake
Ainslee
Menominee
Mich
Arnold
Perrigo & Sons
C. H. Worcester & Company
Lindsley Company
Menomines County
Notable Deaths and Disasters Stir 19th Century News
The article notes the death of painter Munkacsy and his burial in Budapest, coal mine fires near Bristol Tean with nine men entombed, a Phoenix Flour plant fire in Marietta Georgia causing $100,000 damage, and four fatalities in Wise county Virginia from Tombs Creek coal mine fire. It also mentions Porto Rico civil governor inauguration in San Juan and Brigham HL Rebern jury disagreement in Salt Lake City.
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Munkacsy
Budapest
Bristol
Tean
D. J. Sinclair
St. Louis
Ofice
Porto Rico
Marietta
Phoenix Flour Company
Charles H. Allen
Porto Ricca
San Juan
Tombs Creek
Wise County
Salt Lake City
Brigham HL. Rebern
Thomas Nevue
Chicago
Canada
Noted French Playhouse Destroyed in Paris Fire
The Theatre Francais known as Comedie Francaise, long linked to the Moliere repertoire, burned in Paris. Its history traces to 1680 with royal privileges and subsides. rebuilt at Palais Royal and later funded by Napoleon, the company shaped classical French theatre through a modern constitution and prominent artists.
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Theatre Francais
Paris
Comedie Francaise
Palais Royal
France
Philadelphia Public Ledger
Talia
David W. Rugers
Doret
Mre Rachell
Mile
Mars
Foyer du Public
Voltaire
Houdon
Moliere
Lequesne
Bufe the
George Sand
Clesinger
Cornélie
Racine
Louis XIV
Moliere Company
Hotel Bourgogne
Corneille
Comediens Ordinaires du Roi
Moscow
Bekman Ie
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Tee Srem-Broca Co
Coshocton County
Stein Bloch & Co
Coshocton
Tux Srei-Buocn Co
TSR Srein-Biocn Co
Copsright Law. ‘Tae Greig-Biocs Co
World OF Politics
Lincoln
Neb
Charles H. Dietrich
German National Bank of Hastings
John H. McClay
John A. Ehrhardt
Stanton
Bress
Michigan
Port Huron
Charles H. Towne
Indiana
Indianapolis
Richmond
Seymour
Logansport
Crawfordsville
Terra Haute
Elkhart
Muncie
Lafayette
Greensburg
Michigan City
Bloomington
Plymouth
Bedford
Laporte
Lebanon
Shelbyville
Elwood
Bloomfield
Anderson
Vedersburg
Columbus
Brazil
Iowa
Des Moines
Kansas City
Dewitt
WJ Baxter
North Book
CE Anderson
C. A. Walsh
Ottumwa
Erin
London
Queena Victoria
Ireland
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