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Newspaper
Cranbrook Herald
Location
Cranbrook, British Columbia, Canada
Date
Jun 21, 1898
Page
2
A long列 column critiques European policy, business ethics, and college sports reform. It discusses the dangers of trust power, American moral standards, and Harvard athlete oversight while warning against sensationalism and exaggeration in public discourse. It also highlights crime, politics, and New York events with terse observations.
A historical glimpse reveals enlisted sailors earning pay while supplementing income via aboard ship trades. Sailors hire on deck as cooks, tailors, tattoo artists, and bootmakers, with privileges, allowances, and penalties shaping monthly earnings from about $16 up to $100 plus extra from government rations and private sales. The piece describes uniform handouts, discipline, and the informal economy among crews of nearly 900 aboard.
The War Department outlines extensive provisioning for troops in Cuba including clothing medical care sanitation and a travel ration of bread beans and coffee. It covers water filtration portable ice for surgery ambulances mule transport and strict sanitary measures while detailing luxuries available at cost and the expected combat readiness under tropical conditions.
Chief Webster of the Philadelphia Survey Bureau discusses how city plans use a standard differing from the United States system. He notes streets and property lines rely on boundaries, requiring adjustments when contracts reference the city standard. No disputes have arisen about property lines due to measurement standards. The article also touches on social chatter about Dinguss.
A garbled excerpt records a conversation about national intellect and perceived wisdom of Spaniards and French, then shifts to a mistaken identity query about Major Obba. The text is incomplete and many phrases are unreadable, yet hints at social commentary and personal confusion in a dated dialogue.
The article recounts how Cuba’s Liberty Bell symbolized independence, describing how the bell rang out in 1898 to celebrate liberty, drawing crowds and signaling the nation’s struggle for freedom. It compares Cuba’s bell to Philadelphia’s Liberty Bell, noting its historic role and the wish to keep it in Garathas old belfry as a relic of independence.
A jumbled historical column references Civil War era lines and poetry including a Farragut era naval lament. It intertwines a message to sailors and soldiers, mentions the Maine, and quotes Alfred Lord Tennyson about soldiers and sacrifice, all in a fragmented OCR style.
In Frank R Stockton’s operatic sketch The Buccaneers of Our Coast Morgan and his pirates sack Port au Prince. A Spanish prisoner warns the governor as Morgan’s force bypasses fortified barricades, entering the plain. Morgan finds no need for siege, loots churches, punishes residents with ransom while threatening enslavement, and departs after extracting cattle and supplies.
The Philadelphia Record notes riveted envelopes as a safety novelty. Rivets secure by pushing stems through holes, adding a conical nut, with a steel shield hammered to form a seamless seal. The design promises secure closure though scorching may threaten cycling appeal.
The text advertises a rail service from Kilo to points in Canada and the United States with through cars to Montreal and other cities. It promises magnificent sleepers and dining cars on all trains and provides contact information for a district manager for inquiries and additional details.
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