Perfect marksmanship of Boers weighs on English policy
The text notes that Boer rifle accuracy costs English lives and teaches prudence in spending on decorative army uniforms. It claims Seattle will ship a year’s worth of food east but to Asia via the Pacific Coast. It remarks on Southern prosperity with many cotton mills to pay high dividends. It also extols South America’s vast undeveloped resources and rich mineral wealth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Seattle
Mississippi
Asia
Fog trumpet to sound from West Haven lighthouse
West Haven residents await the new fog trumpet now installed on the lighthouse. It is expected to be heard clearly up to twelve miles away marking a safer coastal navigation signal.
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West Haven
Conn
Filters for Evanston homes proposed at annual city cost
The plan would install filters in every residence at about twenty thousand dollars per year. Other cities and Europe run costly filtration plants at the source of supply. Mississippi law caps corporate holdings at two hundred sixty thousand dollars, with banks and mills allowed up to one million, a restriction challenged to invite New England cotton mills to Mississippi. The Philadelphia Record notes Britain's increasing Davy and fleet expansion, with fifty eight first class armorclads planned, outpacing rivals despite recent naval boosts in Russia France and Germany.
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Evanston
Europa
Philadelphia Record
Great Britain
Russia
Francs
Germany
Awful Word Sparks Humorous Exchange At Tea Party
A guest recounts how poets and a young girl clashed with language as a girl cried a phrase using the word awful. Tenry for admonished her to avoid the dreadful term, prompting a chorus of amused responses as she apologized.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Psin
Beatty
Eliil
Toemnyson
Dafferins
Tenry For
Reform Needed as Clerks Handle Cuban Court Business
The article argues there is no courthouse in Cuba and that clerks dominate legal work, delivering signatures from the judge at his home. It notes Governor Wood’s view that reform is needed and cites Maryland’s $3,000,000 loss to a new pea louse affecting multiple states as a sign of broader management issues.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cuba
Wood Seys
Primary School Experiment In Ithaca Shows Promise
An experiment in Ithaca New York tests a four group system for twelve year olds with one hour of daily instruction per group and rest of the day for play. Teachers and officials see potential to reduce crowding, keep ventilation good, and improve early learning outcomes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ithaca
N. Y
Prayer for Purity and Self Control
Fragmentary religious verse asks for cleansing of the heart and tongue Lord, wash my heart and keep it clean within. A plea that no evil thought endure and that purity be maintained beyond human effort.
Mechancete and the Doctor at the Lawn Party
In a small town a prank about a supposed illness brings Doctor Hopkins into Helen Clark’s life. He treats her, then faces her scorn as the hoax spreads. At the town lawn party he asks for a chance to reconciliation and romance.
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Lim
Kate
Kia
Nettie
Helen
Misa Stark
Clark
Hopsing
Ho S
Madge Stone
Dr. Hopkins
Madge
Linmat
J Baya
Doctor Bravely Rescues Child in House Fire Romance
In a Chicago News report a young doctor risks life to save a child during a fiery blaze. He is knocked unconscious, then revived by Helen Clark whose kiss rekindles his heart, while Dr Godspeed arrives to tend his injuries and the pair confess love amid a village rescue.
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Clark
Helen
Dr. Goodapead
Helen Clark
Luchland
Dr. Godspeed
Chicago News
Scientific and Industrial Digest From The North
The article outlines time concepts with mean and sun time and notes Glock time. It reports Siberia gold discoveries on the Sea of Okhotsk and Russian lease plans. It covers Dewar's cold experiments on bacteria with liquid air and hydrogen, and Kahlbaum’s purification of metals. It mentions Brussels trees affected by electric leakage and a telescopic submarine design for naval use.
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Siberia
Sea of Okhotsk
Dewar
Brussels
Economy versus cost in a trivial milk theft case
A detective laments wasted effort over a five cent milk theft, noting two days of work and looming fees for a minor incident. The piece contrasts true economy with prosecuting minor offenses and mentions a Detroit press report and a Chicago prisoner with a fine for muttering threats.
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Matanes
Oflera
Detroit Prep Press
Hero of the Vandalia Carlin dies in Samoa storm on voyage to Manila
The article recalls Commander Carlin of the Vandalia who perished during the 1899 Apia cyclone. It narrates his brave actions to save Captain Spoonmaker, his crew in the wreck, and his ultimate fate as the Vandalia drifted toward a reef while the Trenton rescued survivors.
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Bamon
Carlin
Pekin
Manila
Yokohama
Garman
Apia
Asailory
Vandalia
Spoonmaker
Sim
Aaid Sevenmaker
Death
Trenton
Cahn
Congress
St. Louis
Ice river explosion saves Nebraska farmer crossing by ice
A Nebraska farmer named Banker narrowly escaped instant death when an ice bridge on the Missouri River exploded as he crossed. Witnesses said large ice chunks were hurled across a four square mile area, likely from sudden cold weather and rapid ice formation.
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Banker
Nebraska
Missouri River
Hon
Colda
Ita
Bunthreda
Tona
Aco
Michael Angelo Woolf Remembered For Rough Road To Fame
A Philadelphia Saturday Evening Post piece recalls actor Michael Angelo Woolf whose sketches of street waste earned him lasting public affection. He once faced hardship as his acting company collapsed far from civilization and Woolf walked home from New York after spending his salary on the women of the troupe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Michael Angelo Woolf
Woolf
Philadelphia
Boers Deny Treachery Over White Flag Incidents
Cable dispatch from Lord Roberts in Bloemfontein quotes Boer president denying Boer soldiers violated warfare customs. Reports claim Burghers faced unprovoked fire as white flags appeared, with casualties on both sides. Roberts declines further correspondence after reviewing the matter.
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Delaroy
Tigipla
de Boer
Lis
Engitat Cau Dons
Splon Kop
The
Tugel
Oronje
Teayon
South Africana Repaot
Lord Roberts
Milner declares British refusal to recognise Transvaal alienations
Sir Alfred Milner announces that the Imperial Government will not recognize any alienations of property or interests within the Transvaal or Orange Free State, including railways, whether valid or effectual, and prohibits grants or encumbrances under the government.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Great Britain
Cave Tows
South Africa
Cabla
Alfred Milner
Cups Colony
Transvaal
Orange Free State
New Zealand Backs Great Britain Position on South Asia
Governor of New Zealand informs Colonial Secretary Chamberlain that the colony supports Britain’s stance in South Asia. He affirms continued allegiance to the mother country despite potential consequences.
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New Zealand
Laufurfy
Ine Esblut
Chamberlain
Great Beltulu
South Asia
Chambatutu
Bridges Blown Up in South Africa Turmoil
Reports from Care Town claim the Boots destroyed several Bloemfontein bridges including those at Win bore and Kroonstad. The Modder River bridge, forty en miles north of the state capital, is said to be ruined. Bloemfontein law courts have reopened.
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Boore
Care Town
South Africa
Cahie
Bloemfontein
Winbore
Kroonstad
Modder River
Fourtyen
Frodo
Caplit
Law Courts
Audacious $80,000 Bank Satchel Robbery
Robbers seized a satchel containing eighty thousand dollars from the Northern Railroad and fled toward Paris after distracting a bank clerk. The heist disrupted an $126,000 deposit run and left investigators to pursue the trio.
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Paris
Northern Railroad
Bank of Fennoc
Satebel
Earl
Woman Killed in Restaurant Jealousy Case in Chicago
An unidentified woman shot and killed Mica Anat Strother during an argument at a Chicago restaurant. Strother died almost instantly after being struck in the breast by a single shot. The killer fled, and a later report described the assailant as the jealous wife of a saloon keeper who claimed self defense.
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Mica Anat Strother
Enahler Fur
Chicago
Mins Strother
Les
Charles, Smith
Olf
Milas Strothur
Labor World reports wage gains and union upswings across states
The item notes New York tradesmen gaining Q3.20 for eight hours and Rochester button workers securing wage raises. It mentions a Tobacco Workers Union in St Louis for Black workers and unions forming in Troy. It cites iron workers strike in Roaton being broken and ongoing work by bridge and steel crews. It references long work weeks for 450,208 minors in Britain and a fire at Pittsburgh and Lake Erie's railroad office affecting reporters and wireless staff.
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New York
Borlla
Rochester
N. Y
Loula
Niagara Falls
Uweuly
Troy
Typostaphien Caton
Roaton
Coleries
England
Scotland
Waloa
Cratumaatur
Pittsburg
Lake Erle
Tha Rodorts
I South Carotina
Gunddin Vot
Secretary Root on Cuba Island Quiet and Satisfied
Secretary Root and his party returned to Washington from Cuba via Charleston. He praised progress toward self government, noting Cubans seek steady, educated governance and are not impatient for control. He cited education as key and said elections may occur late May or June with property and literacy as voting criteria.
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Wasuivaroy
D. C
Spacius
Root
Washington
Cuba
Charleston
5. C
Enquil
United States
Roat
War Department
Cubn
Slid
Toma
Cola
Isintene
Leary
Guam
Otis Hay
Page Page Harbor
Samoa
Havens
Ganor Flores
Aguinaldo
MeaoArthur
Otis
Manila
Barselona
Spais
Spais, 633 Bpanlarde
North Camarigt
Il Nueva
Caceres
Cau
Philippines
Taubeneck Former People's Party Leader Dies in Seattle
Herman E. Taubeneck, former chairman of the National Committee of the People's Party, died suddenly in Seattle. He had arrived from the East about two months earlier, in Beattie, Wash, for unspecified reasons.
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People's Port
Seattle
Beattie
Wash
Herman E. Taubeneck
People's Party
East Pbout
Boy Kills Father to Save Mother From Butcher Knife
Edward Finch, fifteen, shot his father George Finch through the heart to stop a knife attack on his mother at the Fingk home in Angin. He fled for an hour, was captured weeping, and expects execution but acted to protect his mother. He is imprisoned at Austin Police Station. Also reported is the death of Charlotte P. Mason at 105, oldest member of the Five Baptist Church, Sandwich, N I, who joined in 1819.
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Charles Nellie
Sudan
Menelk
Abyssinia
Menelik
Windsor Magazine
Cleveland Moffat
Amba Alagui
Etnlines
Carcase Wyndal
Edward Finch
Afteen
George Finch
Fingk
Angin
Prisner
Austin Polles Station
Charlotte P. Mason
Sandwich
N. I
Five Baptist Church
Notable Figures and Global Notes From a Dated Report
A scrambled late 19th century items list names and events. It mentions John Rutter and others, lost boys near Plymouth, the Empress Dowager of China rewarding foreigners, Governor Stanley, President Diaz, President Loubot, Rouster Thimin, McKinley’s summer tour, William Dean Howells, Admiral McCormick, the Rev John M Macombar, Charles Eliot Norton, and Ruskin. It weaves varied global and domestic items with achievements and travels.
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Stanley
Kanans
Diaz
Mexico
Buffalo
Loubot
Frances
Rouster Thimin
Bonntena pd _extemporo sapyykor
McCormick
Quai Ns
Romey
John M. Macombar
United States Army
Vermont Heavy Artillery
Charles Eliot Norton
Harvard
Fas
Totin Ruskin
Hastie
Washington items and naval plans amid global unrest
The Topeka region is to be added to a list of naval vessels for overhaul at a private yard. Other items note Hay-Pauncefote treaty stance, Philippine governance, Cuban self rule, and various military and political shifts abroad.
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Washington
Iaiolay
Ion Navy Yard
Noaragua
Porata
Alton F. Gil
Coust d’Aleng
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W. G. Johnson
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tAtread
Kahlbaum
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Ladies’ Home Journal
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Saya
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Yoon Malaqd
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Dsprtoh
L Bavoe
Nurou
Free State
South African Republic
BTETR
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Mr. Taubeneck
Hedman
Taubeneck
Boys Laat Underground
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Edward Sherman
Michael Flaney
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Woodbury
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Misa
Boon
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Paaryville
Kun
Goebel
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Mabel McKinley
Hermanous Baer
White House
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Mra
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Ooon
Frankfort-on-the-Brontp
Germonny
Patrick
Dreyfussards
Grand Canal
Valley of Mexico
Brazil
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