Ninety years old: Emperor William's birthday celebrated across Berlin
A Berlin dispatch describes the Emperor William's birth centenary marked by church bells, a choral, and lavish decorations. The city wore garlands banners and carpets with the Royal Academy university and Crown Prince Frederick William residence among the grandest displays. Memorials and statues were adorned with flowers as crowds joined in a holiday mood.
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Berlin
William
Royal Academy
Imperial Festivities Mark William Memorial Day
Crowds thronged the streets as religious services were held in churches and synagogues. Students paraded to the palace in hundreds of carriages and bands, celebrating with banners and costumes while the Emperor bowed from a window. Royal salutes, congratulatory visits, and a grand display of illuminations followed, with notable appearances by Bismarck Moltke and foreign dignitaries in Paris and Berlin.
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Bruechner
Saxony
Romania
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Viadimir
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Sweden
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Ger
Bismarck
Richold
Austria-Hungary
Germany
Academy of Arts
Ray
William
Henry
Frederick William
Irene of Hesse
Bal
Prohibition of Passes by Railroads Issued by Pennsylvania
President Roberts of the Pennsylvania Railroad announces an official action by the Board of Directors restricting inter state passes. Only officers and employees of railway companies may receive passes from April next. The order applies to passes entering from stations to September and for special cars or personnel only.
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Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Board of Directors
Congress
Pennnsylvania Railroad
Ennsylvania
Columbia
Porongbout
Rhode Island Convention Renominates Wetmore by Acclaim
The Rhode Island Republican State Convention held in Providence renominated Governor Wetmore and all current incumbents by acclamation. The report notes celebratory Irish processions in New York and a banquet by the Sons of Patrick.
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Middle States
Rhode Island
Providence
Wetmore
Lyikn
Weeks
Brooklyn
Yorr
Lawton Brothers
Walter E. Lawton
Lawton
Massacre arrests near Ozark and scattered disaster reports
Twenty two men arrested near Ozark Missouri for participating in the Eden and Green killings. Reports note a tornado at Tampa Florida injuring many and destroying homes. Other items mention Texas legislature expelling an Austin editor leading to arrests, oleomargarine law repeal, and pension cases pending in Washington.
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Eden
Green
Virginia
Richmond
Lee
King Banla
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Hock Castle
Tampa
Fla
North Carolina
Athilta
Larned
Kan
Luton
Postafiaes
Texas
Legislative Chamber
Canfield
Austin
Pendleton
Jon
Missouri
United States
Detroit
Mich
House of Correction
United States Supreme Court
Explosion at Tahositz quarry and other world events
A disastrous dynamite blast blows apart workers at Tahositz7 Rohe ma quarry killing all on site. AUBENGAT, conductor at Grand Theatre Toulon, kills an actress Levy then commits suicide by train. Canada Pacific snow blockade blocks Rocky Mountains trains for two weeks. Parliament faces Irish coercion. Cardinals Gibbons Tascheran receive hats in Rome. Kidnapping for ransom in Cuba. Moss hangs two criminals in the U.S. and New Mexico. Emperor William marks his 90th birthday in Germany with week long ceremonies.
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Ireland
Cardinals
Gibbons and
Tascheran
America
Rome
Troy
Tenn
Queear Dodge
New Mexico
William
Germany
Berlin
Europe
National Baseball News Roundup From The Era
National Baseball League schedules forty games as Brovfuers predicts longer games under new rules. Roseman of the Metropolitans is released to the Athletics for 750 dollars. Briody signs with Detroit Club as catcher from Kansas City. Washington team described as seven married men strong. Cincinnati American Association finishes Southern trip. Philadelphia League team travels south. Rapboury of the Bostons doubts increased batting under new rules, slight change in game length. Detroits pitcher Wironeu dedicates time to deception-throw practice for pickoff moves. Paurtiyss shines in 15 games with flawless fielding in multiple Brooklyn matches.
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Metropolitans
Alletics
Detroit
Briody
Kansas City
Washington
National Baseball League
Brovfuers
Detroits
Piloners
Cincinnatis
American Association
Rapboury
Bostons
T'wironeu
Paurtiyss
Sila
Eh Brookly Retreposttas
Bridgeport-Waterbury
Newark- Bridgt
Newark-Waterbury
Devouring Flames Destroy Dozens of Buildings at Jamestown Grounds
A Sunday night fire at the Chautauqua Assembly Grounds near Jamestown New York destroyed eighty buildings including Eckert Parkhurst and Alling boarding houses. Loss likely exceeds $100000. The blaze began in Curtiss cottage and spread along Simpson and Summerville avenues toward the Hotel Atheneum, with the hotel saved only through strenuous efforts by winter residents and nearby farmers. Six Asbury avenue cottages burned. high winds absence spared the Ventress Hotel area. Furniture losses were heavy as many cottages were newly furnished. Firefighters and volunteers saved the forested streets and prevented total ruin of the assembly.
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Jamestown
Eckert
Parkhurst
Alling
Curtiss Cottage
Simpson Avenue
Simpson and
Summerville Avenues
Auditorium
Hotel Atheneum
Asbury Avenue
Foster Tragedy After Powder Explosion In Indian Territory
A man named Foster near White bread Indian Territory fired at a mouse in his cabin. The shot ignited a powder can causing an explosion that killed Foster his wife and five children.
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Whitebread
Indian Territory
Col
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Reagan
Texas
Davis
United States
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San Fernando
Albert Taylor Cowie
J. Oates
H. H. Hesse
William Foster
Civil Service
Edgerton
Interior Department
Benton J. Haut
Iowa
Patents
Montgomery
British Columbia
Alaskan
Trivs
Tillié Smith
Hackettstown
N. J
New York Knights of Labor
Shea
John Sherman
Birmingham
Ala
House of Commons
Ireland
Radical shifts in industry and disease shift public view
The article notes a wide industrial drift from Pennsylvania to Alabama and other regions, with iron, grain, pork, and cotton mills relocating to new centers. It then discusses rising concerns about kidney disorders and the growing promotion of Warner's Safe Cure as a preventive remedy.
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Pennsylvania
Birmingham
Alabama
Cincinnati
Chicago
Kanas City
Omaha
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Brompton Hospital
London
England
Warner
Weare
Second Hand Clothes Market Shifts From Temple Carrena
A Paris letter to the San Francisco Chronicle notes Temple Market has changed from a major second hand clothing hub to mostly new goods. Downstairs shops push cheap new items while upstairs second hand stock is rare, with prices often negotiated by shopkeepers.
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Paris
San Francisco Chronicle
Jaying
Carrena du_ Temple
Marchande
Toothache superstitions and cures across Europe and beyond
An collection of curious remedies and beliefs about toothache from Sussex to Stockholm. The text notes charms with nuts and scraps, a right-sided dressing superstition, the term love pang in England, a Latin manuscript charm in the royal library at Stockholm, a Bonn on the Rhine exhibit of a royal tooth, and an imperial tale of a barber who removed a tooth for a reward in Constantinople and later Chicago.
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England
Royal
Stockholm
Bonn-on-the-Rhine
ThSultan
Turkey
Constantinople
Chicago
Tleraud
Mean Husband in West Castleton Bet Wins or Loses
A chaotic 19th century collage reports on a mean husband in West Castletown who bets his wife a silk dress if she drinks a quart of milk daily for February and a new suit if she fails. The tale mixes odd anecdotes, health tips, and ads, mentioning carbolic soap, European marriage ages, patent medicines, and sales pitches.
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Nashville
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