Fire Drill Night In Boston Apartment
In a Boston Journal report a family on the top floor of the Despondis apartment house demonstrates a nightly fire drill. Sonberger, his wife, and young Harvid enact a rapid evacuation from bed to the roof as they pretend to escape, citing recent New York fires and a preference for constant readiness.
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Boston
Sonberger
Harvid
Sonbergera
Old Man
New York
Boston Journal
Olympia Leaves Manila Amid Salute From Visiting Ships
The cruiser Olympia with Admiral Dewey aboard sails for Hong Kong on the return voyage to the United States. The ships Oregon, Baltimore and Concord fire a greeting, as the Olympia’s crew cheers and throws caps in the harbor. The Dragon’s crew joins in nine cheers for the Olympians.
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Manila
Cabla
Admiral Dewey
Hong Kong
United States
Oregon
Baltimore
Concord
Paria
Paris
W. G. Wise
Watkins
oMecor
Cuba
Cervera
Caribbean
Moccasins Versus Boots in Autumn Forest
In autumn forests moccasins offer stealth and speed, weight under a pound per shoe. Boots heavy at four to five pounds lift twenty tons more leather over ten miles, while moccasins weigh eleven ounces total and let feet act like hands and senses in the dark.
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Harper’s Magazine
One on Her Majesty the Empress Wallpaper Tale
A London Chronicle tale claims that during a visit to England the Empress Frederick bought artful wallpaper for her Homburg villa and asked a chamberlain the origin of samples. He allegedly replied pieces came from Berlin and Magdeburg making them German made, per the story.
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England
Homburg
Berlin
Magdeburg
Germany
London Chronicle
Farewell Scene as Olympia Returns to Port
The Olympia sails past Corregidor as Manila bays reply in farewell. Admiral Dewey, eager to reach Montpelier, Vt, asks for restrained celebration while the crew of the Powerful cheers Olympia. Officers and sailors bid a final salute to homeward voyage amid bands and flares of gunfire.
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Cayite
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Paranaque
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Manila
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Walker
Courageous Crew of Mobegua Passengers Laud Officers
Survivors aboard the wrecked steamer Mobegua praise the officers and crew for their smart handling as the ship foundered. Passengers say the calm discipline aboard prevented any loss of life while observers note the ship’s bell tolled mournfully as a death knell.
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Daciphan
McKinley Approves Brooke Plan for Cuban Disarmament
President McKinley and Secretary Alger approve General Brooke's plan to distribute 3,090,000 in U S funds for paying the Cuban Army and compel surrender to Alcaldes under US officers. Arms will be shipped to Havana and Santiago, guarded, then stored in American armories to preserve the insurrection relics and keep Cubans from losing safeguards.
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D.C
Sperial
Washington
McKinley
Alger
Brooke
Havana
United States
Arg
Genoa Brooke
Maximo Gomez
Secretary of War
Arma
Santiago
Gomez
Head of Whools Reformatory Warns Smoking Sparks Crime
Cinerxxatr Ohio reports at a national conference that nearly all inmates at the Ry formatory smoked cigarettes. Superintendent George Torrence of the Illinois State Reformatory said boys under fifteen were almost universally smokers and linked cigarette use to weakened will, nervous system damage, and criminal impulse suppression. He claimed May 1 statistics showed ninety two percent of ten to fifteen year olds in the facility smoked, with eighty five percent heavily using cigarettes. He compared its effects to morphine or cocaine and said cigarette use outweighed liquor by tenfold.
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Cinerxxatr
Ohio
Specinal
George Torrence
Illinois State Reformatory
National Conference of Charities and Corrections
Ryformatory
Wreck of Schooner Worla Reveals Castaway Message
A bottle found at Stanwell Park near Holeos Burz New South Wales reveals a survivor's note from October 1894 aboard the schooner Worla from Dunedin New Zealand. The vessel wrecked near 22 latitude and 167 longitude east of the New South Wales coast. a rescue expedition was organized after news reached Sydney just before the Miowern arrived.
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Holeosburz
New South Wales
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N. Z
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Agron Ag
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Wersons
Dawson City Burn Ravages Klondike Metropolis
Fire destroyed three quarters of Dawson City including the center of the Klondike metropolis. Alaska Commercial and North American Trading and Transportation warehouses survived, preventing famine fears. One hundred eleven buildings burned. losses estimated at 3 to 4 million dollars. No fatalities occurred.
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Alaska Commercial
O'Reillys Lose Havana Cattle Tax Concession
General Ludlow, Havana Military Governor, revoked the concession allowing the O'Reilly family to tax every head of cattle. The move is expected to save about £1000 daily, with estimates the concession era yielded between $3,000,000 and $5,000,000 in accumulations.
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Ludlow
Havana
Cuba
O'Reilly
Notable Daze of Tragedy and Crime Across Towns
A string of scattered reports details deaths and crimes from Saybrook to Maryland and California. Notable incidents include Charles Richardson struck by a train in New York Hartford and killed instantly, and Mrs. Wood in Paulding County Tennessee related to a planter’s family. Other items cover self-inflicted gunshots by John R. Magruder, a physician found dead in Thompson Pennsylvania, and a man hanged in Montgomery County Pennsylvania for murder. Multiple rail fatalities, bank embezzlement, a rough riders reunion, and a lightning death near Merrill Michigan also appear, painting a panorama of violent ends, investigations, and societal notices.
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Saybrook
Conn
New York
New Havon
Hartford
James Wand
Esom Hill District
Wood
Paulding County
John R. Magruder
Annapolis
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Thompson
Penn
Eula
Zack
Chattanooga
Tenn
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Twelfth
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San Francisco
Cal
Union Iron Works
Los Virgie
N. M
Merrill
Mich
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James A. Clemmer
Montgomery County
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Bia
Clemmer
Stanley
Kansas
Thaa
Sarah Newberry
Yankse Springs Township
Mteh
Lacey Bullock
Richmond
Washington
J.C. Butler
Bentonville
Ark
Thomman Davies
Chicago
The Hasur Opens at The Peace Conference Site
The Peace Conference cabled by the Czar of Russia opened a few days ago in the House In the Woods two miles from the Hague.
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Hague
Mavita
Wilhares Cilizong
Otis
Striking Wheeling Street Railway Workers Demand Higher Pay
Wheeling street railway workers strike demanding twenty cents per hour for nine hours. The company cites past wage cuts from twenty to sixteen cents, with layoffs for active organizers. Disorder occurred at strike start. deputies sworn in by Judge Lowe to restore order while nonunion riders faced intimidation.
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Nonuation
United States
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Victoria and Albert foundation stone laying ceremony
The Queen attended the Victoria and Albert foundation stone ceremony in Lorton with royal entourage and guards. Crowds filled streets from dawn as she rode in a royal carriage, dressed in blush with a white plume, engaging with the Service of Wales on the stone laying.
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Lorton
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Victoria
Victoria and Albert Mugenin
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Life Guards
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Mer Majesty
Wales
Fortune-hunting English chatelaine and prize poultry
A Sheffield woman inherits a fortune and moves to a country house where she acts as chatelaine. Visitors remark on the poultry yard. she retorts the birds could lay daily but in her position it isn’t necessary. A cook quips about entertaining policemen and a jokey yarn ends with a police officer pun.
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Sheffield
England
The Uses of Zinc and Exports Rise
The largest zinc buyers are galvanizing iron manufacturers and brassFounders. Zinc oxide is used in paint and as a ore product. imports and exports show shifts in 1890s trade, with pig iron and ore movements. A physician advocates cycling as beneficial to health, noting improved vigor and delayed decline.
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New York Sun
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