Wasps, Bays, and a Texas Port Standout Tale
A mix of curiosities and reports highlights include a Architectural World note on wasps and a blackbird tearing a nest, Scotland’s Mr. Murray on wasp behavior, and La Porte Texas rising as a deepwater seaport with public works and a deepened channel for large vessels. An exchange between Mae and Ethel adds light social banter about engagements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Texas
la Porte
Galveston Bay
Houston
la Ponte
Mixed historical ads and notes from a clipped page
A collage of product pitches and curiosities including Baker's Breakfast Cocos, Magnetic Starch, and a German French and China notes fragment. Mentions Baker Co Ltd Dorchester Walter, J Kigne’s, and Kivike Philadelphia. Also references natural gas in China bamboo tubes and Buddhist population estimates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
China
Baker's Breakfast
Walter
Baker& Co. Ltd
Dorchester, Masa
Free men report on Luzon prisoner rescue mission
General Otis reports successful operations in northwest Luzon aimed at rescuing American prisoners captured by insurgents. Colonels Hare and Howe arrived from Vigan with prisoners, as Schwan and Wheaton advance separately in Cavite province. Navy statement lists released captives from Yorktown and notes seizure of Sibutu island near Borneo.
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Tis
War Department
Luzon
Otis
Hare
Howe
Vigan
Schwan
Wheaton
Cavite
Manila
Navy Department
Admiral Watson
Yorktown
J. G. Gilmore
William Walton
Manheim
Germany
John Ellsworth
Portsmouth
Lyman Paul Edwards
Landsman
Penn
Ind
West of Kin
L. B. Edwards
Mexico
Paul Vandell
Frances
Silvio Brizolet
San Francisco
Albert Peterson
Oakland
Cal
Red Anderson
Uffalo
N.Y
United States Navy
Wentzbangh
Albany
Sibutu Island
Dato
North Borneo
Watson
Litte
Les
Borneo
Philippines
Jolo
Lkely
Officials Schedule New York Hearing On Classification No 26
The executive committee of the trunk line association adopted a resolution calling a joint meeting of official classification committees in New York on Monday January 24 to hear shippers about classification No 26. Shippers must submit statements in writing and press notice will publicize the hearing. Traffic managers east of the Mississippi and north of the Ohio attended.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Trunk Line Association
New York
Mississippi
Ohio
Explosion at Stout mill kills three in NL area
A boiler at Charles Stouts mill eight miles east of Anna Newfoundland exploded killing three employes including engineer John Adams and Matt McGinniss while owner Mr Stout was badly injured. He suffered a crushed head and is not expected to survive. Local authorities report dramatic damage and ongoing recovery efforts.
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Charles Stout
Anna, NL
John Adamis
Matt McGinniss
McGinniss
Stout
Jake Chelan
Chelan
Washington
Cascade Range of Mountains
Frooma May Go Higher in Broom Prices
The American broom manufacturers association held its annual Chicago meeting electing officers for the year and naming a committee likely to propose a 10 percent price increase. About sixty manufacturers attended, representing eight to five percent of total U.S. output. The report mentions Deronlède and Buffet sentenced to banishment for ten years from Franco Bay.
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Deronledé and
Buffet
Franco
Bay Be
Broom Manufacturers '' Association of
United States
Canada
Chicago
Union Broom Corn’ Supply Company
Iti
Joness
Sugar Beet Plant Planned at Rocky Ford Colorado
Santa Fe announces via Chicago headquarters that American Beet Sugar will build a sugar beet plant at Rocky Ford in the Arkansas valley. The $1.5 million facility, the second largest in the world, will process 18,000 tons of refined sugar annually using 100,000 tons of beets and employ irrigation fertile land to boost farmers profits of about 40 dollars per acre across 80,000 acres planted next season. Two more large plants are expected in the Arkansas valley within two to three years.
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Santa Fe Railroad
Chicago
American Beet Sugar Company
Rocky Ford
Colo
Arkansas Valley
Nebraska
Great American Desert
N S Harwood Dead After Stroke in Lincoln
N S Harwood a longtime Lincoln lawyer and banker, died after a stroke of apoplexy suffered Friday evening at 4 o'clock. Although he had a prior lighter attack three months earlier, he recovered to resume work before the fatal stroke as he descended stairs at Eleventh and P streets. He was taken home to 1618 A Street and died at 5 10.
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N.S. Harwood
Lincoln
Becaame
At &10
Women Seek Funds to Save Chicago Temple Foreclosure
Temple women push a plan led by Mrs Matilda B Carseh to persuade Marshall Field to delay mortgage foreclosures and grant trustees another chance. A joint meeting of trustees and bondholder representatives will consider the plan as WCTU national officers move to Evanston. The Women’s Temperance publishing association plans a ten year agreement with an outside firm to provide dividends to stockholders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Friends of Temple
Matilda B. Carseh
Chicago Woman's Temple
Marshall Field
Women’ S’ Christian ‘Temperance Union
Wme
Evanston
Women’s Temperance’ Publishing Association
Writ of Habeas Corpus Sought for Two Soldiers
U S district authorities in Omaha urged by Washington to obtain a federal writ of habeas corpus for Corporal Fair and Private Jockens held at Papillion. Bound over $1000 by state court judge Howard, bond posted as unavailable. Action follows war department direction after military court acquittal for shooting a deserter not on a military reservation. state rights question involved.
St Louis Courts to Get Electric Light in City Buildings
Municipal failures left city institutions dark through January but the circuit court rooms and associated offices will now receive electric lights under contracts with Missouri Edison. Judges will certify their accounts to the auditor as the old contract lapsed and a temporary arrangement covered light needs until the new term starts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Municipal Assembly
St. Louis
Missouri-Edison Company
Judgment Paid to Engineer Osborn in District Court
Auditor Cornell issues a warrant for 781.60 to J. W. Osborn, engineer at the home for the friendless, who secured a district court judgment of 830. The auditor gave Osborn all there was in the fund. Bold Prisoners of Traitors: Lt Col Pilcher holds Boers captured in the Sunny side fight as traitors. Most of the force opposing him was made up for.
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Cornell
J. W. Osborn
District Court
Osborn
Pilcher
Sunnyside
Swedish farmer slain by son in Nebraska ravine tragedy
The headless body of C M Nelson, Swedish farmer eight miles northwest of Kearney, was found in a ravine near his farm. Theodore Nelson, age 20, confessed to striking his father with a pitchfork and dragging the body into the draw. Authorities hold Theodore and Grant, an uncle, with Mrs Nelson under surveillance as the case unfolds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C.M. Nelson
Kearney
C. M. Nelson
Sweden
Srunk
Nelson
Sheriff Punk
Theodore
Jim
Grant
Water Moves Southward Through Chicago Drainage Channel
The first avaver from the Chicago drainage channel passed Lockport controlling works into the Mississippi valley last Saturday morning. Water inside the works rose two feet to within two feet of the gate sill. Chief Engineer Randolph left for Lockport to observe the river entering the shallow bed prepared for its first run above Joliet upper pool.
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Chicago
Lockport, Sr
Mississippi Valley
Randolph
Lockport
Chicago River
Joliet
Promises Speedy Decision From London Talks
Secretary Hay received a cablegram from Ambassador Choate reporting a satisfactory interview with Lord Salisbury on the seizure of American goods by British warships. Salisbury promised to consider the representations promptly and return a speedy decision. A Nebraska accident involved Dr. W P Wilcox shooting himself. the bullet passed through his body, but he may recover. The Stan dard company beet sugar factory startup at Anes will run at least three months with a 500 ton daily capacity. Gene Joubert recalled negotiations with the British at Mejuba hill and his reply to the British commander in chief.
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Hay
Ambassador Choate
London
Lord Salisbury
Choate
State Department
Nebraska City
W. P. Wilcox
Stuarts
Standard Company
Anes
Gene. Joubert
New York City
Henry George
Mejuba Hill
Joubert
United States Attache for Transvaal War: Capt Reichman
Captain Carl Reichman of the Seventeenth Infantry, a son of a distinguished German family from Leavenworth Kansas, has been named United States military attache to the Boer army. A Heidelberg University graduate, he came to America in 1881, rose through the ranks, served in the Santiago campaign, and later joined General Otis’s staff in the Philippines before heading to South Africa.
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United States
Carl Reichman
Seventeenth Infantry
Leavenworth
Heidelburg University
America
Reichman
Spain
Santiago
Philippines
Otis
South Africa
Executors' fees top Pullman estate settlement
Robert Lincoln and Norman Ream, named executors of George M. Pullman’s estate, were approved for 425 600 in fees, a record for probate court. The final accounting is expected this week as the estate’s value unfolds from about 68 million to nearly 14 million.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Lincoln
Norman Ream
Pullman
Robert T. Lincoln
Norman B. Ream
George M. Pullman
Roman Warships and Rail Travel Snippets From Old Source
Roman man of war crews relied on oarsmen across three decks, speed about six miles per hour in fair weather. The ad murmurs about winter tours and California to Mexico travel routes with tickets, rates, and agents listed in Chicago and Cincinnati offices. Also notes air resistance of trains at sixty mph, a cold remedy, Ontario apple shipments, and beet sugar talks plus a Humanitarian Home solicitation for information and funds.
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California
Arizona
Texas
Mexico
W. G. Nelmyer
Southern Pacific
Clark ‘St
Chicago
Chamber Commerce
Cincinnati
Ohio
J. Berg
Buffalo
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Raz
Basil
Russia
Simeon
Mr. Murray
Ately
Mae
Kre
Mar ii
Ethel
Owith
Bret Day
J. Kigne
Hi. Kivike, Ltd
Arch St
Philadelphia
Krvzer
Great Britain
France
sAyer
Baxter
Braidwood
Ill
Kieeps
Ayer's
Wille
Benella
Ates
Zy Lowell
Mass
Morrisaey
Ous
Trunk Tine Association
York
England
Board ‘of Education
Has' Bubosle Plagse
Mapture
Boston
Fitz Clarence
Durben
Natal
Delagoa Hay
Admiralty
Poaldon
Durbin
St. Louis FF
Edward Wuneh
Buffalo, N. Y
Evening News
David Shankland
Typographical Puion No. 9
Typographical Union
New York Supreme Court
Quay
Senate Committee On Privileges and Elections
Pennsylvania
Senate
Burrows
Tennessee Central Railroad
Rockwood
Tenn
M. Nelson
la Ravine
Theodore Nelson
Transvaal
Berlinger
Tageblatt
Cologne Volks Zeitung
Berliner Neueste
Nachrichten
Hamburger
Ninety-second Street
Ilinois Steel Company
Thirty-First Street
Ashland. Avenue
Joseph Middle
Ignatz Giazeoal
Brank Schuck
Halcomb
Silas A. Holcomb
Supreme Court
Milton Schwind
Henry Brunot
Pana
Jil
Jane Brunot
Fara
Brunot
Ernest J. Leehman
Ernest J. Lehman
The
Fair Department Store
White Plains
Lehman
Lawton Fund
Lawton
Corbin
Janell
Outig
Foutadge County
Dena
U. S
Roach
Peruna
W. N. Roach
North Dakota
Peryna Medicine Company
Columbus
Washington, D
Larimore
Peruna Medicine Company
Dr. Hartman
Sc. E. W. Grove
Huron County
Ontario
Lelieve
Lucy Allace
Marquette
Kan
the Humanitarian Home
J. H. Teldebsuta
East Lag
Greenland
Hot Springs
South Dakota
North
Ofnuia
Neb
Humanity
Obia
Rand
L. R. Smith
el Dorado - Springe
Algo Martan
Bowers
Caraghar
Neuralg
Bagel
Smith
Chalilo
Maf
Bottina
Ageath
Swanson Rheumatic Cure CO
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