The Big Muddy Ends Government Effort on Missouri River
In his annual report Captain H M M Chittenden, head US engineers for the Missouri river, declares it a waste of public money to improve the stream. He notes erratic navigation, cross-state shifts, and that railroads already handle freight cheaper. The river is rarely navigable, often changing channels and defying land rights, so border congressmen must seek other projects.
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United States
Missouri River
H. MM. Chittenden
United States Engineers
Sioux City
Missouri Valley
Missouri
Iowa
Nebraska
Modern finances spotlight Rock Island system
The Chicago Rock Island and Pacific railroad shows a vast capital base of 75 million dollars and 4000 miles of track with feeders totaling 3000 miles. Although these lines sit under separate corporate names, they function as Rock Island properties, many said to be bought with Rock Island funds. Judge Moore, once a Chicago lawyer linked to the Diamond Match Trust, proposed a plan to unite the main assets.
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Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railroad
Rock Island
Judge Moore
Chicago
Diamond Match Company
Iowa may probe Rock Island stock merger plan
The report describes a Jersey charter merger where old stockholders exchange 100 shares for 70 new preferred, 100 common, and $10,000 in collateral bonds. New preferred promises sliding dividends, prompting Governor Cummins to order Attorney General Mullen to investigate possible stock watering and consider tighter corporate protections.
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Rock Island
Jersey
Cummins
Mullen
Northern Securities Company
Iowa
Iowa Tariff Platform Gains Wide Support Across Papers
A collection of editorials from Troy Record to Portland Daily Press lauds the Iowa Republicans for a tariff plank aiming to modify schedules as needed to protect American industries. They urge a Republican majority to drive tariff revision, arguing it safeguards capital and labor while curbing monopolistic favoritism. The stance resonates with McKinley era protectionist thought and signals momentum for Republican tariff revision in the coming Congress.
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Iowa
Troy Record
Indianapolis Journal
Union
William McKinley
Allison
Congress
Cleveland
Friends of
United States
House
Senate
Philadelphia Evening Telegraph
Portland Daily Press
Washington
Cummins
Middle West
Nebraska State Journal
Smith
Boston Daily Advertiser
Lafollette II
Iowa Platform Sets Tone for Republican Party Policy
Wisconsin political observer And Cumming notes Iowa leads in demanding tariff removal from monopolistic trusts selling cheaper goods abroad. Wilmington Morning News says the Iowa platform signals future state conventions and warns beet sugar senators their endorsements are not assured. Iowa is portrayed as a solid reliable Republican state voicing national party sentiment.
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Wisconsin
Cumming
Iowa
Republican Party
United States
Wilmington
Odd types of disease among metal workers and spinners
A historical note on craft diseases names and risks. It catalogs ailments linked to trades, noting chimney sweeps face high cancer risk, copper and zinc workers suffer blood poisoning and respiratory disease, brass founders and gunsmiths show distinctive health patterns, and cotton spinners and wool workers incur respiratory and rheumatic issues.
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Woolsorter
Chambernaid
Thomas Oliver
Oliver
Porto Rico's Trade Surges As Gov Hunt Reports
Bradstreets notes strong Puerto Rico performance from Governor Hunt interview. Last fiscal year shipments to the United States reached $8,297,420, up 48.6% from the prior year, with $5,890,087 in sugar, and $1,570,938 in cigars and cigarettes. Exports to foreign markets totaled $4,592,505, marking further growth.
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Bradstreet
Porto Rico
Hunt
United States
Porto Rico Exports RiseSharply Driven by Coffee Trade
The report notes a 54.7 percent year over year increase in exports from Porto Rico. Coffee leads in value at 3,168,662 dollars, while shipments of coffee to the United States total 29,188 dollars. Porto Rico exports to foreign countries amount to just over half of those to the United States, yet foreign vessels entering and clearing at its ports exceed those of the United States.
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United States
Porto Rico
Abolition debate over medieval army punishments in Austria
The Austrian parliament considered abolishing two torture like army punishments. One punishes by tying hands behind and suspending the body until fainting, the other confines limbs for six hours. War minister Gen von Kreighammer argued they are necessary and harmless to healthy men.
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von Kreighammer
British iron shipbuilders mock Nixon boast
An English observer ridicules Agent Lewis Nixon's claim that shipbuilding will soon dominate world labor. The Birmingham Society of Boilermakers and Iron Shipbuilders secretary notes that in 1900 America built only 29,069 tons of wood iron and steel vessels for foreign trade, implying it would take 175 years to meet demand at the current pace.
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Lewis Nixon
The
Birmingham Society of Boilermakers and Iron Shipbuilders
America
United States
Editor Tillinghast Returns After European Tour
B F Tillinghast resumes duties at the Democrat after four months in Europe as a government representative at a Red Cross convention in St. Petersburg. He toured the continent and sent back a series of insightful letters detailing observations and underappreciated problems.
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B. F. Tillinghast
the Democrat
Europe
Editorial Glances From Back Pages Aug 27
Editorial glances note Aug 27 predictions from Second district Republicans on tariffs. Reports detail typhoons in the Philippines lowering cholera deaths and officials halting steamboat races on Long Island Sound. Coal prices rise in New York City to 8.50 a ton with some dealers seeking 9.50 or 10. An elderly Easton Conn woman drives her own coach horses. Holbein the swimmer failed to cross the English Channel after 12 hours 22 minutes in the water. Lord Pauncefote’s London probate shows 320000 pounds estate. Miners threaten violence. public men will respond. Kaiser invites Lord Kitchener to visit Germany. Washington navy yard tests fuel oil replacing coal. Louisiana sugar firms to Cuba. Ashton plantation dismantled. Australian mine explosion entombs over 300 miners. 150 rescued, 67 dead, about 60 still entombed. As predicted by the Republicans.
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Authors’ Syndicate
Francis Drake
North Carolina
United States Army
Philippines
America
Aguinaldo
Drake
Great Island
Funston
Buwayo
Gregorio Juan Palacios
Maria Dolores
Juana
Senor Drake
Billy
Emilio Cristiano Trinidad Francisco Flores de Garcia
Emilio
Prake
Krag-Jorgensen
Sixty-fifth
United States
Expatriate For Love in Philippine Outpost Tale
A U S Army private Drake falls for Juana, mayor's daughter, amid interwoven Philippine War life. After braving ambush, he rescues her and plans a future with her as guards shoot and outpost danger fades. Returned veterans vouch for the tale’s authenticity.
Plenty of candidates in the Second district for nomination
A survey of political and world items notes strong timber for congressional nomination in the Second district with several capable men ready to run. The piece also mentions diplomatic and frontier news from Washington to Texas, and a mix of forecasts about the millennium based on a baby’s prophecy in Warsaw.
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Washington
Warsaw
Russia
Alaska
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