Cheap Homes Prospects Along Cotton Belt Route
Advertises affordable farming land in Texas and Arkansas with early fruit and vegetable maturity, long growing seasons, and good grazing. Promotes literature on Southwest and Ark La Tex regions and outlines Cotton Belt Route ticket deals on the first and third Tuesdays for half-rate fares plus $2.00, with 21 days return limit.
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Fhhe
Southwest
Missouri
Arkansas
N. W
Louisiana
St. Louis
Mhebes
Cairo
Memphis
Texas
E. W. LA Beaume
T. A
Rail and travel ad hints mix with scattered 19th century notices
A mixed page fragment advertises Missouri Pacific and Iron Mountain rail routes from St Louis and Kansas City with through sleepers and reclining chair cars. It spirals into assorted items about Tibby Glass factory labor needs, art exhibitions, bandit Cole Younger, a Florence vase theft, a French surgical appendix operation on a two month old, bearded women studies, a Kyoto funeral, Dartmouth alumnus Charles Wingate, and Boone family historic reenactment proposals for the world’s fair.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Missouri Pacific Railway
Iron Mountain
St. Louis
Kansas City
Kansas
Missouri
Nebraska
Utah
Colorado
Arkansas
Archeological Museum
Florence
Henry Fourres
New York
Canac-Marquis
Strike hits Shamokin colliery and citywide labor moves
A series of labor disturbances unfolds with strikes at Shamokin PA collieries over a half hour shift change. Reports cite 1,500 workers protesting, and separate halting actions by tanners, bricklayers, and cooks in Denver, Oswego, Indianapolis, and Kansas City as unions push for higher wages and shorter hours amid broader job unrest across multiple states.
Roosevelt Westward Tour Opens in Chicago Crowd Hears Address
President Roosevelt began his western tour in Chicago on April 3, greeted by Mayor Harrison and a large crowd. He visited Evanston and the University of Northwestern, then the University of Chicago with LL.D. degree conferral and a 6000-strong audience in the Auditorium. Milwaukee reception, soldiers' home visit, and law talks followed with banquets and speeches.
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Chicago
Roosevelt
West
Pennsylvania
Harrison
Evanston
Patten
Fort Sheridan
Northwestern University
Lunt Library
Union Station
University of Chicago
University
Harper
Morgan Park Academy
Kent Theater
Milwaukee
Wis
Nation
Rose
National Soldiers’ Home
Deutscher Club
Bletzch
Milwaukee Press Lab
Milwaukee Merchants’ and Manufacturers’ Association
Wadhams
United States
Waukesha
Harding
Minneapolis
Sioux Falls
S. D
Falls
Burnside
Stites
Kittridge
Cataract House
Chinese Government Aiding Boxer Leaders to Stay Quiet
Report from Pekin says the Chinese government funds Boxer leaders Gen Tung Fuh Siang and Prince Tuan to refrain from hostilities in Kansu province while the dowager empress and court depart for the western tombs. Uprising in Kwang-Si with 100000 rebels is not aimed at foreigners.
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W. Pekin
United States
China
Pekin
Kwang-Si
Tonkin
Gen
Tung Fuh Siang
Prince Tuan
Kansu
Peking
Three Squadrons for Asiatic Waters Lifted by Navy
Washington April 6 The United States will materially increase its naval presence in the Orient with squadrons organized under three main heads. Battleships Kentucky Oregon Wisconsin and monitors Monterey Monadnock will form the line of battle group, with Wisconsin due to sail by May 1. A cruiser squadron includes New Orleans and Raleigh, while the Cincinnati squadron comprises gunboats and small craft for waters too shallow for larger ships.
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Uncle Sam
Asiatic
Washington
United States
Orient
Navy Department
Philippine
Kentucky
Oregon
Wisconsin
Monterey
Monadnock
Dispute Over Strike Award Sparks Mineside Stoppages
In Scranton and surrounding coal regions, miners and operators clash over interpreting the strike commission award. Some plants cut hours to nine with overtime for extra work, others kept ten hours. Several colliery locals ban nine-hour shifts, while wage and shift disputes trigger stoppages affecting Green Ridge Plymouth Providence Carbondale Wilkesbarre and related operations.
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Scranton
Green Ridge Coal Co
Providence
Carbondale
Plymouth
Wilkesbarre
Delaware & Hudson Co
Enterprise Coal Co
Shamokin
W. L. Connell
Hesittantyanki Wes
Conction Board
Commission
Altoona
Cambria
Clearfield
Clearfield County
Mullahy
International Brotherhood of Stationary Firemen
Wyoming Valley
Federal Labor Union
Fair
The Resurrection Message from First Corinthians
A Sunday School lesson explains 1 Corinthians 15 on Christ’s resurrection as the foundation of immortality. It cites eyewitnesses, argues for eternal life through Jesus, and urges steadfast, fruitful living in the Lord.
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Jesus Christ
Christ
Jesus
Paul
Christ Jesus
Fatal flames in five story tenement on Riv ington street
A fire on Riv ington street last night in a five story tenement killed one person and injured eight others as 22 families fled into the street amid a $10,000 property loss. The blaze began during Passover clean up with painters at work and old bedding piled near the stairway.
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Chicago
Halsted Street
Zoran
New York
Rivington Street
M. Hochman
Samuel Hochman
Castro authorized to fulfill protocols without legal sanction
From Caracas April 3 Congress in secret session authorized President Castro to fulfill obligations in British and Italian protocols as an extraordinary act, not creating a legal precedent. In Cumberland Maryland the Junior Coal Co shifts drivers' wages to a new rate, replacing $1.85.
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Caracas
Congress
Seret
Castro
Cumberland, Md
Junior Coal Co
Junior, W
Many Women and the Self Help Ideal in 1900s Commentary
A Philadelphia Bulletin excerpt surveys women viewed through gender stereotypes. It critiques selfishness as masculine, condemns falsehoods, praises praise as detrimental to children, and opinions on appearance show legal-appeal criticism. The piece links self reliance to masculine virtue and contrasts it with female behavior.
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Philadelphia Bulletin
Quotations on Truth and folly from Chicago Daily News
A collection of pointed aphorisms and wry reflections on honesty confinement memory and gender roles attributed to a Chicago Daily News quotation panel. The remarks mock social norms and human folly with concise witticisms about error memory and social judgment.
Burglar Killings End Series of Local Robberies at Himrod
A tragic gun battle ends a weeks long burglary spree around Himrod. In a store attack the burglar, 35, 160 pounds, died after being shot by a crowd and police. The man bore a tattooed left arm and carried tags with Garnett Bros Wat kin and Frank Hennesey. Waterloo Chief Connor then captured two men at Clary's clothing store, naming Joseph McDermott of Cincinnati and John Kennedy of Brooklyn as arrestees.
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Syracuse
N. Y
Post Standard
Penn Yam
Himrod
Elect & Vorthees
Edward Street
Julia Sheffer
Garnett Bros
Watkins, Y
Frank Hennesey
Waterloo
Connor
Clary
Joseph McDermott
Cincinnati
John Kennedy
Brooklyn
Woman with Revolver Ends Life in Jersey City Hotel
Mrs Louise Ames Van Weik, about 35, killed herself at the Hotel Washington in Jersey City on April 6. Found by Edward Chase after water leaked from an upstairs room. revolver with four loaded and one empty shell lay beside her. She had arrived from the west days earlier and had money and packages from New York stores. Daughter of Capt Edwin Ames, she was once married to Otto B Weik of Indiana. they divorced three years earlier and she had added Van to her former husband’s name.
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Delaware & Hudson
Saratoga
Albany
N. Y
Henry Street
New York City
Greenfield
George Crammer
Presbyterian Hospital
Philadelphia
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Prussia
James Farrell
Chicago
Farrell
Harry Pulver
O'Brien
Fort Thomas
Pulver
Lion Parsons
Company B
Third Infantry
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Indiana
Illinois
American Telephone and Telegraph Co
Blair
Little Kanawha Railroad
Zanesville, C
Parkersburg
W. Va
West Virginia
Schenectady
N. C
Carpenters
Seattle
Francis T. Luqueer
Squeer & Co
Hardware and Harness Merchants
New York
Navy Yard
Brooklyn
Thomas F
Twentysonal School Board
Joseph Travis
Frank Brown
David G. Johnson
Navy Department
Higginson
Wilkinsburg
Mbara
Dakar
French West Africa
Wynne
Broadway
Helena
Mont
Jormick
Jersey
Jersey City
Louise Ames van Weik
Washington
Edward Chase
Mrs. van Weik
Baltimore
Louise Ames Weik
Edwin Ames
United States Army
Bishop Ames
Massachusetts
Otto B. Weik
Weik
Van
Labor Victory Settles Wabash Railway Dispute
After four months of conflict the Wabash Railway employes and officials reached a settlement declared a sweeping labor victory. Increases include twelve percent for conductors brakemen and baggagemen in passenger service and fifteen percent for conductors and brakemen in freight service. firemen receive raises on Canadian lines. an overhaul of train service rules across all yard and service classes was granted.
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Wabash Railway Co
St. Louis
Wabash Road
Mississippi River
Michigan Central
United States
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Luxembourg
Frank Armstrong
Nevada
Cole Younger
Otant Koson
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Kyoto
Charles Wingate
Dartmouth College
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Haverhill
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T Ie Boone
Callaway
M. Boone
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Luke Fidler
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Garfield
Hague
American Hide and Leather Co
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Bankina
United States Corporation
Indianapolis
Electrical Workers’ Union of Kansas City, Co
Missouri and Kansas Telephone Co
Mint
Frank Cande
Nathan Tsdee
Greenwich
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Isabella Gill
Savannah
Dix
E. H. Weaver
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Henry Stevens
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Sadie Vale Concordia
Beryl Wayne
Daniel McCauley
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Towa
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Adam Stewart
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Ueger
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Mex
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Robinson
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Chicago Daily, News
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Atlanta
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