Wide World of Curiosities and World News Tidbits
A collage of notes covering maritime labor, rare antiques sales, scholarly hunts, medical milestones, royal memorabilia, and exploration. Reports include Chinese firemen on ships, a 13 spoons auction at $24,500, Willard Fiske in Europe searching archives, Sir Frederick Treves’ record, a New York manicure business saga, King Edward’s theatre programs, Montague Ponsonby’s critique of American excess, Boer colonization plans in Mexico, a dramatic stomach case, and Mt Tacoma ascent finds a bottle with 1894 names.
Striking at the President over Gen Wood Promotion
A brewing senate fight over Gen Leonard Wood s confirmation as major general is seen as aimed at President Theodore Roosevelt. Democrats backed by army officers may challenge his elevation while praising Wood s record, arguing the issue rests with the president and that McKinley first advanced him.
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Leonard Wood
Senate
Wood
Roosevelt
Gen
Indianapolis Journal
McKinley
Col. Wood
Rough Riders
Regular Army
Santiago
Cuba
Philippines
William McKinley
Gen. Wood
McKinsey
British North Borneo
British North Borneo Company
North Borneo Trading Company
Borneo
France
Pacific
Daniel Cleverton
Gladnes
United States
Henpeck
Chicago Record-Herald
Bryan and Cleveland clash over silver mine politics
A Chicago Chronicle critique attacks a silver mine attorney who libels Grover Cleveland and the Democratic Party. The piece frames Cleveland as honest and democratic, contrasts him with a wealth-backed, mob-suppressing opponent, and warns that the attorney’s influence wanes as his public defense of silver mining is exposed.
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West
Chicago Chronicle
Dem
Grover Cleveland
Democratic Party
Cleveland
Bryans
Chicago
Mr. Cleveland
Pennsylvania
Lazzaroni
Republic
Lincoln
United States
Washington
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Democratic National Committee
Bryan Standard
Bryan
Judge Parker
Cave Hill
Senator Gorman
Mary Hd
Dean Cera
Gorman
Troy Times
Maryland
Parker
Hill
Brean
Railway to Europe Islands 1 Dispute
Report discusses a proposed all rail route to Paris via a Behring Strait tunnel. American investors French and Russian capitalists seek Interior Department approval and possible Alaska land grants. Proponents frame neutralizing straits in war as a motive amid notes on tunnel feasibility and ventilation.
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Paris
Behring Straits
Hitchcock
Interior Department
Congress
Alaska
James Hamilton Lewis
Chicago
Holmes Conrad
Department of Justice
Charles H. Alarich
United States
China
Japan
Russia
Ruse
Straits
Cape Prince of Wales
Fast Cape
Siberia
Diamede
Ast Cape
Harry de Windt
Trans-Alaskan rail plan could run from Irkutsk to East Cape
The article outlines a 2600 mile Alaska Siberia rail scheme led by J J Frey of Denver with Russian support, promising vast timber and mineral resources. It envisions single track freight lines, arctic engine tech, and a 12 year timeline with 40 Russian survey engineers already abroad. The plan would connect Irkutsk to East Cape via Yakutsk and Verkoyansk, using Siberian labor and Siberian forests for ties.
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White Pass
J. J. Hill
Cape Prince of Wales
Trans-Alaskan Railroad Company
J. J. Frey
Denver
Col
Siberian
Paris
New York City
East Cape
Arctic
Irkutsk
Max Owe
Turn-the-rascals-out fallacy in post office scandal debate
The piece argues Republicans are cleansing post office corruption with no partisan bias while Democrats leverage the issue for 1904. It asserts the president and a Republican cabinet lead the investigation, punish offenders, and vow to keep all rascals out, not just turn them out.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Post Office
Post Office Department
Congress
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Republican Party
Foreion
People
Indianapolis Journal
Comment and Opinion Across Democratic Views
A montage of editorials from the era weighing Democratic figures and strategy. It cites Mr. Bryan in Europe and Mr. Cleveland’s public stance while noting mixed Republican and Democrat reactions to post office scandal fallout and party prospects.
Whale’s Mysterious Enemy Attacks Admiralty Island Whales
A Forest and Stream correspondent recounts a summer fishery on Seymour Canal Alaska where a huge clublike tail, 24 feet long, pounded at whales from a mysterious foe. The weapon, wielded with precision, damaged some backs, but no whales were killed. Indians recalled a single past attack on a canoe.
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Admiralty Island
Alaska
Seymour Canal
Plea for Preserving Wilderness Over Developed Parkland
A reflective piece argues for keeping Yellowstone’s wilderness intact, resisting roads and poles that mar its wild beauty. It notes the impact of population growth, but praises government protection and the lasting value of primeval solitude. It weaves in a Chicago Tribune excerpt and a humorous aside about a pack peddler.
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Ray Stannard Baker
Yellowstone Park
Ikeytude
Isaac Einstein
Chicago Tribune
The Man and His Goose
A covetous man kills a goose that laid a golden egg each day hoping to speed wealth. He finds no treasure inside and loses his source of daily riches. Moral: impatience destroys fortune and contentment.
The Real American Girl Says Working Life Shapes Her
William Allen White argues in Woman's Home Companion that the true American girl is defined by work, not society. She wears working clothes with grace, aims for self improvement, and seeks growth of soul and mind beyond bread and butter. Young women also dream bold visions and pursue elevated ambitions.
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William Allen White
Arctic Lovers and Mischief in a Frozen Tale
A duke's tale from the Arctic recounts a Eskimo lover planning a moonlit theft across a crevasse to win his beloved, only to steal her father by mistake. A berry seller, a boarding house, and wry humor from period magazines punctuate the scene, alongside a Kansas City note on river floods and rising beef prices.
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Cupid
Arctic
North Pole
Duke of
Abruzzi
Kansas City
Missouri
Everybody's Magazine
Seamless Bronze Statues Reach Indianapolis in New Casting Breakthrough
The Indianapolis News reports on seamless bronze sculpture inspired by ancient Greek methods. Rudolph Schwartz builds a casting furnace, imports German casters, and uses a wax mold process to produce large statues like the Pingree commission for Detroit.
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Indianapolis
Inianapolis
Rudolph Schwartz
Gov. Pingree
Michigan
Detroit
West
Irom Foundries
Novel Historial Facts and Juvenile Misconceptions
A Philadelphia schoolboy writes comic misstatements about William Penn, America, and Germantown in a humorous student composition. The article cites a class anecdote: Germantown location revealed by a student’s jokey answer. Illinois is noted as the nation’s leading whisky making state.
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Philadelphia
William Penn
England
Delawar River
Great Britain
America
Kentucky
Battle of
Germantown
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Defiance Express
Will C. Kegel
Latty Bldg
Court ST
Defiance
Ohio
Long Distance Telephone
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Far West
Christ
Willard Fiske
Cornell University
Europe
Copenhagen
Denmark
Lewis Row
Frederick Treves
Edward
Murphy
President McKinley
White House
Sargent
Mr. McKinley
New York
Buckingham Palace
Montague Vernon Ponsonby
Mexico
Joubert
O'Donnell
Holland
Monnier
Academy of Medicine
St. Joseph Hospital
H. M. Sarvant
Tacoma
Wash
W. M. Betts
New Orleans
Mt. Tacoma
Wood Brothers
G Mountain
Sulu
Jolo
Bagnau
Taganac
Bakkungnau
Likiman
Bonani
Siebeu
Behring Stra
Washington Star
Egbert
Corncribb
Mayme
Edyth
Cincinnati Enquirer
Disputed Islands
Islan
Germany
Spain
Sultan of Jolo
Tagenac
Sandakam
Evans
East India Islands
Brunei
Sarawak
Wii
Des Moines Register
Los Angles Herald
Whale
Alaskan
Yellowstone
Queen Alexandra
London
Greenland
Korkotya
East Baffinsland
Cyprus
Man
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