Fire walking ritual on Raiatea described in detail
A 19th century account details the fire walking rite on Raiatea in Tahiti’s vicinity. Priests Taero and Tupea perform the ceremony with the umu ti, while natives and Europeans observe the blazing hot stones and ritual chants. A July 1899 spectator recalls heat, faith, and a feast of pigs fowls yam and taro afterward.
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Polynesia
Bega
Benga
Suva
Raiatea
Tahiti
Taero
Tupea
Memorable Heroism in Peking Entry by British Troops
The London Illustrated News recalls the first entry of British troops into Peking as a notably memorable moment tied to China’s legations. Major Scott led the advance under the water gate while Indian soldiers waded through mud to their waists, illustrating the daring nature of the action.
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China
Peking
London Illustrated News
Scott
R. B
Scaling Peking Wall and the Storied Siege
An officer of engineers Captain Soady climbed the wall barefoot and sacrificed his turban as a flag. Britons opened the inner gate allowing Germans Russians and Japanese to enter. Boxers retreated but would return to fight another day. memories endure as heroic scenes cling to the events.
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Soady
Wonders of Oklahoma
Oklahoma's population surpasses 400000 with a 6 44 percent gain. The piece outlines wealth from schools to banks, railways, and rich agricultural prospects, noting 120000 schoolchildren, 1800 schools, 950 churches, 1100 Sunday schools, 65000 teachers, and strong university and normal schools at Norman Edmond Alva Stillwater Langston. It argues for immediate statehood and union with Indian Territory, detailing debt, exports, and diverse resources.
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United States Census Bureau
Oklahoma
United States
Oklahoma City
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Oklahoma School Land Department
Kiowa and
Comanche
Territorial University
Norman
Territorial Normal School
Edmond
Northwestern Normal School
Alva
Agricultural and Mechanical College
Stillwater
Colored Agricultural and Normal University
Langston
University At
Northwestern Normal
West
Indian Territory
Territorial
Love and peril in a Whitethorn Wood May Dance
A verse excerpt from Evelyn Greenleaf Sutherland in Smart Set describes Sir Launcelot and the queen in a Whitethorn Wood during Maytime. Love's passion and pain drive a perilous cross of affection as spring awakens romance and a new queenly longing.
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Arthur
Sir Launcelot
Evelyn Greenleaf Sutherland
Ren Fish In China
A German weekly science column reports that Chinese hens hatch fish eggs by placing fish spawn in sealed eggshells under hens. The spawn is warmed and then transferred to a shallow pool where the fish are raised before being released into lakes or streams.
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China
Not Adventurous Enough Dicky Iain't a Express Messenger
Dialogue from Express Gazette features Dicky and Johnnie discussing career risk and pride in a veteran express messenger who has never experienced wrecks or robberies in fifty years of service. The piece contrasts youthful bravado with experienced caution.
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Dicky
Johnnie
Express Gazette
Cabinet May Fall After Minister Resigns in Japan
Yokohama reports Hoshi Toru the minister of communication and former minister to the United States has resigned amid persistent allegations of involvement in financial scandals. He will be succeeded by former Korea minister Hara. Ito cabinet stability may be affected.
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Yokohama
Hoshi Toru
United States
Hara
Korea
Ito
Largest coal deal in Harrison county closes soon
The 12,000 acre Salem area tract near Salem, totaling 19 square miles, is set to be sold to James E. Brown of Uniontown and Alfred J. Cochran for 842000 dollars in what is described as the biggest coal deal ever made in Harrison county.
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Fairmont
W. Va
Harrison County
Salem
James E. Brown
Uniontown
Alfred J. Cochran
Wheelman's Death Attributed To Pneumonia In Race
An autopsy on Oscar Aaronson, the six day bicyclist who fell in the Madison Square Garden race, shows death caused by pneumonia contracted during the race rather than injuries from the fall.
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New York
Oscar Aaronson
Rider Henry L Wilbur Killed In Cross Country Fall
Philadelphia December 26 Henry L Wilbur 42 son of cocoa and chocolate maker H O Wilbur was thrown from his horse while riding to the Chester Valley hunt and died at the scene.
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Philadelphia
Chester Valley Hunt
Henry L. Wilbur
H. O. Wilbur
Brilliant Exposition Vision For Pan American Display
The Buffalo Pan American Exposition aims for artistic triumph with 350 acres of courts including Court of Fountains Plaza and Esplanade. The Electric Tower 375 feet high will anchor lighting with 200000 lamps and cascading fountains.
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Esplanade
Boers advance checked as British patrols circle Cape Colony
Dispatches from Lord Kitchener say Boer movement into Cape Colony has been checked with eastern forces north of the Zoutpansberg range and western units turned toward Britstown and Prieska. French and Clements engage Beyers and Delarey. Kreuz captured. Dewet active near Senekal. Cape Town reports railways cut and dynamite stockpiles unearthed amid rising Boer elation.
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London
War Office
Lord Kitchener
Pretoria
Cape Colony
Zoutpansberg Range
Britstown
Prieska
DeAar Junction
French
Beyers
Delarey
Magaliesberg
South Africa
Cape Town
Transvaal
Brussels
Bethulie
Dewet
DeAar
Cape Mans
Bloemfontein
Victoria West
Zoutpans Drift
Pietermaritzburg
Johannesburg
British army to buy fifty thousand horses for South Africa
Captain Heygate of the British army, after an earlier return from the United States, plans a fresh purchase of fifty thousand cavalry horses and mules for South Africa. Inspected animals will be shipped from New Orleans to join the Boer war effort, adding to England’s tally of over 100000 head bought in the U.S. since the war began.
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Kansas City
Heygate
South Africa
New Orleans
England
United States
Silk thieves rob Laporte store for second time this year
Laporte Indiana December 24 1900 For the second time this year Julius Barnes Co dry goods store is robbed by silk thieves About midnight 500 dollars worth of fine silk and a 450 dollar sealskin jacket were stolen from the shop.
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Laporte
Ind
Julius Barnes & Co
Man of Wealth Samuel M Murphy Dies in Nashville
Samuel M Murphy aged 73, reputed wealthiest citizen of Tennessee, died of heart failure in Nashville on December 24. He relocated to Nashville in 1870 from Cincinnati where he ran a wholesale liquor business.
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Nashville
Tenn
Samuel M. Murphy
Mr. Murphy
Cincinnati
Berlin Population Rises Amid Transit Shift
Berlin reports a population of 2,469,676 including suburbs, up from 2,076,946 in 1895. The electric trolley system is rapidly replacing storage batteries on the city’s busiest streets.
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Berlin
At a Green Old Age
Cincinnati reports the death of John Riley Chamberlain aged 72 a Civil War veteran and Miami University graduate who had worked in the newspaper business He died after illnesses including pneumonia and bronchitis since November. Also notes Minnesota and Wisconsin blizzard conditions with severe cold winds and heavy snow.
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Cincinnati
John Riley Chamberlain
Miami University
Oxford
Private guard found killed in Louisville
John Kappleman, a private watchman, was found dying with his brains beaten out near his workplace in Louisville Kentucky. His pockets were rifled of wages paid the night before. No arrests have been made yet.
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Louisville
John Kappleman
Czar's Leave-Taking From Litadia Not Likely Soon
A state minister said Emperor Nicholas and ministers of finance war and foreign affairs do not expect to depart Litadia while the czar convalesces, planning to stay until mid January at the earliest.
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St. Petersburg
Nicholas
Finance
Litadia
End of Genoa Labor Bureau Strike Promises Reconstruction
Genoa crowd cheers as prefect police close the labor unions bureau. government agrees to reconstruct the bureau. Paris reports Wu Chang to be opened as a port per viceroy of Hu Pei and Hum Nan, confirming dispatches.
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Genoa
Bureau of Labor Unions
Paris
Hu Pei
Hum Nan
Wu Chang
Hayes Homestead Not To Be Sold In Hayes Family Case
Spiegel Grove the Hayes home in Fremont Ohio will not be sold as heirs can cover the annuity set by the supreme court without disposing of the property. In Cleveland the circuit court reinstated Ex-State Senator Vernon H Burke who had been barred from practicing law after the Burke Dellenbaugh trial two years ago.
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Burke
Cleveland
Vernon H. Burke
Seman Burke-Dellenbaugh
Gardiner Removed. Philbin Appointed in New York
New York Governor Roosevelt removes Colonel Asa Bird Gardiner district attorney for Greater New York and appoints Eugene Philbin to succeed him, effective immediately. The action comes as Roosevelt reorganizes the city administration before year end.
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Roosevelt
New York
Asa Bird Gardiner
Greater New York
Eugene Philbin
Weather for Christmas: Fair with flurries in northeast Ohio
Fair conditions prevail for Christmas with snow flurries mainly in the northeast portion of Ohio. High westerly winds sweep the region.
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Ohio
Global News Notes Snapshot of Local Crimes and Events
A quick digest reports Floyd Brice fatally shot in Pineville Kentucky. A Spokane mining exposition runs June to November 1902. A stage robbery near Lakeview Oregon. Mail sacks stolen and a bank safe breached in Madison Ohio but foiled. A hunting accident near Gallipolis Ohio kills Adalf Miller. German Field Marshal Count Von Blumenthal dies at Quellendorf. A Kentucky dance injury as Doc Reffy shoots William Toohey. Burglars hit Indiana Furniture in Connersville, taking 30 pounds. Kentucky Indiana boundary case denied rehearing. Mae Brenner wins 876 for unwanted kissing by R W Boeger.
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Floyd Brice
Pineville
Spokane
Wash
Lakeview
Ore
Exchange Bank
Madison
Gallipolis
Quellendorf
Jack’s Creek
Lexington
Doc
Reffy
William Toohey
Indiana Furniture Company
Connersville
Ind
Kentucky Court of Appeals
Miss Mae Brenner
R. W. Boeger
Decatur County
Iowa
Robbers Bind Couple In Lebanon Home In Night Raid
Four masked men burst into the Thompson residence two miles west of Lebanon Ohio as the couple dined. They bound Mr. and Mrs. J W Thompson to chairs, demanded cash, and took about 300 dollars in gold and silver plus a gold watch and all the family silver before placing the elderly couple back to bed and tying them.
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Lebanon
J. W. Thompson
Archbishop Ireland Denies Cuba Visit As Commissioner
St Paul December 24 Archbishop Ireland returns to St Paul denying plans to tour Cuba and Puerto Rico as a presidential commissioner to settle church property disputes. He traveled to Washington to attend a Lafayette Monument association meeting. Nebraska Senatorship canvass underway in Lincoln with Meiklejohn directing efforts for two senate seats.
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Ireland
St. Paul
Cuba
Porto Rico
McKinley
Washington
Lafayette Monument Association
Nebraska
Lincoln
Neb
Meiklejohn
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