Summary of Weekly News Highlights and Disasters
The year’s civil service exams saw 45 641 applicants while Maine disaster claims reach 270 000 dollars with survivors awarded 10 000 each and families 20 000. Lt. Michler dies in Washington after illness. Rear Admiral Sampson may retire for health. oil gushers and a riverboat explosion cause damage. European currency violations and a Baltimore shipyard accident accompany numerous local incidents in Missouri Illinois and Delaware with fatalities and rescues noted.
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Serven
Civil Service Commission
Classified Service
Maine
Washington
Spanish Claims Commission
Francis Michler
Miles
West Point
Pennsylvania
Sampson
Navy Department
Boston Navy Yard
Department of Agriculture
Cottton
Laurine
Aville
Rocheport
T Souri
Chicago
Thomas I. Porter
United States Secret Service
Porter
Carrollton
Charles McKinney
Marks
Hickmarth
Columbia
Murphy and
McGinnis
Baltimore
Lake Huron
Great Lakes
Honolulu
Colon
Duluth
Minn
Lake Superior
Superior Street
William Skinner & Sons
Hudson
Watseka
Ill
Hershberger
Mattie Magee
Calvin Magee
Grand Rapids
Mich
Charles R. Flint
New York
Kentucky
Jamestown
Tenn
People’s Street Railway
Wilmington
Del
Joshua Gilman
Bayonne Boiler Strike and Mine Labor Movements
Boilermakers at Babcock Wilcox Bayonne plant lead a nine hour day demand with 300 workers striking along with 100 machinists from the same works. The NY Central directors weigh three presidency candidates. Enlistment of Pacific natives and a Guam governor report are noted. A New York Supreme Court ruling voids an anti scalping law. Major Hartford and Connecticut machinist strikes push for union recognition.
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Bayonne
N. J
Babcock & Wilcox Co
New York Central Railroad Co
Moad
Samuel R. Callaway
E. V. Rossiter
Edgar Vanetten
Central
E. Dickinson
Union Pacific
United States
Schroeder
Guam
Gildersleeve
New York Supreme Court
Sureme Court
Billings & Spencer
Wartford
Conn
Hartford
Manuel Maruski
Brooklyn Bridge
East River
Maruski
United States Steel Corporation
Lucy
Carnegie Co
Canada
James Malley
Plymouth
Malley
East Cambridge
Mass
Blake
Thomas Wilson
New York City
John Murphy
Youngsttown
Sharon
Salaries set for Philippine civil servants and unions in San Francisco
The Philippine commission enacts a law to fix central government salaries in the islands ahead of July 1 civil government. The estimated cost is about 1.2 million dollars, with provincial and judicial administration bringing total Filipino tax payrolls to several million. Meanwhile strikes in San Francisco see 22 shops sign union agreements and painters granted a $3 per day rise.
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Philippine Commission
Sancisco
Disorder in Kutais as crowd stones theatre after anti-Semitic play
In Kutais thousands gather around the theater as the anti-Semitic play the Smugglers provokes violence. Cossacks charge the mob injuring thirteen policemen and fifty three Cossacks. In Pretoria a shell explosion kills Boer General Schoeman and injures his wife and others. Count William Bismarck dies at Warzin Prussia after brief illness. Admiralty orders reduce wood use in warship construction.
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Russia
Kutais
Schoeman
Pretoria
William Bismarck
Prince Bismarck
Warzin
Prussia
Labor Strikes Rise Across U S Port and Industry
Two thousand paper mill workers in Holyoke Massachusetts strike after Eagle lodge of paper makers and the stationary firemen's union call action. Denver builders halt largely as 800 union carriers strike. Brick and mortar carriers demand higher pay and eight hour day.
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Holyoke
Mass
Eagle Lodge
Bureau of Navigation
United States
Denver
Col
Delaware River
Chester
Gilbert E. Meyers
Chicago
Joliet
Ilinois
Ohio
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Michigan
Colorado
George S. Ross
Pittsburg Plate Glass Co
Tarentum
Kelly
Polite clash over a dog exposes friendship flaws
Mrs Becker and Mrs Cassell share a long friendship based on church and club life. An ill tempered encounter begins when a yellow dog disrupts Becker's home and Cassell accuses the hostess of neglect. Misunderstanding ends with dog ejected and both women laughing over cleanup.
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Mrs. Cassell
Jin
Mrs. Becker
Chicago Daily News
Women in Politics by Mary A. Livermore
Lecturer Mary A. Livermore argues women are now more organized and influential in public life. Women form clubs leagues councils and unions and openly debate social and political issues influencing local elections and policy nationwide. She cites Massachusetts liquor suffrage and school committee rights as areas where women exert impact and face remaining barriers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Massachusetts
Union
Bates
Brigham Roberts
Congress
Utah
J.J. Ingalls
Mary A Livermore
Chicago Tribune
Northwestern Professor Calls Society Girl a Parasite
Prof J Scott Clark criticized society girls as parasites who live on their fathers and offer no domestic benefits. He argued they fail as household managers and warned that marrying college bred women is folly, though a Chicago report misattributed the remark.
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J. Scott Clark
Northwestern University
Prof. Clark
Solomon
Chicago
Clark
Rival to Silken Fans Invents Mechanical Hand Fan
A man patents a mechanical hand fan as a rival to delicate gauze and lace. The device uses wooden handles and brass components with a ratchet driven blade set. It can allegedly reach 8000 revolutions per minute and throw air like a compact electric fan. He sold about 4000 units, admitting it may appeal more to men than women.
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New York Sun
Keeping Ice In The Sick Room With Flannel Wrapping
A method to preserve ice in a sick room uses a deep tin pan lined with sagging flannel that does not touch the bottom. A piece of ice is wrapped inside the flannel folds to exclude air, and a pin such as a hat pin can be used to break off small pieces as needed.
Dramatic Debate Highlights Romantic Tone in Indianap olis Press
An exchange from the Indianapolis Press shows a playful confrontation over preferences between romance and tragedy. The dialogue features a character named Horria Brute and a speaker labeled He. The tone is light and witty rather than serious news.
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Horria Brute
Indianapolis
Absent Man in Blue Among Civil War Vets
A Chicago Record-Herald tribute recalls brave old men in blue marching past with banners and cheers. The poem honors veterans of Gettysburg, Malvern Hill, Fair Oaks, Gaines Mill, and Seven Pines, noting one fallen comrade who will not march again.
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Malvern Hill
Fair Oaks
Gaines’ Mill
Bloody Seven Points
Gettysburg
S. E. Kiser
Chicago Record-Herald
War memories from McCook's Fifty-second Ohio veterans
S M Pyle recalls Civil War service with Dan McCook's regiment. He describes retreat from Lexington in 1862, green troops at Richmond and Lexington, and changing to a blue hat after recognition by Col Dan McCook. The tale covers a loyal servant, a coffee pot hit by a bullet, and the Kenesaw and Chickamauga nights.
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McCook
S. M. Pyle
Fifty-second
Ohio
Chicago
Col
Dan McCook
Company G
Col. McCook
Dr. Pyle
Col. Dan
Kenesaw
Tom
Dan
Columbus
Tennessee
Chickamauga
Captain-Shocking Atlantic Weather Sparks Safety Talk
A cheerful exchange about hopes and fears for a daughter crossing the Atlantic. The mother notes she taught all her children swimming early, while the captain remarks on recent stormy seas and the need for precautions.
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Atlantic
States
Daughter and mother argue over dance partner in Brooklyn Life
Daughter laments her partner Harry Trottles danced with four partners last night. Mother suspects jealousy as they discuss the situation in Brooklyn Life.
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Harry Trottles
Brooklyn
A Fool. A fool can answer any question to his own satisfaction
A Chicago Daily News apothegm notes that a fool answers to his own satisfaction, implying self-deception and certainty without external validation. It reflects a wry view of confident ignorance.
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Chicago Daily News
Tale of a Tasselled Fez From Civil War Fields
A veteran recalls the morning after the second Manassas battle when his unit found wounded New York Zouaves. A dying boy asks for water and, giving his purple fez, asks the narrator to wear the other fez. The fez is kept briefly then lost in war’s aftermath.
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New Orleans Times-Democrat
Manassas
New York Zouaves
Hood
Controlling the Common Asparagus Beetle in Early Beds
The article explains practical control methods for the common asparagus beetle using trap plants, spraying with paris green mixtures, and hand-picking. It stresses starting combat now to protect this and next year’s crop, spraying after the cutting season and destroying early broods to prevent mature populations.
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F. H. Chittenden
United States Department of Agriculture
Orange Judd
Col John’s blouse tale and a faded color confession
A First Kentucky man recalls a dress parade moment when a colonel challenged a blouse color. The sergeant explains the garment’s fading after rain and the colonel, though strict, lets him keep the blouse if a replacement is found. The colonel later confides personal sensitivity about faded attire.
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Kentucky
Chicago
Inter Ocean
When Not to Complain atchison Globe Motto
A brief aphorism from the Atchison Globe urges restraint in anger by advising that complaints are unwise when emotion runs high. The note emphasizes measured speech.
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Atchison Globe
Rain and Sunshine Shape Fruit Flavor Variability
The article explains that rainfall and sunshine drive fruit sugar content and flavor. Excess rain yields larger but sweeterless fruit in dry seasons sugar-rich flavors improve. Drainage and potash phosphate fertilizers can enhance quality and variety selection also aids flavor in wet seasons.
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Troop
Indiana
Good Calf Muzzle From Simple Woodworks
A basic calf muzzle construction uses a 3 by 3 by 14 inch scantling with a 1 8 inch hole near each end and two more holes to form a muzzle. A curved stick serves as the neck bow, and two sharpened 14 inch wooden horns insert into the end holes. Tie a string over the calf’s nose to secure the muzzle.
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C. P. Wood
Birds and garden plants to aid local birds
A commentator argues birds prefer bitter or sour fruit and warns against destroying species like wild cherry, wild grape, elder and others. Encouraging such plants could help preserve both cultivated fruit and birds, noting destruction occurs where only garden food exists.
Backbroken dancer healed by pioneering spinal surgery
Joseph Lennon fell from a Glendale Long Island dance platform last August, breaking three vertebrae. At Jamaica hospital Dr Herbert K Noble removed bone fragments in a four hour operation before Lennon slowly recovered movement. by mid March he could stand and by last week he walked the ward and four steps alone.
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Glendale
L. I
Joseph Lennon
Jamaica
Lennon
Herbert K. Noble
Duchess mocks suit for breach of promise in witty reply
A Pittsburgh Chronicle Telegraph item quotes the American duchess as saying she is unbothered by her husband being sued for breach of promise. She boasts the duke gave other fiancées marble hearts and she gratefully accepts the damages as a sign of his good taste.
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Pittsburgh Chronicle-Telegraph
Palmer's Lotion Promises Relief from Longstanding Ailment
In Cincinnati, Ohio Mr T B Cutler reports Palmer's Lotion cured his twelve year ailment after prior failure with other remedies. The testimonial claims Palmer's Lotion and Lotion Soap offer permanent relief. readers are urged to contact Solo Palmer at 374 Pearl Street New York for samples if their druggist lacks the product.
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T. B. Cutler
Cincinnati
Ohio
Palmer
Solo Palmer
Pearl Street
New York
Earnest suitor warned off in blue and gray
In a vignette from Chienvo Post, the girl in blue tells the girl in gray to avoid Earnest, calling him too earnest and unsophisticated. She warns he will ruin a summer resort flirtation by proposing within two weeks.
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Girl In Blue
Chienvo Post
Missouri Pacific doubles service to Colorado Utah and coast
The Missouri Pacific Railway operates double daily trains from St. Louis and Kansas City to Colorado Utah and the Pacific Coast with through sleeping cars to San Francisco. Trains depart St. Louis at 9 am and 10 10 pm and Kansas City at 6 pm and 10 am. Excursion tickets are on sale. For details contact company agents. H C Townsen d Gen Pass and Ticket Agent St Louis Mo.
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Missouri Pacific Railway
St. Louis
Kansas City
Colorado
Utah
Pacific Coast
San Francisco
H. C. Toownsend
Gen. Pass
Surgeon Prepares Appendix Removal in Chronic Croaker Satire
A humorous strip satirizes medical talk on surgery and the idea of growing a new appendix. The piece blends mock seriousness with the Chicago Tribune style. It features the Surgeon planning an operation and the Chronic Croaker offering wry counterpoints.
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Chicago Tribune
Allen's Foot-Ease Shoe Powder Ad
Do Your Feet Ache and Burn Shake into pens shoes Allen's Foot-Ease a powder for the feet It makes tight or New Shoes Feel Easy Cures Corns Itching Swollen Hot Callous Smarting Sore and Sweating Feet All Druggists and Shoe Stores sell it 25c Sample sent FREE Ad dress Allen S Olmsted Le Roy N Y
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Allen
Allen S. Olmsted
le Roy
N. Y
Equestrian Exercise Praised by Fogg and Bass
A Boston Transcript quote extols equestrian exercise as superior with Fogg and Bass praising it. A resident from Trinity Springs Indiana endorses Piso's Cure for Consumption for coughs and colds, dated February.
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F. Boyer
Trinity Springs
Ind
In the Presence of Greatness
A brief dialogue samples pride in a newborn as the speaker reflects on the baby’s potential. Lane voices hopeful anticipation while Parke expresses awe at the child’s future significance. The exchange conveys warmth and wonder surrounding a birth.
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Parke
Lane
Detroit Free Press
Bonnet trimming quip sparks fashion banter
Mr Mann jokes about trimming for bonnets while Mrs Mann notes any trim will do. The exchange, reported in the New York Mail and Express, captures a light domestic moment on style and resourcefulness.
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