Cuban relief fund seeks work not charity for Cuba
The Cuban industrial relief fund steers relief from charity to employment. It calls for relief farms, loans of oxen and tools, and work for widows and orphans under American supervision. Miss Varnum and William Willard Howard lead efforts to restore Cuba’s devastated farms and industries through self supporting aid programs.
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UBA
Iit
Havana
Uncle Sam
Spain
Weyler
Black Angel
Cuba
Antilles
William Willard Howard
Sassoun
Mr. Howard
Armenia
Cuban Industrial Relief Fund
Gaines
Howard
Vandelie Varnum
United States
Chicago
Miss Varnum
Industrial Relief Fund
Former Speakers of Congress From Muhlenberg to Reed
The article traces the lineage of House speakers from Frederick Muhlenberg to Thomas Reed, noting four standout figures Clay Blaine Randall and Reed, and credits Henry Clay with shaping the modern potency of the speakership. It previews General Henderson as a potential future influential speaker.
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House of Representatives
Henderson
Henry Clay
James G. Blaine
Samuel J. Randall
Thomas B. Reed
Congress
United States
Clay
Blaine
Randall
Reed
Frederick A. C. Muhlenberg
Pennsylvania
Peter Muhlenberg
Woodstock
Washington
Frederick Muhlenberg
Jonathan Trumbull
Connecticut
Brother Jonathan
Trumbull
Jonathan Dayton
New Jersey
Theodore Sedgwick
Massachusetts
Nathaniel Macon
North Carolina
Joseph B. Varnum
Republic
James K. Polk
Polk
House
David B. Henderson
J. Warren Keifer
Ohio
John G. Carlisle
Kentucky
Maine
McCreary
Mr. Speaker
Mr. Reed
General Henderson
Mississippi
Cuban reform urge for schools baths and thrift in Havana
Ernest Lee Conant reports from Washington and Havana on Cuba's need for American style schools public parks and public baths as moral and social levers. He argues gradual cultural change through educated Cuban youths and immigrant example, noting labor patterns prices and savings habits affect wages and savings banking and lottery impacts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ernest Lee Conant
New York
Cuba
Havana
Washington
Mr. Conant
Savings Bank
Threatened Sympathy Strike in Ishkooda District
One thousand miners in the Ishkooda district threaten a sympathy strike in Birmingham Alabama dated June 16. The action follows the discharge of a committee that had sought higher wages, triggering support for seventy five Robinson company workers who quit.
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Birmingham
Ala
Ishkooda
Robinson Company
Knights of Honor Elect Officers in Detroit
The supreme lodge of the Knights of Honor elected officers in Detroit on June 16. Supreme dictator John P. Shannon of Elberton Georgia and supreme reporter B F Nelson of St. Louis were named along with chaplain Rev H M Hope of Richmond Virginia.
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Knights of Honor
Detroit
Supreme Lodge
John P. Shannon
Elberton
B. F. Nelson
St. Louis
H. M. Hope
Richmond
Canada Retains Cup in Final Dominion Yankee Race
The fourth race for the Ross cup between Dominion and Yankee ended with Dominion winning by 2 minutes 22 seconds, allowing Canada to retain the cup.
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Canada
Montreal
Dominion
Yankee
Brakeman Fatally Injured in Trebeins Accident
Xenia Ohio June 6 Charles Hamilton of Dayton 23 a brakeman was fatally injured at Trebeins when his foot caught in a guard rail and a car passed over both legs He also suffered internal injuries with the likelihood of death.
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Xenia
Charles Hamiton
Dayton
Trebeins
Tuberculosis Found in Cows at Illinois Asylum Farm
Seventy of 114 mild cows at the Eastern Illinois Insane asylum hospital, Kankakee, Illinois, showed signs of tuberculosis after inoculation with tuberculon. The examination followed inoculation and prompted a health review of the herd and further testing.
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Kankakee, Ill
Eastern Illinois Insane Asylum Hospital
Gigantic Clothing Combine Forms in New Jersey
Baltimore June 16 Options have been secured on 150 large clothing manufacturing establishments nationwide by Samu Rosenthal Jr of this city. He has worked four months to form a gigantic clothing combine to be incorporated under New Jersey law as the American Clothing Manufacturing Company with capital stock of 100000000 dollars.
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Baltimore
Samu Rosenthal, Jr
New Jersey
American Clothing Manufacturing Company
Heavy rains ruin crops in Winnebago county Wisconsin
Destructive rains in Oshkosh and Winnebago county cause losses in the hundreds of thousands of dollars. Most corn in lowlands is deemed a total failure, while exposed areas may salvage a fair yield if rain ceases.
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Oskosh
Wis
Winnebago County
Trustes Shot Out
Lansing, June 16 The house passed the Sayreg anti trust bill and sent it to the governor. If constitutional the act will shut out of the state all trusts and combinations as earlier approved by the senate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lansing, Mich
House
Senate
Jeffries Claims World Championship After Victory Over Fitzsimmons
James J. Jeffries describes his win over Fitzsimmons in detail, saying he entered confident and followed a pre planned tactic. He lauds Fitzsimmons as a brave foe and asserts he will defend the title against any challenger while noting a lucky silver watch as a talisman.
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Jim Jeffries
New York Journal
Fitz
America
Bob Armstrong
Sharkey
Fitzsimmons
Billy Brady
Corbett
Sullivan
Charlie Mitchell
James J. Jeffries
Treasury Statement Shows Cash Balance and Gold Reserve
Washington on June 16 reports available cash balance of 272,437,882 dollars and a gold reserve of 235,302,198 dollars.
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Treasury
Washington
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Muhlenberg
England
John W
Thaddeus Stevens
Sherman
Pennington
Stevens
Galusha A. Grow
Grow
Schuyler Colfax
Indiana
Colfax
Frederick A, C. Muhlenberg
Conant
New York Post
Esko Ari Net
Burdicke
Burdick
LN America Ae
Smyth
Sears, Roebuck & Co
New York Weekly Tribune
The
Express
the Express
Defiance
Trustes
Jeffries
Warreteiais
Johnw ST
Camdoly
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