Cuban industrial relief fund aims to rebuild through work
The piece argues for American aid to Cuba focusing on employment and farming restoration rather than charity. It highlights William Willard Howard and Vandelie Varnum, detailing a plan to create relief farms, provide loans for oxen and tools, and place orphans with farming families while rebuilding Cuba’s shattered agriculture and industries.
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Uba
Havana
Uncle Sam
Spain
Weyler
Black Angel
Cuba
Antilles
William Willard Howard
Sassoun
Cuban Industrial Relief Fund
Gaines
Howard
Vandelie Varnum
United States
Chicago
Miss Varnum
Industrial Relief Fund
Spence Sinclair
Former Speakers of Congress From Muhlenberg to Reed
A survey of thirty three speakers traces the Office of the House leader from Frederick Muhlenberg to Thomas Reed. It highlights Clay Blaine Randall and Reed as the most memorable, notes early figures like Trumbull Dayton Sedgwick Macon Varnum, and previews future choice General Henderson as potential great or ordinary speaker.
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BRE
House of Representatives
Henderson
Henny 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
Henry Clay
Thaddeus Stevens
Sherman
Pennington
Stevens
Galusha A. Grow
Grow
Schuyler Colfax
Indiana
Colfax
David B. Henderson
J. Warren Keifer
Ohio
John G. Carlisle
Kentucky
Maine
McCreary
Mr. Speaker
Mr. Reed
General Henderson
Mississippi
Cuban reforms urged to curb toil and vice in Havana
Ernest L. Conant, New York lawyer traveling with the evacuation commission, argues Cubans are docile but need schooling and public baths, improved sanitation, and American-style moral leadership. He says lasting change requires patient, credible example from immigrants, thrifty savings, and a gradual shift in labor attitudes, with public baths and schools shaping the coming generation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ernest Lee Conant
New York
Cuba
Havana
Washington
Mr. Conant
Savings Bank
Conant
New York Post
Threatened Sympathy Strike in Ishkooda District
Birmingham June 16 1000 miners in Ishkooda district threaten a sympathy strike over the discharge of a wage increase committee. 75 Robinson company workers walked out when the committee seeking higher pay was discharged.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birmingham
Ala
Ishkooda
Robinson Company
Knights of Honor Elect Officers in Detroit Case
The supreme lodge of Knights of Honor elected officers in Detroit on June 16. John P. Shannon of Elberton Georgia was chosen supreme dictator and B F Nelson of St Louis was named supreme reporter. Rev H M Hope of Richmond Virginia was selected chaplain.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
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
In Montreal on June 6 the fourth and deciding Ross cup race between Dominion and Yankee concluded with Dominion winning by 2 minutes and 22 seconds, allowing Canada to retain the cup.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Canada
Montreal
Dominion
Yankee
Brakeman's Mishap Leaves Dayton Man Fatally Injured
Charles Hamilton, 23, of Dayton, a brakeman, was badly hurt at Trebeins when his foot was caught in a guard rail and a car passed over both legs. He also sustained internal injuries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Xenia
Charles Hamiton
Dayton
Trebeins
Tuberculosis signs in cows at Kankakee asylum farm
Seventy of the 114 mild cows at the Eastern Illinois Insane asylum hospital in Kankakee Illinois showed signs of tuberculosis after inoculation with tuberculon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kankakee, Ills
Eastern Illinois Insane Asylum Hospital
Gigantic Clothing Combine Formed In Baltimore
Baltimore June 16. Samu Rogenthal Jr announces securing options on 150 large clothing establishments nationwide. He has been active for four months in forming a gigantic clothing combine to be incorporated in New Jersey as the American Clothing Manufacturing Company with capital stock of 100 million dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baltimore
Samu Rogenthal, Jr
New Jersey
American Clothing Manufacturing Company
Destructive Rains Hit Wisconsin Crops Hard
Heavy rains in Oshkosh Wisconsin on June 16 caused losses of hundreds of thousands of dollars to farmers in Winnebago county. Crops are practically ruined with corn in the lowlands likely a total failure, while exposed areas may recover if the rain ceases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oskosh
Wis
Winnebago County
Trusts Shut Out In Sayreg Antitrust Bill Passed
Lansing June 16 The house passed the Sayreg anti trust bill which had cleared the senate weeks ago If constitutional the act will effectively shut out of the state all trusts and combinations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lansing, Mich
House
Senate
Jeffries Reveals World Championship Fight Victory
James J. Jeffries, new world champion, explains in the New York Journal his win over Fitzsimmons. He details a planned strategy, notes sustained confidence, praises Fitzsimmons as a worthy opponent, and cites a lucky silver watch given by Billy Brady as a talisman guiding his defense of the title.
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Jim Jeffries
Pigilist
New York Journal
Fitz
Bacona
America
Bob Armstrong
Sharkey
Fitzsimmons
Billy Brady
Corbett
Sullivan
Charlie Mitchell
James J. Jeffries
Treasury Statement Washington June 16
Available cash balance stands at 272,487,882 dollars with a gold reserve of 235,302,198 dollars as of the Treasury statement from Washington dated June 16.
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Treasury
Washington
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Armenia
Vandali
Muhlenberg
England
John W
New York Weekly Tribune
The
Express
the Express
Defiance
Jeffries
Burdick
Burdick Dick
Smyth
Sears, Roebuck & Co
Sears, Roebuck & Co.inc
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