Adulteration questioned by food purity panel
A testimony session before the investigating committee focused on preservatives and antiseptics in food production. Dr Albert B Prescott and Victor Vaughan warned preservatives injure health and urged clear consumer labeling to prevent deceptive substitutions and unsafe goods on the market.
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Gangaas
Santo
Albert B. Prescott
University of Michigan
Victor Vaughan
Game Institution
Halt on arrests echoes in Montana martial law
Governor Smith orders General Merriam to curb arrests of Wardner riot suspects in Montana. He demands state authority for any arrests, after a Butte labor union committee warned that the army might seize miners crossing the Coeur d'Alenes, risking liberty without due process.
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Helena
Mont
Smith
Merriam
Douer d'Alene
Wardner
Montana
Butty
Couet d’Alenes
Veterans Welcome Princess Salm Salm of Carlsruhe
Twenty nine veterans of the Eighth and a few of the Sixty eighth greeted Princess Salm Salm of Carlsruhe Germany at Odd Fellows hall and received battle flags from her hand. Major H M Byers read his Civil War poem Marching Through Georgia in her honor.
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New York
Eighth Regiment
Sixty-eighth
Carlsruhe
Germany
Odd Fellows Hall
H. M. Byers
Des Moines
Georgia
General Otis and Aguinaldo Commission Talks in Manila
Reports from Manila May 15 describe the United States Philippine Commission favoring a meeting with a Filipino commission urged by Aguinaldo via Lieutenant Reys. The Manila authorities report calm streets, a large Luneta concert, and Dewey set to sail for New York via the Olympia in about four months.
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Philippine Commission
Aguinaldo
Reys
Gregorio del Pilar
Lawton
San Isidro
W. M. Young
San Miguel
Younz
Manila
Luneta
Schurman
United States Philippine Commission
Admiral Dewey
New York
Suez Canal
Olympia
Washington
Otis
War Department
Balinag
South cares for its dead at Confederate veterans reunion
At Ouaneston South Carolina on May 13 the ninth annual United Confederate Veterans session closed amid stormy debate. General J B Gordon and all officers were reelected. Louisville Kentucky will host next year s meeting. A substitute resolution rejected federal care of Confederate graves except for northern sites, leaving Southern women to tend graves in the seceding states and Maryland.
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Ouaneston
S. C
United Confederate Veterans
J. B. Gordon
Louisville
Maryland
Princeton Students Riot Over Pawnee Bill Parade
Princeton students and Pawnee Bill's Wild West show employees clashed in the streets yesterday. President Patton convened a mass meeting, leading to the show’s departure without further incident but with significant injuries and financial loss.
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Princeton
Pawnee Bill
Patton
Princeton University
Ordination of Dr Briggs at St. Pauls Episcopal Church
In New York on May 15 at the pro cathedral on Stanton Street Rev. Dr Charles A Briggs once suspended for heresy was ordained a priest of the Episcopal church alongside Rev Charles A Snedeker by Bishop Potter. The crowded service was quiet with no disturbance or protests and no sensational display followed by a sermon from Rev. Dr George William Douglass.
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Briggs
New York
Procathedral
Stanton Street
Charles A. Briggs
Presbyterian Assembly
Episcopal Church
Charles A. Snedeker
Potter
George William Douglass
McKinley to greet returning Philippine volunteers in the West
President McKinley plans to visit western states to welcome volunteers returning from the Philippines. He expects the Luzon need for volunteers to end soon and hopes to be with them at muster out, or journey west if the original plan changes.
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McKinley
Great Western Volunteers
Hor Sprixas
Philippines
Luzon
Gomez Declines to Serve as Cuban Army Agent
General Maximo Gomez informed Governor General Brooke that he cannot continue as representative for distributing the $3,000,000 appropriated for Cuban troops. He will withdraw from naming new commissioners to replace those who refused to serve, while remaining in friendly inactivity as Brooke moves forward with a new plan.
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Gomez
Havana
Maximo Gomez
Brooke
Judge Grosscup Seriously Ill in Ashland Home
Judge Peter S. Grosscup of the United States circuit court for northern Illinois is gravely ill at his parents home in Ashland. Reports say he suffers a gastric fever that weakens him and endangers his vitality as of May 16.
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Grosscup
Onicaco
Peter S. Grosscup
United States Circuit Court of Northern Illinois
Ashland
Flower Dies After Indigestion At Eastport Club
Former New York Governor Roswell P. Flower died at 10 30 PM at Eastport Country Club Long Island after acute indigestion and heart failure. He suffered gastritis for months and had been a Wall Street figure with large profits cited in reports.
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P. Flower
Eastport Country Club
Eastport
L. I
Roswell P. Flower
New York City
Massport Country Club
Theresa, N. Y
Flower & Co
Wall Street
Flower
Democratic State Committee
William Waldorf Astor
Congress
Federal Steel Trust
Brooklyn
Funeral Rites for Former Governor Flower Held in New York
Pallbearers led by H H Power Oliver P Morton General Edward Simmons and others chosen for the former Governor Roswell P Flower funeral with a 4 PM service at St Thomas Episcopal church Fifth Avenue. Remains to be taken by train to Watertown after services and burial from Mrs J D Taylor’s home. Disarmament sermons favoring peace at Chicago churches cite the Hague conference and the czar’s humanitarian plan for liberty and prosperity.
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New You
Roswell P. Flower
H. H. Power
Oliver P. Morton
Edward Simmons
A. N. Brady
John E. Borne
W. A. Nash
H. M. Flagler
Democratic Editors’ Association
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company
Chcaco
The
Hague
Chicago
Henry Wade Rogers
Northwestern University
First Methodist Church
F. A. Noble
Jenkin Lloyd Jones
Rabbi Hirsch
William White Wilson
Strain Too Great For Irving at Lyceum Theater
Sir Henry Irving fell seriously ill Sunday morning during the title role in Sardou’s Robespierre at the Lyceum. His illness prompted surgeon Farrar to advise, and his son Lawrence will take the part for the present week. Tornado’s Work In Mexico.
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Loxpox
Sir Henry Irving
Sardou
Robespierre
Lyceum Theater
Sunday Erning
Farrar
Waa
Sir Henry
Lawrence
Mountain View Becomes a Full City Overnight
Mountain View in Washita County set a record by surveying platting selling and settling a townsite in one day It grew into a city of nearly 800 with W T V Yates as mayor and a full council The rapid development followed quick river crossing and freight activity as settlers gathered along the Washita river and the town organized its offices and trades.
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Mountain View
O. T
EL Reno
Oklahoma
Washita County
Washita
W. T. V. Yates
Washita River
California Fig Syrup Co Remedy Advertised
The well known laxative syrup from California Fig Syrup Co. claims to cleanse the system, ease constipation, and dispel fevers and headaches using senna and aromatic plants. Packaged with figs for taste, the product asserts gentle action on kidneys liver and bowels and warns against imitations, with prices at 50 cents per bottle.
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California
Fie Syxup Co
California Fie Syrup Co
Collegians Clash in Terre Haute After Disputed Game
In Terre Haute on May 15 police and college crowds from Rose Polytechnic Institute and Indiana State Normal clashed after a long running feud from a disputed baseball game. About 100 Polytechnic men forced into P. J. Kimmel’s room and attempted to kidnap him at gunpoint, then 250 Normal men served as a guard for the physical director as clashes continued.
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Terre Haute
Rose Polytechnic Institute
Indiana State Normal
Polytechnic
P. J. Kimmel
Kimmel
State Normal
Order of Railway Conductors Move Headquarters to Des Moines
Delegates at the 27th biennial grand division session decide the headquarters will shift from Cedar Rapids to Des Moines Iowa. Cedar Rapids Cleveland and Toledo contested the location as officers are to be elected today during the meeting in Des Moines.
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Des Moines
Detroit
Order of Railway Conductors
Cedar Rapids
Grand Division
Order
Cleveland
Toledo
Arrow Captain Denies Cleveland Death Rumor
The steamer Arrow docked in Middle Bass and later Sandusky reported Captain Brown stating there is nothing to support rumors that President Cleveland is dead. Passengers aboard the Arrow included many Middle Bass residents who found no evidence of ill health or foul play.
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Sandusky
Arrow
Middle Bass
Brown
Sligntast Foundation
Midleveland
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