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Exposition prospects and political maneuvering in 1890s Chicago
Special correspondence notes Chicago’s World Columbian Exposition drawing unprecedented global interest from Mexico to Britain and Russia to Japan. It also reports on tentative Republican convention sites, army training details, a census bulletin on viticulture, and Democratic speakership canvassing with Wilson emerging as a compromise candidate.
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