New Harvest Hands Twelve Harvard Students Apply for Work
Twelve Harvard students from Boston applied at the state employment bureau in Elgin for work in the Kansas wheat fields. They came to Kansas City for the trip and claim to be sightseers, keeping their identities secret while planning short stays to observe the West and its labor.
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Warvard
Boston
State Employment Bureau
Kansas Wheat
Kansas City
Jaime
Mie
West
Manang
Fire Destroys Hammond Packing Plant in St Joseph Mo
A major blaze at the Hammond packing plant in St Joseph Missouri caused about 1.5 million dollars in damage with total loss estimated at 81.5 million. The Nelson Morris plant was saved by heroic efforts. Two or three men died, including Vice Marshal Charles Miller of the Hammond fire department. names of others were not confirmed. Charles Cullen, a watchman, may die from smoke. Samuel Ogle and Daniel Smiley were badly injured. The loss was reportedly fully insured.
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Hammond Packing Company
St. Joseph
Hammond Packing Plant
Nelson Morris
Charles Miller
Hammond Plant
Mie
Charles Cullen
Samuel Ogle
Daniel Smiley
Standard Sewing Machinery Co. Notices in Chicago
Standard Sewing Machine Co. of 84 Lane Street, Chicago Illinois, is shown in notices in this fragment. The text references representations by Standard Sewing Machine Co. at the same Chicago address.
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Standard Sewing Mach. Co
Lane ST
Chicago, Ill
Traction Dual In Indiana Leases New System for Rail Lines
The Union Traction Company of Tacoma, connecting Indianapolis to Muncie and other cities with 200 miles of interurban lines, valued at 8 1/2 million dollars, is leased for 99 years to the Indiana Union Traction Company, capital stock 5 million dollars, bonds 5 million, and operations planned across multiple cities. A blaze destroyed the Baltimore and Ohio transfer house and several buildings at Chicago Junction, Ohio, costing about 200 thousand dollars. Sixty five cars, the transfer house, and smaller structures were lost in the fire.
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Indiana
Union ‘Traction Company
Ta- Mana
Indianapolis
Muncie
Atterman
Diwood
Marion
Logansport
Indiana Union Traction Company
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Chicago Junction
Ohio
Transfer of bureaus forms new Department of Commerce and Labor
The transfer completed Wednesday uniting bureaus under the act creating the Department of Commerce and Labor. Secretary Cortelyou noted aims of the department in his office, with Moody of the Navy present. The department includes consular service lighthouse establishment steamboat inspection navigation coast survey immigration statistics fisheries and foreign commerce, transferred from several departments.
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Department of Commerce
Department of Commerce and Labor
Washington
Cortelyon
Moody
Navy Department
Department
Interior Department
Lighthouse Establishment
Steamboat
Ioapection Service
Bureau of Navigation
United States Shipping Commisssioners
National Bureau of Standards, Coast and Geodetic Survey
Burea
Immigration and Threat of
Treasury Department
Bureau of Inter, Fish Commission
Bureau of Foreign Commerce
State Department
Prison Mate Fatally Wounds Gang Leader in Jail
In Hot Springs Arkansas, R H Williams leader of the Fake Footrace Gang was fatally injured by Tim Dougherty in the county jail. Dougherty awaiting execution for a serious case died by crashing his head against the cell bars amid the escape tension. Police report heightened precautions after a jail wall breach attempt by another inmate Tynehing.
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Heaten
R. H. Williams
Hot Springs
Ark
Tim Dougherty
Williams
Dougherty
Wil- Nats
Mil ler's Station shooting tale and feuding suitor
A Miller's Station posse hunts for Charles Hayden after he shoots James Taylor in a family feud tied to a forbidden romance. Hayden escapes. Taylor is wounded in the leg as both men fired. The item mixes other disjointed civic and national notices from the era, including political resignations and weather events.
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Miller's Station
Ind
Charles Hayden
James Taylor
Fiayden
Hayden
Taylor
Cuts End Patronage With Rural Free Delivery Reform
The Rural Free Delivery system is removed from politics under Bristow and Payne. New routing units replace congressional districts starting July 1, altering federal patronage and simplifying administration.
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Bristow
Mgr. Payne
Man Disappears From Lake Soo City Voyage
Arthur Kesler, member of the Order of Maccabees, vanished midlake during a Kenosha to St. Joseph excursion aboard the Soo City. Kesler’s hut was found on the hurricane deck. presumed to have fallen overboard while trying to stay awake. The incident adds to recent mysterious disappearances cited to Lake Michigan steamers.
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Arthur Kesler
Lake Michigan
Soo City
Midlake
Kenosha
Wis
St. Joseph
Mich
Kesler
Order of Maccabres
Lake Teiparly
Keater
Austrian native bound over on wife beating charges in Randolph
Joseph Holdoebler, an Austrian-born resident, is bound over to Randolph District Court on wife beating charges after brutal abuse. The case details his use of a rope to flog his wife during a Sunday incident, his attempts to torment her with marriage plans, and the couple’s history of conflict ending with her escape to neighbors. The court heard the wife’s account as the mob threatened vigilante action if justice fell short.
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Joseph Hotdoebier
Austria
Randolph
Neb
Holdoeblar
Holdoebler
Barby
Nelelhord
Mint
FURLONG BABY FOUND IN CHICAGO KIDNAPPING CASE
Alice Furlong a two year old reported missing a week earlier was located by police in Chicago. Inspectors Shon and Blea recovered the child at a residence near Washington boulevard and Sangamon Street and arrested two suspects, a man and a woman, in custody at Dexplaines Street station. Tears and relief marked the reunion with her mother Mrs Furlong while neighbors and officials praised the investigation.
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Washington Boulevard
Sangamon Street
Hazel Avery
Doult Robbery on Train Ends in Mystery
Milwaukee police investigate a banked tale of Mrs F Adams who claims a $10,000 cash loss and a $2,500 CD after a assault on a Chicago and North Western train. The attacker was a mysterious veiled woman in brick. The Adams family details suggest wealth and a son in a sanitarium, complicating the case.
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Milwaukee
Adam
Adame
Adama
Adams Tobacco Company
KY. 1
Adams, Jr
Wauwatora
Billion Dollar Foreign Trade Sets New U S Record
A Washington dispatch reports record foreign commerce for the United States in the latest fiscal year ended June. Imports reach over a billion dollars for the first time, exports exceed Germany and surpass Britain domestic exports, with total trade near 2.4 billion. Manufacturers' materials form a large share of imports while internal rail commerce shows vast hauling value. Telegraph briefs note murders, plague updates, a cruiser speed test, and treaty talks shifting to Pekin.
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United States
Treasury Bureau ‘of Statistica
Great Britain
Germany
Aod
Treasury Bureau of Statistics
Gmbl
Maila
Hundred Years Ago: France and US naval actions and canal plans
A century past, French and US officials acted to stop enlistment of Amelient seathon aboard French privateers. State Department warned against privateers shipping from English ports. France threatened confiscation of captured goods. Pennsylvania and Delaware governors named Latrobe to choose the Delaware Chesapeake canal route. Yohugo Island reportedly surrendered by France to Britain.
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Marivem
United States
Parla
Amelient
Seathon
Great Britain
State Department
France
Pennsylvania
Delaware
Benjamin EL. Latrobe
Yohugo Island
Adams taps for Chesapeake and Olle canal funding event
Seventy five years ago President John Quitey Adams accepted an invitation to turn the first shovel for the Chesapeake and Olle canal. Three hundred thirty three people reached Cincinnati by boat in the prior month, and 120 tons of produce were shipped the prior week with no railroad then. The first shipment from the south sea peak fisheries reached Stonington Connecticut with four thousand skins.
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John Quitey Adams
Chesapeake and Olle Canal
South Sea Peak Fisheries
Stonington
Conn
Century-old proclamations and migration laws emerge
Fifty years ago reports note Russia's czar claiming to defend Christendom against Turks, a broad purge of Washington clerks under President Pierce, and a surge of African Americans leaving Indiana after a new constitution barred those with uncertain white lineage from settling since November 1, 1851.
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Hhe Czar
Russia
Washington
Pierce
Indiana
Forty Years Ago Battles and Movements Mentioned
A retrospective note recalls Gettysburg opening with General Reynolds killed and Union retreat, plus 3509 rebels under Morgan defeating Union forces at Burksville Kentucky and crossing the Cumberland. Lee shifts plans toward crossing the Susquehanna and Philadelphia actions near Harrisburg.
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Gettysburg
John F. Reynolds
Megea
Chicago
Gert. Morgan
Dacubs
Burksville
Cumberland River
Indiana Goa
R. B. Lee
Susquehanna River
Harrisburg
Chicago high school graduation and city pageantry
Thirty years ago Chicago’s one high school held graduation exercises at McVicker's Theater with eleven orations. Wagon loads of fresh buffalo hides were shown in downtown streets for shipment east and to Europe. An inquiry into Maj. Gen. C. C. Lowant’s handling of Freedmen’s Bureau funds began in Washington as Republican papers argued President Grant should disgorge his $25,000 annual salary and repeal the congressional salary grabs.
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Chicago
McVicker'n 'Theater
Europe
C. C. Lowant
Freedmen’s Bureau
Washington
WY. 8. Grant
Congress
Conkling Quits Politics and 19th Century Court News
Twenty years ago ex Senator Roscoe Conkling said he would step away from politics due to losing friends. The Supreme Court upheld the Scott Jaquor tax law in Ohio, the first since 1850. Kentucky Senator Blackburn predicted George Hondly would win Ohio governor and run for president with Cleveland as vice president candidate. A rumor moved the Chicago Board of Trade as Armour & Co. faced possible failure, while Postmaster General Greadgin probed alleged bias favoring a Louisiana lottery firm.
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Roscoe Conkling
Scott Jaquor
All- Juans
Ohio
Supreme Court
Blackburn
Kentucky
George Hondly
Guy
Grover Cleveland
New York
Chicago Board of Trade
Ten Years Ago At Chicago World’s Fair and Local Lynching Case
Ten years ago William Jennings Bryan was named among probable silver coinage opponents while William McKinley was omitted in a list of likely defenders. Mayor Carter Harrison Jr spoke to Canadians at the Chicago world’s fair. A Macon County grand jury refused to indict the lynching of Bam Bush, a Black man accused of attacking a white woman, by a white mob.
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William Jennings Bryan
Wiliam
Kinley
Carter H. Harrison
Macon County
Bam Bush
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Joseph Mulling
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