Republicans Begin Notification To Nominees After Chicago
In Chicago on June 20 1900 Republicans move toward formal notification of their presidential nominee. The Coliseum is stripped of convention paraphernalia as the city returns to normal. Hammond emerges as a unique vice presidential candidate whose explanation and Rooseveltian appeal win supporters. The campaign center shifts to New York with nationwide organization and a pledge to mobilize the floating independent vote.
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Charles W. Arthur
Chicago
Arnab
New York
William Jennings Bryan
St. Louis
Roosevelt
John Hays Hammond
Mr. Hammond
Hammond
West
Mme
Elkhart Circuit Court
Ammon Gemberling
Solomon Thornton
Ciicuit
Goshen
Indiana
Geo. W. Fleming
Standings and scores from major league baseball on June 20
National League standings list Chicago leading, with New York, Philadelphia, St. Louis, Brooklyn, and Cincinnati behind. American results show Chicago and St Louis split with Boston and New York, while Detroit and Cleveland post wins in separate matchups. Numerous box score details include hits, errors, and pitcher batteries for each game.
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National
Tittsboro
Cincinnati
New York
Philadelphia
Floston
St. Louis
Brooklyn
Chicaea
Krorgs
Treister
Kling
Crandall
Bresnahan
Campbell
Schlei
Moren
Dooin
Boston
Louis
American
UPC
Cleveland
Detroit
Philadelphia V.e
Washington
Rboston
Winter
Criger
Owen
Walsh
Sullivan
T. Errors
Chesbro, Kidnow
Dineen
Stephens
Markets Report From Chicago and Buffalo Trade
Chicago and Buffalo market notes show grain quotes for wheat and corn, live stock prices for hogs cattle and sheep, and hay values. Trade details include bid opens and closes, receipts, and price ranges across livestock markets with regional price observations and brief humorous classroom exchange at the end.
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Chicago Grain
Chicago
Chicago Board of Trade
WSS
USS Corn
Lord Tuly
Illinois
Indiana
Wisconsin
Fast Buffalo
East Buffalo
N. Y
Dunning & Stevens
Live Stock Commission
Buffalo
Best
British Museum coin collection tops a quarter million pieces
The British Museum houses a vast numismatic collection with more than 250,000 coins and medals. The extensive catalog spans ancient to modern issues, highlighting wealth of historical periods and cultures in a single institution.
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British Museum
Warned by Specters A Glimpse Into a Veiled World
A New York Herald piece recounts three personal encounters with apparitions guiding a legal decision. The narrator, a civil engineer, describes childhood reunions with Annie at a grave, a college friend’s posthumous appearance foretold by a wall-vision, and a sister’s spectral presence influencing a lawyerly question in Boston.
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Brooklyn
Greenfield Hill
Conn
Annie
Maggie
Dedham
Mass
Charlie
Boston
New York Herald
Garden of Eden location debated in Genesis accounts
The Genesis passage locating Eden has long puzzled theologians and Bible students. The garden's site has been claimed across Asia, but the Biblical view points to Mesopotamia near the Euphrates and Tigris rivers.
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Garden of Eden
Asia
Eden
Mesopotamia
Great Rivers
Euphrates
Tigris
New York American
The Judge and the Virgago Modern Joke Version
Ancient tale translated for Col lier's Weekly about a magistrate who suspects a lictor of wife beating. The judge plans to beat the lictor’s wife but is interrupted as his own wife emerges angrily. The court adjourns as the grape arbor collapses, a satire on judgment and fear.
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Collier's Weekly
Ting Ch'ai Ti
The Quest of Beauty Through the Ages
The article traces ancient beauty practices from Rome Greece and Italy revealing cosmetics wigs and dyes. It notes white of egg and goose grease protection, Lucrezia Borgia hair dye myths, and eighteenth century English scandals with rouge. It concludes beauty at all costs defines fashionable ladies.
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Italy
Lucrezia Borgia
England
Lady Coventry
Pearson's Weekly
Tennyson’s Witty Fear Of Royal Marriage Rumor
In a Duke of Argyll volume anecdote,Tennyson recalls lunch with the Marquis of Lorne when he learned the Queen liked his new volume. He jokes of fearing a royal marriage news and quips about newspapers disliking his rhymes, ending with a sly wink.
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Tennyson
Duke of Argyll
Marquis of
Hitting the Pipe
Jones returns to a flooded home after a burst pipe. He scolds his wife for not stopping the water, then hammers the supply line in the cellar. The final exchange reveals a gas pipe may have been shut off instead of the water, causing concern.
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Jones
I’m Telling You Lodging Tale About a Shady Landlady
Pat Murphy lodgings his landlady keeps taking his provisions and says she is not like other landladies telling you. She takes butter eggs and more with no price reduction. Pat finally packs and leaves saying I’m sloping I’m not like other lodgers I’m telling you.
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Pat Murphy
Pat
London
Science Siftings and Quirks from the Era
The column notes Brewster’s 1817 kaleidoscope origin in Edinburgh and Poulson’s wireless telephony reaching 240 miles from Copenhagen to Berlin. It adds a German biologist’s claim that the human brain holds 300 million nerve cells with 5 million dying daily, implying a new brain every sixty days. It ends with a child’s joke about spelling horn and a teacher’s question.
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Poulson
Copenhagen
Berlin
Violin Reborn from Fire Found Its Soul Amati Restoration
After the Lucky Baldwin theater fire in San Francisco a waterlogged Amati violin was salvaged in sixty eight pieces. Violin reporter Herman Muller rebuilt the old instrument with clay arches and varnish, restoring its voice and spirit as August Hinrichs drew the bow again.
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San Francisco
August Hinrichs
Herman Muller
Joeal
Hinrichs
John and His Idols and Chinese Religion Explored
A Chicago News excerpt reports Rev. John MacGowan describing Chinese idol worship as instrumental and practical. He says believers seek idol approval for business and safety, blame themselves for failures, and show little affection toward the idols while laughing at the notion they love them.
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John MacGowan
Chicago News
Remarkable One Man Built English Church at Stiichall
At Stiichall near Coventry England a church was built by John Greer a stone mason of devout mind who laid the first stone in 1810 and completed the edifice seven years later working alone without help. Every stone was laid by one man making it a unique structure in England and perhaps the world. The church serves a large congregation and earns revenue from curious sightseers.
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Stiichall
Coventry
England
John Greer
Equinox Storm Fable Debunked By Weather Bureau
The United States Weather Bureau denies that the equinox brings a storm. The fallacy, say officials, rests on old theory. A storm near the equinox is common, they note, and not caused by the sun’s crossing.
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United States Weather Bureau
A Fine Pair in a London Telegraph Quip
An elector asks what you think of the two candidates and the reply notes a wry view that only one can win. The quote captures sharp, humorous commentary from a London Telegraph exchange on a recent contest.
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London Telegraph
Through Her Head Joke Exchange
A humorous quarrel unfolds as Bugby chides his wife for not understanding. The wife retorts that his words simply pass in one ear and out the other, highlighting a playful miscommunication.
Hot Water and Indigestion Jokes in London Express
Short comic exchanges note a drunken urban joke about drinking hot water each morning and misnaming coffee, followed by a quip about a foreman and a printer’s devil who claims to print all he knows in display type on a postage stamp without canceling it.
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Hyker
Pyker
London Express
Jimmie
Exchange
Uncomplimentary quotes on friendship and books by Colton
The fragment presents a dialogue or quotation theme with references to Howell and Powell. It contrasts personal character with social ties and highlights an opinion that books are a superior acquisition to friends. The tone is reflective and aphoristic.
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Colton
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