M'KINLEY ON WHEELS PARADE ACROSS THE NATION
President Mckinley plans a thirteen thousand mile Parley Car journey across the United States. A large train entourage and cabinet aides will accompany him, with cabinet meetings scheduled on travel days and press and telegraph coordinators ensuring official business proceeds as in Washington. The trek will cover western deserts and major rail lines, mirroring past presidential tours in scope and circumstance.
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United States
Clevelait
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Phil Sheridan
Cal Mike Sheridan
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Transuet
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Seeren
Epii
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Washington
Vom
Rho
Wiehington
Avivella Cor
Unsolved Shoreham Poison Case Stuns Vermont Town
A perplexing death in Shoreham involves Miss Foshbare and the suspected poison plot. Authorities shift from murder to possible self harm or another party sending poison. Nelson Tones was arrested in a dramatic twist as investigators trace a Branden pharmacist’s mailing of strychnine to a supposed conspirator.
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Sida Tashan
Shoreham
Adie
Lind Tritt
Stevehnine
Fainie Han
Miss Foshbare
Maevrili Fous
Fy Spier
Brandon
Davenport Clothing Stores to Close Sundays and Evenings
The Clerks Union No. 405 and Silberstein Bros. of Davenport reached an agreement ending a dispute over Sunday and late weekday openings. The pact requires all clothing, furnishing, shoe, and department stores in Davenport to close on Sundays and at 4:30 p.m. on weekdays.
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Barly
Iowa News
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Clerks’ Union
Rock Island
Moline
National
State Department
German Empire
Europe
Russia
Germany
Sa. AO
Thosr
Rhine
Death by Own Action Of A Farmer Near Council Bluffs
The body of Samuel Roberts, a prosperous farmer missing since Saturday, was found Tuesday night hanging in a small vacant house on his mother’s farm near Council Bluffs. He had advertised a stock sale for Monday but did not appear. His brother Willian discovered the scene. death appears to have occurred Saturday due to nervous prostration and temporary insanity. He leaves a wife and three children.
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Council Bluffs
Samuel Roberts
Roberts
Willian Roberts
Samuel
Tie
Has Muscle And Brains John Louis New Superintendent
John J. Louis former college athlete and University of Iowa track star named city schools superintendent to succeed E A White who declined re election. Louis known for high jumping and winning the Max Mayer scholarship among athletes. also notes of Sioux City & Pacific railroad debt sale and other local items including a soldiers home inspection, a Fairfield fire, a new bank in Council Bluffs, post office shortages, a fatal crap game, a mail robbery case, Wakefield decision, LeMars light plant sale, Cherokee trial.
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Iinglan
John J. Louis
Tartan
E. A. White
University of Michigan
Louw
University of Lowa
Max Mayer
Child Mangles Hawarden Boy in Dog Attack
A 63-year-old Hawarden boy was severely bitten by a bulldog and two greyhounds owned by a neighbor. The attack occurred last Tuesday. the mother rushed to help but the child sustained painful, though not dangerous, wounds that were cauterized. The dogs’ prior behavior seemed nonvicious, and they will be watched for hydrophobia symptoms.
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G. W. McCormick
Breach of Promise Verdict Confirmed in Burlington Case
George J. Binder, a Burlington resident, must pay Augusta Vehrling of Toledo $1,300 for breach of promise to marry. The suit arose from a promissory relationship formed via a dating agency, with five proposed marriage dates. The defense sought an examination of Vehrling but was denied. The original $2,000 verdict was trimmed by a lower court by $700, and the supreme court affirmed the ruling.
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Geo. J. Binder
Augusta Vehrling
Toledo
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Binder
Supreme Court
Live Lizard in Stomach Alarm Furor in Clinton
George McClusky, a Clinton painter, returned home from the Marion Hospital in St Louis after doctors removed a live lizard from his stomach. The reptile, about five inches long, had resided there for eight years after he drank river water while fishing in the Mississippi. Naturalists traced the creature’s age to roughly eight years.
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Clinton
George McClusky
Maring
St. Louis
Mississippi
McClusky
McChasky
Record of late 19th century U S finances and world data
The article surveys U S government expenditures reaching historic highs with 1902 approvals of $720 million, notes per capita costs and a post Civil War rise, cites 1881 as the most economical year, and traces population trends in Germany France and Britain. It also covers wireless telegraphy tests under Willis Moore, a Martha Blaine engagement rumor, and political shifts including Frye resigning the commerce chair for foreign relations.
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Ingy
Carter
Willis Moore
Weather Burresu
Virginia
Crolina
Wilson
Virginia of Many Years Ago and Early Dawn Discipline
A Youth's Companion excerpt recalls Virginia social norms of the early era. It describes how prominent households, notably Chief Justice Marshall's, managed visits by young men and the strict expectations surrounding propriety. Maids ushered visitors and daughters faced routine questions about motives before allowing calls.
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Marshall
Vuele
Joseph
Beth
Teht
Duis
From Witty Prose on Women and Work and Sponge Fishing
A quirky column mixes social satire about women and politics with traits of a young bookkeeper Florence Miller of Bloomington IL and her rise from child prodigy to skilled bookkeeper and artist. It notes sponge fishing may be revolutionized by submarine electric arc laps allowing deeper, larger sponges. artifacts include deep sea dwellers, fins used as legs, and new methods.
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Ness
Charley City
Greane
George Dawson
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Anonymous lord proposes to Mrs Pullman in a cablegram
Mrs George M Pullman widow of a wealthy palace car builder received a verbose cablegram from an anonymous admirer claiming to be an English lord. He proposed marriage and offered to reveal his identity aboard a sea voyage if she accepted. The note mocked her and drew sharp public disbelief.
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Heit
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