Memorial Day Observances Across Cities and Cemeteries
Memorial day activities relayed from Washington to Arlington, Chicago, Lincoln's Tomb, New York, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Boston, Jackson, Chattanooga, and West Point. Parades and decoration ceremonies honored Union dead at national cemeteries including Arlington and Grant's Tomb. Notable tributes included Lincoln and Grant monuments, the 35,000 unknown soldiers buried at Arlington, and the dedication of a Civil War battle monument at West Point.
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Words of Cheer Secretary Gage Sees Industrial Revival
Cincinnati May 20 The crowning event of the annual meeting of the commercial clubs was the banquet where Secretary of the Treasury Gage spoke. He urged confidence in the tariff bill and urged unity, distrusting obstacles, and faith in a early national recovery. He predicted a revival of industry and sound finances guiding government to a forward movement benefiting the American people.
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Cincinnati
Commercial Clubs
Congress
Wintry Weather Causes Wide Frost Damage Across Wisconsin
Milwaukee and several states report heavy frosts Monday morning causing damage to vegetables and fruit. Strawberries near loss in Wisconsin. Hurley sees a blizzard with snow on ground. Marshalltown and Rockford note severe frost, ice, and crop losses. St Paul reports widespread frost with fears for vegetables and small fruits.
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Wisconsin
Hurley
Marshalltown
St. Paul
Minn
Rockford
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Tributes to Flood Victims Mark Johnstown Anniversary
Johnstown observed the eighth anniversary of the flood with a large turnout at Grand View Cemetery. Thousands visited the cemetery where unidentified remains of over 800 victims lie, the plots covered by flowers from families who lost relatives in the disaster.
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Johnstown
Grand View
National Republican league calls tenth convention in Detroit
President Woodmansee and Secretary Dowl ing issue call for the tenth annual convention of the National Republican league to meet in Detroit on July 13. Each state league gets four delegates per congressional district and six at large. Father and son drown in Kentucky. George Repshire and his son Herbert 48 and 15 die at Shady Bend on the Saline river after a bather cramps.
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Detroit
Cincinnati
D. D. Woodmansee
M. J. Dowling
National Republican League
Lincoln Center
Kay
George Repshire
Herbert
Shady Bend
Saline River
Tariff Bill Progress Dominates Senate Schedule
From Washington May 27 to June 2 a running update shows Senate debates on the tariff bill occupying most time with multiple votes and paragraph-by-paragraph consideration. Key items include a 34 to 20 test vote on duty reductions, a final conference on the sundry civil bill, and calls for a special five-senator committee to probe tariff-era speculation.
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Senate
Finance Committee
Tillman
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Pettigrew
Congress
United States
House
Government Printing Office
Secretary of the Navy
India
Minor News Items of May Chronicle Global Losses
May records the coldest month, with Mankato mining company failing for 500000 and Merchants Bank of Lincoln closing with 50000 in liabilities. Deaths include Charles H. Andrews 63 of Boston Herald, Thomas A. Boyd 67 ex-congressman. Earthquake shocks hit upstate New York towns, and Griswold Gillet face 200000 liability. Others report a cathedral fire panic in Pisa with seven dead, and Liman killings by Russian fanatics. Murders, suicides, and violent incidents haunt several states with multiple fatalities including a railway blast near Christiansburg.
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Hubbard Mining ‘Company
Mankato
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Mérchanta’ Bank
Lincoln
Neb
Charles H. Andrews
Boston Herald
Whitehall
Plattsburg
Port
Heary
Ticonderoga
New York
Thdomas A. Boyd
Congress
Lewiston
Griswold & Gillet
James T. Lloyd
Missouri
R. P. Giles
Pisa
Italy
Liman
Russia
Bud” Franks
San Antonio
Tex
Christiansburg
W. Va
Joe Waskie
Tennessee
Samuel A. Jervis
Bertha Johnson
New Orleans
Constantine Kerr
Hock- In
Mounted Police
Ernest Grundy
Duck Lake
Man
Greek Turkish peace talks shift toward favorable terms for Greece
London reports indicate Turkish capitulation on Thessaly rejected while Greece gains potential leverage. Russian notes urge Turkey to renounce annexation claims as Mediation moves to armistice. Constantinople dispatch says peace talks may proceed after Greek commanders sign an armistice, with plenipotentiaries to seal terms in Thessaly. Also reports of a plot against Greek King George and ongoing Crete fighting with bombardments at Hierapetra.
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Greece
Terraee
Athena
Turkey
Rankfort Zeitung
Constantinople
Muravieff
St. Petersburg
Thessaly
Europe
England
Daily Mail
Tims
Seltan
Berlin
The
George of
Ralli
Crete
Canea
Hierapetra
Five Children Burned to Death in West Virginia Farmhouse
Five children aged twelve ten six four and six perished in a farmhouse two miles from Keystone after enemies are believed to have set fire while J H White and his wife were away. The incident occurred when the children were asleep, and the house burned rapidly.
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Cincinnati
Welch
W. Va
J. H. White
Keystone
White
Indians On Warpath In Montana With Casualties
Helena June 1 Cheyenne Indians said to have killed a dozen men, including five U S soldiers. Settlers moving women and children to safer northern towns near Crow reservation as fear spreads in southern Montana.
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Helena
Mont
United States
Crow Indian Reservation
Mange Leviature? Unclear headline from county tale
Lever Mange. Himself, a young farmer, is mentioned in a terse county note after years in the area. The fragment lacks concrete dates places or outcomes to provide a fuller summary.
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Lever
Joy Turned To Woe A Terrible Disaster To A Party
Five young excursionists from the Greene Avenue Baptist church Brooklyn were killed and 15 injured when a tallyho party of 21 was struck by a Long Island railroad train at Merrick boulevard crossing Valley Stream Long Island. Names include George F. Fashley Jr William Gilchrist Jr Winslow Lewis Lester E. Roberts and Dora Burtsch. The accident occurred yesterday afternoon ending a day’s outing.
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Valley Spring
L. I
Greene Avenue Baptist Church
Brooklyn
Long Yaland
Long Island Railroad
Merrick Boulevard
George F. Fashley, Jr
William Gilchrist, Jr
Winslow Lewis
Lester E. Roberts
Dora Burtsch
Wisconsin Week Weather and Crop Report Highlights
The Wisconsin Week notes cold and dry conditions with heavy frosts on the 2nd 7th and again the 1st causing damage to fruit and other crops. Corn planting is about completed while oats barley and spring wheat show promise. Strawberries are being marketed in large quantities amid favorable growth for oats and wheat, with more replanting needed than earlier reports indicated.
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Wisconsin
Earthquake Tremors Felt Across Southern States
A distinct but light earthquake was reported yesterday afternoon across the South Atlantic and middle southern states. Readings noted in Cincinnati Knoxville Zanesville Winston-Salem Atlanta and other cities as shocks varied in intensity with no damage reported.
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Mother Harth
Washington
Cincinnati
Times-Star
Ohio
Kentucky
West Virginia
Knoxville
Tenn
Tennessee
Virginia
Zanesville
Courier
Winston
N. C
Atlanta
Wisconsin Appointments to Tax Law Revision Board
Madison May 31 Gov Scofield appoints K K Kennan Milwaukee George Curtis Merrill Burr W Jones Madison to revise state tax laws John A Ogden Antigo named secretary of the board of immigration at 1800 dollars yearly salary
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Madison
Wis
Scofield
K. K. Kennan
Milwaukee
George Curtis
Merrill
Burr W. Jones
Madigan
John A. Ogden
Antigo
Board of Immigration
Hood's Sarsaparilla Promises Blood Purity and Strength
Veteran ex commander J.R. McPampmy credits Hood's Sarsaparilla with rebuilding health damaged by war and tobacco. He says it purified his blood, strengthened his system, and stopped tobacco use after starting the remedy. Endorses Hood's as the one true blood purifier sold by all druggists at $1 per bottle or six for $5.
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Hood
J.R. McPanpmy
Ness Post
Dept. of
Hairdressing and barber shop with full stock items
Local shop offers HALY SHAVE and MOOTH AIROUT services with special attention to ladies and children. Stock includes hair tonic imported bay rum cream of roses brillantine camphor cosme tique shaving soap hair oil and more. Azor honing advertised. Located 2nd door south of State 3.
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Azor
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