Desolate Cuba Described From Havana by Murat Halstead
Murat Halstead reports on Cuba from Havana, detailing General Weyler’s harsh control, rebel terror, and a crippled economy. He notes empty villas, destroyed fields, emigration to Tampa, and widespread business ruin, especially in iron machinery sugar and tobacco.
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Murat Halstead
New York Journal
Havana
Cuba
Ita
Spain
United States of America
Weyler
Marin
Santiago de Cuba
Matanzas
Louisiana
Remedios
Partidos
Vuelta Abajo
Partido
Haana
Tampa
Partidio
Europe
Ida
Slot warmer starts fire to clear cable slot
The Metropolitan Traction company began a new job last night at the Thirty-fifth street curve in Broadway to keep the slot clear of ice. A man armed with cotton waste and kerosene oil burned a long fire 25 feet along the track to prevent blockages, while pedestrians watched and cars jolted past the flames.
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Metropolitan Traction Company
Thirty-fifth , Street and Broadway
Broadway
Thirty-fifth Street
New York Sun
Tesla’s Shrouded Breakthroughs Stir Public Awe
The New York Journal reports Nikola Tesla’s friends claim he developed an X ray like ability to pass solids through solids and even patented inventions before public release. Tesla declines specifics saying he works quietly and shares only after scientific society disclosure. He also says brain imaging through the skull was not confirmed.
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Nicola Tesla
Tessa
Tesla
New York Journal
Best Lentetic Sacrifice by Dr Greer at St Bartholomews
Dr David H Greer rector of St Bartholomews church New York tells women Lent is a time for self sacrifice and quiet reflection like Sundays He urges meditation planning and doing good works and easing daily life struggles. Representative Gillett Massachusetts introduces a bill penalizing gambling bet transmissions across states as a misdemeanor with fines or imprisonment.
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David H. Greer
St Bartholomew’s Church
New York
Gillett
Massachusetts
Jay
B. J Khy
Tuskegee Colored Conference Set for March 1896
The annual Tuskegee colored conference will be held in Tuskegee Alabama on March 5 1896 under the auspices of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute in the black belt of the south. On March 6 there will be a workers conference composed of representatives from different religious organizations or institutions in the south devoted to the interests of the colored people.
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Tuskegee Colored
Tuskegee
Ala
Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute
Black Belt
South
Yale Princeton track games set for Yale field May 16
Final arrangements place the Yale Princeton track meet at Yale field on Saturday May 16 under I C A A A rules. The piece notes plans for international athletic alliances and a potential eastern colleges football conference led by Yale alumni and the New York Athletic Club.
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Yale Field
Yale
New York Athletic Club
Sketches of Frontiers Life and a Fiery Tavern Run
A narrator recalls in sketches a mountaineer learning education helps, a tavern keeper fending off a rival with a Winchester, and a camp prank involving a dog versus a wolf in a Republican Fork river camp. The tale blends humor and frontier bravado with quick exchanges and dangers.
Oddest creature and river chase booted by a cowardly dog
A corporal releases a strange animal on a dog from a riverbank scene. A jackrabbit runs with the dog in pursuit while the animal’s fear causes the dog to flee. the pair diverge, and a bystander notes the comic misadventure with a $20 bill. In another vignette a pickpocket scene on the Sixth Avenue elevated ends with a man witnessing theft and remaining silent.
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Hia
Sixth Avenue
Evening Play Lacks Her Return Amid Curtain’s Silence
A poet narrates a night at the theater where the actress with golden hair did not appear. Hoe attends hoping for a dance or comic turn, or a performance to move the soul, but the play proves weak and the expected star remains unseen through acts one and two.
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Hoe
Reduced Rates to Hot Springs from Wabash Line
The Wabash line offers round trip excursion tickets to Hot Springs Arkansas at low rates valid 90 days. Through sleeping car service with one change at St. Louis Union Station. Hot Springs touted as a health resort and climate akin to Italy with extensive hotel options. Pamphlets and details available via Wabash agents and listed officials.
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Wabash
Hot Springs
Arkansas
St. Louis Union Station
United States
Italy
Wabash Railroad
Crane
St. Louis
Nickel Plate routes offer low fares to southern points
Tuesday March 3 the Grand Rapids and Indiana Railroad sells tickets to Southern states at very low rates. Call G R I Ticket Agents or write C L Lockwood Grand Rapids Mich for details. California in four days via Nickel Plate Road with through lines from Chicago. Fort Wayne timetable shows new route to Indianapolis with a half day in the state capital. Uniformed porters and through sleeping cars Chicago to New York via Nickel Plate. Subscribe to Fort Wayne Evening Post for low Nickel Plate rates any time.
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Nickel Plate Road
B. F. Horner
Cleveland
California
Chicago
Grand Rapids & Indiana Railroad
C. L. Lockwood, A. Op. & T. A
Grand Rapids, Mich
Fort Wayne
Indianapolis
Buffalo
New York
Boston
New York City
Electric Hights. Org
W.g.burket
D.D.S
Arcade
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Carte
Atiago de Cubs
New
Dr. Greer
B. Zalamea
South America
Allegany
Colombia
England
Canada
Sullivan
A.A. A
Exigland
M. Quad
Terbacker
Kaw River
Hopkins
Bev
Kangas
Tenderfoot
Republican Fork
Arkansas River
Les
Rabbit
House of Detention
Detroit Free Press
Lucy
Washington Post
Jinkles
Whytkins
Washington Star
Yonkers Statesman
Dickie
Millie
Leavitt
New York World
Buffalo Express
Brumley
Sho
Wowan
Brunner
Marshalltown
Town
Dr. Kay
Ark
VIA Co. R. & I
State Capital
Fort Wayne Everina
Nan
Albert E. Bulson,jr
Indiana
Calhoun and
Wayne Streets
Calhoun St
Geo
C. Stemen
Fisher Brothers
Samuel Fisher
Max B. Fisher
Sommer’s
Summit City
M’f’g. CO
S. Harrison St
Ind
Mennonite Book Concern
East Main Street
J.B. Monninc
Vedermark Block
Calhoun Street
J. B. Monning
Trintplates
S. Robacher
Mary A. Whery
Madison St
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