Strike action and arrests amid Shenandoah riot
Soldiers and constables arrested Anthony Pallmoutz and Stanislaus Zukowski in Shenandoah for alleged rioting complicity after two wounded men were found in bed. A third suspect fled to Ashland’s Miners hospital. bail set at 2000 dollars.
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Shenandoah
Anthony Pallmoutz
Stanislaus Zukowski
Ashland
Shoemaker
Pottsville
James Capparell
Hazleton
Tyler & McTurk
Girardville
George F. Baer
Reading Railroad
Reading Company
Indian Ridge
United Ming Workers
Indianapolis
CHINESE BUNKO BILL CRITICISM BY AF OF L OFFICIAL ORGAN
The American Federationist argues that a recently enacted Chinese exclusion bill is defective and deceptive. It claims the law fails to clearly tie exclusion to treaty obligations and creates loopholes enabling Chinese laborers to enter the United States via Hong Kong Mexico or other routes. The piece warns the measure threatens American workers and calls for timely remedial legislation.
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Congress
Treasury
American Federation of Labor Representatives
California
China
Philippine Islands
Hongkong
Mexico
Great Britain
Bond
Republic
American Federationist
A. Balfour at London Hotel Inspires Merry Story
A. Balfour newly named British premier is humorously mistaken for Lord Salisbury after signing the visitors’ book at a London hotel. The clerk’s quip leads to generosity from the imagined great man as the story circulates in England. A Parisian stage anecdote follows about Camille and a celery prop during a costume scene, ending with a tease about Stuart Robson.
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Arthur J. Balfour
England
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East End
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House of Commons
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Chava Morris
Camille
Armand
Miss Morris
Stuart Robson
The
Chicago News
New Zealand Third Eyes in Tuatara and Lamprey Found
Melbourne Argus reports on Professor Dendy’s work revealing that New Zealand species such as the tuatara and lamprey possess a third eye. The head‑mounted organ, once misnamed a pineal gland, appears to be a former pair of eyes, with Dendy noting historical two‑eye configurations and remaining single eyes in today’s specimens.
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New Zealand
Dendy
Melbourne
Australia
Argus
Artificial Lobster Culture Discovered By Professor Bumpus
For years lobster propagation faced an unsolved problem until Professor I. Bumpus of the American Museum of Natural History found a solution. Keeping hatchling water in constant motion prevents smothering and cannibalism, allowing fry to grow to nine to sixteen days. The United States plans to restock coastal waters with these lab hatched lobsters.
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Europe
Bumpus
American Museum of Natural History
United States
Waves in Solid Metal by Roberts Austen Examines Metal Structures
Professor Roberts Austen told the Institution of Civil Engineers in London that solid metals reveal vibration histories in their structure. Demonstrations showed mercury surfaces acquiring wave patterns from tuning fork vibrations and lead surfaces mirroring such patterns after similar treatment. He described mild steel as a solid solution of iron and carbon free of cinders and noted metallurgists have doubled steel strength since its early days.
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Roberts Austen
Institution of Civil Engineers
London
Mercury
Mrs Hendersons Husband and the Gray Jackass Tale
In a Gramercy park boarding house Mrs Henderson heads the Sen derson family and Bridget clarifies husbands absence prompting the house to nickname him Mrs Tendersons husband. The tale of The Original Gray Jackass explains how an inn sign change after Napoleon altered business, leading to a rival and the final inscription claim.
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Mrs. Henderson
Gramercy Park
Senderson
Bridget
Mr. Henderson
Mrs.enderson
Mrs. Tenderson
Naparet
Duke of Wellington
Vereschagin Sees New York Skyline Grow Grand
New York artist Vereschagin, famed for a canvas featuring Roosevelt at San Juan Hill, spoke of his early gloom at the city’s skyline fifteen years ago. After much thought on Manhattan’s tall buildings he reportedly told a friend the skyline begins to seem grand.
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New York
Vereschagin
San Juan Hill
Roosevelt
Metropolis
Island
Manhattan
Sandwich Islands name survives in public speech
The term Sandwich Islands recurs in news items and lectures, though obsolete. Mainland speakers mispronounce Hawaiian as Haywayian, leading to the avoidance of the correct name and a tendency to say Sandwich Islands to sidestep this infelicity.
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Sandwich Islands
An Excellent Arrangement in Parliament Heads Off a Headache
In the scene amid parliamentary benches, Itt sits on the treasury bene and frequently drinks so much that an anxious clerk at the table feels the strain. Pitt comments on the arrangement noting I have the wine and he has the headache.
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Treasury
Pitt
The Pennypackers Name Origin Debate in Pennsylvania
The Philadelphia jurist nominated for governor sparks discussion about the Pennypacker name. The text notes few Pennypackers in the state, a single Pennypacker family in Pittsburgh, and Allegheny has a Panabaker. It explains Pennypacker is a corruption of Dutch or Pennsylvania German Pan-nabecker meaning a man who bakes in a pan.
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Philadelphia
Pittsburg
Allegheny
Pennypacker
Pannabecker
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