Tax system critique on coal region funding for schools
The writer argues that Foster and Hazle townships lack funds for education due to alleged inequities in coal wealth taxes. Nature produced vast anthracite resources for all people, not just stockholders, and laws should compel contributions to public schools. Taxpayers' associations opposing school funding are warned they threaten public welfare.
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Foster and Hazle
Nature
America
Taxpayers’ Association
What About the Hill Fire Protection in Birranton
The Hill lacks fire protection half the summer. Residents fear a stormy night blaze could devastate Birranton. The town council must act without delay to provide dependable apparatus for home protection.
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Birranton
Council
Labor's Hard Blow from Pennsylvania Supreme Court Ruling
The court's decision declares the act aiming to bar discharging workers for union membership unconstitutional, seen as a severe labor setback. It accuses the ruling of masking true corporate interests, notes scarce U.S. commodity sales to the Philippines, critiques imperialism and conscription, and comments that the waste paper ordinance remains unenforced with daily violations.
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Pennsylvania
Humbert Killed Assassin in Monza Crowds Cheer King
A Rome cable reports King Humbert of Italy was mortally shot at Monza on a Sunday evening amid a gymnastic event and cheering crowds. Angelo Bressi of Prato claimed the act and was seized. Humbert IV, aged 34, died minutes later after the murderous volley. Humbert’s career and marriage to Princess Margherita of Savoy are summarized, noting his role in Italian unity and notable bravery at Custozza in 1866.
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London
Rome
Renter Telegram Company
King I Lambert
Monza
Angelo Brossi di Prate
Humbert
Turin
Ilumbert
Humbert IV
Victor Emmanuel
Ft Hin
Hom
Kingdom of
Te the Sicilies
Garibaldi
Hin
Prussia
Austria
Piedmont
Paris
Italy
Amadeus
Duke of
Aosta
Beld
Cialdini
Ald Amadeus
Custozza
Cussae
Hussars
Margherita of
Savoy
Genoa
Mousa
Signor Samarco
Monga
Prince
Princess of
Naples
Levant
King Humbert of Italy and Queen Margherita remembered in Rome
A historical sketch recounts King Humbert of Italy and Queen Margherita’s sevenyear reign marked by charm and energy. It notes his early military ties, daring life, amnesty acts, and efforts during cholera outbreaks. It also covers assassination attempts, public adoration, and Vittorio Emmanuele’s succession with Queen Helena of Montenegro.
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Humbert
Passanante
Signor
Cairoli
Cuirassiers
Signor Cairoli
Rome
Capancelle
Naples
Italy
Wumbert
Fle
Custazza
Traly
Vittorio Emmanuele Permiading
Maria Gennaro
Thunbert
Navy
Order of the Golden Fleece
Iris
Helena
Nicolas
Montenegro
Cettinje
Margherita
Vittorio
Rockhill Commisioner Travels Through Chicago En Route to China
Special Commissioner William Rockhill, appointed to determine China's situation, passed through Chicago yesterday on his way to the orient. He arrived at eight and was speeding to San Francisco to sail Aug 3 on the Andren Maru. Mrs Rockhill accompanies him and will stay in Shanghai during the inquiry.
Extermination Edict and Hostage Orders From China
Shanghai dispatch reports an imperial edict to viceroys and governors to seek peace with foreign powers while guarding their territories. It warns officials they must die for failure and forbids foreigners escaping the interior. Reports indicate massacres of missionaries and foreigners spreading toward Ningpo and Hangchow as consuls debate Sheng’s duplicity.
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London
Shanghai
Daily Express
China
Shangtung
Li Hung Chang
Tien Tsin
Peking
Bape
Chili
Ya Lu
Sheng
Pao-ting-f
Kwangping Fi
Slangtung
Chin
Hunan
Ttie
Ningpo
Hangchow
Kiang-su
Berlin
Railways and Telegraphs
Tong Uh Sio
Legations
Legation
Buffalo Bill Show Train Wreck Near Milwaukee Slays One
Section 1 of the Buffalo Bill Wild West show's train collided near Milwaukee. A sleeping car carrying about 40 employees was smashed. one person is dead and nine others are in Detroit hospitals with serious injuries.
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Buffalo BU
Detroit
Milwaukee
Grape Crop Shrinking in Ohio Due to Rot
Cleveland growers report a smaller grape crop this year with widespread rot. Estimates vary from a 10 percent decline to as much as half the usual yield across several counties.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Captain John Little Dies on Governors Island
Captain John Little of the subsistence department aged 46 died on Governors Island from typhoid fever. A native of Tennessee, he served in New York.
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Little
New York
John Little
Subsistence Department
Governors Island
Tle
Tennessee
Delaware Susquehanna and Scranton Lime Table April 1807
Train schedule for ISHE Delaware Susquehanna and Scavy LeEtLL outlining daily and Sunday departures from Hazleton Junction, Drifton, Sheppton, Deringer and related stops. Notes include connections at Haghton Junction with electric cars and special westbound links. Includes times for multiple routes to Jeddo Kekley Brook Stockton Beaver Meadow Road Kean Hugieton Junction Oneida Junction Harwood Cranberry Wombicken Deringer Tombick Onelda Sheppton and others.
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Susquehanna and Scavy Leetll Rai
Lime Table
Jeddo
Kekley
Brook
Stockton
Beaver Meadow Road
Kean
Hugieton Junction
Drifton
Harwood
Cranberry
Wombicken
Deringer
Oneida Junction
Harwood Road
Humboldt Road
Oneida
Sheppton
Hazleton Junction
Tomhicken
Deringer Atéso &Me Bey
Onelda
Ally
Tombick N
Koun
Hazle Brook
Juddo
Dritton
Hasleton Junction
Eckley
Haghton Junction
Hazleton
Jeanenville
Audenried
Traction Company
P. Kt
Wilkesbarre
Sunbury
Harrisburg
Date West
Lutuerk
Smith
The Mamertine Prison in Sienkie wicz's Quo Vadis
A depiction of the Mamertine Prison in Rome as described in Quo Vadis, detailing its location on the Capitoline Hill, its ancient builders Ancus Marcius and Servius Tullius, and its role in imprisoning St. Peter and other figures. The piece notes tradition of Nero’s persecutions and Cicero's era executions, with descriptions of the prison’s vaults and Cyclopean walls.
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Manfertine
Sienkiewicz
Capitoline
Rome
Ancus Marting
Servius Tullius
Jugurtha Iksus
Catiline
Cicero
Seja Ons
Tivorice
Tiberus
Chiurch
St. Peter
St. Paul
Nero
Ilard
Mamertine
Jugurtha
Sallust
Not Piety but Pork in The Barring Dons
In this humorous excerpt Mrs Bateson and Mrs Hankey mock husbands and their plights with pork. They laugh at Bateson a Methodist who frets over election doctrine while eating, then prays for hours, only to seek relief with soda.
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Bateson
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