President McKinley Tours Montauk Camps and Hospitals
President McKinley accompanied by Vice President Hobart and Cabinet members spent five hours at Camp Wikoff Montauk Point visiting wounded in hospitals and inspecting cantonments. He spoke to infantry and reviewed cavalry, then issued orders diverting regulars east of the Mississippi.
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Wisconsin
Philippines
Wikoff
Montauk Point
McKinley
Mississippi
Hobart
Alger
Griggs
President Thanks Soldiers at Homecoming Speech
The president addressed Camp Whooff troops, thanking General Wheeler and the Fifth Army Corps for their service after two years of campaigning. He praised Manila heroes, saluted the army, navy, marines, volunteers, and Providence, noting the nation’s gratitude and thanksgiving. The Eighth Ohio and its regimental honors drew cheers.
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Wheeler
Fifth Army Corps
Manila
Eighth Ohio
Nolay
Detroit Welcomes Santiago Campaign Troops With Warmth
Detroit crowds greet Michigan’s Thirty-third and Thirty-fourth volunteers returning from Santiago. Hospitals, hotels, and homes provide food and care as ambulances carry the weary marchers to their furlough homes. Governor Pingree pledges state support. towns statewide eagerly await future arrivals.
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Detroit
Michigan
Santiago
Michigan Central
Pingree
Toledo
Omdurman Taken as British Forces Rally
Cairo dispatch reports early morning dervish attack repulsed by Anglo-Egyptian troops. At 8:30 am a general advance toward Omdurman met renewed assault, repulsed with heavy losses. By noon the Khalifa’s dispersed forces were in retreat. Omdurman occupied by 2 pm. Khalifa fled. Contemplative note on Kitchener.
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Cairo
Nasri
Omdurman
Khalifa
British and Egyptian forces sweep toward Omdurman
London dispatches describe a vast cavalry and gunboat advance toward Omdurman with the Anglo Egyptian army forming a square front. The Khalifa’s remnant surrenders as Kitchener reports heavy casualties and prisoners. Descriptions note gunboats, forts, and the Mahdi’s tomb in view.
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London
The
Times
Omdurmantyas
Melik
Sultan
Sheikh Steward
Sire
Gehee
Triskabia
Omdurman
Nile
Tuti Island
Omidurman
War Office
Kitchener
Khalifa
Kordofan
Fire destroys Owosso furniture factory and more
A massive blaze in Owosso Michigan on Saturday night swept Woodward's furniture factory and spread to the Owosso Brewing Co and several nearby businesses. Losses run about 200000 with 150000 on Woodward's and 30000 on the brewery, with 11000 insurance. Two firemen injured and a Crowe & Payne smoke victim hospitalized, none names listed. The factory, a leader in town employment of 175, may not be rebuilt.
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Owosso
Mich
Woodard
Owosso’ Brewing Company
Crowe & Paynes
William Jopling
Jacob Barrie
Woodward
Owesson Brewing Company
Loas
Lee Crowe
Crowe & Payne
Corunna
First Wisconsin Ordered Home From Camp Jacksonville
Governor Scofield secured a war department order for immediate removal of the First Wisconsin from Jackson ville camp to Milwaukee. Sickness within the regiment caused anxiety among friends and relatives as Governor Scofield pressed for swift transfer. The plan is to bring the regiment to Milwaukee and then disperse companies to their home towns to be disbanded.
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Madison
Wis
Patton
Boardman
Scofield
Washington
War Department
First Wisconsin
Jacksonville
Milwaukee
Wisconsin
Convalescents To Be Sent to Their Homes Plan Approved
Montauk Point Sept 5 The real camp will dissolve in three weeks shrinking to slender proportions by Oct 1 Well men to leave as transportation allows at 3000 to 4000 per week Convalescents from hospitals to go home not back to their commands President Alger and General Wheeler discussed the plan despite Wheeler favoring camp housing until Oct 1 Regulars from posts east of the Mississippi to be sent to their prewar destinations War Department order pending for General Shafter.
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Montauk Point
War Department
Alger
General Wheeler
Gen .Wheeler
Mississippi
Shafter
Suspect Shot at Manila and Rail Traffic Restored
Manila reports from General Rios, Visayas governor, arresting and shooting suspected persons including prominent Manila natives. Railway obstruction Manila to Caloocan removed, first train left Saturday. Expected traffic to Dagupan to resume by Monday. Steamers Ohio and Valencia sailed for San Francisco Saturday.
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Manila
Mani'a
Rios
Visayas
Caloocan
Dagupan
Ohio
Valencia
San Francisco
Health report on troops at Santiago issued in Washington
General Law ton's report, received Saturday night, details health conditions of American troops at Santiago. Total sick 898, fever 184, new fever cases 20, returned to duty 9. Deaths include George R. Bray private F First Illinois typhoid fever and Eugene Munger private C First cavalry pernicious malarial fever.
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Washington
Lawton
Santiago
George R. Bray
Illinois
Eugene Munger
First Cavalry
Soldier dies in Puerto Rico from typhoid fever
Corporal Harry V. Cary aged 19 of Kankakee Illinois died at Guayamo Puerto Rico Saturday from typhoid fever. He served in company L Third Illinois volunteers. Hig hness dates from Camp Tanner. This is the second death in the local company. Michigan Troops Off for the West. Camp Meade Middletown Rept. 6. Detachments Thirty-third and Thirty-fourth start for Isle Lake Michigan after returning from Santiago. Store Closed for Debt at Tuscherer Schlegel department store in Menasha Wisconsin by W D Ferguson Adjusting company Chicago.
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Kankakee
Ills
Harry V. Cary
Guayamo
Porto Rico
Cary
Illinois Volunteers
Michigan
Camp Meade
Middletown
Isle Lake
Mich
Santiago
Menasha
Wis
Tuscherer & Schlegel
W. D. Ferguson Adjusting Company
Chicago
Sherman Says War Was A Mistake Criticizes Congress
Washington Sept 5 Ex Secretary John Sherman assailed Congress for driving the war and blamed Miles Alger controversy for the crisis He said as secretary of state he could have cooled the Cuba issue by a treaty with Spain He denied acting as Miles attorney and rejected needing a retainer.
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John Sherman
Congress
Scores
Alger
Washington
Miles-Alger
Sherman
Spain
Cuba
Gen. Alger
War Department
Miles
Topeka Women Threaten Parade Over Breckinridge Invite
Topeka women who run the flower parade in the fall festival threaten to withdraw their part if W C P Breckinridge of Kentucky accepts an invitation to speak from George B Payne of Topeka. Payne invited him without consulting others, stirring a local row.
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Topeka
Kas
Kansas
W. C. P. Breckinridge
Kentucky
George B. Payne
Wish I Could Be Ayin Nonr A Moira O Neill Poem
A fragment from Moira O Neill in Luck ywoods Magazine expresses longing and blessing. The speaker wishes joy for a loved one and reflects on life, death, and a future brighter day.
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Aohray
Moira O'Neill
Luckywood
A Negro Man Turns White in Pension Office
A 67 year old man named Sam Smith from Georgetown, a Union Army veteran, reportedly is turning whiter by the day. Doctors believe most of his body will become white with time, though his face remains largely unchanged beneath the hair.
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Sam Smith
Georgetown
Smith
Lexington
Cincinnati Enquirer
DeWitt’s Witch Hazel Salve touted with samples
The advertisement recounts over twenty million free samples of DeWitt's Witch Hazel Salve and praises its cures for piles burns and sores. It also plugs DeWitt's Little Early Risers laxatives and mentions related products and endorsements from H J Moogh Emmert Burrell and Jungkunz Co. Also notes Russia Siberian railway spending and a Shan princess requesting medicines in a cantonment letter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
DeWitt
H. J. Moogh
Emmert & Burrell
Wm BF
Jungkunz & Co
Wm. F. Jungkunz & Co
Household Necessity and German Army Dog Tactics
A household need is Foley's Colic Cure for all bowel complaints. The article notes German army dogs are trained to howl at a dead body and hunt for their trainer by taking a cap or small item, using it to locate the watcher, and repeating the act if the man is wounded.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Foley
H. J. Moogh
Swarts & Fleck
It Hits the Spot and Healing Promised by Honey and Tar
An advertised medical tonic promises relief for sore throats and lungs from a severe cold. The copy claims dramatic, immediate comfort and quotes a slogan It feels so good IT HITS the SPOT. Readings by a clairvoyant at 101 Galena St from 9 am to 10 pm, priced at 25 and 50 cents.
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IF Foley
H. J. Moogh
Swarts & Fleck
Galena St
Vaupel’s
Excursion Tickets to County Fair via the North Western Line
Reduced fare excursion tickets for Belvidere County Fair on September 5 to 9 with return by September 10. Tickets from Chicago and North Western Railway agents, Black Hills location, advertise medicinal properties and first class accommodations. Omaha exposition prompts Illinois Central round trips on Tuesdays and Fridays, $13.35 from Freeport, H W Rowey quote.
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Belvidere
North-Western
Chicago & North- Western Ba Y
Black Hills
South Dakota
Omaha
Neb
Illinois Central R. R
Freeport
H. W. Rowey
Labor Day Sale for Rockford Travel in 1898
On September 4 5 the North Western Line will offer tickets to Rockford from all Illinois stations within 75 miles at one and one third fare for a round trip good until September 6.
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North-Western Line
Rockford
Inllinois
National Encampment travel deals for Omaha 1898
Northwestern Line agents offer reduced round trip fares to Omaha for the National Encampment from September 10 to 11, 1898. Tickets valid until September 21. Apply to agents for full particulars.
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Sons of Veterans
Omaha
Northwestern Line
War Atlas With 16 Colored Map Plates 14x21 Inches
A 16 page war atlas featuring colored map plates of all Spanish possessions and marked with principal cities and towns, size 14 by 21 inches. Postage paid 18 cents. Address J. porte G. P. and T. A., Cedar Rapids, Ia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. Porte
Reduced rates for Trans Miss Exposition at Omaha
Reduced fares offered by C M and St P railway for the 1898 Trans Miss Exposition in Omaha from June 1 to November 1. May 31 to June 6 round trips at one fare. during the exposition a fare plus one third with 80 day limit. Uniformed bands and military units priced at one cent per mile with ten day limit. B Sweart agent.
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Omaha
Neb
B. Sweart
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Fiat
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Daily Telegraph
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Kerreri
Sur-Arab
Zereba
Kurshid Pasha
Kerrec
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Tutl Island
Grenfell
Twenty-first Lancers
Caldecott
Warwick- Shire Regiment
Howard
Daily Santiago Health Report
Breckinridge
Big Michigan Furniture Combine
Grand Rapids
Grand Rapids School Furniture Company
Haney School Furniture Company
Stafford School Furniture Company
Muskegon
Denmark
Copenhagen
Daily Mail
Lawrence
Kan
John Jennings
Ellet Bates
Russia
Great Siberian
St. Petersburg
Pacific
Madrid
Jania & Burrell
Wm. F. Jungkun
Briancon
du Casset
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W. J. Yeats
Soremress Co
N. Ek
Fairbank Company
St. Louis
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Janesville
Milton Junction
Kish
Chicago & Northwestern Railway
Palmer Cox
Inter Ocean
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Vihiede
Cincinnati
Chicago & Northwestern R’y
Ves FT
C. M. & St. P. Railway
J. B. Swear
Agi
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