Digging for Dead and Fire Toll in Milwaukee Hotel Disaster
The Milwaukee Gimry Hotel collapse after a fire leaves a death toll of 25 with many missing. Engineer Pierce blamed for causing the disaster by overheating boilers, reportedly intoxicated, as rescue workers struggle amid ruins with arc lights. In Denver and Chicago reports, battles at Washington Park track note no records due to wind, while Patchen defeats Gentry in a Northwestern Breeders Association event with prizes of 11000.
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Gimry
Denver
Pierce
Ding
Hoser
Washington Park
Chicago
Gentry
Northwestern Breeders’ Association
Patchen
Fire Devours Milwaukee Riverfront Property
A major Milwaukee blaze destroyed railroad and steamship facilities along Water Street and the riverfront, burning for four hours and wiping out warehouses freight storage and cars. Value estimated at 382000 dollars as flames spread west toward the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul yards on a windy day.
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Milwaukee
Water Street
Ams
Sixth Street
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad Company
Saree Ens
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Company
Union Steamboat Company
Nou
West Water Street
Blaze devastates Indiana riverfront district and hotel
A massive fire ripped through the Gumry Hotel and adjacent Mc Mann Block in Indiana, causing extensive damage and losses estimated around 382,000. Several prominent locals perished or were injured as firemen battled the blaze, aided by a southwest wind fanning 1500 feet of riverfront structures and freight properties.
Joe Patchen King Wins World Pacing Championship
Joe Patchen King defeats John R. Gentry to claim the World’s Pacing Championship becoming the top stallion pacer. Fourteen thousand spectators witnessed the dramatic victory as Patchen secured the title.
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John R. Gentry
Joe Patchen
Action in Waller's Cane In Paris Notice Demands Release
A self official notice in Paris cites United States Government demands for the release of Mr John L Waller and for payment of unspecified sums.
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Waller
Paris
United States
John L. Waller
Indemnity on Sentence of Twenty Years Imposed
The article notes indemnity on account of a sentence of twenty years imprisonment under a court martial on Madagascar where former United States Consul Mr. Waller had served.
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Madagascar
Waller
United States
Dunning Insane Asylum Inquiry Reveals Horrific Abuses
The Cook County inquiry into Dunning Asylum opened with 30 000 words of testimony. Dr McGrew described a brutal battle between two inmates in ward 2 with one biting part of the other and a man chewing his own nose in a shocking incident witnessed by attendant Anderson.
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Cook County
Dunning Insane Asylum
Pucik
McGrew
Dunning Asylum
Anderson
Tie
Dr. McGrew
Julia Addams
Missionaries in Danger at Foo Chow Riots
A London Times dispatch from Hong Kong confirms attacks on the American mission at Foo Chow near the coast. The Methodist Episcopal mission begun in 1847 under Bishop Goodwell lists several missionaries and their wives including N. J. Plumb G. B. Smyth M. C. Wilcox W. H. Lacy and J. J. Gregory with women workers, all in danger amid uprisings near Oo Chow and the American school near the gates.
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Foo Chow
London Times
Hong Kong
Methodist Episcopal Church
Bishop Goodwell
N. J. Plumb
G. B. Smyth
M. C. Wilcox
W. H. Lacy
J. J. Gregory
M. D
J. H. Worley
W. N. Brewater
G. S. Miner
Sarah M. Bosworth
Women’s Foreign Missionary Society
The
Methodist Church
Oo Chow
Corn Crop Forecast and Glass Trade Wage Talks
The New York Produce Exchange projects a historic corn crop with 82,000,000 acres and at least 2,425,000,000 bushels, potentially 312,108,000 more than 1889 if forecasts hold. Wage scales for glass trades are unsettled, with final agreements to be debated in Pittsburgh this week affecting about 50,000 workers and likely leading to lighter factory fires on September 1.
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New York Produce Exchange
Produce Exchange
Pittsburg
New York Board of Aldermen Fixes 1.02 Tax Rate
The Finance Committee sets the city tax rate at 1.02 for the year an 18 point rise from last year and a total revenue target of 38 470 000 dollars to be raised.
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New York Board of Aldermen
World Tour Ticket Offered by Southern Pacific Pact
The Southern Pacific Company signed a London contract enabling passengers to buy a ticket valid around the world from any point on its routes as the new agreement expands travel options.
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Southern Pacific Company
London
Mocking Birds and a Horse Canning Factory Tale
Curious notes on a famed mocking bird shunter John Jacobs who traps 2000 to 3000 birds yearly in Texas with range boundaries and decoy cages. Also mentions a Columbia River horse canning plant and a medical appeal for women through the Invalids Hotel and Surgical Institute with free distribution of Dr. Pierce’s medical book.
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John Jacobs
Texas
Columbia River
Oregon
Invalids’ Hotel and Surgical Institute
Buffalo
N. Y
Pierce
Why We Are Right Handed Study Explains Right Hand Preference
A professor studying children explains why most people are right handed. He notes Indians use both hands until speech begins and that motor speech functions control the right side of the body. Early right handed motions aid speech as it develops.
Special Lookout Press edition highlights local war sites
The Lookout Press of Chattanooga Tennessee releases a special edition of 0,000 copies featuring cuts of Lookout Mountain Chattanooga National Cemetery and a Chickamauga Park monument and observation tower plus a map of the Chattanooga battlefields. Short articles on Lookout Mountain the Chickamaogs and Chattanooga National Military Park accompany the issue. Readers can obtain a copy by writing to Lookout Press Chattanooga Tenn enclosing postage.
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Lookout Press
Chattanooga
Tenn
Lookout Mountain
National Cemetery
Chickamauga Park
Chickamaugs
Chattanooga National Military Park
Lookout, Press
Enn
Phrase too thin cited in Shakespearean context
The note argues Alexander H. Stephens may have used the phrase too thin but denies authorship. It references Shakespeare's King Henry VIII where the line appears about flattery being too thin and bare to hide offenses.
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Alexander H. Stephens
Shakespeare
Henry VIII
Tobacco's Triumph and the Easy Path to Wellness
A fragment discusses tobacco buyers and a dubious claim No-To-Back promising cures and strength. It condemns undertakers for grim humor while noting despair and altered nerves among men who smoke and chew, and questions sunshine and birdsong as discordant.
Low Rates to Linwood Park Summer Resort
Vermillion Ohio offers low summer rates to Linwood Park on Nickel Plate lines. The ad promotes a delightful resort with sulphur soap and Hill’s Hair and Whisker Dye products mentioned among other promotional lines.
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Linwood Park
Vermillion
Ohio
The
Nickel Plate
Greun
Hill
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Engineer Pierce
Cerelesanesa
Chineac
Indiana
Gumry
Boter
McMann
E. A. Bishop
A. Lilliblade Furniture Company
A. Lilliblade
Bobh Sha
Anchor Line
Pennsylvania Co
Wisconsin Central
Franklin Refiners
Philadelphia
Delaney
Pritzlaff
P. F. Doyne
Joe Patchen King
Insane Asylum Horrors
Dunning
the Insane
China
Miss Gordon
Atewart
Mision House
Whasaog
R. W. Atewart
Wunaage
Mibe Codrington
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