Global headlines mix war, royal ties, and trade with music
A Goshen Daily Democrat feature blends a grim Formosan island war tale with Russia revolutionaries and royal nuptials. It notes Mme Breshkovakaya's Siberian imprisonment, Princess Louise's England wedding, and American apples sold 750 miles to Russia for seven dollars and a half per bushel. It also reports 26 pianos with pianolas aboard battleships, promising morale-boosting concerts as artillery rests.
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Princess Louise of Orleans
Prince Charles of Bourbon
England
Spain
Comtes de Paris
Gen. McClellan
America
Lafayette
Portland
Ore
Vladivostok
Russia
Pacific
United States
Health report on bologna sausage and liverwurst finds safety
New York health department chemical probe reveals bologna sausage and liverwurst are safe to eat while frankfurters show doubts due to borax or sulphite. The navy reports orderly shore leave for 100 men from each battleship at Trinidad, sparking patriotic pride. King Leopold visits New York displaying a Congo exhibit amid confusion from garbled text.
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New York Health Department
Trinidad
PET DOGS CHECKED IN HOTELS
New York hotels and restaurants popular for social gatherings now provide for dogs. Well bred canines are checked with coats and umbrellas, attend with owners, and are cared for by trained staff. Large venues like Sherry's Cafe Martin Waldorf Astoria St. Regis Plaza and Hotel Astor maintain kennels below stairs for canine comfort and safety.
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New York
Sherry’s
Cafe Martin
Waldorf-Astoria
The
St. Regis
the Plaza
Hotel Astor
Windward wealth from cement dust shields in Buffington
John Kelly, once a truck farmer in Buffington Indiana, now earns a living manufacturing cement blocks. A nearby Illinois Steel Company plant blasts cement dust toward his home, which he shields with a billboard sized barrier. The dust becomes material for blocks sold for income.
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Chicago
John Kelly
Buffington
Ind
Kelly
Illinois Steel Company
Maxim Invents Motorite For Torpedoes And Ships
New motive power called motorite, claimed to propel torpedoes and torpedo boats at 55 to 60 miles per hour and potentially replace steam on oceangoing vessels. Hudson Maxim announces extensive tests and government notification of the invention.
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New York
Hudson Maxim
Maxim
NOW SEES WITH BLIND EYE CLEVELAND MAN REACTS
After 11 years George H Harpst believed his left eye was blind but injuries to his right eye left him with limited vision. A bullet destroyed the right optic nerve and he later regained dim sight in the left eye. Doctors expect full restoration with treatment.
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Cleveland, O
George H. Harpst
Harpst
Mary Voelk
German Diet Increases Eggs On Berlin Farms
Berlin reports a commission tested corn as chicken and goose fodder at Lichterfelds government farms. The German hen, once maligned next to Missouri’s prolific layers, now lays twice as many eggs in cold months after switching from wheat and barley to corn.
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Berlin
Lichterfelds
Empire
St. Louis
Record of Lynch Law in 1907 Mob Executions
The 1907 tally shows 56 lynchings across 17 states and one territory, with 49 Black men, four white men, and three Black women executed. Nightly killings outnumbered daytime, and Sundays saw eleven deaths. Offenses ranged from theft of 75 cents to rape and wife murder, with Alabama rising from five to thirteen lynchings year over year.
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New Orleans
Alabama
Arkansas
Colorado
Florida
Georgia
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maryland
Mississippi
Missouri
Nebraska
North Carolina
Oklahoma
South Carolina
Tennessee
Texas
Victor
Lasac Estes
Ned Beret Eerees
Seesase
Iowa
Greatest concrete bridge reaches final touches in Washington
The Connecticut Avenue Bridge over Rock Creek near downtown Washington is the world’s largest fully concrete span. It measures 1421 feet with a 52 foot roadway and 136 feet above ground, featuring multiple arches, and was built without steel reinforcement at a cost of about 1 million dollars after seven years of foundations and three years of legislative funding.
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Washington
Connecticut Avenue
Rock Creek
Congress
Seed Catalpa Forest Grows Fast Near Pond Creek Okla
J W Bird launched a catalpa forestry project on land east of Pond Creek and achieved rapid early growth. From 300000 seeds planted last winter and spring he now has 80000 to 100000 healthy seedlings. He plans transplanting next spring and to reach about 80 acres of trees if wintering goes well. A nearby farmer cut a two year seedling last April and it gained ten feet six inches since.
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Bird
W. H. Farmer
Catalpa
Paints Signs in the Clouds by a Bold Chicago Girl
Miss Louisa C. Bell, about 20, painted a high sign atop the Burke building in Seattle, standing on a suspended board over 100 feet high. She wore white, drew cheers and fears from onlookers, and claimed to be the only woman to attempt such dizzy painting. She hailed from Chicago, dodged questions about age, and invited spectators to join her on the platform.
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Seattle
Wash
Burke
Louisa C. Bell
Chicago
Miss Bell
York tobacco stripper celebrates ninety third birthday
Mrs Christiana Schaeffer of Yoe York County, oldest tobacco worker in town, marked her 93rd birthday by continuing to work. Born in Germany in 1814 she has spent most of her life in the valley near York read without glasses and remains active, recalling many birthday anniversaries while noting the season is dull and funds tight.
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York
Christiana Schaeffer
Yoe
Plans for World Yacht Tour by Visitor II
New York investor W Harry Brown plans to build the largest three masted fore and aft schooner yacht to voyage three years starting next spring. The 197 foot vessel, cost over 300000 dollars, will sail Amazon South Pacific Oriental waters and Atlantic, with steel hull, 800 ton displacement, 200 ton coal capacity, and luxury amenities. Brown, a Pittsburg steel magnate and New York Yacht Club member, will travel with his family aboard the Visitor II.
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New York
W. Harry Brown
Pacific
Brown
New York Yacht Club
Hves
Pittsburg
PLAN WAR ON WOLVES IN CALIFORNIA DESERT
Bachtell, a Cima mining man, arrives in San Bernardino to buy long-distance Winchester rifles for an organized war on wolves. He cites severe losses by the Greening Cattle Company and danger to prospectors, proposing sharpshooters and persistent rifle fire to decimate wolf packs and protect travel routes.
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San Bernardino
Cal
Bachtell
Cima
Winchester
Greening Cattle Company
Recognizes Voice Marries in New York Romance
Miss Marjorie Conley and D Perry Wilson wed in New York after a romance that began during a Atlantic City vacation two years earlier when Wilson aided Conley during a near drowning. Wilson, son of a Lock Haven railroad man and Lehigh alumnus, traced Conley by a telephone voice at the Hotel Astor.
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New York
Marjorie Conley
D. Perry Wilson
Lock Haven
Lehigh University
Miss Conley
Mr. Wilson
Wilson
Hotel Astor
Additional Bank Circulation Need of Country
A 1905 Ohio Bankers convention talk warns against non elastic currency and calls for additional national bank circulation identical in appearance to ordinary money. The speaker stresses the danger of panics, hoarding, and distrust, argues against central banks or Canadian plans, and favors government guaranteed circulating notes to prevent currency shortages.
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Congress
Delusions and nerve storms critique modern life
A physician discusses widespread neurasthenia in America driven by fast living and poor nutrition. He cites delusions, hallucinations, and even crimes as consequences, recounting cures by hypnotic suggestion and warning that early treatment can restore nerve health before tissue degeneration sets in.
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Americana
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Formosa
Mme. Breshkovakaya
St. Petersburg
Siberia
France
Leopold
Congo
Assistant Secretary OF State
Walden Fawcett
Robert Bacon
Secretary of
State Root
Bacon
Harvard
Roosevelt
Lynch Law Record
Leslie M. Shaw
Carnegie Trust Company
Secretary of Treasury
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