Ex-Senator Hill Fight and Gas Trust Debates in Indy
Ex-Senator Hill’s fight in Kansas City is not against Bryan but to steer the Democratic party back to its course. Indianapolis gas companies seek higher rates amid a gas decision revealing their push to raise revenues while taxes fall. Citizens noted as engines demolished drew more interest than the Democratic convention.
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Kansas City
Bryan
Démocratic’ Party
Consumers’ Gas Trust Company
Indianapolis
Supreme Court
Marion Chronicle
Colorado
Denver Post
Wolcott
Franklin Star
Joe M Blackburn
United States Senate
Covington
Superstitions and civic woes haunt a city page
The piece cites enduring superstitions from birds to serpents, noting beliefs about omens and luck. It then criticizes Indianapolis streetcar service, describing crowded, overheated cars, power outages, and delayed progress despite promises of completion.
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F Grounds
Napella
R. Grounds
Peiping Empress and Emperors Guests At Palace Reception
London Mail correspondent recalls a Pekin interview with the dowager empress and emperor. The scene includes tea, mingling, interpreters prostrating, and a 14 year old prince saluting guests. A Chinese sailor mystery at Thames is noted along with praise for Wu and Headland.
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London Mail
Pekin
China
Pue’hun
Misfortune Turns Coward Into Joyful Man
Winifred Black notes a troubled man in the West Indies finds happiness when plagued by illness loss and poverty. He learns his former worries dissolved by hardship and a cabl egram his house in New York burned leaving him with little yet free from anxiety.
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West Indies
Harry
Fifty-ninth-st
New York
Winifred Black
New York Journal
A Chinese Window and the Curious Crowds in a Village Street
An observer notes JT seated in a village street as a large dirty crowd surrounds him for an hour. The crowd peers, comments, and steals items while guards secure the inn room. Descriptions describe China inns and a wooden bolted doorway as protection against intrusion.
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China
Bedien
What the Papers Say A Cross-Section of Opinion
A kaleidoscope of 1900s press voices citing New York Evening Sun on anti American bias and Boxer violence in China, Philadelphia records on missionaries prayer, Minnesota and Kentucky politics, George and Sam Jones remarks, Hoboken fire lessons, and sea safety laws urged by the New York Journal.
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Race Street
Philadelphia
China
Tammany
Croker
New Jersey
Memphis Scimitar
Henry Watterson
Goebel
Kentucky
Jack Chinn
New York Sun
Sam Jones
Georgia Democrats
Samuel
Denver Post
Hoboken
Nations
New York Journal
The Songs and Sketches of a SNIER collection excerpt
A mixed fragment features humorous sketches and verse. It includes quips about heat and old barns, a clerk and store owner exchange over payment, a marital sting, a chase of disease by a trailing skirt, a servant’s wedding, western settlers and a heat laden scene with a red man, and finally a Shakespeare themed reflection on human emotion.
Bryan’s Master Plan to Coat Fourth of July in Bryanized Democracy
The New York Evening Sun credits William J. Bryan with a master plan that would appropriate the Fourth of July for his Bryanized democracy. The remark frames Bryan as uniquely capable of shaping national celebration to his political aims.
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East
Aisie
William J. Bryan
New York Evening Sun
Prohibitionists Launch Campaign With Four Leaders
The Lafayette Courier notes the prohibitionists begin their campaign on a spirited basis. The famed quartet grows into a tin trinity of heroes now a quartet with Aguinaldo Pilar Brian and Prince Tuan of China.
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Woolley
Lafayette Courier
Aguineldo
Pilar
Brian
Prince Tuan
China
Marion News
Chinese ambassador marries second wife in London
London reports that Sir Chih-Chen Lo Feng-Luh, the Chinese ambassador, wed his second wife in a ceremony last Wednesday. The envoy had sought companionship after the death of his first wife Lady Lo about a year earlier and arranged a swift marriage with a new wife and large retinue arriving from abroad.
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London
Chih-Chen-Lo Feng-Luh
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