Daily Chronicle Highlights Global Turmoil and Local Incidents
Cholera spreads in Seoul. Santa Fe gains San Francisco track rights. A costly Japanese setback in China and aviation tests in Paris spark unrest. Bryan crowds greet in Portland. Gladys Kerens to wed Prince Schoenberg. Rock Island railroad faces $300,000 claims. Rich Canadian silver cobalt deposits found. Crane recall linked to indiscretion in Chicago. Two Chicago aldermen accuse of major graft. Wu Ting-fang visits Washington spiritualist meeting. Hearst accepts New York mayoral bid. Kansas train wreck kills 17, injures 10. Freight car shortage forewarns winter. Ito to tour Manchuria. Fryer says China aims at foreign powers. Wright’s first government flight. officer training begins. Landis: navy needs merchant marine support. Yuestan hurricane sinks thousands. Captain de Gerlach comments. Mix loses balloon prize after grounding. Census director backs student enumerators. Taft enjoys Yosemite. Spanish revolutionaries target Alfonso. Britain and Germany men in handshake. Curtiss pilots success in St. Near. Tennessee beer tax repeal debated. Dewey defends navy with ship subsidies. Sewer gas explosion near New Feet location. Mormon convict becomes state penitentiary chaplain. Marshalltown officials indicted by federal grand jury. American absent without parade details.
China Starts Boycott Against Japan Amid Chinese Circulars
Tokyo reports a Circular movement by the Popular Association of the Three Eastern Provinces urging a nationwide boycott of Japanese goods. It accuses Japan of oppression in North China and calls for Chinese vessels and railways to refuse Japanese trade. The drive threatens violence against dissenters and seeks to spread anti Japanese sentiment nationwide.
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Tokio
China
Popular Association
Japan
Alon
Antony- Mukden
Bevol Disease Threatens Epidemic Across City
Bevol a burgeoning health crisis with officials warning of rapid spread. Leon is not sanitary, despite precautionary measures. The palace and resident general’s home have been contaminated. schools are fumigated and sanitation crews operate under Japanese authority amid ongoing cleanup efforts.
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Enora
Leon
Gosern
Largest religious celebration begins in city tomorrow
Fifty thousand disciples are gathered as the international centennial convention opens in Pittebugg Oot. The report notes the event as the largest religious celebration and convention ever held in the country, set to start the next day with speakers and ceremonies.
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Pittebugg
Army Learns to Fly as Wright Demonstrates Flight
Park Maryland October 9 United States Army Signal Corps officers learned to fly under Wilbur Wright dedication flights at the government aviation field. Wright piloted five takeoffs and landings with Lt Lahm and Lt Humphreys aboard, reaching 150 feet and traveling toward Washington before returning to the field. More flights were planned to familiarize officers with the new art.
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Mr. Wright
Lahm
Washington
China Prepares for War Warned by Berkeley Scholar
Professor John Fryer, returning from a year in the Far East, told a City of California meeting that China is arming for resistance to foreign encroachment. He said educated youths salt the nucleus for future leaders and that Chinese soldiers are drilled in modern methods, signaling an imminent generation of conflict.
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Berkeley
China
Curtiss Flies Biplane Amid Cheers At Forest Park
Thousands cheer Glenn H. Curtiss as he launches a biplane in Forrest Park under adverse wind. The craft climbs 90 feet, sails the field length, and stays aloft for about a minute in a windy late day display drawing large crowds.
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St. Louis
Glenn H. Curtiss
Forest Park
Alacken
Curtios
Railroads face flat shortages amid freight car shortage
Reports indicate national railroads struggle with a freight car shortage as demand rises. Officials describe elevated shipment bottlenecks and a need to expand car supply to meet existing and upcoming traffic, signaling potential delays for industries relying on rail transport.
Winter Finds Colorede In Some From Colorede
Fragmentary local notice describes a winter color find and a light seizure case linked to a port and a fruit notion with unclear details and missing names.
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Porto
Census director aims to cut costs in agricultural survey
U S Census Director E Durand outlines plans to save hundreds of thousands of dollars on the 1900 census of agriculture. He notes punch card methods and a large pool of about 66 000 enumerators supervised by 330 supervisors, with short 16 day city and 30 day country duties and modest pay.
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Dana Durand
Durand
U. 8
E. Durand
Dry Farming Congress membership surges nationwide
Billings Montana October 11. The Dry Farming congress reports broad interest as fourteen states and Canada join, from California to Pennsylvania and from Canada to New Mexico. The Handbook of Information is exhausted and new members receive the second annual edition covering the Fourth Dry Farming congress in Billings October 26 28. Officers aim for ten thousand members by the meeting.
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Billings
Montana
States
Canada
Pacific Coast
Pennsylvania
New Mexico
Aes
California
Colodaho
Minnesota
Missouri
Nebrakssa
North Dakota
Oregon
Pension ruling grants royalties to aging pioneer
The United States Circuit Court of Appeals decided that Timothy Carroll, a pioneer of Southern California, is to be compensated with royalties from Gee The Sectane, amid his long years of poverty and hardship in Los Alamitos.
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Los Angeles
United States Ciréalt Court of Appeals
Timothy Carroll
Pioneer
Southern
American balloonist wins Bennett Cup in Europe
Edward W. Mix, racing from Zurich to the forests north of Warsaw, claimed the Bennett Cup after a stormy crossing of Europe. Alfred LeBlanc finished second with 834 kilometers, while Captain Messner and Captain Schaeck followed, amid rain and fog and police custody updates.
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Switzerland
America
Edward W. Mix
Bonora
Warsaw
Russian
Poland
Mix
Alfred LeBlanc
Messner
Schaeck
Beto Rpeat
Seales Shak Acordia Bas
Tom Aedokomar Mix
Associated Press
Ostrolenka
Gutova
Aan
Prague
German Polar Airship Expedition Discussed in Oct Meeting
Prince meee of es peels ea ata meg led a German gathering including Count Zeppelin Dr Felix Lewald Mann and Zeppelin Works chief to plan an Arctic airship expedition under the German Society for the Exploration of Polar Regions. An advance party with equipment is to sail in the summer of 1910 to prepare operations.
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Friederichnhafen
Prince Meee
Es Peels
Ea Ata
Noth Polar
Count Zeppelin
Felix Lewald
Ministry of the
Ae Ee Mann
Zeppelin
German Society For the Exploraton
Call Halt on Spain French Leader Seeks Morocco Intervention
Paris October 7 General A G L d Amide head of the French expedition in Morocco warns in an interview that France must halt Spain's operations in Morocco and intervene to protect Africa's economic and political interests. He says French interests and stability are at stake.
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Paris
A. G. L. d' Amide
Morocco
France
Spain
Africa
International Union Visit Noted on October 7
A report records a visit by the International Union on October 7, noting the event and participants. The brief lists no further details.
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