Various 19th Century News Snippets From U S Papers
A patchwork of notices covers regimental flags for Grant’s era in Riverside, a St Joseph electric shock incident, the Women’s University Club of New York planning a college alumnae clubhouse, Austrian portable ovens for field use, Chinese envoy Wo Ting Fing described as level headed, a Reichstag bill boosting China expedition salaries, Macaroni seed from Russia heading to the United States, and plans for macaroni factories in Saint Paul and Minneapolis.
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Women's University Club of
New York
Belwme
Wo Ting-Fing
Fatla
Boston Frog
Misalasippi
Seventeen fishing boats in Carracross village Ireland
Seventeen boats operate in the Mite fishing village of Carracross on Ireland’s west coast. One boat may date from 1710 to 1760. The single non boat-built building sits in the priest's hole alongside driftwood homes.
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Carracross
Ireland
Priest's Hole
If every woman could care for the sick at home
The passage argues that if women under ordinary circumstances cared for the ill at home the status of the domestic “born notes” would rise, reducing demand for hired nurses and hospital admissions. It critiques the reliance on professional care and the disruption to family governance when ordinary cases require outside help.
English boot and shoe makers face U S wage competition
English shoe manufacturers claim American workers earn higher daily wages while a British labor cent adds 25 per cent more cost per pair. They blame the British union for limiting output and fear its approach may depress employment, arguing workers fear overwork.
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England
United States
Union of
Ciilet
Fresh Water Reservoir Cleaning at Mare Island Yard
Malaria remains a concern after the biennial clean out of Mare Island Navy Yard reservoirs. Efforts to obtain artesian supply have failed, so the yard relies on its reservoir system and Vallejo water, with contaminants drifting in from roofs and other sources.
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Mare-island Navy Yard
Vallejo
Mark Hanna Orates on Cheap Labor and Tariff Policy
The speech portrays Mark Hanna defending tariff policy and expansion of cheap labor imports. It cites his belief in domestic prosperity through protection, while hinting at hidden plans to import labor from Asia and Europe. The text critiques the tension between industry, capital, and American workers amid political pressures.
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Mark Hanna
Congress
Nature
Tassaine
Senatora
United States
Asia
Japan
Mediterranean
Mr. Bacon
Georgia
Mr. Hanna
Ohio
Moorgla
Eliens
Democratic Party
Husiness
Hannata
Senate
Jones
Nevada
Republican Party
Cutus Barbour
San Antonio Telephone Girls Strike Seeks Higher Pay
The San Antonio strike reveals $18 monthly pay for eleven hours day shifts and thirteen hours night shifts daily except Christmas and New Year half holidays. Officials plan $100,000 to the strike not for pay but for moral effect. They threaten to appeal to city, state, or national authorities to back their cause.
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San Antonio
Tex
Corpor
Abunes as Thore in Which the Telephone Girls Are subjected
Fragmentary line hints at labor tension with telephone workers facing strikes and accelerating prospects of change. The brief suggests a social or industrial conflict, referencing telephone industry labor action and a broader movement.
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Abunes
Thore
Textile unions debate consolidation and AFL aid
The Southern Unionist quotes support for a single international textile body allied with the AFL, detailing AFL organizers aiding southern workers, child labor and hours legislation, and the push to unite 75 organizers into 89 new locals in the US and Canada. The piece notes cross race labor ties and calls for no color discrimination in organizing efforts.
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Cotton Enon
South
New England
International Union of Textile Workers
American Federation of Labor
Pennsylvania
Columbus
Washington
Massachusetts
A. F.of L
A. F. of L
United States
Canada
A. F. of B
Machinery boosts output in early industrial toil
A passage from the Zanesville Labor Journal notes dramatic gains from machinery. Spinning by one operator with two girls yields more yarn than 11,000 hand spinners. A single loom worker rivals 100 years of hand weaving. Machines slash labor, with several examples across spinning, ginning, screw making, sewing, matchmaking, and wallpaper production.
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Zaneaville Labor Journal
The Real America Poem of Saxon Pride and Freedom
This poem celebrates a pan European heroic lineage and national liberty. It proclaims Anglo Saxon identity, rejects old labels, and honors figures like Garibaldi Kosciuszko Emmett and Brace while asserting unity among common men against oppression. It contrasts ancestral struggle with modern liberty.
Facts for Farmers Show Burden Split in Boston and Berkshire
In Boston the bare land is valued at 3 192 000 per acre while buildings are 428 000 per acre making land over 14 times more valuable than structures. Berkshire farms vary with land at 15 per acre and buildings at 17 50 per acre placing farm houses at 117 percent of land. buildings tax hits Berkshire farmers eight times harder than Boston bankers.
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Boston
Berkshire
Mr. Hill
Thomas G, Shearman
Attorney General Seeks Against Trusts Dismissals Hinted
The Ohio Attorney General Monett filed suits against Standard Oil and Continental Tobacco Trust before the state Republican convention relegating him to private life. Last week, the successor moved to dismiss all actions against trusts, with Nebraska and others expected to follow in short order. The pattern suggests the new holder will drop cases at the first convenient opportunity.
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Monett
Ohio
Sandard Oil Company
Continental Tobacco Trust
Monelt
Nebraska
Osle
Smythe
Republic- Oh
Forgotten Congressmen Lantz in Idaho outrages probe
Congressman J. J. Lantz of Ohio played a notable role in probing Idaho outrages. He showed state and national authorities sided with the Standard Oil crowd against the miners union. In the seventh election Lantz lost by eight votes amid labor neglect and Standard Oil support.
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J. J. Lantz
Ohio
Idaho
Standard of Trust
Wiion
Lentz
Labor
Wage cuts sweep rail steel and mills as prosperity claim challenged
A report notes major wage reductions across rail lines and steel works including 20 percent cuts for Santa Fe trackmen and freight handlers and 26 percent cuts in Pennsylvania raw mills, with further reductions nationwide. The piece warns readers to beware of a looming panic and to act quickly amid hardship.
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Santa Fe
Steel
Pennsylvania
Anya H, O
Morris
Pusblo Courter
Labor first in industry as world sees reforms
The piece argues for labor employer harmony amid industrial progress. It notes global movement toward humane relations, stronger brotherhood, and asserts France backs a bill on strikes. The bill requires printed notices in factories with fifty or more workers about arbitration and state contracts, with mechanisms for arbitration or ballots to strike.
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Chamber
Ccass
Indianapolls News
Correspondence Trade Instruction Promises Better Positions
Ambitious mechanics are urged to explore correspondence instruction in trades and engineering. Courses can be studied at home with guidance from able instructors. Free instruction papers clarify technical content and other information is provided without extra charge.
Municipal Lighting Proves a Success in Middleboro
Middleboro Massachusetts pioneered municipal lighting after years of trouble. The town was forced to buy a plant formed by two private corporations, incurring heavy costs to avoid litigation. Improved management now yields revenue from private night lighting that exceeds the town’s street lighting appropriation, even as demand for commercial lighting grows and some street lights are temporarily shut off to focus on revenue.
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Middleboro
Mass
New England
Abo Town
Bualnesn
Indianapolis News
New York Labor Statistics Show Increases in Labor Unions
New York State Bureau of Labor Statistics reports Insta Bulletin No 7 for the third quarter of 1900. Union membership rose to 1 086 in September from June while total members fell from 247 952 to 245 233 due to weaker western unions. Immigration at New York port remained high, up 80 percent from 1898 and 46 percent from 1899. Earnings were lower than in 1899.
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New York
State Bureau of Labor Statistics
Glass Manufacturing In Indiana History Card
Indiana's glass industry covers all forms from homeopathic to cathedral windows. Three large factories produced about 6.4 million feet annually, challenging French and German plate glass for mirrors. The state's lamp chimney factories contributed 2.5 million of the 7.9 million nationwide yearly output.
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Indiana
United States
Company Opens Study Room for Workers at Cincinnati Plant
Correct Industrial Reheme reports that a school for employees has started in a shop of United States Ceridon Pipe and Foundry in Cincinnati. The firm provides a room with drawing tools, furnishing instruction at company expense, and allows workers to keep their pay during study time.
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United States
Tramway plan in Pietermaritzburg to be municipal project
Yor and Man ripal Electric Tramway proposes building and owning an electric tramway in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa. The plan calls for an eight-wheeled double-deck car to be tested, with operation to be by the municipality.
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Yor & Man
Pietermaritzburg
South Africa
Tmunicipality
Industrial strikes reshape mills and wages in multiple states
Noten and Hathaway mill workers in Acushnet Massachusetts strike over conditions. Rio Grande Western to set up a large mechanical plant in Salt Lake City employing over 800. Elwood Indiana trades gain wage advances from eight to nine hours. Bricklayers and others adopt new eight hour days, plumbers win reduced hours and higher wages after a two day strike.
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Acushnet and Hathaway Mills
Massachusetts
Rio Grande Western
Salt Lake City
Elwood
Ind
Marlon
Tnfan Ba
Wanitiers
Puget-House Molasses No Mork Alleged Proof in Louisiana Notes
Louisiana papers claim Jim demonstrated a process making a figure 0 molasses that makes the world miss the old New Orleans sugar house product. Many view this as a chemistry advance while glucose syrup is said to be a poor substitute for the traditional New Orleans molasses.
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Louisiana
New Orleans
Disfranchised Electorate Shrinks in Waterford Ireland
A 1809 Waterford constituency saw 2000 plus voters disfranchised for nonpayment of rates. John Redmond represents a greatly reduced electorate of about 3,007, with deaths and other losses leaving fewer than 200 eligible to vote.
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Waterford
Ireland
John Redmond
Copper Deposits in Alaska Under Early Development
The rich copper deposits of Alaska are being developed as the Army shipment from the White Horse belt has left for Tacoma. The belt, about twenty five miles wide, runs through a Yukon tributary. Ore grades range from 26 to 70 percent copper and carries $6 to $10 per ton in gold.
Irregular Toast Sparks Civil War Theme in Washington
A guest at a Washington function quips about North and South Virginia, recalling a remark attributed to the governors and noting it is a long time between drinks. The jest reflects playful regional ribbing on a national stage.
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Washington
Eng Ushman
America
North Virginia
South Virginia
Railroad miles vs population contrast in states
Tilinole Firat underlines New York as first in population yet seventh in railroad miles. Illinois ranks third in population and leads in railroad mileage with about 11,000 miles of track. Pennsylvania sits second in both population and rail lines.
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New York State
Ilinois
Pennsyl‘vania
Electric light and rail bring industrial change to Siberia
Electricity conquers the world faster than steam as the trans Siberian rail link opens, introducing electric light and machinery to Siberian towns and accelerating industrial progress.
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Siberia
Oil Strike Near Port Arthur Boosts Texas Boom
Experts hail a massive discovery between Beaumont and Port Arthur Texas as the greatest oil gusher yet found. The well yields an estimated twenty to twenty five thousand barrels daily, drawing crowds to the field and boosting the region and state. Kansas City Southern Railway promotes through trains from Kansas City at 11:00 a.m. daily to Beaumont and Port Arthur with connections.
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Port Arthur
Beaumont
Tex
Texas
Kansas City Southern Railway
Kansas City
Beaumont-Port Arthur
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