Kansas Agitator and National Ventures Rival Nations
The item cites financial extortion fears from trusts pushing coal prices up by $1.30 per ton in New York and questions redress for the public. It mentions Ronald D. Worth the Baptist preacher winning a divorce in Oklahoma over Sunday preaching absences and a water-filled ministration coat. The miscellaneous commentary highlights peculiar divorce grounds and a mocked religious restraint.
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New York Herald
New York
Ronald D. Worth
Oklahoma
Worth
Alphabetical Novel Project Draws Kansas Women
A Kansas effort plans to have twenty six women author a great American novel in installments with each writer contributing a chapter. Mave Atkinson will begin the sequence with Jeli A and other contributors will prepare the remaining letters. The focus centers on the letter L with speculation about which L name will lead this scheme. The names mentioned include Mrs Lease and Mrs Leave among potential L candidates.
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Kansas
Mave Atkinson
Mra
Beelenain
Requissite Initiata
Katieas
Mary Evzabeth
United Stree
Congress
Pelvate
Polley
United States
Iowa
Interrat Bramiag Honda
Na Honal
Duta
United Staton
Empire commerce body backs decimal weights and currency shift
A London congress of British empire chambers of commerce adopted a resolution urging reforms in weights and measures and currency. It advocates replacing pounds shillings and pence with a decimal system, proposing the pound equal to five dollars and the crown to 25 cents, while adopting a universal decimal weights framework.
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Chambers of Commerce of
London
England
United States
Dominion of Canada
Psychology research at University of Wisconsin this year
Reports from the University of Wisconsin psychology lab describe studies on rapid reading and comprehension, sensation and suggestion, and how language and color names map to individual perception. Trials include size and shape notions and how respondents equate words with meanings. General Weyler’s order to Havana journalists is paraphrased as a command to lie or leave.
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Psychological Laboratory
University of Wisconsin
Quantz
Bolton
Dink
Mexico
Mision
General Weyler
Mien
Havana
Bryan and Sewall Nominated by Democratic Convention
The Democratic National Convention nominated William Jennings Bryan of Nebraska for president. Arthur Sewall of Maine was chosen as vice president after a series of ballots and stampedes led by Bryan supporters. The process featured strong opposition, strategic withdrawals, and regional alignments across Ohio Illinois Missouri and California.
Bryan Wins Democratic Convention Nominating Fight
The convention favored William J. Bryan after a tense ballot process. Bland 23 percent on first ballot, Pattison supported by most gold men, while Bryan gained momentum with key states and a balcony speech addressing finance and labor. Police kept order as crowds surged around the hotel.
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Teller
Crimpbell
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Campaiea
Leant
Pemerleania
Russell
Campbell
Alabama
Toles
Hiand
Bryan
Steldes Maud
Colorado
Sewall Nominated for Vice President at Democratic Convention
At the Chicago gathering the Democratic National Convention named Arthur Sewall of Maine a shipbuilder as vice presidential candidate on a ticket headed by William Jennings Bryan. The nomination came as a surprise, with debates and votes shaping the final selection and questions about a potential third ticket lingering for future developments.
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Cmicaco
William Jennings Bryan
Nebraska
Colisewim
American Republic
Franzy
Pennsylvania
Bland
Boles
Moser
Tellers
Arthur Sewall
Sacade
Maine
Wiliam
Ryan
Prairies
Missouri
Jas
Baltimore
Sewall
Bryan
Wames
Conyressman Shively
Indiana
McLean gains support after telegram shifts Ohio vote
Vithlan protests the nomination of the Ohio editor as McLean’s telegram arrives. Delegate Sloan reads it and says it shows McLean’s wish, not Ohio sentiment. Ohio votes forty eight for McLean while Indiana Town and other states rally to the Maine man amid jubilation and parade colors.
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Ohio
McLean
Sloan
Mc. Melean
Waller
Indiana
Maine
Segall
Nebraska
The Platform Calls for Labor Protections and Federal Limits
A historical platform advocates guarding American labor by blocking foreign pauper labor, boosting home production, and regulating railroads. It opposes federal interference in state affairs, denounces pensions cuts, supports territorial admission with safeguards, and urges national programs for river improvements and economic fairness.
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United States
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Ani
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Mississippi
Tidal Wave on Japan Coast Claims 20000 Lives
The Dorie arrived from Yokohama bringing news through July 2. Officials estimate 20,000 dead in the great tidal wave that stood eighty feet high and swept inland about two and a half miles along 200 miles of coast. Thousands of cultivated acres flooded and famine looms for survivors.
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Japan
San Franensco
Ster
Dorie
Yokohama
Jane
Five Die in Wisconsin Central Wreck Near Chicago
A Wisconsin Central rail wreck near Chicago last night left five dead and a score injured. The deceased include Charles Samuel Frederick Kertel Frank Koch Mary Arnold Lenn Hobert with multiple fatal injuries. Survivors named Patrice Collins Edward Kelly suffered serious leg injuries.
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Cmeado
Charles Samuel
Frederick Kertel
Frank Koch
Mary Arnold
Lenn Hobert
Patrice Collins
Edward Kelly
Fire in St Louis Destroys Merchants’ Terminal Elevator
A early morning general alarm from Second and O Farien streets reported a blaze primarily in elevators and warehouses. The Merchants’ Terminal elevator at Second and Biddle suffered the loss, with logs and grain totaling up to a stated amount of 1000000.
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St. Louis
Second
O'Farien
Tareminal
Biddle
Populists Call for Breidenthal's Resignation as Chairman
A large Populist gathering in Mesign, Kansas, passed a resolution urging Breidenthal to resign as chairman of the Populist state central committee. It requests a replacement more in harmony with all Populists be elected in his stead.
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Breidenthal
Mesign
Preasawton
Kan
Daly
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