Will sugar trusts dominate the U S market says Hogan
A San Francisco wholesaler, Howard H Hogan, asks if America or Russia governs the sugar trade as trusts crush rivals. He cites under selling by a Boston trust and coercive tactics against wholesalers and retailers, warning of mounting industrial trust power and a looming market control by a central trust committee.
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Hogan
America
Rugaia
Hong Kong
Pacific Coast
Coatly
Brocera
Warbdington
ATT Industries
Trusta
The Initiative and Referendum Debate Appears in Press
A jumbled clipping cites opinions on the initiative and referendum, business ethics, and reform across sources like the Southern Mercury, Springfield Republican, and Coming Nation. The text mocks political rhetoric and critiques economic inequity, referencing McKinley and a Buffalo manufacturer’s prison term.
Prosperity Notes and Crisis Reports Across Cities
A summary notes twenty eight personal crisis reports in twenty six days in San Francisco as poverty and unemployment are highlighted by the San Francisco Star. New York’s aristocracy allegedly teaches working girls to rely on cheap meals per the Poorla Gazette. Dayton, Ohio reports over a third of a million dollars in property sold for taxes, prompting debate on state prosperity and tax burdens amid claims some are too poor to pay taxes yet others see lingering wealth.
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Hogan
Journal of Commerce
New York
Evening Advertiser
Whowiig
San
Dayton
Ohio
Rent and Labor in a Portrait of Rent’s Toll
A poetic railing on rent’s universal burden, detailing endless toil from dawn to dusk. The verse laments how housing costs drain time, joy, and peace, leaving workers tethered to toil while holidays vanish. David B. Page signs the piece.
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David B. Page
Exploiters and workers on Snake River railroad project
Appeal to Reason cites Jim Hin and the Great Northern line, noting how workers earned little and faced high deductions. Capitalists allegedly hire men from Seattle, pay $1.75 daily, ship them to the work, work a month, then discharge them, leaving wages nearly enough only to cover fare home.
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Jim Hin
Great Northern Railroad
Snake River
Wash
Seattle
Costa
Snated Time Sermon and Ruling in Moral Order
Fragmentary note discusses whether sermon on the mount and natural justice can govern the world. It contrasts the possibility of such rule with the devil’s claim to power and questions whether the people or church should call such rule Christian.
Direct Legislation in New York Opinion Piece Calls for Referendum
The Verdict urges direct legislation as a remedy against moneyed power in Albany and Washington. It argues for initiative and referendum and an income tax while warning that the influence of trusts endangers democracy. The piece invokes Lincoln, Washington, and Danton to insist on radical reform.
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New York
Manhattan Island
Oliver Belmont
Ilustrates
Price
Albany
Washington
House
Senate
Lincoln
Christ
Congress
Danton
Monopolies and injustice glare in gas charge tale
A harsh portrayal of a gas company monopoly abusing pricing power and stifling citizen recourse. It cites a Minneapolis case where a boy jailed for five years for stealing a few nickels, contrasting it with distant campaigns in the Philippines to justify harsh state actions.
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Olly
Ita Citlzens
Minneapolis
The Initiative and Referendum Debate in Minnesota
A Minnesota World editorial argues against granting broad legislative veto power to representatives. It warns of temptations facing lawmakers and extols direct voter control as a noble reform to keep public affairs pure and aligned with mass interests.
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National House of Representatives
King of Swindlers and the Vast Spanish Land Swindle
A long profile of James Allison Reavis, the so called king of the bunko men, who built a vast fake Spanish grant across New Mexico and Arizona. The piece chronicles his rise from a Missouri farmer and various jobs to a meticulously forged royal claim aided by a wife posing as nobility, supporters in Spain and Mexico, and backing from financiers. It notes the gall, the decades of deceit, the U.S. government cost to unravel the fraud, and his ultimate conviction for forgery in Washington.
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Mr. Hogan
Ruwaia
America
Nicholas
Russia
Hogan
England
Charles I
New Mexico
Western Hemisphere
Louis
Jube Law
James Allison Reavis
Law
Meavin
Kia Law
Reavis
Henry County
Missouri
North
Central
South America
Fin~ly A& Ron
Stous
Willing
Arizona
Reav
Congress
Massachusetts
Santa Fe Railroad Company
Southern Pacific Company
Spain
Royal House of
Nven Hie Hoarne Conking
Hdminds
Thomas &. Bayard
Robert G. Ingereal
Yourke Cochran
Johan W. Mackay
Tuntington
Tal and
Stanford
Charles Crovker
Mexico
United States
Department of Justice
Washington
Eleganvé
Arlington Hotel
United States Court of Claima
Waa Pever
Hi Anancial Backera Reputit
Navy to Build High Explosives Magazines in New York Area
The navy plans to spend over 1 million dollars to construct magazines and factories for high explosives near Edgewater Palisades opposite Grant's Tomb. Rivers will be dredged and piers built to port munitions. a plant near Indian Head and another near naval proving grounds may follow. Machines for testing and powder manufacture will be included as the site aims to supply the fleet.
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Madison
New York Evening Post
Navy Department
Congress
Port Lafayette
Edgewater
Filmost
Grant
Aite
Secretary of the Navy
Haa
Naval Proving Grounds
Admit Within Five Lines Only Funeral Anecdote
In May Century's tale of the Mulberry Street reporters a dead fireman who loved a joke is remembered. A florist sends a white rose shield bearing Admit within five lines only, a morbid gag that shocks yet amuses mourners at the funeral.
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Yiraorilamry Muito
Mulberry Street
Ong
Jacob A. Rita
Poliee
New York
Fife
Ext
Clock made entirely of bread fascinates Milan
A bread clock in Milan attracts attention as a curious display. The creator, a native of India, spent three years crafting the sizable timepiece. The bread clock stands as a notable, flavorful sculpture amid the city’s curiosities.
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Milan
India
A Modern Pastoral at Mamaroneck Station
A crowd waits for the 6:45 p.m. New York train as a tall, handsome 16-year-old boy sits on the platform in a dusty semicircle. He plays a shepherd’s pipe, recalling Tannhauser, while May sunshine and green treetops frame the scene. A Prose narrator notes the moment amid playful banter from the crowd and a hushed wonder at the lad’s musical tribute.
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Kye
Rowaner
New York
Tve
Mamaroneck Station
Thera
Atranger
Ong Kit
Sunrise and Sunset Reflections On Beauty And Life
A New York Commercial Advertiser piece muses on sunrises and sunsets as poetic symbols. It contrasts morning colors with youth and evening tones with mature experience, noting sunrises inspire purity while sunsets offer deeper, richer beauty.
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New York
His Men Would Rebel Over Col. Pumpton Leadership
Reported quarrel within a Kentucky regiment centers on Col. Pumpton. A soldier’s claim says taking command would provoke rebellion. The Ole Stat Journal notes the tension between senior officers and potential mutiny if Pumpton is placed in charge.
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Col. Pumpton
Kentucky
Ole Stat- Journal
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Cromwell
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Texas
Atkinson
William McKinley
Springfeld
Buffalo Mannatore & Locomotive
Editora
New York City
Hono
Poorla Gaxette
BUNKO
Conkle
Togersolt
Arigona Ranchero
Dona Sola Loréta Mirenla de Peralta Reavis
Maso Y Silva de Peralta de la Cordoba
Sophia Maso
San Bernardino Mountains
J. A. Reavis
Hoffman Hous
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