Chicago Mayoralty Contests and Civic Campaigns
Chicago faces a heated mayoral race with candidates from multiple parties. Elbridge Hancey and Carter Harrison seek votes beyond party lines, while Avery Out and Jesus Hoyt run on prohibITION and democratic tickets respectively. The piece also digresses into opinions on early marriage and societal norms.
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Elbridge Hanecy
Chicago
Carter H. Harrison
Elbridge Haneey
Yates
Wisconsin
Heathes Harrison
Hancey
Hoyts
Avery Eugene Out
Iesus Hoyt
Meral Démocratic
John Collins
Socialista
John R. Pepin
Socialist Labor Men
Thomas Rhodus
Single Taxers
Demand for Early Marriages at St Peter's New Brunswick
During a Lenten service at St Peter's RC Church in New Brunswick No J Dean O Grady urged young couples to marry early. He argued early matrimony fosters industry sobriety and moral living and urged men to start saving now to support wives. He told women to prepare as homemakers to ease husbands burdens, noting an obstinate father hindered plans.
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Dean O'Grady
5 Peter's
New Brunswick
Manchooria Fate in Spectator View and International Drift
The Lonion Spectator urges recognizing a Russian hold on Manchooria as permanent, warns against force, and advocates a commercial open door. Cain Minninger, aged 92, dies in Bar township, older resident of the area connected to a Bible name tragedy. The Anthracite Situation notes a possible miners' deadlock as coal operators refuse wage changes, boycotting Hazleton talks and threatening work suspension if conferences fail.
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Manchooria
Lonion Spectator
Russia
Manchoorla
England
Egypt
Spectator
Cain
Philadelphia
Cain Minninger
Barl Township
Abel
Pennsylvania
Hazleton
Mitchell
Portrait dispute over Kit Carson image in State house
Kit Carson's portrait dispute stirs Highne Colorado claim by Charles C Carson son objecting to proposed State house portrait. The narrative recalls Carson's early move from Missouri to Santa Fe at 18, marriage to Minas Josephine Alamia, seven children all but one deceased, and family ties to Highgo Haastings Wagonmound.
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Kit Carson
Charles C. Carson
Highne
Col
State House
Missouri
Santa Fe
N. M
Minas Josephine Alamia
Taos
O. Carson
Higheo
Kit Cardon, Jr
Haattigs
Mia
Carrie Atlen
Wagonmound
Inefficient English Labor Details Union Strikes on Work Hours
An English architect writing in the Nineteenth Century blames labor unions for England's looming commercial decline. He argues unions push up wages while reducing actual hours, noting builders in England average around eight hours daily and many workers vanish after Saturday noon pay, delaying projects and increasing costs.
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England
Mexican Presidency Race and Manila Police Chief Connelly
General Reyes, eager to succeed Diaz, leads Mexico’s military, famed for deep ties with Americans and admiration of the U.S. Also a Mexican presidential candidate, Joao Ives Limaxteur, a noted minister and financier, counts Diaz-era money management among his feats and is pro-American. In Manila, Capt. George F. Connelly, hero of the Thirtieth Regiment Volunteers, heads the Metropolitan Police with a 700-strong American force, all veterans, earning modest pay and high regard as a Chicagoan volunteer who helped quell colonial needs.
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General Reyes
Porfirio Diaz
Mexico
Fue
Americana
Bis
America
Joaa Ives Limaxteur
Texico
Diaz
Manila
George F. Connelly
Thirtieth Regiment Volunteers
Metropolitan Police Force of
Chief Connelly
Captain Connelly
Philippines
Greenland Trade Seen As State Monopoly By Danish Rule
The Greenland system limits entry to outsiders with Danish permission and keeps trade monopolized by the state. Only government ships sail Greenland waters, while prices for buyers and sellers are set by administration to protect natives from exploitation. A Greenland Company fleet, including the Whale, runs annual voyages for goods and transport.
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Feopta
Greenland
Denmark
Greenland Company
Orig
Closing Years of Life Finds Comfort in Faith and Family
A letter from Che Weller, nearing sixty, thanks the London Spectator for an article on life after death. He finds consolation in church, praises simple joys like family watching children grow, music, and reading. He recalls a hymn by Baxter and endorses quiet pleasures over fear of aging.
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Che Weller
The
Spectator
Baxter
London Spectator
Conscription Rampant in Europe Amid Global War Talk
Cosmopolitan reports rampant conscription across France Germany and Russia as populations of 129 million, 52 million and as high as 1 500 000 conscripts in war times. The piece notes peace time forces and the ratio of soldiers to civilians, highlighting a mobilization sweep and the strain on manpower.
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France
Russia
Germany
Riwsia
Evarts and a 4000 word will question in court
Ex senator William Evarts once famed for long sentences is surpassed by lawyer Kustux Sr. Ransome. In a New York will case the attorney posed a 4000 word hypothetical question about a testator's sanity, taking about thirty minutes to frame the query.
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Alll Evarta
William M. Evarts
Kustux Sr
Ransome
New York
World rulers outnumber kings in global hierarchy
A Dispatch column notes there are over sixty rulers worldwide, with twenty four presidents and twenty kings. It highlights emperors sultans rajahs khedives and other potentates preferring their titles. The lone monarch mentioned is Queen Wilhelmina Pittaburg.
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Is & Womas
Wilhelmina
Pittaburg
Fragmentary essay notes on suffrage, antiquities, and Boston heraldry
A miscellany passage covers shifts in suffrage rights for various groups in states like Minnesota Florida and Tennessee, then recounts Verdi's directive to burn hidden antique chests after burial. It references an Ohio meeting with Senator Hanna, Roman road construction, and Boston’s plan to replace an old lion and unicorn statue with copper figures in gold leaf with jeweled color accents.
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Boston
Tokyo Story Tellers Roam City Spinning Tales
In Tokyo about 600 professional storytellers roam from house to house to spin yarns. They earn roughly 20 conte an hour. When their romances grow dull from repetition they relocate to a new district.
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Houm
Japan
Tokyo
Kaus Kiar In the Ascendancy
The St Louis Republic notes Texas growth as thousands migrate for thriving agriculture. It predicts beneath the crops the world’s largest oil wells have been found, asserting Texas will become the fastest growing state in the Union.
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Kaus Kiar
Texas
St. Louis Republic
Railways Capitalization and University Enrollments
The article cites that United States railways are capitalized at 11 billion dollars and employ over 875,000 workers, paying more than 495 million in wages for the year ending June 30, 1898. It notes Harvard’s enrollment at 4,288 for the current academic year and Michigan as the second-largest U.S. university with 3,700 total registrations.
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United States
Aseal
Universition
Harvard
University of Michigan
Seco
Kidney Pills Spare Owosso Leader's Secretary
Mra Julia A Mallahan, secretary of Elite Rebekah Lodge No. 2 in Owosso, narrowly escaped kidney disease after a winter cold. She credits Dodd's Kidney Pills with saving her life, noting quick relief and strong health return. The article promotes buying from local druggists or Dodds Medicine Co. in Wallula, N.Y.
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Tulle A. Mulintan
Oworo
Mtobe
Owosso
Mich
Rebekah Lodge
C. F
Mra
Julia. A. Mallahan
Mallahan
Dodd
Michigan
Dodds Atodletine Company
Wullule, N
Fireman's Chilly Dash to Newark Blaze
An alarm called out Fireman Herman Hanke from Mook and Ladder Truck No. 4 in Newark New Jersey just as he was bathing. He sprang from the tub into a long India rubber coat, slid down the pole, mounted the truck and sped to the fire. Returning an hour later he resumed his bath.
Women Must Sleep and the Nurse Guide
A worried account describes nervous prostration from irregular cycles and indigestion causing sleepless nights. It cites Mrs. Easter of Chicago Illinois, claiming recovery after using Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound, urging others to seek its remedies for uterine and nerve symptoms.
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Easter
Chicago
Lydia B. Pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkham
Garfied Tea Herb Medicine Ad
In the spring edition an herbal remedy promises blood purification and renewed vitality for wearied ayatems. The ad touts Justion Je and a conundrum about woman, while recommending Wizard Ol for rheumatism or neuralgia and urging readers to ask their druggist. Money talks, yet the calamitous rogue avoids chance.
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Wizard Ol
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