Admiral Bunce Dies After Long Illness in Washington
Rear Admiral Francia M. Bunce retired from active service in the navy died at his Washington home after months of illness. Born in Connecticut in 1836 he entered the Naval Academy in 1852 and fought in Civil War engagements at Yorktown Fort Fisher and the batteries near Fort Caswell. He rose through the ranks to rear admiral in 1898 and served as commander of the Brooklyn Navy Yard in 1897. A respected officer, he earned praise for duty and courage from colleagues and sailors alike.
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Speeding Transcontinental Rails Reach Across the Continent
The Northwestern and Union Pacific cut the Chicago to San Francisco Express time by three hours and ten minutes and trimmed two other services. The piece notes how pioneers crossed the plains a half century ago and marvels at today’s vast railroad network stretching across the United States, likening it to exploration. It cites Edwin Bryant’s What I Saw In California as a pioneer era contrast.
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Union Pacific
Chicago
San Francisco
Pioneer Times
Edwin Bryant
California
Ste
United States
Missouri
Earth
Peary
North Pole
Greenland
Bank embezzlements surge across months and regions
Bank embezzlement waves appear as three cases occur in two days including George Armitage in New York and Louis Swift in Lowell. October totals rise with three more cases bringing monthly losses to 308000, the year to date at 2904911, nearly half of yearly thefts.
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George Armitage
New York Bank
M. A. Emory
Boyartown
A. G. Smith
Louis Swift
Lowell
Maas
Chicago Tribune
Cold Weather Advice From a Dated Source
The text warns that clothing alone does not provide warmth and emphasizes eating hearty foods like milk, butter, cheese, oats, and potatoes. It advises wearing wool, breathing deeply, keeping a regular meal pattern, and walking to work to stay warm.
Innkeeper of White Waltham Long Keeps House by Morals
Mrs Mary Lee, oldest landlady of Berkshires White Waltham, has run The Honey Hive public house for fifty years with high moral standards. A single minor complaint in decades, no rowdyism, and she reads Bible portions in the taproom on Sundays. A famous, active figure described by the London News.
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Thi Public House
Mra
London
Deathbed report of William S Gilbert at Harrow Weald
William Gilbert III, partner of Sir Arthur Sullivan, is reported dying at Harrow Weald England. He wrote librettos starting 1876 with H M S Pinafore and followed by The Pirates of Penzance Patience and The Mikado. He has been invalid for over a year. Nancy Meritonnh, an American actress adopted into the Gilbert family, was his protégé.
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Arthur Sullivan
William 5
Gilbert
Harrow Weald
England
H. M
Patience
Nancy Meritonh
Texas to prosecute oil boom swindlers and fake stock
The Chicago Tribune notes Texas will press criminal cases against officers of nearly a hundred fraudulent oil firms that sold worthless stock during the boom. It suggests earlier actions by Texas authorities could have protected credulous investors and reduced suspicion over Texas oil investments.
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Texas
Chicago Tribune
Isthmian Canal Accord Seen Favoring United States
Washington expects Lord Pauncefote to secure London's consent to an isthmian canal treaty aligning with American aims. The agreement appears to be an informal understanding to abrogate the Clayton-Bulwer treaty, granting England parity with other European powers in canal work and maintenance after construction.
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Lord Pauncefote
London
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United States
Eiropean Pawerarom
News and Views Life wt Donald G. Milcher Writer of Piction
Donald G. Mitchell born Norwich, Conn., April 12, 187y. Yale graduate, farm life shaped his pastoral novel drift. Abroad 1844 1848 Paris inspired works Fresh Glenn- Inge The Battle Summer gained fame. Best known The Reverses of a Bachelor Dream Life. Purchased 200 acre farm near New Haven 1880 by which he lived quietly. Member Yale council since 1865.
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Great Society Event Crowns Foraker Daughter Wedding
Ming Florence M Foraker daughter of Senator Joseph B Foraker will wed Randolph Matthews of Cincinnati at Epiphany Advent Church Cincinnati on November 14 More than 1000 invitations will be issued with President Roosevelt and cabinet among expected guests Matthews is a young Cincinnati attorney from a prominent family including a former United States Supreme Court justice
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Cincinnati
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Hapna
Senator Foraker
Congress
Bentley Matthews
American Method Studied by English Railroad Officials
English railroad leaders visit the United States to study operation and management of American freight handling. A recent English group returned from a similar inspection elsewhere. They admire American methods and focus on freight handling and canal systems, noting U S rail freight efficiency surpasses their own.
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Trute
England
Jeius
Eanals
Sugar Trust Under Scrutiny Over Beet Sugar Growth
Secretary Wilson of the Department of Agriculture and the Meet Weems cited the sugar trust cutting western sugar prices where beets are grown, signaling concern over the beet industry's rising importance. They found no evidence of a plan to hinder development.
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Sugar Trust
Wilson
Department of Agriculture
Ragar da Ubts
Outlaws of Turkey and the Miss Stone Abduction
The article reports the abduction of Miss Stone, an American missionary, by Turkish brigands in Thrace. It details her hardships, previous assaults, and ransom demands of 110000, with the U.S. state department and mission board considering action to secure release.
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Djoumania
Mission Board
Miss Stone
State Department
Ellen M. Btone Turkhish Bandits In East Balkans Outrage Women
A historical report recounts Turkish troops and brigands inflicting brutal abuses on Christian peasants. It describes forced military service by male youths, abductions of girls, forced conversions, and families seeking protection. A nobleman is killed by Hatduts, who display his head on a spear in triumph.
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Ellen M. Btone
Corps of Junissaries
Thouganda
Moses
Birds Photograph Themselves With Electric Camera Device
An English photographer C. G. Pike invents a contraption that lets birds take their own pictures. A fat bait on an electric wire triggers a camera shutter when the bait is removed, producing an instantaneous exposure.
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C. G. Pike
Mexican gambling empire rivals Monte Carlo in Mexico City
The article recounts Senor Martel’s gambling empire in Mexico City after a law to tax or close casinos. He opened Calle de Gante houses, paid huge annual licenses, drew wealthy patrons, and even had government oversight at his venues. He also built a grand church in San Angel and maintains a palatial residence with 40 windows.
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Mexico
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Calle de Gante
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Peupe Martel
San Angel
Electrical Wonder Built for Japanese by Philadelphia Firm
A Philadelphia company constructed for the Japanese government a giant induction coil for wireless telegraphy. It weighs about 2000 pounds and uses roughly 1 820 000 feet of copper wire. The device can flash a 45 inch lightning-like arc and could bridge 500 miles with suitable receivers.
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America
Philadephia
Famoas Spottiswood
England
Korean Peninsula
Japan
Value of the South African Horse in the Boer War
The Boer War demonstrated the value of the South African horse. Boers were excellently mounted on horses bred in the Transvaal, Orange Free State and Cape Colony. South African horses require less food, endure the climate, avoid holes, and are sounder, steadier, and more self-reliant when not heavily fed.
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Orange Free State
Cape Colony
French Revolutionary Calendar Overview
The French revolutionary calendar began September 3, 1792 with twelve 30 day months and five complementary days. Months were divided into three decades and a four year cycle called the Francade added six extra days at its end.
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Tomas
Tenants Form Protect ive League in South London
Eight hundred residents in South London joined a tenants protective league started a few weeks ago to enable weekly tenants to combine for self protection against extortion and illegal demands by landlords and rate collectors. The group also seeks necessary legal assistance.
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London
Definition of Apinater and a Bicycle Spinster
A curious definition emerges from a playful London note. An office-boy, in a two-lawyer firm, brings devils bearing signatures attested by a lady who forgot her description. The boy quips spinster, spinater, and a bicycle riding singe, turning language into a witty, novel observation.
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London
Gigantic Dwelling Hours in Vienna Suburb Report
A description of a vast residence near Vienna claims to be the largest dwelling house, containing 1 200 rooms in more than 400 apartments. It is said to house a whole city with living, working, eating and sleeping spaces, thirteen courtyards, five open and nine enclosed, and a garden within its walls.
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Vienna
Walla
Catholic Education Mission to Philippines Named
Colentine Sullivan, a newspaper man of Atchison Kansas, was honored by the Catholic University of Washington to oversee three years of promoting Catholic education in the Philippines. He will establish Catholic schools modeled after those in the United States.
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Philiptines
Colentine Sullivan
Atchison, Kaw
Catholic University of Washington
Apools and Thread Spool Production Details
The text states that spools use about £2,000 cards or 16,000,000 feet of birch annually, producing 800,000,000 spools. Each spool holds 200 yards of thread, and the total thread could circle the world 3,600 times at the equator with some material left for mending.
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Equator
Sud
Lyman Abbott Recounts Joseph Cook Brilliant Mind
Abbott portrays Joseph Cook as tireless and brilliant with a restless intellect and electrifying presence. He compares Cook to a surcharged thunder cloud and a Websterian orator, noting vivid, sweeping lectures that spark audience imagination and insight.
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Lyman Abbott
Joseph Cook
Webster
The Teacher's Wife
Clarissa Minnesota October 28 Mia Clara Keya wife of Charles Keys a school teacher here tells a remarkable tale. Her life had long been full of misery with constant back and head pains and neuralgia driving her to despair. After using Dodd's Kidney Pills her pains vanished quickly and she calls the remedy a God send to suffering women. Encouraged by her success she urged her 74 year old mother to try the pills and both now enjoy lasting relief after years of illness.
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Clara Keya
Charles Keys
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Silk From Trees in East Indies Tells Ancient Tale
A historical note recalls Pliny’s belief that silk was a vegetable product. His Natural History features a lengthy tale of silk harvested from trees in the East Indies and spun into fabrics.
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East Indies
Old Fashioned Man and the Sore Finger Riddle
A fragmentary passage jokes about a man who is always on hand like a sore finger and a woman’s prematurely gray hair from trying to reform him. The text blends stray phrases and echoes of a quip rather than a cohesive news item.
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