Citizens or Subjects in the United States Future
A lengthy 19th century editorial argues that popular sovereignty and constitutional limits are under threat from expansionist policy and federal supremacy. It warns of using force to enforce policy, contemplates secession risks, and laments the nation’s drift toward imperial ambitions and loss of republican government.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
William McKinley
Charles V
Union
Army
Navy
Charles II
Bryan
Gorman
Richard Croker
Croker
Washington
Henry Watterton
David B. Hill
William C. Whitney
Theodore Roosevelt
Ennoy
Dunk
China
Earth
Geesler
William Tell
Tallahassee City Claim About Napoleon Kin Is Not Clear
A fragment claims Tallahassee was founded by a Murat relative of Napoleon Bonaparte, naming Col. Charles Louis Napoleon Achille Murat, but the text is garbled and difficult to verify. The sentence is uncertain and may reflect a local legend or misprint rather than established history.
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Tallahassee
Napoleon Bonaparte
Charles Louis Napoleon Achille Murat
Amariens Rule Makes Cuban Labor Ag
Poem by Margaret Juokin Preston laments future labor and societal turmoil. The piece imagines a day when wealth power and art lose meaning and humanity awakens to moral duty. A call to collective action contrasts with oppressive systems and spiritual sovereignty.
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Amariens
Ravens City
Salvatius Army
Salvation Army colony farms the submerged tenth in England
Salvation Army parcs the Darkest England scheme into three branches with a Hadleigh farm colony near London and a 3,050 acre estate by the Thames estuary. The colony uses brick fields and farming to rehabilitate 300 workers, paying in colony coins, with meals purchased on site. Last year 309 of 17% drafted men were restored to employments, many advancing through dormitories to independent rooms as wages rise to four or five shillings daily.
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Salvation Army Parcs
England
Hadleigh Farm
London
Thames
Southend
Reading facilities discussed for mill locality workers
A sujal fraction of mill workers read Gard a She and Stevenson's Treasure Jeland. Investigators concluded a library was badly needed in the area and mill hands questioned whether they would have time to read if provided access.
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Philadelphia
Dickens
Thackeray
Scott
Longfellow
Poe
Tennyson
England
Kipling
Stephen Crane
Thomas Hardy
She
Stevenson
Cuban Labor Anger Grows In Havana Strikes Threaten
Reports from Havana describe stonemasons rejecting a two dollar forty cent daily wage for nine hours and seeking three dollars for eight hours. Fishermen and boatmen issue a manifesto to secure better prices for salt and related costs. Bus and streetcar workers threaten strikes unless conductors earn seventy two dollars monthly and drivers forty dollars, signaling broader labor unrest since American rule.
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Cuba
Havana
Cuhan
Omaibua
Posseasiona
Kansas City Labor Temple Proposal Faces Public Debate
Kansas City labor groups seek an $85,009 labor temple on the corner of Tenth Street and Baltimore Avenue, with a $50,000 lot cost. Critics question why the public should donate a town lot to organized labor, arguing it is a business venture and not a charitable institution.
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Kansas City
Labor Temple
Organized Labor
Tenth Street
Baltimore Avenue
Labor Notes and Industry Headlines from 1899 Era
Labor notes highlight rising prices in St Paul horseshoers and Wisconsin furniture makers joining a trust. Japan’s tea crop expands, cotton mills face labor constraints, and U.S. rubber shoe output rises. Illinois mining law satisfaction, rail sleepers in Japan, and a new Chicago sewer boring machine are mentioned amid broader economic tensions and labor debates.
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St. Paul
Japan
Milwaukee
United States
Great Britain
Illnois
Wisconsin
National Trust
Edwin Markham
Georgia
Ofce
Harlem
Bellaire
Itta
Joplin
Missouri and Kansas Zinc Mineral Association
Chicago
Thames Treasure Trove Found in Thames River
London Mall reports a coroner inquiry into 17 ingots of silver and related items found near Westminster Bridge in June. Inspectors Porter and Churcher traced six, four, and three ingots on arches and abutments, with an ivory-handled silver knife burrowed near the bottom. No owner claimed the find. the coroner ordered the ingots to the treasury.
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River Thames
Goroner Braxton Hicks
Richard Porter
Thames Police
Surrey
Potney
Clayton
Dawson hotel menu report from New York run itemized tastes
The Rexind, a two story 20 room Dawson hotel house, hosts a detailed bill of fare. Five oysters for $2, two small codfish cakes for 100, a porterhouse steak about palm sized at $4.60, a $2.50 mutton chop, two eggs for $2, coffee 25 cents, condensed milk 25 cents extra, bread and butter 60 cents, no freebies. Lettuce home grown at $2, all vegetables canned, omelets from granulated eggs, table linen good, chairs and waiter staff. dining room seats 80 to 90, beer $1.25 a pint, no wine on the bill, rooms from $4 daily. Owner described as alive west of Yankee, named Smith, not Dawson for health.
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Hoffman House
Smith
Dawson
New York Run
England’s Growing Empire and Population Shares
Historical estimates by Sir Robert Giffen show England and successors spanning five continents with a population of about 426 million on 13 million square miles of territory. Since 1871 UK population rose from 32 to 40 million, while Russia and Germany show large gains. Germany’s 50 to 60 million includes a quarter from births.
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England
Robert Giffen
United Kingdom
Scotland
Ireland
France
Russia
Germany
He That Tall Young Man Dashing Miss Dashing
A fragmentary remark from a Chicago page captures a boastful anecdote describing a tall, energetic man linked to a social scene with Miss Dashing. The speaker contrasts flashy rhetoric with genuine reception, noting the person’s churchward or steeplelike temperament.
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Chicago News
Miss Dashing
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John Bull
Tranavant Samer
Cruim
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