Not Retreat. McKinley Speech on War and Duty
A long paraphrased excerpt discusses President McKinley addressing unity and duty amid the Spanish-American War. It covers commitment to victory, governance abroad, and maintaining national resolve, with emphasis on patriotism, responsible policy, and the duty to protect new territories and allied inhabitants. It also notes Democratic reactions and Bryan’s stance on leadership and policy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McKinley
Spain
East
Sewey
Merritt
Eiher Dewey
Manila
Ann Thelreet
Maud
Bryant
Dawson City Boom Attracts Prospects In Canon City
A Canon City dispatch describes a sudden Dawson City boom with rich gold assays and rapid townsite surveying and lot sales. Prominent investors from Cripple Creek and Pueblo back the Dawson claims while rail planners eye a future line from Canon City to Westcliffe.
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Denver
Canon City
Avey
Republican
Dawson City
E. F. Jewett
C. W. Wells
Cripple Creek
Denver Avenue
Jewett and
Camp
R. W. Griswold
Mining Exchange of
Colorado Springs
J. H. Adams
C. M. MacNeill
Colorado & Philadelphia
Pueblo
C. H. White
Fleas Bank
John Hiss
Dawson
Sentinel
Jewett
B. X. Dawson
Mike Sutton
Dawson People
Emerald Gem
Matt Speakman
Copper Boy
Gardner & Curtis
Mabel B
Paul Nass
Leadville
James H. Peabody
A. H. Rudolph
Rio Grande Railroad
W. H. Paul
Denver & Rio Grande
Dawson Mine
J. J. Burns
Grape Creek
Westcliffe
Or Jon City
A Well Spent Life and the Veteran Woolnough
Wa ter W. Woolnough, near ninety, is described as the oldest compositor in U S papers. His career spans Ash tabula Ohio to Michigan, editor of the Michigan Tribune, Signal of Liberty, and later Bodine era. He printed his own editorials, served in municipal roles, and sat in Michigan legislature pre Civil War. Now at Battle Creek Moon office, he still handles type despite frailty. The column also recalls a quip about bluefish.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Water W. Woolnough
Michigan Press
Woolnough
Ashtabula
Signal of
Liberty
Erastus Hussey
Bodine
Michigan Tribune
Horace Greeley
Democracy
Michigan
Battle Creek Moon
American group plans 10000 Russians migration to southwest
Dr. N O Nelson leading a well known group including William Dean Howells Jane Addams and others to bring persecuted Russians to the United States. The colonists are described as nonresisting Christians who refuse military service and would settle in the extreme eastern Russian regions. The plan aims to resettle about ten thousand people in the southwest.
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N. O. Nelson
N. O. Nelson Manufacturing Company
Southwest
Mr. Nelson
William Dean Howells
Boston Hall
Ernest H. Crosby
Isaac N. Seligman
New York
Jane Addams
Chicago
William Lloyd Garrison
Boston
George Dana Boardman
D. D
Philadelphia
Nelson
N. C. Nelson
Russia
Nantucket Folk Tales On Fish Markets And Tolstoi
A Nantucket vignette notes islanders praise smallness and fishing life. A summer visitor recalls a fish market exchange about salmon, revealing local humor and the line, We don't sell nothing but fish here. The piece then shifts to Tolstoi backing a land colony proposal for 10,000 people, aiming for a southern site with Quaker and Moravian settlement parallels.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nantucket
Leo Tolstoi
Europe
Do you believe in the doctrine that every man has his price
An exchange about whether any man can be bought. The reply challenges the idea, noting egotists may set prices so high they are unattainable even for a millennium.
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Canadian Steamship Company
Lloyd Steamship Company
Werra
Fulda
Compania Transatlantica
Cuba
Spain
Fragmentary Quote Reveals Gout Joke About Buck Family
A fragmented dialogue notes Buck's gout as a possible cause of residence issues. The exchange mentions living in a twelve story flat, implying a joke about health and housing conditions.
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M’kinley
Philip
Vietory
MR. Bryan
Chicago Record
Bryan
Mas
Associated Press
Smah
Colonia
West
New Mexico
General Garcia
Formosa
Wood
San Francisco
Madame Barrios
Guatemala
Vatican
Santo Domingo
Batabano
Madrid
Germany
Fernando Po
Annabom
Gulf of Guinea
Wilhelm Conrad Roentgen
University of Leipsic
General Lee
Panama
Havana
City
Morro
Crega de Avila
Count Itsu
Lincoln
William Jennings Bryan
Farmers’ National Congress
Fort Worth
Haverhill
Massachusetts
William T. Stead
St. Petersburg
Samoa
Mataafa
Tamasese
Constanti
Alger
Ludlow
Havana City
Greene
Newport News
Louisville
Kentucky
War Department
Kiang-Si
John B. Henderson
St. Louis
Congress
Paul J. Peltz
Congressional Library
Henderson
Sixteenth Street
Harrison
White House
W. W. Woolnough
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