Work on Warships Advances at Brooklyn Navy Yard
The Brooklyn navy yard expands work on cruisers and monitors as Pneumatic power moves turrets and guns. Nearly 200 extra men, a new shop, and deck upgrades accompany refits on the Columbia New York Newark and other vessels. The Terror and Puritan receive rapid attention with turret and gun tests slated for July.
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Brooklyn Navy Yard
Navy Yard
Columbia
New York
Newark
Terror
Chicago
Atlanta
Mriessen
Spiller
Whitney
Secretary of the Navy
New York World
Priest Bomb Allegations Stir Jersey City Parish
The Rev. Gregory Hruska of a Chestnut avenue Greek Catholic church in Jersey City and parishioner Paul Stupinski were pulled into a tense case over a dynamite bomb threat. Stupinski, held on $1,000 bail, denies the charge while Hruska previously faced unrelated cigar manufacturing charges and was acquitted in Trenton. The report also recounts a Confederate reunion incident and a scientist’s claim about brain removal, then shifts to Cripple Creek mining boom and investment pitches.
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Gregory Hruska
Chestnut Avenue
Jersey City
Paul Stupinski
Paul Barlow
Stupinski
Father Hruska
William Street
Mr. Hruska
United States
Trenton
Cripple Creek
Colo
John S Tallman & Co
Broadway
New York
Prudential Gold Mining Co
Ike Vail's Hoboken Release Tells of Sharped Escape Plan
Veteran bunko steerer Ike Vail, arrested in Hoboken after fleeing through steamship circles, speaks to a reporter about his dire finances and constant city bans. He fears arrest in New York unless he leaves, noting police pressure and his reliance on wits to survive. He vows never to starve, despite years without criminal business.
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Tee Vail
Bunko
Hoboken
Vail
O'Brien
New York
Battery Park
Jim Gallagher
Brooklyn
Ike Vail
New York World
Water Curtain Fire Shield Invented by Bostonian
A water curtain device for fire protection, designed by First Assistant Vinet Regan of the Boston fire department, was tested at the R. H. White building in Boston with several property owners and reporters present. The spray forms a dense horizontal sheet to prevent flame spread between two buildings, with an expected nozzle improvement noted but not altering the core design.
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Bostonian
Vinet Regan
Boston Fire Department
R. H. White
Boston
Boston Journal
Slaveholder’s Pride: A 96 Year old Man’s Polygamous Life
A Georgia piece recounts a enslaved man who chose bondage over liberty. Now 96, he has taken a new wife on Marie Dock's plantation, with reported sixteen living spouses and a belief in polygyny. The tale cites his loyalty to a master and his acceptance of many wives despite aging, highlighting a disturbing view of servitude and marriage.
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Professor Glitz
Strasburg
Germany
William J. Scanlan
Seandan
Hood
Mins
Florence Andrews
Clearfield
Iowa
Butts County
W. P. Phillips
Darky
Marie Dock
Atlanta Constitution
Number Nineteen Plays Odd Role in Prisoner Life
Cincinnati Enquirer notes how the prisoner Benjamin Minger born on the nineteenth, contracting illness on the nineteenth, leaving bed on the nineteenth, and dying on the fourteenth, with the crime and prison dates all linked to the nineteenth, drew unusual interest after an autopsy showed his heart on the wrong side. The item also mentions an unrelated Boston Heralbkh quip about a Paris congress with Dr John T Simpson.
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Benjamin Minger
Ohio State Penitentiary
Lancaster
Cincinnati Enquirer
Confederate Veteran Recalls Civil War Skirmish Tales
Major James M. Arnold of Newport and Cincinnati, a Confederate veteran, hosted Loyal Legion guests in Milwaukee. Colonel Watrous recalls Bragg’s Army of the Tennessee fighting on Cumberland slope and a bold Union soldier capta in who spared a fellow captain. The tale ends with a playful flag exchange after Shiloh, as Indiana and Arkansas troops traded taunts over battle colors and a blue flag with a white moon.
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Watrons
Eastern Department
Kentucky
United Confederate Veterans
James M. Arnold
Newport
Cincinnati
Milwaukee
Arnold
Loyal Legion
Army of the Tennessee
Braxton Bragg
Wartrace
Tullahoma
Murfreesboro
Pat Cleburne
Jefferson C. Davis
Cumberland Mountains
Second Arkansas Infantry
Twenty-second Indiana
Shiloh
Second Arkansas
Arkansas
Cleburne
St. Andrew's
Ridgewood volunteers plan double tandem fire ladder truck
Ridgewood volunteers have ordered a novel fire ladder truck built on a double tandem bicycle design. The device, called the double tandem pattern, would connect two machines via a ladder bridging them and fit slots on tandems. Funding comes from fairs and socials with more sought as additional apparatus is ordered.
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Ridgewood
Bicycle Fire Corps
Repression of Crime and the Call for Woman’s Freedom
A polemic argues that hereditary criminality and vice threaten society and proposes drastic cures including sterilization, banning marriage for the morally unfit, and radical social reforms. It extols breeding of select humans, equal education for boys and girls, and motherhood as key to moral reform, urging bold action and women’s freedom.
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Wpom
Vietims
Ture
London
England
Parkers Wateriog laws Atgadle May Shannon TU
Weather Bureau weekly meteorological record for Lanark station 1906. Means and totals for temperature and precipitation cited. Various names and ads mix with old notices and health product pitches.
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Yorth Sos
Parker
Wateriog
Laws
Atgadle May
Shannon
Alexander Gray
Trner
Iowa
Olivia J. Paul
Salem Ty
Bert G. Smith
Savenon
Daisy Williams
William WW
Lace
Chadwick
Emma M. Zimnnel
William J. Mitehingis
Nevada City
Cal
Marie Thomett
Tf Fark
Orr
York
Lanark
Jone Isi
M.N. Weierz
Bidlick's Cure All List Promises Quick Relief
An advertisement touts De Witt's Hazel Salve for piles and other ailments. It promotes War Hogans and Beggs' Little Giant Pills as remedies for headaches constipation and bilious conditions. The pitch is signed by Josh Bidlick guaranteeing results.
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de Witt
Josh Bidlick
Gavel of Cherry Tree Itineration Moves Convention
A Chicago Tribune report recalls a dramatic convention moment: Maryland delegate presents a gavel carved from a fence surrounding the historic cherry tree Washington felled in his youth. The chairman notes the expiration of the two days left for gavel presentation and calls the committee on permanent organization to report.
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Maryland
Oerasion
Coorgy Washington
Chicago Tribune
Protection of Children Congress Geneva Invitation
Edouard Fatio secretary of the second international congress invites the United States to send delegates to the Geneva congress to discuss public and private relief for foreigners, employment, child protection, medical care, courts, parental authority, reformatories, and administrative supervision of placed or stray children.
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M. Edouard Fatio
Seond International Congress of Relief
Second International Congress For the Protection of Children
United States
Ridgely
Geneva
Organization of Charity
Fireworks ban ends Washington Fourth of July fun
The Washington police chief announced a complete prohibition on fireworks in the city for the next eight years to curb fires and noise. A small reservation near the Washington Monument is set aside for a limited number of children, but it is far from equal to prior celebrations.
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Washington
National Capital
Washington Monument
Mrs Davis Criticises Monument Design
Mrs Davis of Rich mond criticises Perry Griffin's monument design for her husband as heavy and the dome too massive while she would accept the committee's final decision. The award is final and contractors will proceed with work, per Philadelphia Press.
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Richmond
Jefferson Davis
Perry Griffin
Mra Davis
Philadelphia
Presa
Old Town Girls Rivalry Sparks Potomac Battle
Rival towns Old Town Maryland and Green Springs West Virginia clash after an Old Town girl is nearly beaten following a Green Springs visit. As hundreds of Green Springs youths march to Old Town, clubs rocks and knives are used in a furious hourlong brawl. Authorities separate the fighters and warn of further trouble if Green Springs visitors persist. Additional notes mention Harry Mulligan of Louisville as a precocious 12 year old colonel connected to Kentucky politics and a Verdi donation to aid aged musicians in Milan.
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Old Town
Green Springs
Potomac River
Franklin Parke
Harry Mulligan
Louisville
Tom Mulligan
Bradley
Kentucky
Harry
New York World
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Maggie A. Burt
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Woodland
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George W. Teeter
Anna Hodge
U. S. Department of Agriculture Weather Bureau
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Minn
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Washington Police
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Verdi
Milan
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Lanareh, HL
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