New Mexico Statehood Debate and Pueblo Life Compared
The article weighs statehood for New Mexico against obligations to Mexican citizens and highlights the region’s mix of progress and poverty. It contrasts urban Santa Fe’s adobe existence with Pueblo communities where women lead farming and domestic tasks, noting irrigation, land grants, and strong demographics including 9,000 Pueblo residents across nineteen villages.
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Italy
New Mexico
Executive Department
Territory
Lew Wallace
Ben Hur
Pueblo
Chinese in the Philippines dominance in trade and taxes
The article notes Chinese Americans control four banking institutions and major newspapers, pay large shares of Manila city taxes, handle most rice and goods through the custom house, operate six boats in coastal trade, and dominate importers with 199 of 489. It highlights about 0.2 million Chinese in the islands and under 4,000 in Manila.
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Manila
Custom House
Islands
Thore Ro
Russia and Turkey Edge Toward a Death Struggle
A Vienna dispatch claims Austria mobilizes three army corps at Agranm Tarajevo and Temesver for potential occupation of Mitrovitza but warns against mountain campaigning. Reports indicate Balkan tensions rise as Bosnian Herzegovinian unrest grows and Albanian agitation threatens Novi-Harta. Russia aims for peace but keeps invasion plans ready, with routes via Varna Bourgas and Bosporus guarded by Baltic fleet contingent.
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Austria
Agranm
Tarajevo
Temesver
Mitrovitza
Turkey
London
Vienna
Balkana
Olessa
Sevastopol
Black Sea
Varna
Bourgas
Bosporus
Secret In Well Kept Deathly Carbon Paper Secret
A terse note claims the secret of making carbon paper and typewriter ribbons is known by scarcely two dozen people in a well kept circle. No further details are provided about who holds the knowledge or where the circle operates.
Jade Stone Found in Oregon’s Althouse District
A major mineral discovery reports jade found in the Althouse district of Southern Josephine county Oregon. Miners brought jade samples to Grant's Pass identified by US Mineral Surveyor H C Perking as jade. This marks the first jade discovery in North America and has significant geological interest.
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Althouse
Josephine County
Grant's Pass
Kansas City
United States
H. C Perking
Indian Creeks
Orient
Kara Kash
Turkestan
New Zealand
Pacific
South America
North American
Woman Flaunts Ancestry Portrait In D A R Tale
A New York Press anecdote tells of a newly rich Boston socialite Mrs Suddenclough who boasted a miniature portrait claimed as her paternal grandfather. In the Boston party a bespectacled guest revealed the portrait was actually Patrick Henry’s, noting he was a bachelor.
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New York
Boston
Not pleased with nobleman's appearance in American tale
A humorous anecdote recalls an English peer famed for his homeliness. At a U.S. dinner, a looking child asks if he is the British lord. He confirms, the child replies she is not satisfied but more disappointed, amused by the exchange.
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America
Small Guns Prove More Effective in War Says Naval Recruiter
HL Williams in charge of the naval recruiting station argues the Spanish American War showed small guns outperform large ones. He cites the Santiago fight where six and five pounders fired rapidly while heavy turrets failed to hit, noting large guns weigh about 100 and 30 tons more and slow firing.
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HL Williams
Federal
Santiago
Leutenant
Ligux
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Prisptina
Novi-Hacar
Whia
Constantinople
Albania
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Czar
Roumania
San Stephano
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Aoame
Ura
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Raasias
Meg
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Cosur
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Pittsburg
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