Birds and politics mingle in a curious natural history and speech
A reader narrates crow nesting behavior and interspecies feeding with detail on bluebirds wrens and chippies, then shifts to a political talk by Senator Ingalls praising Anglo-Saxon individualism and warning against socialism. The piece closes with Missouri military commissions announced by Gov. Francis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Missouri
Jerrenson Orry
Gov. Francis
C. Harrington
R. M. Hockeday
Milton Moore
Hunting
A EB Kendrick
J. G. Erskine
Leutenant
T. J. Plater
Kinnaid
I Eaton
Immature Lover Probes Mother for a Marriage Answer
A comic exchange in the Chicago Tribune features Maud Spoonsmore pressing her mother for a yes or no on marriage. An anxious damSEl questions Harry about vaccination and whooping cough.
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Maud Spoonsmore
Harry
Chicago Tribune
MONOPOLY CLAIMS SHOCK GERMAN OIL TRADE FIRM TIES
An article in the Wester Zeitung analyzes the Standard Oil Co was forming a global monopoly. It describes alliances with German firms like Albert Nicholas Schutter Som and Hamburg houses to control wholesale and retail coal oil trade from Bremen to Russia and beyond. The report warns of tanks in Riess Duisburg and Mannheim facilitating direct transfers to barrels in Germany.
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Pramian
Ibert von le Ube
Grestoil
Germany
Wester Zeitung
Bremen
Albert Nicholas Schutter
Hamburg
Etroleum Co
Riess
Duisburg
Mannhein
America
New York
JAPS MUST GO. Japanese Laborers Imported for Park Trains
Immigration Inspector Stich reports Isaac Wolf a Chicago clothier imported two jinrikishas and two Japanese workers to power them for hauling children in a public Chicago park. Assistant Secretary Nettleton says the plan creates a new enterprise not clearly covered by the alien labor law. no suit will be pursued if Wolf immediately returns the workers and intends no illegal aim.
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Nettleton
Wolf
Suffering in Russia in the drought year
The Telegraph's St Petersburg correspondent reports Russia faces its worst harvest on record as drought drives price rises and widespread hunger. Winter frosts killed crops, peasantry appear gaunt, disease spreads, and many rely on oatmeal mixed with bark. noblemen and priests seek gratis meals while Rovnopel Jewish colony residents starve amid overcrowded rooms.
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Kouthere
Russia
Telegraph
St Petersburg
Kostroma
Kason
Rovnopel
Bridge Collapse Traps Nine Workers in Erie Canal
A constructed iron bridge by Empire Portland Cement Co over the Erie canal at Warner's in Sunadtar New York collapsed yesterday. Nine workmen were swept into the canal. William B. Cadd was killed and William F. Austin was seriously injured.
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Sunadtar
N.Y
Empire Portland Cement Co
Erie Canal
Warner's
William B. Cadd
William F. Austin
The Crops Weather Report Across Regions
The crops section notes widespread favorable weather aiding wheat, corn, and hay across multiple states. Reports from Michigan Iowa Wisconsin Arkansas Texas Louisiana North Carolina Virginia Missouri Ohio Illinois Tennessee Kentucky Kansas Nebraska Minnesota South Dakota Colorado Middle Atlantic New England California indicate generally good harvests, with localized rain shortages or excesses and notes on wheat and oat yields, fruit prospects, and hay cutting progress.
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Iowa
Wisconsin
Arkansas
Texas
Louisiana
North
Carolina
Virginia
Missouri
Ohio
Tennessee
Kentucky
Kansas
Neosho
Verdigris
Kalin
Nebraska
Minnesota
Dakotas
Colorado
Hall
Middle Atlantic
New England
New Jersey
New York
Harves
California
Sour and Bitter The Relations Between Prince Bismarck and Emperor William
Indignation fills government circles over renewed bitter attacks by Bismarck’s organs on the Kaiser and his policy. The articles are believed to be Bismarck inspired, widening the rift between the ex chancellor and the emperor. A possible official rebuke could come, not by court action, but as an army officer undermining faith in the sovereign. Close aides say the Kaiser’s animosity toward Bismarck has grown and may flare publicly.
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Olaerra
Norsily
Ingalls
Congress
Mr. Ingalls
Jay Gould
Gould
Wall Street
Jesus Christ
Ana
Pvetty
Prince Bismarck
Emperor Wiliam
Bextiy
Bismarck
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Orren
England
Lear
Grell
Nest Air
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