Crisis as miners strike order takes effect today
Wilkesbarre and Susquehanna Pa June 1 The United Mine Workers call a nationwide action forcing all stationary engineers firemen and pumpers to quit unless an eight hour day at higher pay is granted The move aims to shut down pumps and mine properties risking millions in losses as both sides vow no compromise An army of about 3000 coal and iron police guards mines and properties while non union workers fill strikers posts The week ahead is viewed as critical with fears of disturbances but no large trouble expected at present
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Wilkesbarre
United Mine Workers of America
Erie Railroad workers vote not to strike after Monday
Workers in Forest City Susquehanna county have voted against striking on Monday. The company fenced its property with eight-foot barbed wire and will be guarded by coal and iron police sworn in by Susquehanna county authorities to prevent trouble.
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Erie Railroad Company
Forest City
Susquehanna County
Boxer Insurgents Attack Central China Missions
Reports via the steamer Clavering detail a Boxer uprising in southwest Chi Li led by Co Chi Hing who killed his wife and family and incited others. Across Wei Hiem a church was destroyed and many converts slain, with French and Belgian missionaries among the dead. Troops faced defe ations as Boxers aim to overrun Honan and Shantung toward Pekin. The unrest complicates plans to restore civil government and prompts French investigators into a missionary death.
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Honan
Shan Tung
Pekin
Japan Mail
Ku Huh Hiet
Chi Li
Ofien Tsin
Tien Tsin
China
Chin Ling
Colombian Revolutionists Advance on Isthmus Towns
The British steamer Atrato reports heavy fighting at Bocas Del Toro where rebels mined the town and government troops were largely killed as they advanced to recapture. Rebels hold Bocas while Colon and Panama remain under government control as troops hurry in to restore order. Authorities may recognize rebel forces. Atrato also carried 40 government officers to Colon and names Gen. Gatamore as potential Panama governor. The upheaval disrupts the fruit trade and delays normal quiet on the isthmus.
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Kingston
Atrato
Stranger
Colon
Colombia
Bocas del Toro
Bocas
Panama
Savamnilla
Gatamore
Ishmus
In Congress Brisk Debate Expected On Canal and Anarchy Bills
The House and Senate schedule a busy week with a Philippine civil government bill advancing at 4 pm Tuesday and a push to choose between the Spooner canal route or presidential discretion. Senators Hanna Kittredge Harris Mitchell Foster Turner Morgan back the Spooner plan while Cuban reciprocity awaits a later discussion. The anti anarch y bill and Pacific cable bill are also on the docket with time allocations and potential party caucuses shaping floor action.
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Washington
Senate
Philippine Islands
Nicaragua Canal
Nicaragua
Spooner
Hanna
Kittredge
Harris
Mitchell
Foster
Louisiana
Turner
Morgan
Platt
Connecticut
United States
House of Representatives
District of Columbia
Canal
House
Philippines
Committee On Rules
Farewell courtesies between Brugere and President Roosevelt
Public correspondence from June 1902 reveals Gen Brugere thanking the United States for a warm welcome during the Rochambeau statue exercises. Roosevelt responds, praising the embassy and the friendship between the United States and France, and wishing prosperity to Brugere and France.
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Roosevelt
Gen. Brugere
Washington
Rochambeau
Boston
Mass
Theodore Moosevelt
United States
France
Threshers Keep Working, Buy Cholera Remedy
A Plymouth Oklahoma dealer notes five bottles sold yesterday of Chamberlain’s Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy to threshers who continued work without a day’s loss. The testimonial urges keeping a bottle at home and notes sale by all druggists.
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Chamberlain
H. R. Phelps
Plymouth
Oklahoma
Local Grocery Ad Prices From A Fragment
Readable fragments list various grocery items with prices including Golden Rose Laundry Soap 20 bars 49 per bar, 10-lb pail Best Compound Lard 1.10, 2-lb Echo Rolled Oats and Shredded Wheat at 11c per pkg, Kennedy's Ginger Snaps 6c per lb, 5 lbs Good New Rice 24c, Good Laundry Starch 29c, 10 lbs Granulated Corn Meal 25c, 5-lb Best Hominy 17c, 2-lb cans Green or White Wax String Beans 85c, and a dozen 8c can pricing note.
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Golden Rose
Kennedy
Pelee's Crater A Most Daring Ascent
National Geographical Society celebrates Prof Angelo Heilprin ascent of Mont Pelee summit with three guides. He observed a three vent system, a 500 by 150 foot crater crevice, and massive mud explosions that drenched him. Descent and mud hazards threaten Vive Plantation. two other explorers report hot mud torrents and damaged bridges on Morne Rouge.
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Fort de France
Island of
Martinique
National Geographical Society
Angelo Heilprin
Mont Pelee
Heilprin
Philadelphia Geographical Society
Vive
Ferdinand Clerc
Mr. Reid
United States
Ayme
Prof
Pelee
Henorin
Fallaise
Lake Palmiste
Great Crater
George Kennan
Morne Rouge
Mr. Kennan
Kingstown
Island of St. Vincent
B. W. IL
la Soufriere
Island
St. Vincent
Dominica
St. Pierre
New Hines Ginger Fruit Cordial at Zepher Co store
An advertisement promotes Hines Ginger Fruit Cordial from G. C. Hines & Co Boston as a non alcoholic tonic claimed to cure indigestion distress after eating cramps colic and other stomach troubles. Sample offered free at the Zepher Co store where bottles are 25 cents.
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Zepher Co
HINES
G. C. Hines & Co
Boston
Andover Wins Exeter Dual Meet 53–51 in Close Score
Phillips Andover defeated Exeter 53 to 51 in a tight dual meet. Three records fell including high jump to 5 feet 6 inches, hammer throw to 145 feet 7 inches, and pole vault to 10 feet 8 inches. Exeter’s Whitcomb set a new high jump mark before an exhibition at 5 feet 10.25 inches. Moor Exeter and McLanahan Andover tied vaulting at 10 feet 5 inches. Andover’s McGovern cleared 10 feet 7.25 inches. Bicycle race in Boston went to Exeter 6–2.
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Whitcomb
Exeter
Kinney
Andover
Connor
McGovern
Moor
McLanahan
Boston
Castoritia Books the Signature You Have Always Bought
Castoritia books the signature product line you have always bought and marks a new chapter in brand consistency across markets. The company highlights continued trust, expanding distribution and reinforcing longtime customer relationships.
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Central Street
Merrimack Street
Reliance House
Susquehanna, Pa
President Roosevelt
Boxer Insurgents
Moxie Nerve Food
Moxie
Congress
Ippine
White House
Theodore Roosevelt
Maine
Hebron
Regina
Herkimer County
Ginter
Coedes
Jamaica
Porto Rico
Armour’s
Peete
New England
Minnesota
Vermont
Locust Valley
New Grass
Elgin Creamery
Libby
Somerset Cigars
Liebig’s
Ene
Merrimack
SAT
Scientist
N. H
Phillips Andover
A W. Dows & CO
Cor. Central and Merrimack Sts
Temple Confection CO
Philadelphia, Za
Biltmore
Caleb L. Smith
Middlesex St
P.f.dewine
Lowell Trunk Manufactory
Wight & Taylor
KY. Taylor
N. B
R. H. Hirshfield
N. E
Doane Street
Theatre Tremont Theat
Prince
Pilsen
Pixley
Luders
Dodo
Hampton Beach
Hampton River Bridge
Lowell
Haverhill
Plaistow
Newton Street
Boston & Maine Railroad
Hampton
Stoc Cutter
Sherwood, Taylor
C. F. G. Whiskies
Roach
Lowell Mutual
SG Central
J. C. Abbott
Jos. Peabody
Willow Spring
P.O. Box
H. M. Sargent
Mgr
W. C. Hinckley
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