Flood Disaster Deluge Submerges Vast Mississippi Valley
The article details immense floods across the South with figures from the Agriculture Department. It lists submerged lands in Mississippi Arkansas Missouri Tennessee and Louisiana, counts of farms and population, and estimates $65 million in farm value. It notes looming pestilence and widespread homelessness, with floodwaters advancing toward new areas including Minnesota, the Dakotas, and western towns.
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Mississippi
Cairo
Arkansas
Missouri
Tennessee
Louisiaus
BESO
Arkansax
Yonnessee
Ccc
Ccc Ee Ence
Ieee Ie
Arkans
Department of Agriculture
Weather Bureau
Jan Q
Dakotas
Nebraska
Minnesota
Iowa
Illinois
Irn
Louisiana
United States
Allegha
Daniel Voorhees Dies at 76. Tall Sycamore of the Wabash
Former U S Senator Daniel W Voorhees of Indiana died at 5 a m Saturday in Washington D C after years of rheumatic heart disease and angina. At 76, the long time champion of Indiana politics was born in Ohio and grew to fame as the Tall Sycamore of the Wabash. Remains to Terre Haute for interment.
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Daniel W. Voorhees
United States
Indiana
Washington, D. C
Mr. Voorhees
Senate
Ohio
Wabash Valley
Terre Haute
Ind
Judge Day to Cuba for U S death investigation
Judge William R. Day will go to Cuba as a special commissioner for the United States to attend the investigation into the death of Dr. Ruiz. A Canton, Ohio leading citizen and friend of President McKinley, Day is son of former Ohio Chief Justice Luther Day and has long practiced law in Canton since 1872. He studied at the University of Michigan and was elected common pleas judge in 1886 on a bipartisan ticket.
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United States
Cuba
Dr. Ruiz
Canton
McKinley
Luther Day
Ohio Supreme Court
Judge Day
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Court of Common Pleas
Neg Eney
Worcester
New Bieland
Tampico
Tuxpam
Mexico
Amou
Europe
Soreig
Senate Debates Cuban War Sendoff and Flood Aid Measures
The Senate debated Cuban affairs and the bankruptcy bill while approving relief for Mississippi Valley flood sufferers. Nominations to Treasury Navy and Postmaster posts were sent to the Senate as the House stalled with no action.
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Secretary of War
Mississippi Valley
Cuba
Senate
Mississippi River
Jones
Arkansas
Red River
North
Mr. Morgan
Alabama
Nelson
Minnesota
Chaudler
Committee On Interstate Commerce
Interstate Commerce Commission
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Congress
Charles U Gordon Named Chicago Postmaster
Charles U. Gordon, a Chicago real estate businessman and former president of the influential Marquette Club, has been appointed postmaster of Chicago after Washington Hesing's resignation. Gordon, under 32, supported McKinley in the last campaign and has rapid early career gains. Sparks from the Wires reports multiple deaths and legal actions including a New York arson sentence and Canadian immigration bills. Levi Samuels named receiver for Marx & Srenkel in New York with liabilities around 70,000 and assets mainly accounts and stock.
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Chicago
Washington Hesing
McKinley
Marquette Club
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Levi Samuels
Marx & S’renkel
New York
Modern City Housekeeping May Erase Grandmothers Traditions
A San Francisco Argonaut view argues that urban life will erase old fashioned housekeeping. Apartments with janitors and cafes replace home crafts and junes. nurseries for working mothers proliferate, and mothers may rely on institutions to care for children.
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San Francisco
Darby
Joan
Unchristian Names and Clergy Prejudices
An amusing excerpt discusses inconsistent prejudices over heathen names. It recounts Dean Burdon objecting to Venus for a Christian child while approving the god of the woods, and a christening tale of Vanus versus Sylvius with a grandfather’s name twist.
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Dean Burgon
Vanus
Sylvivus
The Way of It minister resignation tale told
A Washington Times excerpt recalls a minister who did not resign as expected. Instead parishioners say they resigned him, explaining they had endured his leadership and decided it was time for him to go.
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Edzacly
Washington Times
C. W. Radcliffe Cooke
Editor recruits for Cuban war news at Daily Distress
An exchange shows a candidate being hired as editor in chief for Cuban war coverage at the Daily Distress while the Cleveland Leader and Detroit Journal note humorous and light literary aims and a widow who refuses to attend a funeral due to grief.
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Daily Distress
Cleveland Leader
Detroit Journal
Erroneous leads on science and society across continents
A compendium of 1890s curiosities reports telepathy debates, vaccination in Afghanistan, libraries for the blind in Rome, and trade notes. It notes canaries, New York costs, Irish bogs, South African wool, and odd economic tidbits from Brazil to Jamaica, plus a humorous London anecdote about public speaking.
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Rio de Janiero
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Supreme Court
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Kentucky
United States
Etownl
Alabama
North Carolina
Alps
Piedmont
Great St. Bernard
New York
Washington
U.S. A
Waterbury
Osaka
Belmont
Ireland
Allen
Island
Shannon
South Africa
Cab Horse Dashes Down Riga Staircase
A sleeping cab horse in Alsace bolted after a passing whistle and dragged the cab and coach down seventy two steps into a stairway on Rue de Strasbourg. The driver awoke just in time to jump clear, suffering serious bruising.
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Seout
Rue de Strasbourg
Galignani
Ready Devisions Balzac on death sentences and a meadow case
The text recounts Balzac advising a counselor fond of executions. A tribunal president asks his view on a completed case and Balzac, awakened, declares the defendant should be beheaded. The president clarifies the matter concerns a meadow, prompting Balzac to joke about mowing it.
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Balzac
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