Hottest April Day Sets Heat Record Across Chicago Area
The city felt an unprecedented heat wave with thermometers reaching 88 degrees at 4 p.m. on a Thursday. Chicago, New York, St. Louis, Louisville and Boston all logged records or near records as residents discarded winter clothing and endured oppressive conditions.
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Chicago Auditorium
Metallic Brothers
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Chicago
New York
St. Louis
Louisville
Boston
Mississippi Valley
Clash Near Nile Valley as Emir Masses Forces
Reports say the Emir of Dongola is advancing north with strong troops and has passed Aboo Fatueh. He is said to join the Mahdist forces massing near Sparda forty five miles from the Akasheh outpost. Garrisoned towns include Sarras and Akashid as the railway line races forward.
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Valley of the Nile
Dongola
Rail line to be completed along 1884 course to pass tracts
Four miles of rail have been laid and the track will be completed along the 1884 plan to pass the tracts. Posts guard the Nile at Semmeh Tangur Wady Ambigel and Sonki with detachments opposing the line to thwart the dervishes. Dervishes at Suarda advancing toward Mograbeh fifteen miles from Akasheh while main force remains at Dongola. The expedition boosts Italian standing at Kassala and limits reporters near Sarras. Egyptian HQ doubts a major northern advance by the dervishes due to commissariat shortages.
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Nile
Semmeh
Wady Ambigel
Tangur
Sonki
Suarda
Mograbeh
Akasheh
Dongola
Soudan
Kassala
Sarras
Commissariat
Michigan Prohibitionists adopt free silver platform at Lansing
In Lansing Michigan the Prohibitionists debated the merits of a free silver plank and resolutions. The majority report supported free silver while a minority urged a free silver plank in the national platform. Delegates at large named Reynolds Dickie Malone and Russell with Mrs Hutchens noted for involvement. A town incident in Norfolk featured Mrs Hutchens firing a revolver after drinking. Joseph Coleman’s son A Irene Dupont Coleman renounced Episcopal faith for Roman Catholicism.
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Michigan Prohibitionists
Lansing
Committee On
Wat
Henry A. Reynolds
Pontiac
Samuel Dickie
Albion
George R. Malone
John Russell
New Haven
Jane Hutchens
Pierce
Neb
Norfolk
A. Irene Dupont Coleman
Leighton Coleman
Delaware
Protestant Episcopal Church
Britain's Big Surplus Reported in Budget Speech
In the Commons Sir Michael Hicks Beach announced a 1895 96 surplus of £4 21 million and current year expenditure of £100 047 million. He hailed record revenue and debt reduction while noting improved working-class conditions from higher tea tobacco and sugar consumption and shifts in imports. The current year revenue was estimated at £101 755 million against £100 047 million outlay.
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House of Commons
Michael Hicks-Beach
India
Ceylon
Chicago abuse case: children blinded for begging
Police uncover a citywide practice of blinding children to force begging. Achille Masselli and his wife were arrested after physicians reported eye injuries in two of their children, one of whom may never regain sight. The investigation links similar abuse to ongoing begging operations in Chicago.
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Chicago
Achille Masselli
Masselli
Opening Day Draws 80k Fans Across Six Openers
Attendance on the National League opening day approached 80 000, higher than last year and near the all time mark. Cities listed include New York Philadelphia Baltimore Cincinnati Louisville St Louis Boston Washington and Chicago with early results showing Chicago over Louisville 4 2 Brooklyn over Baltimore 6 3 5 St Louis over Cleveland 5 2 Washington over New York 6 3 Boston over Cincinnati 7 9 Philadelphia over Pittsburgh 8 1.
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National Baseball League
New York
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Cincinnati
Louisville
St. Louis
Boston
Washington
Chicago
Brooklyn
St Louis
Cleveland
Pittsburg
Legislator Philip Fosdick Faces Anti-High Hat Bill
Portrait of Philip Case Fosdick, the Ohio legislator who championed the anti high hat bill. The article portrays his role in shaping regulation of leisure and social behavior, outlining opposition to hats as a symbol of pleasure seeking.
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Philip Fosdick
Ohio
Philip Case
Were Kings of the Gorder Thrilling Episodes in the James Boys
Frank James the surviving James brother is a door keeper in a St. Louis theater and a free man after surrendering to Governor Crittenden of Missouri. Jesse James and his brother roamed plains and towns, stole and killed, while tense pursuit and outlaw lore colored Missouri history.
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James Boys
Frank James
St. Louis
Crittenden
Missouri
Missoura
Jesse James
Fords
Colorado
Frank
Kansas
Braska
Jesse
James
Plans for New City Hall Adopted Despite Funds Shortage
The Architectural League of New York closed its eleventh annual exhibition with prize designs for a new city hall on City Hall Park. A legislative act created a design board and funded 17 000 dollars for the contest, but the project was later abandoned while prizes were awarded. The winning plan proposed a tigry edifice with mansard roof occupying the current site and creating a horseshoe around the existing chambers.
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Architectural League of New York
City Hall
New York
City Hall Park
County
Chumbers Street
New York Journal
First Prize Design for the New York City Hall
Mexico offered a reward for the James boys dead or alive and railroads offered 10 000. The Ford brothers, with the James gang, feud over the split. They joined Jesse James ally under an alias renting a cottage in Mo. The piece satirizes ads as essential to household economy.
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Mexico
James Toys
James Boys
Ford Brothers
Jameses
Fords
Jesse Jamies
Joseph
Jesse James
Edson claims tuberculosis cure with carbolic acid injection
A New York scientist Dr. Edson, aided by chemist Balch, touts a carbolic acid solution as a practical cure for consumption. The lab on Whitehall Street produces about fifty ounces daily, with injections given subcutaneously to allow slow absorption for the best effect.
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Edson
New York
United States
Hood
Whitehall Street
New York City
Lottom
Balch
Remarkable Age Chief ro Ikax Said to Be 150 Years Old
A correspondent found Chief ro Ikax, leader of the Skiquamis Obahilus, encamped at Salmon Bay Puget Sound. The aged ruler, described as blind with gray hair and shrinking bones, lives on fish soup fed by his people for twenty years and recalls ships, powder, and events 125 years past.
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ro-Ikax
Mn Ife
Obahilus
Puget Sound
Salmon Bay
Ays
AoEa
Ohio legislator Fosdick and sugar industry clash
Philip Case Fosdick of Cincinnati famed for pushing the anti high hat bill in the Ohio Legislature and securing its passage. Julius Mulh, U S consul at Magdeburg, says the Reichstag will pass a sugar bill that cheapens sugar in America but harms Nebraska and California beet sugar. U S Consul Hanger at Bermuda reports completion of ship channel improvements allowing twenty foot draft vessels to reach Hamilton wharves at low tide.
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Fosdick
Cincinnati
Ohio
Julius Mulh
United States
Magdeburg
Reichstag
America
Nebraska
California
Hanger
Bermuda
State Department
Hamilton
Fell Into the Water Tank In San Francisco
A San Francisco man fell from a rooftop into a water tank while inspecting it. He managed to cut a hole in the tank to escape as water rose, eventually standing on tiptoe with his head above water until help arrived.
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San Frisco
Man Rescues Self After Six Hours In Tank
A narrated account recalls a perilous incident where a man spent over six hours trapped in a tank. He fashioned signals from clothing and a pencil to attract help, finally drawing attention by climbing a pipe and being rescued as rescuers arrived.
Law of Growth Theory Backed by Animal Studies
Dr Charles Sedgewick Minot of Harvard Medical School supports a growth law from years of observation on guinea pigs dogs rabbits ferns and even Boston school children he asserts growth power declines from birth and body mass adds 24 to 41 percent by day eight across species also notes no chance of a mad entering Russell Sz room amid a guarded setting with a striped wall and a carved visitor card.
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Charles Sedgewick Minot
Harvard Medical School
Boston
Sage
Russell Sz
Hardly Worth the Trouble
Sam Jones addressed the South Cary legislators claiming the devil would spare most, but he thanked God he would not. A boy warned about an ad nest was spanked promptly for throwing at it.
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Sam Jones
South Cary
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Ride For Life
Mrs. Samuels
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