Siege Chronicle From Peking Legations Chapter VIII
Amid Beijing siege, Americans and British hold the wall positions while casualties mount. Privates Turner and Thomas are killed. Captain Meyers wounded. Chinese force resists from a second barricade near Chien Men as legations suffer shelling and fires.
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Turner
Thomas
Meyers
Gregory
United States
Legation
Poole
Squiers
Cheshire
Cheshire and Mr. Pethick
United States Legation
Lippett
G. D. Lowry
Fanning
King
Kennedy
Tutcher
Fisher
Silva
Shrader
Mueller
Hall
Legation Street
Coltman
Robert Coltman 3d
W. E. Bainbridge
H. G. Squiens
Claude MacDonald
Strouts
Greatest in the world Erie bridge rises over Kinzua valley
The Pittsburg Post describes the Erie railroad bridge over the Kinzua valley in McKean county as the greatest steel structure for rail work. The new bridge uses 3 500 tons of steel on a 2 100 foot long span with 80144 feet above streams and 23 to 285 foot towers, ready for traffic.
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Pittsburg
Pennsylvania
Erie Railroad
Kinzua Valley
McKean County
Carrollton
Johnsonburg
Bradford
Custer City
Mt. Jewett
New Language
Pennsylvania and Western Railroad
All of a Mind Yonkers Bride Sparks Jealous Rival
A Yonkers Statesman snippet quotes a young bride declaring her husband Will was mad to marry her while her rival suspects jealousy and public opinion sides with the rival.
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Yonkers Statesman
Will
Modern Fable of Pokeville's Leading Light
George Ade portrays a stagnated town Pokeville where a reformer who built water works and a fire department is sabotaged by self serving elders and tax dodgers. The tale ends with a wooden mayor elected to avoid costly improvements as a cautionary lesson.
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Pokeville
George Ade
David Harum
Modern Fable of the Famished Hobo and Why He Was Drilling
A touring hobo tells a melodramatic misfortune tale to a skeptical woman in a seaside home. He rails against deception and unemployment while imagining unionism and a place for his writings, concluding with a moral about useful misery becoming magazine fodder.
The Household Comedian and the Lady Shopper Comeback
A husband mocks his wife shopping antics while she recounts a day of brisk spending. She boasted buying six embroidered shirt waists and a lace, after a summer shopping spree that outpaced his “no parade” theory.
Parasol and Silkalorum Items Prompt Moral on Spending
A speaker mocks a man's lack of action stating Parasol and Silkalorum items and a mysterious set of Articles. She notes a hundred dollars to avoid small change and leaves him flat to seek her own room. The moral urges letting a happy partner spend freely.
Great Men and Women Features Not Matching Professions
A Times-Democrat observer critiques the idea of a presidential “face” variety. He notes Washington through McKinley show few distinct facial patterns aside from a few leaders, cites Lincoln Jefferson and Jackson as unique, and argues facial similarity mostly hinges on symmetry and proportion rather than true likeness.
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New Orleans Times-Democrat
McKinsey
New Orleans
United States
Washington
McKinley
Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln
Jefferson
Jackson
Cleveland
Lord Byron
Byron
Herbert Spencer
Henry Huxley
Gladstone
Death of M Decroix founder of French Anti Tobacco League
Pall Mall Gazette recalls M Decroix a veterinary surgeon and reformer who died in Paris at an advanced age. His crusade against tobacco featured earlier campaigns including a proposal to promote horse meat diet. He once sought Napoleon III’s support, writing a report on horse meat benefits and was summoned before Marshal Valiant who ridiculed him for urging the emperor to eat horse meat.
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Chang An Chieh
Forbidden City
Customs
Customs Staff
Customs Volunteers
Corps
Messrs
Barbier
Flicke
Hagermann
E. Wagner
H. P. Destellan
Legation
Wagner
Destelan
von Rosthorn
H. Bismarck
Diehr
Bismarck
L. de Luca
Captain Wray
A. G. Bethell
A. F. Wintour
Hanlin Yuan
Sandercock
Bethell and Ferguson
W.S. Dupree
Willie
Dupree
J. Backhouse
G. P. Peachey
Russell
Mears
Robert Hart
I. G
Paris
Pall Mall Gazette
M. Decroix
Anti-Tobacco League
Napoleon III
Hle
Louis XV
Marshal Valiant
Imperial Household
Decroix
Politician Warns of Dangers in Large Capital Combinations
In a Washington Star passage, a pragmatic politician agrees that more concerns in the field would spur livelier bidding for legislative influence, arguing that increased competition reduces risk and fosters accountability.
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Washington Star
Reason for Doubt in June Smart Set chatter
The fragment suggests a rumor of engagement about a person named Chappie and a response questioning belief. It conveys social gossip and uncertainty without specific dates or places. The tone implies a light, conversational street scene typical of a 1920s newspaper snippet.
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June
Chappie
iWell
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