Financial maneuvers unfold as war funding accelerates
War plans trigger bond activity in Madrid and Washington with new bonds ready for issue once revenue law is defined. Quartermaster orders surge, including 50 000 army trousers and 40 000 shelter tents, while printing moves favor handwork to aid labor. Navy doubts rise over Admiral Camara’s fleet and Cuba campaigns loom as annexation debates heat.
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the Treasury
War Department
Quartermaster’s Department
Weather and crop bulletin highlights favorable Central Valley
The weekly climate and crop bulletin shows favorable conditions in the central valleys and middle Atlantic coast with drought intensifying in the East Gulf South Atlantic and Southwest Texas. Corn planting nearly finished in northerly areas while drought affects Southern states. Winter wheat harvest continues in the South Atlantic Gulf states and advancing in Kentucky Illinois Missouri. spring wheat grows rapidly with strong conditions across the region.
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Central Valley
United States Department of Agriculture
Central Valleys
Middle Atlantic Coast
East Gulf
South Atlantic States
Texas
Rocky Ibountains
Rocky Mountain
Pacific Coast
Idaho
Nevada
Oregon
Nebraska
Missouri
North Dakota
South Atlantic
Gulf States
North Carolina
Tennessee
Kentucky
Illinois
New Jersey
Maryland
Kansas
East Gulf States
Washington
California
Minnesota
New Minister to Turkey Oscar Straus Named
Oscar Straus, Democrat and former minister to Turkey under Cleveland, receives formal State Department praise from Christian missionaries for his past service. He and his brothers run Macy & Co. in New York, and he remains active as a lawyer and author on Jewish achievements.
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Oscar Straus
Cleveland
Turkey
State Department
Minis
Gen. Wallace
Straus
Nathan
Isadore
Macy & Co
New York City
International Jewish Historical Association
War's Heavy Cost Congress Passes Urgent Deficiency Bill
Congress approves an emergency war bill funding army and navy expenses for the Philippines Cuba and related needs with estimates suggesting a year cost around 600 million. The measure includes a 10 million naval appropriation and details on expeditionary supplies and defense items amid war tensions. A Honolulu protest over perceived Hawaii favoritism and a Lafayette battlefield monument in Pennsylvania are also noted.
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Congress
House
Army
Navy
Cuba
Cannon
Dingley
Ways and Means Committee
Committee On Appropriations
Alger
Philippines
Philippine Islands
Copere
Manila
Anecdotes and Tales From Curious Minds Through Time
A collection of humorous vignettes and short anecdotes about notable figures, including scientists, a physician, a poet, a clergyman, and a Wall Street episode. The pieces span memory tricks, name debates, political quips, and a tale of Marshall the gold discoverer, ending with a Harper’s Weekly vignette on the California miner’s monument.
One-Page Market Snapshot From A Green Grocer Visit
In Small Quantities a busy shopper orders produce at a grocer. A smart-looking woman enters and requests one sweet potato two Irish potatoes one turnip and three apples as part of a rooming-house meal scenario.
Grand Canyon of the Colorado in Atlantic tribute
John Muir’s Atlantic piece extols the Grand Canyon of the Colorado as unrivaled in color and grandeur. It describes the vast, waterless expanse from rim to rim and the canyon as a sublime, nature built city of towering, rainbow-hued walls and intricate architecture.
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Earth
John Muir
Atlantic
Grand Canyon
Colorado
Rim
Combination Coat Tent Impresses London Exhibition
At the London boating show a rain-proof specialists firm unveils Nichol son patent combination coat tent. A long loose coat serves as rain protection and can convert into half a tent for two travelers. It folds into a knapsack or shoulder roll, weighing about 5% pounds per person.
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London
Nicholson
Klondike
Photograph Keepsake Sparks Couple's Attic Recall
In a domestic moment, Mrs Bilkins reveals an old photograph found in the attic and urges Mr Bilkins-Say to remember how he used to look and smile, prompting a gentle exchange about changes over time.
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Mr. Bilkins
Maria
Mrs. Bilkins
Henry
Lively at Home as Philadelphia Mrs Willmerding Joins Clubs
Miss Westlake asks about society interest at home. Young Mrs Willmerding of Philadelphia says she enjoys lively times at home and notes she and her husband belong to three progressive checker clubs.
The Man Who Was: Guilford Jackson of Flushing Reappears
A Flushing veteran Guilford Jackson, long listed as fallen at Chancellorsville, returns alive after seven years. He survived a brutal wounding, endured prison, and reappears at memorials to confirm his identity amid a granite monument to fallen locals. He now visits yearly to lay a wreath on his own name.
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Guilford Jackson
Flushing
L. 1
Ibraye
Jackson
Rudyard Kipling
Mr. Kipling
Chancellorsville
Robert BE. Lee
Stars and Stripes
Boys In
Blue
Seventy-fourth
New York
Rappahannock
Romer
Bogel
Plushing
Main Street
Soldiers’ Monument
Army of the Potomac
Wheeling
W. Va
Greensburg
Washington
Chicago Inter Ocean
Flest
Union
William Ayres
Philadelphia
Mosby
Libby
Col
Ayres
Simon Cameron
Alexander H. Stephens
Young Stephens
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Spain
Conference Committee On
Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Navy Department
Admiral Camara
Atlantis
Friends of Annexation
Hobson
Santiago
Adjutant General
Uncle Sam
Iowa
Alabang
Mississippi
Tampa
United States
Simith
Moscow
Great Siberian Railway
Panama
Key West
Supreme Court of the
Sampson
Canary Islands
Porto Rico
War Board
Viase
Cadiz
Havana
Postolive Department
Baker
Lake City
8. C
Weather and Crop Bulletin
Honolulu
Hawaii
Montgomery County
Lafayette
Barren Hill
Bury
M. BE
Grant Duff
Hallam
Richmond
Tennyson
Alfred
Sir Francis Doyle
Duke of Devonshire
Birdseye
Doyle
Cavendish
Charles Pelham Villiers
House of Commons
Villars
Willars
Supreme Court
Justice Brewer
M. Challemel-Lacour
France
Monsieur
Wall Street
Thorty
Blank Nation
Pittsburg
Marshall
Harper’s Weekly
Murfreesboro
New York Sun
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