Edict Chronicles Boxer Rebellion and Imperial Edicts
The excerpt details Boxer era edicts and declarations from the Beijing court condemning traitors, organizing forces, and promising harsh measures. It covers June to July actions directing generals, distributing funds, disciplining Boxers, and protecting foreigners while planning for war and railway disruption. It ends pondering China’s fate after foreign intervention and listing possible postwar policies.
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Kang Yi
Sung Ching
Ma Yu Kun
Pekin
Peking
Jung Lu
East Legation Street
Tientsin
Baron von Ketteler
Legation
Tsung-Li-Yaznen
China
Tao Kuang
Hsien Feng
du Chaulard
Taku
South Cathedral
Thielves
Actio
Isa
van Pailou
Board of Revenue
Boxer Organization
Tien Tsin
Prince Chung
Kung Yi
Ying Nien
Tsai Lan
Wen Yui
Chihu
Yu Lu
Boxer Society
Tsu Hsun
Nieh Cheng
Lu Tai
Tung Fang
Shansi
Privy Council
Shun Tien Fu
Chang Shun
Imperial Domain
Prince Tuan
Tung Fu Hsiang
Imperial Palace
Wan Gate
Russia
Mantria
Chihil
Shensi
Japan
Yangtze Valley
Germany
France
Italy
Sam
Pao Ting Fu
Sumcox
George Yardley Taylor
Hodge
Bagnall
Mr. Pitkin
Miss Morrill
Miss Gould
Yum
America
Ess
Prince Nx
Yu Hsien
G Chi
Chung Li
Hsu Tung
Kang
All Night Gamble Ends in Tragedy and Moral
Four men gamble through the night in A s room with a ten cent limit. As losses mount and tension rises the host A is bled dry by the others and dies. The group collapses at dawn. the moral warns against gambling and keeping to a harsh rule.
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Council Bluffs
Bluffer
Niagara
Gore
Ike
Pet
Good Old Scotchman London Tit-Bits
A Scotchman visits London and asks a bald emist for a hair restorer. The chemist touts testimonials claiming it makes the hair grow in twenty four hairs. The Scot instructs to rub the top and see if the chemist is honest, then the chemist kicks the errand boy for laughing.
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London
Argumentum ad Hominem in Detroit Journal scene
A Detroit Journal passage depicts a tense exchange as a woman confronts a man and insults him. The scene escalates when a car rounds a corner and crowds crowd him, destroying the sense of human form in a sudden, chaotic moment.
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Detroit Journal
Faith cure hailed as remedy for patent medicine habit
A reader recounts relief from a patent medicine habit after embracing faith healing. The note credits spiritual counsel and suggests skepticism toward conventional cures.
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Heason
June
Willis
Wallace
Iron Horse and stag in a Montreal race witnessed
A morning express near Labelle collided with or spooked by a stag on the tracks. The engine opened its throttle and the stag bolted across the line, leaping the Susks fence into the woods as the train roared past, with a Conde Gian Pacific locomotive close behind. Passengers watched the unusual chase unfold.
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Montreal
Labelle
Morning Express
Langlois
D.sapnc
Conde Gian Pacific Railway
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Imperial Maritime Customs
Prince Ching
Robert Coltman, Jr
George Ade
Robert Howard Russel L
New York Mail and Express
Ely
George Francis Wilde
Naval Academy
Braintree
Boston
Dolphin
New York Harbor
Navy Yard
Wilde
Frenchmans Bay
Bar Harbor
William C. Whitney
Faxon Ted