The Vast Work Of National Campaign Committees
The piece outlines the immense, four month political campaign effort required by national parties. It details elaborate executive structures, multi-million budgets, and vast staff including translators, artists, poets, speakers, press bureaus, and a powerful treasury. It notes headquarters shifting to Chicago in 1896 and contrasts Trumplike? No, references to vice presidential candidates often visiting.
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Telegraphic News Association
City of
New York
Fifth Avenue
Order of Things
Chicago
Metropolis
Union Square
National Campaign Committee
Oftan da
Campaign leaflets and the burden of mass messaging
The piece notes that political committees in 1892 produced over 100 million documents at great expense and often translated them into many European languages. It highlights the daunting tasks of translators and officials who must assess language quality and manage vast print and distribution efforts. It also mentions widespread, costly publicity practices and the challenging logistics involved.
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United States
War's New Aspect Perplexes British as Roodeval Fight Prolongs War
The article analyzes a shifting Transvaal war, noting Roodeval's railway seizure, Methuen's forces near Heilbrrow, and the Boers adopting mobile tactics to avoid pitched battles. It explains British challenges, potential long fight duration, and the broader impact on London and England alongside related China concerns.
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Transvaal
Evermts
Lord Roberts
Pretoria
Chicago News
Europe
America
Roodeval
Derbyshire Regiment
Lord Methuen
Heilbrow
Bloemfontein
Johannesburg
Dewet
Kelly-Kenny
Washington
London
England
Buller
Drakensberg
Orange Free State
Laing
Nek
Botha
Roberts
Decrease in Wheat Acreage Reported by Government Statistician
The monthly report from the Department of Agriculture notes a further reduction of 1,676,000 acres in winter wheat remaining under cultivation by June 1 to 27,908,000, with declines in Ohio Michigan Indiana Illinois and California. Spring wheat area drops around 567,000 acres. Oats acreage exceeds last year by 6.9 percent with steady conditions around 91.7. A fraud warning from the State Department about pretended English estates continues. Maurice Finley of Chicago is dead after falling from a fourth story window. Elmer Link dies after falling from a railing.
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Snow
Minnesota
South Dakota
North Dakota
Red River Valley
Ohio Valley
Department of Agriculture
Ohio
Michigan
Indiana
Illinois
California
Wisconsin
Oregon
Nebraska
Iowa
Washington
Minnesota Falls
New York
Pennsylvania
State Department
England
Maurice Finley
Chicago
Elmer Link
Mrs Gladstone Dead Widow of the Grand Old Man
Mrs Catherine Gladstone widow of William Ewart Gladstone died in London after a long illness just before 6 pm on Thursday. At eighty two she had supported her husband for sixty years and aided his political career. She founded an industrial school, a home for incurably diseased orphans, and raised eight children including two daughters and six sons. Her son Samuel is governor of the Bank of England.
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Gladstone
William E. Gladstone
London
Bank of England
Samuel
Stephen
Church of England
$65 000 Prize Offered For Leung Chi tso
The empress dowager of China will pay $65,000 for the capture or death of reformer Leung Chi tso now in the Hawaiian Islands. Li Hung Chang reports the offer is public through the Chinese consulate in Honolulu as threats and rewards circulate in opposition to his modernizing stance.
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Ixill
Leung Chi-tso
China
Waiian Islands
Li Hung Chang
Honolulu
Semi annual dividend declared for Santa Fe and rail expansion plans
The Santa Fe announces a semi annual 2 percent dividend on preferred stock. A new link is planned for the Chicago and North Western system from Princeton Wisconsin to Marshfield. The Erie ore shipments exceed rivals for the first time in years. Northwestern adds parlor and observation cars between Chicago and Milwaukee. A reorganization plan for the Toledo St Louis and Kansas City Railroad is issued after a banking syndicate gained control. Chicago lines decide to require ten day settlement for through bills of lading. Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway adds new parlor cars on routes to Minneapolis showing progress in car construction. Sioux Falls and Northwestern Railroad will begin securing right of way for the Sioux Falls to Madison line. A decree of sale forecloses in the Air Line case Louisville Evansville and St Louis Railroad. Four mortgages foreclosed aggregating 538 million.
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Santa Fe
Chicago and Northwestern Road
Princeton
Wis
Marshfield
Erie Road
Northwestern Road
Chicago
Milwaukee
Toledo, St. Louis and Kansas City Railroad
Milwaukee and St. Paul
Milwaukee, St. Paul
Minneapolis
Sioux Falls and Northwestern Railroad Company
Sioux Falls
Madison
United States
Springfield
Ill
New York Security and Trust Company
Louisville
Evansville
China punishments for Brooks murder and monkument plan
The Department of State notes Chinese penalties for those linked to the murder of Singlish missionary Brooks in Chan-Tung. One beheaded, one strangled, one life term, six ten-year terms. Village to erect a monument warning against attacks on foreigners. government funds 7,500 taels for a nearby chapel. Doubt cast on guilt of executed men, claimed as substitutes hired by real assassins.
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Department of State
Brooks
Chan-Tung
China
Kentucky district 4 supports Davis Smith for Congress
Notes of Current Events report Kentucky district 4 unanimously re dominating Davis Smith in the race for Congress.
Railroading and Mexican Misadventure Narrative
A chaotic report describes railroad crew turmoil near the Mexican border. An American brakeman fled amid danger as a freight train traversed rural Mexico, with several workers injured or killed by track hazards and a subsequent crew dispersal.
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Jaca
Jimalco
Tequest
Mexico
Tracy
Torreon
Sng Engieer
Eagle Pass
el Poy
Saltillo
Mesay National
Unitas
General Pretorius Sees Modern War Machines Aboard
General Pretorius, descendant of the first Transvaal president, was wounded early in the war and sent to Wynberg hospital with three Boer invalids. His leg was amputated, yet he recovers. He recently viewed a man-of-war at Simonstown, marveling at engines, guns, discipline, and order, while noting the cost of advancing against nature.
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United Ireland
Solomon Gillinzlaim
Heatquarters
Ireland
Englal
Great Britain
Kruger
Pretorius
Transvaal
Pretoria
Wynburg
Simonston
Ruskin and the Fourteenth Cee George Trevelyan in a Walk
A fragmentary scene mentions Ruskin meeting George Trevelyan while walking with a lady. In the sea the latter might remark on peculiarity as Trevelyan asks about news, replying that he knows nothing beyond mentions of the fourteenth century.
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Ruskin
George Trevelyan
Lady
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White House
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Gage
Roswell Beardsley
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Lucia Y
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Chicago Board of Trade
Welland Canal
Florence Leonard
Arlington
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George W. Dart
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S. C
Sher- Taan
Marshalltown
Attica
Somerville Journal
Delagoa Bay
Delaga Bay
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