Britain moves toward Egyptian protectorate amid European alarm
London reports indicate Britain, likely with support from Germany, plans to proclaim Egypt a protectorate. Advices claim Major Marchand will withdraw from Fashoda, while war preparations intensify unseen since the Crimean era. France opposes and other powers hesitate as England presses ahead.
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London
Great Britain
France
Yisand
Egypt
Admiralty
Paris
Marchand
Vashoda
British Empire
Europe
England
Bismarck
Turkey
End of the Exposition Crowds Oma ha'a Show
Seventy five thousand attended the last day of the Trans Mississippi International Exposition as totals show 2,552,388 on the turnstiles and final figures indicate a financial success with over 400000 to be distributed among stockholders. Subscriptions approached 1 5 million with 390000 subscribed and 90000 unpaid plus corporate donations of 100000. Estimated 80 percent return to subscribers.
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Omaha'a
Public Debt Report Shows October Cash Decline and Increase in Debt
Treasury figures indicate a net cash balance of 300.235 million dollars. The October debt rose by 43.488 million, with interest-bearing debt up 36.679 million and cash in treasury down 7.319 million. Outstanding items include gold reserves 275.224 million, other securities and certificates totaling nearly 988.249 million, and various notes and deposits.
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Treasury
Treasy Department
United States
Jnst
Money Handled by Uncle Sam Official Figures on October Receipts
Government monthly statement shows receipts and disbursements for October. Customs brought in 15,555,284 dollars, internal revenue 2,890,511, miscellaneous 1,718,305, with overall totals around 53,982,276 in disbursements. Compared with October 1897 receipts rose by about 15,250,000. four months into the fiscal year exceed 1897 totals by over 60,000,000.
Wisconsin man shoots at crowd in wild practical joke incident
Adam Hammer of Beaver Dam Wisconsin obtained a firearm after a prank turned violent. He wounded nine people before being shot by Arthur Tibbetts to halt the spree. None of the wounded are reported as dying.
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Wisconsin
Adam Hammer
Beaver Dam
Wis
Hamer
Arthur T. A. Tibbetts
Com
Philippine Gold Promise Outshines Alaska and Africa
The article extols the Philippines as a vast gold and mineral field, arguing it surpasses Alaska and South Africa in wealth. It notes abundant rubies, semi-precious hyacinths, coal, and feasible mining methods from hydraulic to panning, with vivid depictions of sailors seeking freedom there.
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Alaska
South Africa
Philippines
Klondike
Philippine Islands
Famous Trinidad Pitch Lake Described as Inexhaustible
A Wide World Magazine piece details the pitch lake at Point Liberoe Trinidad. It covers about 100 acres with a central soft semi liquid pitch and hard outer edges. Crevices fill with fresh water and the lake is government property with private royalties. The lake supposedly replenishes as pitch wells up, making it effectively inexhaustible.
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Trinidad
Point Librea
Chaudiere
Wide World Magazine
Moral maxims from a sermonizing page
A long string of sermon like aphorisms on virtue, repentance, mercy, pride, and daily conduct. The piece cites God, Christ, and scripture while urging humility, diligence, and faithful work in a moral life. It links prayer to duty and warns against secularism and pride.
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Hell
Christ
Heaven
Amusing anecdotes and curious quips from past life
A compilation of light tales and miscommunications including a Polish Jew’s bath demand, a duchess mixing up a clerk, a Vancouver shopper mistaken for a man, and Wilde’s three axioms. Other items recount club humor about a dead man misidentified and Rockefeller’s quiet office routine with a health lift.
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Vancouver
Chicago
Oscar Wilde
London
Wilde
Henry Arthur Jones
New York Sun
Brown
Thomas Brown
John D. Rockefeller
Standard Oil Company
Flagler
Mr. Rockefeller
Kea Parrot’s Destructive Habit in New Zealand Sheep
The mountain parrot known as the kea has developed a habit of piercing sheep backs with its beak to feed on kidney fat. This behavior has become widely observed and noted as a problem affecting livestock.
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Uhambe Journal
Melbourne
Middle Island
New Zealand
Spanish Gold Divers of Old Sea Wrecks
Local tradition recalls Whitstable diver Gann finding Spanish dollars from an Armada ship off the coast. Divers since then searched Mull to Galway for sunken galleons, with some early success but overall elusive treasure, while legends persist of vast Spanish gold beneath northern seas.
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Marquis of
Argyll
Glasgow
Mull
Gann
Galway
Whitstable
Ostrich on the Loose During Lancaster Parade
A large ostrich escaped during Lord Georg¢ Sanger's circus in Lancaster and charged through crowds. A young woman pursued the bird on her bicycle, helped by four policemen and two attendants. After a struggle the bird knocked them down, but the rider ripped its tire and thrashed the creature until it stopped and was recaptured.
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Asderly
Detroit Free Press
Georg
Sanger
Lancaster
Durin
Fou
Er Ture
Ruler Incomes Compared From Queen Victoria To Czar
A 19th century note compares royal and national leaders pay. It cites the Swiss President at £50 per month and the American President at $30,000 yearly, with figures for Faure, the Czar, the Austrian and German Emperors, Victoria, and others in pounds.
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United States
Globe
McKinley
M. Faure
Czar
Russia
Emperor
Austria
Victoria
Sweden
Belgium
Netherlands
Greece
Where Women Are Scarce
An editorial observation notes the sex ratio in West Australia, claiming forty five women for every hundred men. It suggests single women from New England might be valued there, arguing women underestimate femininity’s power until they live where many men outnumber them.
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Washington
West Australia
New England
London Police Force Size and Night Duty Ratio
London reports 18 564 policemen equating to nineteen per square mile with sixty percent on night duty. A rhetorical note observes the burden on the police leadership and hints at gendered attire.
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London
Eithem
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