Horrors of Massacre of Missionaries and Native Christians
Washington correspondent reports brutal massacres in Shansi and Yunnan where missionaries and native Christians were slain by boxing athletes and local soldiers. Accounts describe women attacked, missionaries burned, and heads severed, with hundreds killed or wounded. Also notes mass hunger among Pima and Papago in Arizona.
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Washington
Obing
Dai Mercury
Bighep Montesati
Viena
Tadnen
Miss Coombs
Baptist Mission
Yamen
Hese
Faris
Stakes
Beynon
Cldren
Farthing
Chves Hren
Lovitt
Whitehouse
Simpson Ana Wi Anu de
Miller Wilson
Yuen
Rosenn
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Rowena
Eh Merri
Increase in Dead Letters Report Shows Big Rise
The annual report from the dead letter office records a nearly ten percent rise in total undeveloped receipts. Total pieces received from all sources reached 7,586,158 versus 6,855,983 a year earlier, with 144,619 letters and parcels held for postage and 422,798 misdirected items.
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Farge
Postige
Postal Service Estimates and Rural Free Delivery Expansion
Postmaster General Charles Emory Smith will seek about 121 million dollars for the fiscal year ending June 30. The request includes 38 million for rural free delivery with about 4.0 percent of routes established this year and plans to add approximately 4.50 routes next year. The article also notes public health issues in New York related to hydrophobia with several fatalities and hospital actions.
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Congress
Charles Emory Smith
United States
Nest
Oper
New York
New York City
Board of Health
Hi Privide i Willand Parker Hospital
Government forecasts record corn crop across United States
Government statistician Hyde estimates the 1900 national corn harvest at about 2.108 billion bushels, up 80 million from 1899 and the third largest on record. Iowa leads with 806 million, Illinois 264 million, with Ohio, Indiana, Missouri, Kansas, and Nebraska contributing sizable totals and an average yield near 25.3 bushels per acre.
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Hyde
Department of Agriculture
Iown
State Department of Lown
Illinois
Ohio
Indiana
Iowa
Tlinois
Missouri
Kansas
Nebraska
Towa
War in South Africa roils as Boer raids outpace British gains
The article portrays a grim South African campaign with the Boers, led by Botha De Wet and Delarey, gaining advantage around Vryburg and across the Western Transvaal. British aims falter as railways fall, garrisons are captured, and communications are severed, while the conflict threatens race tensions and shifts Kruger's status from refugee to potential European broker for peace.
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Pretoria
Transvaal
Vryburg
Iree
Cape Town
Orange River
T Hese
Boths
de Wet
Delarey
Jacobsdal
Phillipolis
Kruger
Delagoa Bay
Nh Krnger
Europe
England
McKinley Seeks Cabinet Unity and War Tax Reform
President McKinley expresses hope that all cabinet members will remain in office for four more years as he and advisers discuss the upcoming Congress message. The draft emphasizes war revenue tax reductions and plans to address the Panama Canal and other major items.
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McKinley
Congress
Zuan Canal
Ram's Horn Blasts and Warnings for Repentance
A religious exhortation condemns sentimentality in salvation and urges repentance. It argues against social laxness, promotes moral reform, and stresses personal renewal through spiritual birth and righteous living. The piece employs biblical imagery to urge active piety and communal responsibility.
Juggling Trickster Tales and Mystic Will Power
An Indian jugglers account argues tricks rely on will power not illusion. A mutiny era observer describes a bamboo stick trick, water pouring, and invisibility, ending with a cavern and animals appearing then vanishing to prove imagined illusion. The correspondent notes cultural bias toward materialism despite the display.
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India
The Woman and Her Conquest Story
A tale describes a woman who wins a young man, supported by her mother, then jealousy from others leads to rivals acting quickly. The moral hints at the inconstancy of youth and a harsh closing remark about discipline.
Down-Trodden Rich Man Discussed in City Talk
In a Chicago Times-Herald column, a speaker recalls a tale of a rich man facing moral duties. The piece contrasts luxury and conscience, noting how wealth buys comfort yet imposes moral burdens amid workers and family. A neighboring item covers a Paris sermon and a U.S. speaker's Paris question from voters years later.
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Albert
Becaus
Paw
New York
Hart
Sumbuddy
Manny
Ted Sloan
Becoz
Wales
Aiaw
Chicago Times-Herald
Max O'RELL'S Choice Story Opens Odd Tale
The fragment describes French humorist Max O'Rell and a favored anecdote about Mas Bell told by Paqyul Blonet. The text hints at a narrative about a Quervy put to an American mine, with unclear details and names.
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Hamorit
Pqyul Blonet
Mas Bell
Recent Inventions Highlighted With Patents and Medical Uses
A survey of new patents includes a carriage top roller system for windows, a telephone call counter with a moving hand dial, an auto closing cup cap, a combined bicycle and rowing machine, and a fruit picker with a cloth funnel. Also noted is a rotal blacking brush and a surgeon’s interest in kangaroo tendon for bone setting and tying fractures, praised for its strength and absorbability.
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M. Bris
New York Indians Hold to Pagam Beliefs Despite Mission Efforts
The article notes limited progress of Christianity among New York State Indians. It cites 4 850 people across reservations and claims at least five eighths still follow traditional pagam rites and superstitions. It also mentions women expressing distress after finding a fly in coffee.
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New York
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