Wealth and power suppress a village in Long Island
The piece argues that Walter Jennings of Standard Oil wealth used his money to wipe out Cold Springs Harbor’s hotels and shops to banish visiting social rivals. It compares his actions to historic aristocratic trusts and notes Rockefeller and Morgan could similarly crush communities if desired.
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Long Island
Cold Springs Harbor
Walter Jennings
Standard Oil Company
William Rockefeller
Walter
Vanderbilts
Goulds
Lorillards
New York
John Rockefeller
Morgan
Trust Mills
McKeesport
Cleveland
France
Mayor Ames Launches Personal Newspaper The News Letter
Minneapolis mayor Ames plans to revive his paper The News Letter to publish as he sees fit about his administration. He vows control over content and suggests some issues will not be printed to avoid exposing municipal skeletons. In Moline the implement workers union forms, with a single shop committee to handle disputes, reducing manufacturer negotiations and simplifying management.
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Ames
Minneapolis
News Letter
Implement Workers’ Union
Moline
Sons
Labor department report highlights conciliation and fair wages
The first annual report of Canada's Department of Labour notes three aims: promoting conciliation in disputes, enforcing fair wages in government contracts, and publishing a monthly gazette. It tracks six intervention requests, four settled, about 2000 workers affected, and cites progress in preventing strikes.
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Dominion Police
Advertisers, wives, and world affairs collide in column notes
A comical mix of anecdotes recalls a farmer ejecting applicants after a yard stand off. Carrie Nation discusses divorce with patience and independence. The Japanese navy chief returns home to boost ship numbers, while Canada’s population grows as many move to the United States. The British House of Lords allows a divorced woman to keep her late husband’s title.
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Canada
United States
House of Jorda
Edward
South American revolutions lack lasting reforms
Many South American revolutions fail to deliver reforms, as wars are costly and often leave no lasting improvements. The pattern shows conflict without meaningful change.
Divine Healer in Jail for Drunken Disorderly Conduct
In Harlem, Francis Schlatter known as the Divine Healer was committed to the work house for three months by Magistrate Zeller after being found drunk and disorderly. The report notes a separate incident in Chicago where Deputy State Game Warden L M Greenwald was assaulted by four hunters near Willow Springs and left unconscious for three hours. A circular from the National Association of Brewers announces wartime actions against the National Union of Brewers Worksmen starting in September.
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New York
Francis Schlatter
Zeller
Harlem
Chicago
L. M. Greenwald
Willow Springs
Ang Yo
National Associaton of Brewers
National Union of Brewers Worksmen
Noers Will Fight London Ang 26 Dispatch from Pretoria
Lord Kitchener forwards Pretoria dispatch declaring that Boers oppose his proclamation and will continue the struggle. The Wir office notes Delares has issued a counter proclamation aiming at all Boers. The item reports ongoing hostilities and official responses.
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London
Ang
Wir
Lord Kitchener
Pretoria
Delares
Newport Engagement of Miss Morton to Count de Perigord
Newport society notes announce the betrothal of Miss Helen Morton daughter of ex Vice President Levi P Morton to Count Rosa de Perigord younger son of the Duc de Talleyrand of France. The wedding date is said to be fixed for late autumn.
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Helen Morton
Ex View
Levi
Morton
Rosa de Perigord
Duc de Talleyrand
France
New York Scientist Veterans Farewell at Denver Convention
Members of the American Association for the Advancement of Science gather in Denver for the annual convention of the association and affiliated bodies. Prof R S Woodward of Columbia University, retiring president, arrives and will give his farewell address next Tuesday before passing the gavel to Prof Charles S Minot of Harvard University.
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Denver
Anrican Association For the Advancement of Science
R. 8S. Woodward
Faculty of Pure Science
Columbia University
Charles S. Minot
Harvard University
MacArthur Reunites With Wife and Son in Chicago
Major General Arthur MacArthur returns to Chicago after three years as he steps from the Overland Limited at Northwestern Station and is greeted by his wife and son in a heartfelt reunion.
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MacArthur
Chicago
Arthur MacArthur
Overland Limited
Northwestern Station
MacArthur on furlough to meet father at auditorium
Saturday night Mrs. MacArthur traveled from Milwaukee to join her husband Douglas MacArthur on a West Point furlough for a father son reunion. Havana yellow fever reports mark a third death from a mosquito bite with several others still ill.
Cripple Creech Death Attributed To Self-Administered Morphine
Cripple Creech is dead from 20 grains of morphine self-administered while noting loss of property as a probable motive. The incident involves Mrs Hattie Wright and references Cripple Creeh as an alternate spelling.
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Cripple Creeh
Hattie Wright
Maddy
Hetty Green
Cripple Creech
Veteran of Crimean War William Humphrey Dies at 77
Aug 26 Banta Rosas Cal William Humphrey a Crimean War veteran and member of Balaklava's Noble 600 has died at age 77.
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Banta Rosas
Cal
William Humphrey
Balaklava
Lawyers Go Sight-Seeing On Denver Trip To Mountains
About 400 people including American Bar association members and guests left Denver on a special Colorado & Southern train to view mountain points of interest. The next annual ABA meeting is set for Saratoga Springs New York August 27 28 and 29.
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Col
American Bar Association
Colorado & Southern Railroad
Saratoga Springs
Daily Journal subscription offer
Local newspaper advertises home delivery for ten cents a week with doorstep service and an emphasis on convenient access to news through a subscription plan.
Mob Burns Noles After Winchester Assault Case
Henry Noles, captured near Cowan Tennessee, was jailed in Winchester following the assault and death of Mrs. Charles Williams, wife of a prominent farmer near Winchester. A mob removed him from the county jail and burned him at the stake.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
Henry Noles
Charles Williams
Winchester
Cowan
Noles
Miss Maude Coleman Woods Dead in Charlottesville
Private telegram reports the death of Maude Coleman Woods in Charlottesville Virginia. She was named the most beautiful woman in America by a Pan American exposition committee and her profile appears on all medals issued by the awards board.
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Birmingham
Ale
Charlottesville
Maude Coleman Woods
American steamer Philadelphia arrives after reconstruction
The Philadelphia, ex Paris and Yale, arrives at Southampton from Belfast after being reconstructed following a spring 1899 grounding on the Cornwall coast. The trial trip after repairs is reported very successful.
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London
Philadelphia
Paris
Yale
United States
Spain
Southampton
Belfast
Cornwall
Flood Devastation After Barnett's Creek Flood
Reports from Owensboro Kentucky dated August 26 describe a severe flood on Barnett's creek in Ohio county. Homes were washed away and livestock drowned as upstream Rough River rose ten miles by floodwaters. Rescue efforts fear possible loss of life.
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Owensboro
Ohio County
Grange Week at Pan American Expo
Buffalo WOY reports Grange week and furniture manufacturers week at the Pan American Exposition. Attendance exceeds four million with August average 30 percent higher than any prior month.
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Buffalo
Grange
Furniture Manufacturers
Sweeping injunction issued by federal court in Indiana
Judge Baher in Indianapolis issues a broad injunction barring former WB Donkey company employees in Hammond from interfering with other workers or the business, described as the most sweeping Western injunction to date.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Baher
West
WB Donkey Company
Hammond
Dover to Calais swim attempt ends after two hours
London reports Capt Webb anniversary as noted cyclist Holbein sails from Dover toward Cape Gris-Nez to swim back to Dover but abandons after two hours due to rough seas. In Syracuse, Wth Marks wires Theodore Coleman that The Abbot horse races on September 9 at the state fair mile track, challenging Cregeeeus for the trotting record.
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Webb
Dover
Calais
France
Mr. Holbein
Cape Gris-Nez
Syracuse
W.th Marks
Theodore E. Coleman
Crege Eeus
Train breaks speed records Pittsburgh to Philadelphia in seven hours
A special Pennsylvania Railroad train covered 355 miles from Pittsburgh to Philadelphia in seven hours and five minutes, smashing all previous speed records between Pittsburgh Harrisburg and Philadelphia. Disturbances in Armenia are reported, with serious unrest at Mush. A dated fragment notes old papers for sale at twenty cents per hundred.
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Pittsburg
Harrisburg
Pennsylvania Railroad
Armenia
Constantinople
Mush
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