Broome Increases Price By A Quarter A Dozen
Broome has recently raised prices by twenty five cents per dozen citing extensive cleaning of numerous Spanish cities as the reason for the change.
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Newspaper
Monticello Express
Location
Monticello, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 05, 1899
Page
2
Japanese Assertion on Profanity and Transit Trust
A remark claims Japanese lacks profane words while noting a citizen who misses a train finds little relief beyond silent distrust. The statement contrasts language purity with personal frustration and social restraint.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Japan
Calendar Illustration Critiques Time Custom
The nude figure of a man with a scythe and hourglass on new calendars signals a lack of traditional reminders to mend time. The caption suggests few readers have begun repairing or changing habits in response to the imagery.
Maryland Reinstates Fine For Murder Victims’ Families
Maryland resumes an old statute requiring a killer to pay the murdered man’s family five thousand dollars. The law specifies the amount but does not set a place for the payment.
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Maryland
Manila Starts Two Papers Itreedom and American
In Manila two new papers named Itreedom and American begin operation as journals printed in Spanish face suspension and the city announces that Manila will print the latest news in English going forward.
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Manila
Itreedom
Maria Sandoval Wins Case in St. Louis Court
Maria Sandoval the sole woman lawyer in Mexico won a criminal court case in St. Louis recently. The incident, once rare, is now seen as less remarkable given progress over the past quarter century.
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Liss Maria Sandoval
Mexico
St. Louis
Orders Allow Families of Regulars to Philippines Transfers
The orders for the last force of regulars to the Philippines Direct that commissioned and noncommissioned officers may bring their families aboard the transports. This shows the troops will not make a short trip but will remain at their new post for an extended period.
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Philippines
Famous Cat Christobal Colon Dies at Owner’s Home
Christobal Colon, famed cat, died at Capt. Lloyd Clark’s home former commander of the battleship Oregon. The cat was sent to Clark by Oregon crew after being taken from the Spanish cruiser Cristobal Colon flagship of Cervera’s fleet. It recently won a medal at the Chicago Cat Show.
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Christobal Colon
Lloyd Clark
Oregon
Clark
Cristobal Colon
Cervera
Chicago
Spain's Queen Wins 3 Million Peseta Bequest for King
In Madrid an old gentleman named Soler left 3,000,000 pesetas to the young king. Relatives opposed the will but the queen, as guardian and ally, supported the claim and prevailed. Soler was said to be a natural son of King Ferdinand VII, making him the king's great uncle.
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Spain
Madrid
Soler
Ferdinand VII
Congress
Cuba
Hawaii
United States
North Pacific
Dingley Fari
Australia
India
Russia
War Department orders 25000 patriotic songbooks for infantry
The English war department recognizes singing in the march and orders 25,000 books of patriotic and military songs for distribution among infantry regiments. Classes will be formed in barracks. France reportedly saw a 70 percent drop in march stragglers when soldiers sang.
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English War Department
France
Mercy recommended in US Army war crime case
No Yankee soldier has been executed for war crimes in the late conflict. President MacKinley commuted a death sentence of a private who murdered a comrade, preserving a notable record. The offender was a colored trooper who killed a white man, with mercy urged by Gen. Joe Wheeler of Alabama.
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MacKinley
Joe Wheeler
Alabama
Admiral Dewey Picture Survives Fire in New York
In the Hardware club rooms atop the Postal Telegraph building New York a portrait of Admiral Dewey remains undamaged after a recent fire while all other window frames furniture and pictures were burned or ruined.
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Dewey
Hardware Club
Postal Telegraph Building
New York
Vermont
Admiral
Admiral Dewey
Homecoming prank ends in living memory for forgotten hero
Leonard Wood of the Sixth Massachusetts Volunteers, once officially declared dead after contracting yellow fever in Porto Rico, surprised his Passaic New Jersey family by returning home alive and shouting at the door. The piece notes how Porto Rico and Cuba may attract winter travelers once stable, but malaria fears and costs keep trips minor.
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Leonard Wood
Massachusetts Volunteers
Passiac
N. J
Massachusetts
Porto Rico
Washington News Roundup Flags International Arbitration Push
Washington reports Morill of Vermont dead at 89 from pneumonia after brief illness. Two petitions to President McKinley urged international arbitration to avert war. Otis named governor general as US asserts control in the Philippines. President issues proclamation on taxes and customs in Cuba. Mexico’s Ambassador Romero dies in Washington at 62 after appendicitis operation.
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Washington
Justine&. Morrill
United States
Vermont
McKinley
Christian Churches of
Pan-Presbyterian Alliance
Philippines
Otis
Cuba
Romero
Mexico
Notable 1898 Events and Tragedies Across the United States
A diverse roundup notes poison death in New York tied to athlete Harry Cornish, an election canvass giving Theodore Roosevelt a 17 786 plurality, Keystone Mutual Benefit assignment in Allentown, and deaths from fire and drowning. It also reports Wall Street’s record year, Boston’s vast new railroad station, and notable executions in Connecticut and Massachusetts.
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Kate J. Adams
New York
Harry Cornish
American Association For the Advancement of Women
Buffalo
N. Y
Cornelius McGanney
Frank Jay Gould
Jay Gould
New York Stock Exchange
United States
David
Lambert
Benjamin R. Willetts
Wethersfield
Providence
R. I
Wall Street
Stock Exchange
Boston
Grace Doran
Harry Hoffman
New Rochelle
Arsenic Deaths Shock Shelby and San Francisco Trials
In Shelby Texas an unknown poisoner added arsenic to coffee killing rank Komack his wife and five children. In San Francisco Mrs Cordelia Botkin was found guilty of murder and sentenced to life for sending a box of poisoned candy to Dover Delaware home of Mrs John P Dunning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shelby
Tex
Rank Komack
San Francisco
Cordelia Botkin
John P. Dunning
Dover
Del
Landslide Damage and Global Disruptions Reported
Reports describe a 1,000,000 franc landslide at Airola Switzerland killing five. West Indian storm warning HQ moved from Kingston to Havana. A gale hit the English Channel and east coast of Great Britain causing vast damage. Capt. Dreyfus remains under disguise in Paris. In the New Hebrides natives kill a French warship party. Glenavon wreck near Hong Kong. 20 lost. Cuban Javans cancel a six day celebration. Hankow floods drown over 1,000. CanadaUS mail 2 cents per ounce. Nevia Mercedes salvage efforts reach Santiago de Cuba.
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Airola
Switzerland
Kingston
Havana
English Channel
Great Britain
Dreyfus
Isle de Diable
Paris
New Hebrides
Glenavon
Hong Kong
Javana
Brooke
Hankow
China
Han
Canada
United States
Nevia
Mercedes
Merritt & Chapman Wrecking Company
Santiago de Cuba
Cuba Passes from Spain to United States at Noon
News reports show Cuba’s sovereignty transfer from Spain to the United States completed at noon on January 1 with a flag ceremony at the palace and salutes fired by forts and warships. The US occupies the Philippines per McKinley proclamation. Morrill and Romero funerals held. various obituaries and incidents listed.
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Cuba
Spain
United States
McKinley
Philippines
Gen. Otis
Justin S. Morrill
Vermont
Senate
Mexico
Don Matias Romero
Washington
William Paterson
Perth Amboy
N. J
Lee B. Dunstone
Columbus
New York Life Insurance Company
San Francisco
Michael Welsh
Sacramento
Cal
Mabel Barnett
James Russel Lowell
Elmwood
Mass
Lake Superior Iron Company
Ishpeming
Mich
O. P. Jones
First National Bank
Phillipsburg
Kansas Senate
Congress
B. 11
Roberts
Utah
House of Representatives
Nebraska
California
Montana
Idaho
New York
Michigan
Wisconsin
Wyoming
Jamestown
Carlinville (J.) Coal Company
Charles A. Brewer
Paulding
Freehold
White House
William Stickley
Dallas
Wis
War and Navy Departments
Szechemn
China
Jacksonboro
Philip Kueh
John Gifford
Havana
Houston
Melviney
Tex
Beaman
Evansville
Ind
Winfrey
Grant C. Gillett
Abilene
Iran
Iowa
Justin Smith Morrill
Montpelier
Train wreck at Trinidad and multiple serious injuries
A list of 1898 style brief items reports a train wreck near Trinidad Colorado injuring five. a rejected admirer shoots and kills Miss May Thomas near Clare Iowa. executions, hangings, fires, and other calamities across several states. The year features multiple killings, arsons, and notable crimes with limited details.
End of Spanish American War ushers US as world power
A historical overview of 1898 describes the Spanish American War and its aftermath. It notes the destruction of Spanish fleets, the treaties ending hostilities, territorial gains for the United States, war costs, and the emergence of the US as a global power, with shifts in trade, finance, and international diplomacy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Old World Turmoil Reaches Into China During 1838
The article surveys 1838 diplomacy and imperial partitions in China. It notes Russia's Ta-Lien-Wan Port Arthur concession and Trans-Siberian outlet, Germany's Kiao Chou lease, Britain’s Wei Hai Wei lease, France’s bay lease, and Hong Kong footholds as steps toward China’s dismemberment amid regional revolts and central instability.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
China
Japan
Russia
Ta- Lien-Wan
Port Arthur
Shantung
Germany
Kiao Chou
Shantung Province
Great Britain
Wei-Hai- Wei
Trance
Tonguin
Hong Kong
Washington Welcomes New Year At White House Reception
The McKinleys hosted a formal New Year reception with officials from cabinet to judiciary, and notable figures including Maj. Generals Miles Shafter Lawton and Corbin. Diplomats in full dress and armed services in uniform attended on a crisp snowy January day.
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Washington
Jan
McKinley
White House
Army
Navy
Miles
Shafter
Lawton
Corbin
Kansas City Grants Draw for Prizes in New Convention Hall
Kansas City dedication features a prize drawing for gifts donated to fund the 15 000 seat convention hall. Prizes include a $4 000 house and lot a lion cub and three thoroughbred heifers, with 160 000 tickets sold at 25 cents each and two blind boys from the Kansas City Kan asylum assisting as judges.
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Kansas City
Kan
Asylum
Indiana unit waved Cuban flags in parade not arrested
Tiayana dispatch reports that Company A of Indiana regiment did not face arrest after waving Cuban flags in Sunday's parade. Investigators found Cubans in the crowd distributed the flags and the act was deemed thoughtless and unplanned.
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Tiayana
Company A
Indiana Regiment
Death of Senator Morrill at age eighty eight in Washington
Washington mourns Hon. Justin Morrill senior Vermont senator who died at 1:20 am after a brief illness. He was attended by sister-in-law Miss Louise Swan his son James and colleagues including Benjamin Durfee and Col. E Chamberlain. Senator Proctor was in the house at the time.
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Trinidad
Col
Clare
Harry Garvey
May Thomas
Kansas City
James Brown
Henry Frathers
Chicago
Princeton
Jra
Sexton
Nathan Stark
Nebraska Episcopal Diocese
Theodore N. Morrison
Iowa
Oberlin
Eastern
Chicago & Alden Railroad
San Antonio
Tex
Charles A. Beeler
Wells Vargo
Minneapolis
George C. Bagley Company
William Maxwell Blackburn
Huron College
Pierre
S. D
Thomas Greene
Furley
Kan
J. C. Vowell
Herman Bonger
Oseva
Wis
Cary Roby
Frank Brown
Albert Brown
William Roby
Washington Court House
United States
Charleston
D. C
Cuba
Charles Willard
J. W. Williams
Lamens
R. W. Fulton
Seaside
Ore
William Barton
Cobb
Henry Winger
Ambrose
Washington
Justin
Morrill
Vermont
Louise Swan
James
Benjamin Durfee
Finance Committee
Capitol
Col. & E. Chamberlain
Proctor
Senator Justin S Morrill Dead at Capitol Age and Service Noted
Senator Justin S Morrill died after a period of unconsciousness from pneumonia following grip. He served in Congress since 1855 and in the Senate from 1867 to 1903, remaining the chamber’s senior member and oldest in age. He authored aid to state agricultural colleges and helped create the Library of Congress building. He opposed Hawaiian annexation and any Philippine sovereignty. He was esteemed across party lines for relentless work and measured oratory.
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Justin Smith Morrill
Senate
Galusha Grow
House of Representatives
Congress
Mr. Grow
House
Morrill
Vermont
Luke P. Poland
Senator Morrill
Congressional Library
Voorhees
Hawaiian Islands
Philippines
Cattle King Clark Fails Sparks County Debt
Milan Missouri reports Walter M. Clark a Sullivan county cattle king suffers failure. County records show over eighty three thousand dollars in unsatisfied cattle mortgages plus deeds of trust on farms and other indebtedness pushing total beyond two hundred thousand dollars. Miss Mercedes Garcia dies in Thomasville Georgia as telegram confirms Garcia family news and US warship to carry remains to Cuba.
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Kansas City
Star
Milan
Walter M. Clark
Sullivan County
Miss Garcia
Thomasville
Cuba
United States
Garcia
Canada Drops Domestic Letter Rate to Two Cents
A telegram from Postmaster General Mulock to Emory Smith announces Canada cuts its domestic letter rate from three to two cents per ounce starting January 1. Under the U S Canada agreement letters to Canada pay two cents, reciprocal with the U S domestic rate, allowing two cent letters from the other side for the first time.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Mulock
Emory Smith
United States
Canada
Three Men Shot Dead In Ozark County Tragedy
In Am prose Ozark county Missouri December 30 William Barton shot and killed two Cobb men. Sheriff Luna formed a Gainesville posse pursuing the killer who shots dead Henry Winger a posse member and then surrendered. Three dead now and the killer jailed at Gainesville under guard.
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West Plains
Amprose
Ozark County
Wiliam Barton
Cobb
Luna
Gainesville
Henry Winger
Severe Nebraska Storm With High Winds Hits State
A fierce storm sweeps Nebraska with high winds driving snow and ice, making travel dangerous. Snowfall is considerable but uneven, leaving drifts in places as officials anticipate a continuation of severe weather across the state.
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Nebraska
Omaha
Neb
Hall's Catarrh Cure Adverts Mercury Dangers
An old advertisement warns against mercury in remedies and promotes Hall's Catarrh Cure by P. J. Cheney Co Toledo Ohio as mercury free. It claims internal action on blood and mucous surfaces and urges buyers to seek authentic product from local druggists at 75 cents per bottle. It also touts Ball's Family Pills as the best.
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Hall
P. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Buyingall
Ohio
F. J. Cheney & Co
Ball
How It Happened and Grain-O Promotion in One Item
A Baltimore scene shows a police magistrate confronting a man who punched a street piano player after a late night outing. He claims self defense due to a tense home situation and a music induced loss of control. An unrelated Grain-O promotion touts a coffee substitute, urging health benefits and broad appeal.
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Baltimore
Remark on Smoking Dangers From A Grim Anecdote
A Chicago Evening News remark notes a man who smoked 50 cigarettes daily with minimal visible harm until the smoker suddenly died, prompting questions about the true risks of heavy tobacco use.
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Dix
Chicago Evening News
One of Many Quips About Husbands and Stocks
A Chicago Evening News quip contrasts a husband who is a bull at the stock exchange with a bear at home. The playful exchange features Mrs Weeks and Mrs Meeks as the speakers in a lighthearted street corner joke.
View of a Layman. Doctor Trumps Me on the Chest
In Cincinnati Enquirer style a layman questions a doctor about a medical exam and the apparent authority of the physician over the chest area, with a skeptical tone and plainspoken dialogue between two men.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bill
Jake
Incinnati Enquirer
Labor groups oppose convict-made goods on the market
Labor organizations object to prison manufactured products being sold. The bulletin notes opposition to convict-made goods and cites a general stance on inmate-made items in commerce.
Living Witness Praises Lydia E Pinkham Remedy
A woman describes relief from abdominal pain dizziness and insomnia after using Lydia E Pinkham Vegetable Compound. The letter quotes Mrs Florence R Horrsan of Canton Ohio praising the cure and endorses Pinkham as curing female ills through correspondence.
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Mrs. Pryenam
Lydia E. Pinkham
Florence R. Horrsan
Roland St
Canton
Hoffman
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