Emblems and Progress Stir US News Across Pages
Gen Miles urges soldiers to wear a republic emblem on uniforms. Panama Canal visitors note notable progress on construction. California wines challenge German native wines spurring calls for higher duties. Greenland’s popular newspaper the At nagoglintil Nalinginginarmik Lusarunimasassumki dominates early Eskimo readership before the next issue.
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Greenland
Atnagoglintil Nalinginginarmik Lusarunimasassumki
Maize and Cotton Plants Expand Uses Boost Output to 446 Million
The article notes maize and cotton plants broadening utilities with cellulose from corn pith in demand, claiming it can prevent a perforated ship from sinking. It reports American tin plate output rising 45 percent to 446,962,063 pounds, with 139,000,000 pounds exported, and new plants under construction raising annual production to 650,000,000 pounds.
Reverend Hall resigns long pastorate at Fifth Avenue Church
The distinguished Rev. Dr John Hall of Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church in New York resigns after a 30 year pastorate. He came to the church from Dublin and has earned a $15,000 annual salary for his services.
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John Hall
Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church
New York
Tie
Dublin
Ireland
Government savings from seven hour workday urged
Chief Civil Service Commissioner John B. Harlow testified before a senate investigating committee that if all government employees in Washington were required to work the full seven hours a day as required by law, it would effect a saving of over $800,000 a year for clerk hire with comparable gains outside Washington.
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Civil Service
John B. Harlow
Senate
Washington
Debate Over Parole System in Light of Crime Claims
The article questions abolishing parole due to difficulty in convicting criminals and cites an allegation that half of Chicago’s major crimes in the past two years were committed by pardoned or paroled convicts.
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Chicago
Col Cody’s Wild West Show and Great Svork at Big Horn Ranch
Col Cody continues a Western show featuring glass ball shooting and lassoing mustangs while embroiled in a major svork. He owns a vast Big Horn county ranch and builds a 125 mile canal from the Shoshone river to supply rich ore lands in the Big Horn basin, with town site about 40 miles from the National park.
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Col. Cody
Tle
Big Horn
Shoshone
Big Horn Basin
National Park
Gold Discovery in Labrador Sparks Arctic Gold Rush Talk
The text mocks equating cold regions with gold wealth and teases sensational claims of gold in Labrador. It notes nature hides precious metals under snow in far northern lands while explorers chase elusive riches amid harsh climes.
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Labrador
North Pole
Pole
New York Seeks Transfer of Erie Canal to Government
New York officials describe the Erie Canal as a large elephant to be disposed of on favorable terms. The state notes $9 million spent recently on enlargement and estimates $7 million more is needed to complete the work before transfer.
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State of
New York
Calamitous January Tornado Hits Fort Smith
A fierce midwinter tornado struck Fort Smith Arkansas at midnight destroying blocks of homes and businesses. The disaster left fifty dead and property worth about one million dollars in ruins, prompting nationwide sympathy and shock.
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Fort Smith
Ark
Woman blamed for changing mind as man jailed for smuggling love letters
A New Hampshire case shows a husband who had his wife jailed on a charge and then was arrested while trying to smuggle candy and love letters to her. Yukon farming plans unfold with potatoes, Siberian wheat, and barley proving viable in Fort Yukon Circle City and Bonanza Creek areas.
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New Hampshire
Yukon Valley
Fort Yukon
Circle City
Klondike
Bonanza Creek
Society Reporter
Cleveland Leader
B&O Freight Trains Now Run Over Own Tracks Into New York
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad operates its freight trains on its own rails into New York City. A long-ago Cranford Junction to St George’s line crossed the Nils Von Kull via a bridge and trestle, previously handling all B&O freight. With New York City expanded, Staten Island joins Greater New York and B&O remains one of the few western lines with its own rails into the metropolis.
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Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
New York City
Cranford Junction
Jersey Central
St. George’s
Staten Island
Nils von Kull
Greater New York
New York
A Week's History in All Parts of the Union
Recap of ongoing Washington and congressional activity. The Fifty-Fifth Congress discusses the Hawaiian treaty and Teller silver bond payments. The Senate confirms Joseph MeSenna as associate justice. House actions include Alaska land laws, urgent deficiency funds, and criminal law extension to Indian students. General debate on Indian appropriation closes the session debates.
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Morgan
United States Senate
Teller
United States
House
Reed
Bailey
Joseph MeSenna
Supreme Court of the United States
Alaska
Senate
Gov
Griggs
New Jersey
Washington funeral services for May's remains noted
In Washington funeral services over the remains of the late May were held, the president and his cabinet attending. Benjamin Butterworth, commissioner of patents, participated in the ceremonies hosted in honor of May.
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Washington
Benjamin Butterworth
Senor Dupuy de Lome
House of Representatives
Spain
Business Failures Decline in United States Weekly Totals
Over the seven days ending the 21st there were 374 business failures nationwide, down from 349 the prior week and 409 in the same period last year. Clearing house exchanges totaled 1.416 billion dollars, versus 1.443 billion the prior week, with a 36.5 percent rise from 1897. In New York, chess problemist Charles A. Gilburg died suddenly. Rev. Dr. John Hall withdrew his resignation at Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church. M. J. Cramer, ex-minister to Denmark and Switzerland and Grant’s brother-in-law, died at 65 in Carlisle. In Allegheny, Rev. T DeWitt Talmage married Mrs. Charles Collier.
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United States
Wveek
New York
Charles A. Gilburg
Fifth Avenue Presbyterian Church
John Hall
M. J. Cramer
Denmark
Switzerland
A.S. Grant
Carlisle
Allegheny
T. DeWitt Talmage
Charles Collier
Wind and violence mark busy Missouri Indiana Illinois era
A storm drives destruction across Illinois Indiana Iowa Michigan and Kansas as houses unroof fences and stock drown. Murders suicides and a jailhouse bank closure mark a string of tragedies and legal matters across several states. The coal miners and mine owners in Chicago set an eight hour day rule starting June 1.
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Chicago
Illinois
Indiana
Ohio
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Evansville
Ind
George Atkins
J. M. Wilkinson
Marquette
Mich
Milwaukee
F. A. Walsh Company
Deaths follow poisoning and suicide near New Albany
For no cause known Mrs. Seth Qoff man living near New Albany Indiana poisoned her baby and then killed herself. In Illinois a Baptist minister T W B Dawson was burned to death in his cottage near Troy. The steamship Oregon carried 450 passengers and 1250 tons of merchandise from Portland for Alaska. Adolph Luetgert testified at his Chicago murder trial denying the charge. The fiftieth anniversary of California gold discovery began in San Francisco and will last a week.
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E. W. Hoch
Marion
Kan
Kansas
Topeka
Gallatin County
Frank Dantzler
Jefferson Knight
Pensacola
Fla
Mobile
Ala
Indiana
Masonic Mutual Benefit Society
Indianapolis
Alexandria
Ill
John McCowan
Port Townsend
Wash
August Nickerson
St. Paul
Minn
Erick Nepson
Nellie Mangan
Chicago
Charles Tuckner
Illinois
Iowa
Michigan
Wisconsin
Nebraska
Seth Qoffman
New Albany
Ind
T. W. B. Dawson
Troy
Oregon
Portland
Ore
Alaska
Adolph Luetgert
California
San Francisco
British steamer Herbert sinks off County Down coast
Seven crew members drowned when the British steamer Herbert foundered on the County Down coast. Other dispatches note Cuban yellow fever deaths, earthquakes in San Domingo, widespread plantation burnings by insurgents in Matanza, Nova Scotia fishing families facing starvation, and New York papers seized in Havana. Kate Forsythe death reported in London. Extra guards placed around Consul General Lee’s office in Navana.
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Herbert
Cuba
Sagua
San Domingo
Union
de Reyes
Matanzas
Nova Scotia
New York World
New York Journal and Advertiser
Havana
London
Kate Forsythe
Navana
Lee
Vast Night in Early 1900s Senate and Dash of Local Disasters
The Senate debated the pension appropriation and Teller silver resolution while Morgan pressed charges about Cleveland and Hawaiian annexation. nominations for patent commissioner Duell and mint director Roberts were received. Across the nation trains crashed injuring several, a boiler explosion killed three, a fire destroyed much of St Elmo Colorado, and Maine navy orders Havana harbor.
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United States
Senate
Teller
Morgan
Cleveland
Charles H. Duell
New York
George S. Roberts
Iowa
Preston
House
District of Columbia
Rock Island Road
Clay Center
Kan
William
Harvey Topie
Lew Wallace
Pineville
Madison
Wis
Gov. Scofield
Charles V. Bardeen
Wausau
Newman
Supreme Bench
Wisconsin
National Bank of
Exposition Building
Pittsburgh
Linus M. Child
Boston Bar
Ray
Lighth United States Infantry
Fort Yukon
Alaska
Mary Miles
Black River Falls
Cassius and
Anthony Chittick
Flora
Ind
Klondike
Oscar Young
Gust Anderson
Dennis O’brien
Ashtabula
West Virginia leads in high grade petroleum production
Minor news items note West Virginia now produces more high grade petroleum than any other state. Other brief items include failure of British machinists strike, Ex-President Cleveland purchasing land for a game preserve near Princeton New Jersey, and Chile planning a trans Andean railway.
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West Virginia
Great Britain
Cleveland
Princeton
N. J
Chili
United States
Atlantic City
Naval Service
Phebe C. Edgar
Rahway
Second Presbyterian Church
A. S. Baker & Co
Produce Exchange
New York
London
Europe
Women’s Federated Clubs of
Missouri
W. C. Hoge
Nevada
Fulton
Seth D. Tripp
Lynn
Mass
Congress
Chester
John Morton
Pennsylvania
Maud Booth
Ballington Booth
Volunteers of America
Presbyterian Hospital
Mont Clair
Moses Scharff
Scharff Bros
St. Louis
Warship Maine to Havana marks new US naval move
Washington reports the Maine will enter Havana to resume friendly naval relations with Spain amid Cuban unrest. Officials insist not hostile. German ships in vicinity and a strong US fleet assembled near Key West signal readiness and restraint. Cuban figures Quesada and De Lome comment on international implications.
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Washington
Cuba
United States
Havana
Maine
White House
Long
Day
McKenna
Miles
Navy
Spain
Lee
Madrid
Charlotte
Geyer
Haytien
Charleston
S. C
Key West
North Atlantic
Sicard
New York
Iowa
Indiana
Massachusetts
Texas
Detroit
Montgomery
Dispatch
Fern
Torpedo Boat Flotilla
Cushing
Ericsson
Dupont and
Porter
Foote
Brooklyn
New York Navy Yard
Cook
Senor Quesada
Senor Albertini
Quesada
de Lome
Roberts Nominated to Mint Director Post in Iowa
Washington reports George S. Roberts of Fort Dodge was named by the president to fill the mint director vacancy left by R E B Preston who resigned after forty two years in Treasury service and four years directing the mint. Roberts is praised as a strong Republican supporter and a capable editorial writer.
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George B. Roberts
Iowa
Washington
R. EB. Preston
Mint
Preston
Treasury Department
Senate
George S. Roberts
Fort Dodge, Jr
Roberts
St. Louis
Paris Chamber Expresses Confidence in Government
Paris session opened at 2 10 p m. M De Bourgard warned of Saturday treatment recalling 1851 coup and 1799 upheaval. Troops intervened Saturday leading to guard deployment as Jaures pressed for continued discussion. The chamber voted 376 to 133 to express confidence in the government.
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Paris
Chamber of Deputies
M. Jaures
Milenola
House
Duel Ends in Tragedy in Leslie County Kentucky
William and Harvey Topie are dead and Lew Wallace is fatally wounded after a pistol duel during a late night poker game at Wallace's house near the Bell and Harlan county line. The dispute over owed money sparked the violence as lights went out and pistols were fired.
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Louisville
Evening Post
Pineville
William
Harvey Topie
Lew Wallace
Leslie County
Bell and
Harlan County
Wallace
Locomotive Explosion Kills Three in Madison Round House
A boiler explosion in Madison Wisconsin at 9 20 am destroyed the round house and three engines. Foreman Frank Beck and fireman Fred Baxter died. Engineers Wesley Schelper and Charles Young were injured, Emil Olson a machinist burned. The blast shook downtown a mile away. The engine was prepared to depart with no passengers onboard.
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Madison
Wis
Frank Beck
Wesley Schelper
Baraboo
Charles Young
Fred V. Baxter
Emil Olson
Rock Island Freight Wreck Fatal for Three at Clay Center
A rear end collision between two sections of a Rock Island freight train at Clay Center Kansas killed three men. Brakeman William Griffith died four hours after his legs were severed, W Broughton suffered severe injuries, and Rodney Seeintoenig had a skull fracture with possible death. Conductor Edwards was badly hurt.
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Clay Center
Kan
Rock Island
William Griffith
Broughton
Rodney Seeintoenig
Edwards
Western Canada described as fertile land with opportunity
A correspondent relays a delegate's praise of Western Canada noting rich soils abundant waterfowl and fish plus extensive grain herds and cattle. He mentions 160 acres given free to settlers and possible rapidly cleared land at $20 per acre. Agents at Ottawa organize excursions and the Interior Department will supply information to interested settlers.
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Saya
Western Canada
Canada
Department of the Interior
Ottawa
Sprocketts-Why and the masses in racing classes
A New York Journal quote explains the race class system with Son Panpa noting that Sprocketts-Why are professionals and A and B amateurs while the B's are not true amateurs. The masses are described as the paying spectators.
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Son—Panpa
Sprocketts
N. Y. Journal
A New Crazy Sect in Connecticut
A rheumatic woman was immersed in water by fanatics claiming healing, nearly dying. The note urges using Hoster s Stomach Bitters known to cure rheumatism and prevent kidney complaints while aiding digestion and nerves, inviting a systematic trial.
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Connecticut
Stockholder kingpins nuptial pact in witty quip
In a brief quip a New York journalist notes a man named Mack wins approval for marriage after his stockholding is examined by a father in law and the bride. The line hints at cautious alliance and mutual interests in a light observed exchange.
Salzer Seed Co contest invites names for new corn and oat prodigy
Cata ogue offers entry details for Salzer Seed Co prize with $500 in prizes and a free seed catalogue. Participants name a 17 inch long corn and White Oat prodigy, sending stamps to John A Salzer Seed Co in La Crosse Wisconsin. Seeds and barrel prices are advertised to attract entrants.
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The
Salzer Seed Co
Cataogue
John A. Salzer Seed Co
la Crosse
Wis
Molar Doctor Questioned After Unusual Visit
In a Roxbury Gazette humor column a dentist labeled Dr Molar is teased about poking a sleeve button near a patient’s eye while joking about dental work. The exchange blends playful banter with mock concern.
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Dr. Molar
Roxbury Gazette
Syrup of Figs Bottled for Kidneys Liver Bowels
Irresistible cautionary note promotes the Syrup of Figs as a pleasant tonic for kidneys liver and bowels preventing fevers and headaches. Available in 50 cent bottles from leading druggists. Manufactured by the California Fig Growers Co.
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California Fig Grup Co
Hose Versus Hoes in Dry Goods Store Exchange
A humorous ledger item from Chicago Evening News describes a dry goods store scene where a customer asks for hose and the clerk replies with a pun about handles, illustrating local wit and everyday commerce.
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Chicago Evening News
Lanes Family Medicine and Laxative Ads in 1800s Papers
An advertisement block promotes Lane's Family Medicine claiming daily bowel movement benefits and liver kidney support with a 25 cent price. Another notice touts Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets with a one day cold cure guarantee and 25 cent cost.
Master Cure for Rheumatism Promoted by St Jacobs Oil
An 19th century advertisement asserts St Jacobs Oil as The Master Cure for rheumatism, claiming universal usefulness and endorsing its healing properties with confident rhetoric. The Washington Democrat prints the slogan and promotional note as public advertising copy.
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St. Jacobs Oil
Advice to Ministers on Throat Health
The Rev. E. M. Brawley reports personal trouble from vocal strain among clergy. He describes a severe cold leading to acute bronchitis despite two months of medical treatment and notes the draining effects of daily preaching on throat health.
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Stxs
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