Yokohama Missionaries Under Fire and Praise
In Yokohama the foreign town hosts a complex mission scene with English, American, and Japanese churches. Missionaries are criticized by some travelers as a business, yet local business leaders acknowledge their educational impact and social role. The Seamen’s Friend Society and Salvation Army aid sailors, while native churches and schools show substantial missionary influence.
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Joseph B. Bowles
Yokohama
Japan
Orient
Okoma
Dutch Reformed Girls’ School
America
Jayan
Jack Tar
Britain
France
Tokio
American Seamen's Friend Society
Jack
Salvation Army
Hawaii
J. L. Dearing
Baptist Theological Seminary
Wind and cloudburst kill thirty in Kentucky and Illinois
A Kentucky cloudburst and windstorm Friday night left thirty dead across Gradyville Adair county and nearby towns in Illinois and Kentucky. The storms wrecked homes churches schools bridges and crops with extensive property losses and injured residents awaiting further reports.
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Illinois
Kentucky
Indiana
Iowa
Louisville
Gradyville
L. C. Nell
Nell
Lum Hill
Carl Milmore
Paul Wilson
Hartfield Moss
J. W. Keltner
Mary Moss
Big Creek
Adair County
Columbia
New Minden
Nashville
Ill
Henry Weithe
Attempt to Wreck Train Near Los Angeles
A railroad official reports an attempt to wreck the southbound Southern Pacific Overland near Los Angeles. A track walker found a heavy log chain stretched across a siding switch that could have derailed the train if unseen.
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Los Angeles
Cal
Southern Pacific Overland
Disorder in Kermanshah over elections sparks deaths
In Teheran reports say serious disorders have broken out again at Kermanshah due to election disputes. There has been significant loss of life as troops root the town and restore order.
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Iowa
Des Moines
Pleasant Valley
William Harvey
Elmer Baker
Marion County
Teheran
Kermanshah
Charles Warren
Polk County
Cummins
Audley
Crouch
Missouri Republican Club Banquet Set for June 18
Harry S. New of Indianapolis Indiana accepts invitation to attend and address the tenth annual banquet of the Missouri Republican club in Kansas City Missouri on June 18.
Goethe and Schiller Monument Dedicated in Cleveland
The Goethe and Schiller monument in Cleveland Ohio, a gift from German citizens, was dedicated Sunday. The ceremony featured an unveiling and a German American festival.
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Cleveland,o
Cleveland
Plague Fight Steps Up in Trinidad Port
Port of Spain authorities intensify efforts against bubonic plague and cable New York for large supplies of prophylactic serum to curb the outbreak.
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Trinidad
Port of Spain
New York
Colored Troops Sail for Philippines from San Francisco
The Twenty-fifth Infantry, a battalion tied to the Brownsville incident, was ordered to sail for the Philippines aboard the transport Buford from San Francisco on July 25.
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Philippines
Washington
Twenty-fifth Infantry
Brownsville
San Francisco
Buford
Crops Fail Drive New Jersey Farmer to Suicide
William Aaronson a Florence New Jersey farm manager and expert agriculturist hanged himself after brooding over crop failure caused by unseasonable weather authorities report.
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New York
William Aaronson
Florence
N. J
Receiver Sought for Farmers Co-Operative Machine Co
An application for a receiver was filed in common pleas court Saturday for the Farmers Co-Operative Machine Company in Springfield. The firm is capitalized at 500000 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springfield
Common Pleas Court
Farmers Co-Operative Machine Company
Dumont Narrow Escape After Airship Accident
Paris Santos Dumont escaped serious injuries when a new airship on bicycle wheels failed during testing at Bagatelles. A bungling worker loosened a guide rope causing the tail balloon to sag, letting the propeller touch ground and rip the gas bag.
Des Moines Rivalry Highlights Colfax Field Games Victory
Miss Hattle Robinson of Des Moines wins laurel at Colfax field games by Traveling Millinery delegates. She defeats rivals in potato race and takes first in fifty yard dash amid cheers.
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Hattle’ Robinson
Des Moines
Millinery Association
Colfax
Peter Isenhour
Hobo
Waterloo
Dubuque
Thorne
Supreme Court
Iowa
Clinton
Grand Lodge
New Temple
William Cleveland
Harlan
George L. Garton
John McAnna
Frace and
Sinon
Sam Cohen
McAnna
Swan A. Lundstrom
Coaldale
Lundstrom
Newton
Scott Street
Roy H. McGuire
Illinois Central
Manchster
Webster City
J. D.mcguire
McGuire
Standard Oil Company
Government Inspection Service
Omaha
Sioux City
Chicago
Lee Chapman
Pisgah
L. B. Cousins
Council Bluffs
Chapman
Strong
Withrow
Horace Hamilton
Muscatine
Hamilton
Parson College
Edwin Mercer Sharp
Mount Tabor
Wash
Jessie Sherman
West Union
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William T. Ellis
Yokohama Bund
Pierson Hall
Bible Woman’s School At
Weihe
St. Louis
Hoyleton
Stock
Covington
York
Henry Rook
Lucinda Pinkerton
John Bostick
Wabash
Grayville
Ind
Here
James Layton
Layton
Duquoin
Lexington
Southern Pacific
Persia
Cal Moore
Charles Connor
Miss ‘Thulin
Lorense Saestrom
Griswold
Moore
Connor
Decora
Hari
Scroggs
Denison
Te G. A. R
William Thal
Thaler
J. H. Gill
State Central Co
Tempera Commonwealth
Waters
Aybey
Bentley @p Olmsted Shoe company
Harbach
West Third Sheet
Court Avenue
WaPut
Sears
West Third
Additin
Sfair
C. W. McCurdy
McCurdy
Moingona
Highland Park
Chi
Entize
Islam Harding
Bussey
Fjelding and Mead
Pe Ee
Ape
Bagley
Oke
Ter Gluckstadt
Aspinwall
Stadt
Constitutionalt
Waterora
Harding
Mead
Fielding
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