Strong Document on Campaign Issues and Expansion Policy
A 1900 Roosevelt era address outlines Republican positions on trusts and sound money, opposes the Kansas City platform, and defends tariffs, gold standard, and anti silver policy. It compares Philippine and Louisiana acquisitions, arguing expansion without imperialism, cites Jefferson, Jackson, and Monroe as precedents, and frames national stability through orderly self government and Fair finance.
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Oyster Bay
Honaward
O. Wolcott
United States
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Mclinsey
Mehkinsey
Congress
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Custer
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Wayne
Roosevelt Defends Philippine Policy and Merit System
Theodore Roosevelt argues the United States must maintain sovereignty over the Philippines, labelling expansion essential and criticizing immediate independence. He defends garrison presence as order, supports Wood Allen Taft appointments, and urges merit-based administration while protecting inhabitants' welfare.
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Mexico
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Ike-Thac
Santa
Anna
Maximillian
Forteico
Philippucs
Cuba
Philippines
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Minnesota
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Luzon
South Dakota
Sitting Bull
Aguinaldo
Lupino
McKinley
Kansas City
Wood
Allen
Taft
United States Army
United States
Army
Congress
Theodore. Roosevelt
Holland a Great Craft Test Shocks Newport
After dark at Newport torpedo boats Morris and Rodgers and the Holland submarine boat tested outside the breakwater. The Leyden with searchlights tracked the action until the Holland disappeared briefly then returned. The Holland neared the Leyden and the New York cruiser undetected, proving the submarine boat to be the greatest thing in the American navy.
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Newport
Morris
Rodgers
Holland
Leyden
Will
New York
Bride to wed heaviest woman in Indiana plans
Lucy Havens, a 350 pound inmate at Laporte county asylum, plans marriage to Dr. O J Detter of Union City who offers to bond she will not become a county charge. The nuptials would take place at the county house with no prior meeting.
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Lucy Havens
Laporte
Ind
Razor as Divine Judgment in Talmage Sermon
In a September Washington dispatch Dr. Talmage argues nations are judged by God and that divinely hired razors cut pride and sin. He cites Sennacherib to Nebuchadnezzar as punishments, warns against condemning others, and urges repentance and mercy toward the wicked and virtuous alike.
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Louis Wlopsch
eCoprEnetre
Washington
Talmage
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Doeg
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Sennacherib
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William Rufus
Richard Coeur de Lion
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Palermo
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Tad
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White House
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Heaven
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Raphael
Antwerp
Rubens
Handel
Seraph
Trahangel
Guidt
Chrysoplagus Above Topaz
Isis
Liszt's Narrow Escape and Princess Wittgenstein History
The new book about Franz Liszt and Princess Caroline Wittgenstein recounts his near marriage to her. The princess believed she could secure a papal divorce and set a wedding for October 22 1861, Liszt's fiftieth birthday, but later abandoned the plan and both sides show reluctance. The Argo naut quote speaks to renunciation as a path to happiness.
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Liszt
Carolyne Wittgenstein
Iszt
San Francisco
Origin of the Chinese Queue Fashion History
A historical note claims the queue began in 1627 with Manchu conquest. It argues the queue signifies degradation and humorously calculates a total length from 200,006,060 adults, totaling 113,636 miles, enough to circle the Earth multiple times.
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China
Celestial Empire
British, American troops clash with Boxers near Peking
A British signal officer reports a sharp fight between 14th U.S. Infantry and about 2000 Boxers at Ma Tao road to Peking. A Bengal Lancers detachment rescued and charged the Boxers in the rear, routing them with 200 dead. Americans suffered no casualties. German forces also fought Boxers west of Peking with about 20 German losses. Indications point to powers withdrawing from Peking to Tientsin as Sir Robert Hart predicts further China hostilities in November.
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Tientain
Shanghai
Fourteenth
United States Infantry
Ma Tao
Ma Tow
Peking
Bengal Lancers
Tientsin
Sir Robert Hart
China
South Africa
India
Daily News
Baron von Ketteler
Taleu
Linovitch
Six Drowned in Eau Claire River Crossing
Eight men from the Northwestern Lumber Company were stranded when a boat swamped near the mill dam on the Eau Claire river. Six drowned, two survived after reaching shore a quarter mile away. bodies of five victims recovered the next day.
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Eau Claire
Wis
Northweastern Lumber Company
Eau Claire River
John McQuestion
Andy McQuade
John Telter
al Carr
Thomas Cameron
William Brayfrock
Andrew McQuads
Thomas,Cameron
William Prayfrock
John Gelter
Population boom in Superior leads nation in census gains
Superior Wisconsin tops U S city population increases with 159 46 percent growth reaching 31 001 from 11 083 in 1800. Oshkosh Wisconsin follows with 28 284 people up from 22 936 in 1800. Newport Kentucky shows 23 901 residents, down 117 in 1890, a 13 58 percent rise from 24 018.
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Superior
Wis
Washington
Census Bureau
Oshkosh
Newport, Ky
Tragic death of Captain McQueston in the Philippines
Gen. MacArthur reports Captain Charles McQueston of the Fourth United States Infantry died in Cavite province after a gunshot wound from a private soldier. The confrontation occurred as McQueston attacked fellow troops in a fit of temporary insanity and was shot in self defense. Also noted Dutch offer to move Kruger to Holland and a snow event in Wisconsin with crop damage risks.
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Washington
War Department
MacArthur
Philippines
Charles McQueston
United States Infantry
Manild
Mangonone
Bacoor
Cavite
McQueston
Friend of Lincoln Dies in London Residence
Dr I Zacharie aged seventy four dies at 80 Brook street London. He was known in New York as a friend of Abraham Lincoln during the presidential administration.
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Lincoln
London
Dr. I. Zacharie
Brook Street
Dr. Zacharie
New York
Abraham Lincoln
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Steen
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Detroit Shipbuilding Company
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