McKinley Speech at Buffalo Forecasts Prosperity and Peace
President McKinley’s Pan American exposition address lauds progress through international collaboration and trade reciprocity. He urges direct steamship lines, a unified merchant marine, and the isthmian canal, stressing peace, mutual respect, and shared prosperity for the Americas.
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Mexico
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South America
South American
Oceans
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Pan-American Congress
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War President McKinley and the Global Rise of the United States
The article recalls McKinley's rise from common roots like Lincoln and his wartime leadership. It notes his presidency led the United States to end Cuban cruelty, plant the flag in the Philippines, reach China, and elevate the nation among global powers under the era’s shifting imperial roles.
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Abraham Lincoln
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Cuba
Philippines
China
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Atlanta Constitution
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Stanley Matthews
United States Supreme Court
Rutherford B. Hayes
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McClellan
Army of the Potomac
Antietam
Hayes
Cook
Carroll
Maine
Porto Rico
Hawaiian Islands
Theodore Roosevelt
New York
Hobart
Environment Of Authors And Their Creative Habits
A survey of how famed American writers work shows they need distinct settings to spark ideas. Spofford favors nature with a lap pad while Deland keeps a sunny Boston conservatory. Churchill works in a top floor office in St Louis. Bret Harte writes outdoors with cigars. Harris writes in a rose filled Atlanta cottage.
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Christendom
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Harriet Prescott Spofford
Margaret
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Boston
Winston Churchill
Richard Carvel
St. Louis
Vermont
Bret Harte
Atlanta
Joel Chandler Harris
Uncle Remus
Bre’er “Rabbit
Long Trolley Trip Boston to Camden Ends After Four Days
A trolley journey from Boston to Camden New Jersey traveled 357 miles and took four days to complete with the route covering several cities along the way.
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Camden
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Roosevelt Addresses Fair Ground Speech on Law and Foreign Policy
Vice President Roosevelt spoke at the state fair grounds in Minneapolis on September 2. He urged wage workers protections, lawful state action, and fair treatment of honest employers, while warning against wealth-based aggression and promoting the Monroe Doctrine as a guide to peaceful international relations and future expansion toward self-governing Cuba and the Philippines.
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Philippines
McKinley Life Traced Through Ancestry and Career
A historical sketch tracing William McKinley's ancestry to Scotch Covenanters and early Irish settlers, detailing his rise from Civil War officer to Ohio governor and national president. It notes his 1896 reelection victory over Bryan with 7,233,715 votes to 6,255,668 and a 623,627 vote majority.
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Charles II
Ireland
McKinley
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David
Hannah C. Rose
Pennsylvania
Ohio
Bryan
Sweethearts From Childhood in McKinley Home Life
The article recalls William McKinley and Ida Saxton McKinley meeting in Canton. They wed January 25 1871 a decade before his presidency. They had two daughters Florence and Katie who died young and Mrs McKinley’s illness affected her health and public life.
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Monument Dedicates Iowa Women to Jennie Wade at Gettysburg
Iowa members of the Woman’s Relief Corps Grand Army of the Republic unveiled a marble statue of Jennie Wade in Gettysburg Pennsylvania. The 20 year old lived with her mother and sister and spent the first day of the battle fetching water for Union soldiers before being killed on July 3 1863. The monument bears her name and notes she was killed while making bread for Union troops and was erected in 1891 by the Women’s Relief Corps of Town.
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Gettysburg
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Georgia Wade McClellan
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Women's Relief Corps
M'Kinley's Schoolmate Recalls Skating Rescue
Du buque mayor Hon Thomas W Johnston recalls McKinley as a studious yet adventurous boy. He saved the future president from drowning during a skating incident when the ice cracked on a deep creek, narrowly pulling him to safety before the ice failed.
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Elopement Sparks Social Sensation in Storm Lake Marriage
Frank W. Thomas son of Congressman Lot Thomas and Flora Brown daughter of F E Brown president of Storm Lake First National Bank eloped to Sioux City and wed Rev Robert Bagnell of the First Methodist Episcopal Church after parental objections.
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Frank W. Thomas
Lot Thomas
Flora Brown
F. E. Brown
Storm Lake First National Bank
Robert Bagnell
First Methodist Episcopal Church
Rural Free Delivery Begins In Iowa Areas
Rural free delivery will start November 1 with Ida Grove in Ida county served by one carrier over 25 miles and 60 people. Tsanawha in Hancock county will have five carriers over 123 miles serving 2 625 people with eight carriers named H Dixon R T Bray John Huyck Jr Paul Wilson and J C Bray. Bruce post office in Wright county will be discontinued.
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Ida County
Andrew A. McKown
Tsanawha
Hancock County
H. Dixon
R. T. Bray
John Huyck, Jr
Paul Wilson
J. C. Bray
Bruce
Wright County
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