New Hampshire Mills Skip Summer Vacation in 1897
Mooresville reports cotton factories in New Hampshire will not close for a summer vacation in 1897, reversing the usual practice. Indiana expects a larger wheat crop than last year. The U.S. crop for 1897 is forecast 25 million bushels above 1896. Foreign reports show shortages in Argentina and other nations, impacting European port competition and demand.
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New Hampshire
Indiana
United States
Kaiser's naval program faces clashes with Reichstag
The Reichstag refuses navy appropriations while Emperor William resolves to build ten battleships and sixteen cruisers at once. In France the Chamber approves naval expansion estimates totaling 52 million dollars, with 40 million for new ships. European statesmen doubt continued peace.
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Reichstag
Emperor Bill
Congress
Chamber of Deputies
Colorado miners admit error at Denver gold convention
At the Denver gathering of international gold miners, Colorado operators confessed errors in attempting to dispose of silver on a falling market. A speaker claimed twenty years mining in Colorado and $150,000 spent with no return, prompting laughter and a note that he now believes he should have dug for gold instead of silver.
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Colorado
Denver
Death of Harry Whallen Known as Human Qetrich
The article reports the death of Harry Whallen, alias Human Qetrich, due to a previously successful stomach surgery. It notes the cause was not ordinary hardware ingestion but the failed digestion of swallowed items from a prior incident, including knives and nails, and mentions a prior trance and medical treatment.
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Qetrich
Harry Whallen
Mr. Whaten
Mrr. W
Indiana Wheat Crop Hope Lifts Market Outlook
Reports show Indiana yielding a good wheat crop of high quality. If supply meets demand, prices may rise allowing gains of up to about 12 to 15 million dollars, easing economic gloom for many families and businesses.
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India
Argentine
Indiana
Special Exam in Washington for Soil Division Chief Post
The civil service commission will hold a special examination in Washington on July 28 to establish a register for the assistant chief of the division of soils in the Agricultural Department. Salary is 1800 dollars per year. Applicants must submit an original essay of at least five thousand words on Environment as affecting the yield, quality and time of ripening of crops.
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Commission
Washington
Division of Soils
Agricultural Department
Department
Comitions to the Functions of Plants and Commerce
A compact review discussing how plant functions influence commercial applications. It notes the need for citations of authors and works, plus a brief bibliography of key writings on the subject and staining references.
Indiana Bulletin of Charities and Correction Proceedings
The Indiana Bulletin reports the latest state conference on reformatories and charitable institutions. It highlights Public Relief of the Poor and the new legislature act to place orphans in proper homes. Forty families applied to adopt or foster during April and May. twenty four of twenty six inquiries were approved.
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Indiana Bulletin of Charities and Correction
Indiana Reformatory and
Alaska bargain touted amid gold and oil claims
The piece discusses sensational reports of vast gold and petroleum finds in Alaska and credits Secretary Seward for the U S purchase. It notes Gen Cassius M Clay’s claim of ending Russia talks and suggests historians favor Seward, but emphasizes Alaska’s value remains high whether or not the reports prove true.
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Alaska
Seward
Cassius M. Clay
United States
Russia
St. Petersburg
Beer Garden Menace Draws Clergy Into Debate
A sermon by Rev Milburn of Indianapolis condemns popular suburban beer gardens as a threat to neighborhood morals while stressing the talk is not part of a temperance sermon. He cites public houses as a lure to public drinking and cites other religious figures as moderates in the broader debate.
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Milburn
Indianapolis
Ghelstone
Dale
John Bright
Birmingham
Mathurn
Missing Link in Trade Wars Over Big Retail Emporiums
A Timor Legislature debate on curbing Chicago merchants highlights the rise of large department stores as monopolies. Small grocers and corner shops suffer as mass retailers expand, while discussions on reform promise disruption for workers, landlords, and consumers amid industrial changes. The piece notes a missing link to fix the endless, warlike chain of commerce.
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Chicago
Green
Seigel, Cooper & Co
Cook County
Springfield
Lost Tribes and the Land of Nod End in a Montana Blizzard
A pioneer narrator recalls a vanished era of simple frontier life marked by health and hospitality, then a decline into relentless competition. The tale follows an aged trapper found dead in 1888 near Helena, with a cryptic blue wool cloth and a gold star indicating a hidden identity, ending with a question: Was it Joseph Bronson?
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Land of
Nod
Golconda
Fcars
Houston
Mr. Carter
House of Israel
Land of Nod
Big Horn
Joseph Bronson
The Surveyor’s Story Continues In The Trapper Tale
The trapper recounts his memories before a fire as the survey party sits enraptured. He produces a worn relic, a star, parchment, and a map, suggesting past events. the narrator doubts sanity but respects the tale, offering it with minimal embellishment.
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Trapper
Mixed 19th Century Facts and Local Observations
A collage of statistics and curiosities notes McKinley’s mail flow, Glasgow doctor shortages, Paris cab work, Swansea iron thinness, a Maine sheep with porcupine quills, a bakery dough kneading machine, Borgund Norway’s ancient wooden church, a divinity student’s minister’s wife claim, Boston Transcript on coeducation, New Haven police bicycle chasers, and Bavaria school religious makeup with Catholic dominance.
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Boston Transcript
New Haven
New York
Bavaria
Diverse Scientific Facts From Popular Science Digest
Average creamery butter contains fifteen per cent water and lungs may have about 1400 square feet respiratory surface. Electric railways total 5446 miles across 467 lines. Various plants close flowers during sun eclipses. Our moon weighs one eightieth Earth. no satellite weighs more than one thousandth of its planet. Crow’s nest iron from Rangoon in Glasgow museum. Hair fineness varies by color from 1/260 to 1/600 inch. Minnesota claims a never failing river of pure water beneath Minneapolis. Pine fir larch eucalyptus should be planted near cities. A Berlin professor reports a bacillus in the soul. Steel railway ties for tropics. ether bicycle patent proposed. Chicago Telephone says 600,000 telephones daily with 500,000 miles of wire and 600 million messages yearly. Hypnotism notes difficulty with hysterical patients. Preece reports disturbances in telegraphs due to sun storms 92,090,000 miles away. Oxygen will aid submarine life support reducing heavy air receivers.
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Liesberkuhn
Earth
Solar System
Kelvingrove Museum
Glasgow
Scotland
Rangoon
Minnesota
Minneapolis
Kingsett
Gunther
Berlin University
Portland
Chicago Telephone Company
Preece
British Association
Oxford
Yellow Car and Coyote Near Hutter's Hot Springs
A trio traveling from Springdale to Hutter's Hot Springs recounts crossing high water sloughs that flooded the wagon and nearly tossed the horses. A hotel dog, a yellow cur, flees a pursuing coyote while the dog initially charges then retreats as the coyote gives chase toward the hotel porch. The landlord aids the horses as the team speeds away amid exclamations of the amusing chase.
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Springdale
Hutter’s
Hot Springs
Northwest Magazine
Yellowstone
Mendenhall
Stub
A Strong Point On Ecr7 Rising By Mrs Phoebe Hanaford
Mrs Phoebe Hanaford condemned the present system of educating children saying early rising in classes makes them conceited in the forenoon and sleepy in the afternoon. The energy intended for later trials is wasted during youth. New York Times report.
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Phoebe Hanaford
New York
Frog Bond Case Describes Rabid Appetite For Frogs
Burlington New Jersey report details Peter Cunningham an Shedaker farm employee who consumed a large number of frogs. Doctors used a stomach pump to remove fifty one small frogs from his stomach. Both Cunningham and Dr Stowell affirm the count as accurate.
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Burlington
N. J
Peter
Cunningham
Shedaker
Building and Loan Failure in Macon
Miles Atell garnisheed all stockholders in the Southern Buyling and Loan Association of Huntsville Alabama on a $2000 claim. The firm once regarded as strong with $1000 capital could not pay Abel forcing the action. The association reportedly has many stockholders across the south and large holdings in several states.
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Macon
Miles Atell
Southern Buyling and Loan Association
Huntsville
Ala
Abel
South
Syrup Trust Seeks Pact With Glucose Firm
Chicago reports the Glucose Trust may form a pact with the syrup and jam mixers after a closed Commercial Exchange meeting. A three member committee will confer with C B Matthieson of the Glucose Trust. Proposals await August 1st for action.
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Chicago
Glucose Trust
Suoon
Syrup Trust
Commercial Exchange
Cc. B. Matthieson
Matthieson
Klondyke Gold Shipment Arrives at Helena Assay Office
Eleven thousand four hundred ounces of Klondyke gold from Alaska arrived in Helena via Northern Pacific express from Seattle. Ten thousand ounces were consigned to the American National Bank, the rest to the United States assay office. The Alaska shipment plus about $30,000 from placer mines bring total receipts to around 110,000.
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Helena
Mont
Klondyke
Alaska
Northern Pacific Express
Seattle
American National Bank
United States Assay
Prisoners Escape from Miles City Jail in Digging Break
Yellow Hair and Sam Crow two Cheyenne Indians held as witnesses in the John Hoover murder case at the Rosebud trouble escaped Monday night by digging through an eighteen inch wall of the Miles City jail. They were arrested as accessories with Isogene Standing Elk but had little evidence against them.
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Miles City
Mont
Yellow Hair
Sam Crow
John Hoover
Rosebud
They're After Edhem Pasha in Thessaly Attack
The Pester Lloyd reports that Edhem Pasha commander of Turkish forces in Thessaly had an infernal machine opened by accident injuring his arm. The device exploded while being opened and wounded Edhem Pasha in the arm.
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Buda-Pesth
Pester Lloyd
Idhem Pasha
Thessaly
Edhem Pasha
Lease Seeks Kansas Governor Nomination on Populist Ticket
Mrs. Mary Ellen Lease announces candidacy for Kansas governor on the Populist line. She argues no constitutional or legal barrier prevents a woman from holding the office and asserts the time has come for women to assert themselves.
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Mary
Mary Ellen Lease
Kansas
Lease
Death of Poet Jean Ingelow in London
Miss Jean Ingelow a distinguished poet and novelist died in London Monday night. She was in her seventy seventh year.
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Jean Ingelow
London
Turley Appointed U S Senator by Tennessee Governor
Governor Taylor of Tennessee appoints Hon. Thos. B. Turley of Memphis as United States Senator to succeed the late Isham G. Harris. The move fills the vacancy in the Senate.
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Taylor
Tennessee
Thos. B. Turley
Memphis
United States
Isham G. Harris
Snowfalls Three Inches in Cripple Creek Colorado
Three inches of snow covered Cripple Creek Colorado on July 10 as weather records show a rare mid-summer snowfall fixture for the region. The event surprised residents and prompted unusual winter weather headlines from local officials.
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Cripple Creek, Col
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