International Commission Proposed to Settle Venezuelan Crisis
London papers urge intervention by a multilateral commission to patrol customs for bondholders amid Venezuela’s defiance of European powers and Caribbean activity. Reports from Berlin cite Velutin’s reoccupation plans and a Bermudian stock scheme tied to treasury affairs. Boston notes General Miles plans travel to the Philippines within weeks.
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London
The
Daily Mail
Venezuela
Europe
West Indies
Caribbean Sea
America
Berling
Cologne Gazette
Foreign Office
United States
Germany
France
Miles to Philippine Islands for Army Condition Review
Secretary Cortelyou confirms General Miles will visit the Philippine Islands with presidential permission to inspect army conditions there amid questions about a change of heart in the department. The exchange notes Miles’ official capacity and the government’s stance on the trip.
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Philippines
Department
Miles
War Department
Boston
Mass
Philippine Islands
Cortelyou
Operators Stand Firm in Prolonged Anthracite Strike
United States Senator M A Hanna stated in Buffalo that he has exhausted efforts to end the coal strike and supports arbitration only if operators agree. He warned the fight will be long with hardships for miners and higher coal prices. President Roosevelt may be asked to convene Congress and troops remain in coal regions. A separate riot in Indianapolis and news from Paris and Dallas follow with mixed tensions and illness among leaders.
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Buffalo
N. J
United States
M. A. Hanna
Niagara Falls
Senator Hanna
Morgan
Europe
Roosevelt
Congress
Brigade Hen
Corbin
Health officer seeks to curb cocaine and morphine sales
Dr. E. B. Cox, Galveston county health officer, says he will crusade against the sale of cocaine and morphine at drugstores after midnight. He reports twenty seven addicts jailed last week and plans to ask state officials to back a bill requiring prescriptions. He frames the effort as a public welfare measure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Houston
Texas
Cox
Galveston County
Rice Hotel
Galveston
Reflections On Wisdom From Famous Thinkers
A compiled view of maxims from Aurelius Goethe Disraeli Hugo and others urging patience perseverance and prudent conduct. It cites quotes about action kindness reason and balance showing how great minds advocate steady self mastery across life.
Next Morning Philosopher
The public pie counter never lacks patrons. The wisest prophet places the fulfillment furthest off. The greatest men concern themselves least about their greatness. There is a wide difference between the self made man and the self inflated man.
Don’t Do Noted Do Not Vent On Others
A compact admonition urges restraint in expressing irritation toward others and to avoid making people feel self conscious. It promotes self restraint and helping others feel confident when interacting.
Chinese Proverbs on Women and Wisdom
Various proverbs emphasize restraint humility and inner strength for women. The sayings warn against vanity pride and self pity while praising wisdom patience and self respect. The collection includes lines about motherhood silence and dignity and ends with literary attributions.
Quotations on Character and Friendship From Classic Voices
A collection of brief moral reflections from Longfellow Fuller Spenser and Johnson. The excerpts emphasize judging by potential rather than past, compassion toward the disabled, kindness as a daily habit, and the value of maintaining friendships as life progresses.
Wise Reflections on Men and Women
A collection of aphoristic maxims on marriage deceit and social custom. Witty lines note that wise wives feed husbands before money requests, men misjudge women, crying can buy forgiveness, and detectives now seek dishonesty rather than honesty.
Bachelor’s Tips on Love and Manners in Witty Advice
A humorous column offers male dating tips and marital quips. It jokes that two wrongs don’t make a right and that spouses influence fashion and smoking rules. It also lists three paths to a woman's affection, emphasizing compliments and patience.
Miners Conflict Averts Proclaimed Intervention At Washery
N W Anthony president of American Coal Scranton urged President Mitchell of the miners union to issue a proclamation warning workers not to interfere with the washery when operations begin on the 27th. No proclamation is expected. Plymouth residents bought a carbhdl of flour for striking miners at Woodward and Avondale mines to be distributed this week.
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Wilkesbarre
N. W. Anthony
North American Coal Company of
Scranton
Mitchell
Minere Union
Plymouth
Woodward and Avondale
Delaware and Lackawarna Company
Double homicide at Santhill church gambling dispute
Nacogdoches Texas recounts Lige Price shot by Henry Randall near Santhill church fourteen miles south of town. Price died at 9 am. During a revival led by Elder Reed two African Americans Price and Randall argued over a gambling dispute in the woods near the church before the shooting.
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Nacogdoches
Texas
Santhill Church
Lige Price
Henry Randall
Price
Elder Reed
Randall
Muenster Mill Sells After Fire Loss in Morning Auction
A Muenster area mill, Crawford Mill, burned and lost its structure. the property and equipment valued at seven thousand dollars were sold in an all day morning auction.
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Muenster
Crawford Mill
Elevator Fire Destroys Old Elevator Co Facility
Gas report notes an elevator at the old Elevator Company burned yesterday causing an estimated loss of 15000 dollars, insured. fire damage and insurance details are listed in the brief notice.
Underground fire at Gordonville linked to lignite claim
State Chemist H. H. Harrington reports the Gordonville fire near Sherman is likely spontaneous combustion of brown coal lignite with clay residue. He says no oil is present and notes lignite is common but less valuable as fuel than bituminous coal.
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Sherman
Texas
Gordonville
H. H. Harrington
Governor Sayers Honored With Fort Sam Houston Review
In San Antonio Aug 26 Governor Joseph D. Sayers, resting at local hot wells for health, was reviewed by Col W C Forbush at Fort Sam Houston. A 2000 civilian audience attended the morning event and an informal reception followed at department headquarters.
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San Antonio
Texas
Joseph D. Sayers
Fort Sam Houston
Department of Texas
W. C. Forbush
Department
Rio Grande on a Rise Threatens New Mexico Towns
From El Paso on August 26 the Rio Grande is rising alarmingly in New Mexico. Lincoln is flooded with the river full to the banks and still rising. Dams and ditches at Las Cruces are judged insufficient to dissipate the surge and protect the area from inundation.
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Paso
Texas
Rio Grande
New Mexico
Lincoln
Las Cruces
Meetings of Miners In West Virginia Coalfields
Striking miners held meetings across the New and Kanawha river coalfields as of August 25 in Thurmond and nearby areas. Operators claim most strikers favor resuming work by week’s end, while interviewed miners say they will stay out all winter unless union recognition is granted. Rend mines saw hundreds of strikers gathered amid fears of property damage and further trouble ahead.
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Thurmond
W. Va
New
Kanawha River
Chesapeake and Ohio Territory
Rend
Omaha Chief Old Bull Dies After Long Army Service
Guthrie O To August 25 Old Bull an Omaha chief and survivor of wars against the Arapahoe agency fought at the Little Big Horn in 1876. He later joined the regular army and served until retirement due to age.
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Guthrie
O. T
Old Bull
Arapahoe
Little Bighorn
Painter killed in fall on moving train near Flatonia
Joe Dale, a member of the Southern Pacific paint gang, fell between cars on a work train three miles east of Flatonia Texas at 6 o clock yesterday morning and was instantly killed. An inquest was held by Squire Menefee.
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Flatonia
Texas
Joe Dale
Southern Pacific Paint Gang
Squire Menefee
Emma to Floydada Telephone Line Opens
In Emma Texas a new telephone line to Floydada connects with all railroad points. Earlier, Mrs Harry Kimball in Marshall was badly burned when a boiling soup pot on a gasoline stove overturned on her.
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Marshall
Texas
Harry Kimball
Emma
Floydada
Fatal Boiler Explosion Near Mexico Missouris Train No 86
One man was killed and three fatally injured when the Mogul boiler exploded on the Chicago and Alton No 86 locomotive eleven miles east of Mexico Missouri. The blast threw the boiler 200 yards and nine cars were ditched as the train traveled at thirty five miles an hour with all men aboard the locomotive.
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Mexico
Chicago and Alton
Police Special In Hazelton Stabbed During Coal Yard Rescue
A special policeman from the Lehigh company, aged, serving in Hazelton Valley, was assaulted on the outskirts while attempting to rescue a nonunion workman. The incident occurred around August 26 and involved a coal yard security task in the city.
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Lehigh Jpany
Aberdeen Bank Robbed In Brief Nighttime Heist
In Aberdeen a bank was robbed at night with limited details available. Police are investigating and seeking witnesses or security footage to identify suspects and secure the scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Aberdeen
I Bank
John H. Reagan Stricken With Illness In Palestine
Hon. John H. Reagan is at his residence in Palestine Texas a sick man. He had a severe chill this morning and has suffered with a high fever this afternoon.
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Palestine
Texas
John H. Reagan
Kadane Forms Company to Sinker Coal near Woodville
George Kadane located valuable coal beds near Woodville, twenty miles from Denison, Texas, and plans to form a company to begin sinking a shaft immediately.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Denison
Texas
George Kadane
Woodville
New Orleans Trade Promises Boer Farm Stock and India Mules
The report notes New Orleans will ship Shipp majes and cattle to South Africa to stock Boer farms. It also states the English element plans to send a man of American mules and jacks to India for breeding in Bombay. If experiments succeed, more cargoes will follow.
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New Orleans
South Africa
Elnment
India
Bombay
Hazlehurst Miss August crop reports show low yield
Reports from Hazlehurst and Central Mississippi indicate yields not exceeding 60 percent of the year's crop due to dry conditions. Other notes mention field conditions and shifting acreage while Texas towns report ranches and flocks offered for sale and injuries to residents.
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Hazlehurst
Miss
Missise
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Mead
Island of
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Ipano
State of Bermudy
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Warfie
Portant
Treasur
Gen. Miles
Nelson A. Miles
Hanna
Indianapolis
Ind
Haug
National Mallea Company
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Deen
Washington
Paris Siana
Paris
Associated Press
Charles L. Fair
Cuerbourg
Sheppard Very
Dallas
Pef
John L. Shepp
Texarkana
Wells
Chica
Aalveston Coke
Moulton
Marcus Aurelius
Schiller
Emerson
Nixon Waterman
Disraeli
Kant
Lord Chesterfield
Haliburton
Joseph Addi
Oliver W. Holmes
F. F. Montresor
Canon Scott-Holland
Victor
Hugo
Ruskin
Goethe
Claudius
Eer
Saw Hiackeest
Philosopher
Dorothy Vernon
Haddon Hall
Longfellow
Fuller
Spenser
Johnson
Diogenes
Negro Killey
Levator
Gov. Sayers
Pate
Hazelton
Ipeman
William
Calvert
Robertson County
Brazos
Navasota
San Angelo
Edward Pattyy
Denison, Texas
Ward Patterson
Terrell Berthal
Charac
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