Farmers push for accurate census data and nursery listings
The census chief lauds farmers for submitting detailed farm statements, notes a pioneering Pennsylvania farmer’s ledger including livestock and miscellaneous goods, and reports forthcoming schedules on cranberry culture irrigation and nurseries. About 4 000 nurseries are listed with notices to nurserymen to verify locales and update records for a timely nursery bulletin.
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Pennsylvania
United States
Medal for Salomon heirs likely from U S Congress
Congress is expected to award a medal to Haym Salomon’s heirs amid a long contested claim dating to 1848. The report asserts Salomon lent large sums for the patriot cause, with alleged government nonpayment to his widow or children, totaling a claimed 300000 dollars. Salomon, allied with Pulaski and Kosciusko, faced British reprisals before aiding the American Revolution.
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Congress
Haym Salomon
Poland
Pulaski
Kosciusko
Charles III of
Spain
President McKinley Hosts Two Indian Chiefs at White House
President McKinley receives prominent Cherokee chief T. M. Luffington and Creek chief Pleasant Porter. They tour with Rep. William B. Williams and ex-Rep. William E. Springer to discuss pending land allotment treaties and town site titles and the dissolution of tribal government.
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McKinley
T. M. Luffington
Pleasant Porter
William B. Williams
William E. Springer
Congressional
Buttington
Description of the Chicago Sanitary and Ship Canal
The canal links the Chicago River to Lockport, 24.4 miles long from lake to works. It is cut 14 miles through earth and 14 miles through rock, 200 feet wide in earth and 160 feet wide in rock. Water depth along the route runs 22 to 24 feet and inflows occur at Twenty-eighth and Robey streets and Kedzie and Thirty-third streets. Abutting land totals 7,800 acres owned by the sanitary district. The average cost per mile was about $1,000,000.
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Lockport Ie
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Lockport
Twenty-eighth
Robey Streets
Kedzie Avenue
Thirty-third Street
Tragic End To Their Love On Ponca Reservation
Ella Richards a white woman died of smallpox on the Ponca Indian reservation south of Wichita Kansas while nursing her Indian lover Jack Flinthouse who was stricken. She left home secretly to be with him and endured guarded admittance. Both wounded themselves with self-inflicted cuts in a show of devotion. Flinthouse later killed himself after her death.
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Ponca
Wichita
Kan
Miss Richards
Ponca Reservation
Jack Flinthouse
Millvane
Flint House
Flinthouse
Dying Wife's Wish Guides Baltimore Wedding
In Baltimore Park Heights, John H. Cook remarried one week after burying his wife Miss Raney Becker. The dying wife urged the home be kept, and both husbands married their late guest as soon as possible after her death. The new Mrs. Cook is a young woman who recently returned from Europe and had been the Cooks’ guest.
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John H. Cook
Park Heights Avenues
Baltimore
Mr. Cook
Raney Becker
Mrs. Cook
Mr Becker
Army Travel Ration Rules for Moving Troops
The secretary of war set rules for travel rations when troops are away from cooking facilities. Per 100 rations the mix includes 12 pounds soft bread or 100 pounds hard bread, 75 pounds canned beef, 38 one-pound cans baked beans or 15 three-pound cans, 8 pounds roasted coffee, and 15 pounds sugar. After four days on travel rations, canned tomatoes may be added at one pound per man per day. upon arrival at destination, standard rations resume.
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Secretary of War
Heif
Maniac Makes Eleven Mile Run Through Nation’s Daylight Peril
A man from St. Louis named Peter Masipiean, described as insane, ran eleven miles toward Jeffersonville after leaving New Albany. He endured brutal foot injuries, tearing briars, and blood loss, quizá reaching Ulian before being captured near Swartz’s home. Doctors fear exposure may prove fatal.
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Scuseuriz
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de Marsonville
Tod
Nim
St. Louis
New Albany
Jeffersonville
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Ulien
Open Door Views Latin Asia Trade by Ex Consul Williams
Oscar F. Williams argues that American investors will be cautious about Philippine or Orient ventures after the Spanish American conflict. He suggests European capital will favor closer, cheaper ventures at home or in Europe, not distant agencies, and warns that U.S. youth prefer domestic jobs with higher wages. He adds that American justice follows the flag and that peace worldwide benefits commerce in the Philippines and beyond.
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Maana
Orient
Philippines
Europe
New York
Philippine Islands
Boston
United States
Portrait of Empress Elizabeth Exhibition in Vienna
The portrait of Empress Elizabeth by Herr Koppey, presented by the emperor to Countess Marie Festetics de Tolna, is displayed in her majesty's apartments. Viennese aristocracy gather as observers applaud the accurate likeness and the empress's characteristic pose and expression. The emperor himself viewed the painting for an hour, calling the likeness overpowering and noting the unutterably lovely expression.
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Elizabeth
Herr Koppey
Marie Festetics de
Fate of an American Girl Mollie Carter in Paris
Mollie Carter, an American typewriter in Paris, inherited $18,000 from a Duluth uncle. She spent on clothes and Paris frivolities, fell in with a disreputable crowd, and now is critically ill from alleged absinthe use. Doctors fear for her recovery as authorities consider protective action.
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Paris
Duluth
Minn
Misa Carterim
Ste
Abe
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