Maryland mint julep and power promises loom large
A Baltimore style note announces summer with a real Maryland mint julep recipe. The piece discusses Baltimore police and crime news, Carnegie offers to towns like Cumberland, a machinists strike tests labor influence, and new hydroelectric schemes along Conewago Falls and Potomac river showing power for York Lancaster Harrisburg and D.C. areas.
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Maryland
Baltimore News
York
Susquehauna
Conewasago Falls
Korea
Lancaster
Harrisburg
Notanewous
Buffalo
N. Y
Niagara Falls
Conewago Falls
Great Falls
Potomac River
Montgomery County
District of Columbia
Contemporaries Debate Baltimore Politics and Pigeon Shoot Controversy
Contemporary comment questions nervousness in China and notes Baltimore election results as not a political indicator. It criticizes Annapolis Capital’s live pigeon shoot as cruel, calling out dead birds on the grounds and urging humane reform. It reflects on foreign deaths and McKinley mourning in a national mood.
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Annapolis Gan Club
Annapolis Capital
First Lady and Nation in Tense Reflection Time
In the Camberland Times a reverent note follows the First Lady's stance as the public weighs fear and duty toward the leader. The piece links national sentiment to the president's influence, presenting a cautious mood amid threats and uncertainty.
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Camberland Times
Minutes of Merriness Riotous Dinner Table Chats
A collage of stagey quips about marriage money and social circles from various papers. Characters tease each other over love, fortune and fate while pondering ambitions and aging.
United States plural or singular in war debates
A collection of editorial clippings discusses grammar about the United States usage, noting split opinions on is versus are and highlighting a general shift toward using is in facts and formal writing. It also cites cartoons and editorials from Chicago, San Francisco, Albany, and Milwaukee on the topic.
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Giant
San Francisco Chronicle
John W. Foater
United States
Uncle Sam
Albany Journal
Deafness Cure Promoted by Constitutional Remedies
An advertisement claims deafness caused by catarrh is curable only by constitutional remedies rather than focal treatments. It asserts the Eustachian tube inflammation leads to deafness, offering $100 for any deafness case not cured by Hall's Catarrrh Cure and inviting readers to request a brochure from Cheney & Co of Toledo, Ohio. It also mentions Ball's Family Pills as a recital.
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Hall
Cheney & GO
Toledo
Ball
Moments of the Muse and Texas Riches Ballad
A verse piece contrasts hopeful musings from Moments with the Muse with a working saint in hard times. The poem references oil strikes in Texas, Wall Street wealth, and the speaker’s continued labor to support Maggie and the baby, noting perseverance despite fortune fever. © S. E. Kisek Chicago Record and Herald.
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Maggie
S. E. Kisek
Chicago Record and Herald
Mrs McKinley's Improvement and Washington Plans
San Francisco reports Mrs. McKinley improving and cheerful as she rests in bed. No date set for travel to Washington. cabinet members to accompany her until she can journey, then proceed east directly. Also notes ex mayor Patrick J Gleason of Long Island City and trolley incident at Totowa with narrow escape, and a Missouri mother poisoning two children before taking an overdose herself.
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Washington
San Francisco
McKinley
Benjamin J. McKinley
Bush Street
George Morse
Morse
Scott
Scott House
Pat” Gleason
New York
Patrick J. Gleason
Long Island City
Battle Ax” Gleason
Gleason
Ireland
California
Hink’s Point
Cavalry Cemetery
Paterson
N. J
Totowa
St. Louis
Mich
Elmer Quimby
Didi
Purely Personal Notes and Quick Health Remedies
Pleasant paragraphs note Miss Bessie Levy and Dr Thomas M Williamson visiting Baltimore. A New Jersey man found buried treasure in his yard, enough to live on if health remains good. Advertisements tout Hostetter’s Stomach Bitters and Boschee’s German Syrup as cures for digestive and lung ailments, with claims of wide US distribution and two million bottles sold annually. Green’s Prize Almanac and Main’s Drug Store are mentioned as sources.
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Bessie Levy
West Third Street
Baltimore
Thomas M. Williamson
Court Square
New Jersey
Renatty
Wty
Captain Kidd
Hostetter
A. Bosrhee
United States
Green
Main’s Drug Store
Boers Reinforce. De Wet Near Philippoison Border
Cape Town reports eight hundred Boers crossed the Orange River to reinforce eastern districts. De Wet is located near Philippois with about 40 horsemen, and commandoes in the Orange River colony are instructed to cross the river. Several British patrols have been ambushed.
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Cape Town
Orange River
de Wet
Philippois
Orange River Colony
Cape Line
Rocky Ridge Notes and Local News Highlights
Local items report weddings, moves, and farm work around Rocky Ridge and Emmitsburg. Notable events include the May 16 wedding of Thaddeus Mazell and Miss G L Baker conducted by Rev. Chas Rineward, and Ascension Day visits by D M Biggs of Baltimore. Farmers report corn planting near completion and preparations for Grammitt’s barn.
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Baxter Smith
Chas
J. Howard Miller
Rocky Ridge
Thaddeus Mazell
G L. Baker
Chas. Rineward
D. M. Biggs
Baltimore
J. D. Wood
Wood
Chas. H. Miller
Chas. Creager
Alice Robinson
Emmitsburg
Cora Barrack
Frederick
Jno. Shearer
Albert Brenemen
Jno
Wm. Long
Loys Station
Baseball results and presidential address noted
National League games in Philadelphia saw Philadelphia defeat Chicago six to four. American League results in Washington ended five to four with Philadelphia losing. Detroit routed Cleveland eighteen to one. In other news, the President plans to address the Forty fifth and Forty sixth Infantry Regiments now in camp at the Presidio after their Philippine service, with a date to be announced to General Shafter.
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Philadelphia
Chicago
Washington
Cleveland
Detroit
San Francisco
United States
Philippines
Presidio
Shafter
Census shows Ireland population drops 5.3 percent
Ireland's census records 4,456,546 people, down 5.3 percent, while Scotland reports 4,471,957 residents. Meanwhile Jacksonville fire relief gifts total 53,370 dollars, and E. J. Walter is freed after being charged with attempting to blackmail Senator Kearns. In Peru the cabinet crisis nears resignation, and in Terre Haute a Fifth U.S. artillery veteran loses a hand at Buffalo Bill's show. Cumberland voters reject Andres Carnegie's conditional 25,000 sift.
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Scotland
Jacksonville
E. J. Walter
Kearns
Utah
Omaha
Terre Haute
Ind
James Myerly
Fifth
United States Artillery
Buffalo Bill
Cumberland
Andres Carnegie
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John N. Clary
Abram A. Hargett
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Andrew J. Wachter
Utica Mills
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Frederick County
Roger McSharry
Wiliam G. Suker
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Philip B. Kunkel
Charles William Schutze
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Phebe Davis
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Lsmote
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Montgomery
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Francis Scott Key
Barbara Frietchie
Landis
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Lexington
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