Panama Canal Plan Draws Enthusiasm and Caution
The United States Panama Canal Commission predicts completion within five years with a 45 mile canal, massive excavation, and modern machinery. Colonel B. M. Harrod estimates 5,000 workers at any time, relying on labor-saving equipment. Jamaicans and Panamanians now employed, with potential low wages and limited need for U.S. laborers.
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Panama
Aiza
Atlantic
Pacific
United States
Jengsh
Isbor
Harrad
Isthoas
Agif
Jamaica Digrees
Eeropstkin Plans Mukden Hold Threatened by Roosevelt
Contemporary comment notes Eeropstkin wants to hold Mukden but lacks full authority. The dispatches suggest a strategic move met with opposition and frustration, implying pressure from broader power dynamics. Roosevelt is invoked as a standard of envy for decisive action amid uncertain control.
Election ease in Mexico cited by Diaz in Sun
Fragmentary line about President Diaz easing Mexican elections cited by Baltimore Sun. Also mentions football season start and casualty record in Baltimore American. Includes a humorous note about a consumptive man lifting a cheese lid in Anne Arundel from Annapolis Capital.
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Diaz
Mexico
Baltimore Sun
Baltimore American
Anxious Inquirer
Anne Arundel
Annapolis
Minutes of merriness and wry old jokes arrive
A collage of quips from Chicago journals and a Cleveland Plain Dealer snippet. It riffs on age before beauty, work versus pleasure, and a vaudeville echo of Scribbler the funny paper writer. A joke about a burglar and a rich man ends with a domestic firewood gag in London fit-Bita.
ANT AND THE WEEVIL TALE OF TEXAS BULLDOG WEAVES FATE
A Brooklyn Eagle piece riffs on the boll weevil invasion and a boastful Guatemala ant. It notes the weevil’s Texan adaptation and the insect bravado clashing with local realities. The text mixes satire with colonial-era bravura about pests and control.
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Grando
Texas
Guatemala
United States
Moments With The Muse Mina Liza Song
Poem style verse from Atlanta Constitution titled Eventing Song with a romantic dialogue. Reader is urged to consider a lover watching a distant meeting under desert sands and sea, with celestial imagery and longing. The piece ends with a candlelit romantic benediction.
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Atlanta Constitution
SELPHER BATHS AT HOME AND SULFUR REMEDY
Readers praise Hancock Liquid Sulphur as a universal remedy for skin diseases and baths at home. Testimonial from Mrs J K Martin of Baltimore cites a birth mark scar healing after using Liquid Sulphur. The Hancock company offers a booklet on medicinal qualities. Whiskey brand Harper advertised as finest safety whiskey sold by Louie Orte in Buffalo.
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Baxemir
J. K. Martin
North Ave
Baltimore
W. Harper
Louie Orte
Buffalo
Letters on the Subway Tavern Reform Saloon
The OBSERVER voices a critical view of a New York reform saloon run by a minister. It contrasts a doxology opening with a vulgar scene, denounces the setup as a recruiting office for vice, and argues reform efforts in such venues fail, ending in moral decline. The piece condemns both the spectacle and the underlying premise.
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Saloop
New York
Bishop Potter
Bowery
East River
Bleeker Street
Bleeker
Mulberry Street
Bany
Bever&gea
Bighop
Ous
Chiiatata
Face over the wire telephoto device shown in Portland
J B Fowler of Portland demonstrates a telephonic device that lets a viewer see the other end as a face through a camera like transmitter. Miss Lillian Fowler acted as the distant observer when she appeared twenty five feet away in another room.
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Portland
Ore
Spsotal
Bays
J. B. Fowler
Fowler
Theresa
Lillian Fowler
Colonel Pearre to Actively Campaign Across District
O Edgar Keller, private secretary to Congressman George A Pearre, says contrary statements aside Colonel Pearre will participate actively in the campaign in the coming weeks and will address the district on his candidacy and the national ticket.
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F Pearre
George A. Pearre
O. Edgar Keller
Boy’s Wild Escape Sparks a Life Saving Cure ad
A family clings to hope as a boy travels 28 miles to obtain Dr King’s New Discovery for Consumption. W H Brown of Leesville reports instant relief from asthma and throat coughs after using the remedy. The ad touts cures for consumption, pneumonia, bronchitis, coughs, colds and grip with guaranteed bottles 50 cents and 1.00, free trial at A L Pearre’s drug store.
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Ife
A. L Pearre
Bucklen Arnica Salve Claim Card
Bucklen's Arnica Salve boasts worldwide fame for cures and claims superiority to any salve or lotion for cuts burns sores and many other afflictions. It guarantees a cure and lists outlets including A L Peetre's drug store.
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Bucklen
Pilen
A. L. Peatre’s
Droge
Admiral Schley’s Forty Five Years Under the Flag debut
The Baltimore Sun reports a September 23 publication of Admiral Schley’s memoir Forty Five Years Under the Flag with advance reviews praising his leadership and character. It notes extensive press attention and parallels to Andrew Jackson, asserting Schley led at Santiago and debunking critics and the Navy secretary’s criticisms.
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Baltimore Sun
Gay Carleton Lae
Johns’Hopkins Universlty
Ange
Winfield Scots Scbley
Sobley
United States
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Pointe i Catamon
Cromwell
Napoleon
Flere
Hearst
Andrew Jackson
New England
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Admiral Schley
Jackson
Sohley
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Theo
Grant
Mattara
New England Clique
Santiago
Secretary of the Navy
Maryland
Sampson
Maclay
Long
Cort
Admi ral Sampson records face criticism amid calm rebuttal
Chicago dispatch reports violent robbery near Riverside injuring and killing Italian railway workers. Two robbers attacked a section house, fatally shot two Italians, seriously wounded another, while the attackers escaped with money, as authorities pursue suspects.
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Bobbere
Chicago
Rabders
Riverside
Secon
Ta Ss
Toll Gate Keeper Promotes Doan's Kidney Pills Option
A Frederick keeper of Hastchurch street recounts kidney trouble and credits Doan's Kidney Pills from Clinton E. Main's drug store for relief after a few days. The ad notes price and US agents Foster M. Milburn Co. Doan's is recommended with brand recall. Also lists disposed judgments across multiple Maryland towns.
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Hastchurch Street
Frederick
Dean
Clinton E. Main
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