Prediction of Virginia GOP convention and Cuban policy notes
The item cites the New York Times predicting a Virginia Republican state convention to nominate a ticket this fall. It mentions Senor Canovas pleased by Congress adjournment on Cuban recognition and Weyler seeking 40 000 more troops. It notes a Boston wool firm shipping to New York before the Dingley act and comments on greenbacks, tariffs, trusts, and New York trade revival prospects. It closes with New York merchants urged to stay alert to keep prestige in commerce.
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Virginia
New York Times
Boston
New York
McKinley
Treasury Department
The
New York Herald
Kinelt
Kaeliy
Union
Warning to bicyclists urges safe postride care in heat
In midsummer days the Philadelphia Record prints a physician warning bicyclists not to take cold baths after exertion. He cautions that a cold bath can strain the heart and cause congestion. A tepid bath later, or waiting, helps the body recover and avoid severe colds and distress.
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Philadelphia
Massachusetts Ladies Outnumber Men in Census Report
A census notes 2,500,000 population with 70,000 more women than men in Massachusetts and reveals most native born men avoid matrimony. It quips that native men marry out of state and suggests measures to curb female loneliness, referencing the American institution in humor.
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Massachussetts
Massachusetts
Baltimore
Massachusetts Minervas
Ito Says Japan Seeks Equal Welcome in U S and Canada
The Marquis Ito, former Japanese foreign minister, now in Paris, says Japan desires harmony with the United States and the Sand Islands and wishes that subjects in the United States and Canadian lands receive the same welcome as elsewhere, reflecting a war sentiment easing.
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Ito
Japan
Paris
United States
Wiehea
Japan Demand Equality Before Hawaii Annexation
Japan seeks equal treatment in the United States and any acceptance of such parity could clear the way for Hawaiian annexation. The text argues Japan hopes for national equality in law and status, potentially easing outreach to press for annexation alignment, while warning of possible strain if denied.
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Japan
United States
Stay On the Farm or Face the City Race
President Jordan urges rural youths to remain on farms as urban competition grows fiercer. The Journal of Industry emphasizes enterprise and self making careers, warning of hardships if country youths chase elite city life. The Virginian highlights the cost of ambition and the value of farming roots.
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Jordan
Stanford University
Eces
Journal of Industry, Irrigation
San Francisco
Yong
Sim
Ely
Notes and Opinions on Epidemics and Glass Bonnets
A note from Monongalia county West Virginia reports a new well discovery. Birmingham Alabama faces a smallpox outbreak despite efforts to stamp it out in Port Deposit Clevenland Evergreen and Carbon. the disease remains unabated there. A Venetian glassmaker now produces glass bonnets by the thousand using water resistant ghassa cloth with brilliant color and a skin friendly fine cloth made from ghass.
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Monongalia County
Wy Va
Tirmingham
Ala
Port Deposit
Cleenville
Evergreen
Birmingham
Knee Pants and Shirts Exposed in 19 Cent Deals
A garish 19 cent sale features knee pants for boys sizes 3 to 8 in striped ash fabrics, linen collars, unlaundered shirts with pearl buttons, and ribbed ankle slips. Window displays tout assorted shams and other garments priced at nineteen cents each, with items like men’s nightshirts and drawers listed in a cluttered catalog style.
Verdi Composing Requiem for Own Funeral
Vienna reports Signor Verdi is composing a funeral requiem. Yale paleontology chair Professor Marsh has had no salary since 1860. Terence Powderly, former Scranton mayor, named Commissioner General of Immigration. Tennessee’s Colonel Miss Nellie Ely, famed on the Governor’s Staff, is said to be very popular.
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Vienna
Signor Verdi
Marsh
Yale
Terence V. Powderly
Scranton
Nellie Ely
Tennessee
Colonel Ely
Baltimore Herald
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Chen
Sabor
Ines
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Mrs. Winslow
Oliver’s
Main Street
Bianhuud
Thuny
State Medical CO
Quah
Neb
John S. Etheridge
Derkley, VA
Earl Street
Norfolk
Portsmouth
Joan
Ethemidge
J. M. FP
Trotter, Drug- Gist
Trotter
Main and
Church Streets
Chichester
Engilah
Jeugelin
Lara
Cour As
Humen
Liberal Tohms
Chas. M. Steiff
I Mainet
Norfolk, VA
Henry MacLachlan
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