Global notes mix of old world and new world news
A collage of brief items reports on long spans since counterfeiting ending in a strange boast, European court receptions, transatlantic rail speeds, Chinese emigration, a fatal apple delivery accident, rattlesnake oil farming, a veteran railroad rider, a New London dispatcher as a pioneering woman, armor plate tests, socialist vote history, California’s women honoring an explorer, Peruvian trade, and a stamp anniversary with Dundee’s Dans Chalmers credited for postage invention.
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TRE
Dans Chalmers
Dundee
Beatland
Tag Kisehibad
United States
Switzerland
Bavaria
France
Epitome of the Week on U S statistics and disasters
The article summarizes U S statistics for the year ending, including rail mileage 169,437 miles, 1,777 railway corporations, 740,801 employees, and total capitalization. It notes 6,320 deaths and 20,084 injuries on railways, patents issued 114,300, and Indian citizenship rises. It also covers post office finances, debt, banks, fires, and notable criminal cases including Indianapolis assault and Alaska population data.
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United States
Secretary of the Interior
Alaska
Dunne
PolLock
Post Office Department
Ist
Treasury
Treasur
T. Mendentall
United States Geodetic and Coast Survey
Indiana
Ohio Boundary Line
Ohio
Windom
Mra
Elerks
Nereker
Foster
Len Lacy
Eccentric Deaths and Trials Highlight Coastal and City News
Drowning near Erie, Graham Roberts and William Roberts die after a boat capsizes. Mary McVeagh, 68, dies at Bradock Vic, after long cancer illness and questionable remedies. In Troy, Rev Father Peter Klavermans marks 61st priestly anniversary as the oldest priest in the country. New York Court allows rail pass riders to seek damages for injuries. In Springfield George Kart shoots his wife and commits suicide over money. Maj Thomas Harward dies at 102 in Brooklyn after long military service. The New York cruiser launch at Cramp’s shipyard attended by Secretary Tracy. Samuel Pollats shoots his wife and kills himself in Philadelphia. Dynamite works at Haverstraw, N Y ignite amid wartime fears. An oil operator in Warren, Pa, thrown from a vehicle, life insured for substantial amount.
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Graham
Willizan Roberts
Erie
Ayton
Mary McVeagh
Hraddock
Vic
Troy N. C
Peter Klavermans
Yi Court of Appeals of
New York
Springfield
Mass
George Kart
Warwiels
Thomas Harward
Brooklyn
N.Y
An assortment of 19th century incidents and deaths recounted
A scattered report notes the fiftieth anniversary of Arch Bishop Kenrick’s priestly ordination in St. Louis, a small car fire in Chicago yards, the destruction of eighty sacks of mail matter, and deaths including George Wheaton Aten and Josiah Carpenter. It also mentions John White confessing to embezzling $50,000 and a robbery on the St. Louis & San Francisco line near Glendale.
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Forks
Arc Light
and Power Company
Chicago
Alaska
Indianapolis
Charles Bisso
Blanche Staten
Bisso
St. Paul
Iris
Wesley Scott
Scottsville
Ind
United States
James N. Johnson
Georgia
Columbus
New Orleana
Arkansas State Treasury
Isaac M. Brown
Indiana
Fink
A. B. Spies
Wip
Sterling
Ill
Lyers County
Kan
Oregon
Olympia
Wash
Virginia
McKinney
Detroit
George J. Reis
Justice Woodingn
Peter Richard Kenrick
St. Louis Iia
Northwestern
Chicave
George Wheaton Aten
hind-Hill Allen
John White
San Francisco Call
White
Josiah Carpenter
Preston County
San Francisco
Glendale
St. Louis
Nt. Kulispell
World Distress and Conflicts Report Across Regions
Reports describe the Par kill disaster with divers drowned under contract labor in Mexico. Five boys die from a bomb blast in Southampton while others are injured. A Blackburn explosion kills twenty. Chinese rebels kill 800 foreigners near Takou and destroy property. Santiago officials deny US demands for apology or indemnity. Archduke Henry dies in Vienna and mass deaths are noted in Russia. Volga provinces face famine and tree bark eating. Mexico faces severe scarcity and possible riots. A London letter from Mentone quotes Charles Spurgeon on slow health gains.
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Parkill
Pacific Ocean
Mexico
Southampton
Eng
Blackburn
Takou
China
Aece
Santiago
United States
Vienna
Archduke Henry
Austria
Russia
Volga
London
Mentone
Hats
Rey
Charles
Spurgeon
Lis
Famine Relief Efforts and Miscellaneous Tragedies Reported
A sprawling 19th century item list notes relief plans for famine Russia from Minneapolis, a shipload of flour to be sent by January, and 4,000 American millers enlisted. It also records multiple disasters, murders, fires, accidents, and deaths across the United States, including a Philadelphia hanging, Virginia train robbery, Japanese earthquakes death toll, and a series of local calamities with scattered details and dates.
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Russia
Vios
Minneapolis
Keleiny
America
Dour Amlemasus
Ratusus
East Tennessee, Virginia & Georgia Road
Rome
Grondk Martie
Denver
Col
Lamits
Stafford County
Kaw
Prank Palmer
Tremaine
Fort Sully
Bonham
Pex, Gris & Co
Buffalo
N.Y
Ainfield
N. J
Watla
Clement Kitts
Lima
Mara
Evizanera Donan
Damariscotta
Memphis
Tenn
China
Fire claims four children in residential blaze
A deadly fire trapped a mother and three children in a home while two boys aged 15 and 12 escaped by leaping from windows. Investigators found a stove overturned in a grocery store, suggesting the blaze began there and spread to the upstairs rooms where the victims were found.
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Charles
Eddie
Max
Tony
Apted
Explosion at Haverstraw dynamite factory kills five
A dynamite factory in Haverstraw New York was blown up on Wednesday afternoon killing four workers inside and another man nearby. The frame building burned for hours though adjacent structures containing dynamite were spared. The Clinton Dynamite Company owned the facility and the blast shattered glass miles away. The cause remained unknown as shock rattled nearby towns and even a tunnel remained intact.
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Haverstraw
N. Y
New York
Dee 3
Clinton Dynamite Company
Congress City
Influenza Spreads Across Cities In Early Winter
Reports from Loxpon Paris Berlin and Edinburg indicate rising influenza deaths and hospital admissions. Paris records about 100 deaths in the last week, Berlin reports 47 admissions with 5 deaths, and Edinburg sees a surge lifting its weekly death rate to about 31 per 1000.
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Loxpon
Brouarded
Paris
Berlin
Edinburg
Catholic Congress Planned for Chicago During World’s Fair
Preliminary steps outline a Catholic congress in Chicago with delegates from American dioceses and Catholic universities. The nine member coordinating committee will work with a lay committee to select discussions on social and economic questions from the pope’s encyclical.
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Chicago
Sir. Louis
Cardinal Gibbons
America
Gift to Oberlin College Enriches Endowment
Cleveland December reports a bequest of 65,000 dollars from Rev. C. V. Spear to Oberlin College. The will provides small annuities to his wife, a child, and a family friend. Spear previously funded the Spear Library building plus a 25,000 dollar library endowment. This marks a second sizable gift to Oberlin within a month.
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Cleveland
Dee
Oberlin College
CV. Spear
Fever in an orphan home strikes twenty five children
Twenty five children at the Catholic male orphan asylum one mile west of Ames, Ohio, fall ill with typh fever, a contagious disease. Several inmates have died and others are at risk, as officials fear it may spread beyond the home unless swift action is taken.
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Amlance
Dee
Asylue
Car Turns a Somerset and Kills Two Men at Mott Haven
A passenger car carrying thirteen people toppled at Mott Haven Junction on the Harlem branch of the New York Central. The vehicle overturned, fatally striking two men walking on an adjacent track. all other passengers escaped serious injury.
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Somerset
New York
Mott Haven Junction
Marlem
New York Central
Financial summary notes debt reduction and money supply shifts
The report details reductions in bonded debt and circulating notes, changes in total money in circulation, and treasury assets and liabilities. It cites a June balance of £691,597,405, added receipts of $750,821,805, and disbursements of $731,126,876, with a remaining transferable balance of $720,228,884 and a net gold increase around $40 million.
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Wwe
Treasury
United Strates
National Bank
United States
Miscellaneous Historical Snippets From Diverse Topics
An assortment of oddities and legends from Tacoma and Arkansas. Items mention a deep well with mysterious wind, the Tonkawa tribe and Nez Perce reservation, a Southern town’s papyrus style motto, antebellum superstitions about a honeysuckle, a practical wedding joke involving a telegraph envelope, and a barley exchange ending in rice.
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Tacoma
Wash
Tonkawa
Indiana
Arkansas
Fact Figures Show Large Scale Global and U S Statistics
The report cites 8.06 billion pieces of bail matter distributed yearly by postal clerks. It notes world horsepower at about a billion men, New Jersey listing 84 007 furs and 813 abandoned farms with 265 per acre value, and 469 276 immigrants arriving in nine months. It also records Russia's 1802 marine ministry budget at 49 890 272 rubles, 5.5 million more than the current year, plus 55 000 Americans crossing the Atlantic from April 1 to October 1 with estimated post arrival spending around 1 000 dollars per person.
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Tsu
New Jersey
United States
Ministry of the Marine
Russia
Atlantic
Europe
Dr Sage's Remedy Offer Explained For Catarrh Relief
A skeptical reader considers a long standing catarrh condition and a bold offer from remedies makers. The text markets Dr Sage’s Remedy as a dramatic solution claimed to soothe cleanse and permanently relieve chronic head catarrh with a promise owners have offered for decades.
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Dr. Sage
Green's August Flower Cures Dyspepsia Says Philadelphia Wife is Free
John H Foster of Philadelphia reports his wife, a delicate thirty year old, suffered five years with dyspepsia and vomiting after meals. After two bottles of August Flower she can eat anything and says she never had indigestion. Doctors had failed to help.
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Green
Thomas
John H. Foster
Brown Street
Philadelphia
Thanksgiving Reflections On Abundant Harvests And Health
A Thanksgiving message celebrates a remarkable harvest with unprecedented foreign demand. It urges care for the land and notes pulmonary illnesses threaten farming communities. The ad promotes Reid's German Cough and Kidney Cure from Sylvan Remedy Co of Peoria Illinois as a remedy.
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Nature
Reid
Sylvan Remedy CO
Peoria
Ill
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