Charleston Exposition Opens Amid Ceremony and Parade
Charleston hosts the South Carolina Inter state and West Indian Exposition opening with 30 000 attendees and a 46 gun salute as President Roosevelt presses the start button. Gov McSweeney Mayor Smyth and Chauncey Depew attend with a message from the White House read to the crowd.
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South Carolina
Charleston
Exposition
Roosevelt
Washington
F. W. Wagener
President Exposition Company
The
Exposition Company
F. W Wagener
Ellison Capers
Capers
Wagener
McSweeney
Smith
Chauncey M. Depew
New York
Depew
White House
Mother Reunites With Daughter After Twenty Nine Years
At McKeesport Pennsylvania Mrs Jane Williams died and her long separated daughter Mary now Mrs Annie Madden of Liverpool England came to her bedside. The mother rallied briefly then died holding her daughter as relatives recalled the child’s disappearance decades earlier. The tale recalls a candy store abduction in Chicago and years of search without result. The daughter, grown, was summoned to join her mother shortly before death.
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Jane Williams
McKeesport
Williams
Chicago
Mary
England
Bank Bills In Car Wheels
Treasury officials destroy millions of depreciated notes each year by maceration turning paper money into pulp used as car wheel filler. Denominated notes are replaced with new ones while the process yields government revenue of about 40 dollars per ton and costs borne by national banks.
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Treasury Department
Washington
Treasury
Secretary of the Treasury
United States
Bureau of Printing and Engraving
Prince Henry faces unpopularity amid royal marriage strain
Reports from Holland claim Queen Wilhelmina and Prince Henry, consort to the young queen, are estranged with a quarrel preceding her illness. Dowager Queen Emma is said distressed but silent. The queen’s health reportedly improves as court tensions persist.
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Prince Henry
Holland
Mecklenburg
Wilhelmina
Emma
The Artichoke and Other Old World Foods
The excerpt discusses ancient opinions on vegetables including artichokes cucumbers and oranges. It cites Galen misgivings about artichokes noting their nourishing yet troublesome juice and mentions how ancients ate the root of the crown artichoke and ate other plants despite suspected adverse effects. The text references Mark Twain and nineteenth century commentary on fruit and vegetables.
US Surplus Farm Exports Support Global Hunger
The United States exports about 1 billion dollars in surplus agricultural goods annually. England remains the main customer, with 408 million dollars in 1900, Germany spent 134 million, and France buys roughly 45 million in agricultural products, mainly bread and meat.
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United States
America
England
Germany
France
Long Stretch Without Cities From Tomsk to Irkutsk
Siberian rail line covers 932 miles from Tomsk to Irkutsk with Krasnoaka as the only town by name, population 28 000, amid sparse settlements.
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Tomsk
Irkutsk
Krasnoaka
Memorial House of Mrs. Eddy to Become Church Memorial
The Lynn Massachusetts dwelling at 12 Broad Street, where Mary Baker Eddy wrote Science and Health, is purchased by her followers to be remodeled as a church while preserving the upstairs room she used. Officials say the room will remain a memorial to Eddy and her work amid protests from two long occupied families inside the house.
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Lynn
Mass
Mary Baker
G. Eddy
Christian Science Church
Broad Street
Ao Lane
Stamping Out the Fever in Havana Sept 1901 Health Findings
The Havana vital statistics report for September 1901 shows the best health conditions in years. Only 339 deaths occurred that month, with a death rate of 15.64 per thousand, far lower than previous Septembers. Yellow fever deaths for the year till October 1 total five, the lowest in eleven years.
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Havana
Division of Insular Affairs
War Department
Sultan’s Reign Suppresses Turkish Authors Says Memdouh Bey
Memdouh Bey, the Turkish poet in London, tells Era Magazine that the sultan’s rule stifles Turkish literature. He argues that writers face persecution for any nonconformist work and that the best authors go into exile while publishers fear political repercussions. The sultan is described as especially hostile to poets.
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Memdouh Bey
London
James Walter Smith
Era
Talkers of English in Ireland and the old pronunciations
A discussion of Irish speech showing that Irish talkers often retain older English words and pronunciations. Examples include the preposition against, and the broad vowels in please sea beast complete. The piece notes influence from French on pronunciation and cites Dryden Pope and Munster speech.
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Dean Swift
Pope
England
Ireland
Waller
Dryden
Tipperary
Anna
Munster
Ogilby
Newcastle
London Academy
Football Muscle and the Gentleman Fighter
The article notes that two months of tough football training emphasize stamina and resilience over sheer bulk. It praises the coach for teaching players to be fit, tough, and disciplined while remaining gentlemen on the field, capable of disabling an opponent without arrogance.
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Iya Ainslee
Hinkey
Yale
Simms
Pennsylvania
Sandow
Rich Finds in Egypt Illuminate Prehistoric Era
A message from Gen. Charles W. Darling describes Prof. Petrie's Abydos discoveries illuminating Egypt's prehistoric period dating back to about 7000 B C. Early graves show no skilled craftsmen but pottery and tools. later Libyan and Amorite migrations brought silver lapis lazili and refined metalwork before a later decline into the first dynasty.
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Egypt
Charles W. Darling
Utica
Egypt Exploration Fund
Petrie
Abydos
Nile
Syria
Circulation of the Blood Passes Through the Heart
A German scientist estimates the total blood in the body passes through the heart in about thirty two beats under normal conditions. For a 170 pound man, blood weighing thirteen pounds circulates through the heart about two and a quarter times per minute, giving an estimated flow near thirty pounds per minute. This yields about 1,800 pounds per hour or 43,200 pounds per day moving through the heart, equating in mechanical energy to roughly 640,000 foot pounds of work per day.
Frank Munsey Witness in Washington Barbershop Case
Frank Munsey the magazine man and recent purchaser of a Washington dairy paper was subpoenaed as a witness in a case against a barber shop for violating Sunday closing laws. The incident highlights ongoing tensions with the prohibition-era rule in the nation’s capital.
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Frank Munsey
Washington
National Capital
Mr. Munsey
Willing to Please and the Suggar Spelling Glitch
A Washington Post anecdote about a town lawyer's stenographer famed for charming collars and a grand pompadour. She misspells sugar as suggar and, upon noticing the missing h, responds with mild humor as her employer points out the error.
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Washington Post
Foam settles in a bar joke from Albany Journal
A man asks if beer foam settles. bartender says it does. After drinking, the man tries to leave without paying, claiming foam would settle. The bartender repeats the joke and offers another drink, confirming the charge. The man agrees to a whisky.
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Albany Journal
Tunnel Through the Sierras Largest U.S. railroad tunnel
The Herculean task of tunneling through the Sierra Nevada is about to begin. When completed it will be the nation's largest railroad tunnel, requiring an outlay of three to five million dollars to bore a 27 000 foot passage through the range.
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Sierras
Sierra Mountains
California
United States
Greyhounds: new menace to coyotes on the plains
Ranchmen of the west report success in using trained greyhounds to hunt and kill coyotes. Clinton E. Worden championed the breed, showing hounds can single and pack hunt, chase, and mince the marauders. Packs train on ranches, providing sport and ridding plains of troublesome neighbors.
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West
Clinton E. Worden
Plains
Princess of German Blood Dies in Illinois in Bloomington
Mrs. Hermann Schroeder, daughter of Prince Baron Von Buchan, once banished from the royal court, died in Bloomington Illinois. Her husband Dr. Schroeder an architect and natural philosophy teacher, fled revolutionary ideas and later helped found Gilman and El Paso. She leaves two children and her estate is valued around $500000.
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Bloomington
Herman Schroeder
Bland Royal
Germany
Schroeder
Prince Baron von Buchan
Bilucher
Waterloo
Gilman
el Paso
South American troubles and historic wars noted
The National Review notes chronic quarrels among South American states and with neighbors. It recalls Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay versus Paraguay leader Lopez in 1865 1870. Peruva mutiny 1877. Chile Peru Bolivia war 1879 1881. civil wars in Chile 1891 and Brazil 1893 4. ongoing unrest in Colombia Venezuela and Uruguay since 1894 with two states currently in conflict.
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National Review
Brazil
Uruguay
Lopez
Paraguay
Chile
Peru
Bolivia
Braz
Colombia
Venezuela
Bavarian Peasants Noted for Hospitable Customs
Travelers praise Bavarian peasants for universal hospitality in cottages welcoming visitors with bread water milk or grapes. The record Herald correspondent notes even the poorest cottages offer a glass of water or milk to guests entering in peace.
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Chicago
Record-Herald
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