Mazatlan Seen As Possible Plague Influx Point
A Washington observer warns Mazatlan on Mexico’s Pacific coast could become a conduit for bubonic plague into the United States if quarantine and overland routes fail. The memo notes Mazatlan’s port role, rail gaps, and proximity to Durango Acapulco and Acapulco with trade via steamers and coastal routes. Local wealth centers around mines coffee and commerce, with cathedral and customs buildings described.
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Tare
San Francen
Uttle
Durango
Sierra de Nayarit
Itlih
Tropics
Acanulco
United States
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World leaders paid for actual work performed
A historical survey lists salaries of heads of state by minutes of work. It ranks the czar at eighty-one dollars per minute for real duties, with Austria, Italy, Germany and others following, while the United States pays the president forty cents per minute for actual work.
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Austria
Franck
Italy
Sal
Germany
Kaiser
Ives Edward VII
Spain
Alfonso
Sweden
Belgium
Denmark
United States
Southern labor and slavery debated in census figures
The article notes that many Southern families rely on slave labor yet others are self supporting. It cites census data comparing white workers over 15 across states, showing lower engagement in the South than the North and arguing about industrial conditions and the impact of slavery on Southern labor. Rev. J. M. Hawley is referenced in Thoughts.
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South
United States
J. M. Hawley
Mason and Dixon Line and Southern idle wealth
The passage argues the Mason and Dixon line did not create men who despise labor. It notes that across Southern states, the white population living on investment income without work was much smaller than in the North.
His Mother's Smile Inspires a Civil War Leader
Gen. Wager Swayne, recently deceased, recalled his Columbus Ohio mother whose warmth encouraged a poor clerk who became pivotal as he later guided freed slaves. Secretary of War Stanton, famed as stern, remembered the quiet kindness that his mother’s smile once sparked, linking personal kindness to public courage. The piece reflects on affectionate memory and character shaping leadership.
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Columbus
Ohio
Freedmen’s Bureau
Alabama
Sidwin M. Stanton
Gen. Swayne
Stanton
War Department
Secretary
Ogee Swayne
New Book News From Major Houses
Amelia Barr writes on love and memory while Muriel Handley Spicer issues Toy Dogs and How to Breed Them. Scribners previews Middle-Aged Love Stories by Josephine Daskam. Beatrice Harraden’s Katherine Frenchan. Mary Wilkins Freeman returns as Mary E B Wilkins. Forefront authors include Anna Katherine Green and Margaret Deland with Chester Tales. Wilbur Chamberlin letters Ordered to China. Moulton on Shakespeare as moral laboratory. Gordon Keith by Thomas Nelson Page is a sprawling Civil War to twentieth century saga. Harper Brothers to publish R H Russell assets. George Ade and others join.
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Muriel Handley Spicer
Macmillan Company
Scribners
Josephine Daskam
Anna Katherine Green
Bobbs- Merrill Company
Katherine Frenchan
Beatrice Harraden
Dodd, Mead & Co
the Fowler
Margaret Deland
Europe
Harper’s Magazine
Mary Wilkins- Freeman
Rose Bush
Doubleday, Tage & Co
Mary EB. Wilkins
Peter Newell
Wilbur J. Chamberlin
New York Sun
China
Pekin
Shakespeare
Richard G. Moulton
Thomas Nelson Page
Gordon Keith
Charles Scribner’s Sons
New York City
Virginia
New York
Harper & Brothers
R. H. Russell
Mr. Russell
Russell
Colonel Harvey
Harpers
George Ade
F. P. Dunne
Charles Dang Gibson
Dickenss Boys Newspaper God's Hill Gazette Described
A historical note details the God's Hill Gazette produced by Dickens's sons during holidays. It ran weekly for four years with humorous letters and patient witticisms by Dickens, who contributed under assumed names. The 1865 rail accident tale is noted, along with a Christmas entry about Mr Dickenson.
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Dickens’ Sons
Dickens
F. G. Kitton
Henry Fielding Dickens
Dickenson
Gad’s Hill
Indian Court at Pine Ridge Sentences Elder for Grave Robbery
Judge John Burns reports on a native court at Pine Ridge with four full blood Vodians as justices. Chief Shooder Bear and associate justices Fast Horse Standing Bear and Iron Crow presided over Sam Black Wolf for desecrating Louisa Pretty Cloud's grave. Black Wolf received six months in the agency guard house. The judges rely on native concepts of justice and refer complex issues to Major Brennan, the agent, for guidance.
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Deadwood
John EH. Burns
Pine Ridge Indian Agency
John B. Brennan
Prince ‘Albert
Shooder Bear
Fast Horse
Standing Bear
Iron Crow
Burns
Sam Black Wolf
Louisa Pretty Cloud
Wolf
Tragedy on weakened Nemaha bridge claims three lives
In Sterling Nebraska a flood washed away a bridge approach on the Nemaha river. Frank Harns, his sister in law Mrs. Ed Puhike, and her six year old son drowned when a wagon with horses fell into a deep hole. Recovery crews later pulled the bodies from two hundred feet below the bridge.
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Sterling
Neb
Nemaha
Ed. Puhike
Frank Harns
Puhlice
Harns
Thieving tramp arrested in Long Pine shop raid
Yesterday morning a tramp entered Anton Spemn’s tailor shop in Long Pine Nebraska and stole three pairs of hose from the show window. The marshal captured him in the railroad yards and after brief jail time the man was released and left town.
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Long Pine
Neb
Anton Spemn
Ioss
Farmhand Jesse Moore Shoots Self Near Ulysses Neb
Jesse Moore about twenty one years old shot and killed himself Friday afternoon at Larry Ramsey’s farm five miles southwest of here. He was found seated in a chair with a rifle between his knees and part of his head shot away. It is unclear whether the death was accidental or by his own hand. Moore was single.
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Ulysses
Neb
Jesse Moore
Larry Ramsey
Moore
Norton will filed for probate in Louisville
The will of Captain W. F. Norton, late Louisville capitalist and landowner who died at Coronado Beach, California, was filed for probate. The estate is valued around 1 million dollars with $71,900 in bequests to local friends and the remainder likely to be the Baptist Orphans Home of Louisville. Norton was not affiliated with any church.
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Louisville
W. F. Norton
Coronado Beach
Cal
Baptist Orphans Home of
Norton
Laundry Men Return to Citywide Service
Laundry workers reclaim operations across the city as establishments reopen after a period of disruption. Union leaders say resumed service will restore full laundry access for households and businesses.
Omaha Laundry Strike Eases as Workers Return to Jobs
In Omaha on May 19, about half of the usual laundry workforce returns to work as strikes loosen. Teamsters report twelve deserters while employers estimate forty. progress prompts talk of resolving labor disputes if the union withdraws boycott and sympathetic-strike clauses.
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Omaha
Neb
Teamsters
Teamsters’ Union
Capitol Avenue
Plattsmouth
Fremont
Garrett
Murderous fit ends with disarmament in Grand Island
Grand Island Nebraska reports J P Arp formerly at Union Pacific shops attempted murder after being discharged for drunkenness. He confronted his wife and used a Winchester 32 caliber before foreman Love and councilman McLaughlin intervened. Police arrested him. case pending charges not yet decided.
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Neb
J. P. Arp
Union Pacific
Mr. Love
Love
W. F. McLaughlin
McLaughlin
Arp
One Against Fifty Manila: Walker Killed in Cebu Fighting
Lieutenant Walker of the constabulary was killed by a superior band of insurgents after being missing in Cebu. Two constabulary men died and three captured, with two prisoners murdered and one escaping. Will Ballon, a former Fifteenth Cavalry private, defended American dead and wounded at Suclatan Mindanao on May 18.
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Manila
Walker
Constabulary
Cebu
William Ballon
Fifteenth Cavalry
Suclatan
Island of Mindanao
Clough Overton
Harry Noyes
Harlow
Will Ballon
Taylor
Telephone Girls Strike at Tecumseh Nebraska
The four central Nebraska Telephone Co. operators in Tecumseh strike over pay and hours. They report nine hours daily for sixteen dollars monthly and demand seven hours or twenty dollars. Managers cite misunderstanding. Replacement workers have begun.
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Tecumseh, Neb
Nebraska Telephone Company
L. A. Denny
Mussleman
Lincoln
Ita
Woodmen convention broadens membership rules
Milwaukee May 18 Woodmen of the World convention adopted a new policy allowing bituminous coal miners and lakes and rivers seafaring men to be eligible for membership. Saloon keepers and sandstone cutters remained barred from joining the order.
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Milwaukee
Wis
Woodmen of the World Convention
Heavy Snow Slams Montana Racking Livestock and Rail Service
Snow covers Cut Bank and westward to two to three feet deep with heavy losses among sheep and cattlemen. Train crews report waist deep snow and many cattle and sheep found dead. Great Northern freight handling and passenger service are crippled across the region.
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Havre, Mont
Here
Concord
Cascades
Cutbank
Great Northern Company
Train collision near Caldwell leaves one dead
North bound Rock Island passenger train No. 36 was struck by an engine from Caldwell yards. Wilber Burkett of Caldwell was killed and several others injured, including Postal Clerk Myers. The engineer and Sreman escaped serious injury by jumping. no coaches left the track.
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Wellington
Kas
Rock Island
Caldwell
Caldwell Yards
Wilber Burkett
Myers
Sreman
Bootblack Finds Fortune at City Corner
Garmine Cammorata, a bootblack on Twelfth and Market, found a 810 000 bill and returned it to the owner’s man. He received $10. A policeman later recovered a pocket book with 850 and was thanked. Cammorata gave the 10 000 bill to his employer instead of keeping it.
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Philadelphia
Garmine Cammorata
Bootblack
Twelfth
Market Streets
Volner
Cammorata
Nebraska Notes on Local Leaders and Events
Nebraska notes list Frank Farmer and G W Ireland heading summer chautauqua tours. Beaulieu of Ball City injures foot. T A Butcher named junior high instructor at North Platte. Anna Day runs for aquary superintendent. Exeter State Bank to begin business with three incorporators.
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Frank Farmer
G. W. Ireland
Wesleyan Quartet
T. A. Butcher
Ashland Public Schools
North Platte
Mr. Butcher
Weselyan
Anna Day
Beatrice Public Schools
Republican Party
Hast
Exeter State Bank
Exeter
Neb
State Banking Board
H. O. Eckery
W. W. Taylor
J. N.coy
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