Pledged to Parker Demonstrates Mississippi Democratic Platform
Mississippi Democrats in Jackson adopt a Parker slate for the national convention. The platform, written by John Sharp Williams, calls for fiscal restraint, honest public service, tariff reform, Monroe Doctrine adherence, open foreign trade, and statehood items, with Jeffersonian principles guiding policy.
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BY John Sharp Williams
Democracy of
Mississippi
Jackson
St. Louis
John Sharp Wil- Hats
Yazoo
Williams
Thomas Jefferson
Alexander Hamilton
Missississippi
Henesty
White House
Pressien
Iisel
Posebie
United States
Jefferson
Josiah's Worry Shapes a Future Business Leader
In a Washington Star exchange, Mrs. Bliggins predicts Josiah will become a great man one day. She notes he dislikes actual labor yet will obsess over any business idea and pore over it for hours.
Cyrus Claims to Remember Every Soldier by Nonpayment
A tale notes Cyrus boasting he could recall every soldier in his army because he never borrowed money from them. He then dodges a tax collector and seeks his wife for a loan of a quarter, as the judge watches.
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Cyrus
Public Society Subverts Etiquette in Humorous Exchange
A Punch cartoon frames a loafer asking a lady to join a society called Public Society. The lady questions the meaning of the phrase as the loafer admits they enter houses to practice down the drink. The exchange satirizes social pretensions with witty misdirection.
For Greater Mississippi For Greater Mississippi
Devoted to the industrial commercial and agricultural development of the state's comparable resources. Items of interest picked up here and there. A percent JA s.
Mississippi Health Image Challenged by Census Figures
The piece rebuts the belief that Mississippi is unhealthy, citing 1900 census death rates and showing whites-only figures at 11.60 per thousand. It describes health advantages, promotes trucking and agriculture, and urges residents to attract settlers via the Greater Mississippi Association and state lands.
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Union
Rhode Island
Vasapaay
Massachusetts
Euwas-L Bets
New York
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Fockey A Ca
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Iveee
Tennessee
Pennsylvania
Michigan
Tex Vacbecaiseee
United States
Greater Mississippi Association
Crystal Springs
E. H. Nall
Nall
Land Commissioner's
Honor for Horace Porter in France Grand Cross of Legion of Honor
Paris June 19 President Loubet conferred the grand cross of the Legion of Honor on American ambassador Horace Porter. The award, first for a U S representative, awaits U S congress approval. Foreign Minister Delcasse presented the insignia amid high esteem from Loubet and Delcasse.
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Paris
Loubet
Horace Porter
America
Congress
Delcasse
M. Delcasse
M. Loubet
Dispatches Exchange Between Loubet and William on Auto Race
Paris reports a exchange of dispatches after M Thery won the James Gordon Bennett international automobile race at Hamburg. The emperors messages praise French industry and shared sentiments, signaling closer Franco German understanding and easing lingering tensions.
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Loubet
Emperor William
Paris
William
M. Thery
James Gordon Bennett
M. Samabet
Passenger Train Collision Shatters Vincennes Line
A westbound B and O passenger train ran through an open switch and collided with a thirty car freight train near Vincennes Indiana. Sixteen injured two to die. among the injured are John Hisenhart J L Witner Edward Mason Maud Steinhart Peter Miller Rev M M Porter and several others. The engine crew escaped by leaping from the locomotive as the train traveled about fifty miles an hour. The dining car was badly damaged and stained with blood. The wounded were taken to St Louis for hospital care as Vincennes lacks a local hospital.
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Vincennes
Ind
John Hisenhart
J. L. Witner
Cincinnati
Edward Mason
Covington
Maud Steinhart
Burlington
Iowa
Peter Miller
Crawford Corner
Elkhart
W. E. Drier
Pittston
M. M. Porter
H. G. H. Humphrey
Gordon
George W. van Duesen
Fort Leavenworth
Kas
Hugh Cox
Washington
W. Brown
Dallas
Tex
R. L. Phillips
James Eastridge
James Kenny
Engineer Walters
St. Louis
Flora
Raisuli to Get Ransom In Tangier Negotiations
A Tangier cablegram reports the sultan agreed to Raisuli terms and $55,000 ransom would be paid on Saturday. Consul Gummere at Tangier cautions against paying before Perdicaris and Varley are released and safely back, fearing further demands after payment. The State Department will await the outcome.
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Washington
State Department
United States
Gummere
Tangier
Raisuli
Perdicaris
Varley
Raiuli
Nore
Moyer Delivered to Deputies Over Mine Explosion Charge
Sheriff Rutan turned over Charles H. Moyer, head of the Western Federation of Miners, to Cripple Creek deputies who hold a warrant tying him to the Vindicator mine explosion that killed two men on November 1, 1903. He had been jailed for nearly three months under Gov. Peabody’s orders without court recourse.
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Telluride
Col
Rutan
Charles H. Moyer
Western Federation of Miners
Cripple Creek
Moyer
Sparrow Hawk Sinks After Rock Collision near Saddle Islands
The British torpedo boat destroyer Sparrow Hawk struck an uncharted rock off Saddle islands near Hang Chow bay on Saturday. It was a total loss, but the vessel guns were saved and no lives were lost.
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Shanghai
Saddle Islands
Hang Chow Bay
Paducah Man Ike Cope Land Died at 75
Paducah Kentucky June 20 Ike Cope Land aged 75 died Saturday in Eddyville. He was said to be the only negro Confederate living in the state. He lived in a home given by General H B Lyons.
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Paducah
Ike Copeland
Eddyville
H. B. Lyons
Milk Sickness Toll in Denmark Area
Robert McEirath of Denmark died from milk sickness and his five children fell ill. Two children died and doctors fear the remaining three cannot survive. The deaths occurred two weeks ago in Ava, KL.
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Ava
Robert McEirath
Denmark
Here
Interurban Railway Chartered in Missouri
Jefferson City June 20 The St Joseph Interurban Railway company of St Joseph has been chartered in the secretary of state office. The company carries a capital of 100.90 dollars.
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Jefferson City, Mo
St. Joseph
Train collision injures score of passengers at Union Station
In Columbus Ohio a rear end crash at Union Station involved an incoming Cleveland Akron and Columbus train and a Norfolk and Western excursion train. A score of passengers were cut and bruised but none seriously hurt as cars collided when the track into the station was blocked by freight cars. Passengers on both trains were thrown to the floors, a panic followed, then trainmen calmed fears.
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Union Station
Cleveland, Akron & Columbus
Norfolk & Western
Thengineer
Government Printing Office to Install Type Setting Machines
Washington report states Public Printer Palmer will install twenty-five Mergenthaler and twenty-eight Lanston typesetting machines in the government printing office. The move, planned for December, will not replace workers but integrate machinery with existing staff. Each Mergenthaler costs 3600 dollars and each Lanston 3150 dollars.
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Washington
Government Printing Office
Palmer
Mergenthaler
Lanston
Congress
Congressional
Mergenthalers
Lanstons
DeForest Wireless Leases Springfield Ground for Intermediate Station
G H Barbour of the De Forest Wireless Telegraph company announces a Springfield ground lease for an intermediate station between St Louis and Chicago. The station will handle commercial and newspaper business and be ready to operate within ten days.
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Springfield
Ill
G. H. Barbour
de Forest Wireless Telegraph Company of
New York
Barbour
St. Louis
Chicago
Chicago Judge Hamburgher Dies After Illness
Justice E. C. Hamburgher long served as a north side magistrate and died of heart disease in Chicago on June 19. He sailed with the sloop Constellation from 1956 to the end of the Civil War and retired as a lieutenant.
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Chicago
E. C. Hamburgher
Hamburgher
Constellation
Boys’ Sham Fight Ends in Tragic Shot Death Near Cameron
In Cameron Texas on June 19 Will Jones age 13 and his brother Tom 11 staged a pretend fight using a shotgun and pistol believed unloaded. Will suffered a near head wound and died instantly at the scene. The incident occurred near Cameron as police investigated the fatal mishap involving the two children.
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Cameron
Tex
Will
Tom Jones
Rewards For Train Robbers In Bear Mouth Case
Helena Montana June 19 Baxter B E Palmer superintendent of the Rocky Mountain division of the Northern Pacific offers 2000 dollars for capture and conviction of the Bear Mouth robbers. The state adds a further 500 dollars reward.
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Helena
Mont
B. BE. Palmer
Rocky Mountain Division
Northern Pacific
American Correspondent Arrested in Port Arthur
Washington reports the state department was advised that Hector Fuller a war correspondent from Indianapolis Indiana was arrested at Port Arthur on the 12th of June.
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Washington
State Department
Hector Fuller
Indiananapolis
Port Arthur
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