German officer estimates 30 million killed this century
A German officer predicts that in this century civilized countries will suffer about 30,000,000 deaths. The note appears amid a patchwork of items including medical ads and a Canadian wheat supply analysis claiming Manitoba could feed Britain, with calculations on farmland, settlers, and naval costs. Other brief items mention a cough causing consumption and light humor about a child taking medicine.
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Britain
Toronto
World
United Empire Trade League
Canada
Brit
Manitoba
Assiniboia
Alberta
Saskatchewan
Billy
Tommy
Leprosy fears and tonic ads raise old time warnings
A jumble of 19th century clippings warns against disease and adulteration. It cites leprosy fears for soldiers, various tonics and patent medicines, flour adulteration, and promotional pitches for Grain-O and Lane’s Family Medicine. It also notes railroad equipment orders and moral quips about timekeeping and prosperity. Names include Sheffield Milling, Gold Mine flour, Grain-O, Lane’s, Mrs Winslow, and Des Moines Daily News.
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Sheffield Milling Company
Faribault, Minn
Bones and Bad Maps Tempt Phoenix Syndicate
A Sonora mining map leads a Phoenix syndicate to a buried graveyard, yielding bones from sixteen skeletons and a suspected distant mine. The project continues as winners chase wealth, while a Neapolitan professor recites Dante’s Divine Comedy in a long session, winning a bet.
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Syndicate
Geologini
Chihuahua
Sonora
Phoenix
Magdalena
Fion
Afemoro
London Globe
Heaviest Anchors Ever Made Tested for Campania
The Cunard liner Campania carries anchors weighing eight and a half tons each, tested to bear 126 tons. Including the cables, the total weight for these anchors and lines reaches 105 tons. These anchors are described as the heaviest ever manufactured.
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Cunard
Campania
The Feminine Observer Holiday Readiness and Wit
A collage of observations on Christmas shopping, shoplifting, gender roles, etiquette, and social manners. The piece jokes about servants being called help, photographers, hosts, and guests, noting women’s influence on fashion and gifts while reflecting on contemporary public figures and lectures by Governor Wolcott.
Beresford urges alliance to oppose Russian encroachment
Hong Kong Times correspondent reports Lord Beresford urging a four power alliance of Britain Germany the United States and Japan to defend the open door. He criticizes Chinese administration saying reforms needed and officials must be paid. warns of tariff clashes and predicts eventual war over tariffs while urging a bold policy toward China and foreign powers.
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Beresford
Russia
Hoxnan
Hong Kong
Times
Lord Charles Beresford
Chamber of Commerce
Great Britain
Germany
United States
Japan
Lord Beresford
China
Lee
Shanghai
Roosevelts harsh stand on fraud and foreign policy
Governor Roosevelts January message praises New Yorks volunteer response to the Spanish war call but argues the National Guard should not be sent abroad. He states Americans view foreign policy nationally and warns that any official or contractor who defrauds the state or corrupts state business will be vigorously prosecuted.
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Philadelphia Times
Amony
Roosevelt
New York
Spain
Situation at Iloilo Grave as Gen Miller Demands City Surrender
Advices from Iloilo say the situation is grave with fifteen thousand armed natives at Melo a suburb and 1700 men awaiting orders to embark on Vegros island. All women and children have fled the city and many residents urge inaction until Aguinaldo speaks while Gen Miller refuses and demands immediate surrender. Rebels strengthen positions and prepare to resist despite the looming landings.
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Miller
Maxina
Hoilo
Melo
Iloilo
Vegros
Moule
Aguinaldo
Quay Nomination Sealed by Republican Caucus Vote
Harrisotne Jan 4 Republicans endorse Senator Quay in a 109 to 164 caucus vote. Opponents claim the result sinks Quay’s chances on joint ballot. Quay supporters remain confident. Also from Lexpos a Times Moscow dispatch reports brutal anti-Russian crimes in Seoul linked to the Korean court case and embassy service, with officials tortured and executed.
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Harrisotne
Senator Quay
Quay
Cotes
Lexpos
St. Petersburg
The
Times
Novoe Vremya
Seoul
War Department reports Cuban troop distribution and Gomez proclamation
The War Department confirms adequate Cuban troop presence across provinces led by Havana 504 and 7 405 in Santiage with total 33 M4. Leech Lake Indians pardoned Twelve Leech Lake Indians sentenced for resisting an officer in the arrest uprising. General Gomez issues proclamation from camp 209 miles west near Narciso urging against disbanding until Washington proceedings on insurgent troops are completed.
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Cuba
Wasnixcroy
War Department
Guia
Wasnixerox
Witty Dinners and Memory Tales in San Francisco
A San Francisco Argonaut column relays a string of dinner table anecdotes about famous figures. Lord Rosebery, Pasteur, Gladstone, Lord Granville, and Tom O'Donnell are cited noting memory, microbes, and misremembered divisions in humorous exchanges.
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San Francisco
Argonaut
Lord Rosebery
Miss de Forest
Bayor
Eolas
London
Mr. Gladstone
House of Commons
Lord Granville
Commons
Gladstone
Living Witness Praises Lydia E. Pinkham Ingredient
A Canton woman credits Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Compound with curing her months of illness and relief from pain dizziness and insomnia. The letter highlights Pinkham's advice and the long history of Mrs Pinkham guiding female health through correspondence with hundreds of thousands of women annually.
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Lydia
Pinkham
Florence R. Hortman
Noland St
Canton
Hortman
The Newest But Oldest Year Editorial Exchange
A playful exchange between the snake editor and the horse editor ponders naming the year 1898 as the older year since it would be a day older than its predecessors when it dies, highlighting a quirk of language and time.
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Fk Sofit Barthelda
Dr. Kay
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Pnombson
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M. Wallace
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Mion
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J Muskell
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Ibis
Des Mrines Daily News
Baltimore & Ohio
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad
Schoen Pressed Steel Company
Pittsburg
Thee
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Pittsburg Locomotive Works
Consolidated
FT Chenex
Loieio
O. Wannixe
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Teiede
Cails
Iren
Hall
Feminine
Colorel Roosevelt
Lowell Institute
Grave and Gay
Pasteur
Tom O'Donnell
Arlington Cemetery
Washington
K. O'Donnell
Harvard
Sherman Hoar
Hoar
Dove
Sherman
Buckingham
Ball & Co
Nashua
W. Morris
Jashiretgh
D. Ge
Atten
Dr. Williams
Agara Co
Sue
Gosport
Selarie
Gourter
Lulu Stevens
Gasport
Dr Williams Medicine, Company
Schenectady
Diamand
Cudahy Packing .Co
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Drokay
Des Moines
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