Rioting and clashes amid New York trolley strike
July 20 New York riot center on Second Avenue as trolley strike clashes with police spread from Brooklyn to Manhattan. Dyn amite used near Thirty Fifth Avenue. injuries rise among workers, women, and children. Eighth Avenue line strike expands, police heavy, cars limited. Brooklyn incident wounds one trolley man. Police report many injured and arrests as unrest continues across city.
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Choked to Death on a Screw
Two year old child of Chris Helenkamp dies after swallowing a large screw Saturday before medical aid could arrive. Local notes from Des Moines July 16 and surrounding reports cover camp race changes, legal actions over a city park, barber licensing talks, a healer's arrest, Cherokee dry issue, Lake Manawa liquor suit, and other Iowa items.
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Severn Sailes
Iowa grocers form Western Brokerage with 100000 capital
Des Moines January 17 reports wholesale grocers from Des Moines Ottumwa and Marshalltown met to form the Western Brokerage company. The firm will file articles in Iowa Illinois and Missouri with 100000 capital and engage in wholesale canned goods meats fish game fruits vegetables candies and similar lines. Incorporators include E G Kuine James G Berrshi J W Howell H B Spencer F C Letts with provisional directors listed from several cities.
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George P. Smith
Mason City
C. M. Carr
D. E. Borrell
Cedar Rapids
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Alger Resigns War Portfolio in Surprise Move
July 20 reports that Secretary Alger tendered resignation to the president to take effect August 1. President will accept in writing within days. Alger’s departure follows strained ties with the administration and a key conference with Vice President Hobart. Meiklejohn to take charge interim as names like Porter Roosevelt Otis and Corbin circulate in speculation on a permanent successor.
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Premiums for recruits extra inducements to enlist
War department expands recruitment for ten volunteer regiments. Commissions issued push applicants to join, with policy to fill vacancies from the ranks. Some applicants enlist as privates and become noncommissioned officers, then advance if vacancies arise. Other tactics include offering commissions to qualified men who bring in many recruits for service in the Philippines. Also notes ballots in Ja Republican senatorial convention over Gear and Eyderasevas.
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Telegraphic Briefs From The State And Nation
Reports say 410 men enrolled Wednesday bringing total to 2,673. Field officers for volunteer regiments appointed. Flower prices down 20 cents a barrel. Efforts to enlarge Shelby Tut seamless steel tubing trust. Strike off at Erie docks after Wednesday meeting of ore hand lers. Gov Bradley of Kentucky declines special session or troops for Clay county battle. Cleveland city electrician cites water mains damaged by electrolysis. Captain Ratker aboard steamer to Victoria. Senator Fairbanks optimistic on Alaska boundary talks. John Gyde seeks contributions for Paris exposition exhibit. Iron Moulders meeting backs union against tenement cigar system. Newfoundland legislature adjourns as Rear Admiral Bedford parades 1,000 seamen and marines.
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New York Democrats Rival Chicago Platform Split Grows
The Chicago platform Democrats of New York urge voters to back the principles of the Chicago program and demand the nomination of the candidate who best upholds them. They fault Tammany control as opposing the Chicago platform and anticipate a contentious national committee meeting in Chicago with William Jennings Bryan as a likely participant and Altgeld seeking proxy arrangements amid factional tensions. The plan includes two new subsidiary committees and possible reorganizations, with Key figures like William J. Bryan, John P. Altgeld, and Thomas Gahan central to the proceedings.
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Belmont Seeks Whitney Nomination and Democratic Rumor
In a Chicago dispatch Belmont says Admiral Whitney is unlikely to become a presidential candidate. Whitney plans a Europe trip to persuade the seaman to be named at the national convention, though Belmont doubts success. The conversation also notes Green and Bryan as central figures, with Brownless support for the inevitability of the latter.
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Fragmented Ocean Freight And Shipboard Provisions
A damaged OCR passage describes a ship loading various goods including 20,000 pounds of heng and 188 pounds of something, with mentions of dried car rafters, old farmhouses, and preparations for a long ocean voyage. The text references quantities, family arrangements, and medical notes, all in garbled form from the San Francisco Examiner.
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Mtien
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Anther
The Color She Wanted in a Fashionable Hue
A shopper debates a color choice with a salesman, exclaiming that a trendy shade painter folk discuss is elusive. The exchange captures a light moment on color fashion as the Kanes City Star notes.
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