French gunboats bombard Siamese warships in Gulf action
Reports from Bangkok and surrounding areas describe French gunboats firing on Siamese vessels near the Gulf of Siam. The bombardment followed tensions over territorial and frontier controls as the French sought to establish a pacific blockade and pressure Siam into surrender, with British observers weighing potential impact on East Asia trade.
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Bam
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India
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England
Sewepapers
Liberia at the Fair displays exotic artifacts and coffee
Liberia minds a public exhibit with striped native ropes and carvings as decor. The display features mottled skins and red white emblems under a blue coret and a large white star. Coffee stacks and other items attract attention as Chicago University talks with the commission about securing the collection.
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Corcéna
Liberia
Sutate
Chicago University
Denver Lynching Shock Alerts City Mob Violence
Denver reports recount a mob lynching at a jail where a man named ATAIA was seized and hanged from a tree after doors were battered by a crowd of about 16,000. Sheriff's defense failed as the mob freed the prisoner amid gunfire and rioting in a brutal act reflecting widespread violence.
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Denver
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Tier Village
Ataia
Ube
Horkinevline
Ohio Valley
Tres
Prrenspona
Jamen A. Jones
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Chesterfield
Chester
Dillam
Serivan
Bart
Murderer Hesbenda04 Father Dreke in Suke of Mis Victims
A brutal triple tragedy in Bruyaldy reveals a man killed his wife and two children with a hammer in a blazing scene. Neighbors heard a quarrel, firemen found blood, a baby hidden under a bed, and a battered room showing a desperate struggle before the blaze ended.
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Hammar
Prrresuna
Keoxville
Buasband
Father i
George Smanus
Mra Smans
Anil
Dows
Ned
Salem
Early 1900s Annexation Debate and Incidents
Fragmented wire service style notes cover Hawaiian annexation debate, colonial land questions, and labor issues. Mentions Australie arrival, provisional treaty drafts by commissioners, and Chinese labor concerns. Also reports bank arrest warrants, a banker’s failure, a suicide, a freight train collision, and 1908 election returns plus missing cashier news.
Swedish missionaries killed amid attack in busy town
In a violent assault two Swedish missionaries and their servants were killed after a mob pelted their home with stones. The pair, among the town’s only missionaries, faced a fierce retreat inside before leaders tried and failed to escape along the road. Reports describe famine and distress spreading as mobs roamed, with mentions of quarantine and market panic in distant dispatches.
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Xamoorter RC
Rika
Panic on Wall Street and scattered gold finds headline a chaotic market day
On Wall Street panic spread as investors dumped stocks amid loan recalls from Nicholas & Co. and a surge in money rates to 9 percent. Trades reached 404,000 shares while dividends paused and the market mood darkened. the day also reported gold discoveries and unrelated shipping and local incidents.
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Nicholas & Co
Smaele
John B. Demont
Evaneville
Terre Haute
H. S. Nicholas
Fragmented 19th century news nuggets and deaths
A garbled late 19th century item notes Edward T. Kuin a Yale professor and Secretary Carlisle ill with rheumatism. It mentions marriages in New York and New Jersey, a Philadelph ia baseball manager, and various deaths and accidents in Pike County Kentucky and at a theater, including an unnamed man killed and others injured. The passage is a rough collage of names places and events with many garbled phrases.
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Yale University
Carlisle le
Jersey
Cty
Conrad Jordan
Uniugh Seaton
Bright
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