Waiting with Interest The Isre Island Powder Wreck
New York reports navy smokeless powder tests at Mare Island after a magazine explosion. Ordance experts note prior blasts at Indian Head and Dupont works lack a proven cause. Safety tests include heat and ignition checks. decomposition risks release nitrous vapors in confined spaces. Near Admiral notes explosions obscure cause.
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New York
Navy
Naval Ordnance
Mare Island
Washington
Herald
Indian Head Proving Grounds
Dupont Powder Works
Laffitn & Rand
Bureau of Ordnance
Ynei
Indian Head Proving Ground
European Crop Review Highlights Wheat and Rain Deficit
The Mark Lane Express reports scarce rain across Europe leading to below average English hay and a precarious wheat outlook. It notes France may bolster supply while England Germany face deficits, with Hungary’s rust spreading and Austrian prospects very unfavorable, risking market balance shifts between buyers and sellers.
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London
Mark Lane Express
England
France
Germany
America
Russia
United States
Hungary
Austria
Mine Fire Destroys Luke Fidler Slope in Shamokin
A fire in No 4 slope of the Luke Fidler colliery Shamokin Pa started Saturday morning igniting gas. Flames spread beyond control by Sunday forcing mules from the shaft and Coal Run creek diverted into the slope. The shaft cannot resume for months leaving about a thousand men idle.
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Shamokin, I’a
Luke Fidler
Coal Run
Fatal duel over faithless wife ends two lives
Newport Ohio June 11 James Hamilton aimed to prove his wife’s infidelity by watching her home. At 2 am Robert Arey arrived at a rear door and an encounter ensued. Hamilton was shot and killed, Arey fatally shot himself. Separate item notes Colorado Springs Rough Riders reunion August 1 2 3 for quincentennial celebration with President Roosevelt likely attending. Papert Indiana reports death of W H Barris a theology professor at a college and clergyman aged 63.
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Newport
James Hamilton
Robert Arey
Hamilton
Arey
Colorado Springs
Col
Rough Riders
Roosevelt
Barris
W. H. Bar D
Missouri Crop Report Reflects Drought Hit Across State
Columbia June 6 The Missouri state board of agriculture reports crop conditions down since May 1 due to drought. Wheat lags with 83, corn germination slowed, oats poorer, and cotton acreage up to 71,900. Conditions vary by region with pests and lack of rain impacting yields. apples suffer canker worm damage. livestock generally fair as pastures and grasses decline.
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Columbia
Missouri State Board of Agriculture
G. B. Ellis
Northwest
Central
Southwest
Troomcorn
George DB. Ellis
New York
ST. Louis
Aless
Ovisville
Will of William Penn copies sold in London
A Paris London report notes William Penn’s will in his own handwriting recently sold for 1775 dollars. It also cites general trivia on sea temperatures at great depth, Chicago’s vast movable bridge, a spotted tribe of Purus, and amusing oculist tales of misread vision misperceptions involving a bumble bee mistaken for a blackberry.
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William Penn
London
Chicago
South America
Cuba Platt Amendment Rift Traced to Misreading by Cubans
A Havana constitutional convention misread Secretary Root on Platt Amendment terms enlarging the confusion. Cuban delegates believed the president and secretary of war would ease the stipulations, prompting an erroneous interpretation that later prompted the convention’s acceptance and a new setback. Secretary Root clarifies the actual scope of the provisions.
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Havana
Reot
Secretary of War
Congress
Washington
Cuba
United States
St. Louis
Traitorous Aguinaldo Revealed in Captured Papers
Murat Halstead analyzes Filipino archives seized after Aguinaldo and cabinet fled Malolos in 1899. The study shows Aguinaldo’s private papers and letters from Manila officials revealing treachery against the United States and alignment with Spain before Manila’s fall, including correspondence with Gen Avenstin.
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Murat Halstead
Aguinaldo
Malolos
Manila
Dewey
United States
Spain
Avenstin
Islands
de Aguinaldo
Spaniares
Arcuinaldo
Lingayan
Hong Kong
Chicago Tribune
Platt amendment debate and Cuba policy noted
The article discusses the Platt amendment, asserting Congress and the courts as primary interpreters and enforcers while the executive executes. It warns of Cuban rejection delaying US control, mentions Bryan's Ohio campaign, and includes comments on McKinley’s tour and Democratic shifts.
Same Old Trick and Wedged Nighttime Tales
A collage of brief yesteryear jests and lines from Philadelphia era papers. A arctic scene fades to May as Mr. Ojibiwockky awakes and Mrs Ojibiwockky asks the time. A stingy patient queries feet pains as a rain sign, a carpenter joke about a missing handsaw, and a relic old master schoolhouse complete the playful clipping.
Glorious Sight on Western Canada Lands
A Duluth reader endorses Western Canada journeys noting high wheat yields of 25 to 30 bushels per acre, dense shacks in fields, mild winters aided by the Japan current and chinook winds, and calls to take advantage of new districts opening in the Saskatchewan Valley with government agents offering information.
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Duluth
Canada
Japan
Saskatchewan
Reckless speculation challenged by civic members
An earnest citizen and a trust colleague urge stopping reckless speculation. They note outsiders earned several thousand dollars yesterday, signaling disapproval of such activity and calling for restraint.
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Baltimore American
Allen's Foot-Ease Ad Footwear Relief
Do your feet ache and burn when wearing shoes Allen's Foot-Ease powder makes tight new shoes feel easy and cures corns itching swelling hot callous sore and sweating feet All druggists carry it in 25 cents order free sample address Allen Olmstead Le Moyn Y
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Allen
Drvesicts
Sen
Olmste le Moy
N. Y
Fragmentary historical quips and a town testimonial
The excerpt collects a humorous exchange about a boy called a blockhead and a stray handwritten line by Mrs. Robbins from Maple Street Norwich New York dated February 17 1940 praising Piso's Cure for Constipation. It also includes a sharp remark about printing foul news and a stray quotation about old Sayings. The tone mirrors a miscellany page with light anecdotes and reader quotes.
Beliere Whooping Cough Crown Cure Message
Fragmentary notice notes a cure titled Hoxsie's Crown Cure for whooping cough with references to non nausea effects and a phrase about a lithe thing pleasing a little man, attributed to Atchison lobe.
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Beliere
Hoxsie
Nonausea
Atchison Lobe
Help for Women Who Are Always Tired
A Wisconsin reader shares how Mrs Ella Rice of Chelsea recovered from womb inflammation after long fatigue and misery by Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. The ad claims the remedy relieves pains fainting spells low mood backache and constant tiredness.
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Ella Rice
Chelsea
Wis
Lydia E. Pinkham
Mrs. Rice
A.N.K.B 1889 When Writing To Advertisers
Instruction requests readers to mention seeing the Adueribe weather in this paper when writing to advertisers. This note appears as a historical reminder rather than a news item, highlighting a local advertising practice and a cited reference to Adueribe weather. It reflects period advertising etiquette and column text.
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Shamokinn
Neanlon
Missouri Crop Report
State Board of Agriculture
Timothy
William J. Bryan
Ohio
Bryan
Hanna
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
United States Supreme Court
Cincinnati Commercial Tribune
McKinley
Troy Times
Washington Post
Ethe
Chicago Chronicle
Indianapolis Journal
Supreme Court
Cincinnati
Commercal Tribune
Sous “Globe
Hoy
Philadelphia Bulletin
OLD Reader
Golmg
Puck
Lenin
Seuss
A.N.K.B
U. C. Wet
Mads
NCO 60
St. le
Yin
Saley
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