Wheat fields in peril threaten massive farm losses
The article reports widespread damage to wheat and other grains across North Dakota and Manitoba due to heavy rain and frost. It notes that in Manitoba only about 500,000 bushels of a 26,000,000 bushel crop have been thrashed, with millions more at risk in the Red River valley and North Dakota. Loss estimates range up to several million dollars as nonmarket grain ages, drying and cleaning becomes necessary, and market movement stalls while mills run continuously to process damaged stock.
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North Lis
Ujscourasing Ghataérer
Manitoba
North Dakota
Xacina
Minneapolis
Heich
Washington
Oregon
Wed River Valley
Northwest
Torpedo-Boat Kills Seven in Columbia River Trip
Seven men died when the torpedo boat Davis exploded near Skamokawa during a trip from Walker's Island to Astoria. The vessel, carrying 250 pounds steam, failed after a tubular boiler defect. passengers and deceased were transferred to a river steamer, with the torpedo boat towed for disposal. None of the deceased were government employees.
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Davis Sear
Portland
Columbia
Skamokawa
Porthind
Ore
Davis
Walker's Island
van Ore
Bryerrthing
Shamokawa
Astorer
Porland
Minneapolis Mills Break Records in Hour Demand Surge
Day and night operations at Minneapolis mills push past prior records as wheels whirl continuously to meet demand. A local company recently ordered 25 000 barrels of flour from Pillsbury to keep pace with rising needs before a potential shutdown.
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Minneapolis
Ag Med Bour
Algo
Pillsbury Company
Blanco Plot Targeted Spanish American Republic in Cuba
A fragmentary report describes a private telegram in Washington alleging that Captain General Blanco and other Spaniards worked with Gen. Pando to take control during Saariaga’s surrender. The plan, if successful, could have empowered a larger revolt with possible U S involvement.
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Cuba
Washington
Honda
Blanco
Pando
Saariaga
Delaita “d ' Senp
Sngtherswarga
Geology Survey Probes Red Sea Regions for Mineral Wealth
The Hetptian Government conducts a year long geological survey across the Red Sea area and Sin nla to assess mineral resources and archaeology. Enelisi geologists map sites not visited in 2,000 years, uncover ancient emeraldes and wealth hints, while plan to power future transit with compressed air. Proposals include twenty five cars on New York lines by February using compressed air, with reservoirs to launch cars up to twenty miles.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taing
Red Sea
New York
Terry Traffc
Volunteers Claim Bounty in Tax-Payer Plan Failure
Fragmented OCR note reports Missouri volunteers not receiving expected bounty payments. Mentions lawyers discovering a statute authorizing a bounty of 80 per man, tied to a failed Plug Tobacco Plan. American Tobacco Company accused of breaking faith amid a broader tobacco cartel claim.
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Missouri
Piax
Plug Tobacco Trang
American Tobacco Company
Smsil Cantéras
Wyion
Chicago Peace Parade closes Jubilee Week with grand review
Chicago staged a vast peace jubilee parade on Wednesday with a military and civil procession reviewed by President Miles Shafter and Chaffee, Secretary Wilson and other dignitaries. A cold wind and rain threat did not dampen the crowd of about thirty thousand along the business district routes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Wras
Union Levzué Club
Piarek
Cuba
van Buren Street
Chicago Society Ball Raises Big Sum for Soldiers
A Chicago anti fee ball at the Auditorium gathered notables including the President and diplomatic corps. The event netted twenty three thousand dollars for families of soldiers and sailors in hardship from the late war. Gowns and uniforms created a vivid, festive scene while the welcome to President Melin ley was warm and extended.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
United States
Army
Navy
Melinley
Skinning of bodies shocks San Francisco medical scene
San Francisco residents react to alleged skinning of cadavers at Cooper Medical Institute and city hospital dissecting rooms. The report cites evidence of young health department physicians and medical students involved, with claims of the remains being made into keepsakes. Separately, revenue rules tighten mixed flour regulations, requiring wheat flour as principal constituent and proper labeling.
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San Francisco
S Judenta
Cooper Medical Institute
Medical Department
The
State University
Voung
Health Department of
Dewey Stays in Manila Not Going to Paris
Secretary Long dismissed rumors of Admiral Dewey returning to the United States. He remains in Manila, having refused multiple suggestions to travel to Paris to advise the American peace commission. The Philippines question is seen as unsettled with danger not yet past.
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Paris
Manila
Long
Admiral Dewey
United States
Navy Department
I T
American Peace Commission
Philippines
Philippine
Phiadalphia Lede
Agesias
Philadelphis Ledger
Derk
Atlanta
Philadelphian Times
Camartin Reydivess
Suez Canal
Kansas City
Novel Court Decision in New York Suit Over Affections
A New York Supreme Court jury awards Grace Wrezevant against Mary Frezevant for fifty thousand dollars claiming alienation of her husband's affections. The verdict states that a rich woman cannot alienate the affections of a poor man, and that financial loss should deter the rich woman from reciprocating such a romance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Supreme Court
Grace Wrezevant
Mary L. Frezevant
Desperate Kansas bank robber gang captured after long battle
Sheriff Mackey of Savina County Kansas and deputies fought for nearly three hours to trap a notorious gang causing trouble statewide. The raid ended near Salina with the gang surrounded as 300 rounds fired. Simeckey Clark fatally shot. deputies Likens wounded. others injured as outlaws surrendered.
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Kausas
Macker
Savina County
Kansas
Simeckey Clark
Likens
Salina
Mackey
Blacker Clark
Navy seeks more sailors to reestablish foreign stations
The Navy plans to add manpower to reestablish overseas stations but is hampered by the small pool of full term sailors. About 8,000 enlisted men served only for the war, needing to stay at home or North Atlantic posts while peace nears. Nearly all long-term regulars, some 12,00, remain with Dever's fleet or battleships, limiting overseas deployment and threatening to put armored ships out of commission.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nazi
North Atlantic
Dever
Department
Bank Doors Closed German National of Pittsburg Goes Into Liquidation
The German National Bank of Pittsburg has closed its doors and insists it is solvent with all depositors to be paid in full. Authorities cite overextended loans to Natalie Gun and Coke Company and Charles Burkdorf as factors, tied to Adolphus Groetzinger and others. The bank suspension followed confessions in a judgments case totaling 450000 plus dollars.
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National of
Pittsburg
German National Bank of Pittsburg
Natalie Gun and Coke Company
Charles Burkdorf
Adolphus Groetzinger
Adolphus
William C
O. H. Groetzinger
America Declines Free Spain on Cuban Municipal Debt
The peace commissioners reject the Cuban debt proposition, holding cities’ bonds were spent for local benefit and should remain a claim on the original property. They distinguish municipal debt from the broader Cuban debt, suggesting limited aggregate totals and likely modest investor appetite.
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America
Ze Honds
Cuba
Storm Hampers Farmers in Midwest Snow Storm
Reports from Minnesota and North Dakota show heavy snow and rain halting plowing and threshing. Kennedy Minnesota faced twenty hours of wintry weather while fields remain soft, delaying wheat and flax, with six inches to four feet of snow drifts complicating farming operations. Aber deen and Tindall in surrounding states report strong northwest winds and renewed snowfall, hindering progress in agricultural work.
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Minnesota
Kennedy
Minn
Dene
Marion Jonetson
Aberdeen
S. D
Tindall
Epidemic Nears End as Yellow Fever Fades in Mississippi
The yellow fever outbreak in Mississippi is weakening as cooler weather is expected to end the epidemic. Small towns drop quarantine measures and workers seek other jobs while the public health effort winds down. The steamer Mariposa arrived from Australia and Honolulu carrying 755,000 English sovereigns about 3.73 million dollars, the largest shipment of specie from Australia yet received.
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Mississippi
San Francisco
Australia
Honoluu
Australis
Explosion at Ashtabula furnace echoes 1812 relics
During the War of 1812 a British warship fired on Ashtabula Ohio. A relic shell reportedly entered a Phoenix iron works furnace and exploded with force blowing doors from the furnace. No workers were injured as others stood nearby.
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Ashtabula
Ohio
Phoenix Iron Works
Thoundry
New Peach Tree Disease Strikes Michigan Orchards
A nosy disease has appeared among peach trees in southwestern Michigan vast orchards. Considered more serious than the yellows. Several large orchards in Saugatuck township, about 4,000 trees, are said to have been destroyed.
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Michigan
Saugatuck
Toadstool Poisoning Fatalities At Trenton Home
At Henry Goldback's residence in Trenton New Jersey three people died and four others remain in dangerous condition after ingesting poisonous toadstools.
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Henry Goldback
Trenton
N.J
Porto Rico After War and Annexation Gains
A collage of 1898 era editorials notes from Philadelphia Ledger Atlanta Constitution St. Paul Pioneer Press Boston Globe and others praising U S victory in the Spanish American War and the annexation of Porto Rico. Writers hail Americans occupying Porto Rico Hawaii as islands now under American sovereignty and foresee a new national character and stability with U S rule.
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Porto Rico
U. S.A
Spsin
St. Paul Pioneer Press
Kingdom of Spain
Boston Globe
Philadelphia Ledger
United States
Hawaii
Lissierro-St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Spain Debt Row Echoes In High Seas Debate
A fragment from a late 19th century masthead notes Spain’s demand for a 600000 dollar debt from the United States, with contemporaries labeling the move as a waste of fame. Commentary questions suggest Dewey as an expansionist and urges caution for peace commissioners. The Spaniards offer unsolicited colonial advice, seen as self serving by the Republican-leaning press.
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Spain
United States
Sugusin
Balimore Herald
Dewey
Springfield
McKintey
Syracuse
Binghamton
A Douley Describes the Philippines in Local Slang
The Chicago Journal recounts a tongue in cheek character sketch describing the Philippines with caricatured dialect. It rails at colonial subjects, mocks natives, and claims imports and exports while noting American ammunition and Swanyards.
Bismarck Brain Size Claims Stir Debate
Anthropologist Otte Amman and sculptor Seharer assess Schafer bust to estimate Prince Bismarck’s brain at 1,867 crammen, claiming the heaviest known. Meanwhile robber bands infest Porto Rigo, plundering plantations and burning estates.
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Bismarck
Prince Bismarck
Otte Amman
Herr Amman
Seharer
Schafer
Porto Rigo
War time camp tales from San Juan to Ponce
A soldier’s diary fragment describes marching near San Juan and a sudden rainstorm driving troops to bathe naked in the downpour. Amid war news, a midshipman at Ponce demands surrender with bold bluff, while a Montauk Point company endures heat ruins as molten bullets melt mid-range.
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Montauk Point
Sravely
Tampa
Diverse 19th Century Figures Mentioned in Political Memo
The fragment references multiple figures including evangelist Divight Moods who allegedly received 1 250 000 for his gospel brow, Michigan Congressman William Alden Smith in Grand Rapids, General E H Hobsor elected president of the Veterans of the Mexican War, and Ruth White of San Francisco noted for resembling the Liberty dime. It also recalls Delaware Senators Bayard and his father, Denver’s Mary French McKay claiming prowess as a woman lifer, Millet fils touring America praising the nation’s respect for his father’s work, New Orleans’ Anna Bouligny related to Bienville, a John Hay commission to the Secretary of State, and two World War figures Ed ward Gulley and Frederick Hi Goerig in Company F Ninth Winds Infantry.
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Divight Moods
William Alden Smith
Michigan
Grand Rapids
E. H. Hobsor
Ruth White
San Francisco
Bayard
Delaware
Mary French McKay
Denver
Jean Princeis Millet
Fils
America
Anna Bouligny
New Orleans
Chanler
Puerto Rico
Bienville
John Hay
District of Columbia
Ninth Winds Infantry
Serge Edward Gulley
Frederick Hi. Goerig
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Maj. Suwith
Enal
Requises
Suwanee
Scranee
Bigahrben
Jesus
Ponce
Curtin
Penusylvania
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