Forward Watchword and Boer Retreat Near Kroonstad
A May diary from Roberts reports 11 miles from Kroonstad and six from Hosubrand with Boer trenches held. Kronwand’s brigade sees enemy convoy capture. nearly 100 prisoners taken in two days. Later, Boshrand notes eight miles south of Kroonstad as the enemy evacuates the first line. French cavalry seizes Valsoh drift. Boer movements near Rapalhoom and Brand’s Drift region noted.
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London
Roberts
Geneva Siding
Ole Cerew
Marche
Kroonstad
Hosubrand
Kronwand
Potgieterts Langer
Veutersburg
Robert Boshrand
Valsoh
Mareking Report From Cape Town May 12 Clash
Fragmented OCR notes describe events around Cape Town on May 12 with mentions of Mareking Hallet Columo Repuried From Meetoria and a dramatic scene at Valksrand on May 7 where President Kruger spoke of God and the right. Details are garbled but reference a Beulah, Beeline, and Cape Town battlefield context with military movements and political rhetoric.
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Hallet Columo
Meetoria
Mathieu
British Move on Cleveleas and Platberg in South Africa War
Dispatches from May 12 report British forces under Generals Rundle and Brabant advancing toward Cleveleas and Platberg as a Boer force returns from Korannaberg to meet them. A guard shot a prisoner escaping Jamestown St Helena. inquiry ordered. The Daily Express describes the Zand river being crushed by the British and Boer losses feared heavy. Marshal Roberts leads from Kroonstad area. Discussions in the Volksraad over undermining rights expose war funding tensions. Chamberlain at Birmingham Liberal meeting honors late Mr. Tynan.
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Rundle
Brabant
Masera
Basutoland
Thaba N’chu
Cleveleas
Platberg
Korannaberg
Jamestown
St. Helena
Wing
Zand
London
Daily Express
Tor Spruit
Zaud
French
Hawilton
Marshal Roberts
Fran Kroonstad
Vol
Laurenzo
Times
Volksraad
Kruger
Chamber
Riot renewed as police guard transit lines in St Louis
Rioting returned with a police sergeant cited for shooting at Shenandoah and Grand as cars ran. Wires cut on Bellefontaine and California lines. fires reported on several transit branches. Police moved to Park and Mississippi. no one seriously injured. Suburban and Lindell lines disrupted. garrisoned by officers. East St Louis, Kansas City and Pittsburgh reports follow as unions press wage demands amid scattered strikes. Barcelona, Seville, and Madrid face anti taxation unrest with barricades and gunfire. A Wisconsin boy saved by his brother after a close crossing accident. Treasury approves oleomargarine shipments under the law.
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St. Louis
Shenandoah
Grand Avenues
Connolly
Aast
Bellefontaine
California Avenue
Gravois
California
Park
Mississippi
We Suburban
Lia- 1
Wait
Delaiar Avenue
Forest Park
Page and Spalding
Lindel
Park Avenue
Hellefontaine
Nes
Geyer and
Jeferson Avenues
Carondelet
Transit Company
East St
East St Louis
Tls
East
Kansas City
Be Wests Hnmrager Staats Meeting Sparks Boer Sympathy
In New York on May 12 Edward Lauter bach stirred a Citizens Committee meeting by insisting the Republican platform must show sympathy to the Boers. The Jaccard Jewelry Co. seeks a receiver. at St. Louis William Richardson, public administrator, filed for appointment of a receiver for the same company, noting it is among the largest in the west.
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Be Wests
Hnmrager
New York
Edward Lauterbach
Citizens’ Committee
Jaccard Company
St. Louis
William ©. Richardson
West
Married to gain freedom bride vows operatic dream
Dorothy Dulin Studebaker, newly wed to millionaire Scott McKeown, declares marriage frees her to pursue an operatic career. She says parental and societal constraints blocked her stage ambitions and McKeown’s support or opposition may affect her plans. The piece notes mixed reactions and hints at ongoing tensions over her goal.
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Scott McKeown
San Francisco
Dorothy Dulin Studebaker
McKeown
Wonan
Woman Confesses to Fire Killing Her Stepchildren
Chicago May 12 Mrs Annie Grad ut has confessed to police that she deliberately burned her two stepchildren to death She planned to kill her own children by chloroforming them and setting fire to the oil soaked room She used kerosene on beds floors and the kitchen door and then set the blaze Neighbors found the children in a bed and the oldest boy seven years old said their mother had ordered them to sleep The confession is questioned by police and the husband was away when the note was posted at breakfast by the woman
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Chicago
Annie Gra- Daut
Countty Nospinet
Burns Grabaut
Kittchen
Einur
Mary
Ieza
John Frish
Turner Avenue
Lawndale Avenue
Twenty-ninth Street
Toolan
Crowley
Letta
Grabant
Illinois
Seven Die As Freight Tunnel Crash Follows Sleepy Tower Operator
Seven men perish when a Baltimore and Ohio freight train wrecks in a tunnel near Fairmount Park Philadelphia. Fire erupts, over a dozen firemen injured. Tower operator Frank Lantel slept at the station entrance, blamed for the disaster.
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Philadelphia
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Twenty Fifth Street
Fairmount Park
King
Neer
George Loeb
George Hinchman
Frank Lantel
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Bralagt
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Chamberlain
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Harry Bryan
American Tin Plate Company
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Calhoun County
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Warren Poal
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