Governor Candler Defends Negro Education Debate
A Georgia governor Allan D. Candler condemns northern funded black colleges while praising manual labor and Booker Washington. He argues misperceptions spread by northern writers and urges a shift to practical trades for black Georgians amid state education funding details. Vineland New Jersey hails a millionaire mayor earning one dollar a month.
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South
Allan D. Candler
Georgia
C. H. Parkhurst
Booker T. Washington
Atlanta
Booker Washington
R. R. Wright
Booker
Washington
Thomas Jefferson
The Vanishing Frontier Reflects on Frontier Life
A Wyoming reader argues that the real frontier spirit is fading despite nostalgia for old western legends. He cites sensational frontier scenes in newspapers, notes tourists and actors misrepresent frontier life, and laments the passing of the old order despite annual Frontier Day so called by Cheyenne.
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Wyoming
New Mexico
West
Bret Harte
Cheyenne
Utica Globe
Bequest of Skin for a Book Binding at Paris Dinner
A tale claims Mile. B left her neck and shoulders preserved for French astronomer Flammarion. Professor Barnard checked the story in Paris. Flammarion returned with a volume bound in a delicate cover, saying Voila.
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Mile. B
Flammarion
Barnard
University of Chicago
Paris
Bernard
Forestry in Sweden Yields Profits for State Lands
Sweden owns and maintains over 18 million acres of forest lands with state funded schools of forestry. Graduates manage lands to prevent waste and produce timber efficiently, funding schools and caretakers from product revenues. Net profits exceed expenditures by a factor of four.
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Sweden
The Juror’s Stand On a Guilty Verdict
An old African American juror named Ephraim resisted a guilty verdict in a southern murder trial citing capital punishment. The foreman reminded him the choice was either hanging the prisoner or hanging the jury, to which Ephraim replied that the prisoner was indeed guilty.
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Ephraim
Remarkable Egyptian Relics Unearthed at British Museum
Remarkable relics from early Egypt have been unearthed and placed in the British Museum. A striking royal seal impression depicts the king wrestling a hippopotamus and spearing a crocodile, highlighting the art and symbolism of ancient rulers.
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Egypt
British Museum
Tolstoi Rebukes Music Critic In Courteous Gesture
The Russian author Leo Tolstoy is portrayed as courteous and protective of others. He calmly challenges a boy who complains about a young woman’s singing, offering to speak to her honestly though it may be rude, to prevent rude disruption.
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Koast
South
Booker Washington
Washington
Leo Tolstoi
Cuba
Chicago hopes to host Olympian games in 1904
Chicago eyes awarding the 1904 Olympic Games. A lakeside stadium is planned and costs are placed between 175000 and 200000 with receipts around 200000. A company of 2000 shares at $10 each is proposed to raise capital and seeking citizen support.
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Ames
Chicago
Chicago University
Lake Front
Gaimes
Quails for Sweden Stimulate New Interest in Import
Sweden awakens to American quail importation as Count Claes Lewenhaupt brings in over 5,000 birds this spring at a cost of about 3,000 dollars. Birds arrive in cages of fifty in specially built containers. The initial stock released on the Count’s Chacstorp estate survived winter, signaling strong prospects for more game birds.
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Sweden
Claes Lewenhaupt
Fosxstorje
Count Lewenhaupt
Chacstorp
What Our Fish Stands For and a Humorous Exchange
A satirical note compares national symbols to consumer tonics and jokes about gender discourse. It likens the American flag to liberty and independence and Hostetter's Stomach Hitters to personal protection against dyspepsia indigestion and nerves. A joke about women talking and men preferring the lesser evil closes the excerpt.
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Hostetter
George
New Fast Train to Colorado via Missouri Pacific
Missouri Pacific Railway runs double daily service from St. Louis and Kansas City to Colorado Utah and the Pacific coast with through sleeping cars between St. Louis and San Francisco. Trains depart St. Louis 9:00 a.m. and 10:10 p.m. and Kansas City 6:00 p.m. and 10:00 a.m. Excursion tickets on sale.
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Missouri Pacific Railway
St. Louis
Kansas City
Colorado
Utah
Pacific Coast
San Francisco
H. C. Townsend
Isacor Hall Catarrh Cure and Patent Medicine Anecdotes
An assortment of patent medicine claims and testimonials, including Isacor Hall’s Catarrh Cure at 75 cents, Piso’s Cure for Consumption praised by a Russian czar, and other ad copy. Also notes a dog catching a tramp, a nerve remedy offer, blueing product value, and a Denver seance involving a materialized mouse.
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Denver
Peruna praised by Captain Moss and Judge Zenor
Captain Percy W. Moss of Paragould Arkansas declares Peruna the finest and surest catarrh cure after two bottles. Judge Wm T Zenor of Washington DC endorses Peruna as a remedy for catarrhal trouble and a tonic. Readers are urged to write Dr Hartman for free advice if unsatisfied.
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Clem G. Moore
Advocate-Democrat
Crawfordsville
Peruna Medicine Company
Clem G
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Lake Shore
Michigan Southern Ry
JF. M. Byron
General Western
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Cotorste
Ogden Assay Co
Prue
Wapasi
Buffalo City
Faye
Sterling
W.l.douglas
W. Ki Co
Brainay
W. J. Dougins
Rockton
Masy
Woodworth-Wallace College
Nature
Phelps Brown
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