Gideons Band and notable social currents in 1900s
A Rocky Ford column surveys topics from a Evansville profit sharing payout and jail sobriety notices to German students touring, Protestant missions funding, Russian winter tactics, and the Gideons Christian business band. It notes the cabinet’s informal power, divorce rulings for habitual drunkenness, and a growing Christian troupe among traveling salesmen aiming to promote sobriety in commerce.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Society of the Gideons
Gideon
Navy bill seeks new battleships cruisers and docks
The house committee on naval affairs reports a bill for two first class battleships at 3 600 000 each three armored cruisers at about 4 250 000 each and three protected cruisers at about 2 800 000 each with armor and armament excluded. It also authorizes dry docks at the Brooklyn and Norfolk navy yards able to receive the largest battleships.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
House Committee On Naval Affairs
Brooklyn
Norfolk Navy Yards
Roberts Advances Near Transvaal Frontier in British Move
London May 24. Lord Roberts nears the Transvaal frontier with infantry thirty three miles north of Kroonstad at the Rhenoster river and thousands of cavalry across the river. Boers retreat toward the Vaal with heavy baggage as trains run from Vereeniging to Pretoria. General Hamilton French and Buller 영향 indicate coordinated British pressure while De Wet and commandant Dewet retreat.
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Transvaal
London
Lord Roberts
Kroonstad
Rhenoster
Vaal
Pretoria
Vereuniging
Honingspruit
Ian Hamilton
French
Bloemfontein
Hamilton
Hellbrow
Dewet
Hroadwood
Orras French
Horningsproit
Laing’ Nek
Wakkerstroom
Free State
General Buller
Rioting Strikes St Louis Transit. Policeman Fatally Shot
Reports from St Louis on May 23 describe renewed rioting during a transit strike. A barricade allowed removal of a stopped Cass avenue car. sympathizers attacked, a bullet mortally wounded Special Policeman Duncan K. McCrae. He died en route to hospital. Additional injuries included a boy Eddie Mans shot in the leg, and conductor KR B Hodge badly beaten. Cars ran with armed guards and no lights as night services resumed.
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St. Louis
St. Louisa
Cass Avenue
Duncan K. McCrae
Dnc
McCrae
Eddie Mans
Flegng Boys
Edie Mans
KR. B. Hodge
Tower Grove
Hodge
Park Avenue Line
Berlin Reichstag Approves Meat Bill Amid Trade Tensions
The Reichstag passed the meat bill by 168 to 120, banning canned and sausage meat imports and limiting fresh meat to whole shipments until December 1908. After 1903, meat imports would be regulated by new laws, with strict proof of innocuousness for prepared meat and exemptions for salt meat under four kilograms. US Ambassador White criticizes the compromise for excluding corned beef.
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Berlin
Reichstag
United States
White
Mutiny Rum Rumors Hit Texas Sailors As US News Flows
A mutiny threat aboard the battleship Texas from Galveston to New York is linked to rum use, with Captain Gibson hinting trouble. Papers from Washington threaten charges against Charles W. Neely, jailed on embezzlement claims totaling about 400000. IC0N tobacco company expands with $30 million capital and new plant options nationwide.
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Texas
Galveston
New York
Gibson
Washington
Charles W. Neely
Ludlow Street
Neely
International ‘Tobacco Company
Ic0n
American
Continental
Fortieth Volunteer Infantry
Aquason
Mindanao
I Ameri
Union de
Chicago
India
Methodist Conference
McKinley
Grant
Shaw
Kansas
Bryan
Oakland
Othe 1St
Me. Bryan
W. D. Oldham
W. HH. Thompson
Atlin
Dawson
Nome
Taylor
Stucky
Indianapolis
Louisville
Kentucky
United States Supreme Art
San Francisco Examiner
C. P. Huntington
Lake and
Den
Colorado
Yumpa
Denver, Lakewood & Golden Railroad
Denver, Salt Lake & San Fisco Railroad Company
Denver
Golden Boulder
South Boulder Canon
Middle Park
Yamna River Valley
Vinh
Salt Lake
Cuba
Sfesto
Denver to Host Western Miners and Labor Union Meeting
Denver selected as future meeting site for the Western Federation of Miners and the Western Labor Union. Delegates praise Denver's hospitality while key leaders and officials resign or plan moves, including Schlacks of Denver & Rio Grande and ex senator Hall. Strikes and wage system protests surface as unions push extensive reforms.
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Denver
Western Federation of Miners
Western Labor Union
Queen City
Plains
Charles 8. Schlacks
Denver & Rio Grande
Jeffery
Schlacks
Colorado notes on varied events from Hooper to Glenwood
Burglars robbed the Hooper post office of 228 dollars. Nominations for Pueblo postmaster and Hugo land office register are sent to the Senate. A Hugo mountain lion kill yields a large peltry trophy. Florence cement plant near Florence starts clinker output. Colorado Co operative colony stock votes swing power away from colony leaders. A Fries Orphan Home murder in Central Park shocks Pueblo. Coloma accident injures Mr and Mrs Samuel Brown. Buffalo Jones reports a lamb hunt near Redstone with a brave rescue by Olive Jones. Bear hunting near Glenwood yields multiple large pelts and cubs with notable captures and mounts by Glenwood taxidermists.
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R. A. Lucore
Hugo
Colorado-Portland Cement Company
Florence
Florence Cement Works
Rocky Mountain
Germany
Florence Company
Colorado Co-operative Colony
Committee On Engineers
Colis
Pinon
Pueblo
Calvin Kitablern
Fries Orphan Homme
Central Park
Coloma
Samuel Brown
Montrose
Brown
Jon
Coal
Valle
Redstone
Teade
Olive Jones
Jones
Colorado
Glenwood
Piceance Creek
Baxter
Charles J. McGoey
New York
South Canon Creek
Robinson and Hubbard
Brady
Curiosity Aids Retrieval of Poisoned Package
A curious scene unfolds as a woman saves a package marked quin from danger and delivers it to a druggist amid arsenic fears. The era's patent medicines tout cures for indigestion and dyspepsia, with marketing aimed at households and moral warnings about exhausting work and poor watchfulness.
Interior wall care and preventive coatings urged in notices
A fragmented passage urges clean walls as a preventive measure, praising Alabastine for durability and easy retinting. It references John J. Ingalls on nature’s benediction, then shifts to shoe remedies and a vague list of professions and ages in a clumsy social readout.
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Ciu
Farm News Promotion Offers Low-Cost Home Adoptions
A Farm News notice details a promotion encouraging readers to remit 25 cents to Farm News in Seid, Ohio by June 1 to receive a new rural living offer. The item mentions opportunities for cheap trips with round-trip tickets to multiple Midwestern cities and other incentives, tied to a broader sales push.
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Farm News
Ameri Stock
Unclear Fragment Sparks Railway Fare Notice
Readable portions describe a Santa Fe Route fare rate between Colorado points and river towns with dates in June and August. Mentions General Agent Banta Fe Route and a character named Jones. Text is fragmented and lacks coherent event details.
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Santa Fe
Colorado
Louis
Missouri River
Fin Tober
Lawrence Street
Banta Fe
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S. Ogawa
Japan
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Des Moines, In
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Constantinople
Asia Minor
Bucharest
Harper’s Weekly
Africa
China
Western Federation of Miners’ Convention
Edward Boyce
Wallace
Ida
John F. McDonald
Virginia City
Nevada
James Maher
Butte City
Montana
Tre Vt
John ©. Williams
California
William D. Haywood
Silver City
Idaho
Colorado & Southern
Denver Union Water Company
Wate Company
Pasult
Johnson
Brig Y
Colorado Fuel and Tron Company
Sopris
Trinidad
Jim” Broadwell
Colorado Midland
Theio Grande Western
Pri
Way
Rio Grande Western
Colorado Mthern
Platte Canon
Union Depot
Minors
Central
Trnpis Central
Rock Island
Colorado Eastern
Grant Smelter
Scranton
Tengah
Twenty-third Street
Limon
Union Pacific
Colorado Eastern Las
Colorado Notes
Hooper
John H. Mitchell
George Seaver
Senate
Lon E. Foote
Arriba
Eliza
Dav
Rockoet
John J. Ingalls
Allen
Olmsted
Phineas
Union Cell
St. Paul
Duluth
K Omaha
Mek
Hood
McCoy
Lafayette Ave
Lethal Hood
America
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Turkisil Pa
She’p
Knollly
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