The U S Government Reports on The World Pest The Rat
The biological survey bulletin details rat species European black rat brown Norway rat and Alexandrian roof rat. It notes brown rat as the worst mammalian pest with vast damage estimates in Denmark and the United States and explains how rats destroy eggs, poultry, stores and electrical wiring.
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United States
Eu‘ropean
America
Egypt
Denmark
Bulletin of the Biological Survey
Medieval Leisure and the Elizabethan Woman’s Hard Life
The essay contrasts sixteenth century women with modern times, noting they faced dirt and pests less and endured slower fashion changes. It argues medieval ladies had stronger arms for tasks other than cleansing and enjoyed steadier clothing styles, then muses on a world without cleanliness or fashion pressures.
Adulterated Flour Epidemic Shocks Southern France Towns
Extraordinary discoveries in Toulouse Saintes Agen Bordeaux and other towns reveal wholesale flour adulteration. Residents of Condom report weeks of gastric disorders and stomach complaints linked to bread. Bakers offered bread samples as proof of innocence. tests show heavy talc adulteration and other samples contain marble dust and sulphate of baryta.
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Toulouse
Saintes
Agen
Bordeaux
France
Condom
Panama Canal Report Details June Operations and Death Toll
The Isthmian Canal Commission reports June work on the Isthmus with 23 327 workers on June 29 excluding the Panama Railroad. White American deaths totaled four among 4 302 employees, 15 among about 6 500 whites other than Americans, and 72 among about 29 000 colored workers. Four climatic deaths occurred, none among white Americans.
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Washington
D. C
Isthmian Canal Commission
Isthmus
Culebra
Gatun
Canal
Department of Labor and Headquarters
Panama
Koreans Leave Southampton Bound for America
Two Korean delegates Yi Tsyongpul and Prince Yi Tjying Chi departed Southampton on the Majestic for New York. Yi Tsyongpul said he would go to Washington to meet President Roosevelt to protest Japan’s 1905 treaty and Korea’s lack of consent to Japan’s protectorate, asserting Korea’s independence remains.
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Roosevelt
London
Eng
Yi Tsyongpul
Prince Yi- Tjying
Chi
Southampton
Majestic
New York
Washington
America
Japan
Korea
Perkins Case Factor Topeka Seeks Insurer Action
C W Barnes superintendent of insurance to investigate the death of L H Perkins in Lawrence. He aims to act against Mutual Life Insurance Co of New York for failing to pay policies on Perkins's life. Action unlikely while the federal court suit remains undecided.
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New Perkins
Topeka
Kansas
Ex Soldiers Gather for National Encampment in Kansas City
About five thousand delegates and twenty thousand visitors are expected in Kansas City August 13 to 16 for the Army of the Philippines national encampment and the Twentieth Kansas regiment reunion. The program includes business sessions a military parade a banquet a smoker and a trip to Fort Leavenworth.
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Kansas City
Army of the Philippines
Twentieth Kansas Regiment
Fort Leavenworth
Money for Pottawatomies in Kansas payout details
Six hundred sixty Pottawatomie Indians receive 348.58 each on the reservation near Holton Kansas. The Interior department outlines two payments totaling 414148.77 dollars from Congress to settle treaty obligations of 1846 and end guardianship where possible.
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Holton
Kansas
Pottawatomie
Here
Congress
Interior Department
James Blandon
Pottawatomie Agency
G. L. Williams
Oklahoma Rates Cut for Wheat and Corn Exports
In Washington, the Interstate Commerce Commission ruled that Oklahoma has just cause to complain about Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific and other carriers. After a hearing, the commission found Western rates from Oklahoma to Galveston, Texas for export to be unreasonable and ordered a reduction.
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Oklahoma
Washington, D. C
Prouty
Interstate Commerce Commission
Territory of
Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific Railway
Galveston
Tex
Leopold's Congo Free State to pass to Belgium
Agreement reached July 12 between Belgian and Congo governments foreshadows end of King Leopold's sovereignty over the Congo Free State as it passes into Belgian possession.
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Congo
Brussels
Belgium
Leopold
Storm Rips Nebraska Crops in Holt County
Lincoln special reports a violent wind and hail storm in northern Holt county Wednesday evening wrecking buildings and killing livestock. A 22 by 14 mile farming section was swept clean with complete crop destruction.
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Nebraska
Lincoln
Neb
O'Neill
Holt County
Topekans Lose Daughters in Columbia Disaster
The Shull family of 1421 West Sixth Avenue Topeka learned their daughters Cora and Sarah Shull were among the missing after the Columbia sank off California’s coast Saturday at midnight. Hope of rescue has faded as unidentified survivors are accounted for.
English fraud case targets Mrs Leslié
Mrs Josephine Leslié was found guilty on Friday of defrauding members of well known families by false pretenses. She posed as a friend of J Pierpont Morgan and claimed he guided her investment. She received a five year penal servitude sentence.
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London
England
Josephine Leslié
J. Pierpont Morpan
Jurors Say Judge's Charge Led to Haywood Acquittal
Jurors in the Steunenberg murder trial say Judge Wood's instructions largely favored the defense. They report the conclusion to acquit William D Haywood despite speculation of a second degree verdict and note the evidence and accomplice testimony influenced their decision.
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Boise
Idaho
William D. Haywood
Frank Steunenberg
Western Federation of Miners
Fremont ‘Wood
Samuel D. Gilman
Finley McBean
James Robertson
Steunenberg
Samuel F. Russell
Haywood
Gompers Praises Haywood Acquittal in Boise Trial
President Gompers of the American Federation of Labor comments Sunday on the Haywood trial verdict in Boise Idaho saying no honest American jury could have returned a different verdict. He congratulates the Idaho jury and calls Orchard a confessed murderer and fraud whose testimony would sicken the nation.
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Gompers
Washington, D. C
American Federation of Labor
Haywood
Boise
Idaho
Orchard
Jury Fails To Reach Verdict In Glass Bribery Case
In San Francisco Calif the jury in the Louis Glass case vice president and general manager of Pacific States Telephone and Telegraph failed to agree after 48 hours deliberation and was discharged Sunday afternoon. The charge involved bribing Charles A Boxton a city supervisor member through Theodore A Halsey to withhold a rival franchise.
Fire Devastates East Side Tenement in New York
An explosion and fire rocked an east side tenement late Sunday night. Crumbling walls collapsed trapping occupants. ten killed and about twenty injured, many severely. Fire crews battled the blaze as authorities investigated the cause.
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New York
Elevator Falls Five Stories in St Louis Incident
A cable broke causing an elevator to plunge five stories at the Ely Walker Dry Goods building in St Louis Missouri. Passengers John Ward and Paul J Grote were involved in the incident reported on Sunday morning.
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St. Louis
Ely & . Walker Dry. Goods Company
Sunday
Illing
John Ward
Paul J. Grote
Coney Island Fire Destroys Amusement Row
A large blaze swept Coney Island in New York destroying seven blocks of the amusement area early Sunday. No injuries are reported, and investigators plan to inspect the site for the fire’s cause.
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Coney Island
New ‘York
New York
Mrs Oliver P Morton Dies in Indianapolis at 82
Mrs Lucin da M Morton wife of Indiana war governor Oliver P Morton died at her Indianapolis home Sunday night at age 82. She had been a prominent figure in state affairs and social circles.
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Oliver P. Morton
Indianapolis
Ind
Lucinda M. Morton
Indiana
Woman Cures ills with Dean's Kidney Pills
Mrs Clyde Pixley of Bridge Street Belting Michigan suffered severe bladder inflammation backaches dizziness and kidney pain. After taking Dean's Kidney Pills she improved within a week and remains well. Sold by all dealers 60 cents a box FosterMilburn Co Buffalo NY.
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Clyde Pixley
Bridge St
Belding
Mich
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N. Y
Death in a New Guise in Hungarian Village
In a village near Presburg a peasant woman received 400 kronen from her husband in America and deposited it in a local post office savings bank. She claimed Death demanded the sum to be ready next night and attempted to withdraw it. When Death appeared, the judge was found to be alive and jailed, while the money remained in the bank.
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Presburg
America
Post Office Savings Bank
Pall Mall Gazette
Equally Painful Story From Richmond
A tale from Lippincott’s Magazine recounts Mose the old darky in Richmond who struggles to collect payment from a whitewashed stable owner. Mose, stepping up to the porch, responds with respect that he is owed for whitewashing. The anecdote highlights debts and racial language of the period.
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Darky
Richmond
Mose
Noresah
Bill
Lippincott’s Magazine
Grape-Nuts touted as easily digested cereal food
An advertisement advocates Grape-Nuts as a superior breakfast cereal. It argues ordinary mush harms digestion, explains the product is fully cooked at the factory, converts starch to grape-sugar, and claims good results for both children and adults, including nursing babies. It ends with a slogan and a note to read The Road to Wellville.
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Postum ‘Co
Battle ‘Creek
Mich
Wellville
Pha
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Scandia Journal
A. B. Kimball
Kansat
Scandia
Panama Canal
Pottawatomies
Bere
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