Do we own the Klondike and other frontier claims
A Seattle Star item critiques a claim of Alaska Canada boundary discovery, noting the U S Geodetic Survey has accurately located the border from Mount St Elias to the Arctic. It forecasts mining prospectors and home seekers visiting the Sound in sixty days, and discusses the Arctic travel trend and smokeless powder contracts.
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Tommyret
Alaska
Northwest Territory
Seattle
The
Sound
Puret Sound
Necessity of Ventilation for Health and Comfort
The piece argues ventilation is essential for health noting 2600 cubic feet of pure air per hour per person and that re breathed air harms life. It cites a French physician Gerding and urges open windows in sleep, warns against airtight rooms, and calls for public health oversight of crowded spaces to prevent contagion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gerding Himmself
Department of Public Health
Lightning Strikes Home and Streetcar in Bold Storm
An electrical storm in Barmveport La yesterday caused a fatality when lightning struck a negroes house killing a boy. Several others were knocked down and stunned. The same storm hit a Texas avenue electrical street car, knocking the motorman to the platform where he lay until assistance arrived and the car was wrecked.
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Barmveport
Hettaing
Texas Avenue
General Otis Advances Mania In Philippine Campaign
General MH G Otis' brigade began moving from camps this morning signaling a general advance expected soon as rebels mass in trenches opposite northern lines. Prisoners say Aguinaldo plans a stiff defense at Malolos with a stubborn last stand anticipated.
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MH. G. Otis
Aguinaldo
Malolos
He Cheated The Grave At Texarkana
James Forbush a Texarkana area farmer was pronounced dead from an acute grip infection. His coffin was prepared for burial before he stirred, revived, and began eating, though still weak and recovering.
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Texarkana
Ark
James Forbush
Forbush
Schutt
Cracksmens Surprised in Missouri Safe Job
John Schmidt, night marshal in Columbia near East St Louis, surprised two crackmen at the Star mill and bank. He fired through a window wounding one assailant. the pair fled on a skiff toward Carondelet. They had used nitroglycerine to blow the vault and damaged several safe boxes, with about $25,000 in the main safe.
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ST. Louis
March M
St. Lowie
Columbia
East St. Louis
John It Schmidt
Columbia Star Mill
Marshal Schmidt
Main Street
Btar
Mme
Carondelet
Ecracksmen
Adventurous Hussars Goat Finds Portsmouth Gun Wharf Home
A famous goat once with the Seventh Hussars from South Africa and the Matabele campaign has arrived in Portsmouth via ship, after a long, perilous journey. Though cleared of death, it faced transport bans before landing at the gun wharf, where it is now settled and expected to remain.
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Portsmouth
London
South Africa
Seventh
Hussars
England
Simla
Southampton
Board of Agriculture
Col. Stackpole
Bombay
Department
Stackpole
War Department
O'Callaghan
Southern District
London Mall
Postal Clerk in Trouble in Pittsburg
Pittsburg March 4 W J Fitzgerald a clerk in the distributing department of the Pittsburg post office since 1895 was arrested by Post Office Inspector W W Dickson charged with stealing moneyed letters He was caught in the act and made a full confession though he could not say how much he purloined This is the fourth arrest in the department within a year and the fifteenth in the Pittsburg post office since 1891 Fitzgerald had been under suspicion for three or four months.
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Pittsburg
W. J. Fitzgerald
Pittebure
Post Office
W. W. Dickson
Fitzgerald
Two fatalities in Bowie assault by 15 year old
In Bowie Maryland, Annie Clarke age 465 and her sister U Mary Clarke age 62 were attacked by a 15 year old Black boy John Berry who is jailed. The elder sister allegedly offered $1000 to stay alive before the assault ended in both deaths prompting crowds and fear of mob violence.
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Upper Marlboro
Mary A. Clarke
Annie Clarke
Bowie
John Berry
Absentminded Swedish War Minister Rappe
A Swedish minister of war, General Rappe, forgot his hat before a cabinet meeting and wore a stovepipe hat. Colleagues laughed as he entered the palace council room. He received three days of arrest for his forgetfulness.
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Gen. Rappe
The Caroline Islanders and Their Customs
A descriptive sketch of the Caroline Islanders highlighting ethnic traits and social conduct. The text details honesty in dealings, tendencies toward intrigue among enemies, private frugality, and communal conflict resolution involving gifts and apologies. It notes occupations and crafts of Ponapenan Naherman and others, plus attire shifting from traditional garments to European clothing and health concerns from exposure.
Easter Offering Tradition Shifts to Silverware Gift
The season’s favored Easter offering moves away from last year’s regulation card toward a small silver piece adorned with white or lavender ribbon on a plain oblong card bearing a seasonal wish or verse. The bet of silverware may accompany the gesture.
Artful Toilet Table Primitives Fill Easter Gift Tables
A rustic catalog of small silver and glass novelties. Migree silver boxes for hairpins, diagonal cut-glass puff boxes, blaque vases for violets, enamelware portraits of naval heroes, Rookwood bowls, Jardinieres, white leather memorandum books, and Japanese gongs are offered as chic Easter gifts. Royal Easter lily highlighted as ideal centerpiece.
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Rookwood
Jardinieres
Spider and Fly closes at Third Avenue Theater
The Spider and Fly engagement ends tomorrow at the Third Avenue theater with a matinee. Janet Waldorf begins a week long engagement at the same theater on Sunday night.
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Spider and Fly
Third Avenue
Janet Waldorf
Third Avenue Theater
Queer Happenings and Odd Local News Snippets
A collection of bizarre incidents and humorous misfortunes across towns: a divorcing Indianapolis woman alleges no grounds after her drummer husband kissed her 500 times on his last home visit. a Pennsylvania miner froze to death in a snowdrift with his dinner pail. London mother Elizabeth Skeats proud as mother of six policemen. a Chicago magistrate fines a liar. Wellington Kansas jars name first prisoner Horton jail and the inmate sues for damages. a Warren Academy clockwork demo reveals $242 in bills. Vineland New Jersey girl burned by a coffee pot explosion. a West Cheater Pa bird store fox suffocates birds. Bourbon County Kentucky cattle sheltering in a tobacco barn die from tobacco ingestion. Pineville Kentucky barber offers a joke sign about shaving or moving on. Mass farmer sued for sneezing on public highway causing horse to run. three women burn their hair from celluloid combs. an 82 year old Indiana man hanged himself. Michigan lawmaker seeks liquor licensing fee. New York man advertises 26 000 red headed addresses. twelve thousand dozens of eggs shipped weekly from Siloam Springs Arkansas. St Louis man commits suicide via rubber tube in whisky barrel. Kentucky farmer notes blackbird freeze. Wisconsin lawmaker Daggett proposes anti tight lacing laws. Cincinnati man sues over wife’s alleged unseen gaze. Chester prayer meeting disrupted by a mouse. Cumberland County farmers catch crows to sell to trap shooters. Iola Kansas raises funds to buy a cork leg for a needy citizen.
Mexicans Rioting Halt Smallpox Deportation Efforts
In Larwood Texas on March, health officers led by State Health Officer Blunt began removing smallpox patients to a peat house. A mob of South End Mexicans attacked officers, beating Assistant Marshal Idar and firing on them. After arrests, a second mob of 500 to 600 Mexicans gathered. Gov. Sayers called for federal aid, and troops were authorized to assist. The unrest includes hostility toward Black soldiers.
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Larwdo
Tex
Peat House
Blunt
East Matamorad Street
South End Mexicana
Polie
Joe Northeton
Nye Idar
Idar Wan
Fred
Miss Virginia Fair’s Engagement Ring Valued at 46000
The Chicago Journal reports Miss Virginia Fair’s engagement ring cost 46 000 dollars and was purchased in Paris. W K Vanderbilt bought it. a firm employee delivered it at a special charge. The solitaire diamond sits on six gold prongs atop a plain band with a row of small diamonds beneath. The setting is so large a glove hole is needed for wear. She keeps the ring in a powder box to keep it white.
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The
Chicago Journal
Virginia Fair
Paris
W. K. Vanderbilt
Pair
Thunderbolt Destroys Henley Home in Carthage
In Rushville Indiana a bolt struck Jesse Henley’s two story frame house. A cradle baby slept undisturbed while the crib shattered into splinters. Parents Mr and Mrs Henley were badly shocked with Mrs Henley unconscious for two hours. The house was split in two yet all occupants escaped.
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Rushville
Ind
Jesse
Chinese Justice and Public Executions in Canton
A lecture by Alex Kenesen recounts a public execution scene in Canton where a girl who played with a ball caused her mother’s death and was cut to pieces. Foreign consuls were told they had no business meddling with Chinese justice.
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Canton
China
Alex Kenesen
Krefeld
Unusual Necklace of Human Eyes On Display
Mrs. William E. Curtis displayed a necklace at the Chicago World's Fair made of three rows of preserved human eyes sourced from Peru. The eyes, once thought gems, were admired then repelled when friends learned they were real organs preserved in gold settings.
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William E. Curtis
Chicago
Growth of Steamship Speeds Through Naval Vessels History
The account traces speed records from the Wampanoag in 1868 averaging over 17 knots for six hours to later feats by the Esmeralda and Armstrongs built ships. It notes the Columbia and Minneapolis reaching about 22.08 and 23.07 knots, then the Buenos Aires at 29.20 knots, and remarks on torpedo boats advancing from 19 knots to much higher speeds in the following era.
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Armstrongs
Knuota
Columbia
Minneapolis
United States Navy
Armatrong
Buenos Aires
Rise in Warship Speeds Signals Higher Tonnage and Power
The article notes faster speeds across vessels from Turbinia at 44 5 knots to destroyers and battleships. It highlights Jean d Arc at 23 knots and Italian battleships at £ 1 knots, attributing the trend to better machinery economy and lighter weight per power unit. The piece says predicting a speed limit is futile given historical leaps.
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Turbinia
Hehlehau
Jean d'Arc
Married in Two States at the State Line
Mina Minnie May Wilson and Thomas Greenman were wed at the Oklahoma Kansas line near Caldwell. Wilson, an Oklahoma girl, refused to marry outside her territory, while Greenman, a Kansan, refused to marry out of his state. They were joined by standing on the line with the officiating clergyman on the line. the couple will reside in Kansas.
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Wichita
Kan
Mina Minnie May Wilson
Thomas Greenman
Oklahoma
Kansas
Caldwell
Mins Wilson
Greenman
Misa Wilson
Sod Greenman
Moon Fall Omen May Reorder World Drama
A historical note speculates on the moon someday drifting into Earth's gravity and falling, with floods, massive quakes, and climate upheaval. It forecasts a northeastern Europe impact wiping Russia and Germany from the map, and suggests England’s climate could improve or worsen over time.
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Opin
Europe
Russia
Germany
England
Cavalry Challenged Volunteers Test of Nerve and Steadiness
A regiment of volunteer infantry faced a cavalry unit that mocked their drill and charged the line. The volunteers faltered except one man who stayed to bayonet the approach, claiming courage despite fear. A New England coal miner received a back injury from a surgeon removing a four inch knife blade left from a past stab. Other mine workers died in Kentucky as a bluesbird storm blazed through.
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New England
Alaska rich in fish and booming fishing trade
Alaska’s fishing industry shows growing importance as output climbs from 8199 tons to nearly a million in a year. Key grounds include Prince William Sound Chignik and Kadlac with vast cannery totals and a grand twenty year production of 7,008,358 cases.
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Alaska
United States
Alaskan
Cook Inlet
Alasia
Behreing Sea
Kodiak
Chignik
Prince William
Ound
Copper River
Kadlac
Pacific American Fish Company
Klondike
Sound
Anacortes
Point Roberts
Fish Commissioner’s
Name with the lucky letter R shapes wealth and fame
The passage argues that the letter R in names brings fortune and prominence, citing Rockefeller Astor Rothschild and various British politicians as examples. It notes famous figures from wealth and politics and ends with a mundane tip about boiling water with soap.
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Bh, Wells & Co, Publishers
Sanday
Chase
iGo
Omees
Postoitive
Seattie
Washington
Indian Head
Army
Navy
John Bull
Ice Trust
Farmer
Negro Boy
Machiavelli
Ponapenan
Naherman
Queer Happenings
Indianapolis
Pennsylvania
Elizabeth Skeats
Wellington
Horton
Warren
Vineland, N. J
Bourbon County
Pineville
Massachusetts
Indiana
Michigan
New York
Siloam Springs
Daggett
Wisconsin
Bear Creek
Charlies Kraun
Cincinnati
Ginesa
Chester
Cumberland County
N. Y
Iola
Justice
Kentucky
John D. Rockefeller
Standard Oil Trust
America
Astors
Bradley
Baron Hirech
Mr. Hooley
Ernest Terah
Mesare Rhodes
Robinson
Wernher
Barnato
Herbert Kitchener
Iiad
Magus
Soudan
Lord Cromer
Baring
Robert Cecil
Lord Salisbury
House of Commons
Arthur Balfour
Scotland
Lord Balfour of
Burleigh
Ireland
Gerald Balfour
M. Ridley
Mr. Chamberlain
Admiralty
George Guschen
India
Lord Curzon
Brodrich
Duke of Devonshire
Lord Hartington
Viscount Cross
Board of Trade
Ritchie
Spencer Percival
First Ave
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