Russia urged to back Panama canal plan in European press
The New York Herald European edition reports Russia may oppose the Nicaragua route and back the Panama scheme. Novoe-Vremya in Saint Petersburg advocates Panama while criticizing the United States, urging French and European support to neutralize the canal and ensure Pacific access. The piece notes U.S. moves toward Asia and ties with England and Japan.
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New
Yo Herald
Russia
Nicarag Canal
Novoe-Vremya
Petersburg
United States
United St
Rll
Spain
America
Anne
China
Corea
England
Japan
P Cazal
Nicaragua
Panama
Pacific
Sandwich
Rivino Admits Bids For The River Terrace Project
A fragmentary notice references bids for a river terrace development with unclear dates and involved parties. The readable bits indicate a procurement process and potential bidders.
Millis Faces Bail Denial In Slaying Case
In Millis Missouri a preliminary hearing for John Merrillis on charges relating to the killing of W J Gilfillan concluded with Judge Garland holding Merrillis without bail. Attorney Gray said about 40000 in evidence could be signed and bail would be sought from Judge Perkins. Merrillis will remain jailed until testimony is signed, likely through Sunday.
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Ysage
Argupu
Y. McCrillis
W. J. Gilfillan
Garland
Werney Gray
Wes. Gilfillan
John Merrillis
Jay
McCrillis
John
Gray
Naval Leadership Changes Announced at Washington
Rear Admiral Sampson retains command of the North Atlantic Squadron. Commodore Phillip to command the Brooklyn navy yard. Commodore Picking to command the Boston navy yard. Captain Kempff to head Guam naval station and serve as governor. Rear Admirals Schley and Howison to receive sea duty, per Secretary Long.
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Washington
Sampson
J. W. Phillip
Brooklyn Navy Yard
H. F Picking
Boston Navy Yard
Louis Kempff
Guam
Schley
H. L. Howison
Navy Department
Long
Cuba Under Brooke Governance Faces New Laws
A lengthy cabinet session here debated Cuba’s future, focusing on strengthening the administration of the island. Officials discussed tax collection, customs, civil law, and court governance under a reform package led by seasoned administrators.
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Wasninetoy
Matt
Cuba
Transports Move for Cuba and Gas Tragedy Reported
Three transports left for Cuba from Craverston and Cienfuegos with brigades, hospital units, and infantry from the Sixth Ohio and First Regular. General Bates and General Gagior oversee operations as troops head to Havana. In Savannah, Corporal James of Company F is found unconscious from gas, likely due to intoxication, with a companion also affected.
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Craverston
8. C
Guba
Manitoba d
Matanzas
Gagior
New York
Cienfuegos
Batesang
Feaf
Ohio
Havana
Basilion
Firat
James Company
Savannah
Marshal Williams
Barneys Mysterious Homecoming In Calumet
A St Bernard named Barney, sold eighteen months ago by miner Jerry Murd y in Calumet to a Klondike party, reappeared at Mur dy's Calumet home last night. The dog had been taken to Dawson City in Alaska and performed well, but how it returned remains a mystery.
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Alaska
Calumert, Mich
Jerry Murdy
Calumet
Big St. Bernard
Barney
Dawson City
Murphys Home
Weather Drop Shocks Southeast Kansas Overnight
Fort Scott Kan December 31 A 51 degree temperature plunge swept Southeast Kansas last night as reported by Weather Observer Dillaed of Fort Scott.
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Kansas
Fort Sport
Kan
Dillaed
Nine Months of Pana's Strike Ends Standoff
Pana Illinois December 31 marking nine months since union miners left pits now run by Black workers. Strikers received $1000 from the state organization to continue the struggle and press their demands.
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Pana
Resolution Opposes Uniform Textbooks Adopted
At the close of the Southern Educational Association meeting in New Orleans on September 1, a resolution was adopted declaring uniformity of textbooks harmful to the best educational interests.
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New Orleans
Dac
Three Men Killed in Ozark County Shooting
In Ambrose Missouri William Barton shot and killed Cobb and Henry Winger during a county incident. Sheriff Luna formed a Gainesville posse and pursued Barton who surrendered after a brief confrontation.
Sedalia Bank Cashier Thwarted Return Plans
J G Thompson former cashier of Citizens National Bank of Sedalia now in Mexico City is said to plan a return to Sedalia to settle accounts with depositors. Lawyer Mr Lyons, prominent in Mexico City, reports Thompson aims to repay dollar for dollar and has broad interests in railroads mining stock and a bonanza gold mine that could make him a millionaire.
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Szpada
Evening Sentinel
J.G. Thompson
Citizens’ National Bank of
Sedalia
Mexico
Sentinel
Lyons
Thompson
Mr. Lyons
Elopement ties together two Missouri couples
Warre nsburg reports William Henderson, a Columbus township farmer recently divorced, eloped with his former wife Cora Henderson and wed in Independence. Cora had eloped last summer with Rev. R E Howell, who killed himself in Olathe after a fugitive plot. Howell's co defendant Pinson was jailed, paroled after two years. Henderson fast-tracked a divorce and began visiting Cora at her brother Jeff Coffman’s home before fleeing at night.
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Warrensburg
William Henderson
Columbus Township
Cora Henderson
Independence
Henderson
R. EB. Howell
Columbus
Oswego
Kaw
Howell
Olathe
Pinson
Jeff Coffman
Coffman
Portified in His Log Cabin
Three officers tried to arrest Allen for obstructing the highway. He barricaded himself in a log cabin and fired through loopholes, wounding two officers. A large armed party with Winchester rifles surrounded the cabin. Allen showed no signs of surrender.
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Allen
Esterhazy Expected to Depart for America
A Paris dispatch to the Standard says Esterhazy has been in Rotterdam since December 19 and is planning to leave for America soon. The move is regarded as imminent.
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Esterhazy
Loxpox
Paris
London Standard
Rotterdam
Comte
America
Fourteen French Marines Die in New Hebrides Action
Report from Suva carried by the Warrimoo states a leu tenant and thirteen French sailors were killed by natives during activity in the New Hebrides while the ship had been near Suva after leaving Honolulu and Australia.
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Vreronta
Warrimoo
Honolulu
Australia
Suva
Leutenant
Eune
New Hebrides
Poisoner suspected in Mrs Adams death in New York flats
Mrs Kate J Adams aged 50 died after taking a cyanide laced dose of Bromo Seltzer given by her daughter in law Mrs Rogers. Harry Cornish Knickerbocker athletic club director tasted poison and fell ill. Coroner’s physician calls it murder. witnesses say package contained the tainted bottle. Cornish disappeared after consulting the district attorney.
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New York
Mra
Kate J. Adams
Eighty-sixth Street
Mra. Adams
Edward Rogers
Harry Cornish
Knickerbocker Athletic Club
Rogers
District Attorney's Office
Cornish
Boston
Cubans Threaten Boycott of New Year Evacuation Day
Havana residents threaten to close homes tear down flags and stay indoors if General Brooke does not lift the ban on insurgent army representatives at New Year evacuation ceremonies. The Cuban peace commission warned General Gomez away after a tense interview, saying no courtesy would be shown.
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Havana
Brooke
Unprecedented Quip on Family and Goats Revealed
Fragment from a humorous exchange notes a parent asking a child about a new baby and quips about preferring a goat if not a sibling. The brief reflects a social moment captured in Scribner’s.
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Scribner’s
Wright Knocks Out Sears in Fifteenth Round at Birmingham
Highlights from HewS Summary dated December four report Wright of England stopping Mike Sears of Boston in the fifteenth round at Birmingham. Other items include treasury cash balance totals, bandit activity near Guantanamo, a suicide case identified in Los Angeles, Hull bill opposition, a new counterfeit dollar note, a Kentucky clemency decision, the St Louis peace commission arrival, Presidio pavilion funds, navy thrift order, and Christmas nursing deployments to Cuba.
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Wright
England
Mike Sears
Boston
Birmingham
Eng
Roy
Wood
Guantanamo
Los Angeles
Cal
Alexander Nutt
Philadelphia
Knights Templar
House Committee On Military Affairs
Bruce Register
Roberts Tressurer
Bradley
Blank
Mayfield
Kentucky
St. Louis
American Peace Commission
New York
Washington
Marshall
Department of California
Secretary of War
New Pavilion
Presidio
San Francisco
Navy Department
Corbin
Jie
Surgeon General Office
Cuba
Puerto Principe
Seventh Corps
U S Army Moves and Cuban Tensions Reported
General Green, U S W, to resign. First United States infantry departs for Cuba via Port Tampa. Havana braces as Christmas violence erupts between Spanish troops and Cuban residents. Multiple battalions ordered to Havana or Port Tampa. Captain Frederic M. Linde, retired, dies in Washington amid Civil War service record.
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Green
First
United States Infantry
Cuba
Port Tampa
Sagasta
Emison
Evansville & Terre Haute
Lindusa Cody
Simpson
Christian Alliance
Paria
Daily Chronicle
McKinley
Havana
Charleston
Frederic Marcy Linde
Washington
Michigan
Fourth Vermont Infantry
Wisconsin Heavy Artillery
Twelfth New York Leaves for Matanzas Transport
The Twelfth New York prepares to depart tonight from Charleston for a transport to Matanzas. Admiral Sampson, just arrived from Havana, went to Washington for talks with officials. Major Hemphill of South Carolina dies in Knoxville hospital. General Miles returns to Washington and declines to discuss recent testimony. A seven day time race begins January 1 between two Chicago area railroads for a $750,000 overland mail contract. Washington offices close all day with a quiet White House as the president sees callers.
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Teeaday
New York
Charleston
Matanzas
W. T. Sampson
Havana
Washington
Maor David J. Hemphill
South Carolina
Knoxville
Inverstigating Commission
Fagan
Chicago & Northwestern
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
Chicago
Omaha
White House
Senate considers coal stock for Navy in emergencies
A peace cretary bill was presented to the Senate on January 4 and sent to a committee. The Navy Department must be ready for any future emergency in the Atlantic and Pacific by maintaining a vast reserve of nearly 500000 tons of steaming coal for warships.
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Senate
Navy Department
Atlantic
Pacific
Cabinet reviews peace treaty and Cuba affairs in session
The cabinet heard the peace treaty reading then turned to Cuba issues. News item notes deaths of Andrew A Bonner in New York City and Mercedes Garcia in Thomasville Georgia, plus the passing of Justin Morrill in Washington.
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Cuba
Andrew Allen Bonner
Robert Bonner
The
New York Ledger
New York City
Mercedes Garcia
Calixto Garcia
Thomasville
Justin S. Morrill
United States
Vermont
Washington
New York Navy Yard
Phillip
Bunce
Brooklyn Navy Yard
W. T. Sampson
New York
William Jennings Bryan
Cincinnati
Duckworth Club
General Otis
Aguinaldo
Romero
Mexico
Admiral Dewey
Admiral Bunce
New York Produce Exchange
Army cornea move sparks Anniston transfer note
The Fourth army cornea will be moved from Huntaville to Anniston Alabama. The report also says Miss Virginia Fair and William K Vanderbilt Jr have formal engagement announced. Army officers and officials feature in other brief items across the dispatch.
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Cornea
Huntaville
Anniston
Ala
Baron Curzon Reaches Bombay As New Viceroy Arrives
Friday December 30 Baron Curzon and wife land in Bombay marking the arrival of the new viceroy of India. Also reported are the sale of the Canadian plant of the American Screw company, $89,000 purses for grand circuit races, a new fast mail between New York and Chicago starting January 1, and Major General Henry W. Lawton relinquishing command to go to Manila.
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Baron Curzon
India
Bombay
American Screw Company
New York
Colebrook
N. H
Houston
Tex
Gulf Road
Henry W. Lawton
Fourth Army Corps
Lawton
Manila
Otis
Good Proprietary Remedies and Bad
An analysis extols proprietary remedies while condemning quack nostrums. Richards Catarrh Expellant is endorsed after independent inquiry, claimed to cure catarrhal affections and praised for lasting results. The piece highlights journals endorsing meritorious products and warning against deceptive preparations.
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American Journal of Health
Darwin
Richards
Hke
Portrait posters sweep Worcester in municipal campaign
The Worcester Gazette reports a campaign novelty as portraits of candidate Rheutan appear on dead walls and billboards citywide. Voters are invited to support him in the upcoming municipal election, a practice long used in New York politics and now rising in New England.
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The
Worcester Gazette
Worcester
New York
New England
Emporia Gazette Praises Miss McGraw of Emporis Kan
The Gazette extols Miss McGraw a stenographer in Emporia Kansas earning 125 dollars monthly. It lauds her as well educated in cattle pedigrees, a skilled whist player and dancer, best dressed in Emporia, under twenty four, with interest income and knowledge of law.
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Miss McGraw
Emporis
Kan
the Gazette
Revue des Rheumatants Aims to Amuse and Potentially Cure
Parisian journalist Alexander Hepp notes gout and rheumatism sufferers like discussing their condition. He launches a new magazine, the Revue des Rheumatants, whose motto declares its aim to amuse and, if needed, cure those addressed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alexander Hepp
Revue Des Rheumatisants
Col Wisquam is Made Mandarin by Chinese Emperor
Col Wisquam succeeds William Bryan to command the Third Nebraska regiment and receives the Order of the Double Dragon from the Chinese emperor. The Chinese ambassador cites his services as United States consul general at Panama as the reason for the award.
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Col
Wisquam
William ¥. Bryan
Nebraska Regiment
United States
Panama
Pillow Duel In Pasek Ends With Knockout
Two athletic youths in Pasek New Jersey staged a pillow duel that lasted thirty seven minutes. A strong swing across the neck with a five pound pillow knocked one contestant senseless for five minutes.
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Pasek
N. J
Untamed Camels Shown More Vicious Than Tamed
The article notes wild camels are highly dangerous and more vicious than trained ones after months of breaking. In the wild they kick powerfully and frequently, sometimes using all four feet at once, illustrating their unpredictable ferocity.
End of the loaf riddle echoed in old speech
A fragmentary line questions why the end of the loaf is a cot mer in wheal, inviting interpretation of dialect or archaic phrasing that appears in a historical page. The exact meaning remains unclear without broader context.
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All
Millis
Umilsa
Schley, Phillip
Taf
Aus
Alger Wold
Alg
Congress
William Barton
Gainesville
Tim
Cranverries
Jers T. Is
Sanneeson
Kansas City
Seneeneer
Virginia Fair
William K. Vanderbilt, Jr
Senor Sagasta
Nathan Goff
West Virginia
United State
Ferdinand de Rothschild
Baron Albert de Rothschild
Alice
Sam Small
Third Engineers
United States Army
Admiral Sampson
Charles Porter
Twenty-second
Goodnow
State Department
Shanghai
Ilolio
Henry
San Juan
Louis C. Hammond
Fifth United States Cavalry
Army Sanitarium
Nagasaki
Sternberg
Taber Johnson
J. Edwards
M. D
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