Filipino Insurgents Hit Hard in Lawton’s March Offensive
In the Philippines, two companies from the Third and two from the Twenty-second infantry escorting a signal party found insurgents reoccupying the country near Baliuag. One American killed and fourteen wounded, twenty prisoners and thirty wounded captured. Lawton’s expedition completed a 120 mile twenty day march with twenty-two fights, capturing twenty-eight towns and destroying 300000 bushels of rice. MacArthur and Funston dispersed 800 insurgents beyond San Fernando as scouts came under fire.
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Manila
Third Infantry
Twenty-second Infantry
Fourteenth Regiment
Pagig Ferry
Bell
Fourth Cavalry
Santa Anita
Lawton
Malolos
Oregon
Minnesota
Oceania
United States
Queen Victoria
Powerful
MacArthur
Funston
Kansas
Montana
Utah Battery
San Fernando
Presbyterian Assembly Sends Queen Victoria Birthday Congratulation
In Minneapolis on May 25 the Presbyterian general assembly unanimously passed a motion by Rev. John M. Ingham of New York to congratulate Queen Victoria on her 80th birthday. A cable message to Windsor expressed joy in her reign and divine blessing. Robert F. Sample, Moderator, and William H. Roberts, Stated Clerk, signed.
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Minneapolis
Presbyterian Assembly
John M. Ingham
New York
Great Britain
Queen Victoria
Windsor
England
General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church
Robert F. Sample
William H. Roberts
Kaiser Intervenes After Cab Driver Fell In Thiergarten
In Berlin May 25 Emperor William and an aide-de-camp witnessed a runaway cab horse. The driver was thrown from the box. the emperor dismounted and directed aid to revive the driver and gathered his name and address for assistance.
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Kaiser
Berlin
Emperor William
Thiergarten
Queen Receives Delegates At The Hague
Queen Wilhelmina held court with the peace conference delegates at The Hague as M. de Staal presented her with the Russian Order of St. Catherine. The delegates were received in two audiences, with the queen and her mother each holding a court and the delegates presented alphabetically to both sovereigns.
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The
Hague
Wilhelmina
M. de Staal
Mies
Lucy Tucker
Versailles
Jod
Williame
Erane Tucker
Mra
F.tucker
Frank Tucker
Huon Johnson
Justice of the Peace
Republican
Ind
Coghlan Replaces Green at Puget Sound Station
Washington May 25 Navy orders assign Captain J H Coghlan to command Puget Sound naval station effective June 30 as Raleigh slated for decommissioning. Coghlan relieves Captain J G Green. Captain C B Cotton leaves Mare Island navy yard to command the receiving ship Independence under Captain W W Meads.
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Coghlan
Washington
J. H. Coghlan
Puget Sound Naval Station
Raleigh
J. G. Green
C. 8
Cotton
Mare Island Navy Yard
W. W. Meads
Independence
Dewey Bows Out for Rest After Manila Duty
Admiral George Dewey tells Hong Kong reporters aboard the Olympia he needs rest after a year in Manila and plans two weeks at Victoria Peak. He praises American aims in the Philippines, warns against selling the islands, and eyes a return home with officers and men well earned-a respite he seeks to renew without entertaining visitors.
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New York
Journal and Advertiser
Hong Kong
Admiral Dewey
Olympia
Manila
feMl
Victoria Peal
Philippines
America
Aguinaldo
Surgeon Pages Says Dewey Is Not a Sick Man
Surgeon J E Page on Admiral Dewey aboard the Olympia reports the admiral is well after a year in the tropics and in no sense a physical wreck. He notes Dewey’s calmness in battle, regular habits, moderation in smoking and drinking, and broad regard for tact and discretion in the fleet.
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Dewey
Washington
J. E. Page
Olympia
Suez Canal
Page
Tropics
Admiral Dewey
Manila Bay
Reina Christina
Castalia
Surgeon Page
Representative Sherman Calls on the President in Washington
Representative Sherman of New York visited Washington and had a brief consultation with the President on May 25.
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Washington
Sherman
New York
Weatherwise Boston Man Predicts Hottest Summer Yet
R T Woodward of Boston recalls 1539 as a scorcher and predicts a 180y season hotter and drier than ever. In Jersey City local authorities have added a street sprinkling clause to street railway franchises and all trolley lines now run sprinkling cars on tracks laid.
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R. T. Woodward
Boston
Jersey City
Wayden Bros The Big Store Ships Furniture to Texas
Omaha furniture firm Hayden Bros. ships goods to Texas illustrating cash and western grit. Free catalogs of all classes sent on request. orders often arrive with prices lower than manufacturing quotes. Hayden Bros. fill over one hundred large furniture mail orders daily. The faults of a good man are more dangerous than the vices of a thoroughly bad one.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Omaha
Texas
Wayden Bros
Hayden Bros
Allen's Foot-Ease Foot Powder Ad Text
An old advertisement touts Allen's Foot-Ease powder for foot comfort in new shoes, claiming relief from corns bunions swelling and sweating. It notes purchase at druggists and shoe stores with a 25 cent price and sample offer from Fred Allen at LeRoy New York.
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Allen
Fred
Olmeted
LeRoy, N. Y
S. Olmsted
Exposition to exhibit patented inventions and Ben Hur plan
Greater America Exposition Company forms a Department of Patents and Inventions with free space for inventor exhibits. Inventors should contact G W Sues & Co in Omaha. General Lew Wallace and William Young plan to stage Ben Hur next November with 500 performers, limited to New York Philadelphia Boston and Chicago.
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Greater America Exposition Company
G. W. Sues & Co
Patent Lawyers
Bee Building
Omaha
Neb
Lew Wallace
William Young
Ben Hur
New York
Philadelphia
Boston
Chicago
Grain-O Adv Promises Coffee Substitute Drink
Try Grain-O the new food drink that replaces coffee. Children may drink it without injury and adults like its rich brown mocha like color. Made from pure grains, gentle on the stomach and one fourth the price of coffee. 15c and 25c per package, sold by all grocers. A word to the wise may be sufficient but the policemen often has to use a club on the otherwise.
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Java
Corn Pith Material Patents and Appeals Opinion
The May 20 1899 notice from Thomas G Orwig & Co describes two patent applications for a corn stalk pith filler. The Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia distinguishes the air heated blast method from prior patenting, noting no description of high temperature air treatment in the earlier patent. It ends with a literary flourish about the stage and sea.
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Morris
Court of Appeals
District of Columbia
Thomas G. Orwig & Co, Solicitors of Patents
Des Moines
Iowa
Excursion to Detroit for Y P C Convention July 3–5
Evscursion to Detroit via the Wabash for the Y P C Convention July 3 4 and 5 offers low rate tickets. Side trips include Niagara Falls Toronto Montreal Mackinac and more by lake or rail. Call or write to G N Clayton Room 302 Karbach Bldg Omaha Neb for rates folders and souvenir.
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Detroit
Chicagy
Lewis
Niagara Falls
Toronto
Montreal
Mackinac
G. N. Clayton
Karbach Elk
Omaha, Neb
Public school land auctions set in several Nebraska counties
J. W. Ware announces public auctions or twenty five year leases for about 605000 acres of school land across Antelope to Wheeler counties starting after July. Lands boast strong stock-raising potential with 6 percent bids or highest valuation option, notices to be published locally, letters requested for county interest and land lists. President Angell may supply students for government consular service abroad.
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Antelope
Bunner
Blaine
Box Butte
Brown
Chase
Cherry
Cheyenne
Custer
Dawes
Deuel
Dundy
Garfield
Grant
Hayes
Hitchcock
Holt
Hooker
Keith
Keya Paha
Wimball
Knox
Lincoln
Logan
Loup
McPherson
Pierce
Perkins
Rock
Scotts Bluff
Sheridan
Sioux
Thomas
Wheeler
J. W. Ware
Public Lands & Buildings
Lincoln, Neb
Angell
University of Michigan
Duse Stages D'Annunzio Piece in Naples Triumph
Eleanora Duse in Naples presented D'Annunzio's In Gloria praised as poetical and original with a Solomonite vanity theme. She drew thirteen curtain calls, while the author was absent. A fragment about Secretary Alger’s timberland near Lake Huron notes a 100 square mile extent.
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Eleanora Duse
Naples
D'Annunzios
Gloria
Solomon
Signora Duse
Alger
Lake Huron
Oextesit
New York Central Passenger Earnings Tops All Systems
Poor's Manuel lists railway earnings for 36 top lines with New York Central leading the field. The New York Central Lines report $31,525,768 in passenger revenue, beating Pennsylvania and other major systems including Lake Shore, Michigan Southern, and Pittsburg & Lake Erie. The Pennsylvanian lines show $21,200,000 with west-of-Pittsburgh traffic $8,500,000, totaling $60,000,000 in leading group earnings. The note also mentions the Society of Ladies as a politeness school for men.
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New York Central
St. Louis
Chicago
Pennsylvania
Poor's
Manuel
New York, New Haven & Hartford
New Tingiong Railway
Hudson River
Southern Pacific
Penne
Boston & Maine
Chicago & Northwestern
Ces
Burlington & Quincy
Canadian _ Pacific
Milwaukee & St. Paul
Rie, Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe
Grand Trunk
Baltimore & Ohio
Southern B’y System
Rock Island
Pacific
Louisville & Nashville
Lake Shore
Michigan
Southern Misouri Pacific Systems
Isaes
Boston & Albany
Big Four
Michigan “Central Northern Pacific Wabash
Lehigh Valley Aidee Bene Central Railroad of
New Jersey
Union Pacific
Great Northern
Chicago & Alton
Chesapeake & Ohio
Denver & Rio Grande
New York
Chicago & St. Louis
Ontario & Western
Pittsburg
Lake Erie
Cseee
Michigen Central
Secs
Mr Gages cabinet meetings lunch in department
Secretary Gage begins daily luncheon in the department to let clerks meet at table and discuss office affairs. The custom, first started in a Chicago bank, is called Mr Gages cabinet meetings.
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Gage
Chicago
Mr. Gages
Banker's past joys as a small country merchant
D O Mills a banker and philanthropist with a fortune of 25 million dollars says his happiest times were when he ran a small country store, a memory he regards as a peak of contentment in a long life.
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D. O. Mills
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Warren, Pa
U. S. Patent Office Business
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Avec
Kay
Kiine
RIL Kine, Ltd
Areli St
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Javelle Mfg Co
Parsons, Kap
Cangcarets
Turte
Ita
Con
Excel
Lackawanna &West
Pennsylvania Lines
Pennsylvania Railroad
Penn
Buffalo ‘Commercial
Society of Ladies
Lydia E. Pinkham
Mirs
Edna Jackson
Pearl, la
Williama
Dr. Willams
W. Y
W.N.U. Omaha
Columbia
Hartford
Pope Mfg. CO
Conn
Orans
Lebanon
Dad Weaith
Hetical Co
Dr. Kay
Sapolio
L. L. Carpenter
Wabash
Bethany Assembly
Brooklyn
Evangelist
Christian Church
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