Premiums prove most satisfactory this year
The premium undertaking is described as the most satisfying yet with broad approval. The piano contest is heating up with three lodges actively participating, the Red Men, Odd Fellows, and Masonic lodges or their affiliated women's lodges.
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Red Men
Odd Fellows
Wandering Fisherman and War News From Era Exposition
A humorous vignette from the Pan American Exposition shows a professional fisherman leniently and methodically preparing for a day by a creek with worms and snake antidote noting his heavy rubber boots. It also reports on 1898 Spanish American War deaths and Brown County Indiana gaining a telephone line within sixty days. It mentions Chinese Boxer rebellion tensions and a prophecy about population reporting for the United States.
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Brown County
Indiana
Filipino War Letters From Local Soldier Describe Manila Campaign
A long letter from Ezra E. Snoxe of the 35th U S Volunteers recounts movements from Vancouver to Portland to Manila, with stops in Honolulu and Baliwag. He notes garrison life, battles with insurgents, and impressions of Luzon including terrain, flora, natives, and infrastructure, plus troop conditions and losses.
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Philippines
Philippine Islands
America
Silver Lake Record
Silver Lake
Vancouver
Washington
Portland
Oregon
Philippine Archipelago
Sike
Rio de Janeiro
Columbia Bar
Manila
Ezra E. Snoxe
35Th Regiment
U. S. Volunteers
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James Knox Taylor
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Manila Bay
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Fort Creighdor
Dewey
Cavite
San Fernando
Aryat
San Isidro
Gilmore
Tuxton
Fourth Cavalry
Third Artillery
San Chogapil
Aguinaldo
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Luzon
Vern Rankin
Warsaw
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