Democratic Creed Platform Denounces Imperialism At Convention
The Democratic national platform condemns imperialism, pledges to Cuban independence, opposes Philippine annexation, fights trusts and monopoly, and advocates silver coinage and direct legislation. It denounces the Republican policies, calls for a Department of Labor, statehood for territories, and strict adherence to the Monroe Doctrine. It also supports naval disarmament of sorts, antiwar taxes repeal, and sympathies with Boers.
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Kansas City, Mo
National Democratic Convention
Democratic Party of the
United States
United States Supreme Court
Congress
Porto Rico
Republican Party
Supreme Court
Cuba
Democratic Party
Philadelphia
Hemisphere
Europe
National Guard
Republic
Repubican
Chicago
Department of Labor
Jefferson
Asia
England
Africa
Legations Hold Out Amid Chinese Siege Reports
London July 9 foreign consuls in Shanghai say Peking legations were safe on July 4. Reports of a great battle near Tientsin and 1,000 Chinese killed by Russians and Japanese follow. Warren dispatches and Li Hung Chang notes fuel cautious optimism for legation safety amid scarce provisions and ongoing hostilities.
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London
Shanghai
Peking
Warren
Foreign Office
Tientsin
Taku
Lang Fang
the Standard
Daily Mail
Chefoo
Dauy Telegraph
Canton
Hong Kong
Li Hung Chang
McKinley
the Times
United States
Japan
Legation
Inspectorate of Chinese Maritime Customs
Washington
State Department
China
Robert Hart
Tragic drowning of Stoner child in Fort Dodge lard can
In Fort Dodge a young daughter of Mr. and Mrs. L J Stoner drowned after falling into a water filled lard can. Her mother heard her cries and rushed to help but could not save her. The incident ended with the child strangled beneath the water for a few seconds. A separate note lists the United Christian party ticket from Des Moines including E W Sage and J F R Leonard for state offices and other officers.
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United Christian Party of Town
Des Moines
E. W. Sage
Washington
J. F. R. Leonard
Ainsworth
Charles W. Baker
Muscatine
Emery Fearson
A. J. Allen
Montpelier
Edward Farber
Lisbon
W. R. Benkett
Davenport
G A R appoints staff for Town department commander
Col. M B Davis announces department staff appointments: inspector general R. Rathbun of Clinton. judge advocate W B Collins of Keokuk. chief mustering officer J E Wilkins of Des Moines. senior aid and chief of staff W H Hallman of Independence. assistant adjutant general George A Newman of Cedar Falls. quartermaster general M T Scanlon of Des Moines.
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M. B. Davis
R. &. Rathbun
Clinton
W. B. Collins
Keokuk
J. E. Wilkins
Des Moines
W. H. Hallman
Independence
George A. Newman
Cedar Falls
M. T. Scanlon
Jefferson man held in Sioux City conspiracy case
Homer Robb of Jefferson 8 D is jailed in Sioux City charged with conspiracy to rob and murder Charles Schroeder of Dunlap. Schroeder was robbed and stripped on June 10 by two strangers on a Missouri river sandbar north of Sioux City and left unconscious after being intoxicated. Robb denies the charges.
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Homer Robb
Jefferson
8. D
Sioux City
Charles Schroeder
Dunlap
Schroeder
Missouri
Robb
Bayard
American Victorian Association
George Mantz
Clinton
Frank Pough
Burlington
Alfred Morgan
Ogden
McCallsburg
Dubuque County
8. M. Weaver
Boone
Dubuque
Ellis B. Miller
H. C. Miller
Iowa Falls
Secretary of the Navy
United States Marine Corps
Trousse & Hetherington
Cedar Rapids
Krekel Island
Davenport
Oliver H. McKinney
Hedrick
J. W. Benson
Eldon
E. O. Bowen
Garwin
Frank Prugh
Lomax
Paul Draper
Valley View
Philippines
Oakland
R. E. Pile
Josiah L. Pickard
Iowa City
Pickard
The
State University
Richard Bell
Albia
Keota
Singmaster & Sons
United States
Frederick Bissell
Harvard University
Rockwell City
Joseph Galland
Ocheyedan
Mansfield
Fort Madison
Arrest in Waterloo prompts test of Iowa gasoline law
An arrest in Waterloo may challenge the state law prohibiting generating gasoline for lighting. The statute has been questioned many times, with dealers and merchants threatening a test case, but no such attempt had occurred until now.
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Waterloo
Iowa
Henderson Renominated by Acclamation at Iowa GOP Convention
The Third district Republican convention in Waterloo renominated Speaker Henderson for his tenth term in Congress amid great enthusiasm. Henderson delivered a brief acceptance speech. The same report notes numerous surrounding events and local incidents from Iowa towns including deaths, storms, fires, arrests, and civic changes across Dubuque, Cedar Rapids, and Burlington through the period.
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Henderson
Waterloo
Congress
The Great English Crab Size Mystery Probed
A writer suggests colossal crabs off Dartmouth to the Lizard may owe size to food or breeding. If proven, crossbreeding or diet shifts could boost Britain’s crab fisheries. Night hunters stand motionless or buried, using keen smell and sight to ambush prey, awaiting human capture.
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Dartmouth
Devon
Lizard Headland
Cornwall
British Isles
Land’s End
Scilly Isles
English Channel
Great Britain
Inventors Patent Detachable Bosom Shirt and Novel Gadgets
Maryland inventors patent a shirt with a removable bosom held by button tongues for easy replacing when soiled. A new salt pepper storage uses knife and fork handles as tubes with spring clips and internal reservoirs. A feed box for horses and cattle keeps heads over the box with side slots controlling access. A method for accurate tombstone placement uses soluble supporting blocks, letting stones settle once blocks dissolve.
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Maryland
Automobiles Rise in Europe and Africa Traffic Estimates
Alfred Harmsworth, touring France, counted 177 motor carriages and 269 motor tricycles on a Riviera day. Paris uses about two to five percent of weekday traffic with higher Sunday and holiday use. British traction engines move refugees in Maritzburg, Africa, for transport and outings.
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London
Alfred Harmsworth
France
Riviera
New York City
Paris
Maritzburg
Africa
Umbrella Mix Up At Boston Near Harbor
A summer boarding house keeper visiting Boston to renew property rentals mixed up umbrellas at Hovey's. She mistakenly kept another woman's umbrella, apologized, and later recovered her own bundle. The rightful owner later confronted her on the Cambridge-bound car, remarking on her good fortune.
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Boston
Boston Transcript
Hovey’s
Cambridge
Choate and the Baby at Acton Library Opening
Hon Joseph H Choate American ambassador to Great Britain spoke at Acton Free Library opening and teased a baby that disrupted the address with cries. He quipped about the child and quoted scripture noting that from babes and sucklings comes wisdom and that books are endlessly made.
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Acton
Kengland
Joseph H. Choate
Great Britain
San Francisco
Mr. Choate
Lord Bishop
Armory of Sing-Hi Supplying Royal War Gear
The article describes the imperial arsenal at Sing-Hi operating at night to forge metal shields and scare heads. Prince Bung is buying two handed wooden swords for the royal guard. Firecracker guns, enameled toasting forks, demoniac dragon kites, lacquered war gangs with bamboo thumpers, Canton matting war bombproofs with rice paper prayers are prepared to deter invaders.
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Imperial
Sing-Hi
Prince Bung
Taka-Nip
Canton
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Stomach Bitters Advertised Against Emigration Warnings
Japan expresses alarm over emigration as residents are believed lured abroad by misrepresentation and abandoned. The piece likens such deceit to false claims about medicines and extols Hostetter's Stomach Bitters as safe and valuable for indigestion constipation dyspepsia malaria and fevers.
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Japan
Nhey
Translated hymn joke shifts to a pious misread
A San Francisco Wave quip recalls a missionary asking a pundit to render a hymn into Indian vernacular. Converts sang with fervor, replacing the line Rock of ages with Very old stone split for my benefit letting me seek shelter under a fragment, a moment of unintended comic meaning.
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San Francisco
Allen's Foot Ease Powder Ad Boosts Comfort
Do Your Feet Ache and Burn Shake into your shoes Allen's Foot-Ease a powder for the feet It makes tight or new shoes feel easy Cures corns itching swollen hot callous smarting sore and sweating feet All druggists and shoe stores sell it 25 cents Sample sent free Address Allen S Olmsted Le Roy New York
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Allen
Allen S. Olmsted
le Roy
N.Y
Wholly Unexpected Visitor Delights at Door
A brief comic exchange at a door features a meek man answering the agent with Tam he. The Indianapolis Press notes the humor as the over bearers deem the unexpected the soul of wit in a playful glimpse of daily life.
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Indianapolis Press
Grand Trank Railway Promotes Canada and East Travel
The Grand Trank Railway System will serve you well to premier resorts of Canada and the East. For fares, descriptive literature and general information apply to J. N. Burgis, City Passenger and Ticket Agent, 249 Clark Street or corner Jackson Boulevard, Chicago.
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Canada
East
J. N. Burgis
Clark St. i
Jackson Soulevrand
Chicago
Proverbial quips and cure ads from early newspapers
A collection of cheeky ad lines and quotable quips from the Atchison Globe and Detroit Journal, including marriage matchmaking gibes, kitchen glass customs, a one day cold cure claim, a hat joke, Piso’s throat cure endorsement, a knapsack pillow aside, Carter’s Ink usage by railways, and a maxim about tough times.
Twain's telephone call with a Hartford divine
Mark Twain at his Hartford home grew frustrated by a telephone interruption. After a prolonged "hello" without response, he swore in colorful language only to hear an astonished Reverend Clemens identify himself on the line.
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K Twain
Hartford
Conn
Mark Twain
Mark
Mr. Clemena
Marquette as a summer resort on Lake Superior
A brief ad style description extols Marquette Michigan as a charming summer retreat accessible via the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway. It highlights healthful location scenery hotels and immunity from fever, inviting readers to request The Lake Superior Country with a postcard stamp to Geo H Teafford, Chicago.
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Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
Marquette
Mich
Lake Superior
Copper Country
Geo. H. Teafford
Chicago
Cascarets Candy Cathartic Health Ad
A health advertisement promises relief from ailments by regulating bowels with Cascarets Candy Cathartic. It touts easy natural movements, urges a 10 cent start, and warns to beware of imitations of the genuine metal box product stamped with C.C. C.
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C.C. C
Lane's Family Medicine This Health Aid Ad
Census pleasantry note appears as a comic exchange from the Indianapolis Journal. An advertisement for Lane's Family Medicine promotes a laxative product claiming to move the bowels daily and support liver and kidney health. Prices listed as 25 and 50 cents.
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Lane
Always Dressed Up and Witty Quotations
A collage of quips and ad copy fragments from multiple papers, including social commentary on attire, aging meals, political wisdom, and humorous slogans. Notable lines reference Sunday clothes, a nostalgic old man, and a constitutional cure, with an ad for Hall's Catarrh Cure and medical aphorisms about blood and the heart.
Amatuer Concert Echoes In Satirical Lines
A witty note from the Atchison Globe and Detroit Journal laments about banter and fashion at an amateur concert. The amusing sight of a sad faced girl in a black dress inspires lighthearted commentary on money and thought in society.
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Atchison Globe
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