Father of American medical association cited at Chicago meeting
Dr Davis, called father of the American Medical Association for prompting a 1845 NY convention plan, is described as 70 years old and a Chicago resident since 1849. The piece also notes an anti kissing league started by B B Wilson after remarks by Prof Crook, plus a divorce suit of Secretary Cox’s wife and a wife-kissing pledge controversy.
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Chicago
Crook
B. B Wlison
Mount Hope
Kan
T. J. Cox
Teague
Cox
Wilson
Sculptor's Statue Sparks Franco American Tension
Fragmentary OCR mentions Tani VW and a sculptor Bartlett establishing a studio near Washington. A letter from the French reacts to a statue of La and a dispute with action school children. The text hints at French fury over the placement and approval by an American jury, suggesting diplomatic tension about the sculpture.
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Land Bartlett
la Suburba
Washington
la- S
Kroger on Reitz Letter Sparks Transvaal War Talk
Amsterdam dispatch cites Mr. Kroger calling Reitz letter one sided and picked by Lord Kitchener from many, omitting reports from Transvaal generals and Cape Colony leaders supporting Steyn. Kroger avoids European intervention questions and possible complications noted in the correspondence.
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Sys
Mysta
Paris
Amsterdam
Kroger
Reitz
Transvaal
Steyn
Lord Kitchener
Tobias
Smuts
Delarey
Beyers
City Officials Edge Over Pay Skimming Probe
A verbal clash over a political salary scheme ends with Tom Johnson demanding a full refund of two percent assessments on city workers. Officials concede layoffs not acceptable and urge candidates to raise funds voluntarily. Salen questions how to run the fall campaign as Brigg mends the books and a brief presence follows.
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Ripenees
Salen
Brigg
Johnson
Tom
Gov Davis ousts Mississippi County officials in Arkansas
Gov. Davis revokes the commissions of Sheriff Sam Bowen and Circuit Clerk Chas. S. Driver in Mississippi County, appointing J. W. Rhoades and John A. Lovewell. Lovewell and Rhoades, independents, had contested Bowen and Driver, Democrats, with the county court backing Lovewell and Driver. The case awaits higher court action as tensions rise over occupancy. Also reported are a fire damage spree in Van Buren with losses around 10000 dollars and British Italian naval talks on Neotirean matters amid a visit by a British squadron to Italian waters.
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Bowen
Driver
London
Tripoli
Record Heat Sweeps United States and Europe
Drought and extreme temperatures dominate July reports from St. Louis Kansas Texas Missouri Arkansas Nebraska Colorado and Illinois. Missouri Governor Dockery urges prayer for rain while churches fill for services as heat records surge, numerous towns report high temps above 110 and 118 in places, with fatalities and crop losses cited across several regions.
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Kansas
Texas
Missouri
Arkansas
Nebraska
Colorado
Iake
Mississippi Valley
Laate
Vandeventer
Finney
King’s Highway
Business
Chicago Weather Bureau
Dockery
Spencer
Uncle Sam's Weather Bureau
Mutuals Quit Arkansas Fraternal Insurance Fails Bond
Little Rock July 22. Secretary Fay Hempstead of the Mason Mutual Relief association says it cannot meet the $10,000 guarantee bond required by state law and will retire from business. The group, 21 years old, paid 164 death losses totaling $123,000, and had 118 agreements. State Insurance Commissioner Mon toe warns fraternal orders to file bonds. Arkansas enforces a strict law affecting about thirty companies, with only four national firms complying.
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Frotest Insurance
Little Rock
Ark
Fay Hempstead
Mason Mutual Relief Association
Mon- Toe
Arkansas
Why Not a Southern Man for President or VP in 1904
Bryan endorses a Southern candidate for the 1904 ticket in a Commoner editorial. He argues Southern claims have been ignored for a quarter century and that post Civil War tensions have cooled enough to allow a Southern figure to seek the Presidency or Vice Presidency. Washington reports note British reluctance to release Americans in the Boer war except for health reasons. Corvalenceat in Twa notes Count Lee Testor's critical illness and convalescence.
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Bryan
Washington
State Department
Strike tensions rise as Wellsville mills face non union bid
Pittsburg to Wellsville transfer of twelve sheet workers signals planned restart of idle mills amid Amalgamated opposition. Union organizers report half the Vandergrift workers converted, with 800 affected and a push to recruit more strikes’ support in Wells ville Scottsdale and Saltsburg. Readiness to use non union labor alleged by critics and countered by union leadership.
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Wellsville
Teason
Amalgamated Association
Eleventh Street
Pennsylvania Avenue
Amalgamated
P. F. Smith
Smnl
Shaffer
Vandergrift
Pierce
Duntanville
Trust
Old Meadow
Scottsdale
Licely
Saltsburg
Tikers
Death by self in threshing machine in Cabool
Cabool Missouri July 20 Lee Simmons about 21 and single son of J R Simmons of ten miles north of Cabool committed death by own action this morning by jumping head fore most into the mouth of a steam threshing machine in full motion He gave his pocketbook and keys to his brother and asked a workman about the lethal outcome, then set the machine running to full speed and leaped in His head was torn and brain exposed He was pulled out alive but severely mangled
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Cabool
Lee Simmons
J. R. Simmons
Fosburg murder trial weaves circumstantial case in Pittsfield
In Fosburg murder proceedings District Attorney Hammond outlines a circumstantial case against Robert Stewart Funburg. Nine witnesses testified to bolster strands of evidence while Mike Quinn alias Dirty Dick Quinn remains in custody as a possible witness for the prosecution. Quinn faces warrants in Rhode Island and Massachusetts, and his cooperation may grant immunity from past crimes.
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Pittsfield
Main
Hammond
Robert Stewart Funburg
Mike Quinn
Dick” Quinn
May L. Fosberg
Robert
Quinn
Miss Fosburg
Robert Fosburg
Burg
Rhode Island
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