Tenement Collapse in Jersey City Kills Four
A four story tenement on Colgate Street Jersey City collapsed at about 6:30 AM killing four occupants Lucille Anderson Ella Anderson and Barney Anderson aged eight months and two years plus Patrick Anderson also died Michael Webb 17 was crushed. Several others injured as crews removed debris and fought fires. The disaster likely caused by sunken piles.
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Jraey City
Jersey City
Patrick Anderson
Colgate Street
First
Canton
Patrick Andlersot
Anil
Ehildren
Michael Webb
John Corne
Patrick Corbin Awit
H. McGarty
Markc
Ella
Barney Anderson
Anderson
Micharl Webb
John Coyne
Patrick Coyne
Mary Coyne
Bridget Coyne
Hugh McGurty
Mary Ann McGurtry
Little Hussey
Maggie Anderson
Pension Decision Alters Confederate Pension Denial
May 83 report describes Dawson of West Virginia Cavalry rejected for pension after joining the Confederacy while a prisoner. Commissioner notes motives matter and aiding the rebellion cannot be deemed voluntary. Also mentions Georgia loan efforts and Iron Workers scale news from May 28.
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Talon Mrisoner
Wastuscrox
Dawson
Company D
West Virginia Cavalry
Lee
United States
Congress
Iron Workers
Prerstoren
Amalgamated Association
Association
Severa
Phillips, Nimick & Co
A Little Nonsense and Oddities From Papers
A collage of quick anecdotes and quips from various newspapers. Child conversations, a junk dealer finding a pocketbook with $1600, a Bowie knife exhibit, a court gag about apoplexy painting, a dinner table joke with Johnny, and a math pun about a pin and a point.
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Tommy
Louisville
onurier-Journal
Gertrude
Jim Bowie
Orleans
Polies Gonrt
Peturée
le Francais
Alvine Dormain
Johnny
Chal
Petin
Market Reports From Chicago and New York Dated May 30 and May 3
A dense, OCR read of market items notes mixed cash bids, no sales, and varied price quotes across commodities. It includes beef, pork, dairy, eggs, and grains with scattered figures for steers, cows, bulls, and stockers, plus Western and Texas carload notes.
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Georgia
New York
State of
Hepburn
Laci
TRIAS
Dusenis
Bes Wakat
Cash
Sli
Accust
Hae Hye
Amcust
Lake
Fiocu
Bepkes Laney
Hesars
Kye
Chicago
Alwus
Texas
SNK
Hutter
Kansas City
Nw Etroleum—United
Worse Than Slavery Young Men Enticed to Guatemala
James Barney, a twenty two year old Mississippian once deputy sheriff of Batesville, recounts being lured to Puerto Barrios Guatemala to work for Shay Cornice Co. on a railway. He describes brutal conditions, withheld food, forced labor, injuries, executions, and mass desertions, with escape via Belize and return home. He details illness, starvation, and abuse by soldiers and company officials, and notes limited help from consuls.
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Guatemala
Vicessore
Miss
James Barney
Batesville
Vicksburg
Puerto Barrios
Republic
Sper Day
Elia Knight
Belize
British Honduras
Wen Rn
Livingston
Sagar
New Orleans
Oklahoma Land Question Dominates Senate Indian Affairs Tour
The Senate Committee on Indian Affairs visits Muskogee Creek Nation amid debate on Oklahoma and Cherokee strip sales and citizenship. Indians report white encroachment and hundreds labeled intruders, with Interior Department blocking ejectments. Cherokee leaders urge postponing the purchase negotiation until after August elections. Tornado hits Attox city causing thousands in damage and widespread losses. Big Bear campaigns fear eight hundred armed followers as General Strange advances from Carcaver toward Big Hills.
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Senate
Oklahoma
Lortin Rock
Ark
Indian Territory
Senate Committee On Indian Affairs
Muskogee Creek Nation
Oklahoma and Cherokee Strip
Interior Department
Carcaver
N. W.T
Big Bear
Big Hills
Frog Lake
Fort Pitt
General Strange
Andre
Wheat hopes dim, yet world grain stocks rule prices
A New York commentary argues wheat shortages are exaggerate. global harvests from India to Britain show ample supply. Despite local worries, world bread prices stay low as rains and warmer weather bolster crops in Europe and Russia, suggesting US farmers face competition and a shifting global grain market.
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New York
Paramount Forest
Europe
Iuda
Australia
London
New Zealand
Great Britain
England
Russia
St. Petersburg
Austria
India
Danubian
Thompson Out in Ninety Seconds in Northwest Bout
In Market Hall, Cleveland fighter Mervile Thompson clashes with Billy Wilson, a 22-year-old challenger from Boston. After a brief exchange, Wilson lands a decisive blow and Thompson collapses, losing by knockout in ninety seconds before about 1,800 spectators.
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Thompson
Cleveland
St. Paw
Northwest
Marquis of Queensbury
Mervile Thompson
Billy Wilson
Market Hall
Wilson
Boston
Trim
Jie
Clarendon
Hull
New York
Mexican Senoritas Peculiarities of Dress and Carriage
A vivid sketch contrasts Mexican women with American notions of beauty, noting rare elegance and the lace mantilla as a soft background against changing headwear. The piece laments the shift to French hats and comments on aging, culture, and social appearance. It also includes a Boston Journal letter praising insomnia cures and home remedies for sleeplessness.
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Cor
Boston Journal
Mail and Express
Landlord Upsets Buyer With Iron Hammer Tale
In a playful exchange a landlord tells a prospective tenant the house was built for a machinist with a twenty ton steam hammer in the cellar. The lady, seeking a horse, jokes that such a tool would help her run a boarding house by softening beef, prompting amused remarks about pricing and utilitarian use.
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Philadelphia
Fragmented Medical Ad Blends Nonsense And Remedies
A garbled dialogue mocks war and nature while stringing together brand names and dubious cures. The passage sells nostrums from the World’s Dispensary Medical Association and various patent medicines, with misquoted lines and nonsensical discourse surrounding asthma bronchial diseases and overcoats.
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Jim Conner
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World's Dispensary Medical Association
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Cal Toronto
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Quebec
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