Taft Foes Rally as Foraker Still in Saddle
Ohio treasury holds ten million dollars a Governor Harris Taft endorsement shapes state politics. McKinley widow Spra Saxon McKinley dies at 60 in Canton. Brownsville riot testimony cites limited shooters. Pettus seeks case open. Judge Hargis acquitted in Lexington murder. jury laxly treated. Presbyterian assembly debates anti rumor stance amid temperance tensions. Complexities of modern civilization noted in wild paradoxes.
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Lexington
Kentucky
Hargis
Thomas Cockerill
Hargs
James B. Marcum
Temperance support divides with secular groups in assembly
The assembly favors temperance and moral aims but declines to endorse a secular Anti-Saloon League, stating no representatives will be sent. A Brown County Democrat letter from Rev. A F Henry, in Bologne Africa, describes pervasive creepers there and the nuisance of ants cockroaches lizards and mice, yet says locals endure them with little complaint.
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Assembly
League
Committee On
Temperance
Antisaloon League
A. F. Henry
Bologne
Africa
Brown County Democrat
Navy seeks post office addresses for Spanish-American War veterans
The Navy Department reportedly searches for the postal addresses of all men who took part in the Spanish war to award several hundred medals it keeps for those veterans. It is not stated that the War or Navy Departments are short on medals to distribute to civil war veterans.
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Navy Department
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Navy Departments
Batnavis
Volo
Wix
Williamsburg Road
Wood Street
Wood Street At the Intersection of Said Wood Street and Williamaburg Road
Helen Shipp
Lide Robinson
Brothers
Amelia
State of Ohio
Aott
Ohio
Attarantes
Emma Zimmer to Wed Howard T Lockwood
Mrs Joseph Zimmer announces the engagement of her daughter Emma to Howard T Lockwood with a June wedding planned. The note reflects a local society item amid varied clippings including a quip about cannibalism and a golf course weed-cutting anecdote from the El Reno Republican.
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Joseph Zimmer
Emma
Howard T. Lockwood
Banquet Beneath The Surface In Newcastle Coal Mine
Lord Northcote, governor-general of Australia, attended a banquet held 300 feet below the surface in a Newcastle coal mine. Indian medicine bags are widely used and believed to ward off disease, bring luck, and protect the wearer in hunt or fight. If ill luck strikes, the wearer seeks to identify who or what broke the medicine and to restore it with good medicine.
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Lord Northcote
Australia
Newcastle
Literary History series to add two more volumes
Prof. W. H. Schofield plans two additional volumes of Literary History of England to finish the series following Stopford Brooke, Prof. Saintsbury and Mr. Gosse.
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W. H. Schofield
England
Stopford Brooke
Prof
Saintsbury
Mr. Gosse
The Bridesmaid Bella Cooks Up A Clever Jibe
A bridesmaid Bella refuses breakfast citing a stitch from the crowd at the claret cup reception. The remark is treated as a droll jou d esprit and gently mocked by guests and the Washington Star.
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Bella
Washington Star
Punjab Wheat Crop Surpasses Previous High by 500,000 Tons
The wheat crop in the Punjab this year exceeds the largest prior harvest by half a million tons, marking a record yield for the region. Local farmers report exceptionally strong yields across districts, boosting storage and market expectations.
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Punjab
Gratitude and Grandiose Prerogatives in Fin de Siecle Will
The late Marchioness Isabella Lucia of Pavia leaves a 3000 dollar legacy to a local comic paper of which she was a lifelong subscriber. Her will also provides 300 dollars for a banquet to entertain the paper staff in recognition of the pleasant hours spent reading its humorous columns. The piece notes the era’s social climbing Andrew dominance in London.
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Isabella Lucia
Pavia
British Undertakers Conference Hears Nightingale Lecture
The British Undertakers' Association held its annual conference in Liverpool. After a jovial luncheon delegates heard Dr. Nightingale lecture on corpse treatment, per the London Express.
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British Undertakers’ Association
Liverpool
London Express
Nightingale
Origin of Insurance in Medieval Italy
Insurance arose in sixteenth century Florence and spread beyond. Romans lacked insurance, relying on state guarantees for naval losses, which proved costly and abandoned when sunk ships damaged the treasury.
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Italy
Florence
Bank Statement and Local Travel Notice Mixed in Ledger
A Batavia Ohio bank balance sheet for First National Bank includes assets and liabilities with figures for overdrafts real estate and notes. Also notes a Sardinia Hillsboro route train schedule and a prize offer of 10 000 francs for dirigible balloon invention by Allen Holl and others.
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Batavia
Ohio
Basi- Baldwin
Ness
Wi’sburg
Sardipia
Winchester
Peeblea
Splas
Oak Securities
Rarden
Rortamonth
BRODY
Vod Binkern
U.S
National Bank
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