Sultan Abdul Hamid II Portrayed as Neurasthenic Ruler
Pall Mall Gazette profiles Abdul Hamid II, noting a sixty year portrait of a frail, calculating autocrat. The article describes his changed appearance, neurasthenia, and monomaniac traits, plus his methods to charm foreigners and win over Turkish elites through staged benevolence and calculated intrigues.
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Pall Mall Gazette
Prince Hamid
Turkey
Sultan
Abdul-Hamid
Yildiz
Constantinople
Selamivk
Sheker
Ahmet Pasha
Europe
Tha
Ecueinkes
Plea for Moderation in American Life
Senator Beveridge in Epworth Herald argues for a moderate life to prevent excesses. He praises patience and calm action as essential, citing Lincoln Emerson Washington and religious faith as guiding forces, and urges steady daily work with perspective amid America’s eager, restless energy.
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Beveridge
Epworth
Herald
Niagara
Washington
Lincoln
Buddha
Emerson
Ian Maclaren
White House
Monument
America
Diaz Bargain With Mexican Bandits At Palace Banquet
Porfirio Diaz invited buckskin clad bandit chiefs to the National Palace in Mexico City to join the government as National Guard officers. The plan offered annual per capita pay and military rank, with a choice of cabrito and venison or bullets for dinner. More than seventy chiefs answered the call, traveling from Tamaulipas Chihuahua and other states to join Diaz's reform.
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Ding
Zocolo Palace
New York Times
Chese Cabrite
Mexico
Porfirio Diaz
Diaz
Jag
Rio Grande
Tehuantepec
Republic of Mexico
City of
Heroof
Minjosa
Tamaulipas
Chihuahua
3Oneia
Durango
Michoacan
Guerrero
Oaxaca
National Guard
Abdul Hamid’s Rule Seen as Ruinous and Unyielding
A critical view argues Abdul Hamid stifled liberalism and independence, seizing and maintaining power through intrigue and force. The piece challenges the idea that his fall was inevitable and warns his successor may face a world-shaking crisis from the imperial crisis.
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Abdul- Hamid
Criminal Codes and Signals in Secret Postal Schemes
The article recounts how professional criminals hide messages in ordinary channels via self made postoffsices. Secret Service and postal inspectors describe cases including a Mississippi town counterfeiting ring using milkmen and a cook to ferry coded letters and false bottom milk cans. A New York batch hideout uses telegraph coded notices and a Chicago trader to deliver coded socks as payment and directions to a fugitive Logan.
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Philadelphia Ledger
United States Secret Service
United States Postal
Towa
Secret Service
Mississippi River
New York
Post Office
Central Office
Logan
Chicago
Helen
Houston Street
Bowery
Henry Prescott
Elizabeth Street
The Children s Bread Philadelphia Telegraph
An abused wife refuses to testify against her brutal husband amid harsh public judgment. The column argues hunger and poverty explain why some women stay, noting wage limits and rent needs, and contemplates harsher punishment versus immediate consequences for families.
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Philadelphia Telegraph
Fabrics listing two color zibeline by yard prices
A catalog style entry notes several zibeline fabrics in multiple colorways and widths. Prices range from $1.00 to $2.75 per yard with colors including royal blue navy brown green gray and blends. Mixed color options show combinations such as green with gray brown with gray and navy with gray. July era style pattern and spacing imply a vintage fabric sale.
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Bou’onne Novelty
Fashion notes on pongee parasols and seaside fabrics in fall styles
A period fashion roundup highlights natural colored pongee parasols and a prominent Chinese Jardiniere on the Ayres Art Floor in Indianapolis. It notes trends from red accents on gowns to revived court bodices, water color portraits, Russian suits for boys, sea friendly fabrics like fig ured grenadine, and early fall street wear including novelty cloth coats and corset coat suits.
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Ayres
Indianapolis
Black Dress Goods Sale Shrinks Stock Across Weaves
A local sale advertises reduced prices on fine dress fabrics including Black twine voile 38 inches, Black French voile 42 inches, Priestley's crispine 44 inches, 42-inch all wool crepe de chine, and all wool black cheviot. Limited yards remain in seven styles including blue, black, gray and yellow stripes offered at deep discounts while stock lasts.
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Priestley
Cens
Ieee Obbe Soccse
Cone Sonesece Caucsens
Singing Into a Phonograph Inspires Nervous Singers
The Philadelphia Record reports on a young woman who earns a living singing into phonographs. She notes the lack of audience is frightening yet inspiring, pushing her beyond herself and helping her perform better than expected.
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Philadelphia
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L. J. Ayres
Leslie
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