Prince Henry Accused of Drunken Neglect in Rhen Press
The Rhen press reports Prince Henry facing accusations of neglect and drunkenness at social dinners. German junior officers linked to his education are noted as maintaining a tradition of heavy toasting. Queen Wilhelmina is described as deteriorating publicly while privately grieving, with commentators predicting lasting strain in the royal marriage.
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Prince Henry
Rhen
Wilhelmina
Holtrs
Dutch Protest In Vain In The Hague Over Red Cross
In The Hague December 1 members of the Chamber condemned Britain for confiscating a Dutch Red Cross outfit near Pretoria and imprisoning staff on Ceylon. The foreign minister said Geneva rules applied only to belligerent ambulances, but staff could be prisoners if they violated. He noted the Netherlands has pressed for parole releases, but Britain will not release them until after the war.
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Hague
Red Cross
Pretoria
Ceylon
Melvil van Lyndon
Great Britain
America
Europe
Paderewski
Windsor Hotel
Christmas Carol by Rostand Appeals to World’s Children
Paris editors publish Edmond Rostand verse titled A Christmas Carol urging children everywhere to share Christmas gifts for Boer mothers and children in concentration camps. The poem contrasts readers’ happiness with Boer infants’ suffering and notes Father Christmas has become a specter bringing coffins instead of toys.
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Paris
Edmond Rostand
South Africa
Caricature of Kitchener Drawn by Subaltern in South Africa
A South Africa dispatch reports a subaltern drew a caricature of Lord Kitchener as Rip Van Winkle leading a centenarian soldier up a kopje. Kitchener viewed the drawing, responded with a grim smile, and stated the duty remains to win. No one panicked before confirming the artist’s name.
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London
South Africa
Lord Kitchener
Rip van Winkle
Kitchener
Pretoria lifts stock restrictions and resumes money orders
Pretoria reports that all restrictions on stock and share transactions will be removed on January 1 as part of a return to normal conditions. The money order business will also be resumed.
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Pretoria
Bitterly Anti American London Saturday Review Advocates Alliance
A London Saturday Review article urges German English friendship to curb the United States, arguing Britain must counter U S expansion by aligning with Germany unless a stronger policy emerges. It notes Emperor William’s concern over German populations in Chile and Brazil and questions Britain's Nicaragua stance.
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London
Saturday Review
United States
William
Chile
Brazil
Germany
Great Britain
Review
North
South America
Canada
Nicaragua
Spectator
Russia
Weather forecast for Sunday and Monday across regions
Washington forecast calls for rain on Sunday and clearing colder Monday with northeast winds. Indiana and Illinois expect rain or snow, then fair, colder with northerly winds. Storms on Texas coast, high south winds shifting to northwest with colder weather. Cold wave warnings issued for parts of Colorado, Oklahoma and northern Texas.
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Washington
Indiana
Ilinois
Texas
Colorado
Oklahoma
Movements of Steamers Across Major Ports
Shipping news lists arrivals and departures: Lucania from Liverpool to New York, Columbia from Naples to New York, St Ul to Southampton, Minneap for London, Aller for Genoa, Umia for Liverpool, Palatia for Hamburg, Dam for Rotterdam via Boulogne, Hong Kong Mare from San Francisco to Hong Kong, Idrumi Maru from Seattle to Hong Kong, Cam from New York to Liverpool, Etruria sailing New York, Norwegian arrival Boston, Pommeranian sailing to Glasgow, Hav erford from New York to Antwerp, Vaderland sailing to New York, La Bretagne sailing to ?
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New York
Pec
Lucania
Liverpool
Columbia
Naples
St. Ul
Southampton
Saifed
Minneap
London
Aller
Genoa
Umia
Palatia
Hamburg
Dam
Hotterdam
Boulogne
Yokohama
Wee
Hong Kong
San Francisco
Hong- Kong
Seattle
Hong Kaor
Etruria
Glasgow
Boston
Pommeranian
Crisis in the Iron Industry Prompts Ore Imports Plan
The Statist urges importing ore from Newfoundland and Nova Scotia and building basic furnaces in England to treat phosphoric ores. It argues for a merged smelting and steelmaking process to defend Britain’s steel industry. January faces closures in Scotch steel works due to American and continental competition.
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United States
Great Britain
Newfoundland
Nova Scotia
England
America
Labori seals lips on Dreyfus rupture amid polemics
Paris reports indicate Labori will not disclose the rupture story citing professional secrecy. The Dreyfus controversy fuels both sides as Lazare dismisses help to topple a statue, while anti-Dreyfusards push for more damning disclosures amid election expectations. In Tunis near Tripoli, Soukel Djemas sees riots over new taxes with six Arabs and two Turks killed, martial law declared.
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Paris
Labori
Dreyfus
Reinach
Bernard Lazare
Lazare
M. Labori
Maitre Labori
M. Yves-Guyot
Sieele
Thore
Major Carriere
Soren Mente
Poti
General de Qalliffet
The
Temps Today
Tunis
Soukel- Djemas
Tripoli
Bulgarian Ex-Premier Stambouloff Assassin Arrested at Sofia
The Veiman correspondent reports the arrest of Halju in Sofia after violent resistance. Halju is alleged to be the assassin of former Bulgarian Prime Minister Stambouloff. He fired two revolver shots at police but was unharmed by the bullets.
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London
Veiman
Central News
Sofia
Halju
Stambouloff
M. Stambouloff
Bulgaria
Italian Senator Fava to Interpellate over Erwin Lynching Case
In Rome on December 7 Baron Fava announced he will question the Foreign Office about the status of the dispute between Italy and the United States over the July lynching of two Italians in Erwin Mississippi and how the matter might be settled.
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Rome
Senate
Baron Fava
Foreign Office
Italy
United States
Erwin, Miss
Punitive Expedition Encounters Opposition in Mahsud Region
Calcutta reports severe resistance as Mahsuds attack after seven villages were destroyed. Ten British soldiers killed and fifteen wounded in a nighttime assault on camp. Rome notes Archbishop Scalabrini of Piacenza to be appointed apostolic delegate to Washington following US visit.
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Calcutta
Rome
Journal de Roma
Mer. Scalabrini
Piacenza
United States
Washington
Lancet article links salt in diet to cancer origin
New York reports that the London Herald correspondent notes the Lancet publishes a lengthy piece by Dr. James Braithwaite arguing that salt in the diet is one of four factors that originate cancer.
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New York
London
The
Herald
Lancet
This Week
James Braithwaite
Hamburg Lines to Start New York Levant Service
The Hamburg America and German Levant lines plan a regular steamship service from New York to Levant ports. The Gauss, with the German Antarctic expedition led by Professor Von Drygalski, sailed from Kiel August 1 and reached Cape Town two weeks ago, then continued toward the Antarctic. The Governor General of Warsaw and others apologized for student attacks on the German consulate and will replace the German coat of arms with proper ceremonies. criminal proceedings were begun against demonstrators.
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New York
Levant
Gauss
Professor von Drygalski
Kiel
Cape Town
Ernor General
Warsaw
Fais
Courts in Conflict in Macon Over Receivership
Federal and State courts clash over a receivership as Judge Speer orders Receiver T J Carling held in contempt for noncompliance. Carling’s arrest and jail confinement are ordered in Savannah, with ten days delay for appeals in New Orleans. Darling noted as a prominent Georgia business man and Mason.
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Speer
T. J. Carling
Felton
Carling
United States Circuit Court of Appeals
New Orleans
Darling
Georgia
Pythias
Movement to test Alabama Constitution disenfranchising Negroes
In Birmingham on December 7 a large group of representative Black leaders led by Rev. William McGill will meet to fund legal efforts challenging the Alabama Constitution as it practically disfranchises the race. The plan is to hire counsel to test the constitutionality before the Supreme Court of the state.
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Birmingham
Ala
William McGill
Supreme Court of the
War on the scalpers tickets altered transport urged
In New York the Railroad Ticket Protective Bureau discussed fraud in ticket manipulation and pledged a vigorous offensive to shield travelers from scalpers and altered passes. Governors ponder a Northwestern merger on rail lines with Montana conference potential and ongoing consolidation debates.
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New York
Railroad Passenger Association
United States
Railroad Ticket Protective Bureau
Southern Pacific to spend 3 million on Atlantic line upgrades
Houston reports that over the next year Southern Pacific will invest 3,000,000 in the Atlantic system from El Paso to New Orleans. Funds cover reballasting eighty-pound steel rails bridges new equipment and branch lines. The entire line will be reballasted with thousands of men at work. In Cleveland the Lorain and Wheeling employees presented a silver tea service to W R Whitford now Pittsburgh division general superintendent of the Baltimore and Ohio.
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Houston
Tex
Southern Pacific
Atlantic
el Paso
New Orleans
Cleveland
Cleveland, Lorain & Wheeling
W. R. Woodford
Pittsburg
Baltimore & Ohio, — & Incent Silver-Tea Service
J. Lessi
Paymaster and officers freed on bail in cigars case
Paymaster Robinson and three Southern Pacific pay car officers were released on bail after their wagon was seized by Mexican customs in Nogales Arizona for contraband cigars. They resumed their journey with the car.
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Nogales
A. T
Robinson
Southern Pacific
Miller appointed Seaboard passenger agent in Philadelphia
Joseph E. Miller has been named passenger agent of the Seaboard Airline Railway at Philadelphia. The appointment completes the airline’s passenger organization in Eastern territory with representatives in all large Eastern cities.
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Portsmouth
Joseph E. Miller
Seaboard Airline Railway
Philadelphia
Seaboard Airlne
Cheap Statuettes in New York Factories Tells Their Trade
An expose reveals that most statuette busts sold on street corners and in art shops are made by Italian workers in New York factories. Molds come from copies or photographs, with some original work in large shops to satisfy demand for famous figures for high schools and other buyers. The process uses plaster, baking, stearic acid, and beeswax coloring, producing durable, non fading finishes.
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New York Evening Post
Tuscany
Germany
France
Plaster of Paris
Italy
Street peddlers and Tanagra figures shape a niche market
An article describes street peddlers who sell low cost statuettes made in small ateliers. They avoid stearic acid in finishing, causing color to wash off, and rely on molds from other firms. Tanagra figurines remain the steady best seller among popular and grotesque busts, cupids, monks, wings, and Wagner busts.
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Admiral Dewey
Wagner
Ed Brown of Girard Dies Suddenly in Kansas City
Edwin H. Brown aged seventy eight of Girard Kansas collapsed and died of heart disease while visiting his sister. He was a convention delegate who helped renominate Abraham Lincoln and a Kansas Legislator elected in 185. He helped promote the Union Pacific Railroad and built the Joplin to Girard line now part of Frisco. He also held prominence in railroad circles.
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Kansas City
Edwin H. Brown
Girard
Kan
Abraham Lincoln
Kansas
Union Pacific Railroad
Joplin
Frisco
Richmond Notes On Suit Over Cellhouse At Reformatory
Special to the Indianapolis Journal reports Hon. Charles E. Shiveley says a major suit will be filed against the state over the new cellhouse at the Jeffersonville Reformatory after the board paid contractors 17000 but refused a 2000 extras claim. Also divorce decrees granted in Circuit Court and obituary news from Atlanta, with 3450 settlement in the Michigan wreck case.
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Indianapolis Journal
Richmond
Ind
Charles E. Shiveley
Jeffersonville Reformatory
McCormick & Co
Columbus
Mary F. Henderson
James W. Henderson
George F. Stearns
Atlanta
Grand Rapids & Indians
Michigan
Clara Frohnapfie
Cambridge City
Wayne
Henry County
Worthless New Brunswick banknotes seized in Chicago raid
Secret-service agents seized banknotes resembling genuine Civil War era greenbacks in a Stevens & Co. office raid on Dearborn Street. The notes, valued at over 13 000 dollars, were not counterfeit but could mislead victims selling goods for currency. Silas C. Stevens withheld comment about the business.
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Chicago
State Bank of
New Brunswick
N. J
Stevens & Co
Dearborn Street
Silas C. Stevens
Uncertainties of Engineering Highlight Enduring Disputes
In engineering fields from hydraulics to gear design, numerous formulaic variances and unsettled questions persist. The article notes many debated topics including pipe thickness standards, casting accuracy, alloy usefulness, material endurance laws, and optimal gear tooth proportions.
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Engineering Magazine
Reading
Warden party buys sisal in Yucatan and Mexico
Warden Jewett of the Kansas State penitentiary and wardens of Minnesota and South Dakota are returning next week from Yucatan and Mexico with 5000 dollars to buy sisal. Officials moved secretly to avoid interference from the twine trust which last year pressured prices and blocked prison purchases.
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Leavenworth
Kan
Jewett
Kansas State Penitentiary
Minnesota
South Dakota
Yucatan
Mexico
Twine Trust
Sheldon Re-Elected Captain of Chicago University Eleven
CHICAGO Dec 1 James Sheldon was re elected captain of the Chicago University football eleven at a meeting attended by the entire squad and coaching staff.
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Chicago
James Sheldon
Chicago University
True Cat Stories of a Mind Reader and a Villain Cat
Philadelphia Record recounts two feline tales. Tangle-Eye, a white kitten with one blue eye, betrays a hunting streak and a wary bond with a mistress after violent acts, then vanishes to a remote swamp where a wildcat ends him. Pian, a meek house cat, resists a bitter medicine and endures a week of mistrust before restoring trust with its owner.
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Philadelphia
Tangle-Eye
Pian
Finck on Wagner in Venice Voices fierce Italy in glass houses
Henry T. Finck laments Venice’s uproar while praising Wagner’s creative refuge. He notes Venice’s noise from human voices, not horses, and jokes about Malaria myths and loud Italian salutations. He contrasts Italian passion with American restraint in speech.
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Henry T. Finck
Wagner
Venice
Europe
Kate Greenaway Remembered in Art and Childhood Charm
The death of Kate Greenaway marks the loss of a quiet, influential illustrator who shaped a child friendly style. Her work bridged Blake and pre-Raphaelite decor, influencing Boutet de Monvel and Caldecott era books, while her vogue rested on genuine sympathy with child life. Poet Dobson captures her essence, praising the household art that remains timeless and enduring.
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New York Post
Kate Greenaway
Miss Greenaway
Thomas Stothard
Sir Joshua
Caldecott
Boutet de Monvel
Blake
Dobson
Tails Extraordinary From China in Imperial Gardens
New York Herald reports two remarkable long tailed fowls from an interior Chinese province kept in the Imperial household gardens. A rooster bears a six foot feather train while the hen displays a twelve foot flowing tail. Authentic information confirms the curiosities and opens up new questions.
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New York Herald
China
Imperial Household Gardens
Breeds of rare fowls prized for long tails and tameness
The article discusses four varieties of rare fowls with long tails, including color variants such as white head and body with black tail feathers. It notes growth rates up to eighteen feet, usual length seven to eleven feet, monthly tail growth, and lifespans of eight to ten years. Hens produce about thirty offspring yearly. tails are kept loose, and birds are housed carefully. They tolerate heat and cold, sit on wide perches, and are washed and fed rice and greens twice a month.
Memories of Palmy Daya by Washington Star
A brief reminiscence cites actor Stormington Barnes recalling a Macbeth performance. A rival quips that the one man rose, then left, only to be revealed as the audience member who came to settle a bill. The exchange captures theater rivalries with wit.
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Washington Star
Stormington Barnes
Editor Sues Former Governor Candidate for Damages
K. H. Moore editor of the Saturday Herald files a $3,000 damages suit against T. J. Phillips the late Democratic candidate for Governor. He charges Phillips with attacking him on a street on November 2 in Ottumwa Iowa.
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Ottumwa
K. H. Moore
Saturday Herald
T. J. Phillips
Kansas City Demands Faster Ball in A A Franchise Claim
Dale Gear and Vat Tebeau, part owners of the Kansas City franchise in the American Association, say Kansas City demands faster ball than the Western League provided last year and do not fear a conflict with Manning's proposed Western League team.
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Dale Gear
Vat Tebeau
Kansas City
American Association
Manning
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