Edwin Hird Conger Kansas to Peking career noted
Edwin Hird Conger born in Knox county March 7 pursued education at Lombard University then Albany Law School. He served as Union captain in the One Hundred and Second Minnesota Infantry, earned brevet major, practiced law, farmed, and banking before entering politics. He was Iowa state treasurer, U.S. congressman for three terms, then envoy to Brazil and finally minister to Peking.
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Edwin Hird Conger
United States
Pekin
Knox County
Taek
Conger
Will
Meromile
Lombard University
One Hundred and Second
Albany Law School
Rowin Hard Conger
Galezburgy
Dexter
Dallas County
Agai
Iowa
Congress
Brazil
Peking
Women protest over vile conduct on streetcars
Five women in a Bays area protest at a down-town restaurant scene claim a pattern of passengers and conductors ignoring orderly rules. They vow to organize and push for enforcement of laws, insisting car companies discipline offenders, and warn of a growing movement among like minded riders.
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Bays
Chicago Chronicle
Million Guinea Fund Aims for UK Methodist Support
Robert William Perk, MP for the South Lancashire division, starts the 1,000,000 guinea fund to aid Methodism. Subscriptions are open to Methodists in England Scotland and Wales, with the fund to be spent in the territory. The plan calls for each contributor to give one guinea.
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Robert Wiliam Perk
Wouth
Lancashire
England
Scotland
Wales
Lays of the Deer Forest Contained Pages of Velvet Fauna
A fragment from Youth's Companion recounts two brothers John Bob leakh and Charles Edward Stuart writing about deer and forest life. It describes a doe and two fawn siblings found under trees, with velvet ears, spotted hides, and wary soft eyes, observed as they grow and roam the woods.
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Deer Forest
John Bobleakh
Charles Edward Stuart
Doe
Eich
Ross
Kaiser a Royal Jack of All Trades Portrait
A vivid, hyperbolic portrait extols Kaiser as the model of universal skill and power. It credits him with vast talents from music and painting to engineering and naval command, claiming mastery in many arenas and comparing him to William the Conqueror. The piece notes his prolific persona and extensive reign.
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Daelr
AL Prades
Kaiser
A. m
William the Conqueror
Yonra Luolpi
Europe
New Shelf Handling Apparatus With Pulley Guided Racks
A new device enables upper shelf sections to be lifted by pulleys and ropes, sliding in movable guideways. Clutches fix pulleys to a rotating shaft to raise or lower shelves, improving goods handling on display.
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Hendin
82 Year Old Woman Heads for Cape Nome Gold Fields
Mrs Susan Worden 82 sails from San Francisco to seek fortune in Cape Nome with husband and son. She previously traveled via Panama route forty eight years ago to California and entered placer mines despite the harsh, inhospitable climate.
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Cape Nome
San Francisco
Susan Worden
California
Panama
Imperial Decrees and the Mousey Power in Washington
In a June 1900 Washington letter the writer assails Mark Hanna and his allies, accusing the bureau of statistics of partisan manipulation under O P Austin. It describes campaign fundraising abuses, government printing, and alleged waste, noting Otis and Ludlow scandals and the Cuban postal scheme as context for distrust in the administration. It ends with Jackson Day rhetoric.
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Washington Democratic
Waalington
D. C
Markdanoa
Thera Font & Department
Washington
Melvinicy
Treasury Department
Bureau of Statsties
Worthington G. Ward
United States
Beah
Couracter
Gage
Ward
Bureau of Statistics
Ford
O. P. Austin
Austin
Acab
Bia
Hannasround
McNinley
Hanna
Babcock
Republican Congressional Committee
National Committee
Hanns
Congress
House of Representatives
Hanna-Payne
Mark Hanna
Evry
Aman
Hhis Party
Jackal
Rochester
N. Y
Otis
Philippines
Otts
Tom
Neely
Uch
Jackson
Bryan Blaine Comparison Highlights Moral Courage and Integrity
In the Hoffman House corridor a New York observer lauds Bryan as the era’s greatest political leader with Blaine as possible. The Buffalo Times notes Blaine’s magnetic presence and parliamentary skill, while praising Bryan’s stronger learning, moral courage, and steadier ideals that avoid Blaine’s temperamental flaws.
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Hoffman House
New York
Bryan
Blaine
Ryan
Buffalo Times
How the People Pay During Hard Times Prices Rise Sharply
The Madison Democrat notes trusts increased profits while wages lagged. Merchants report price hikes on staples: stoves 50 percent, copper doubled, plows up to 14 dollars, nails per keg 2.20 to 4.10, barbed wire 2.40 to 4.60, binder twine up to 11–13 cents per pound, glass 40 percent, and general rises. The piece criticizes McKinley prosperity as costly to the public and cites unsanitary Kino-Chay as a German papers demand for annual garrison change.
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Emporis Times
Trust
McKinley
Madison Democrat
Ohio Democrats rebuke imperialism and trust power in new platform
The Ohio Democratic resolutions reaffirm the 1896 Chicago platform while denouncing imperialism as subversive to government. They attack trusts, demand enforcement against monopolies, call for repeal of special privileges, advocate currency reform, and back William J. Bryan for the nomination.
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Ohio
Kansas City
Chicago
Democrats
Congress
United States
Ohio Platform
Ohio Democrats
Wiliam J. Bryan
Columbus
New York Journal
Unity in the Democratic Party Under Bryan’s Leadership
A political column argues the Democrats are unified again not by wisdom but by Republican greed and by William J. Bryan who unites diverse factions as the sole leader capable of resisting corporate monopolies while pledging to the people. The piece invokes historical imagery of the “caravan of life” and the bleaching bones of former pilgrims.
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Bryan
Blaine
James G. Blaine
William Pitt
William J. Bryan
Healer’s barricaded home involved in deadly incident
A Chicago Tribune report notes another patient died in the healer’s barricaded residence as police decide to intervene. The healer resists, claiming faith, while the officer asserts the aim to seize the “works” amid mounting danger.
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Lnn
Chicago Tribune
Far Frontier Quip About Civilization and Golf
A decayed old colonel and a frontier friend spar over progress. The colonel, weary of encroaching civilization, mutters a sharp line about staying ahead and ends with a humorous twist, quipping Golf rather than hope or aid.
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Chicago ‘Tribune
Modern Mother Goose T Had a Litre Auto
The verse describes a fashionable car used by a lady who rides it and harms it in the mud. The speaker refuses to lend the auto even for twenty ladies to hire, reflecting a satirical take on modern trends and gender roles in the era.
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New York World
Eclipses Spark Talk at Convention in Washington Star
In a Washington Star passage Ms. Erastus Pinkley and Mr. Aluminum Thompson debate the subject of eclipses amid talk of agitation. The playful exchange notes how eclipses force attention as people speculate about chickens and timing, with lingering wait times around dawn as the event looms.
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Washington Star
Gind of His Crime in the Household Journal
A fragment from Bloomington Paste graph shows a household scene where a woman laments a burned journal. The man smiles, content he destroyed the cherished pages and the woman frets over the missing recipe and memory.
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Bloomington
Doiag Finely’s Odd Dialect Notion Reported
Ma Dolan asks about her daughter’s schooling and language skill in a brief exchange cited by the Washington Star. The dialogue evokes a rural or regional speech pattern with exaggerated spellings. The snippet hints at storytelling over education without documenting a broader event.
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Ma Dolan
Easy Place to Vis Stranger County Building
A light dialogue shows Bunko Man guiding a visitor through a county building described as easy to access. The exchange emphasizes the building’s openness and a casual sense of the location in a Stranger setting.
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Bunko Man
Stranger
From Head to Foot A playful line about Mrs Noozy
A comic exchange describes Mrs Noozy in a fulllength Suirro in her boudoir. Mr Noozy quips that a woman, any pose she wants to see everything that is going on reflects her nature. The fragment captures light satire in period tone.
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Mrs. Noozy
Mr. Noozy
Philadelphia Press
Not Exactly Altes. A Genius Lunatic Difference
A brief witty quote attributed to the Indianapolis Journal contrasts genius and lunacy. It notes a so called mad person’s drive as the difference, speculating on a feverish focus on securing the next meal as a defining trait.
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Indianapolis Journal
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