Diary of 1900 Boxer Rebellion Remembered Through Letters
The piece reflects on Mary Condit Smith and a Washington boy who kept diaries during the 1900 Boxer Rebellion in Peking. It recounts the siege, foreign legations, brutal attacks, and the fear, hunger, and espionage shaping daily life as international forces prepared relief.
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N.W
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D. C
Mery Condit- Smith
Washington Society
China
Erie Canal
Mary
Peking
Sot
Far East
High Street
Hooker
Maryker
Tzuhsi
Mary Hooker
Pethick
Poerail
Legation
Russia
Tien-Tsin
England
United States
France
Japan
Legatione
Pekinga
Navy tests air conditioning on new cruisers for efficiency
The navy to run cooling tests on crew spaces aboard the 17,000-ton cruisers Salem and Newport News. Vice Admiral Edward J. Cochrane said air conditioning boosts morale and combat effectiveness, with simplified, shockproof coils and multiple equipment types to be evaluated during trials.
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Davey Jones
Navy
Salem
Newport News
Edward J. Cochrane
Bureau of Ships
Sugar Shortage Persists as Caribbean Crops Lag
No broad sugar supply rebound in sight until Caribbean crops, especially Cuban and Puerto Rican output, move to market in six months. Government reports 1,167,000 short tons allocated for civilian use in Oct-Dec, down from prewar figures, with per capita supply at about 72.8 pounds. Global production fell due to war, Europe and Philippines declines, and Japanese occupation reducing Philippine exports to the United States.
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Wilson
Washington
Agriculture Department
Europe
Philippine Islands
Netherlands East Indies
Philippines
United States
Rural Bell Line Tests Reach Cheyenne Wells Colorado
In Cheyenne Wells Colorado an eight party circuit using short wave radio telephones and wire was installed for the first operation of the new equipment. Mountain State Telephone and Telegraph officials say the system is experimental yet under commercial conditions. The aim is to extend Bell system service to one million homes in coming years. Ranches 11 to 21 miles from the central office share receivers transmitters phones two antennae and small power plants with only the telephone visible.
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Colorado Plains
Mountain State# Telephone and Telegraph company
Plains
Bell System
Bushy tailed housing crisis hits Missouri squirrels
Jefferson City Missouri conservationists report an acute housing shortage for squirrels due to forest lumbering and growing populations. Fathers are displaced when females give birth, leaving three trees needed per family one for home one for papa and one for young to use as they grow. Conservationists propose temporarily planting housing in affected areas to ease the shortage.
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Jefferson City
Missouri
Papa
Hoboes Return as Regulations Ease Travel
Hoboes again hit the open road as wartime rules ease. Bloomington, a railroad division point, serves as a gauge of hobo activity. Salvation Army and Home Mission run facilities for nearly 200 men, aided by local police and charities.
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Knights of the Road
Salvation Army
Home Mission
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Billy Shelper
Camp Fire Girls Open Nationwide Membership Drive
New York report states 360000 members participate as Camp Fire Girls launch a nationwide drive through November 30. Dr. Bernice Baxter national president urges units to invite more girls, stressing youth contribute to a stronger nation. Attorney General Tom C. Clark backs the effort as a health and character program reducing juvenile delinquency.
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New York
Camp Fire Girls
America
Bernice Baxter
Dr. Baxter
Tom C. Clark
Camp
Fire Girls
War Searches Recalled as Derelict Drydock Hunted
In a major postwar patrol, the coast guard hunted a partially submerged derelict drydock capable of sinking a ship the size of the Queen Mary. Originating from a Navy tug, it broke in two off Norfolk, Virginia, after bombs scored two direct hits but failed to sink it. searches continue by coast guard, Navy tugs, planes, and vessels for the remaining section.
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Coast Guard
Norfolk
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Secore
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