Miners Struggle in Dillonvale West Virginia Camps
A New York correspondent reports from Dillonvale West Virginia on dire living conditions for coal miners. Families endure crowded quarters and near starvation wages, with many in debt. English speaking workers fare worst under company stores and credit limits. Foreigner workers, though poorer, show frugal resilience while some attempt separate housing amid looming strike pressures.
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New York
Sylvester Sanvel
Dillonvale
West Virginia
Ohio
Dillon No. 2
United States
Pittsboro
de Armiit
Great Britain
Diltonvale
Bewt
Park
Cnue
Living Conditions of Foreign Miners in Dillon District
A first person account describes daily costs for a foreign miner including food, lodging, and boarding house conditions. It highlights overcrowded, filthy rooms, medicalless odours, heavy beer consumption, and the impact on housing markets and wages, urging policy changes to prevent crowding out American workers.
Sleepwalking Station Agent Tries To Return Home
Uhrichsville July 15. Linn station agent at Philadelphia Roads asleep after boarding the 1040 car at New Philadelphia. He awakened seven miles north at the power house and believed he was in New Philadelphia. He then started toward Uhrichsville in darkness, finally returning home around dawn after help from a power house worker.
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Uhrichsville
S. 5
Linn
Philadelphia Roads
Here
New Philadelphia
Gotham's directory out July new york city volume
New York city directory for 181-88 appears as the ith volume with about 1.4 percent pages of names up from last year 102 pages. It omits many working men names and aims to cover roughly 30 percent of the population, similar to twenty years ago. The manager notes omissions were necessary to close the book. Also advertised are Cascarets Candy Cathartic and White's Cream Wormfuge with prices and local agents. Salt Lake and Return tickets to be sold July 17 by Santa Fe Route via a local agent.
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New York
New York City
Salt Lake
Santa Fe
Topeka Directory Plans Highlight Sam Badges Urge
The interview discusses Sam Badges potentially publishing another Topeka directory within a year due to changes in population and residents. Hades notes boom times faded and profits are slim, while others reveal harsh publishing practices and long, paid-free trial periods for staff before production begins.
Green Corn and Divorce Among_Pottawatomie Indians
The Pottawatomie on the northern reservation hold the green corn dance with a divorce rite. Men seek freedom from marriage through the "divorce" dance while women try to outdo each other in display. Chiefs provide music as corn stalks signal the ritual. The mix of tradition and social change centers on folk customs during the annual festival. In Sumner County, Belle Plain’s Valley State Bank is chartered with 5000 capital, replacing the defunct Belle Plain bank. J W Forney linked but not listed as director or stockholder in the new bank.
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Altend
Wew Bane
Sumner County
Valley State Bank of
Belle Plain
Belle Plain Bank
J. W. Forney
Senator Forney
Reasons Why Chamberlain's Colic Cholera and Diarrhoea Remedy
A promotional list claims instant relief from stomach pain and colic and asserts the remedy never fails in severe dysentery and diarrhoea and even chronic diarrhoea. It states it prevents bilious colic and treats epidemical dysentery while being safe, pleasant, and life saving, offered at 25 and 60 cents by druggists.
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Chamberlain
Gophers Sink Oklahoma City Canal Worth Forty Thousand
The Oklahoma City canal project of 1890, valued at about 49000, was ruined when gophers bored through a porous dike. Flooding ended the venture as the North Canadian River water overwhelmed the sandy banks. Repairs failed amid a financial panic and farmland has since occupied the canal right of way.
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Perry
C. T
Gophers
Oklahoma City
Oklaoma City
War on cheap saloons in New York City
New York July 16 authorities move against five cent drink parlors tied to a syndicate. Lawyer Thomas Fennell of the Liquor Dealers association says the group is expanding across the city and "poisoning the people." An order seeks to revoke the license of Louis Kopelman for a saloon at 44 Eleventh Avenue under a new Rainen law requiring consent of two thirds of nearby dwelling-house owners within 200 feet.
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New York
Bowery
Thos. G. Fennell
Liquor Dealers’ Association
Fennell
Justice Trust
Supreme Cart
Louis J. Kopelman
Montgomery Street
Hillard
Kopelman
Eleventh Avenue
Kopelraan
Queen Lil as a Singer in New York
In New York the Hawaiian Queen Liliuokalani visited from Washington and will stay about two weeks. She sang in a Hawaiian style with a zither-like instrument, drawing curiosity from hotel guests as she dictating letters and practicing songs. Tonight she will watch the opera Captain Cook from a Madison Square Garden box, the scene set in the Sandwich Islands.
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New York
Albemarie Hotel
H. M Queen Liliuvkalani
Hawaii
Washington
Lilluokalant
Madison Square Garden
Captain Cook
Sandwich Islands
Bryan Arrives to Take Transmississippi Presidency
Transmississippi congress convened in Salt Lake City with a large audience as W J Bryan, president of the congress, arrived to preside. Delegates debated irrigation policy and mining needs while imagery of little girls sang Bryan’s name. A substitute resolution urged free coinage and bi metallism alongside efforts toward an international coinage agreement.
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Salt Lake
Utah
Transmississippi Congress
W. J. Bryan
Congress
California
San Pere
Prince
New Mexico
Argitic
Newago
Arizona
Oklahoma
Keller
North Dakota
Pacifc
Akien
Ford
Department of Mines and Mining
Judge Royal
Wiliam J
West
Mr. Bryan
Bryan
Mrs. Warren
Colorio
Missouri
Brecho
Nebraska
Iris
E.R Moses
Kansas
Irrigation Congress
Thomas
Colorado
McKinley
United States
Congressional committee reads irrigation papers before adjournment
The report notes a coin proposal to be legal tender and a minority report to be submitted. Papers on irrigation were read by H B Newell, LH Taylor, W H Moore, C M Heintz, and GL Stevenson. The congress adjourned at 8 o'clock.
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Patterson
Colorado
H B. Newell
United States Geographical Survey
LH. Taylor
Nevada
W. H. Moore
St. Louia
C. M. Heintz
California
GL. Stevenson
Salt Lake
Big Cat Mystery Baffles New York Police
Sixty seven dead cats found within a three day span around West Forty seventh Street area puzzle police. Early piles reported at Ninth avenue and Pitty-sixth street and Fifty-elenth street with twenty and twenty eight cats, all killed by arsenic poisoning but the killer remains unknown. detectives investigate possible feline vengeance and park involvement.
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New York
West Forty-seventh Street
Casey
Ninth Avenue
Pitty-sixth Street
Wood
Fifty-elenth Street
West Fifty-seventh Street
Cas
Cenwal Park
Huntington Gives Spanish Works to University of California
Collis P Huntington presents a rare library to the University of California. The collection includes 4000 books and pamphlets and 4000 manuscripts, mainly in Spanish, detailing California history from early missions to later events. A diary by Padre Font from 1775 76 is among the notable manuscripts.
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Collis P. Huntington
The
University of California
San Francisco
California
Pante Pedro Font
Sonora
Mexico
Monterey
Bicyclists At Fires Raise Fire Dept Complaints
Chief Parris of the Washington fire department urged the District commissioners to curb bicycle nuisances at fires. He noted crowds on cycles obstructing fire engines and crews as alarms sounded city bells, risking delays and unsafe close proximity to conflagrations. The chief suggested ending public alarm bells if needed.
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Washington Fire Department
Washington
Parris
Higher price for meat sparks two cent rise in New York
City residents complain of a two cent per pound meat rise though Fulton and Washington wholesale dealers report no price change. Some dealers raise prices to meet upstream beef trust levels, retailers cite higher costs in hot weather. Santa Fe Route offers Nashville excursion tickets to the exposition.
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New York
Fulton
Washington
Beef Trust
Santa Fe
Nashville
Tenn
Return
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