How Breslau Keeps Its Asphalt Streets Clean
Consul Erdman reports on Breslau street cleaning practices. A single worker patrols four blocks with a wheelbarrow broom and rubber scraper, then sands and scatters sharp sand daily. Weekly, ten sprinklers wash the streets, followed by horse-drawn rollers sweeping up the water and slime. The process aims to remove slime and prevent slipperiness while preserving asphalt.
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Washington
March
Consul Erdman
Mfr Erdman
Department of State
City Streets Keep Clean Under Hourly Pay System
Street workers are paid by the hour and residents must haul sweepings to a central box. The city imposes a waste paper ban on public areas and lamp posts. Householders sweep to the street center before 6 each morning and city teams cart away the litter, keeping streets tidy.
Dan Godfrey's Band Opens U S Tour at White House
Lieutenant Dan Godfrey and the British Guards band arrived on the Lucania and performed for President and Mrs. Menniey in the White House east room. It marks the first general U S tour by an English military band. Cleveland reports the Sauntry Iron mine in Mesabi range sold to American Steel & Wire Co for about 9.5 million. ore body includes Bessemer ore with mixed-grade veins across the claim.
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Washington
Dan Godfrey
New York
Lucania
White House
Menniey
United States
Cleveland, Maren
Sauntry
Mesabe Tange
American Steel 4 Wire Company
Virginia
Deadly Cancer Cure Declared By Swift Specific Co
A period piece claims cancer is a blood disease curable by Swift Specific from Atlanta. It asserts doctors failed cures and that ulcerated lesions misled treatment, promising free literature and urging sufferers to seek the offered remedy despite lack of scientific consensus.
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Swift Specific Co
Atlanta, Ga
Purely Vegetable Cure Reported For Cancer Case
Fragmentary OCR notes describe a patient with cancer who reportedly improved after using a remedy labeled Purely Vegetable. The text mentions a progressive decline, "after a few bottles had been decided improvement" and claims of a complete cure, with no clear modern medical corroboration.
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Jand
Insult Sparks China Italy Russia Tie Breakrow
Italy protests at Pekin over a demand for a sailing station at San Mun bay and a threatened rupture of relations. Russia reiterates objection to the British railroad loan to use the issue to press China for compensation.
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China
Italy
San Mun Bay
Pekin
Russia
Bribery Probe Hearings Reveal 1000 Vote Offer in Harrisburg
A Harrisburg committee investigated bribery charges linked to the McCarrell jury bill. Testimony named Peter Criste, Rep. Moyles, ex-Senator Coyle, and Michael Costello discussing payments to influence votes. Costello offered 500 to Engler and 200 upfront, with plans for further payoffs if the bill passed. Criste reported Moyles sought votes and the group discussed vote buying, while Engler refused money.
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Harrisburg
McCarrell
Qeorge McCain
Philadelphia Press
McCain
Peter J. Criste
Northumberland County
Thomas Moyles
Wilkesbarre
Osee
Luxerne County
Joan P. Dyer
Press
John Engler
Lycoming County
Hohm
Michael J. Costello
Willamsport
Bolton House
John J. Coyle
Schuylkill County
Coste
Engler
Ryan
Wiebib
Lochiel
Bennvi Coyle
Coyle
Easter
Dyers
Criste
Moyies
Nas
Moyles
Luzerne
Insurgenta
Eorenik
Vorhees
Messrs
Coetello
Fow
Mass meeting in Santiago Province condemns Havana policy
Colonel Hood cables from Holeuln report intense excitement in Santiago Province as public works stop. A mass meeting condemns U S military actions in Havana as false economy and centralization. Hood lists indigent rations for 2000 unemployed and warns of rising crime while banks hold funds to cover debts and keep men at work.
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Santiago
Colonel Hood
Holeuln
United States
Havana
Alling bill ends Allen law on street railways
Governor Tanner has signed the Alling street railway bill repealing the Allen law of two years ago which granted 50 year franchise extensions and re enacts the old horse and dummy act with amendments making it applicable to electric or cable roads. The bill limits any franchise or extension to no more than 20 years.
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Epriefield
March
Tanner
Alling Street Railway
Famous Forger Bidwell Dead in Butte Hotel
Austin Bidwell, a noted forger who alongside George Bidwell defrauded the Bank of England of about 6 million dollars and victimized European banks, died last night in Butte at age 52. He and his brother had come to Montana planning mining ventures, with biographical details noting earlier captures abroad and eventual life sentences in a long fraud history.
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Austin Bidwell
Bank of England
Butte
Mont
Mantig
Grippe
Chicago
Uri Austin Bidwell
Geo. Bidwell
Uve
Europe
Fed
George Bidwell
France
Cuba
Deep Water Port Arthur Canal Nears Completion
Port Arthur Texas expect to celebrate near completion of a new ship canal extends from Sabine pass to Port Arthur with 25 foot depth and 152 foot width. designed by Robert Grisham and backed by Kansas City Pittsburg and Gulf Railway with support from A E Silliwell and J de Gorljen. heavy dredging produced 14 million cubic yards of clay while ship basins oil warehouses and a grain elevator rise nearby. the harbor’s land locked nature promises an expanded export trade and new steamship lines.
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Port Arthur
Tex
March
Port Arthur Ship Canal
Robert Gisham
Kansas City, Pittsburg & Gulf Railroad
A. E. Silliwell
J. de Gorljen, Jr
Amsterdam
Holland
Arm Prisons to Foil Lynching Proposed by Missouri Rep
Jefferson City March. Populist Mr. Nicholas of Nodaway proposes arming prisoners threatened with lynching. Measure would fine any sheriff or deputy who fails to protect such prisoner between 1 and 1000 dollars and may dismiss him.
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Missouri
Jefferson City
March
House of Representatives
Nicholas
Nodaway County
Morgan in Coffins Capitalized at Five Million
Upper Sandusky Ohio reports on credible authority that a new casket trust will issue 5 million dollars in capital stock and have 118 casket companies and hardware factories. J Pierpont Morgan of New York is to float the bonds. One third of factories to shut down after incorporation to occur in New Jersey, with completion within two months.
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Upper Sandusky, O
March
New Casket Combine
J. Pierpont Morgan
New York
New Jersey
Morrow's Kid-ne-olds touted in Topeka cure story
Topeka readers are urged to try Morrow's Kid-ne-olds for kidney backache. A Topeka barber, Geo Towman, reports dramatic relief within a day after beginning the remedy, claiming renewed strength and disappearance of back pain and urinary disturbances after a week. Sold by local druggists and Swift & Hotdays drug store.
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Morrow
Flickhart
Indiana
Hikhart
Geo.Towman
Main
Franklin Streets
Topeka
Swift & Hotlidays
John Morrow & Co
Spring- Reid
Telegraph Line Planned To Dawson City Route
Ottawa reports the government will build a telegraph line from Lake Bennett to Dawson City immediately. Survey teams will venture north from Quesnelle, examining connections toward the Mine to Dawson. The current line will remain in government control for national safety.
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Ottawa
Dib
Klondike
Une
Lake Bennett
Dawson City
Quesneile
Dawson
Santa Fe operators wage dispute slides toward settlement
The grievance committee met with General Superintendent Mudge and Mr Sholes over a wage increase. The company rejected a 22 percent raise and a minimum salary rise to $55 per month, but offered raises in individual cases. A second conference began this morning. details on the schedule were debated and a resolution is expected before adjournment. Both sides signaled willingness to settle amicably if demands are tempered.
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Santa Fe
Mudge
Sholes
General Milton Littlefield Dies at 66 in New York
New York reports the death of General Milton Smith Littlefield at his home from apoplexy aged 66. He studied law in Abraham Lincoln's Springfield office and practiced there briefly. He served as captain of company F, Fourteenth Illinois, joined Sherman staff, served in Memphis and Hilton Head, aided in the siege of Charleston, and helped organize colored regiments before leaving the army in 1866. He later engaged in railroad and business ventures.
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New York
Milton Smith Littlefield
Fie
Abraham Lincoln
Springfield
Littlefield
Fourteenth
Illinois Volunteers
John M. Palmer
Sherman
Memphis
Tenn
Department of the South
Hilton Head
Charleston
J. C. Gilmore
Army
South
Courageous Kaffir youth kills guarding snake for reward
A London Spectator tale recalls a Tugela Valley road crew of fifty to sixty Kaffirs led by a white superintendent. A youth faced a deadly adder beneath a rock, bit by the snake, yet crushed it with a stick. He refused to reveal his family antidote, claiming it had been handed down for generations.
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London Spectator
Rosd
Tugela Valley
Natal
Central Park Hotel to Crown New York Skyline
Judge P Henry Dugro and John J Gibbons owners of the Hotel Savoy plan a 14 story fireproof hotel on Central Park West between Sixty-second and Sixty-fourth streets. The steel skeleton building will cover 200 by 100 feet and cost at least 500000 for construction.
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New York
Electric Ambulance Fitted In Trolley Car For Soldiers
Savannah Ga March 5 The army winter hospital at this place with 47 buildings and 1007 cots opened for patients today The first shipment of invalid soldiers from Cuba was on Thursday by the hospital ship Missouri which sailed with 300 invalids A trolley car with a double row of suspended cots will be used as an ambulance Highest steel billet price since 1890 reported in Pittsburg with few sales at that level
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Savannah
Army Winter Hospital
Cuba
Hospitegblp
Missouri
Valida
Dramatic Season 1898 Tops Theatres Receipts
New York and major cities report a booming dramatic season with high theatre payments. Charles Frohman and Maude Adams lead receipts and performances, with Viola Allen and Zaza among top shows. The Knickerbocker, Garrick, and Garden theaters post record weekly totals.
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New York
Mit
Chicago
Bensdelphi
Baltimore
Cleveland
St. Jane
Cincinnati
San Francisco
New
Providene Sre
Newark
N. J. Steerer
Knickerbocker Theater
Habline
Bir Mannfeld
Lmn
Garden Theater Brosgnt
Remry
Rowaa Re. Leene Castor
Wenty
Garrick Theater
Fredo
Dr Henry Patrick Infidel Honor Verse Funeral
Concordia obituary notes the death of Dr Henry Patrick last week buried at Piet cemetery. A longtime resident, he left a farewell address urging a friend to read it beside his grave and reflecting on mortality, memory, and the nature of existence. The piece includes reflections on science, spirit, and human duty, ending with a quiet farewell. An advertisement for Flys Cream Balm follows, praising its effects on catarrh and a list of endorsers and businesses.
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Kansas Cysounum
Henry Patrick
Concordia
Piet
Sr. Patrick
J. M. Hageman
Fhen Krave
Batfir Sbiuuman
Torus
Nature
Palace Clothing Company Fire Salvage Report Revised
More salvage was saved from the Palace Clothing company blaze than first reported. Sale begins Saturday at 9 o clock sharp at 507 Kansas Ave due on the west side of the street between Fifth and Sixth. Don’t forget the time.
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Palace Clothing Company
Kansas Ave
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