Cuba’s Wealth Through Its Productive Capacity
A historical view extols Cuba’s vast natural resources and productive potential. It claims Cuba rivals global suppliers in gold, minerals, timber, and climate, detailing caballerias, crop yields, and forest and pasture reserves, arguing substantial output could meet large global needs in cotton, tobacco, sugar, and more.
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Cuba
United States
Cate
Nature
Weyler
Chile
Inyimun Tahuoe
Caballerina
Chicago News Proverbs Echo Odd Advice
A fragmented Chicago page offers a stream of proverbs about settling debts and relationships. It riffs on paying what you owe, social friction, love, gifts, and watches. The snippet hints at prudence, reward, and self guidance in everyday conduct.
Reflections and Ramblings on Money and Marriage
A fragmentary, humorous meditation compares gold profits with marriage costs. It muses that selling gold bricks attracts wealth, while a homely woman's reflections mirror unsatisfying truth. The piece jokes about graveyard population rules and lending vanities, mentioning a New York pastor profiting from wedding fees.
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New York
Early Morning Visitor and Harvey's Appointment Hope
Lieutenant Governor A M Harvey debated joining Kansas troops and pressed Governor Leedy for a military appointment. After sleepless nights and a dawn visit to the governor, Leedy agreed to appoint Harvey as major, enabling him to act as governor in name and reality.
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Leedy
A. M. Harvey
Kansas
Mr. Harvey
Senate
Mr. Maroney
Harvey
Tse Governor's Hotel
Chile
AL Righ
Iacon
Ernie
Jd East
Irvey
GUNS FOR THE TOPEKA JOINS COAST PATROL FLEET
The Topeka, the ex-diver from England, was floated from the dry dock and placed beside the dock for gun mounting. Lieutenant Commander John A. Rogers will command the ship, which will join the coast patrol fleet once overhauled and ready for service.
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Coast Patrol
New York
England
Navy Yard
peaibIe
John A. Rogers
Wil
Coast Patrol Feet
Cuban Gold Shipment to Philadelphia Mint
The $700,000 in gold from Havana arrived aboard the Lucitine and was brought to a local bank and then to the Philadelphia mint. The coins, largely 20 franc pieces, were assayed and paid out in American money after mint retention of 10 percent.
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Havana
Philadelphia
Lucitine
American Tobacco Co Elects Directors in Newark
The American Tobacco Company of New York met at Newark with W. W. Fuller presiding. The treasurer reported earnings of 4,173,400 dollars. Quarterly dividends on preferred stock of 6 percent were declared, with 369,300 dollars paid.
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New York
American Tobacco
Newark
W. W. Fuller
WROTE ON AN EGG finglish Ind May 1
Frank G. Thornton a 25 year old Britain by birth, naturalized US citizen since 1871, came to America as a child with his father who died soon after leaving him alone in a strange land. He has driven a peddling wagon for Dustin and Gregory and recently wrote his name and address on eggs sent to Philadelphia. An egg led a cousin to a sister in England, from whom Thornton has heard nothing since his father’s death.
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England
Mr Thornton
Love Triangle Allegation Hits Fort Scott Man
A Colorado Springs mining broker, P A Troutfetter, is accused by a Denver woman of presenting himself as a bachelor while married, and of supporting two others. The tale follows letters, travels, and a pending return as his wife awaits explanations.
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Goodland
P. A. Troutfetter
Colby
Colorado Springs
Troutfelter
Denver
St. Charles Street
New York
Railroad Lands Open for Preemption Spark Conflict at McDonald Colony
On a large tract of railroad lands claimed open for settlement, Judge J. F. McDonald organized colonists who paid him for selecting claims. Officials allegedly approved settlement as improvements were made, but railroad companies now order residents off. Some tear down homes while others stay, arguing the land is rich and worth 35 dollars per acre unimproved.
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J. F. McDonald
Lexar Ces
Times-Democrat Rifles Join U S Army in Florida
The first Louisiana volunteer company sworn into the regular army is Company A of the First Louisiana Volunteers, nicknamed the Times-Democrat Rifles. Comprised mainly of newspaper staff, the unit is all yellow fever immune and plans to proceed to Florida with the first troops.
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Times-Democrat
New Orleans
Louisiana Volunteers
United States
Times- Democrat Rifles
Leutenant
Ulegraph
Florida
Hickory Shad Run Inland At Whitewater Falls
Walnut Valley Times reports hickory shad noted for thinness and toughness run up streams from salt water. At All Whitewater Falls on the Robinson farm yesterday, hundreds were thrown from the water into sunny sacks as they could not pass the falls and appeared dazed by the falling water. The fish have never been seen so far from the sea before.
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Walnut Valley
Hickory
Robinson
Maine Relic Exhibited In Chicago Office Window
A skylight from the Maine's officers' cabin arrived in Chicago and was installed in the Plant System offices. Draped in national colors, it will stay briefly, then go to Tampa, with plans to place it in a museum later.
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Chicago
Maine
Tampa
Widower Remarries Widow After Funeral Sermon
West Union May 13 An aged pensioner Solomon Stone wed widowed Lan sing after his wife died four weeks earlier. The funeral sermon for his wife was preached at Mt. Zion church by Rev Arthur Humphreys last Sunday. The couple then joined in marriage at the widow’s home amid mourners.
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West Union
Solomon Stone
Locust Grove
Mt. Zion Church
Arthur Humphreys
Humphreys
Lansing
Mr. Stone
Kansas Drummers Meet In Fort Scott Grand Council Session
Fort Scott May 14 The seventh annual meeting of the grand council of United Commercial Travelers of Kansas and Oklahoma is in session with several hundred delegates. Notable speakers include Colonel L Peace national lecturer from Columbus Ohio and Attorney General Boyle. Deliberations include awards to listed members and widows. Atchison Girl With the Bostonians Cecil Quinn signs for next season as understudy to Jessie Bartlett Davis in Kansas City and Atchison.
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Grand Council of United Commercial Travelers
Fort Scott
Kana5
Oklahoma
L. ©. Peace
Columbus
Ohio
Boyle
Atchison
Bostonians
Cecil Quinn
Kansas
Use Bostonians
Jessie Bartlett Davis
Quinn
Kansas City
Salt Rheum Cure Promised by Hartford Advertiser
A Hartford man claims years of salt rheum left him cured after using Curicera Rem Ennes and Corscera products. Garrett T. Sayers says leg swelling and pain resolved after trying the advertised remedies, urging others with skin diseases to use Corscera products.
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Nait Rhaom
Hartford
Waterbury
New Have
Ennes
Garrett T. Sayers
Hartford Electric Light Co
Conn
Stranger Suspected as Spanish Spy at Powder Plant
In Columbus on May 14 a Laflan-Rand Powder Co. plant visitor, a dark complexioned man about 40, sought powder details and mill locations after quitting time. He was ordered from the premises with a warning not to return, and fled with an accomplice in a northbound wagon. Superintendent Hoffmeyer doubled the guard at once.
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Columbus
Laflan-Rand
Anther
Hoffmeyer
Prison Sentence for Clothing Merchant in May
Jacop Greenoure, a clothing merchant in the city, was convicted of receiving stolen property knowing it was stolen and sentenced to the penitentiary for two and a half years. He had been on bond pending appeal to the supreme court, but surrendered to the sheriff and asked to begin his sentence without an officer, bond remaining in force.
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Bcau
Jacop Greenoure
Tts City
Supreme Cout
Rhint
Gray County Sends One Volunteer to Front
Gray County residents filled Cimerron’s versuyienan church for Rev. John Morrison’s patriotic sermon. Fag flags hung, poems read, and martial music stirred crowds. If meetings continue, the county may answer a second call for volunteers to join fighters at the front. One volunteer left, escorted by stay-at-home citizens. Fort Scott reports Woodson County settlers cannot colonize vacant railroad property amid growing trouble.
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Cimerron
John Morrison
Gray County
Woodson County
Fort Scott
Barber Snodgrass Found Not Guilty
In Newton a jury returned a not guilty verdict for barber George Snodgrass who shot Santa Fe Brakeman Charles Upton last December, acquitting him of murder in a case tied to home despoiling. Also notes Fort Scott clothing house J Rodecker & Co's assignment and chattel mortgages totaling 17000 to preferred creditors. Pension examiners named for Holton and Beloit, Kan. Earnest claim of headache relief via Dr. Davis and Champlain remedies mentioned.
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Barber Snodgrass
Newton
Snodgrass
George Snodgrass
Santa Fe
Charles Upton
Fort Scott
J. Rodecker & Co
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Colorado
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Butler County
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Turner
Edwin T. Metcalf
Colony
James A. White
Port Scott
John F. Crockett
Galesburg
Norman H. Noble
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Avoca
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London
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Kansas Avenue
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Firat St
Brooklyn
Cimarron
Pension Bureau
Washington
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Holton
Kan
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Beloit
Davis
P E. Grisham
Gears Malls
O. Ss. Nwett
Oda Fellows Building
Quincy Street
sUndertakers
DE Moss & Penwell
Quincy St
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