Ambitious Klondike Venture Promises Rapid Gold Profits
A prominent group of businessmen and bankers announces a new company to organize expeditions to Alaska and the Klondike. It plans specially chartered steamers and overland routes, with extensive stock issuance and mutual profit aims. The roster includes trustees from Milwaukee Chicago and Vicksburg among others. The firm claims access to vast stock, trading, mercantile and transportation activities and anticipates substantial income and dividends within a year.
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Atake
Klondike
Alaska
Montana
Colorado
Australia
Yukon
California
Orisinax
Five judges on Supreme Court assailed in Topeka speech
A Topeka public figure condemns five men on the United States Supreme Court for overruling the will of thirteen million voters. He advocates curbing the court's powers, proposes six year terms for justices, and supports direct legislation to curb private wealth influence in government. He stops short of abolishing the court. The piece notes other reform proposals and local civic notes including rail and postal topics and a few community updates.
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E. C. Little
G. C. Clemens
Journal
Triste
Supreme Bench of
United States
Prentice
Tris
Union
House of Representatives
Supreme Court
Tam
Min
Supreme Court of the United States
Little
Snapshot home notes on public schools and local events
The item lists school openings and staff changes while noting community happenings. Captain Waters travels to St Louis on business. Dana McVivar leaves for Lawrence to attend the state university. Local figures and families are mentioned with short notes on weather, festivals, and trades.
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Garfield Park
Tampa
Signal Corps
J. G. Waters
St. Louis
Kansan
W. J. Barnes
S. G Gunnison
Fillmore Street
of & Son
Mies Taitnsic Capps
Board of Education
Topeka
Tete Corm
Hateon Company
Eistth
van Buren
Arburn Ladins’ Bell Society
Alma Adams
Waahbuts
New Maven
James B. Tomilueon
Ailaneapolis
Washington Senators Clinch Seventh Win in Cleveland Rout
Washington beat Cleveland 9 to 4 as Swalm struggled and Gettman led with four hits. Attendance 2,000. Earlier scores include Brooklyn and Cincinnati, Baltimore routing Louisville, and Des Moines vs Quincy. Western Association details note Corbett’s great fielding for Wheeling and Mansfield's tenth inning win.
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Philadelphia
Becker
McFarland
Chicago
Priend
Kittredge
Washington
Cleveland
Senators
Indians
Gettman
Atttendance
Cedar Rapids
St. Joseph
Corbett
Wheeling
Mansfield
Campbell
Messitt
Mansell
Beam
Lynch
McCarthy of Boston to Captain and Manage Browns
A Boston report says T. F. McCarthy known as Tommy McCarthy will come to St. Louis to captain and manage the Browns next year. The note recalls Charley Comiskey signing him a decade ago after a game with Oshkosh and bringing him to St. Louis when the club was rising in baseball.
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Boston
ST. Louis
Lewis
Nichols
Tve
Bostons
Brac- Ca
RWB
Risto
Nicholson Lake
Browns
McCarthy
T. F. McCarthy
Tommy” McCarthy
St. Louis Browns
Charley Comiskey
Oshkosh
McCarthy Career Moves and Heavenly Twins Era
Baseball infielder McCarthy stayed with the Browns through the Brotherhood year, then joined Boston with star pitcher Jack Stivetts. After a poor stint with Brooklyn in 1895 he built a saloon in Bourton, vows to return to the camp, awaiting Brooklyn’s release.
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McCarthy
Browns
Brotherhood
Jack Stivetts
Boston
Hush Duffy
Heavenly Twins
Brooklyn
Bourton
von der Ahe
Rockefeller's New Move on Canadian Nickel Mines
Toronto report says John D Rockefeller and American capitalists seek to corner Ontario nickel deposits. A Britse metallurgist inquiry and ore tests fed speculation that gov ernment action may back ore development for armor plate. Independent mine owners resist offers, hindering syndicate control.
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Toronto
Ont
John D. Rockefeller
Standard OF Fame
Austen Hoberts
Britsh Mint
British Association
Ontario
Rockefeller Syndicate
No More Graveyards Near High Bridge Sanitary Mausoleum Plan
New York board of health approves a plan for a sanitary mausoleum to house 10 000 to 12 000 bodies near High Bridge. Bodies would be exposed to chemical purification then encased in air tight concrete receptacles four inches thick. Building planned 270 by 73 feet, four stories high with joinless cells.
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New York
Board of Health of
High Bridge
Marchesi Visit Delayed by Paris Vocal Teacher
New York dispatch reports Mme Marchesi, famed Parisian vocal instructor who trained many leading opera stars, will not travel to America this winter. E Johnston, slated to direct her tours in New York Chicago and Boston, says she prefers postponing for a year when the Metropolitan Opera House reopens and interest in operatic singing grows. He notes she fears the long voyage.
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America
New York
Mme. Marchesi
E. Johnston
Chicago
Boston
Metropolitan Opera House
Colored Candidate Faces Naval Academy Screening
Nine cadet candidates entered the naval Academy, four percent of the total to date, with Bundy the colored applicant failing and planning marriage after the setback. The report notes eye problems caused reexaminations for several applicants, and mentions engagement announcements in New York for Miss Caroline Howard and William E. Philip.
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Annapolis
Naval Academy
Bundy
New York
the Herald
Caroline Howard
Henry C. Howard
Waffalo, N
William E. Phillip
Buffalo
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