The Messenger Notes on Changes and Rights
A scientist claims earth is shrinking at three inches per year, sparking public curiosity. Chicago approves school boxing under the superintendent and board president, implying future citizens can outpace rivals. Ohio passes a bill to equalize wages for women in absence of contracts, while Kansas shows risks of such enforcement. Wages reflect broader forces beyond law.
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Chicago Public Schools
Board of Education
Chicago
Ohio
Kansas
Dickens Inspired Cold Cure Appears In Congress Bills
The passage jokes that Mrs Nickleby used a Dickensian cold cure said to work extraordinarily. It notes the remedy began after Christmas and by mid April the cold had vanished. The text then mocks legislative bills claiming similar magical efficiency.
Delegates Voice Fresh Mandates at National Convention
The text notes delegates in a national convention claim to carry fresh mandates from the sovereign people and to represent those who elected them. It reflects on how party platforms may begin with such language and frames delegates as instructions from voters.
Chicago board of trade members indicted for fraud
Federal grand jury indicts several Chicago board of trade members for defrauding country patrons. The piece notes a shift in perception from prestige to criminal prosecution for those who induce losses in fictitious transactions.
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Chicago Board of Trade
Federal Grand Jury
Cable to Manila touted as good business by British firm
A British telegraph company argues before a senate commerce committee that laying a Manila cable would profit and aid army news. It claims exclusive Philippine landing rights from Spain until 1918, though that concession is unlikely to stand after the Philippines’ transfer to the United States. Shreve capitalists still see dividends in a Philippine cable.
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Manila
Senate Committee On Commerce
Spain
Philippines
United States
Philippine
Calaveras grove in danger of lumber firm takeover
California clubs push to establish a national park to protect the famed Calaveras big trees as a large lumber company holds an option on the grove and plans sawmills in Calaveras county.
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Calaveras Grove
California
Calaveras County
Mariposa
Tulare
Molineux Faces Death in Electric Chair After Long Trial
Roland Burnham Molineux, condemned for the Katherine J. Adams murder, awaits execution at Sing Sing. His attorney Barton Weeks seeks a new trial as jurors recall wavering doubt before Molineux's silence. The trial, cost about $175,000, involved 604 salesmen and 209 exhibits.
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Cornish
McIntyre
Adams House
Roland B. Molineux
General Molineux
Molineux
Adams
Roland Burnham Molineux
Sing Sing
Katherine J. Adams
Barton S. Weeks
Weeks
Edward L. Molineux
New York
Goff
United States
California
New York State
District of Columbia
Robert W. Buchanan
John Wilson Gibbs
New York Athletic Club
Cross-Eyed Women Dreaded Soldiers Superstition
A reservist returning to Aldershot to rejoin his regiment under orders for South Africa is mentioned amid tales of soldiers avoiding cross-eyed women, noted as a common superstition.
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Belmont
Tommy Atkins
Aldershot
South Africa
Bandits Foiled in Attempt on Santa Fe Train North of Perry
A bold hold up near Perry Oklahoma failed as masked men attempted to board a southbound Santa Fe train. The engineer noticed them after pulling the bell cord and sped away, thwarting the robbery as the train slowed.
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Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe
Perry
O. T
Swift Retribution at Cherry Station Tenn
At Cherry Station Tennessee Jim Gorton a Black man cut the throat of Mrs George Collins with a butcher knife and was killed by the woman's husband in a fatal domestic attack.
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Cherry Station
Tenn
Jim Gorton
George Collins
Hairbreadth Escapes and Tough Talk From Civil War Front
A Chicago Tribune excerpt recalls hairbreadth escapes on the Modder River and in Manila trenches, including rifles shattered by bullets, helmets perforated, and a soldier told his hair was saved by bullets. Anecdotes recount an officer’s graveyard cigarette bravado and a mule shot at Vicksburg. Also notes Henry W. Lawton’s opera inspired march later titled Lawton’s Song.
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Modder River
Penderend
Manila
India
Wynberg
Chicago Tribune
Geo. Lawton
New York
Henry W. Lawton
Indiana
Don Cesar de Bazan
Lawton
Capt. Lawton
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Censorship Contrast Noted by Ohio Statesman
Former Ohio State Senator Harmon W. Brown, long a trusted staffer for General, compares strict press censorship in the Transvaal with the laxer practices used during the rebellion.
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Transvaal
Harmon W. Brown
Ohio
The Modern Bullet And Hidden Mauser Wounds
A soldier explains that modern rifles wound differently from old Springfield rifles, noting a Mauser can leave a clean hole yet the victim feels little pain. He recounts a Manila battle major who was unaware of a through leg wound until night dressing revealed the injury. Medical records show many similar cases from the war.
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Manila
Kiang River Name Question In China Map
A China Inland Mission map notes the term Kiang does not mean river and cautions against calling the Yangtze Kiang River, clarifying language around Chinese geographic names.
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China
China Inland Mission
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