Manufactories rated higher in Italy than rivals
Italian manufactories are rated much higher than those in Germany Belgium and England. A note on Cuban territory lost by Spain mentions a link to Velazquez era conquests. The first Texan cotton bale destined for Washington will be made into gun cotton for the Yeanyins. Patriots react as Boundary Commission assigns Katsaphilinni to Parkey. Greek inhabitants set fires and desecrate coffins to keep Turkish hands away.
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Italy
Germany
Belgium
England
Texan
Washington
Boundary Commission
Katsaphilinni
Parkey
German compulsory education described as a drag-net
An 1886–1896 snapshot shows Prussia reducing unaccounted school children from 145 to 487 within a total school population of 6,491,508. The German Bureau of Education figures illustrate a broad, perhaps sweeping enforcement of compulsory schooling.
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Germany
Bureau of Education
Prussia
Paris dispatch reports French bias against Americans
A Pittsburgh Dispatch stringer notes Americans offended by French attitudes, claims hostile cafes, and asserts some French papers tilt due to advertisers. He argues most French outlets do not reflect public opinion and criticizes anti American sentiment among a few aligned with advertisers.
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Stafe
Pittsburg
Powers and nations shaping the modern world
A New York Commercial Advertiser piece argues major powers pursue global dominance. It traces Russia expanding from Baltic and Black Sea shores, Britain as colonial heir, France's intermittent rise, Germany’s rapid African expansion, and the US asserting moral dominion across the Americas and beyond.
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Russia
Baltic
Black Seas
New York
Great Britain
Spain
France
Frence
Germany
Africa
United States
Modern small caliber rifles in Cuba and their wound patterns
The Chicago Times-Herald notes that Krag-Jorgenson Lee-Metford and Mauger rifles used in Cuba fire small high velocity projectiles. Dr. Dacker reports bullets cause tiny initial wounds that expand after penetration, sometimes drilling round holes in the forehead and blowing out the skull, with back exit wounds tearing flesh into large areas.
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Cuba
Chicago Times-Herald
Lee-Metford
Mauger
Dacker
Guantanamo
Mae
Beatrix Harcourt the fair philanthropist of Hillchester
In Hillchester Beatrix Harcourt known for charity and plain charm faces gossip. The vicar John Kenrick doubts rumors about Beatrix and Gerald Morton yet love endures as she aids a fever patient, helps a sick child, and illness nearly silences the town. Beatrix survives scarlet fever, and parish joy crowns her marriage with Kenrick.
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Gerald Morton
Mrs. Morrin
Beatrix Harcourt
Mrs. Maynard
Oxford
Hillchester
Earness
John Kenrick
Beatrix
John
Mr. Kenrick
Trix
Gerald Ogton
Castlefields
Miss Harcourt
Jennie
Thillchester
Ethel Beatrice Wadlow
Spain Lags in Manufactures and Industry Despite Open Trade Potential
The article argues Spain has unusually few and declining manufactures outside Catalonia, with total industrial workers rivaling a few New England cities. It notes natural resources but heavy imports of cotton and silk goods, a shrinking Seville loom industry, and a single Toledo weapons factory gatekeeping visitors. Government figures are questioned as misleading.
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Spain
Catalonia
New England
Germany
Seville
Toledo
Madrid
United States
Mediterranean
Europe
Africa
The Inexorable Sentinel and the Hobson Salute
An account from the New Orleans Times-Democrat recalls a Second Louisiana unit seeking passage through an Alabama camp. A Louisianian outsider met a sentinel at the line, who demanded a password. The man declared Hobson, the guard lowered his gun, and the intruder passed.
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Louisiana
Alabama
Hobson
Sentinel
New Orleans
Nmes-Democrat
Georgia State News Highlights From Fort McPherson to Jekyll Island
Fort McPherson reductions continue with garrison detachments reducing by midweek. Chicago publisher James Garrard Stevenson tours Sapelo Island eyeing a colonization site. Augusta Southern railroad receiver petition and lease dispute heard in Augusta. Miss Martha Johnson to preside at Macon carnival hall opening October 14. Newman and Colquitt Carter divide Georgia’s Northern district into bankruptcy districts at Arden. Canton’s Cliff Kitchen, 16, serves as non commissioned officer in Colonel Ray's Immune regiment. Battery A and Battery B camps at Chickamauga Park showcase neat, healthy camps. 8,800 nerves of land sold in Camden county to Shaker Colonization Company for 28,400 dollars, including White Oak town assets. Colonel Ray accuses Captain Colquitt of resignation due to incompetence. Maddox says it was wartime resignation. Lawton asked to respond to McGill letter critical of Governor Atkinson. McGill rejects charges as baseless. Millionaire syndicate builds Sans Souci Club at Jekyll Island with Morgan and Rockefeller driving plan. Moody trial notes claim firm’s assets near 400,000 with limited recovery expected.
Anxious Roosevelts Ask Shafter to Move Army North
A meeting at Santiago led General Shafter to plan a two week withdrawal. Colonel Theodore Roosevelt's letter to Shafter warned that staying would ruin the army with yellow fever and malarial sickness, urging immediate movement to the north or to Puerto Rico. Roosevelt’s notes claimed quarantines won't stop the disease and described over 4,000 sick, with many unfit for duty, urging safety and better campaigning healthily away from Santiago.
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Shafter
Santiago
Fifth Army Corps
Alger
Sternberg
Theodore Roosevelt
Associated Press
Then- Randa
Biboney
Washington
Maine
Havana
Porto Rico
Turoport Roosevert
Roosevelt
General Shafter
A Plank Movement Miles Prepares To Attack the Spaniarde
Advices from Patice Porto Rico report that the campaign plan at Albonito remains unsettled. The Spanish defenses at Albonito are strong, suggesting a flank move. General Brooke landed 8,000 troops at Arroyo on Wednesday, sixty miles east of Ponce, enabling the timing of the attack.
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Miles
Albonito
Patice
Porto Rico
Cieneral Brooke
Arroyo
Ponce
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Sapelo Island
Sapelo
Augusta Southern Railway
South Carolina and Georgia Railroad
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Macon
Martha Johnson
Flora
William T. Newman
Colquitt Carter
Arden, N. C
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Cliff Kitchen
Canton
Ray
Yancey Carter
Battery A
Georgia Artillery
Chickamauga Park
Bradley
Brunswick Real Estate
Camden County
Shaker Colonization Company
Union Village
Ohio
White Oak
Immune Regiment
Hugh Colquitt
Maddox
Colquitt
War Department
C. K. Maddox
Lawton
Chickamaugt
Waters McGill
Young Men’s Christian Association For Georgia
Atkinson
J. Pierpont Morgan
William D. Rockfeller
Henry B. Hyde
J. Scrymser
Joseph Stickney
Julia W. Anderson
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Sans Souci
Jeky Island
Moody
Atlanta
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Southern Pacific Guano Company
Moody Loan and Baking Company
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