Santo Domingo Island’s riches and historic sea harbor
Readable passages describe Santo Domingo as richly endowed with tropical produce and minerals, noting gold history from the Yaqui river to San Cristobal mines, and highlighting Samana Bay as a vast yet underutilized harbor with strategic naval and commercial value. The piece also mentions Drake’s raids, colonial ruins, and the island’s healthy climate contrasted with lingering poverty.
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Santo Domingo
Tropics
Spain
Burgos
Granada
Rio del Oro
Bobadilla
Banto Domingo
Quaintaneoa
Mina
Thera
Columbia
America
Isabella
Don Diego
Havana
Fernando Gortez
Las Casas
Velasquez
Cuba
Samana Bay
Samana
Bierce Accepts Lecture Offer From Polite Indios Club
Ambrose Bierce agreed to lecture after a polite invitation by Indios members. The club president, a conservative woman, implied they were not a club of new women, prompting Bierce to quip about being a club of old women before speaking.
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Ambrose Bierce
Bierce
Mr. Bierce
News-Lotter
Dolly Barber Tree Blown Down in Washington Area
In a storm the Dolly Barber tree on the New Cut road, a Washington landmark, was blown down. Named after a famed local belle, the tree appears as a boundary point in an 1780 title deed. Jefferson is said to have walked the nearby street, and the English owner Foxhall was a friend of his.
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Dolly Barber
New Cut
Washington
Jefferson
Foxhall
Exclusion Law Confusion Over Philippine Chinese Labor
Washington was surprised to learn General Otis had applied the Chinese exclusion laws to the Philippines. The move, blamed on Otis as governor general, was not directed by the U.S. government. Chinese officials seek delay while awaiting official guidance. Manila reports place Chinese in the islands at about 52,000 with strong trade presence.
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State Department
Washington
General Otis
Philippines
Manila
United States
War Department
Otis
Wu Ting Tang
Oua
Williams
Cuba
China
Admiral Dewey
Lobson
Navy Department
Islands
National Democratic committees to announce appointments
Ex Governor Stone acting chairman of the national committee will announce appointments to the executive ways and means and printing committees in a few days. He is sending letters to members and will publish the full list once acceptances are received.
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Memphis Commercial Appeal
St. Louis
Ways and
National Democratic Committee
Stone
National Committee
Tragedy near Seabright claims three lives
A train strike near Seabright New Jersey on Wednesday night killed Miss Louise Terry 22, seven year old Charles Trippe, and 18 year old Creata Terry. Mrs Charles Trippe and Louisa Farr were among the six injured.
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Seabright
N. J
New Jersey Southern Railroad
Louise Terry
Charles Trippe
Creata Terry
Louisa Farr
Delegal surrenders in McIntosh County murder case
Relatives of the murdered Deputy Sheriff Townsend report no harm to Delegal’s family as he surrenders to Lt Wood’s Savannah troops. A posse and militia swept McIntosh County towns and swamps, arresting many negroes while Delegal admits the killing but denies arranging accomplices. A rapid Darien train transfer with reinforcements followed and the suspect reached Darien safely.
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Mcbntosh
Henry Delegal
Townsend
Delegal
Wood
Savannah
Benegal
Sherif
Leonard Wood
David Barrow
Darien
Eulonia
Degre
Mesara
Darien Junction
Savannoah
First
Georgia
Lawton
Ee Easly
Carpenters Strike in Chattanooga Over Discharged Union Officers
Carpenters and joiners at Loomin Hart Manufacturing in Chattanooga walked out Saturday after three union officers were discharged. Workers refused to return until those three men are reinstated.
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Chattanooga
Loomin & Hart Manufacting
Oil Tanks Burn at Standard Oil Refinery in Whiting
A major blaze at the Standard Oil refinery in Whiting Ohio began Sunday night from a bottom-leak in a still. An explosion followed within minutes and the fire spread to two large tanks holding about 2 200 barrels of partially refined oil.
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Standard Company Lorca
Tre
Standard Oil
Whiting
Ohio
Deportation of Blacks Hit by Former Senator Butler Plan
Ex senator M S Butler of South Carolina writes Col Wyatt Aiken of Greenwood urging deportation as the race problem solution. He opposes Tillman and others who denounced whites actions and proposes a per head bonus to remove negroes rather than state bans on emigrant agents.
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Butler
M. ©. Butler
South Carolina
Wyatt Aiken
Greenwood
Tillman
Chipley Light Infantry Aims to Meet Admiral Dewey in New York
The Pensacola Florida based Chipley Light Infantry plans a sixty man delegation to travel to New York for Admiral Dewey’s reception. They will be the first Florida military company to attend in a single body.
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Chipley Light Infantry
Pensacola, Fla
New York
Admiral Dewey
Florida
Metropolis
Philosphers Timidity and Courage of Sir David Brewster
A fragment discusses Sir David Brewster's character from the daughter of a scientist. It cites his fear of sea travel and his toothache response, noting his lack of fear of men and his strong moral courage despite physical timidity. It also mentions Hood's Sarsaparilla health ad rhetoric.
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Sly David Brewster
Lord Rosse
Sir David
Solomon Temple cost estimate tops fifty billion
An eminent Old Testament scholar estimates the cost of Solomon’s Temple at over 50 billion dollars. Rough material value around 12.5 billion with labor put at 2 billion. gold vessels 2.5 billion. silver vessels 3.23 billion. priestly vestments and choirs robes 10.5 million. gold trumpets 1 million.
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Solomon's Temple
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