Education and reform stand in the spotlight
The Madrid ministry pushes extensive reforms for schooling while in Santiago de Cuba General Wood prioritizes education as a key reform. Kitchener plans a Khartoum college funded at 500 000 dollars. The piece contrasts Anglo-Saxon conquest with building schools and notes Philadelphia’s social leaders pushing for earlier hours to restore Benjamin Franklin era virtues.
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General Wood
Santiago de Cuba
General Kitchener
Khartoum
Place In
Philadelphia
Benjamin Franklin
Richard
Massachusetts Socialists Poised for Ballot Placement Next Year
The Massachusetts Socialists cheer a strong election showing with 10 000 votes, up from 1801, signaling a path to an official party ballot. Encouraging gains include James F. Cavey and Louis M. Beates winning seats in Haverhill on the Bovialist-Labor ticket, marking the first Socialist legislators in the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Massachusetts
Éiccess
Haverhill
James F. Cavey
Louis M. Beates
Legis+lative
United Blutos
From Day Laborer to Millionaire: A Far-Flung Path
The piece argues that in newer regions the value of ancestry is small for youth and that ambition can rise from humble starts. It cites Lincoln as a day laborer, Miles as a clerk, Diaine as a country schoolteacher, Gar Hall on the towpath, and McKinlay in Canton Ohio, noting many millionaires began this way.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lincoln
General Miles
Diaine
Gar- Hall
Itatioa
McKinlay
Cauton
Ohio
Women Pioneering Scientific Farming Attracts Attention
Fifty girls study scientific farming at Minneapolis college of agriculture. If results prove practical, reform could spread to other states, reviving abandoned New England farms and offering profitable, healthy work for women. Modern methods and labor-saving machines lessen drudgery, enabling the average woman to farm without hardship. The movement may also draw young men back to rural homes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New England States
Minneapolis College of Agriculture
New England
Minnesota
Do You Want a Live Newspaper Subscription Offer
A caller invites readers to affirmatively reply with name and subscription details for a year or at least six months to receive ongoing home and international affairs updates from the newspaper.
On San Juan Hill a war poem by Robert Burns Wilson
The poem reflects on San Juan Hill and memory of battle with vivid natural imagery. It depicts alien shores graves and the impact of war, ending with a stark message that the height of battle should be surpassed and no less brave than prior wars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Theas
Robert Burns Wilson
New York
Mrs Meads Experiment Shows Slang Clash at Dinner
Sadie Mead, eighteen, with a slang filled talk, challenges her stern husband Mr Mead as Mrs Mead plots a plan to reform her daughter during a university lecture visit. Professor Hamill recognizes Jennie Ewing, sparking awkward tension at table as slang erupts despite effort to appear refined.
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Mrs. Mead
Sadie
Mr. Mead
Mead
Sadia
Wisconsin
Hal
Professor Hamill
Professor Harill
Eho
Hamill
Shakespeare
Prank
Sadie and Mrs. Mead Confront Slang Revelation
In a tense scene, Mrs. Mead and Sadie confront slang and social disgrace after a lecturer's warning. Sadie vows to abandon slang, and later learns the professor was warned, calling the night a revelation and an eye opener.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mrs. Mead
Sadie
Mamma Mead
Big Fishes Come Ashore at Gullf of Mexico Coast
Mrs. George O. Barnes wife of Blue Grass Evangelist writes her nephew of a remarkable fish story near Sanibel Island in the Gulf of Mexico. A shoal of fifty to sixty monster blackfish ten to twenty two feet long lay stranded in shallow water and slowly died. They weighed up to two thousand pounds, some near a ton. locals debated using them for food but the stench and danger of decay forced temporary disposal. The creatures are identified as blackfish a tropical whale species.
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George O. Barnes
Sanibel Island
Gullf
Mexico
John Bogle
Danville
Gulf
Troubles of Klondike editors and poor addresses
Dawson City publishers lament carrier delivery difficulties caused by missing street names and numbers. An editor cites sample subscriber addresses such as the cabin with the screen door the flat house facing the river the tent with two stovepipes and the cabin three doors south of where all the dogs are.
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Klondike
Dawson City
Outbreak and Rival Claimants Shake Samoa Crisis in Apia
A dispatch from Auckland reports Malietoa declared king and Tamases elected vice king while Matanfe is disqualified. Fighting breaks out with 2,000 armed followers at Mulinu. British and American consuls intervene but clashes erupt on January 1. Provisional government formed, courts closed, and foreign residents seek protection as Berlin treaty tensions flare.
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Auckland
New Zealand
Bomoan
Tuatice Chambers
Malietoa Taras
Malietoa
Tamasese
Matanfe
United States
Great Britain
Falks
Porpojze
Malieton Tanns
Mulinu
Malietoa Tanua
Toamasese
Tamassea
Mataufe
Moaletoa Taunus
Justice Chambers
Apia
Mataafe
Rafael
Supreme Court
Conaula
Porpoise
Washington
Malictoa
Rose
Samoa
A Chinese Hero Tan Sin-t'ung Beheaded in Reform Purge
The China Gazette notes Tan Sin-t’ung and five reform leaders were seized and beheaded. He refused escape, declaring he wished to die for reform, saying blood has flowed for liberty in the West. He vowed to meet death as a good Han son.
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Tan Sin-t'ung
Reform Party
China
China Gazette
Colonel Sexton in Serious Condition at Death's Door
Washington special reports Colonel James A. Sexton commander in chief of the Grand Army of the Republic is gravely ill after an illness that began with an attack of the grip and caused kidney trouble and related complications.
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G. A. KR
Washington
James A. Sexton
Grand Army of the Republic
Georgia State News Highlights Macon Death and State Affairs
Colonel Lee Jordan, a leading Macon planter and wealthy citizen, dies at about seventy-two after years of illness. Macon plans to bid for the state fair, while river and harbor funds are allocated in congress. A new Aragon cotton mill near Rockmart, backed by the New York Cotton Mill Company, will cost nearly 400000 and hire over six hundred workers. Seaboard Air-Line cuts cotton rates from Atlanta to Portsmouth to 20 cents per 100 pounds. Local option whiskey debates intensify in Carterville with court action against a carrier. Athens moves to issue 100000 in street improvement bonds, and licensing for teachers shifts with June exams. Gresham Memorial Hospital is turned over to Macon, with bright prospects, and the Y M C A announces the 1899 state convention in March with speakers from Chicago and New York.
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William Hensil & Co
Atlanta
Rockmart
Polk County
New York Cotton Mill Company
BE. St. John
Seaboard Air-Line Railroad
Interstate Commerce Commission
Washington
Seaboard
Portsmouth
Young Men's Christian Association of Georgia
Milledgeville
Newnan
K. Ober
Chicago
W. K. Matthews
New York
C. Ti. Gates
McGill
Selma
Tra Nashville
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Christopher Columinus
Elysian Fields
San Juan Hill
Grace Ethelwyn Cody
Barneses
Island
Fle
Matidon Tanus
Hontiltion Enene
Col. Sexton
Georgia State News
Lee Jordan
Macon
Colonel Jordan
State Agricultural Society
Georgia
Congress
Altamahs
Chattahoochee
Flint River
Ocmulgee
Oconee
Savannah
Augusta
Coosa
Rome
Railroad Bridge
Bartow
Carteraville
Bam Jones
Jung
Judge Fite
Express Company
Athens
Glenn
Gresham Memorial Hospital
Macon Hospital Association
Gresham
Baltimore
Leroy Gresham
Price
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