Germany ends dueling as rector orders crackdown
The item notes agitation in Germany over dueling among students, citing Professor Wagner of Berlin University ordering efforts to stop the practice. It also touches on coffee trade, noting large global production and profits, and mentions Mexico’s railway mail service spending about 70 501 dollars annually for agents who inspect rail service.
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Wagner
Berlin University
Hiropy
United States
Cau
AA Cobatinn
Mexican Railway Mail Service
Government
Enrollment figures and property values cited in 1894 report
The Compalesionar of Hanostion reports total enrollment of 16,000,000 pupils across institutions of the law. In 1894 national policol property rose by over $26,000,000. Over the past twenty years scholastic property in the South rose from $10,000,000 to $10,000,000.
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Compalesionar of Hanostion
Lau
United States
South
Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar Meets Prince of Wales in Eltham Club
A fragmentary report notes Prince Edward of Saxe Weimar visiting Hagladd where he met the Prince of Wales. He recalled playing a Holt game at the Eltham Club and being asked about Eltham. The encounter links Edward to Marl of Witham and the Prince of Wales.
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Prince Edward
Saxe Weimlr
Hagladd
Prince of Wales
Holt
Eltham
Eltham Wi
Edward
Walon
Witham
Port Hamilton Gun to Be Replaced by Modern Ordnance
A historic twenty inch gun at Port Hamilton New York Harbor once famed as the world wonder in 1875 is slated for replacement with a modern piece of ordnance. The weapon once fired a half ton shell two and a half miles using 124 pounds of powder, but after the operation officials admitted the crew breathed sighs of satisfaction once the shot was fired.
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Port Hamilton
New York Harbor
European talk shifts in Moscow society circles
A representative of one faction in Moscow shook the hand of a Russian envoy instead of the proper official, a judge noted. Since that day the event dominated conversations in both home and foreign circles at Moscow, though the circles were considered intelligent. Such arguments in these circles could eventually influence Europe’s geography.
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Russia
Moscow
Europe
Railroads In The State Reach 10 472 Miles By Mid 1895
The Thais Railroad Commissioners report 10 472 miles of track in the state on June 30 1895 about seventeen percent of the national total. In the year to June 30 there were 1 076 deaths and 43 829 injuries among passengers employees and other persons. Passenger totals reached 60 million, signaling a high safety standard for state roads.
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Thais Railroad Commissioners
Thinh State
Man sues for damages after bicycle-clad couple denied meals
An account from the New York Herald describes a Chicago incident where a man and his wife, traveling by bicycle, entered a small fashionable restaurant at dinnertime. They were refused service due to their attire, provoking shock and anger leading to a legal suit for damages.
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New York Herald
Chicago
Tod
Japanese rail safety rule shocks by fining victims’ kin
In Kamakura a poor man loses two children to a train, yet receives no compensation and is fined ten dollars for permitting trespass. The incident highlights a Japanese approach that fines victims’ relatives rather than penalizing railroad companies, a method some American rail interests reportedly admire for reducing damages.
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Kamakura
Debate on silver coinage and U S monetary policy in New York
The New York World posed twenty questions on silver and gold coinage to Mr Bryson, with Clark of the New York Bureau supplying answers. The exchange traces 1792 mint rules, 1878 demonetization, and 1884 and 1887 ratio changes, arguing free coinage could restore parity, while addressing market and international implications.
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Madison Square Garden
Jy Taixfax Molaugtlin
Clark
Burregata
Moldughlin
United States
Almont
Firab
Congress
Hamilton
Washington
Jefferson
Ita
Bain
Thorsfore
England
Cleveland
Debates on Silver Coinage and U S Money Standards 1896
A long dialogue questions will free coinage, bimetallic policy, and the silver question. It argues that free silver would lift the economy, counter gold hoards, and expand money supply, citing nations with silver standards and noting historical shifts. It cites opinions from Secretary Carlisle and Bryan and discusses debters, pensions, banks, and policy impacts.
The Fifty Cent Dollar Debate in Free Coinage
In Wheeling, the Register critiques goldbug rhetoric on free coinage arguing that if silver miners get a dollar for fifty cents worth of silver, the dollar becomes a one hundred cent coin. The piece mocks the inconsistency of free coinage arguments and their perceived benefit to silver interests.
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Wheeling
W. Va
Ancient Egyptian Monuments Feature Checkers Scene
Three thousand year old Egyptian monuments show figures playing a game of checkers. The depictions suggest cultural interest in strategy games in ancient times.
Through Georgia Short Gazette of varied updates
Georgia items report Hatge to be hanged in Atlanta next Friday and Governor Atkinson resisting jury interference. Mills in Columbus to close for weeks with repairs planned. Embalmers’ convention in Atlanta elects officers. Democratic literature push, Bryan speeches requested statewide. Langley merchant Burnett loses house and $3,800 in greenbacks to fire. Georgia congressional nominations include Griggs Adams and Bartlett. Tom Watson schedules speeches in Cartersville and Dallas trip. Tax returns consolidation keeps rate at 4.56 per $1,000 with $90,000 pension fund. Atlanta primary names mayor and council slate. Farmers discuss new wire tie for baling cotton with mixed pricing notes.
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Atkinson
Terrell
Comptroller’s
Resolution on testing bale compression for practicality
A report notes a discussion led by chairman Barrow and Commissioner Neubith on using ties if feasible. The ABREC resolution asks W. H. Base to telegraph for tiss and test their use on a bale of cotton, to be compressed and shown at a meeting on Saturday morning August 20 at 11 o'clock.
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Barrow
Neubith
W. H
Durmar
Trade Conditions Report Signals Mixed Week in United States
Bradstreet the Post Week reports general business activity flat with gains in Baltimore Louisville and Kansas City where merchandise volumes rose. Gold imports potential $25 000 000 polo imports eyed. money markets show firmer at many centers while New York Boston and others tighten. Bank withdrawals rise and loan access tightens. cotton wheat and coal prices move unevenly amid cautious demand. Trade failures rise sharply year over year. overall outlook remains subdued until post near term.
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Post Week
Baltimore
Louisville
Kanana City
Oenter
United States
New York
Chicago
Jobbora
Mauifaotncara
Riots in Constantinople Attack Ottoman Bank
A London dispatch from Constantinople reports mobs invading the Ottoman Bank early Wednesday on royal warrants. The bank’s guards were killed or wounded as rioters fired from rooftops, with shops sacked and bazaars overrun. The unrest spread, hinting at a revolutionary movement tied to Armenian circles and a bomb blast near Galata guardhouse wounding soldiers.
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Constantinople
Galateatarai
Court Denies Reinstate Order in Brown Hoisting Strike
In Cleveland Ohio Judge Stone of common pleas court Wednesday denied the petition of striking Brown Hoisting Company employees for an injunction to compel reinstate ment. The court held the strikers have an adequate remedy at law for breach of contract and refused a mandatory order to compel reemployment as the contract was too indefinite.
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Stone
Common Pleas
Cleveland
Atrikera
Brown Company
Resignations Hit Japanese Cabinet Leaders
Advices from Yokohama report Marquis Ito the prime minister Baron Ito secretary of the cabinet and Mr Itagati minister of the interior have resigned, signaling a major reshuffle in the Japanese government.
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Yokohama
Tapad
Marquis Ito
Baron Ito
Mr. Itagati
Interior
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