World News Snapshot From The Far Reaches Of 1900s
A sweeping wire service roundup notes lynchings in Texas and Georgia, bank robberies in Michigan and Ohio, fires devastating Sparta and Ottawa region towns, and political moves in Utah and Maryland. It covers disasters, train wrecks, a Manila expedition, and notable figures like Carnegie, McKinley, and Marconi.
A Week's Record Home and Foreign Items
A compact survey of industrial field news, personal and political items, and notable happenings at home and abroad. This weekly roundup highlights key business, political, and social events shaping the period.
Notable Obituaries and Deaths Across U S Locales
Ex President Benjamin Harrison dies at 68 in Indianapolis from pneumonia after grippe and leaves a wife and three children. Henry Raab ex state superintendent of education dies in Belleville Illinois. Mrs Epley of Center Indiana marks 100th birthday. Judge Walter J Hayes three term congressman dies in Marshall Michigan. Salvador Duran dies in Santa Fe New Mexico at 106. Denver prohibitionists nominate an all female slate. Congressman Marriott Brosius dies in Lancaster Pennsylvania from a stroke. Patrick Donohue Pilot publisher dies in Boston at 90. Rev Elijah Kellogg author preacher dies in Harpswell Maine at 80.
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Benjamin Mharrison
Indianapolis
Henry Raab
Belleville
Epley
Center
Ind
Walter J. Hayes
Glinton
Marshall
Mich
Salvador Duran
Santa Fe
N. M
Denver
Marriott Brosius
Lancaster
Patrick Donohue
The
Pilot
Boston
Elijah Kellogg
Harpswell
Entangled Dueling Reports Roil Early 20th Century News
The summary notes crowded dispatches from Paris and Mexico City reporting a Latin American editor resisting retraction, and a denial of President Diaz illness. It covers tensions in Asia with China indemnity talks, Britain and Russia troop standoffs near Tientsin, and diplomacy hinting at war. It also mentions Chaffee withdrawing U.S. troops from China and German policy in China, plus the York tour departure.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boni de Castellano
Paris
M. de Roday
Figaro
Diaz
Mexico
London
Benjamin Harrison
F. R. Payne
China
Tientsin
Washington
Russia
Britain
Japan
Chaffee
Legation
von Buelow
Reichstag
Germany
Duke and Duchess of York
France Plans Expansion of 36 Warships
A Paris dispatch notes France will begin constructing 36 new warships as part of naval expansion. Other brief items include a 5,000-volume library at Missouri penitentiary and reports on political and economic developments across the United States and Europe.
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France
Missouri
Europe
North Carolina
Schlatter
Seattle
Wash
Evans
California
New York
Blue Ridge Mountains
J. Pierpont Morgan
Big Steel Trust
Board of Arbitration
Agricultural Department
Ross Raymond
Hadley
Yale
St. Louis
McKinley
Mississippi
Mexico
Madrid
Jerusalem
Fire destroys half of Minooka in Armourdale district
Fire on the 18th wiped out all buildings in the block bounded by Fifth and Sixth streets and Kansas and Scott avenues in Kansas City Kansas. Two blazes started at once in two joints and spread to adjacent structures in the village of about 600.
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Minooka
Fifth and Sixth Streets
Kansas and
Scott Avenues
Armourdale
Kansas City
Kan
Peter Greenthalg
Erie
Greenthalg
Wall Street
United States Steel Corporation
Rockefeller Iron
Lake Superior
National Witch Hazel Co
First National Bank of
C. A. White
Philadelphia
Boston
Absecom
N. J
Roper
Richard P. Coffin
United States
New York City
Erie Railway Co
J. P. Morgan
Morgan
Erie Road
Pennsylvania Coal Co
John H. Schmidt
Company A
Thirty-sixth Infantry
Lingayen
P. I
Miss Helen Gould Forges Help for Sailors at Brooklyn Shore Home
Miss Helen Miller Gould writes in Success about the women auxiliary plans for a new shore home near the Brooklyn Navy Yard for sailors and soldiers. She notes her $400,000 contribution and calls for patriotic American women to assist in the project. The piece frames this as semi patriotic work by the YWCA women’s auxiliary since 1899.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helen Miller Gould
Women’s Auxiliary
Brooklyn Navy Yard
Miss Gould
Army
Navy
International Committee of the
Young Women’s Christian Association
Signs of old age in women from Feminine News and Views
The writer lists seven signs of aging women in earlier days. They include addressing letters to friends as Mrs, fussing over supper at events, growing interest in church and charity, attracting very young men, abandoning sober dress, comparing current hair to the old style, and the shift from youthful gravity to kittenishness.
Quotations and ads crowd a 1900 page fragment
A collage of adage lines and testimonials from newspapers including the Indianapolis Press the New York Herald Danish Proverb and Chicago Daily News. The passages promote Beeman's Pepsin Gum Putnam Fadeless Dyes Piso's Cure and various quotes reflecting moral and social themes from the era.
Coughing Leads to Consumption Begs Immediate Action
Detroit Journal advertisements tout Kemp's Balsam to stop coughs with free sample bottles and small priced large bottles. The notice features testimonials including Mrs Robbins of Norwich New York and mentions moral maxims amid ad copy.
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Carter's Ink Co Ad Promises Best Ink in Boston
An old Boston ad from Carter's Ink Co promotes Carter's Ink with the slogan Inklings free and a quip about a square man looking round attributed to Ally Sloper, suggesting quality ink for buyers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carter’s
Carter’s Ink Co
Boston
Ally Sloper
Cure a Cold in One Day Ad Claims Laxative Bromo Quinine
An old advertisement promises a one day cure for colds using Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets, with a refund offer if it fails. The note attributes the slogan to the Atchison Globe and notes a 25 cent price and a jab about prejudice being tickled.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pereimle
New York
Chicauo
Peruna Claims Trials Of La Grippe Remedies
Readers report relief from la grippe after two weeks on Peruna. Testimonials from M W Howard of Fort Payne Alabama and D D Wallace of Minneapolis praise improved health, backache relief, and restored appetite. Other letters describe cured catarrh, stronger vitality, and prompt recovery after illness.
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Washington
Peruna Medicine Co
Columbus
M. W. Howard
Howard
Fort Payne
Ala
D. D. Wallace
International Barbers’ Union
Western Avenue
Minneapolis
Minn
Peruna
D. L. Wallace
T. W. Collins
Independent Order of Good Templars
Everett
Wash
Alice Dressler
N. Bryant Avenue
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Warren Mail
John Henderson
Gleischmann
Cincinnati
Sparta
Tenn
Miles
Wisconsin
Sherman Harris
Spellman
Sidney King
Cloverport
Andrew Carnegie
Pittsburgh
Soldier
Hancock
Thirtieth Volunteer Infantry
Illinois
Michigan
San Francisco
Manila
Gov. Wells
Utah
Farmers’ Bank
New Madison
Gus Davis
Tex
Herman Schluens
George Weaver
Canal Dover
Maryland
Col
W. C. Sanger
Bank of Niles
Marconi
C. W. Ryan
National Bank
Halifax
Ralph G. Bateman
Ella F. White
Norwood
Mass
Maine
Jimmy Coogan
Frank Salter
Harry Thurston
George E. Frasin
Morgan Park, II
Richardson
Savannah
Buffalo
N. Y
Prudence Smith
Jane Meek Tutt
Eaton’s “Joint
McCamish
Indiana
New Mexico
Post Office
Goodspeed
Snellhall
Chicago University
Boston Advertiser
Cleveland
Harry Wilson
Charles Smith
Lima
H. Duell
Sampson
Cervera
Merchants
Gen
Harrison
Indiana State Capitol
Charles O. Johnson
Joseph Spatafora
Chicago
Ike Fitzgerald
Tiptonville
Kilpatrick
Ed Davis
Olive
Mont
St. Joseph
Adelbert S. Hay
Pretoria
Civic Federation
Rome
Trias
Santa Cruz de Malabon
India
Boni de Castellane
M. de Rodays
Isle of Pines
Conger
Shanghai
America
John Gauthier
Little Cascapade
Quebec
Helen Gould
Indianapolis Press
Beeman
N. Y. Herald
Putnam
J. W. O’brien
Third Ave
Minneapolis, Minn
Chicago Daily News
Detroit Journal
Thos. Robbins
Maple Street
Norwich, N. Y
Atchison Globe
Congressman Howard
Henry Distin
Henry Distin Mig. Co
Williamsport
South Ninth Street
S. B. Hartman
Frances M. Anderson
Dave
Anakesis
Tribune Building
Cascarets
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