Porto Ricos progress bootblack shows island learns English
Dr J W Fewkes reports American influence in Porto Rico including a New York bootblack turning into a thriving business and locals copying the shine trade. Education rises with eager students, a bright Puerto Rican teacher guides geography, and English education expands. An island auto line trips San Juan to Ponce and roads improve.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Yankee Bootblack
Porto Rico
West Indies
J. W. Fewkes
Bureau of Ethnology
Washington Post
New York
Boothlack
San Juan
Pennsylvania
Connecticut
Pittsburg Dispatch
Ponce
Plan of New Warships Named After States
The navy plans four large battleships named Louisiana Connecticut Tennessee and Washington with 16000 ton displacement and 18 knot speed. Four 12 inch guns eight 8 inch guns twelve 7 inch and twenty 8 inch guns plus many smaller weapons. Two armored cruisers 14500 ton displacement 22 knot speed with four 10 inch guns sixteen 6 inch and twenty two 3 inch guns and many smaller guns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Navy Department
Washington
Louisiana
Connecticut
Tennessee
New York Press
Formosa Ends Pigtail Tradition Amid Rebel Ops
The Formosa people begin cutting their hair signaling a major shift away from the outlaw life after widespread rebel operations. For 300 years the pigtail had been part of local dress, and officials see the change as a defining moment in recent unrest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Formosa
Japan Weekly Mail
Kormosa
Noted War Messenger James J Dunigan The Civil War Hero
Story recounts James J Dunigan a Western Union messenger whose daring Civil War dispatch runs for the Union included crossing ice floes to Governors Island in 1862. He braved Confederate spies and came under fire while delivering critical orders, carrying his wounded comrade Youdale to safety.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James J. Dunigan
Western Union Telegraph Company
Western Union
New York Herald
New York
Jim
Governors Island
John Youdale
Youdale
Yondale
Panama Hat Survives Mont Pelee Fire on Roddam
E C Lewis, a glass and paint firm traveler, tells how a genuine Panama hat from South America rode the Mont Pelee eruption aboard the British steamer Roddam. The hat remained unscorched, kept in the hold, weighing one ounce and so fragile a spark could ignite it.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
South America
Panama
Mont Pelee
E. C. Lewis
Glass and Paint
Kansas City Star
Midland Hotel
Lesson From Boer War Lessons For German War Efforts
Berlin papers say the Transvaal war taught Germany how to transship large bodies of troops and ships. The naval mobilization chairman studied British shipping and landing methods at Plymouth Durban Port Elizabeth and Cape Town and sent reports to Berlin. These have been applied to the China expedition.
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Berlin
Transvaal
Naval Mobilization Commission
Plymouth
Durban
Port Elizabeth
Cape Town
China
Opal Flexible Bracelet Captures Jewelry Fad
A New York Journal note describes a new jewelry conceit using gold wire and opals. A dainty opal flexible bracelet features opals cut on both sides set in narrow gold rims joined by twists of wire with a large opal and diamond clasp.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
New York Journal
Rocky Mountain Tea Promoted for Babies and Children
A mother notes one package yields two quarts of baby medicine with directions included. The ad praises Rocky Mountain Tea as uniquely good for babies and children, priced at 35 cents by Frost & Spies.
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Frost & Spies
Tax Times Offers Bindings For Books And Magazines
Tax Times invites orders for bindings with an assortment of samples to view. Patrons may select quality and style, and orders will receive prompt attention.
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Tax Times
Fiancee of Bishop Potter Named Mrs Alfred Corning Clark
The New York World notes Mrs Alfred Corning Clark of Cooperstown N Y is to wed Bishop Potter of New York. Her late husband funded Cooperstown projects including a park a monument a gym and a Y M C A library. She supports public works and maintains a quiet life with rare public appearances. An Otsego lake observation tower she built provides panoramic views from 200 feet high.
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Alfred Corning Clark
Cooperstown
N. Y
New York
James Fenimore Cooper
Clark
Bishop Potter
Lord
Transvaal Gold and the Witwatersrand Outlook
John Hays Hammond argues that rapid exploitation of auriferous zones likely shortens the district’s industrial life. If deeper levels are mined concurrently with higher horizons, the life could lengthen. he estimates profitable large scale operations may last less than twenty five years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Witwatersrand
John Hays Hammond
Steel waistcoats take fashion stage in New York dinner
New fashion debuts a plaiable steel waistcoat described as pliable light and bullet proof worn by M Lebargy of the Comedie Francaise and Mr St John Gaffney at a prominent New York dinner with many Americans present. A speaker warns of a possible steel waistcoat trust amid Paris vogue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
M. Lebargy
Comedie Francaise
Paris
St. John Gaffney
New York
New York Evening Journal
Gaffney
J. P. Morgan
Monument to African Heroes Model Erected on Thames Embankment
A temporary model of Cecil Rhodes intended mausoleum for Major Allan Wilson and his party, massacred in Matabeleland in 1893, has been built on the Thames embankment in London. The granite block cost $100,000 and features copper doors on four sides, with inset top panels and a final colossal figure likely representing Victory.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cecil Rhodes
Allan Wilson
Lobengula
Matabeleland
Thames Embankment
London
Chicago Tribune
British Commission Probes Uganda Sleeping Sickness
The dispatch of a British government commission to Uganda to investigate sleeping sickness aims to illuminate a mystery illness. The disease features patients who fall asleep and remain deeply slumbering despite medical efforts and has spread from West Africa along the Kongo into Uganda.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Uganda
Chicago News
West Africa
Boat schedule fragments at Mill Docks connection note
Schedule fragment indicates trips at 4:00 and 5:20 pm stop at Mill Docks on return from Washburn. Mentions connection with Northern Pacific trains in morning and afternoon. details incomplete.
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Washburn
Northern Pacific
Plow EB Offers Madeline Island Boat Charters
Information available from F. A. Bischoff master of the vessel at 217 Third Avenue East or on the boat. The craft runs both ways with potential for evening excursions chartered by request.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madeline Island
Third Avenue East
Trains Run Ashland to Chicago on Northwestern Route
Trains C St P M and O Ry Ashland with Northwestern train to Chicago. Orders for tickets can be procured of Q W Frost Druggist Wastburn Wis.
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Ashland
Northwestern
Chicago
Q. W.frost
Wastburn, Wis
Bayfield Teachers Institute to Convene in Washburn
The Bayfield County Teachers Institute meets at Walker High School in Washburn starting August 4 for two weeks. Examinations for teachers certificates follow August 16 to 20. The National Education Association meets in Minneapolis July 7 to 11. Railroads set one fare plus a $2 membership fee. A large attendance is expected for this rare near term meeting.
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Bayfield County Teachers’ Institute
Walker High School
Washburn
National Educational Association
Minneapolis
All Rail
Omaha Ticket Offer For 200 Mile Radius July Dates
Omaha announces sale of round trip fares for all points within two hundred miles on July 3 and 4 at one and one third fare. Tickets good for return until July 7.
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James J. Duni
Gan
Hat
Roddam
Cooperstown, N. Y
New Yorker
Nation of Sluggards
Mary Scott
Duluth
Wisconsin Central
Capt. Turgeon
Tm Pena
WNO
Steamer
Liciie
Peete
Bayfield Bayfield
M. m
O. Ry
Ashland Junction
South
St. Paul
Wis
Central Trains
Mail and Exress
Northern Pacific Railway Company
Lake Superior Division
Dr. Gossom
350M Medicine Co
CHICA
Gzsem
Wisconsin
Lion Coffee
Teacher's Institute
Omaha
Johnson
Hotographer
Olea
Chichester
Chilichester
Chichester Chemical CO
Madison Square
Phila
Clark Medicine CO
Ill
Draggista
Desians
Munn & Co
Everies
Raw York
F St
Washington, D.C
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