Prolific Prussian Couples Tie The Knot
Weekly Tribune notes that Golden and diamond weddings reached 614 couples in Prussia last year and that the state awarded medals to each married pair.
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Newspaper
Webster City Tribune
Location
Webster City, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 21, 1901
Page
1
Germans Expand Grip on Paris Banking and Firms
German forces deepen control over Paris by infiltrating finance, banking, and commercial sectors. They gradually oust French personnel from top positions in central France, using a tenacious approach to seize employment and investment power.
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Paris
Bismarck
William
von Moltke
France
Library seeks sterilization of books due to infection
A Chicago Public Library special committee reports that books to be sterilized contain bacilli representing a hundred poisons and disease germs. Doctor Kuslewski found all 50 books submitted for examination infected. He believes dry sterilization will achieve the needed effect.
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Chicago Public Library Board
Kuslewski
London to Isle of Wight Tunnel Project Aims for Fast Link
Engineers plan a two and a quarter mile tunnel under the Solent as part of an eight mile line to connect England with the Isle of Wight. Electric propulsion could be used, making it unique in the kingdom. Estimated cost reaches £550,000 with up to £400,000 for boring. Travel time to the Isle of Wight could be two and a half hours from London upon completion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
England
Isle of Wight
Fegin
Solent
London
Siamese Princess School Teaches Practical Domestic Skills
A London article notes a royal Siamese school where fifteen princesses study under an English teacher. Lessons include broom use, baking, laundry, table setting, arranging flowers, and overall housekeeping, reflecting a pride in practical domestic training. American girls reportedly avoid domestic work for social reasons, while Siamese royals embrace it.
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London
Siam
Photography Without a Dark Room
Prof JF E Nipher of St Louis reports progress on positive photography. He states plates can be exposed in light after wrapping, then developed and fixed in light to produce a positive image. He notes a dark room is not strictly required though light shielding helps during changes.
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JF. E. Nipher
St. Louis
Nipher
London Tuberculosis Congress to Exchange Global Methods
The British congress on tuberculosis will meet in London next month to share information and experiences on stamping out the disease. It aims to adopt practical resolutions guiding public and private measures to suppress tuberculosis and believes public action can end its status as a universal scourge.
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London
River pearl worth 300 found at Dubuque in river
A 131 grain pearl valued at 300 is recovered from the Dubuque river. Reports detail a series of violent deaths and crimes across Iowa, including hangings at Union and Des Moines, a fatal stabbing in Hardin county, a major warehouse fire in Woodward, and a murder on a Villisca street, with police actions and defensive measures noted.
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Dubuque
Chas. Hoffmire
Mahaska County
Union Mills
Washington
Reuben. Turner
United States Infantry
Des Moines
Adjutant General’s Office
Columbus Barracks
Ohio
Turner
Union
Hardin County
Mel Clemens
Will
Clemens
Eldora
Carroll County
Manning
Gibson
William Merritt
Board of Health
Seneca W. Hazard
Chicago & Northwestern Company
Fourth and
Walnut Streets
Northwestern
Craft & Plumb
Woodward
W. W. Woodsley
A. C
Barlow
Ida M. Thiele
Villisea
A. Poston
Red Oak
Thiele
Sheldon
Marshalltown
Gubernatorial delegates disputed as Iowa counts 1900 race
Marshall forces claim 25 pledged delegates with scattered uncommitteds while opponents concede 15. Also reported: Pearl Brest, 13, killed by lightning near Hawarden. Fort Dodge court actions include Booge pension fraud, Hanson mail theft, Spayde letter theft, and bootlegging cases. Webster county swamp land claims investigated by Mr. Stanford with indemnity questions. Davenport’s American Bung factory fire causes 12k to 15k loss. Des Moines newsboy Mose Jacobs to marry Lizzie Kyoir in June. he to open a Fifth Street office.
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Pearl
W. A. Brest
Hawarden
United States
Fort Dodge
John Booge
John M. Brown
Ralph Spayde
Garner
Stanford
Washington
Iowa
Webster County
E. P. Fuller
Bennett
Board of Supervisors
Davenport
Mose Jacobs
Des Moines
Lizzie Clara Kyoir
Omaha
Mr. Jacobs
Mose
Fifth Street
Walnut
Pingree Dies in London Ex-Governor Succumbs in 1900s
Ex-Governor H B Pingree of Michigan died in London at 11 35 p m. His son H S Pingree Jr at bedside for four days reported a sudden change just before the end. Pingree born 1840 in Denmark Me rose from shoe manufacturing toDetroit mayor and Michigan governor. He died after a cancer of the intestines with little hope of recovery during a London trip that began last March.
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London
Pingree
Michigan
Mr. Pingree
Detroit
Mich
Hazen Senter Pingree
Denmark
Massachusetts Heavy Artillery
Republican Party
South Africa
Irish Camp Deaths Stir Irish MPs In Commons
London June 18. War Secretary Broderick reports 40,229 in Transvaal and Orange River camps. May deaths total 98 adults and 103 children. Authorities plan release for women and children with friends to receive them. feeding in isolated locations not undertaken.
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London
House of Commons
Broderick
Transvaal
Orange River Colony
British Troops Lose 50 Victorian Mounted Rifles in Boer Ambush
London reports a major Boer attack near Welmansrust left 50 Victorian mounted rifles from General Beaston's column killed or captured. Two officers and sixteen men were killed, with thirty-eight wounded. Only two officers and fifty men escaped to camp. two pompoms were seized. Full details awaited.
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Victoriam Rines
London
England
South Africa
Lord Kitchener
Pretoria
Welmansrust
Middelburg
Beaston
Steenkoolspruit
Plans to grip Brazil
Washington reports from Rio de Janeiro describe a $5,950,000 German syndicate forming to expand colonization in southern Brazil. German capital circles Brazil’s maps with “German colonies in Brazil” as merchants bankers and brokers discuss partitioning Brazil among the United States Great Britain and Germany with Germany seeking the western hemisphere foothold.
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Washington
Rio de Janeiro
Brazil
United States
Germany
South America
Republic of Brazil
Great Britain
Dividends by Phillips Reach Merchants Across the Nation
Checks totaling about 1 million dollars have been mailed by the George H. Phillips company to roughly three hundred individuals from Maine to Mexico. The payout stems from the May coin deal pool of 15 million bushels of corn with an average 8 cent profit per bushel as the pool leader’s campaign develops. Largest interest held 900,000 bushels, smallest 5,000.
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Chicago
George H. Phillips Company
Maine
Mexico
Convention Called for July 4 to Inaugurate Free Trade
Washington report states Governor Arlen of Porto Rico announced by telegram that a special session of the legislature will fix July 4 as the proclamation date for free trade with the United States under the Foraker act. Hollander act figures Porto Rico ready to test free trade via internal taxation. A separate dispatch notes a major fire at Galleys Island shipyards in St. Petersburg area destroying ships and warehouses with twelve dead and 10 000 000 roubles in damage.
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Washington
Hang
Arlen
Porto Rico
San Juan
United States
Porto Ico
Allen
St. Petersburg
Galleys Island
Viljas
Nova-Fontank Canal
Novae Vremyia
Iowa War Funds Change Prompted Apportionment Shift
Des Moines June 18 1901 War Department orders the adjutant general to report the full number of state guardsmen and officers for military fund apportionment by congressional district Iowa’s past grant around 11 000 now rises to about 27 000 enabling full equipment of the guard for the first time.
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Des Moines
War Department
Iowa
Congress
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