Boundaries and Migration: Maps, Emigration, and Census
The passage notes twenty years of British maps showing disputed Venezuela boundaries, a hunt for land, and a large wave of immigration from Italy Bohemia Poland Russia and Hungary to America. It references the 1890 U S census as vast and costly, deeming windfall resources wasted for civilization interests.
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Venezuela
Italy
Bohemia
Poland
Russia
Hungary
América
Othe
United States
Alaska
Late statesman habits and frost debate in 19th century notes
The former Treasury secretary Hugh McCulloch kept biweekly inspections of all treasury divisions to stay informed on department affairs. A Pittsburgh paper argues late frosts will aid farmers by eradicating pests and thinning fruit. It recalls the June 5 1859 frost ending the red wheat weevil. Newfoundland’s minerals and independence critique are noted, calling a European colony in America a belated absurdity.
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Hugh McCulloch
the Treasury
Pittsburoh
Pennsylvania
Newfoundland
New England
England
America
England China trade links and Gresham'sLegacy
England controls 44 percent of Japan's foreign trade with England prominent in Asia. Hong Kong merchants handle most China exports and imports. Water Q Gresham is mourned as a soldier jurist and counselor. Immigration since 1820 numbers over 15 million from the old world, a unique global movement.
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Axsour
Japan
England
China
Hong Kong
Russia
Asia
Water Q. Gresham
Judge Gresham
Decoration Day in memory of the brave men
The article recalls Decoration Day celebrated annually for nearly thirty years. It notes the long span as a generation and asserts that recent commemorations have matched or exceeded past fervor and sacredness in honoring those who gave their lives for their country.
New York Man Demonstrates Honest Purses In Streets
A New York man dropped six ladies purses in streets and stores each with forty two cents a key and his name and address. Five purses were returned within twenty four hours. In every case the finders were women. The experiment suggests purses in New York are restored when they contain little money and lack a card with the finder’s details.
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New York
Parade and memorial notes from New York and beyond
News in brief out of New York covers the Grand Army of the Republic parade in Madison Square with Governor Morton heat relief, the Grant tomb ceremony, and a Tokyo return triumph. Other items report Walter Q. Gresham's Chicago burial, Cuban insurgent rumors, Japanese imperial welcome, deaths of Miss Rustan Kennard and Lord Gough, and various crimes, shipwrecks, and legal cases.
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Grand Army of the Republic
Madison Square
New York City
Morton
Fifth Avenue Hotel
Grant Durne
Walter Q. Gresham
Oakwoods Cemetery
Chicago
Martie
Gomez
Havana
Spain
Japan
Hiroshima
Yokohama
Rustan Kennard
Philadelphia
George Stephens Gough
Viscount Gough
London
Treasury
Carlisle
Louisville
Erasmus Frederick
John H. Lewis
Benton Manufacturing Co
St. Louis
Frederick
Lafayette Prince
Cleveland
Columbus
Herman Mudgett
H. H. Holmes
Howard
Fidelity Mutual Life Association
Benj. F. Pitezel
Inspector Waterbury
Salt Lake City
Utah
C.W. Carter
Rock Springs
Wyo
Colima
Joan A. Cana
Portland
Ore
Carr
Bunco” Kelly
Sayers
Winchester Repeating Arms Co
New Haven
Conn
Jeremiah
Spillane
Tusk Gold Standard invites memberships for pamphlet propaganda
A London based Tusk Gold Standard circular invites memberships and pecuniary subscriptions to fund pamphlets. A Hong Kong dispatch reports Japanese forces landed at Kelung Formosa with fighting starting the next day, and Japanese warships bombarded Kelung. On the 31st, three British warships were ordered to Jiddah to investigate the killing of the British vice consul and wounding of other officials by Bedouins and to protect foreign lives and property. The cruiser Bennington departed Mare Island to relieve the Philadelphia, with Admiral Beardslee to hoist his flag aboard the Olympia in San Francisco. The U S treasurer mailed 1,113 checks totaling 126,822 for interest on bonds from the 1891 funded loan at 2 percent. Failing week ended 81st saw 215 U S failures per R G Dun & Co, Canada 34 failures.
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Tusk Gold Standard Association of London
Hong Kong
Kelong
Formosa
Jiddah
Mecca
Bennington
Mare Island Navy Yard
Honolulu
Philadelphia
Beardslee
Olympia
San Francisco
United States
R. G. Dun & Co
Canada
British Turkish reform pledge sparks busy diplomacy
A London Daily News dispatch from Constantinople reports Said Pasha promised the British ambassador to answer by the Bairam festival to reform proposals from Britain Russia and France on Armenian provinces. Powers expect acceptance. Also noted: May deficit outlook, a Chicago Pullman suit, a stranded steamer in Magellan Straits, a postal card case against a Cambridge citizen, Wilson’s travel, Missouri Turner festival, Columbus charity drive, and Carnegie Steel wage hike affecting about 20 000 workers.
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London Daily News
Constantinople
Said Pasha
Philip Currie
Great Britain
Russia
France
Jupse Baker
Chicago
Moloney
Illinois
Pullman Car Co
Pullman Company
Washtenau
New York
San Francisco
Keewana
Straits of Magellan
Cambridge
Mass
United States Grand Jury
United States Supreme Court
Washington
Wilson
Charlestown
Oxford
Miss
University of Mississippi
Turner Societies
Missouri, Valley
Kansas City
St. Louis
Christian Church
Columbus
Ind
Chase
Carnegie Steel .Co
Lincoln era memorial and Illinois notes in Decoration Day scene
Lincoln tomb ceremonies in Springfield referenced by Mayor Walbridge with calls to honor Lincoln through virtuous public conduct. Reports touch Iroquois county camp meeting taxation, Logan 103 survivors gathering in Springfield, crop damage near Fairbury from frost, and multiple obituaries and local events across Illinois including a Breese coal mine fire and crimes.
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Lincoln
Ransom
G. Acey
St. Louis
Springfield
Walbridge
Abraham Lincoln
Illinois Senate and House In Session Across Late May
Springfield reports show the Illinois Senate and House in frequent, tense sessions from May 29 to May 31. Bills on revenue, parole, public monuments, and tax frontages faced readings, debates, and votes. A chaotic May 31 House session tested quorum and featured a debate over convict-made goods and Torrens land title measures.
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Springfield
Senate
Monroe
Berry
Bogardus
Littler
Coon
Baptist Church
Statutory Revision
House
Gresham
Lowenthal
Gill
Needles
Mae
Marquette
Daniel Boone
Davy Crockett
Mr. Needles
Father Marquette
Mr. Hogan
Cook County
Pere Marquette
Northern Illinois State Normal School
Craig
Yeas
Dunlap
Mussett
Curley
Cully
Transasions
John
A. Logan
Isaac R. Hitt
W. Wiltshire
Appropriations Committee
Alta
Elijah P. Lovejoy
E‘house
Death of Miss Buelah Kennard in Philadelphia
Miss Buelah Kennard, known for preparing the missionary calendar of prayer used in Baptist churches nationwide, died at her Philadelphia home Thursday night from apoplexy. She was a well known figure in the denomination and her death is reported from Philadelphia.
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Buelah Kennard
Philadelphia
Miss Buelah Kennard
LYNCHING EXPECTED IN A. BOOR ASSAULT CASE
Danville Ind June 1 It is reported Albert Boor has been arrested at Covington Ind fourteen miles east of here for assaulting a 0yearold girl named Noonan A mob surrounds the jail and a lynching is expected
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Danville
Ind
Albert Boor
Covington
Here
Noonan
Nine Drowned After Bittern Founders Near Grimsby
London June 1 The steam trawler Bittern foundered off Grimsby yesterday with nine crew members drowned. The tragedy reduces a small coastal fishing fleet by one deadly accident at sea.
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Norman
Jack
Middle Island
Lake Huron
Escanaba
Mich
Lemon Bro
Bittern
Grimsby
England
Key West
Fla
United States
Wilhelmsburg
Hamburg
Bremen Trading Co
London
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Wes
Illinois State “News
Iroquois County
Watseka
Ankeikeee District
Frost
Fairbury
Col
G. M. Mitchell
Fifty-fourth
Ilinois Infantry
Chester Penitentiary
Gov. Oglesby
Coles County
Bailey
Representative Bailey
Thomas Welch
Moline
John Schulte
Carlyle
Andrew Kilpatrick
Jo Daviess County
Hanover
Consolidated Coal Co
Breese
Charlotte Bergman
State Board of Health
State of
Ilinois
Chicago & Alton
Thos. Coneford
Coneford
Isaac Chancey Hull
Bloomington
Frank Faber
Mendota
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