Indignation at Pittsburg Mayor as graft trials loom
Four thousand citizens meet at Exposition hall to denounce corruption and demand reform. Mayor William A. Magee clashed with crowds amid accusations over light district reforms and traction issues. District Attorney Blakeley says grand jury presentment will arrive early next week as trials of councilmen proceed. John Semmelrock admits taking $200 from Charles Stewart for a vote on the bank ordinance.
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Pittsburg
Brand Jury
Exposition Hall
William A. Magee
Red Light
A. W. Weill
Voters’ League
Weil
Magee
Max
Uesilé
Leslie
William A. Blakeley
Charles’ Stewart
Hugh Ferguson
John Semmelrock
Stewart
Octogenarian’s death reveals sewn-in fortune in skirt
Ellen Holmes an 80 year old woman found dead in a Utica New Jersey boarding house sparked an investigation after clerical examination uncovered $3954.78 in bills gold and coins sewn into her skirt. The money was found by charity workers who arranged her funeral. In Wilburton Oklahoma six miners died in a mine explosion believed caused by a prematurely discharged shot. The bodies were recovered as investigators opened a state mine inquiry. A humorous ad rips at burglar proof safes promising cashier proof safes.
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Utica
N. J
Ellen Holmes
Department of Charity
Wilburton
Great Western Coal & Coke Company
The Match Trade and Useful Timber Supply
A miscellany on match production consuming seven billion matches yearly, half in the United States, with scarce timber affecting supply. Notes pine and cedar timbers as preferred, while remarking on the British savings bank moving petty candy accounts for children and government costs of small transactions.
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United States
P.O. Savings Bank
New York Press
Two Ideas of a Kind in Brief
The note contrasts overeager fruit with dense foliage and argues that lack of argument is hidden by long prose. It implies rhetoric can mask emptiness and that abundance can obscure real substance.
German jingoism tests Monroe doctrine limits
The text notes German leaders avoid direct collision with the Monroe doctrine while domestic difficulties persist. It muses on Wu Ting-Fang as an ideal interrogation head if he were American and considers potential shifts in great power spheres if Turkey and Greece ally. It also condemns traffic fatalities as a town's disgrace.
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Wu Ting-Fang
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G. N. Hotel
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Greece
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Regal
New York
San Franscisco
Remy
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