Czar and Kaiser Mert Secret Finnish Waters Conference
Russian Emperor and William II board two ships in Finnish waters near Helsingfors for an unscripted talks amid looming peace parleys. Russian and German envoys shift to direct dialogue without diplomats aboard. The move signals support for Russia ahead of Russo Japanese plenipotentiary talks in Washington.
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St. Petersburg
Peterhot
Polar Star
Himperor William
Hohenzollerna
Borgo
Gulf of Finland
Helsingfors
Michael Alexandrovitch
Count von Alvenstein
William
Heresland
Sweden
Williamsin
Russia
Washington
Col Lamont 18 Dead Heart Failure Claims War Secretary
Col Daniel Lamont former secretary of war under Cleveland died at his Millbrook Duchess county home from heart failure. He and Mrs Lamont had been out driving earlier and felt well. Dr Stewart of New York treated him but he died within about an hour after illness began following dinner.
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Cleveland
Poughkeepsie
Daniel Lamont
Millbrook
Duchess County
Herois
Bomb attack on the sultan in Constantinople shocks capital
Three commissions search for the bomber who struck Friday in Constantinople. Beha Bey, tutor to the sultan’s sons, is killed along with many coachmen. Twenty seven coaches blown apart and forty five horses killed. Witnesses recall a heart wrenching scene as a two yard wide hole opened by the blast.
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Constantinople
Beha Bey
Girl saves snake bite victim near Porter's Lake
In Stroudsburg Pennsylvania Ernst and Ralph Schienhut report a rattlesnake bite to a boy while gathering bark for souvenirs. A girl present cut open the shirt, cut a gash, and sucked out the poison before physicians arrived. the boy is recovering.
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Rattler
Stroudsburg
Ernst
Ralph Schienhut
Porter's Lake
Alabama Baptists Accept Rockefeller Gift for Science Hall
The Alabama State Baptist association voted unanimously to accept a $25,000 donation from John D. Rockefeller to build a science hall at Howard College in East Lake. Delegates offered no protests.
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Alabama Baptists
Rockefeller
Sheffield
Ala
Alabama State Baptist Association
John D. Rockefeller
Howard College
East Lake
Maryland mill fly wheel wrecks buildings and injures workers
Cumberland Maryland July 25 the fly wheel of the Maryland Railway mill burst sending a ton weighing section through the roof injuring at least a dozen men and causing three possibly fatal injuries none killed. Delaware shores July 36 a yacht named Narkeeta owned by Dr A A Hare of Philadelphia sank off West Brandywine shoal with Dr Hare and friends rescued.
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Cumberland
Maryland
Delaware
Del
A. A. Hare
Philadelphia
West Brandywine Shoal
Dr. Hare
Death in Farm Cook Car Suspected Gas Poisoning
Found dead in bed at Georgetown farm St Thomas William J Hayden cook retired at 10 in good health. Gas from soft coal in the cook car likely caused death with windows and door closed. Clock set for 430 and bread ready. Also notes on Wade embezzlement and militia representation and homestead rights.
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William J. Hayden
Georgetown
St. Thomas
Hayden
Century Encourages Readership Across Difficult Times
The Century urges slow readers not to be discouraged and promotes reading as relief for troubled thoughts and as a path to higher pleasures. It argues a year’s end will reveal accomplished readings and broaden intellect, sympathy, and culture through sustained reading efforts.
Nature’s Teacher Sermon From Vernal Wood
An aged speaker extols nature as a wiser tutor than books and science. The scene invites leaving study to listen to birds and the woodland, asserting that a vernal impulse from nature can teach more about morality than formal arts.
Temperance Egg-Nog Recipe and Local Notes Trail
A temperance egg-nog recipe is provided with preparation steps and ingredients. The page also reports various local items: a San Francisco encounter with a wealthy man and an old friend, Mante and Wyndmere incorporation chatter, Munich drug store news, Bottineau curfew, four fires at Sherwood, Esmond evangelism, smallpox east of Charles Ferry, weather notes, sewer work at Ellendale, Wolf hunting near Cando, Seth Campbell’s fire loss near Rugby, G A R meeting plans in Grafton, revival meetings, Coal Harbor hotel potential, ministers’ half-price tickets, Chaffee Wheatland telephones, a Philippine carriage, early Gindy county settlers meeting, and Lyman losing horses near Rugby.
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Munich
Bottineau
Sherwood
Esmond
Churles Ferry
Ellendale
Cando
Seth Campbell
Rugby
Grafton
Coal Harbor
Wheatland
Gindy County
Lyman
When Thirsty Drink Says a Physician View
A physician argues that drinking when thirsty is proper and beneficial even if water is very cold. He notes no statistical proof that cold water worsens heat relief and that children are told avoid cold water without solid evidence.
A Pressing Need and a Child's Lament
A Montreal Herald quotation describes Little Alice, aged beyond her years, hearing her parents laugh over a game of flinch at night. In the morning she sighs and confesses she feels the need of a husband, expressing an early longing for companionship.
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Alice
Mamma
Papa
Montreal Herald
Wholesome Ambition and Work Ties to Happiness
A vintage reverie praises having a purposeful life and enthusiastic labor. It urges balanced ambition, periodic rest, prudent aims, joyous play, and inner harmony to avoid nerves and excess ruin.
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Brooklyn Times
Great Northern Makes Arrival Report Amid Nonsensical Text
The fragmentary OCR reports the Great Northern arrival, with garbled lines about an agent and a rail context, leaving uncertain details but indicating a transit or shipment note.
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Col. Lamont
Girl
Snake
FLY Wheel Wrecks Mill
McGormick
Deering
THE
Bruegger Mercantile Co
Williston
North Dakota
Franklin Wade
Wisconsin
Minot
North Dakota National Guard
Long
la Moure
San Francisco
Jim
Mantea
Wyndmere
Manto
Saaqjou
Moiy Bao
JO Wossa
Sulee
Pity Ogy
JO emsveNn
Notppe
Surays
Bam
Ala.howell & Co
Minneapolis, Minn
la Cetia
Roan
Akotaga
Ollege Summer School
Faliterm
Feee- F-L.watkina Fargo
Denis
Hinreapolis
Minn
Qhineapolis Cereal CO
McCormick Or Deering
Great Northern
Bentom
Agt
County Directory
Register of Deeds
Echioos
Cab
Board OF County
Cosmi
Ct Tatrlae
Alin Wade
Mount Moriah
A.M
Brell
M.W.A
1. C. C. F. Hall
A. H. Brown
Fort Buford Lodge No
Paraick Donsxty
Perna
V.G. T
Priiuirs
I. C. Stewart
Treas
Pav. Scieeseck
Davmtf
Erve and
W. H. Suits
Minneapolis and St. Paul
Chicago
Veal
Sery
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