Keating and Channing in Jamaica War Desk Mockery
In Port Antonio Keating of the Consolidated Press faces envy and snubs from rivals while Channing, the roving correspondent, offers wry reflections on war reporting. The two men clash over duty to facts versus personal bravado as ships of Spain and the United States loom in Santiago harbor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Consolidated Press
Sampson
Havana
Army
Tampa Bay
Key West
Cervera
Santiago Harbor
Florida Straits
Port Antonio
Keating
Consolidated Press Syndicate
Key Wes Hotel
Jamaica
James G. Blaine
China
Chili
Texas
Kennedy
New Orleans
Oregon
Rio Janeiro
Cape Verde
Cadiz
San Juan
Porto Rico
Fortress Monroe
Navy Department
St. Paul
Spain
Santiago
Consolidated Preas
United States
Guantanamo
Josh Kerry
Boston
Norris
C. P
Channing
Port-au-Prince
Kingston
Charlie
Broadway
Cleopatra
Chablis
Washington
Scudder
Iduna
Morro Castle
Brooklyn
New York
Tampa
Shafter
Republic
Jacky
Kingston Society
Wells
World backs Woodrow Wilson as Democratic standard bearer
The New York World argues Gov Woodrow Wilson of New Jersey is the strongest Democratic candidate to beat Theodore Roosevelt and save the nation. It stresses his east coast appeal in New York New Jersey and Connecticut and his proven tariff reform and anti Wall Street stance. It urges Bryan to support Wilson and warns that Rooseveltism threatens constitutional government.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norris
Channing
New York
Omaha Bee
Haiti
Decatur
Cuba
Key Weat
Kingston
Charlie
Boston
Woodrow Wilson
New Jersey
Judson Harmon
Ohio
Champ Clark
Connecticut
Mr. Bryan
Oscar W. Underwood
Middle West
Indiana
Baltimore
Chicago
Genghis Khan
Theodore Roosevelt
Wall Street
Taft
Lincoln
Seward
Chase
Sumner
Conkling
Chandler
Blaine
Garfield
Harrison
Sherman
McKinley
Democratic Party
Republic
Napoleon III
Maryland
Missouri
Arizona
Mississippi River
James B. Weaver
Mary B. Lease
Jerry Simpson
Fpeffer
Roosevelt
East
South
Tilden
Massachusetts
Delaware
United States
James Smith, Jr
United States Senate
Gov. Wilson
Grover Cleveland
Samuel J. Tilden
Bryan
New York World
Gonzales Responds to Fair-Field Senator Over Cuban Label
Captain William B. Gonzales defends South Carolinian heritage and military service in a public reply to Senator W. J. Johnson’s accusation that The State editor is a liar. He rejects the Cuban slur, cites family history, and honors Confederate and state service in a measured defense published in Columbia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William B. Gonzales
News and Herald
Winnsboro
W. J. Johnson
Senate
Fairfield County
Johnson
South Carolina
Cuba
William Elliott
O'Donnell
Colonial Assembly
United States
Beauregard
Fort Sumter
South Carolna
Georgia
Florida
A. J. Gonzales
Interior
Greensboro
Appomattox
Hardee
Joseph E. Johnston
Sherman
William E. Gonzales
Columbia
Mark Twain and His Hannibal Cave Adventure
The Hannibal Missouri story recalls Mark Twain and his boy gang exploring the local cave that inspired Tom Sawyer. The piece recounts Clemens and companions finding a petrified spring, a chained coffin, and getting lost for about 30 hours before rescue. It notes the cave’s later opening and the link to Twain’s famous works.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Samuel Clemens
Famous Cave
Hannibal, Mo
Mark Twain
Hannibal
America
Commercial Club
George A. Mahan
Florida
Mississippi
John Marshall Clemens
Hill Street
Clemens
Holliday's Hill
Tom Sawyer
Becky Thatcher
Injun Joe
St. Louis
Sam Clemens
Lovers’ Leap
John Briggs
Barney Farthing
John Meredith
Gulliver Brady
Frank
Tom Pitts
Robert Bodine
Tom Blankenship
Huckleberry Finn
Medical College
Tom
Becky
Kansas City Times
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Richard Harding Davis
Charles Scribner’s Sons
Charlie Channing
Chinatown
International
Kipling
Press Club
Park Row
Fneyland
Espana
Ferrol
Wilson IS
the Man
Rooseveltism
Rhode Island
Journal of the American Medical Association
London
Metropolis
Yamel Kin
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