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Newspaper
Aberdeen Herald
Location
Aberdeen, Washington, United States of America
Date
Nov 06, 1902
Page
3
Washington daily reports bids for the armored cruiser Washington to be opened January 6. Official specs list 502 foot length and 14,500 ton displacement with a 23,000 indicated horsepower and a hull of steel with five inch waterline belt armor. The vessel carries four 10 inch and sixteen 6 inch guns plus rapid fire weapons and a crew of 845.
Missoula dispatch reports a sensational Plains robbery of $22,000 in cash from Machell, the wealthiest Flathead fullblood, with thieves posing as a squaw. Suspects fled on horses. locals organized search parties but no trace found. Machell kept funds at home, fearing banks.
A Cracker Jack mine on Twelve Mile Arm changed hands in Seattle as a $200 000 transfer. Boston's A Hollis White sold the property to mining expert Menry Bratnaber, with James Freeborn, Bratnaber’s nephew, reporting on the transaction.
London observers report the John Bright statue has just been installed in the house of commons as a gift from philanthropist Andrew Carnegie.
The annual general land office report shows public land disposal of about 19.49 million acres with a push for Alaska surveys, more forest guards, and stronger laws to protect forests and lands. Fires burned 87,799 acres. forest areas shrink yet trees regrow where rainfall and grazing limits allow. Berlin plans $500,000 for German exhibits at St Louis fair.
W. K. Vanderbilt Jr. has been condemned by default to two days in prison for speeding his car in France. He is in New York and must appeal to the supreme court of France or face arrest when he returns to that country.
London reports an extra appropriation for the year ending March 1903 totaling 8 million pounds. Of this sum 3 million will aid burghers to rebuild homes, 2 million covers losses to others, and 3 million will be loaned to needy burghers.
A poem argues children share meals with visiting company and prefer the second table. A story follows Ethel Stedman, teased for her hack-driver father, who is vindicated when a rainstorm forces a ride home with her friends and reveals her worth to the group.
The Chicago Inter Ocean profiles Willie Enscore, ten, and his sister Lena, eleven, the youngest telegraph operators in Illinois. Taught at home by their mother, they work main line wires with adult accuracy. Their father R L Enscore recently moved to Menard to take a position at the Southern Illinois penitentiary.
A Chicago Chronicle editorial attacks ostentatious homes filled with bric-a-brac and useless items, arguing that wealth has made many Americans treat living spaces as museums rather than comfortable, functional homes. It contrasts American display with English restraint and notes a culture of rapid affluence fueling clutter.
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