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Newspaper
Akron Register Tribune
Location
Akron, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1902
Page
7
The speaker recalls a lost infant seen from a cottage window as blossoms bloom and sunbeams dance on the home across the way. Washington Gladden’s somber lyric evokes communal sorrow and a child’s disappearance from the house opposite.
In a London rehearsal, a leading man questions a play's plot and a novelist-narrator keeps her distance. A matinee unites art and life when the husband returns after years of separation. the wife, believing the tale is fiction, learns the truth and forgives.
The Chicago River, long mistreated as a dumping ground, is praised for steady improvement since government stewardship. It notes fewer kinks, widened channels, rebuilt docks, and cleaner banks as work continues toward a vibrant harbor future and restored beauty.
Lieut Gen Miles told the Senate committee that if Secretary Root’s army reorganization bill becomes law he would be forced to resign and retire He said he could name officers likely to be appointed to new high posts and warned the bill would enlarge civilian control and complicate military administration This testimony widened rifts with the War Department and President Roosevelt was urged to consider retiring Miles for his public remarks about the bill and the Philippines policy.
The Peoples Bank of Americus Georgia closed after a week of a quiet run. Its capital was $50,000 with creditors allegedly owed $80,000. President Slomons contends insurance offsets major losses. In Missouri a man named Tarry Barber died in a house fire near Mt Zlun, southeast of Oiluten. two brothers Neill and Carl Karler suffered severe burns with uncertain survival.
A review notes widespread disruption from freight and supply blockages affecting 60,000 workers and delaying raw materials, while outside the strike area trade in merchandises grows. Iron and steel output trends show declines, with pig iron stocks easing and buyers rushing steel bars for agricultural implements. Wheat reserves near record lows prompt forecasts of scarce supplies, with exports down and domestic stockpiles showing a large year‑to‑year drop as markets anticipate the next crop and continued rationing to meet demand.
A garbled slice of the commodities market lists cattle hogs and sheep prices across multiple U S cities including Pepin Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Toled o Milwaukee Buffalo New York and Fulton It records ranges for cattle hogs and sheep plus assorted grain prices No clear dates or events are given and the text ends with a note on a fire loss in Kansas City Kansas City area with an estimated 10 000 loss.
A major blaze swept Hoboken’s docks Tuesday night, destroying the Phoenix Steamship Company pier and setting multiple ships and barges alight. The British Queen and Heathburn were among vessels damaged. dozens of workers fled the flames and several crews faced injuries and hospital care. The blaze stretched toward Holland America and other piers as fireboats, tugs, and U.S. forces battled the flames, with losses tallied in hundreds of thousands of dollars.
The column notes Trinity Lutheran’s 160th anniversary in Rand Pa and mentions Missouri owning the oldest Geneva Bible in the country. It recalls St Paul’s Parish Eastchester N Y at 228 years with Rev Coffey’s half century. Also notes the Ebworth League gathering and a fire destroying a pipe organ and church furnishings at a Greenpoint M E Church hall in an earlier service.
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