Census plans for the twelfth great survey debated in senate
Senator Thomas IL Caster writes for the Chicago Tribune on the prelude to the twelfth census. A bill would appoint a director and five statisticians, with a 3 percent force, to prepare a general plan for Congress. Debates center on scope, with one side favoring broad statistical questions and the other urging a focus on population and direct statistics.
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United States
Senate Committee On
Chicago Tribune
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Oherwise
Congress
Christening Ships Provokes Bishop's Sacrilege Charge
Mil waukee based Bishop Nicholson denounces government vessel christenings by young ladies with wine or liquor as sacrilege and a scandal fostered by national authorities. He calls the act blasphemous and warns of moral decline amid jealous society rivalries and political pressure in Washington.
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Nicholson
Episcopal Church
Milwaukee
Washington
Preacher Favors Dancing at Jersey City Church
Rev EB Stoddard rector of St John’s Episcopal in Jersey City hosts a Thursday dancing class in the church hall. Fee set at 14 cents per lesson, eight lessons for one dollar. Thirty young women and 28 young men attend the organized class with instructor Fred Anderson. Stoddard defends dancing as harmless and a necessary diversion despite criticism from evangelical peers.
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Jersey City
N. J
Stoddard
D. D
St. John's Episcopal Church
Hey
Stod
New Misdemeanor in London Punished by Five Shilling Fee
Croydon police magistrate classifies stealing telephone service as petty larceny a new misdemeanor in London. The judge imposes a five shilling penalty for this offense.
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London
Croydon
OUR MINERAL WEALTH. Production Of Metals West Of Missouri
Table showing the annual production from the Wells, Fargo & Co report for 1807. Gold total 69,830,697 dollars. silver 37,184,034 dollars. copper 90,646,004 dollars. lead 89,775,144 dollars. Combined gross 153,435,469 dollars. Metal values are estimated at 40 cents per ounce for silver, 11 cents per pound for copper, and 338 dollars per 100 pounds for lead.
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Missouri River
Wells, Fargo & Co
British Columbia
Astor's Giant Redwood Table for Forty
William Waldorf Astor left London for a tour of the continent and possibly Cairo. In Cliveden he arranged a permanent cross section of a California redwood tree as a table seating 40, placed in the Half Moon area near the gym and tennis courts. The setup includes iron girders copper bands and a subterranean passage. a wager dinner for 40 cannot be held until summer.
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Wiliam Waldorf Astor
London
Cairo
Cliveden
Wild Animals At Large Near Anderson Indiana
Grizzly Gear and Gorin Prighten the farmers near Anderson report two wild animal scares in Madison County. Farmers plan a county roundup to chase a big blue grizzly bear and a monster gorilla said to lurk near White River and Fall Creek. Children describe the gorilla as man-sized. dogs fearfully chased by the creature.
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Grizzly Gear
Gorin Prighten
Anderson
Ind
Madison
Indiana
White River
Fall Creek
Woman Pastor Quits Pulpit to Study in Chicago
Catherine Bartlett Crane, longtime pastor of Kalamazoo Michigan's People’s Church, announces she will leave the pulpit to study theology at the University of Chicago. Her guiding teaching is “Live right and do right” as she seeks to raise the moral tone of mankind. Her plans after training at the Midway school are not yet disclosed.
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Catharine Bartlett Crane
Chicago University
Catherine Bartlett Crane
Kalamazoo
Mich
Midway School
Apeing Sherlock Holmes Case Revealed in Murders Tale
A Mid napore correspondent reports a murder at a railway station aided by a monkey. An itinerant bandar-wallah is robbed and killed, his monkey witnesses the crime and leads investigators to the culprits. Police allegedly trace the murderers with help from the ape. The tale is described as a case of aping Sherlock Holmes.
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Midnapore
Bandar-Wallah
Jacko
Sherlock Holmes
Unclaimed jewels found after Paris charity bazar fire
The Paris bazar fire ruins yielded unclaimed jewels and curios valued at about 150000 dollars. Authorities say the money involved will be turned over to charity or handled as prescribed by officials amid the investigation into the blaze and its aftermath.
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Paris
Charity Bazar
Bern
No Admission Free in Gospel Sermon Plan at Konsac City
Malians City preacher Rev J E Roberts charges admission for services at Coates opera house after resigning from All Souls church. Prices set at 50 and 20 cents with advance reservations. gallery free, rents pledged to aid those unable to pay. He says church costs money and contrasts with others that beg for funds.
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Malians
J. E. Roberts
Church of the World
Konsac City
Coates Opera House
Roberts
All Souls’ Church
God
Yellow fever germ discovery reported by New Orleans researchers
Dr Paul Archinald of the Louisiana State Board of Health announced at the New Orleans Medical Society meeting that four months of experiments using blood from suspected yellow fever cases found germs in 87 percent of samples. The tests claim to enable rapid diagnosis and earlier detection of yellow fever, improving over previous pathology methods.
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New Orleans Medias Society
Paul BE. Archinald
Louisiana State Board of Health
Archinald
Lanarelli
French Silk Firm Plans U S Factory Expansion
Duplan & Co of Lyons, responding to the Dingley tariff, intends to open a silk factory in the United States. The plant will be established in South Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, with 200 looms initially and 400 to 500 more later, signaling a major shift as French firms enter American production. The move follows reduced French trade due to duties, rising home production, and a declining share of foreign silk in the U S market. Local executives note the rarity of French firms operating outside France, though some Swiss firms have shown interest.
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Duplan & Co
Lyons
Cozzens
Cozzens Silbers & Prankard
France
Duplans
Bethlehem
Zurich
Switzerland
Kentucky’s Latest Snake Yarn
A Kentucky tale recounts a tree climbing contest between a brainy lizard and a hungry rattler. The lizard dashes to the treetop, waits as the snake climbs, then leaps. the snake springs, only for the lizard to scramble up another sapling. The merry chase lasts nearly four hours before the discouraged snake crawls away.
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Kentucky
Canary Trade Figures Highlight UK Market Fun Fact
The report notes 400000 canaries change hands annually in the United Kingdom, valued at about £100000. It also mentions street peddlers selling caged locusts singing crickets and other noisy creatures in city streets.
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United Kingdom
Japan
Citer
Dreyfus Document Photograph Evidence Details
The Pall Mall Gazette claims the French government obtained a photograph of the incriminating document from German attaché Von Friecke after a theft and mishandling incident. A woman of ill repute supposedly took the leather bag containing the document to the foreign office, where it was photographed and later returned. The dossier allegedly showed the name Dreyfus, aiding the case as confirmatory evidence.
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London
Dreyfus
von Friecke
Dreyfus von Funcke
Baron von Suene
Paris
von Funcke
France
German Intelligence Department
von Faucke
Foreign Office
Germany
Harvard Plans Cash Drive to Improve Soldiers' Field
Harvard University accelerates funding for Soldiers' Field improvements with 25,000 raised from graduates and Cambridge supporters, another 25,000 expected in Boston, and a New York Harvard club drive for a new boathouse. The club has 15,000 subscribed and aims to finish before February’s banquet. Plans, estimates, and an advisory committee will follow. The city’s Charles River park project will leave a 1,500 by 200 foot strip where the boathouse will stand.
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Boston
Soldiers' Field
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Board of Governors
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Cambridge
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New York City
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Charles River
Soldiers’ Field
Woman Frightened to Death in Storm in St Louis
Mrs. Samuel Winters of 1642 Texas Avenue died during a late evening thunderstorm after a drizzling rain and lightning caused extreme fright. Her husband and a physician attributed the death to a burst blood vessel from heart strain amid the storm. Mrs. Winters had survived the 1896 cyclone but suffered fright then as well.
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St. Louis
Samuel Winters
Texas Avenue
Mr. Winters
Nerve of a Child Plays Mouth Organ During Arm Shot
Five year old Leo Weshey was shot in the arm by a cat rifle at the corner of Third and Locust in St. Louis. He was taken to the city dispensary where Dr. Johnson removed the ball as the boy played a mouth organ and sang. Risk of blood poisoning hangs over his recovery if infection does not set in.
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Leo Weshey
Third and Locust
St. Louis
Ife
Johnson
Cincinnati Wire Makers Claim High Output of Cages Traps and Sieves
Cincinnati Wire Manufactures claims annual production of 20 000 bag cages 25 000 rat traps 120 000 fly traps and 300 000 sieves. Talicat of Royal Women notes the queen of Portugal and the crown princess of Denmark as Europe’s tallest royal women.
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Cincinneti Wire
Cincinnati
Europe
Portugal
Denmark
Tenements for Women in New York City Housing Plan
A new City and Suburban Homes company project on West Sixty Eighth through Sixty Ninth streets aims to build a women friendly tenement complex with 375 apartments and five ground floor stores. Led by Dr. R. Gould, the venture seeks public spirited investors to provide capital, with self supporting women housed in the eastern building.
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New York City
New York
A. T. Stewart
R. L. Gould
Jie
Brown University
Samuel D. Babcock
Charles Stewart Smith
Adrian Iselin, Jr
D. O. Mills
Isaac N. Seli
Oil on Water Calms Atlantic Storm Aboard Gera
The steamship Gera arriving in New York after Bremen endured a January gale. Captain Meissen ordered barrels of oil to be poured into drain pipes, creating a calmer sea ahead of the voyage. Soap water also helped, and the ship pressed on to Sandy Hook with passengers relieved.
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Atlantic
Gera
New York
Bremen
Sandy Hook
Meissen
Swindler Dislocates Hip for Railroad Damages
Railroad officials in Indianapolis face embarrassment after Virginia tales reveal a professional contortionist pretended a platform fall caused a hip dislocation. A man previously settled for 2200 dollars with nurses and transport, later exposed by a traveling man as a repeat swindler. The ruse has duped several lines.
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Witt
Indianapolis
Ind
Virginia
Chicago
Norfolk& Western
Experiments on Calves at Madison Show Disease Free Births
An experiment near Cedarburg, Wisconsin, studied tuberculosis in cattle over two years. From 16 of 23 diseased cows, 24 calves were born healthy using pasteurized milk. Results also show disease progression halted by isolating infected animals.
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State University
Madison
Wis
Cedarburg
Speedy yacht to set Atlantic crossing record
The London Yachtsman reports a very large steam yacht designed by George L. Watson for James Gordon Bennett to cross the Atlantic at 15 knots. It will be about 310 feet long with quadruple expansion engines, 7,000 horsepower and ample bunkers to enable long runs without coaling.
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London Yachtsmgn
George L. Watson
James Gordon Bennett
New York Herald
Atlantic
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