Resume of the Year 1902 in World Events and Losses
The year 1902 saw volcanic eruptions and wars with large death tolls. Mount Pelee's May 8 eruption dominates, while early storms of costly fires and deadly blasts followed. Notable passings include Cecil Rhodes and U S Grant widow. The Boer War ends, Venezuela South Africa tensions rise, Nile Dam opens, Cuba gains a new president, and Pennsylvania coal strikes begin.
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Mount Pelee
Martinique
Matty
Cecil Rhodes
T. DeWitt Valmage
Wide Hampton
Frank R. Stockton
J. Sterling Morton
Sol Smith Russell
Bret Harte
William WT. Sampson
Lord Pauncefote
Franz Sigel
Edward Eggleston
Horace Gray
Marie Lleuriette
Belgium
Erile Zola
Elizabeh Cady Stanton
Herr Wrapp
Thomas LB. Reed
U. S. Grant
Ward VI
England
South Africa
Venezuela
Nile
Assouan
Cuba
Pennsylvania
Marcel
Prince Weary
Prussia
Chicago
Southern Pacific Railway
Gen. Methuen
Secretary of Treasury
W. L. Moody
Massachusetts
John P. Altgeld
Uwinnis
Mississippi
Methuen
Kasten Teamsters
Canadian Northwest
Dakotas
Lake States
Senate
Hoboken
Twolves
Neely
Rathbone
Reeves
Havana
Cecil Rhoades
Dayton
Tenn
Year of Turmoil and Tragedy Across 1900 Texts
January to May entries recount a rash of disasters and political shifts: Palma elected Cuba president. Roosevelt hosts reception. ships sunk and fires rage from Walla Walla to Buffalo. mine collapses in Negaunee and Lost Creek. earthquakes in Mexico. riots in Barcelona. Car path and senate actions in the United States. multiple deaths including notable figures like Camilla Urso and Potter Palmer. and foreign events such as Spanish war outcomes and Cuban reciprocity debates.
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Thomas Estrada Palma
Cuba
Roosevelt
Walla Walla
Cane Mendocino
White House Hall
Alice Roosevelt
Aveiro
Portusral
Congress
Negaunee
Mich
New York Central
George H. Phillips
Chicago
A. B. Pornker
Ohio
Arthur P. Garman
Maryland
J. B. eCreary
Kentucky
Panaiaha
Camilla Urso
Violiniste
Danish West Indies
United States
Lost Creek
Iowa
England
Holland
Boston
Llondo
Mexico
Waterbury
Conn
Altantic
Meeley
Dwight
Jil
St. Louis
Paterson
N. Do
Jersey City
Brooklyn
Springfield
Marquis of Dufferin
Ellen Stone
Schley
Barcelona
Spain
Park Avenue
Tist Regiment Armory
New York
Tilman and McLauren
South Carolina
Senate
Wierf Garlan
Philipzvine Bil
Macbinney
Col
Stone
Bul
Teamsters
de J. If Barrows
Oberlin
Providence
Towa
Nebraska
Kansas
Ilinois
South Dakota
St. Luke's Sanitarium
Illinois
Minnesota
King Albert
Saxony
Wyeth
Jefferson
Portland
Ore
St. James
Dallas
Texas
Edward VII
Colossal commercial and industrial progress of the United States
The piece proclaims 1902 as the most prosperous year in U.S. history, detailing vast gains in population, wealth, bank deposits, and industrial output. It cites New York Commercial Advertiser figures on railway mileage, national wealth, farm and manufactured goods, exports, and wages, and notes a global interest in American capital and labor.
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United States
Chicago
Canada
Mexico
South America
Magland
China
Korea
Philippines
Vses
South
West
Alaska
New York Commercial Advertiser
Spain
Bank and Trust Companies
Uncle Sam
John Bull
Sam
Century of disasters and events across nations and seas
A long list chronicles earthquakes floods fires and political upheavals from June to December, naming Alfonso XIII’s coronation era Spain, mine explosions in Coal Creek and Johntown, major steadings in Chicago and Cincinnati, royal and legislative moves, and natural disasters through September and December. It notes Union and strikes, battleships sent to Parrama, Mont Pelee eruption, and Roosevelts medical updates.
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Alfonso XIII
Spain
Texas Gulf Coast
Gallad
Coal Creek
Tean
Cuba
Cincinnati
Decorab
Towa
Fersie
The
Treath
Lord Thunceforte
Retatlutlen
Cuntemala
Beet Sugar Competition and Trade Policy Debates
The article discusses beet sugar floods into eastern markets, forcing price cuts by the sugar trust and provoking talks of reciprocity with Cuba. It notes western beet sugar undercuts Slavemeyer output, and the refining trusts respond with price reductions to counter beet competition. It mentions California stake in a beet sugar industry, ongoing trust concerns, and critiques of Blaine McKinley Roosevelts reciprocity ideas as misaligned with protectionist goals.
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Enaine
Struchter
Cuba
Lhurber Press Bureau
Hts
Ohio River
Slavemeyer
Trust
Sugar Trust
New York Press
Sugar Refining Trust
Arbuckles
Missouri River
Refining Trust
San Francisco Chronicle
Blaine
McKinley
The
Fresno Republican
Roosevelt
Kasson
United States
California
Big Refinite Trust
Trade tariff debate stirs California and national editors
A San Francisco Chronicle editorial argues against tariff revision, praising protection and warning of uncertainty if Congress shifts the Dingley act. The Textile Record contends tariffs sustain prosperity, while other papers debate beet sugar trusts and broader economic effects. The quip about fashion ends the collection.
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California
San Francisco Chronicle
Washington
Congress
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Gen
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House
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Irani R. Stockton
Missouri Valley
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Dacca
British India
EL Moody
Potter Palmer
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London
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St. Fierre
Vanl Leicester Ford
Malcolm Ford
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Peary
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Italy
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Miquelon
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New Fork
Ld. Armour & Co
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Friedrich Krupp
Ashland
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Burns
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Winoner
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P. Ochlitree
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Lincoln Hotel
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Cleveland
Thomas B. Reed
Thomas Nast
Guayaquil
Menador
Great Nile
la Guaira
Castro
Venezuele
Canal Dover
Puerto Cabello
An- Gijan
Asiatic
Russia
Hale
Aussillon
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