Canal bill passes. party lines erased in historic vote
The House approved the Nicaragua canal bill by a 3038 to 2 vote after rejecting the Panama route. Only Fletcher of Minnesota and Lassiter of Virginia opposed, as amendments were largely dismissed and the chamber moved toward Senate passage amid war-time sentiment. The measure authorizes acquisition of territory in Costa Rica and Nicaragua to build a waterway from Greytown to the Pacific, with funds to proceed as needed.
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House of Representatives
Nicaragua Canal Hill
Ivery
Cannon
Titnuis
Tre Deleves
Toe Panars Company
Nii Vdval To the Committee With Ft Tebionis
Damien
Carmon
Elonse
Fletcher
Minnesota
Lassiter
Virginia
Panama Canal
Nicaragua Canal
Paani Oe
Colonie
Senate
Costa Ries
Nicaragua
Greytown
Caribbean Sea
Lake Nicaragua
Brito
Dacitle
Vic
Spa
Senator Mason Pushes Telegraphs Into Postal System Plan
Senator Mason uses his post offices and post roads chair to argue government ownership of telegraph lines as part of the postal system. He proposes bonds to pay for existing companies and extends postal service while funding from line earnings would cover bond interest. Opposition grows among Republicans including Lodge Beveridge and Dillingham as sentiment divides.
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Mason
Washington
Tierney
Wisconsin
Dass
Shaver
Delon
Belin
Senate
Postallices
Othe Cantter
Wester Uiem
Ma. Mason
Governugent
Beeriig
United States Postal Telegraph
Nallonal
Treasury
Senate Committee On Post Offices
Hingis
Lodge
Massachusetts
Beveridge
Indiana
Dillingham
Vermont
Bindste
Pardons Board Commutes Death Sentence to Life
The Pennsylvania board of pardons commuted the death sentence of William Fairfax to life imprisonment. A separate report notes the burials of Mr. and Mrs. Milton Gorton at their home northeast of Litchfield Minnesota. Michael Murphy was fatally wounded at Butte and declined to provide details. William Myers, Mills County Texas leading merchant, has filed an assignment as crops fail and liabilities reach 40000.
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Pennsylvania Board of Pardons
Ufe
William Fairfax
Milton Gorton
Litchfield
Minn
Michael Murphy
Butte
Moat
Willian Myers
Mills County
Texas
Fifteen Die In New York City Tunnel Collision
A rear end crash in a New York Central tunnel killed fifteen people and injured more than twenty. A Norwalk bound New York New Haven and Hartford train and a Harlem branch Harlem suburban train collided, the tunnel blocked by wreckage and smoke hampering rescue efforts. Ambulances and city crews rushed to the scene as smoke and darkness added to the horror.
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New York City
New York Central
New York, New Haven
Hartford Road
Norwalk
Conn
Harlem
Alway
Tharlem
Mrs. Leslie M. Shaw to Perform Social Duties in Washington
Mrs. Leslie M. Shaw in Washington will undertake social duties with modesty and delicacy to preserve the prestige she earned at Des Moines as her husband assumed the governorship. The Shaws have been noted as lavish entertainers during the past four years, their hospitality contributing to their social standing.
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Leslie M. Shaw
Washington
Des Moines
Shaws
Family exceeds salary of Governorship in oil and farm land deals
The text reports wealth growth from oil lands in Texas and farm lands in Iowa fueling an estimated fortune between 250000 and 500000 dollars. It notes seed demands and mentions individuals tied to the situation, including a hostess figure with personal traits.
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Texas
Iow
Kacomes
Shaweh
Seciers
Nora Ehibwena
Mayor’s Push to Sever Ties with Quasi Public Firms
May or Low moves to divest from stacks and bonds worth more than a million dollars before taking office in New York. He fears conflicts in approving franchise plans from firms in which he held stock and plans to reinvest proceeds into safer securities unlikely to deal with city government.
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Ser Low
New York
Taoy
Treed by Wild Hogs In Indian Territory
J P McGee recounts a thrilling encounter after killing two young hogs. He slept overnight in a pecan tree as hundreds of wild hogs roared beneath, rooting to topple the tree and seek revenge. This surge of wild animals followed opening Kiowa and Wichita reservations.
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Indian Territory
Yada
Kiowa
Wichita
J. P. McCgee
Simpson quits politics to become cattle buyer at Wichita yards
Jerry Simpson former Kansas congressman ends political career burning eight tons of letters from supporters. He now works as a cattle buyer at the Wichita stock yards.
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Sockies
Jerry
Jerry Simpson
Kansas
Mir. Simpson
Wichita
Aimon Streeter Dies in Rensselaer Falls at 107
Aimon Streeter of Rensselaer Falls New York has died aged 107. The obituary notes a long life, but lists no surviving relatives or funeral details in the readable text.
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Aimon Streeter
Rensselaer Falls
N. Y
Kaws to be Pioneers First tribe to become independent
Congress is urged to test policy dissolving tribal ties by allotting Kaw lands in Oklahoma, ending agency control, and distributing trust funds as 160 acre homesteads. Aimed to open IndIan lands to settlement with school town site cemetery and indigent reservation areas. The policy seeks to model Indians as independent citizens.
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Kansas
Oklabonta
United States
Mgr. Cutis
Fis
Ormins
Interiors Department
Cials
Dtadigas
Cuba to birth a republic about May this year
Provisional steps toward Cuba becoming a republic proceed after the December 1901 elections. Officials including a House of Representatives electors for president and vice president will be chosen, with senators named by provinces. U S troops may withdraw around May 1 as the new government forms in Havana.
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Congress
Istamdl
Gren
Wood
Republic
Ysoywermeniel Moneery
Tipet
Cuba
Capehiuery
Ogdre Auertean Aetilingittes
Roosevelt
Ubaga Cn
Cata
Amerisan
Geen
Pho
United States
Cahba
Moesien
Farm Becomes Knox County Seat in Epic Nebraska Move
The Nebraska Supreme Court orders Knox County offices moved to Wishendorf Farm twelve miles from Niobrara ending a twenty year county seat fight. Niobrara Verdigis and Creighton prepare mass relocation to the new center while owners plan building moves as towns shift to the geographical middle.
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Nebraska
Knox County
William Wishendel
Supreme Court of Nebraska
Enmpire
Verdigris
Creighton
Wishendorf
Couunty
Charles Mix County
Missouri
South Dakota
Niobrara
Free Trade Almanac Critiqued for Omission of 1893 Eclipse
The American Economist reviews the 1902 Free-Trade Almanac from the American Free-Trade League. It notes the empha sis on tariff repeal but laments the missing discussion of the 1893 to 1897 tariff-induced eclipse of prosperity. The piece questions its value as an almanac for economic insight.
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United States
McWhinley
Beets Versus Sugar Tariff Fight in Eastern States
Petition drives claim to abolish raw sugar duty but disguise interests of the American Sugar Company and Havemeyer control. National Pure Food Association and United States Export Association push the plan from New York, aiming to boost Cuban sugar plantations and hurt beet sugar rivals.
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Congress
National Pure Food Association
New York
United States Export Association
Ob. Yuurber Bieing
American Sugar Company
Slivemeyer Company
Havemeyers
Blavemeyer Company
Three Things We Need More Than Reciprocity
The 1902 Almanac from the Massachusetts Tarif Reform League promotes protectionist aims and world trade supremacy. It traces the group’s evolution from 1884 to the American Free Trade League and notes substantial membership, including professors and business leaders, with editorial praise for their patriotism and economic stance.
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Phey
Ueht
Massachusetts
L Tss
Dsnet
Tsob
American Free Traide League
Oelaims
Treamey Hope
Esquimin
Cape Columbia
Enc
United States
League
States
Canada
Charles W. Niiot
Harvard
Willam G. Sumer
Yale
Reciprocity as Tariff Policy Debate Cited by San Jose Mercury
The San Jose Mercury argues reciprocity will spark hostility and fail to ease tariff tensions. It warns concessions to one nation require all competitors to gain any benefit, risking shifting tariff control to the State Department and ongoing trade uncertainty.
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United States
Congress
State Department
Senate
San Jose
Cal
Mercury
Cloven Hoff Urges Free Trade for Cuban Sugar
Havana reports letters from N O Uavemeyer urging Cuban planters and Havana merchants to push for absolute free trade with the United States for sugar. The sugar trust's control of Cuban sugar and $15,000,000 set aside for Cuban property are cited as motives to remove duties. McKinley's reciprocity stance is contrasted with free trade by editors.
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Havana
N. O. Uavemeyer
Eavana
United States
Sugar Trust
Chicago Chronicle
The
Beet Sugar Gazette
Trade extension drives urged jobs for American workers
In editorials the Cleveland Leader notes foreign manufacturers fear U S trade extension moves and asserts that every American worker seeking employment can find work amid the policy push.
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Uncle Sam
Cleveland
St Jacobs Oil Triumph Cited By Shipyard Wife
Mrs Rabbets of Mile End London testifies to St Jacobs Oil easing her husband’s ankle injury at His Majesty's Dockyard Portsmouth and enabling him to work within weeks. She also notes Vogeler's Compound improving her daughter's skin, urging practitioners to consider these remedies alongside other ads.
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Majesty's Dockyard
Portsmouth
England
St. Jacobs
Vogeler
Elizabeth S. Rabbets
Grafton Street
Mile End
Landroft
St. Jacobe Oil, Ltd
Baltimore
Origin legend of the Order of the Garter in old English tale
A Detroit Journal excerpt recounts a legend on the Order of the Garter origin. It places either Edward VI or William I addressing the realm’s barons and rewards them as knights with a witty remark about their “hose supporters.” The anecdote blends humor with royal ceremony.
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Order of the Garter
Edward VI
William I
Iing
Knights of the Garter
Detroit Journal
Dress bill dispute over countermanded order in Boston
Boston husband and wife quarrel over a dress order. The wife says she countermanded and mailed the cancelation, but the dress was delivered and billed. She produced a letter to the firm to prove she sent the cancellation, while the husband claims he never posted it.
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Boston
Boston Herald
Americans Buy Land in Western Canada Report
Michigan farmer S K Lent, delegate from Allegan County, reports vast Saskatchewan country from Winnipeg to Edmonton as rich soil with high yields. He cites Minnesota buyers purchasing large tracts around Saskatoon and Duck Lake for immediate improvement, praising the region as superb for crops and livestock.
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Michigan
Saskatoon
S. K. Lent
Allegan County
Canada
Winnipeg
Edmonton
Madmanton
Vermilion
Mdmonton
Wetaskiwin
Lacombe
Macleod T
Regina
Prince Albert
Wosthern
Duck Lake
Minnesota
On the War Front a New England Oiler Makes Bright Start
A Harvard graduate, likely newly minted, reports upbeat prospects in wartime industry. The man jokes that pay hasn’t yet arrived but vows he is possibly the best oiler of machinery in New Fingland, signaling confidence and skill in early months of service.
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Harvard
Warry
New Fingland
Boston Christian Register
Hall's Catarrh Cure oath and Italy railroads note
Historical notice details Frank J. Cheney co assuring oath as senior partner of W. J. Cheney & Co Toledo. Mentions Hall's Catarrh Cure and testimonials. Includes notary A. W. Gleason date December 13 1886. Also references Italian government purchase of private railroads in 1833 and Mrs Winslow’s soothing syrup for teething priced 25 cents.
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Frank J. Chaniwy
W. J. Cheney & Co
Toledo
Hall
Frank J. Gheney
A. D
BLU. Gheney. & CO
Toe
Tall
Samily Phils
Italy
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Panama
Government
Atks
Leslin M. Shaw
Mayor Low
Kaws
titaRbis Cit Ds
Cordenites
American Economist
American Free- Trade League
Tremont
Mass
U.S. A
Trelena Mont
McKinley
Buffalo
Benton
Saskatchewan
Orio
A. W. Gleason
Notary Public
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