Payne's Annual Report Issued
Washington reports Postmaster General Payne issued the annual financial statement for the year ended June 30, 1902, detailing ordinary postal revenue of about 109.6 million and total receipts near 111.6 million. It notes a deficit reduction to 8.93 million, projections for 1908 revenue around 188.4 million, and highlights rural free delivery expansion, money order growth, and extensive mail car and route statistics.
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Washington
Payne
Department
Secretary of the Treasury
WDB
Alaska
Congress
Railway Mail
Turkey Feud Between Greeks and Syrians Ends With Carved Turkey Strike
In Oliver place a Thanksgiving feast sparked a clash between Greek and Syrian factions. A grape vendor Mat surboff led an attack to seize the turkey, sparking fighting with bowls of gravy and broken dishes. Police intervened, ending the brawl, while a grease smeared turkey flew from a window, injuring a Chinaman. By 9 the alley lay quiet and the cats pined for the battered feast.
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Oliver Place
Turkey
Division 4
Hughes
South Cove
Peter Matsurboff
Matsurboff
Ose Maloofa
Hanlon
Brooks
McCormack
Masturhoff
Conclave
Revolver Expert Debunks Accident Theory in Gore Case
Paris reports say a revolver expert demonstrated the weapon cannot discharge from a fall, bolstering the view Mrs. Gore was killed by gunfire rather than by accident. The case draws American indignation at De Rydzewski as officials seek autopsy clarity and full representation.
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Paris
Gore
Annie
de Rydzewski
Gowdy
State Department
Mrs. Gore
M. Schlichting
Helen Gore
Whoto
Nurse Who Saved Life Marries Doctor In New York Romance
Miss Mary C. Church of Albany married Dr. C. T. Graham Rogers after nursing him back to health from pneumonia. The couple wed three hours after their engagement was announced, leaving from Dr. Rogers's mother's home to a Bronx church for the ceremony. They had previously worked together at isolation hospitals handling smallpox and yellow fever cases.
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New York
Mary C. Church of
University of New York
North Brother Island
Miss Church
Rogers
California Excursions by Train from Chicago to West Coast
Daily tourist sleeping cars to California and Oregon with guided excursions from Chicago on Tuesdays Thursdays and via the Northwestern and Union Pacific. Wednesday and Friday trips pass through Colorado with an 11 hour Salt Lake stop. East connections at Chicago for New England travelers. For tickets contact J. E. Brittain, Genl Agt, Boston.
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California
Oregon
Chicago
Northwestern
Union Pacific
Colorado
Salt Lake
New England
J. E. Brittain
Gen’! Agt
Northwestern Ry
Washington Street
Boston
Scott's Emulsion Ad Promises Warmth For Cold Linemen
An advertisement in The Esquimo touts Scott's Emulsion as the most digestible fat source for those exposed to cold and physical strain. It claims fat helps nourishment, targets thin or wasting individuals, and notes physicians prescribe the product. Scott & Bowne, 49 Pearl Street, New York, offers free samples.
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Scott & Bowne
Pearl Street
New York
Siege at Longacre Club House In West Forty Fourth Street
Captain Max Schmittberger keeps a constant guard outside the Longacre Club on West Forty fourth street accusing its owners Wescott and Jolly of running a gambling house. Wescott calls the siege foolish while officers back the captain. The standoff includes white outbursts and threats as pieced together from witnessing patrols. Turkey pieces delivered as a taunt hint at tensions.
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New York
Max Schmittberger
Longacre Club
West Forty-fourth Street
Wescott and Jolly
Boston
Wescott
Forty-fourth Street
Mr. Wescott
Miss Gould Gave No Turkeys To Workers At Woody Crest
In Tarrytown New York November 27 Miss Helen M Gould housed 50 employees away from Woody Crest while a $15000 expansion began at the Irvington on the Hudson estate Roxbury Catskill Mountain summer home. She sent each worker life necessities including a barrel of kerosene a kerosene stove a barrel of potatoes 100 pounds of bacon and a barrel of flour instead of turkeys due to coal costs.
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Tarrytown
N. Y
Helen M. Gould
Woody Crest
Irvington-on-the- Hudson
Catskill Mountain
Roxbury
Stage Matters in Touring and New York Openings
The Boston Theatre company plans to take When Johnny Comes Marching Home to New York at the end of its Boston engagement. Fritzi Scheff will perform Carmen in New York, while Lulu Glaser recuperates in Hot Springs and prepares a Christmas week tour in Buffalo. Julia Marlowe starts The Cavalier in New York on December 8, and Syracuse will host An Eye for an Eye at the Wieting Opera House Christmas Day. Elizabeth Marbury’s health improves in New Orleans as she resumes work in New York soon after a rest.
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Johnny
Boston
New York
Fritzi Scheff
von Bardeleben
Carmen
Frankfort
Julia Marlowe
The
George W. Cable
Criterior Theatre
Syracuse
N. Y
Wieting Opera House
Kathryn Kidder
New Orleans
Elizabeth Marbury
Boston Theatre hosts first week of When Johnny Comes Marching Home
The first week ends tomorrow in Boston with the production now running smoothly after changes since its initial showing. The Bird in the Cage at the Museum continues a second week as Clyde Fitch's piece draws praise and patrons. The Toreador at the Colonial meets strong audience turnout while Rogers brothers give a standout performance at Hollis. Arizona at Grand Opera House enjoys a profitable run with large crowds, and The Defender closes Saturday at Columbia before Show Girl with the same cast arrives. Willard ends his stay.
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Johnny
Boston
Clyde Fitch
Colonial
Rogers Brothers
Hollis
Grand Opera House
Arizona
The
Defender
Columbia
Willard
Tremont Theater Schedule and Boston Performances
The Tremont lists a sequence of upcoming shows and star turns. Hugh Trevor in All for Her and David Garrick in the evening tomorrow with The Sul tan of Sulu premiering Monday in Boston. Lavinia Shannon stars in Beyond Pardon next Monday, Everyman leaves Steinert Hall tomorrow, and Corse Payton’s company performs Taken from Life at Park Theatre.
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the Tremont
Hugh Trevor
David Garrick
Boston
Music Hall
Lavinia Shannon
Steinert Hall
Corse Payton
The
Park Theatre
Fanchon
Grand Opera House
Bowdoin Square
Keith
Nellie Hawthorne
Howard
Austin & Stone’s
Robie
Knickerbockers
the Palace
Nickelodeon
Rhode Island Mule Spinners Demand Lighting Change
In Manville, Rhode Island, the Mule Spinners Association warns that 100 workers in the mule room of the Manville mill will not work under current kerosene lighting. Secretary James Cliffe will demand no artificial light, allowing work only from dusk to dark until electric lights can be installed.
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Pawtucket
R. IL
Rhode Island
Mule Spinners’ Association
James Cliffe
Manville Company
Manville
Tenny White
Cliffe
Brighton Stock Yards Ordered Close Amid Foot and Mouth Crisis
Foot and mouth disease is declared epidemic in Massachusetts cattle. The U.S. government forbids cattle shipments from Boston and quarantines Vermont Massachusetts Rhode Island and Connecticut for cattle and swine. Massachusetts closes Brighton stock yards, the region's cattle clearing house.
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Massachusetts
United States
Boston
Vermont
Rhode Island
Connecticut
Brighton Stock Yards
New England
Acts While You Take Orange Powder Aids Wellness
A promotional claim states that orange powder acts with your routine to aid nature and dispel early ailments while preventing sickness. The brief advert emphasizes quick benefits and daily use for preventive health.
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Payne's Annual Report
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Esquimo
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George Ade Sultan
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John J. McNally
Harvard
Compose
Jewett
Keith’s
Boston Museum
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Harles Frohman
Oxford
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Wek
Colonial Theatre
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Lawrence McCarty
Lessee and
Mer
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My Own
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My Southe
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Anne
Columbia the Defender
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Iste Crescy
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Perkins Fisher
Tim Cronin
Maude Bente
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