Parlor match decree and city riffraff in Boston
The column mocks recent declarations from New York and Chicago about parlor matches, jokes about Lorenz setting a dislocated hip, notes a plain granite monument over John Sherman’s grave in Mansfield Ohio, and comments on women's roles in a world’s fair. It lampoons coal use, Mosby’s land raids, life insurance and Christian Science, and praises Boston’s municipal cleaning as echoed from St. Louis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Sherman
Mansfield
Ohio
Frick Plans University to Rival Carnegie's Pittsburgh Idea
Henry C. Frick allegedly proposes to give Pittsburgh a university to outdo Andrew Carnegie’s polytechnic school. The plan aims to elevate the city’s educational stature and provoke Carnegie to respond with support or countermeasures.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Henry C. Frick
Andrew Carnegie
Pittsburg
Polys
Carnegie
Frick
Pittska
Nersche
Fragmentary note on aid and relief sentiments
The text reflects mixed feelings about aid distribution, contrasting the frustration of those who have not received assistance with the relief felt by the more fortunate who have benefited.
Railroads Spur Southwest Growth and Currency Talks Stir Havana Race Tensions
The text notes depreciation of Mexican silver dollars at Manila and proposes adopting the American monetary system with silver dollars and subsidiaries. It describes rapid town founding in Oklahoma and Indian Territory as railroads choose locations. It cites southwest population growth tied to railroad expansion, Cuban race tensions under Palma, and ecclesiastical commentary on papal authority and modernist ideas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manila
Oklahoma
Indian Territory
Southwest
Cuba
Havana
Palma
Noted Deaths and Disasters Highlight Thanksgiving Chronicle
A wide array of occasions unfolds from a widow’s gift for Krupp workers in Essen to multiple fatal incidents on Thanksgiving and late November. Reports include apoplexy deaths in St Louis and St Joseph, a fatal football injury in Coshocton, and various fires, robberies, and accidents across Illinois, Missouri, Indiana, Kentucky, and Ontario.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Herr Krupp
Essen
Prussia
St. Louis
J. L. J. Barth
F. W. Whitsett
Lorena
Tex
George Blessing
Xenia
Ill
Webster Yingling
Coshocton
James Johnson
Deep Water
Charles F. Kelly
St. Louis House of Delegates
Philadelphia
New York
Europe
Kate Vance
Newton
Kas
Quarles
Marshall
Franklin Fanning
St. Joseph
Harrold H. Herrick
Kansas City
Walcott
William Armstrong
Otturawa
Inspector Hendryx
Constabulary
Ladrones
Samar
P. I
Notable Late November Events Across Regions
Amid November 27 to December 1 news, reports detail coal shipments from Pittsburg, a lake steamer sinking near Lake Erie, foot and mouth disease impacts on cattle trade, a bridge crew wreck injuring workers, a pistol duel in Kansas, a hunting fatality in Kansas, hotel and mineral plant fires, a veteran’s death in Colorado, and a bank president found dead in Cleveland.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New England States
Agriculture Wilson
Europe
Boston
Northwestern
Lytles
Charles W. Tucker
E._ Damas
Armourdale
Kas
Mabel Randall
Oxford
James Gist
Kansas
Gray’s Inn
Jackson
N. H
White Mountains
Belleville
Stone
Pennsylvania
Missouri
Charles Kelly
St. Louis
Mich
Hebard
Lake Superior
Alpha
Richard M. Parmley
American Exchange National Bank of
Cleveland
Hat City
Illinois headlines mix poison death and legal trials
A man identified as Amos Stuart of Plymouth Illinois died in Springfield after a half pint whisky sample contained poison like drug. Amos warned a physician to analyze it while a second case sees Golmer Ham jailed for 25 years for a killing after a dispute with William Lyons. Rural mail service expands near Edwardsville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springfield
Silas Hotel
Ed Salt
Carthage
Bogardus
Springfield Hospital
Amos Stuart
Plymouth
Golmer Ham
Jacksonville
Ham
William Lyons
Lyons
Nortonville
Chicago Exeditions for Sewer and Notable State Results
The report notes exeditions for sewer work and marks the fiftieth wedding anniversary of Mr and Mrs Tewis J J in Joliet. It cites the Lincoln and Lee portraits in Mississippi Hall of Fame, a Chicago preacher announcing a large Christian temple, and two Fuller suspects tied to a $74 000 Chicago post office robbery with $1 500 in stamps offered at a Wyoming hotel. Official canvass results list State Treasurer Busse leading with 450 695 votes, Bayliss for Public Instruction 442 505, Mamer for Supreme Court 421 807, with other totals and second candidates noted. Deaths include Dr Z R Miller near MacLeansboro, Mrs Sarah J McKinstry of Tazewell county, Mrs Mary Steele of Jacksonville, and David Richardson found after forty years in Alton.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tewis J. J
Joliet
Lincoln
Robert E. Lee
Mississippi
Chicago
E. H
E. B. Fuller
Wyoming
E. H. Fuller
Fred A. Busse
George Duddleston
Charles A. Tuesberg
A. W. Nelson
Gotlieb Rennert
Diedrich Balster
Busse
Alfred Bayliss
Anton H. Bliss
Supreme Court
Christopher Mamer
John L. Pickering
Z. R. Miller
MacLeansboro
Sarah J. McKinstry
Tazewell County
Delavan
Mary Steele
Morgan County
Jacksonville
Budget Estimates for 1904 Appropriations Total $589 Million
The treasury secretary sent Congress the fiscal year 1904 appropriation estimates totaling 589,189,112 dollars. This is 21.6 million less than 1903 estimates and 33.05 million less than the prior year’s appropriations, with detailed department by department figures and notable increases and decreases in items such as public works and salaries.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Secretary of the Treasury
Congress
Executive
State Department
Treasury Department
War Department
Navy Department
Interior
Post Office Department
Department of Agriculture
Department of Labor
Department of Justice
Civil Service Commission
District of Columbia
Naval Establishment
Interior Department
Debt and cash balances in November 1902 treasury report
The monthly statement shows total debt of 1 312 672 869 after subtracting cash in treasury and notes outstanding. Cash on hand totals 1 313 606 717 with demand liabilities at 959 031 129, leaving 354 575 588 available in the treasury.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iblie
Treasury
General Fund
Government receipts and expenditures show November surplus
The November 1902 monthly comparative statement reports total receipts of 43 599 001 dollars and disbursements of 43 040 257 dollars, yielding a 558 744 dollar surplus. Customs rise to 22 489 286, internal revenue falls 4 202 145, miscellaneous down 877 500, with war department and navy cost increases. For five months, receipts exceed expenditures by 32 878 930 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
War Department
Navy
Sah Ie
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Lowen Chronicle
Ww. R
Bowen
Illinois
Prof
Lorenz
Asia
United States
Gol. Mosby
Uncle Sam
Nys
Mark Henson
Granite City
Enoree Mills
D. C
Indianapolis
Ind
Engineer Pier
Zgyplly
Lancaster
Lemay
Norman
Ont
Chicago & Alton Road
Independence
Arthur
Charles Lynett
Elkhart
Hanna
Senate
Republican National Committee
John Elliot Ward
James Buchanan
Dorchester
Baltimore & Ohio
Carbon
Huntsville
Madison County
Ark
Pollock
Lowell Wainwright
Joe Wade
Herman Orsterreicher
Vienna
Austria
Nicholas Kinder
Arcola
el Paso
James McMillan
Illinois State News
Springfield Hotel
Edwardsville
Sullivan
Eugene Early
Centralia
Reinhold House
Sam Edwards
David Richardson
Alton
Hiy
Debi
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