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Newspaper
Bowen Weekly Chronicle
Location
Bowen, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Mar 01, 1900
Page
7
A poetic meditation on conscience as the unseen angel guiding life. It contrasts unseen rewards with inner check of right and wrong, urging improvement of thoughts and deeds to crown the soul with peace and love. Attributed to T Russell Shelton in Richmond Religious Herald.
In a Chicago Daily Record passage the civil engineer and a sash factory owner discuss revisiting boyhood scenes. The engineer recalls a childhood joy of colored glass and a greenhouse. both men reflect on youth, honesty, and later life, including mischief, hardship, and family reunions.
A Washington Star tale describes a notorious storekeeper in the northeast who haggled with a visibly poor colored mammy seeking a supposed cure. He tricks her with a three cent piece of oil silk, claiming it is genuine medicated elfskin to bind and cure her misery. The narrator condemns the old man as a heartless skinflint.
A Philadelphia Press paragraph recalls a suitor’s confession that the speaker’s beauty intoxicated him before he proposed to Miss Sharpe. The dialogue shows a playful reminiscence of courtship and propriety.
Fragmentary text reports Britain’s cooperative factories achieving higher output last year with figures around 1,000,000 and percentages cited. Details unclear due to damaged text.
A Washington Letter explains the vast scale of census work, costs, and staffing for the twelfth census. It details legal issues surrounding Indians not taxed and how to classify tribal Indians within constitutional apportionment while using Hollerith machines for data processing.
The Democratic National Committee selected Kansas City Missouri as the convention site for July 4 with July 3 to meet to arrange details. The DC contest for national committeeman favored James I Norris, with a seven member subcommittee named to organize the gathering. The convention hall near Thirteenth and Central Streets seats about 22 000 and was built for 225000 dollars by public subscription.
President Schurman of Cornell told Armour Institute students that the forthcoming Philippine commission report will back a poverty and constitution for the islands matching Jeffersonian federal ideas. He said McKinley approved the recommendations and that a second commission will implement the new government.
Washington reports a war department directive to notify the soldier’s immediate relatives when a death occurs. Paragraph 1158 of army regulations requires securing effects and inventory before forwarding records to the adjutant general. Also reports entombment by explosion and a company employee’s death in Avis.
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