Condition Of Crops Outlook Improves With Rain Needed
Government crop report notes winter wheat season generally improving across northern regions while rain is needed in the Ohio and central Mississippi valleys and lower Missouri area. Frosts spared serious damage though some regions see delayed germination and slow growth. oats and spring wheat sowing progress varies by state.
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Ohio
Mississippi
Missouri
Weather Bureau
Rocky Mountains
New England
New York
Atlantic Coast
East Gulf
Lake Region
Florida
Rio Grande Valley
New Mexico
Colorado
East Gulf States
Carolina
North Pacific Coast
West Gulf States
South Atlantic
Tennessee
Kansas
Iowa
Pacific Coast
California
North Dakota
Mussour Valley
Burg
Oho
Oklahoma
Kansa
Nebraska
Indiana
Alabama
Georgia
South Corona
Kentucky
Staten
Milners
South Central
East
Michigan
Wisconsin
Lowa
South
Habit of Saving and Prosperity Across the World
The article cites July last year national bank deposits totaling 3,228,000,000 and savings bank deposits reaching 2,597,000,000 in the United States, with world totals at 8,908,340,000 and 63,070,000 depositors. It argues prosperity tests character and urges habitual saving, citing average accounts and the moral of frugality for all incomes. It stresses that saving grows like a rolling snowball and begins with small amounts, regardless of wealth or ability.
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United States
Dickens
Indianapolis News
Record Run: Continental Limited 180 Miles in 180 Minutes
The Continental Limited on the Wabash Railroad set a new mark from Tilton to Granite City Illinois covering 180 miles in 180 minutes with five stops. Running time was two hours thirty eight minutes and the Danville to Decatur leg lasted seventy one and six tenths miles in seventy minutes including engine change and coal stop. Burlington reports a 98.6 mile per hour record on Eckley to Ouray Colorado run dated March 24. Paris papers note the engagement of Duke of Chaulnes-et-de-Picquigny to a daughter of William Gebhard of New York.
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Wabash
Continental Limited
Tilton
Granite City
Danville
Decatur
Tolono
Bement
Burlington Road
Eckley
Ouray
Colo
Paris
France
Chaulnes-et-de-Picquigny
Uzos
William Gebhard
New York
Solitaire habit and Twain engine tales emerge in old writings
A column discusses solitaire being ruinous to domestic life, citing a married man who warns friends about losing willpower and becoming irritable. It then recounts a New Orleans paper’s tale of Samuel Clemens aboard the Swallow with a mule powered engine, describing Jerry the mule, signals, and Clemens as chief engineer with humorous details.
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Mark Twain
Thomas Bixby
Samuel L. Clemens
Swallow
New Orleans
St Louis
Carro
Jerry
Samuel Clemens
Samuel
Plate surprise gift at church pastor milestone
A Cleveland Plain Dealer item notes a church congregation celebrated a pastor’s five year tenure with a donation surprise at his home. They presented him a piece of plate with a get of teeth attached.
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Cleveland Plain Dealer
Size of Yellowstone Park Area Compared to Delaware and Rhode Island
The text asserts Yellowstone Park’s area equals the combined area of Delaware and Rhode Island. It frames the topic as a cautionary note about avoiding novels and seeking love stories in newspapers’ telegraphic style. It presents a reflective, opinionated tone on reading habits and literary invitations.
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Yellowstone Park
Yellowstone T Park
Delaware
Rhode Island
High Meat Prices Sparks National Protests and Probe
Consumers nationwide protest soaring meat costs as packers deny blame. Government probes into alleged beef trust gather evidence across the ten cattle states and major packing centers in Chicago Omaha and Kansas City. Critics claim Western ranges are stocked yet shipments are restrained to justify price jumps while live poultry and lamb show sharp increases.
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Chicago
New York
San Francisco
Omaha
Kansas City
United States
Knox
Wisconsin
Ilindy
Towa
Far West
Rapid City
West hot wave hits multiple states with record April heat
Omaha reports the hottest April day in fifteen years with 95 degrees at 5 p.m. and heat illnesses across churches. Kansas City reaches 101. Kansas wheat suffers drought while southern Nebraska crops show stress. Chicago robbery attempt ends with prickly fight. Queen Alexandra coronation page named from John Sargent family to attend and hold the queen's train.
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Omaha
Ally City
Saga
Mercury
Nebraska
Kansas
Kansas City
Southwest
St. Joseph
Johns
Sargent
Queen Alexandra
Chicago Electrician Invents Device to Melt Iron and Steel
Julius Haschke, a Chicago electrician, reveals a carbon point device that conducts electricity to burn metal like a warm knife through butter. The invention could cut through safes by directing a carbon electrode and wire to a hinge or lock, drawing power from building wiring or a small storage battery.
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Chicago
Milwaukee
Julius KE
Haschke
Blaschke
Milwaukee Worker Slices Boiler Basin in Blinding Light
Mr Haschke cut a large boiler basin in two inside a Milwaukee building while wearing two paired spectacles and a cloth filter as glare from the carbon arc heat and glare threatened observers. The carbon point cut metal at about a foot every five minutes and spectators at a distance were nearly blinded by the glare.
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Haschke
Milwaukee
New Pension Commissioner Eugene F Ware Named
Eugene F Ware of Topeka Kansas named by the President to succeed F Clay Evans as Commissioner of Pensions. The 61 year old Kansas attorney known as Iron Quill is a native of Connecticut who served in the Civil War, fought frontier Indians, and later held the Kansas State Senate seat while pursuing notable litigations and literary writing.
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Eugene F. Ware
Kansas
Henry Clay Evans
Eugene F Ware
Topeka
Kan
Mr. Ware
Connecticut
Iowa
Manila
Cuban Trade Report Shows Import Decline and Export Rise
Col Edwards reports Cuban commerce for 1901 and 1900. Imports totalled 68,483,073 dollars, exports 63,278,380 dollars. US-sourced imports fell to 28,078,633 dollars while exports to the US rose to 48,068,579 dollars. Cuban sugar exports to the US climbed sharply from 1899 to 1901. Twelve Sepoys head to Kansas City to oversee a 700 mule shipment to the British army in India.
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Col. Edwards
Division of Insular Affairs
Cuba
United States
India
Kansas City
Cuban Bill Passes in Dramatic House Outcome
In a dramatic Friday session the House, with 34 Republicans joining Democrats, ousted Speaker Henderson’s leadership and shifted control to a protectionist coalition. The Mor ris amendment cut sugar tariff protections, and the Cuban 20 percent reciprocity bill passed 247 to 52, setting terms for a Cuba trade pact and sugar duties through 1903.
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Henderson
New York Sugar Trust
House of Representatives
Congress
Democratic Ultra Protection Alliance
Sugar Trust
Cuba
United States
The Goose Mace of the House of Representatives
A Washington correspondent describes the Mace, called the Goose, as a four foot silver eagle atop a globe with thirteen arrows. The ornament sits on a pedestal during sessions and is used to enforce order as the sergeant at arms confronts unruly members.
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Washington
House of Representatives
Jerry Simpson
Kansas
Jerry
Paupers Stowed Through Canada by European Agents
U S immigration officials face trouble from unscrupulous European agents sending paupers to Canada with false promises of crossing into the United States. The Greek consul at Antwerp sent 150 Greek paupers to America, and though the steamship line refused to transport them to New York it is believed they entered via Canada. Thousands are said to have entered the United States by frontier routes.
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United States
Canada
Antwerp
America
New York
Methodist temple proposal eyed for Ottawa Kansas
News item notes an $80,000 Methodist temple proposal in Ottawa Kansas. Earlier reports mention wind damage to corn crops across several Texas counties and a seven-foot wingspan bald eagle shot near Ottawa. Five Kansas City policemen sued the city for pay on unexpired terms after discharge without trials, a Missouri Supreme Court ruling denying entitlement.
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Ottawa
Kan
Texas
Kansas City
Missouri Supreme Court
Illinois Towns Vote On Saloon Laws In Tight Races
Illinois villages held elections Tuesday with license versus anti license votes widely contested. Results show most small cities leaning toward civic improvements while saloon regulation remained the focal point. numerous towns list license and anti license standings.
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Linsts
Whieels
Barse
Tolstoys War and Peace Manuscripts Found in Moscow
Fragments of Tolstoys preliminary writings for War and Peace were stored in a disused car near the Tolstoi home in Moscow. The manuscripts were discovered after several weeks, revealing the work had been moved by Countess Tolstoi and a care assistant years ago.
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Tolstoi
Bumfaest Mess
Moscow
careSsscen
Carnal
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