Corn acreage shows large rise in preliminary census
Preliminary returns from the statistician of the Department of Agriculture indicate about 3,520,000 more acres planted for corn, up 8.9 percent from last year’s harvested area. States with large gains include Iowa Nebraska Michigan and others across the south and west with varying percentage increases.
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Department of Agriculture
Iowa
Nebraska
Michigan
Pennsylvania
Indiana
Virginia
Louisiana
Georgia
Arkansas
Wisconsin
Missouri
Ohio
Ilinois
Mississippi
Indian Territory
Kansas
Kentucky
Tennessee
North Carolina
South Carolina
Texas
Alabama
Minnesota
South Dakota
Oklahoma
California
Illinois
Agricultural condition report shows varied state by state changes
Government statistician notes acreage shifts and crop health across states for 1900 July 1. Declines in Minnesota, South Dakota, Iowa and Washington contrast with gains in Nebraska and steady North Dakota. Wheat, oats, potatoes, and hay show mixed results with favorable pastures and improving fruit outlook, grapes anticipated large.
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Minnesota
South Dakota
Iowa
Washington
Nebraska
North Dakota
Wisconsin
Ohio
New York
Michigan
Pennsylvania
Disbrow Held For Murder At Long Island Court
Louis A. Disbrow faces a jury on charges of murdering Clarence Koster and Sarah Lawrence at Tiana Bay. After dramatic courtroom moments at Good Ground, he was ordered held without bail awaiting Suffolk County grand jury action in Riverhead next September. The defense and prosecution clashed as Disbrow allegedly charged the DA, then sat pale and trembling.
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Colarge
Foster
Misa Lawrence
Louis A. Disbrow
Clarence Koster
Sarah Lawrence
Tiana Bay
Good Ground
L. L
Cane
Justice Leter
Suffolk County Grand Jury
Riverhead
Wella
Disbrow
Jivingston Smith
Smith
Carnegie Gifts Reach Across the Atlantic
Andrew Carnegie extends library philanthropy to England with similar generosity to the U S. Oxford University grants Joseph H Choate Doctor of Civil Law for his services as ambassador to Great Britain.
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Andrew Carnegie
England
Atlantic
Oxford University
Joseph H. Choate
United States
Great Britain
Biionschie
Porto Ceresso
Italy
Hurlingham
Kansas State Nagnal School
Fort Hays
Standard Oil Company
Joplin
Lillian Russell’s Daughter Earns College Diploma
Lillian Solomon, daughter of Lillian Russell, 18, graduated from the Institute of the Holy Angels in Fort Lee New Jersey. Mrs Russell watched her daughter sing a soprano and play Cleopatra, receive four gold medals and a diploma, as fifty girls bid farewell with tears.
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Lillian Solomon
Lillian Russell
Institute of the Holy Angels
Fort Lee
N. J
Rottenness in Minneapolis Brings Wide Corruption Scandals
Minneapolis faces a sweeping graft crisis eclipsing national scandals. Indictments target Mayor Ames and associates for bribery tied to gamblers and illicit enterprises. Gardner and King already convicted. Ames family implicated. Reported sums run into thousands weekly, with up to ten thousand dollars a week paid to officials. Andrew Carnegie named vice-president of the Society of American Authors. Missouri Supreme Court justice Gantt to speak at Virginia Bar Association event on August 5.
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Minneapolis
New York
Moore
Ayor Alonis Ames
Fred W. Ames
Irwin A. Gardner
Nathaniel W. King
Fred Malone
Chris OC. Norbeck
George A. Harvey
James O. Howard
Gardner
King
British Premier Resigns as Long-Serving MP Returns to Cabinet
Fragmentary OCR notes trace a British prime minister who has resigned after a long career as a Member of Parliament, moving between cabinet roles including secretary and foreign affairs, attending international congresses, and leading the Conservative party through multiple terms before retirement.
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Turkey
Berlin Ofhngress
Salisbury Steps Out as Britain’s Premier in Transition
Lord Salisbury resigns as prime minister of Great Britain and Arthur J Balfour is named his successor. Balfour will lead the Commons while Salisbury attends the coronation. The change, likely to bring cabinet tweaks, follows the late Marchioness of Salisbury’s death and Salisbury’s aging, health concerns, with a quiet life and study preferred by the outgoing leader.
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Balfour
Lord Salisbury
Great Britain
Arthur J Balfour
Mr. Chamberlain
Messrs. Balfour
Chamberlain
House of Commons
South Africa
Mr. Balfour
Commons
Oil well opens in Cherryvale Kansas Sparkes from the wires
The oil industry note reports a new oil well opened at Cherryvale Kansas. The item mentions University of Kansas graduates reaching 1077 and notes the death of author William Bement Lent at his Norfolk Connecticut summer home at age sixty. It also cites naval constructor Richmond P. Horgon delivering a lecture on The American Navy Its Traditions and Victories at the Chautauqua Assembly in Winfield Kansas.
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Cherryvale
Kan
University of Kansas
William Bement Lent
New York
Norfolk
Conn
Richmond P. Horgon
Chanu‘tauqua’ Assembly
Winfield
Minister Conger Era Romance Ends in Des Moines Wedding
A Pekin siege romance concludes in Des Moines with Miss Mary Conger Pierce marrying Lieut. Harold Hammond of the Ninth Infantry. Miss Pierce, once in Minister Conger’s household, wed Rushville Ill., native Lieut. Hammond, a rescue party member. This follows two prior Pekin relief marriages, Miss Laura Conger to Lieut. Buchan and Miss Condit to Lieut. Hooker of the Marine Corps.
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Pekin
Des Moines
Mary Conger Pierce
Harold Hammond
Ninth Infantry
Pierce
Conger
Lieut. Hammond
Rushville, Ill
Laura Conger
Lieut
Buchan
Condit
Lieut. Hooker
Marine Corps
Archbishop Feehan Dies After Long Illness in Chicago
Archbishop Patrick A. Feehan, head of the Chicago archdiocese for twenty two years, died Saturday at the parochial residence after months of illness. His leadership shaped the church and charities in Chicago while he avoided public controversy and politics. A separate Plattsburg fire alarm spread rapidly, threatening one third of the town’s business district until soldiers helped extinguish it, causing losses of about 125000 with 75000 insured. In Missouri, William Riecke, 35, was killed instantly by a lightning strike while working on a farm near Ionia.
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Patrick A. Feehan
Chicago
Feehan
United States
Winds
Attinges
Burke Street
Plattsburg
Plattsburg Barracks
William Riecke
Ionia
Freight Handlers Strike Ties Up Chicago Transit
Freight handlers quit work on Saturday in sympathy with longshoremen and truck drivers, tying up Chicago shipping. Governor Yates ordered militia readiness as 20 000 workers and growing join the walkout, halting shipments and driving price spikes. Longshoremen and switchmen joined, while railroads and wholesalers barred shipments, leaving docks crowded and markets strained.
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Gov. Yates
Chicago
Lake Transportation Companies
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen
China Names New Envoy to United States
Sir Liang Chen Tang, formerly secretary to Minister Chang Yen Huanz who was beheaded in 1900, is named to succeed Wu Ting Fang as Chinese minister to the United States. The appointment follows a coronation trip to King Edward VII and signals a diplomatic recall of the minister from Pekin with an imperial edict designating him to prepare reports on foreign laws. The Dowager Empress refrains from open display of displeasure toward Wu, while honoring the new envoy who will likely travel to Pekin in his new role.
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Liang Cheng Tang
Liang Chen Tang
Chang Yen Huanz
Turkestan
United States
Wu Ting Fang
Liang Chen Tung
Edowand Wan Ting Fang
Washington
Pekin
Conger
William
New York Evening Son
Indiana
Indianapolis
Athens
America
Boston
New York Sun
Nation
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Buffalo News
Carrie Nation
Memphis Morning News
Emperor William
Mr. Morgan
New York Evening Telegram
Kansas
Nebraska
Grail of fe and oddities in a short news blurb
The clipped items reference White corn prices, lawn tennis by President Roosevelt, King Edward’s coronation plan for August, Jessie Morrison the Kansas murderer seeking a further trap, and hints that President Castro may lose Venezuela governance. The piece mixes health notes and political rumors in a breezy, fragmentary style.
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Roosevelt
Edward
Jessie Morrison
Kansas
Castro
Venezuela
Quips from Papers on Public Figures and Trends
A collage of wry remarks from Detroit Free Press and other papers mocks Indiana literature, Mary MacLane cussing, Carrie Nation, and Emperor William. Jests target unions, taxation, and Roosevelt era politics with global hints and cultural jests about hats, wages, and fashion in 1902.
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Mary Monelane
Memphis
Sterling News
Indiana
Detroit News
Detroit Free Press
Wimillon
Philippines
Buffalo News
Detroit Free
Grover Cleveland
W. J. Bryan
Rockefeller
University of Chicago
James Whitcomb Riley
Yale
Mary MacLane
Atlanta Constitution
Miss Stone
Mount Pelee
Washington Est
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Louis Disniow
Lillian Rusell
Society of American Authors
Thomas Dunn English
James B. Gantt
Missouri Supreme Court
Virginia State Bar Association
Whos
Wahi
State F of St. Party
India
Marquis OF Salisbury
Salisbury
Conger’s Nifce
Lee An
Mary C. Pierce
Archbishop Feehan
China
WU Teng Fang
the News
New York Evening Sun
Whitelaw Reid
J. Pierpont Morgan
Ted Sloane
John L. Sullivan
Hartford Post
Milwaukee
Pittsburg Dispatch
Montreal
Buffalo Times
Mr. Roosevelt
Syracuse Post
Standen
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