Love's Tragedy at the Window and a Sister's Choice
Georgie and Rex argue over love and art as Georgie rejects marriage for music. Rex chooses Madge, but after a month Georgie embraces duty, learns restraint, and supports Madge's union while facing her own transformed heart. Rex returns to learn Madge refused him, leaving Georgie to confront fate with resolve.
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Madge
Lilian
Georgie
Rex
Rena
Joe
Henrietta
Mother
Tired of Acting Love Confession Sparks in Playhouse
In Utica Globe style, Georgie learns a staged romance ends with a real confession. A man admits to feigning lovers with Madge for a month to test Georgie’s feelings and proposes. Madge refuses, revealing true emotions and a reluctant vow to reveal love.
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Georgie
Madge
Utica Globe
Potato Missing From Praise Of American Gifts
A Kansas City Journal piece argues the potato deserves more credit among American contributions. It traces the potato’s true origins to South America and Europe, noting its spread from Peru to Ireland and New England, and contrasts its global ubiquity with tobacco’s far broader, though non-nutritive, reach.
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America
Great Britain
Ireland
Mexico
South America
Europe
Peru
Florida
Virginia
England
Sir John Hawkins
Royal Geographical Society
New England
Kansas City Journal
Inverted Fable and Banana Lore From A Daily Snippet
A collection of brief anecdotes including an inverted fable where a deer boasts of a hunter’s death and a fawn questions the supposed bravery. Also a quip about salutations and a note on banana uses from production to fiber. The pieces read like quick newspaper ditties with light moral and humorous spins.
Sinking Staten Island Ferry Northfield Debris Off East River
A collision with the Mauch Chunk sank the Staten Island ferry Northfield minutes after leaving Whitehall Street New York. About 800 passengers, many women and children, fought for life as debris and panic spread, with reports of fatalities unclear but police hopeful none were lost. Captain Griffin of the Mauch Chunk faced scrutiny after steering away to Communipaw.
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Staten Island
Northfield
Whitehall Street
New York
East River
Pier 10
Central Railroad
Mauch Chunk
Communipaw
Giriflin
Communitipaw
Captain Griffin
Wall Street
Hawt
Watter
Transport Jogalle capsizes off Brooklyn dock during repairs
The United States transport Jogalle capsized at the Eris basin in South Brooklyn while near a voyage to Manila. About 240 workers on the vessel and dock were affected, with over twenty died and more than fifty injured as ballast shifts or block movement caused the ship to list and sink in fifty feet of water. Italian laborers in the hold were among those at risk as the wreck surged to the surface.
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Brooklyn
United States
Jogalle
Eris Basin
Munila
Colleges Jig Hools or Colum bia University Appointment Committee
The appointment committee of Columbia University assists graduates to obtain teaching or educational positions with no fees. Missouri moves toward compulsory education via the Simmons bill requiring attendance or equivalent instruction for children ages 6 to 14 or 16. Indiana State Normal warns teachers to the Philippines, offering $900 to $1,200 yearly, with a three year contract. several seniors plan to apply.
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Columbia University
Missouri
Erson
Indiana State Normal
Philippines
Islands
New Stamp Tax Law Slashes Revenue On Several Items
The new revenue act halves or eliminates stamps on telegraph and telephone messages bank checks bonds certificates of deposit drafts life insurance policies leases mortgages and other instruments effective July 1. The reform reduces government receipts by an estimated 40 to 45 million dollars and prompts banks to redeem stamped checks while debates over return of checks and classification of stamped instruments continue.
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Internal Revenue Bureau
The
Revenue Bureau
Express
Treasury
Internal Revenue
Secretary of the Treasury
Antenna Revenue Bureau
Bureau
Interval Revenue Bureau
Tax changes and new duties across multiple goods and services
The document lists revised and new taxes late in 1900 and 1901 covering bonds, certificates, insurance, merchandise, tobacco products, cigars, cigarettes, express tariffs, telegraph and telephone messages, freight, and public exhibits. It includes rates for conveyance, legacies, stock certificates, custom house transactions, and penalties, with exemptions thresholds and specific per cent or per unit charges. Named items include cigarettes, cigars, tobacco, bills of exchange, custom house entries, and numerous broker and manufacturing categories.
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Fidelity
United States
Staten
Banker Capital and Corpilla
Cfire
Hreker &Das
Eich Sl
Salen
Custom House
Illinois breaks record with faster battleship trial
The battleship Minois trial on the Cape Ann course produced a sustained speed of 17.31 knots, outperforming the Alabama and Wisconsin in the same class and claiming the Illinois as the fastest in its category. Birth rates rise in New England with Fall River leading at 38.75 per 1000, followed by Holyoke, New Bedford, Waterbury, and Cambridge. Vice-Admiral Sir Edward H. Seymour earnes promotion to admiral after serving as China Station commander since 1898.
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Cape Ann
Illinois
Alabama
Wisconsin
Pacific
New England
Fall River
Holyoke
New Bedford
Waterbury
Conn
Cambridge
Edward H. Seymour
China Station
Thies and That Fashion, Fuel Shifts, and Notable Appointments
Boston society adopts band as fashionable scene. San Jacinto lime burners switch to crude oil for fuel. Phys Phetchada named Stam's minister extraordinary to the United States. A large wave of teachers sails to the Philippines for work. California expects 8,000,000 boxes of citrus fruit shipped this season. Yavapai County, Arizona plans sale of Senator Clark copper property at 6 million dollars. United Verde mine tax rises from 24,000 on 600,000 valuation to 240,000 annual cost for Clark Arizona property. Miss Sophronisba Breckinridge, daughter of Col. W C P Breckinridge, earns doctor of philosophy from Chicago University after master’s degree. First woman lawyer to join the Kentucky bar.
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Boston
San Jacinto
Cal
Phys
Yavapi County
Arizona
Clark
United Verde
Sophronisba Breckinridge
W. C. P. Breckinridge
Chicago University
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Cleveland Plain Dealer
Anternal Revenue Bureau
Guammatee Company
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