Crop Prospects Across Dakotas Minnesota and Midwestern States
Agricultural reports describe rapid wheat advances in the Dakotas and Minnesota with generally excellent conditions. oats improve except in Georgia and Missouri where poor prospects are forecast. Harvesting continues in the South. cotton improves in central and western belt. apples drop heavily in various valleys. fruit outlook is mostly encouraging despite heavy rains in Georgia. Indiana reports frequent rains with improving crops. Ohio notes favorable weather with some storms and frost impact. Michigan, Wisconsin, Iowa show mixed gains in corn, oats, rye, and alfalfa. fruit crops vary with apples dropping and peaches promising. South Dakota shows thrifty progress in grains with jointing and wheat strength despite frost and replanting needs.
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Dakotas
Minnesota
Missouri
Ohio
Mississippi
Georgia
Indiana
Tobarco
Wisconsin
Gortiong
South Dakota
Bank of England Cuts Discount Rate to 36 Percent
A fragile note style summary: The Bank of England reduced its rate of discount to 36 percent. The report mentions a find near Parma township ten miles from Cleveland Ohio involving John Leisen a farmer and a new Taylor aged 50 who was found.
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Bank of England
Parma
Cleveland
Ohio
John Leisen
Taylor
Divorce Canon Raises Question on Marrying Deceased Wife’s Sister
A proposed Episcopal Church canon addresses who may marry whom including close relations by marriage and the prohibition on marrying a deceased wife’s sister. It notes longstanding English law questions and bans on marriages of divorced persons if the divorce grounds arose during marriage.
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Episcopal Church
England
Dowie Wears Wings in Chicago Sermon
John Alexander Dowie appeared before his Chicago congregation with wings on his robe and warned that physicians plot to kidnap him and lock him in a detention hospital. He claimed immortality, reincarnation as Elijah, and said editors would be indicted for inciting murder. He urged male members to help protect him and denounced doctors as conspirators.
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John Alexander Dowie
Chicago
Zion Guard
Dowie
Elijah
Few-Line Interviews Reveal Northern View of Southern Prosperity
W N Rowley of Boston notes rapid Southern industrial growth and many cotton gins on the Savannah route. He observes progress in educating young Black workers into skilled, self-sufficient property owners as a solution to the race issue. Carter Harrison upholds education over laws for reform, denying an open town, while Hoar discusses the toll of public service on his law practice. Gen Brooke highlights officer commissions for qualified enlisted men, and Walter Fears reports high mule prices amid strong demand in New Iberia.
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W. N. Rowley
Boston
South
North
Savannah
Carter Harrison
Chicago
Domestics in a Union Form Massive Chicago Movement
Sixty thousand domestics in Chicago ready to join a labor group that may become the strongest on earth if others follow. Sophia Becker of the Shoe-Stitchers' Union announced large numbers already in a bona fide organization and spoke of abolishing domestic slavery as a union slogan. Delegates heard proposals for regular duties, wages not below a set figure, and permissions for receiving company and light rooms to end dark, ventilated-poor working conditions.
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Chicago
Chicago Federation of Labor
Sophia Becker
Shoe-Stitchers’ Union
Boy Wanted Fourth Child of Russia Coup Ye a Girl
The Czarina of Russia has given birth to another daughter causing disappointment after hopes for a male heir. This marks the fourth failed attempt to produce a son. The royals list includes Grand Duchess Olga born 1895, Tatiana born 1897, Marie born June 1899, and a daughter born June 18, 1901.
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Russia
Czarina
Olga
Tatiana
Marie
Mrs McKinley Improves. Doctors See No Immediate Danger
Dr Johnston and Dr Rixey held a White House consultation and declared Mrs McKinley out of danger and convalescing. Blood infection disappeared, though officials warned recurrence possible. Dr Hizey remained cautious, noting weakness could trigger relapse even as overall improvement continued.
Embassy denies Maybrick release rumor in London
Rumors claiming Mrs Maybrick’s release from prison have been denied by the United States Embassy in London, stating there is no truth to the report.
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Maybrick
United States
London
Democratic Leader Jones Sees New Campaign Lineup
Senator Jones of Arkansas, chairman of the Democratic National Committee, says Bryan will not be nominated again. He forecasts the next campaign focusing on the Philippines issue and independence for the islands. He expects the ship subsidy bill to reappear and predicts the Babcock tariff bill will not reach the Ways and Means Committee.
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Jones Gays
Jones
Arkansas
Democratic National Committee
Bryan
Philippines
Supreme Court
Congress
Atl
Ways and Means Committee
Trouble at open grave disrupts funeral in Kokomo
During the funeral for the son of Mr. and Mrs. William Hancock a dispute arose as Otto Jackson, brother of Mrs. Hancock, challenged Rev. George Edward Walk over remarks in his sermon. Walk defended his broad stance against divorce, saying the truth should be spoken at all times.
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William Hancock
Kokomo
Ind
George Edward Walk
Harrison Street
Walk
Jackson
Chain gang for a teacher in Laurens County
Ike Hughes, 42, principal of a Laurens County, South Carolina, school, was tried for whipping 15 year old Bertha Winch. The jury found him guilty in one minute. He received a one month chain gang sentence and appealed. Bertha testified to the beating after months in bed. her mother described torn clothing and marks.
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Ike Hughes
Laurens County
South Carolina
Bertha Winch
Bertha
Prospectors Find Rich Asphalt Bed near Texarkana
Telegraphic notes report prospectors discovering a rich asphalt bed near Texarkana Arkansas. An Ohio grower has achieved hand–breakable thin shelled hickory nuts. Standard Oil tests 30000 barrels of Texas oil for illumination value. Charles and Fred Dietloff fatally injured in Laflin Exe powder works explosion at Mountain View.
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Texarkana
Ark
Ohio
Standard Oil Company
Texas Oil Ty
Charles
Fred Dietloff
Laflin & Exe Powder Works
Mountain View
Soil Map to Guide American Farmers Across States
Washington reports the Agriculture Department will publish a colorful soil map for the United States showing which crops suit each locality. It will cover regions from sea to sea with a ten-acre patch per one eighth inch square and offer neighborhood charts for larger scales. The map identifies best industries, tracks soil acidity, alkali, and nutrient issues, and highlights inducements for new crops and land values along coastal sandy belts.
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Washington
Agricultural Department
United States
North Carolina
Georgia
Atlantic
Massachusetts
Florida
Georgian
Carolinas
Yazoo Bottom
Mississippi
Connecticut
Regal Senate Refurnishing and Global News Digest
As Congress opens it will be outfitted with mahogany furnishings and frescoed ceilings, matching a grand display of imperial taste. The report surveys 1901 livestock receipts across five markets rising due to higher corn prices, a 6 percent rise in eight markets for spring and winter wheat, and the rapid decline of the Philippine insurrection with totals through April 17. It notes Senator Allison declining a 1904 presidential bid, potential Pretoria consulship candidates, Navy machinist strikes delaying the battleship Missouri, and a $10 food allowance for the St Paul post office cat in a scene of official truces and ongoing debates.
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Chicago
Kansas City
Omaha
St. Louis
St. Joseph
Minneapolis
Milwaukee
Duluth
Detroit
Toledo
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Eather “Bureaus Weekly Agricultural Reporti
George F. Hoar
John R. Brooke
Department of the East
Walter Fears
New Iberia
Thess
St. Paul
Preas
the Czarina
M’kinley
J. K. Jones
Making
War Department
Allison
Iowa
Shaw
Pretoria
Hay
Adelbert Hay
South Africa
Navy Department
Union Iron Works
San Francisco
Newport News
Coda
Isar Department
Smith
Minn
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