Facts About Farms From Census Bureau 1900 Report
The first volume on agriculture reveals 5,739,057 U S farms and 841 201 546 acres. Improved land for surplus production totals 437 915 891 acres while yield per acre rises with new methods. Farm property value reaches 20 000 000 000 and annual farm output 5 000 000 000. Average farm size 146.6 acres and value 3 574 dollars per farm or 24 39 per acre. Westward shifts in farm centers outpace population moves. wheat and corn centers move westward, while major centers for cotton and manufacture are noted in Illinois, Ohio, Iowa, and Missouri.
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United States
North Central
St. Louis
Wayne County
Iowa
Jackson
Ohio
Forts Destroy Ships In Mimic Engagement
Army and Navy clash near Long Island Sound as Fort Wright Michie and Terry resist a night attack. Admiral Higginson’s fleet shells the forts. several ships retreat after a ten minute bombardment. A 12 inch rifle explodes killing one private and wounding two others.
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Higginson
Wright
Michie
Terry
Price's Neck
Narragansett
Fort Adams
Long Island Sound
New London
Fort Michie
Gull Island
Point Judith
Fort Wright
Indiana
Fort Terry
Fort Mansfield
Wishers Island
Col. Davis
Mount Prospect
MacArthur
Five Men Killed in Wreck at Randolph Missouri
Five men are reported killed in a freight wreck on the Rock Island Railway at Randolph Missouri. Dr Sellim a professor at the Vienna University exploring Palestine for the imperial academy of sciences believes he has found walls and gateway of Solomon's temple near Janobab in Samaria. At a conference of traffic officials in St Paul the Hill roads announced new grain rates east of Fargo to Yankton vary from 1 to 8 cents a hundred.
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Rock Island
Randolph
Sellim
Vienna University
Palestine
Imperial Academy of Sciences
Solomon
Janobab
Samaria
Wheat
Northwest
St. Paul
Hill Roads
Aine
Fargo
Yankton
Ware
West Virginia mine fires amid Pocahontas strike violence
Striking workers torched parts of the Bramwell Pocahontas mines near the Virginia line as guards and miners exchanged volleys. Governor of Virginia urged to send troops to Pocahontas. Injuries report at Nanticoke and Hazelton as nonunionists confront attackers. Company C guards escort 300 workers to Panth er Creek Valley amid competing strike tallies.
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West Virginia
Pocahontas Colories Company
Bramwell
W. Va
West
Virginia
Pocahontas
Richard Roberts
John Devitt
Twelfth Regiment
Panther Creek
Viking Ship Unearthed On Karmoe Island
A forty foot Viking vessel is unearthed on Karmoe. Otto Wolf is arrested in Jersey City for a murder in Vienna Austria. In Warsaw N Y a freight wreck injures three crewmen. Michigan issues first ticket scalping conviction against Pere Marquette brokers. Travel salesmen form a fund drive over Jessie Morrison case appeal. Surveyors plan monuments to mark Colorado New Mexico line after fifty years. line remains vague.
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Karmoe
Otto Wolf
Jersey City
Vienna
Austria
Buffalo
Rochester and
Pittsburg
Warsaw
N. Y
Bert Hage
W. L. Clark
Wesley B. Sowerby
Michigan
Pere Marquette Road
GC. A. Seward
W .O. Judd
Kansas
Jessie Morrison
Supreme Court
Colorado
New Mexico
Lina
Illness of Judge Durand Shocks Michigan Governing Race
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Judge George H. Durand faced a severe cerebral thrombosis attack after two weeks of illness. His condition improved gradually, with reports of reduced fever and stronger heart rhythm, while his opium fraud prosecutions solidified his national jurist reputation.
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George H. Durand
Michigan
Durand
Labor Day Parades Highlight Broad Labor Unity Across Cities
Across Chicago New York Kansas City San Francisco Cleveland Topeka Springfield Cincinnati and Toledo Labor Day drew vast crowds and diverse workers. Parades featured women in dress professional groups and marching units while fund drives supported coal miners. Officials spoke on labor conditions and arbitration calls amid a year of union strength.
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Chicago
Chicago Federation
New York
Building Trades Union
Kansas City
Wunfons
Electric Park
Fairbanks
San Francisco
Cleveland
Topeka
Gov
Stanley
Springfield
Northcott
Cincinnati
Toledo
Mmusicians
Plasterers
Senator Platt predicts end to miners strike in two weeks
Senator Thomas C. Platt told New York listeners that the coal strike would be settled within two weeks. He refused to detail the method but warned there will be no coal sold at ten dollars a ton this winter, expressing unwavering confidence the dispute nears resolution.
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Thomas C. Platt
New York
Senator Platt
Platt
Death of Edward Eggleston noted author of Hoosier works
Edward Eggleston, renowned American historian and fiction writer, died suddenly at Joshua's Rock, Lake George, New York, aged sixty five. Born December 10, 1837 in Vevay Indiana, he began in the Methodist ministry before turning to literature in 1879. He authored The Hoosier Schoolmaster and many other works. Surviving wives Elizabeth Schneider and a second spouse, and daughters Elizabeth Seeley Blanche Alegra Eggleston.
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Edward Eggleston
Joshua’s Rock
Lake George
N. Y
Dr. Eggleston
Vevay
Ind
Amelia County
Hoosier
Elizabeth Schneider
Elizabeth Seeley
Blanche
Alegra Eggleston
Gibbons Greatly Improved in Baltimore Cardinal Recovery
Cardinal Gibbons, once stricken at his home in Baltimore, has recovered enough to move about his room and attend to correspondence. His physician says complete recovery from nephritis is assured within a short time.
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Cardinal Gibbons
Baltimore
Fessenden
Weather Bureau
Manteo
N. C
Hills a Ward Politician in Saloon Disturbance
Larry Manion, a St Louis politician, was shot and killed by Policeman Thomas OHearn during a disturbance at a saloon after resisting arrest. Anton Christiansen, a South Omaha carpenter, killed his wife in their Montrom erp Hotel rooms, citing domestic difficulties. William J Bryan plans to devote October to Nebraska campaign. Seattle chosen for the 1903 Trans Mississipp i Congress session.
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Hills
Larry” Manion
St. Louis
Thomas O’hearn
Manion
O'Hearn
Anton Christiansen
South Omaha
Montromerp Hotel
William J. Bryan
Nebraska
Bartholin Identified as Chicago Matricide Suicide Victim
The body of William J. Bartholin, a Chicago fugitive, was found in a Iowa wheat field near Lowther. A coroner's jury ruled Bartholin died by self-inflicted gunshot wound to the mouth, and a pocket confession blamed Minnie Mitchell for two murders.
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Chicago
Minnie Mitchell
William J. Bartholin
Lowther
Iowa
Howard County
Bartholin
Thompson
Claffy
Counselman
Minnie
Haboos
Aspicion
William J. Bartholmn
Joseph Pratt
Dawes
Pratt
Carpenter
Lime Springs
Jeremiah
William Cashman
Michael Howard
Roosevelt approves cable terms to link U S and Pacific possessions
Formal plan outlines Roosevelt approved terms for a Commercial Cable Company link from the United States to insular Pacific territories. Conditions require American touch, no foreign alliances, government purchase option, American employees, reasonable rates, and minimum speed to Manila. The company plans a counter proposal amid several financial and administrative notes from other federal items.
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Roosevelt
United States
Pacific Ocean
Oyster Bay
Commercial Cable Company
John W. Mackay
Manila
Commercial Pacific Cable Company
Miners and operators in Jellico reach wage agreement
Jellico Tennessee miners and operators have agreed on wages for a year. Other items note a royal debt funded by selling crown jewels, a murder in North Yakima, a second crop of strawberries in southern Missouri, and a large transatlantic cattle and sheep shipment from Portland to Liverpool.
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Jellico
Tenn
Lisbon
Hamilton Moulton
Camden
Ark
North Yakima
Wash
Missouri
Russia
Odessa
London Standard
Norseman
Portland
Liverpool
Atlantic
Jake Bleving
John Bost
Elmore
Blevins
Bost
George Goebel
Argentine
Kan
Goebel
L. L. Turner
Western Green Glass Bottle Association
Chicago
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DH. Durand
Labor Day
Plat
Gibbons
Seattle
Wynne
Auditor of the Interior Department
Alaska
Sheldon Jackson
Grand Army of the Republic
Washington
Navy Department
Annapolis
Marconi
Department
Treasury Department
Treasury
War Department
Guam
Army
Navy
Morristown
N. J
Cuba
Federal Council
United States Navy.Department
Rodgers
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