Italian immigration up nine percent in yearly report
The annual report of Commissioner General Powderly shows total steerage arrivals in the United States for the year at 487,915, up 39,846 from last year. Italians led increases, with 36 percent rise, while overall European gains lagged. total immigrants reached 562,565 with many details on sex, age, literacy, wealth, and destinations. The report calls for legislation to better manage alien labor and integrate newcomers into American society.
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Powderly
Immigration Bureau
United States
Europe
Italy
Sicily
Sardinia
Austria-Hungary
Empire
Finlap
Sweden
Gere
Trelinil
Norway
England
Winvit
Massachusetts
New York
Pennsylvania
Maryland
Congress
Pig Killing Shock Triggers Nervous Hysteria Case
Mrs. Maria Becker, visiting Chicago from Colorado with her husband, suffered a severe nervous hysterical episode after witnessing cattle slaughter at a stockyards packing house. Dr. Hugh T. Patrick and Dr. Henrotin treated her at the Chicago Bank clinic and Policlinic, but authorities say the case remains baffling.
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Chicago
Hugh T. Patrick
Maria Becker
Colorado
Morgan's Nawshter a Banker Report on Penny Provident Fund
J Pierpont Morgan’s daughter Mrs Herbert Satterlee leads the penny provident fund efforts in the banking business. In a recent report she notes continued saving by many girls, with deposits from April 1, 1900 to April 1, 1902 totaling 356 dollars as proof that careful pennies yield dollars.
American locomotive breaks speed record on French road
An American made locomotive number 2999 on the Paris Lyons and Mediterranean line drew 14 cars totaling 481 tons and ran at a rate of 80 miles per hour the other day, breaking all previous time records on that route.
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Paris
Lyons & Mediterrancan
Insidious growth of Mormonism alarm bells rise
Miss Elizabeth B Vermilye warned at the Reformed church women’s executive committee in New York City that Mormonism threatens the East. She cited two Mormon churches in major cities, a growing belt from Pennsylvania to New Jersey, land from the Rockies to the Sierras, and 2000 missionaries active nationwide.
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Brooklyn
Manhattan
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Jersey City
Domestic Missions of the Reformed Church
New York City
Elizabeth B. Vermilye
Vermilye
Rocky Mountains
Sierras
Enat
New York
London’s Poor Get 92 Thousand Dwellings Planned
London County Council will own 20 blocks of workers’ dwellings yielding 905000 in annual rent. The treasury will spend 20000000 to house 92000 people with occupancy starting January for 2200, February 286, May 610, July 472, across Battersea Duke’s Court St Pancras Clerkenwell Totterdown Swan Lane and White Hart Lane Tottingham scheme costing 2510888 for 34784 places. Building proceeds across congested city areas with most projects due to complete in the year.
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London County Council
London
Battersea
Duke's Court
St. Pancreas
Clerkenwell
Totterdown Fields
Swan Lane
White Hart Lane
Tottenham
Cat Causes Widespread Power Interruption in Western New York
A cat climbed a trolley pole on the Buffalo and Lockport line at Hoffman, touching a high voltage feed wire and dying in a flash of 34 000 volts. The incident short circuited the Niagara Falls power house fuse, cutting electricity to lines from the plant for two hours and leaving western New York railways and street lights dark.
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International Traction Company
Niagara Falla Power Company
Lockport
N. Y
Puss
Buffalo & Lockport Railway
Hoffman
Niagara Falls
Pose
New York
King Edward VII Luncheon Recall by New York Chef
Bernhardt Steinhardt owner of a small New York City restaurant recalls serving a luncheon 41 years ago to the then prince of Wales, later King Edward VII, during his visit to the United States. Steinhardt, then chef at the Planters' hotel, received a brief, kind reply from the king upon a post ascension congratulations. The luncheon occurred in St Louis while the king was present in the city.
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New York Herald
Bernhardt Steinhardt
Edward VII
Prince of Wales
Mr. Steinhardt
Edward
Steinhardt
St. Louis
Planters’ Hotel
Getting Pretty Swift Train Speeds Up to 344 Miles Per Hour
A Prussian electric train reportedly reaches 344 miles per hour, deemed very fast by the Chicago Inter Ocean amid debates on how we handle major transports.
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Chicago
New Pacific cable plan rejects American contractor
George G. Ward of Commercial Cable explains no U S firm could handle the work due to machinery limits and warns against an experimental approach. Silver Town has deep sea cable experience built over four decades and will lay the Pacific line in seven months, with routes to the Sandwich Islands, Luzon, and possibly Manila. Completion expected in two to three years at an estimated $15 million, though capitalization remains $3 million. Ward also notes planned rate reductions and faster transmission by about four hours.
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George G. Ward
Commercial Cable Company
Commercial Pacific Cable Company
United States
Silvertown Company
Sandwich Islands
Hawaiian Islands
Philippines
Luzon
Manila
Ward
Mourned Son Returns Home Tale of a South Africa Error
A Leicester shire gentleman farmer mourned his son in South Africa after a Yeomanry engagement when an illustrated weekly photo showed him among the dead. Weeks later the son returned, proving the reported death a mix up between two men of the same name who resembled each other, one dead and one recovering.
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London Pelican
Leicestershire
Yeomanry
South Africa
Pretoria
Man of Stone Age Found In Susquehanna Cave
Hunters from Susquehanna Pa excavating near Shohola’s Glen New York unearthed a cave containing a gigantic man’s skeleton swathed in rawhide with clasped knees, fleshless arms, and nearby red clay bowls, a rudely carved stone tablet showing birds beasts and a monster, plus oversized stone tools. In Goshen area a copper plate of George Washington dated 1796 was found in an old house two miles from Big Island. titled by I Reid New York 1796 and now owned by Clinton W Wisner who will have it cleaned and prints made.
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Susquehanna
Shohola's Glen
N. Y
Washington
Big Island
Goshen
James H. Vail
New Milford
G. Washington
I. Reid
New York
Rollison Schulpt
Clinton W. Wisner
Warwick
Buffalo Pays Up After Pan American Failure
The Chicago Inter Ocean notes Buffalo residents are determined to settle the bill rather than argue further, showing they can pay despite the Pan-American venture failing.
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Buffalo
Chicago
Unprecedented Order Bans Hand Washing At Elgin Watch
Three thousand workers at Elgin National Watch Company in Elgin Illinois protest a factory order forbidding hand washing during shifts. Some girls blame the rule on thwarting caramel eating while others say it harms finger care for delicate watch parts. Union plans discussion for possible concerted action.
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Elgin National Watch Company
Elgin
Noted Belle and Beggar in Newark Court
A wealthy Montclaire, New Jersey woman dubbed a noted belle was jailed as a professional beggar along with her husband Joseph Farnenham after a Newark First Precinct court appearance. The wife offered to serve jail if her husband was guilty. she fainted en route to custody. The couple’s parents offered to support her, leading to the charge against her being dropped while he received 30 days.
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Joseph L. Farnenham
Laimbert
Brooklyn
Chicago
Northtown
Montreal
Great Lakes
Europe
St. Lawrence
Savannah
Fernandina
Trade Agreements Of This Character Cannon In 1855
The item notes trade agreements of a particular type dating to 1855. It highlights how such accords shaped commerce and relations in that period, with emphasis on the actors involved and the broader economic implications. No explicit events or outcomes are detailed in the readable text.
Novel Book of Alphabets Shown At Smithsonian
Prof J C Clarke of Upper Alton has sent a unique volume to the Smithsonian. It catalogs about 1000 alphabet varieties with 200 to 300 distinct. The work traces Hebrew Arabic Syriac Egyptian alphabets to Greek and Lyric origins for Persian Indian and others. The volume includes six Philippine alphabets and scripts from Sumatra Java Celebes Formosa. It also presents world numeral ciphers and suggests zero origin linked to Lyric letters.
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J. ©. Clarke
Upper Alton
Tih
Smithsonian Institution
Clarke
Philippines
Sumatra
Java
Celebes
Formosa
Williams Plans Oregon Range Trial For Jockey Theory
Thomas H Williams Jr president of the California Jockey club launches an experiment to mature two year olds before racing. He will buy yearlings and colts, send them to Oregon to graze and gain strength, ride them occasionally but avoid training to test his theory. A London to Berlin rail plan aims to move North German Lloyd traffic to Genoa, hoping to shift American passenger flow from Liverpool and London to southern Europe.
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Thomas H. Williams, Jr
New California Jockey Club
Williams
Oregon
Europe
New York Tribune
London
Berlin
London Chronicle
Lloyd
Hamburg
Bremen
Genoa
Frankfurt
Liverpool
Vineland Firm Organized For Sweet Potatoes Flour
A Vineland New Jersey company with a capital of 1000 dollars has been organized to produce four flour from sweet potatoes.
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Vineland
N. J
Pickering exposes hydrogen as a compound in spectra study
Harvard astronomer Prof. EB Pickering argues hydrogen may be a composite, not an elementary, element after analyzing a series of spectra with multiple line doublings. He ties findings to recent Nova Perse No. 2 observations and notes varying spectra across photographs taken under different conditions.
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EB. C. Pickering Tvetar
Harvard Observatory
Pickering
Cow
Constellation
Perseus
Sultans reforms and violet leaves claim in distressing era
A London Times and New York Times correspondent reports an audience with Sultan Mulai Abdul Aziz of Morocco noting his energy and reformist hopes amid hindered influence from viziers. A separate Chicago Inter Ocean item mentions violet leaves curing cancer for Lady Margaret Masham, while Kansas faces prairie dog pestilence and wider distress.
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London Times
New York Times
Marakesh
Morocco
Palace
Sys
Zella
Sultan Mulai Abdul el Aziz
Abiv EL Aziz
London
New York
Snt
Margaret Masham
Earl of Romney
Margaret
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