Wild ramblings and airy anecdotes fill a 1900s column
A _Leader_ column parades a string of curious items from jokes on ear prices to new electric tree-cutting methods in France. It notes Wright brothers’ successful display near Norfolk, Santa letters trapped in the dead-letter office, and a navy chaplain’s impending retirement. It mentions Panamanian diplomacy, a New York subway height rule puzzle, and philanthropy by Helen Gould in Richmond.
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New York
France
Langley
Wilbur
Orville Wright
Ohio
Norfolk
Santa Claus
Washington
Father Chidwick
Navy
Moody
New York City
Maine
Havana Harbor
Doings Of A Week A Global Happenings Review
A Chicago and national roundup covers navy expansion hints, crop tallies for 1903, and cabinet views on The Hague. It notes Rockefeller and Frick controlling the steel trust, War Secretary Root declining a party chair, and a 1903 migration and oil prices shifts. Reports from the East include a farmer's murder suicide, Hartford artist Gordon Trumbull's death, and a fatal stockyard fire at Buffalo. West and South items recount fires, lynching attempts, deaths, and political changes amid a broad weekly survey.
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Washington
Hale
Navy
Congress
Hague
United States
Steel Trust
John D. Rockefeller
H.C. Frick
Root
National Republican Committee
Hollowville
N. Y
Joseph Phillips
Phillips
Gordon Trumbull
Hartford
M. W. Acheson
United States Circuit Court
Pittsburg
Bradstreet
Tillman & Oleson
Portland
Ind
Catherine McVey
Danville
Abraham Lincoln
Kiowa
I. T
Sedalia
Ann Tyler
James Turner
Minneapolis
Japan
Hay
Thomasville
J. E. Grillo
Cincinnati
American Baseball Association
George Williams
Neely Zimmerman
Council Bluffs
Chicago
Ballinger
Tex
J. A. McBeth
Bert West
San Francisco
Young Corbett
Eddie Hanlon
Senator Dietrich Trial Opens in Federal Court at Omaha
The January trial begins for United States Senator Chen H P Dietrich on three counts including conspiracy and alleged indirect violations of statutes. The government seeks the conspiracy charge first, while Dietrich’s counsel plans to challenge its validity. About 125 witnesses are called as a 50 member petit jury is formed.
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Omaha
Neb
United States
Chen
H. P Dietrich
Senantor Dietrich
Postmaster Fisher
Hastings
United States Senate
Dietrich
Summers
John C. Cowin
J. R. Batty
Tings
Cowin
William S. Summers
John R. Rush
Boodle cases set for supreme court arguments
The January docket for division No. 2 of the Missouri Supreme Court lists two St. Louis bribery cases. Robert M. Snyder of Kansas City, convicted in St. Louis, will have his appeal argued tomorrow. John H. Schnettler of St. Louis, also convicted of bribery, faces argument Wednesday. George Collins, Union Bank robber and detective killer, is slated for Tuesday.
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Jefferson City
Supreme Court
St. Louis
Robert M. Snyder
Kansas City
John H. Schnettler
George Collins
Union
Schumacher
Reward for Garths body recovery offer to search Gulf
Ten thousand dollars will be paid for the recovery of Granville W. Garth president of the Mechanics' National Bank who disappeared from the steamship Denver Christmas night and is believed to have jumped overboard while mentally troubled Wrecking crews along the coast will search likely drift points watchers stationed at key tide lines
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New York
Granville W. Garth
Mechanics’ National Bank
Denver
Gulf of Mexico
Mississippi State News Steamers at Gulfport
Mississippi State News notes Gulfport as a growing shipping hub with a detailed list of 27 freight carriers passing through the Gulf & Ship Island railroad terminals on January 1, including steamships Kydonia Olympia Portland Hdda Norman Bulgia Alpha Heta and several others, highlighting diverse vessel types and tonnages. It also reports on finance, law, and local events across the state.
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Gulfport
Gulf of Mexico
Gulf & Ship Island Railroad
Kydonia
Olympia
Portland
Hdda
Norman
Alpha
Heta
Hiawatha
Ortrud
Warrior
Due Cugtal
Persia
Margrethe
Atlantic
Duncrag
Vanedis
Gazelle
Hornet
Osberga
Barthold
Metherbes
Advent
Strocco
United States
Mississippi urged to pass state veterinary sanitary laws
In a Mississippi Farmers Institute address at the Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical College from August 27 to 29 1902 Dr J C Robert urged state veterinary sanitary legislation citing the states livestock value of over 42 million and noting Mississippi lacks protective laws unlike Virginia North Carolina South Carolina Tennessee and Texas He warned Mississippi as a dumping ground for contagious diseases and outlined disease remedies and the need for a veterinary board funds and enforcement.
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Mississippi
State Farmers’ Institute
Mississippi Agricultural and Mechanical College
J. C. Robert
United States
Virginia
North Carolina
South Carolina
Tennessee
Texas
Livestock Sanitary Board
Robert
Funerals Plague Chicago As Snow Delays Burials
Chicago faces a day of mass funerals as demand for hearses outstrips supply amid heavy snow. Cemeteries miles from the city center, 14 burials in Rose Hill, 1000 mourners at the Wolff home quadruple funeral, and 588 dead Sunday. The Iroquois theater owners arrested on manslaughter charges.
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Chicago
Funernia
Rose Hill
Waldheim
Ludwig Wolff
Washington Boulevard
William H. Garn
Harrison
Will J. Davis
Harry Powers
Iroquois Theater
Williams
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Eigil Service Board of New Yorknefty
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Young Men's Christian Assortation
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Heidelberg
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Bank For
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