The Garbage Report and World Notes
Deer kill totals in Vermont open season reached 111 this year, with prior October bites 90 and 130 in 1898. A petrified forest of 100 square miles in Arizona features multicolored logs, including a 40 foot gulf-spanning trunk. Washington sights include Mine Wu driving a gasoline auto, while secretary My Chung promotes Mme. Wu’s cards. Cuban cattle losses during conflict have rebounded, aiding Florida stock drafts. Deep mining records exceed prior depths in Britain, Lake Superior, and Mons Belgium.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vermont
Arizona
Gulf
Washington
My Chung
Yale
Long national anthems and sea mail hallmarked gems
The piece surveys varied national hymns with bar counts, notes China and San Marino for length, and contrasts diamond pricing from mining Kimberley to jewelry shops. It also comments on seals of office and ministerial use, Sing Sing’s name change proposal, urban progress by city type, floating post offices on liners, and mail sorters aboard ships with daily counts.
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Columbia
Siam
Uruguay
Chile
San Marino
China
Yerkes Moves Toward Millionaire Row Palace
Charles T. Yerkes, a multi millionaire, buys the Simon Borg dwelling at 4 East Sixty eighth Street for 220000 and plans a 5000000 palace on Millionaires Row. He acquires a 28 by 100.5 plot adjoining a Fifth Avenue frontage, noting he built a four story stone house at 1500900 in 1894 and that the original plot, bought for 400000, is now worth 700.69.
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Charles T. Yerkes
Simon Borg
Sixty-eighth Street
Fifth Avenue
Mr. Yerkes
Army recruiting expands as June 30 discharge looms
Washington reports active recruiting across major cities to sustain a 65,000 regulars force after the 35,000 volunteers are discharged on June 30. Enlistments run three years with about 2,000 recruits monthly. If volunteers cannot be repatriated in time, some will be discharged in the Philippines to maintain a 40,000-strong Philippine army during reorganization. Efforts aim to bring volunteers home before discharge.
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Washington
War Department
Philippines
Philippine Army
United States
Bosschieter Murder Verdict in Second Degree
New York January 19 Walter McAlister Andrew Campbell and William Death were found guilty of murder in the second degree in the Bosschieter case for the Paterson New Jersey mill girl killed October 18. The jury of fourteen ballots returned the verdict. The judge thanked the jury and dismissed them until Monday morning as the prisoners were remanded to jail.
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New York
Walter C. McAlister
Andrew J. Campbell
William Death
Jennie Bosschieter
Paterson
N. J
New Jersey
McAlister
Campbell
Death
Dixon
Mission Burned In Guthrie Mission Fire
Guthrie Oklahoma January 19 report states the Catholic Sacred Heart mission in southern Potawamac county suffered a night fire destroying the buildings and contents. Only the convent survived with all 400 inmates unharmed though many escaped in night clothes. Established in 1878 by Jesuit fathers as an Indian mission, it has for six years served white and Indian students.
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Guthrie
Okla
Sacred Heart Mission
Potawamac County
Porto Rican Crops Outlook Seen Excellent in Tobacco and Sugar
Gov. Allen reports from San Juan that travel to Ponce and Coamo reveals an excellent crop outlook, especially for tobacco and sugar. He praises Porto Rico's scenery and climate and forecasts it becoming a winter resort rivaling Bermuda and Florida with American capital building mountain hotels.
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San Juan de Porto Rico
Allen
Ponce
Coamo
Porto Rico
Bermuda
Florida
Bank Held Up At Bristow Outlaws Wound Bank President
Bank of Bristow in Indian Territory held up by outlaws with the bank’s president mortally wounded. Robbers escaped with cash as a posse pursues them from Wichita to Bristow. Also noted week’s failures in New York and Canada.
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the Concern
Bristow
I. T
Wichita
Kan
Bank of Bristow
Bristol
Tenn
Basil Duke Scott
Mayslick
Mollie Pendleton
New York
Jan
United States
Canada
Prussian Empire Honors Bicentenary with Grand Banquet
Berlin hosts a lavish January 18 ordensfest to mark the Prussian Empire’s 200th anniversary. Emperor William greets 1,200 foreign ambassadors and nobles at the White Hall luncheon, with accounts of toasts, a formal procession, and a wreath laid in Delft. The event features a royal menu and music from Meyerbeer to Strauss, while fifteen new peers join the Prussian Herrenhaus.
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Berlin
William
Mr. White
McKinley
Hohenzollern
United States
Prussia
Germany
Meyerber
Weber
Handel
Wagner
Strauss
Count von Buelow
Italy
Russia
France
Austria
Great Britain
Turkey
Spain
Netherlands
Count von Puntales
Delft
South Holland
Frederick Henry of
Orange
Herrenhaus
House of Lords
Dryander
Fielder
Charlottenburg
Mosquito control and hazing news from January
Havana reports intensified efforts to destroy mosquitoes to curb yellow fever with inspections, petroleum treatments, wall seals, and nets. A westward wind brings no update on the Vigilancia grounded off Los Colorados. In Topeka hazing at West Point is condemned by a senate resolution urging action. Army transport Athenian arrives at Port Townsend after rough seas from Taku. Michael O Sullivan, ex champion athlete, dies in New York. Young Corbett defeats Bernstein in Denver with Bernstein suffering a broken jaw in the seventh round.
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Havana
Ward Line
Vigilancia
Los Colorados
Denver
Col
Young Corbett
Bernstein
New York
Mend Your Own Breaches Offer Declined Marriage Tale
A western girl answers a marriage offer with the blunt line mend your own breaches. A tale from Youths Companion. Also noted: a widow’s plaintive note after a man’s remarriage plan. Plus a 1900 Omaha Bee item praising Union Pacific in Paris exhibit and a moral about self-improvement from Chicago Daily News.
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Paris
Union Pacific
Anian Pacific Railway
C.G. Pearse
Omaha
Pearse
Union Pacific Past
Omaha “Bee
Not Afraid of Kidnapers. A Geordie Child's Calm Wit
Excerpted snippets show Geordie dismissing kidnapping fears with comic pragmatism. A motherly figure worries about safety late at night, while a wife reports a robber and a house debate echoes political satire from Philadelphia Press and Boston Transcript in a light urban vignette.
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Geordie
Chicago
Hucen
John
Senate
Philadelphia Press
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Carthage
Indiana
Cuba
Pendleton
Lake Superior
Calumet and Hecla
Mons
Belgium
South Africa
Kimberley
Sing Sing
Ossining
Mohegan
Sint-Sindhs
Norfolk
Portland
Potawomac County
Sanitary Department of
Topeka
National Military Academy
West Point
Kansas
Congress
Port Townsend
Wash
Taku
Pacific
Lichael O'Sullivan
Michael O’sullivan
Presbyterian Hospital
O’sullivan
Cork
Ireland
Kinsale
Hal
Hs . Cheney & Co
Recc
Toledo
J. Cheney
O. Hall
Chicago Dailyews
Bccillus
Grip
Howard
Alabama
White
North Carolina
Frances M. Anderson
Washington, D
Jane
Bertha
Boston Transcript
DR. Greene
Ron the Curl
Teaspocetul
Green
Drs. Feil Greene
Thet Medical Ofices and Laboratories
West
T. H. Roleau
Essex Junction
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