Grover Cleveland Dies at His Princeton Home
Grover Cleveland former president of the United States died at his Westland Princeton New Jersey home after a long illness of heart and digestive disorders He was seventy one years old The funeral was held at Westland and President Roosevelt ordered half staff flags for thirty days in mourning The late president was known as the veto president and played a key role in the Venezuela boundary arbitration and in reorganizing party politics He leaves a lasting imprint on American democracy and public life.
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Spectacular oil fire devastates Bradford area
A fierce fire ignited by electric storms swept across northern Pennsylvania, burning more than 100,000 barrels of oil and destroying several valuable buildings. Officials estimate losses near $500,000 as crews struggle to contain the blaze near Bradford and nearby towns.
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Louisiana Rice Mills Form A Large Consolidation
The Louisiana rice industry forms the United Irrigation and Rice Milling Company merger. Participating mills include La Palana Hechinger Jumble Lichtenstein and others plus Independent Rice Mill Crowley Abbeville Mill Donaldsonville Eureke Mill and Gueydan Mill. The consolidation also controls Lichterstein Hechinger Irrigation Crowley and the Abbeville Plant in Vermilion parish.
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Eureke Mill
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Gueydan
Vermililon Parish
Simple private funeral for Grover Cleveland at Princeton
A simple private service for former president Grover Cleveland was held in Princeton New Jersey. Notables including President Roosevelt and governors attended before a short procession to the cemetery guarded by national soldiers.
Grover Cleveland Career Highlights from New Jersey to the White House
A biographical sketch traces Grover Cleveland from his birth in Caldwell Essex County New Jersey March 18 1837 through family moves to Fayetteville New Jersey clerkships and teaching in 1852 to 1859 his Erie County New York career clerkships and law practice. It notes his 1881 Buffalo mayoralty 1882 New York governorship 1884 presidency and 1892 presidency plus key events including his veto record 1886 marriage Frances Folsom 1888 defeat 1895 Venezuela boundary settlement and final years in Princeton New Jersey.
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Chinese immigration target in Honolulu debate
Honolulu Chinese committee reports to Washington on annual admissions. Minister Wu Ting Fang asks for suggested numbers. The committee proposes 5,000 Chinese immigrants per year for seven years, plus their families, estimating about 50,000 Chinese in the territory after ten years.
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Carrier and Patron Moves Headquarters to Atlanta
The Carrier and Patron shifts its business office from Cumming to Atlanta in the Brown Randolph building. J A Rosbury of Southern Trade Press buys an interest and becomes business manager while J B Patterson remains editor in Cumming. The rural free delivery paper serves carriers and farmers across the South and beyond.
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Georgia Agriculture College faces funding crisis for Athens campus
Atlanta Georgia reports that the proposed general assembly measure would fund eleven congressional district agricultural schools and the 100000 dollar agricultural college at Athens. The facilities plan to open September first but lack sufficient funds to operate. Dr Soule advocates cotton seed meal as fertilizer filler and as cattle feed, citing tests and cost efficiency.
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Pear Grop Very Valuable Demand Outruns Supply
In Albany Georgia strong note on pears says demand exceeds supply. Peach and pear orchards suffer when trees were cut in the 1880s as growers rush to harvest two thirds grown fruit to ship to markets with higher demand. Market expects no glut in the pear trade for years.
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Attempted derailment on crowded Bellevue street car
A car bound for the Log Cabin club on the Bellevue line nearly derailed after a crosstie was placed on the tracks. The motor man halted the vehicle a few feet from the obstruction. two cars on the Long Belt line were also thrown from the track by bricks and door knobs. Police and city detectives investigate.
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Georgia Progress in Public Works and Industry
President H. Choate of the Atlanta Credit Men's Association spoke at the national convention in Denver about southern trade conditions. Georgia cities issue bonds for schools streets and sewers from election results. A Savannah firm forms for foreign shipping planning ships to European ports. Atlanta to host Hospital Medical College. Cartersville iron mines and other local industries resume operations.
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Georgia Legislature Opens Second Session In 1903
The Georgia House and Senate convene with new members sworn in and officers elected. President James J. Flynt leads the Senate, with John W. Akin and Cleveland memorials noted. Bills on liens and mortgaged property pass while others await action. Governor Smith’s message awaited. The chamber approves a joint Chattanooga inspection and schedules adjournments and memorials for fallen leaders.
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Educational Society Officers Named in Georgia Branch
Asa G. Candler elected president and Thomas C. Erwin treasurer at a Georgia branch meeting of the National Society for the Promotion of Industrial Education. The coming session will be in Atlanta on November 12 14 and 14. Vice presidents named for eleven districts include George J. Baldwin Savannah J. L. Hand Pelham Thomas G. Hudson Ellaville F. R. Gordon Columbus K. G. Matheson Atlanta C. B. Willingham Macon W. W. Brooks Rome Harry Hodgson Athens Dr Jeff Davis Toccoa M. L. Duggan Sparta V. L. Stanton Waycross.
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