Congress adjourns with no business transacted
Short notes report both houses adjourned until January 5 with no important business. Labor headlines include Chicago clothiers threatening a lockout December 26 unless a working agreement is signed or arbitrated. Frick Coal Co announces an 8 percent wage rise for 20 000 workers starting January 1 across miners coke drawers drivers and laborers.
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Congress
Chicago
Connellsville
Frick Coal Co
Judge Lewis
Almira, Wash
Lewis
Hague Court Arbitration Ends Venezuelan Crisis
Washington and London report Roosevelt will not serve as arbitrator. The Venezuelan dispute to be settled by The Hague tribunal after Castro agrees to arbitration with European powers. British and American leaders weigh implications and costs as the process moves forward.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Hague Tribunal
Hay
London
Berlin
Rome
Caracas
Castro
Venezuela
the Hague
Hague
United States
Great Brita
Per
Ing
Daily News
Roosev
Daily Mail
Great Britain
Outlook for the New Year Bright in Great Industries
Dun's Weekly Review reports holiday trade quiet except for Christmas goods with brisk orders. Year opens with more business on books. prices firm from solid demand. export movement strong in staples. Transport limits hinder shipments to sea board. iron and steel stable. New England shoes active. cotton goods demand rises from China. woolen products steady. weekly U.S. failures 209, Canada 21.
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New York
R. G. Dun & Co
Weekly Review of Trade
Seaboard
New England
China
United
Canada
Dr Bell Denies Flying Machine Experiments
Washington reports Dr Alexander Graham Bell returned from Cape Breton and denied inventing a flying machine. He described his expert’s kite concept and a solid craft body with supporting surfaces that could land gently if released, noting he will not disclose construction details now.
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Washington
Alexander Graham Bell
Cape Breton Island
Tam
Grant will estate divided into four equal parts
The will of Mrs Ulysses S Grant valued over £250000 was filed to admit the will. Gen Fred D Grant asks the court to appoint executor and notes that heirs include Ulysses S Grant and Elten W Sartoris with Jesse T Grant. The estate lists a city house about $40000, cash $10065, securities $180000, and household goods $4000. A memento from the empress of Japan, said to be 1000 years old, goes to the Museum of Arts in New York.
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Abraham Lincoln
Manhattan
Bronx
New York Board of Education
Jesse Snider
Arkansas
Detroit
John L. Roper Lumber Co
Gilmerton
Atchison, Tepeke & Santa Fe Railroad
Albuquerque
N M
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
Baltimore
Pittsburg
Chicago
Cutters’ Union No. 21
Robert Floyd
Mannington
W. Va
Flint Rock
Bloomington
Daisy Carleton
Joseph Leslie
George A. Graves
Ogden
Utah
United States
Robert Patton
G Me
Fort Smith
Ark
Matiffin
Col. Brizeolara
A. C. Root
Mary Ged
East Longmeadow
Mass
Pennsylvania
Pittsle
Crestline
Valley Junction
Miller's Drug Store
Washington
Ulysses S. Grant
Japan
Museum of Arts
New York
District Supreme Court
Fred D. Grant
Ulysses
Grant
W. Sartoris
Jesse T. Grant
Gen. Grant
Chen
Attorney General Sheets Rules City Boards Under Longworth Plan
Ohio news reports that Attorney General Sheets issues an opinion to the auditor of state ruling the old city board of equalization invalid for nonuniform application. The Longworth plan would place city boards under a state panel of appraisers and assessors, giving Republicans control. Auditors must now request state appointment or leave a city board out. Also reported: fatal burn of Forest Gale, Salvation Army boy. a powder explosion kills an Austrian on a Steubenville houseboat. Lorain rail workers get higher wages. Shawnee oil leases sold for 55000. other Ohio items include a fatal train crossing, a $100,000 Bellaire fire, a Megins wreck, and a tragic double burial in Zanesville.
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Minnesota
Chicago
National Republican Committee
Elizabethtown
David Flemmin
Summer
Englewood
N. J
Mary Galagher
Fort Lee
Trenton
American Bridge Co
Beause
Indianapolis
National Association of Manufacturers
American Federation of Labor
New Orleans
Parry
Nebraska
Pope
Bishop Buffalo
N. Y
J. F. Canevin
St. Paul's Cathedral
Pittsburg
Association of Boot and Shoe of
France
Paris
Lyons
Marseilles
Limoges
J. Pierpont Morgan
Green River
Kentucky
St. Bernard Coal Co
England
Europe
Germany
A. W. Williams
Hartford
Conn
Westminster Hotel
Los Angeles
Cal
Coon River
Grant City
Ames College
Reading Company
Schuylkill
Knickerbocker
Blangowan
Maple Hill
Shenandoah
Good Springs
Minersville
Weehawken
Burlington Road
Denver
Deadwood
Sidney
Neon
Cigar and Tobacco Deaks’ Association of
Greater New York
American Tobacco Co
Anna Peck
Phelps, N. Yo
New Marghelon
Russia Turkestan
Andijan
Sheets
Longworth Min
Columbus
1 Sheets
Auditor of State
Oth- S
Longworth Board of
Longworth
Western Canada praised by Ohio delegate in 1902 visit
An Ohio delegate reports Western Canada as an ideal farmer destination near Lacombe Alberta. He notes excellent water, abundant hay and grasses, coal nearby, and rapid cattle gains. British journalist Hugh Spender highlights English and Somersetshire settlers thriving in Manitoba and Assiniboia, urging perseverance and hard work. A German scientist cites high bacteria counts on fruit skins, urging cleaning before eating.
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Ohio
Western Canada
Westen Canada
Lacombe
Alberta
Red Deer River
Western
Canada
United States
Hugh Spender
The
Westminster Gazette
Somersetshire
England
Manitoba
Assiniboia
Ehrlich
State Department
Murphy
Franksfort
Markets Review Across Cities and Commodities
New York reports strong government bonds and mixed grain futures while live stock prices vary across regions. Wheat and corn prices show modest movements with oats and hay steady. cattle hogs and sheep prices differ by market, including Chicago and Toledo quotes for December futures and cash bids.
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New York
Chicago
Toledo
East Liberty
East Buffalo
Woman credits Lydia E Pinkham product for ovarian cure
Mrs Emmons recounts five years of ovarian trouble ending after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She says the remedy cured weakness and discharge, saved her from an operation, and prompted her to urge others to seek the product's help. She reports gratitude and urges others to write for free advice from Mrs Pinkham in Lynn Mass.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Stone Age Picture Gallery Unearthed in French Cavern
A stone age picture gallery dating to prehistoric times has been uncovered in a cavern near Elyzies France. The 80 paintings, many of bisons in varied forms, show colored rock art created with ochres mixed with tiny transparent silt fragments as studied by chemist Moissan.
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Elyzies
France
Moissan
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