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Newspaper
Geneseo Republic
Location
Geneseo, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Apr 25, 1902
Page
11
The United States has developed a four ton cannon capable of firing a 655 pound shell 25 miles. It uses a long steel tube wrapped in wire with a 92 000 psi chamber and a 4000 fps shell, achieving range in one minute 48 seconds. Foreseen to threaten coastal defenses like Sandy Hook and Coney Island.
Vienna dispatch reports Captain Grosaman of Cologne, inventor of water shoes, finished a 100 mile trek along the Danube in under two days. His aluminum thirteen foot cylinders are carried like oars and powered by winged paddles. He previously demonstrated usefulness by rescuing twenty people during a German flood.
The rapid spread of Mormonism in New York alarms home missionary societies as converts rise, churches multiply to three in New York City, and a noted missionary leader from Lake City defies Federal authorities while detailing early Mormon history. They claim 20 000 converts in the U S last year and 2 000 active missionaries. The Y M M A world conference will meet in Christiania this year, Aug 20 to 24. The report notes international expansion and faith as an increasingly global issue.
Rev. Dr. Henry Spellmeyer heads the bid committee seeking a city to entertain the next Methodist General Conference. Minneapolis has shown early effort while eastern cities like Boston and New York are viewed as strong contenders. the event costs roughly 110000 to 12000 yearly and raises about 20000 locally for rent and incidentals. Spellmeyer, based in Newark, is a leading church figure expected to rise to high honors in the MBH Church.
Dr Herbert F Fisk principal of the Academy of Northwestern University Chicago says 300 boys must give up cigarettes or leave school. He cites universal agreement on the harm to growing youths and urges action amid rising concerns over youth smoking.
A collage of anecdotes and statistics from around the world including London police, olive oil in Andalusia, Japan fishing practices, naval fleets, vaccination in France, libraries for the blind in Philadelphia, lightning recovery rates in the U.S., Berlin transit etiquette, Fall River squirrels, Tokyo street storytelling, pet interactions in Baltimore, Deboe's public documents request, Provo descendants, silk bulletproof coats, Unganu fruit drink, germantown Saratoga chips, Aguinaldo at Malacañang, and Philadelphia garden efforts with Vacant Lot Association.
Interest in the book Alice of Old Vincennes sends readers to the War Department to view the portrait of Gen. Clark. The painting’s origin and transfer are unclear though its oils show a faded buff and blue colonial uniform and a soldier’s sharp features. Washington letter New York Tribune.
Penrhyn, a ten foot high atoll in the Pacific, was reportedly discovered in 1788. Its lagoon hosts large pearl oysters yielding shells valued at about $1000 per ton, with divers famed for reaching twenty fathoms. Historic visits by Rignold and others describe savage natives, beachfront traders, and annexation to Britain in 1888.
A newly found cave near Cole Camp Missouri displays white baryte walls with gold-like pyrites and polished calcite stalactites and stalagmites topped with bright lead cubes. The 28 foot diameter chamber sits 36 feet below the surface, attracting scientific interest. Cotton lands totaling 170000 acres in Louisiana were bought by Cleveland capitalists.
The semi monthly crop report says temperatures since March have been above normal in the north but the season is backward in many districts except New England and New York. Spring sowing is well advanced in the Missouri Valley and south, but germination slows in the Ohio Valley and frost injures fruit.
The Continental Limited on the Wabash Railroad posted 180 miles in 180 minutes from Tilton to Granite City DL, with five stops. Actual running time was 2h38m. Danville to Decatur covered 71.6 miles in 70 minutes with Tolono and Bement stops. Burlington and Rand details claim a 14 8 mile run Eckley to Ouray with a claimed record, and Paris reports an engagement between Duke Chaulnes et Picquigny and the daughter of William Gebhard of New York living in Paris.
Across Illinois towns and villages on Tuesday voters largely set aside party lines. The licensing issue split communities nearly evenly with many places maintaining status quo while a handful shifted toward licensing or anti licensing.
Writings for War and Peace took Count Tolstol a year to assemble. Preliminary drafts are kept at the Rumjanzoff Museum in Moscow though they were nearly destroyed when Countess Tolstol cast them into a canal-side fire. The manuscripts were recovered after weeks of search.
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