Gains in Demand for American Goods in India and Indies
The Bureau of Foreign Commerce releases an extract from Commercial Relations of the United States for 1901 showing increased American trade with the East Indies and Persia. Shoes, furniture, bicycles, clocks, watches, cutlery, phonographs, and canned goods rise in imports. machinery and mill work fall due to crop failures and Chinese troubles. Dutch Indies imports increase. waterworks contract won by a Philadelphia firm in Soerabaya. a Chicago firm opens a central Java agency.
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Bureau of Foreign Commerce
United States
East Indies
Persia
British India
England
Bombay
Rairden
Batavia
Java
Dutch Indies
Australia
Soerabaya
Philadelphia
Chicago
Tyler
Teheran
Schwab Announces Ocean Beach Purchase For Children
Charles M. Schwab announces the purchase of Richmond Beach on Staten Island near Tottenville for the benefit of New York's poor and sick children. The property includes beach, lake, grove, and high land. up to 2000 children daily will be served with meals, entertainment, and outdoor activities, using a steamer for transport and coordinated with charitable organizations. Mrs. Schwab supports the effort and both aim to proceed carefully with expert advice.
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Ocean Beach
Staten Island
Charles M. Schwab
United States Steel Corporation
Richmond Beach
New York Bay
Totetenville
New York
Charitable Institutions of
Trains Return At Court In Buckingham Palace
King Edward and Queen Alexandra staged their third court event amid a dress order debate. Ladies bowed in gowns with trains, marking a reversal after an earlier ban, a victory for London dressmakers and high society pressure at court.
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King Edward
Queen Alexandra
Buckingham Palace
London
No Need of a Revolver Says Hetty Green
The Chicago Record Herald argues Hetty Green does not need a revolver to guard against attacks. It suggests she could simply wear a placard with her name to deter danger.
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Hetty Green
Chicago Record-Herald
Densities of Planets
The text lists planetary densities with misread values across entries. It includes water density, then a misformatted entry and Earth at 5.50 g/cm3, indicating a garbled OCR of a planetary density table.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earth
King Edward VII Embraces Fast Motor Craze and Royal Riding
The king appoints Graham White as master of the royal motors and joins the motor craze. A 60 mph dash leads to suspension of White by the Automobile Club. At Windsor a boy clings to a speeding royal car. the king signals a return and the boy receives a coin for another ride.
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Edward VII
Graham White
Royal Motors
White
The
Automobile Club
Dashwood Hill
Newmarket
Sir Ernest Cassell
King
Windsor
King Edward
Edward
Day of Persian Rugs in Harput Business Ties
Consul Norton reports European demand for Turkish origin rugs has declined due to inferior wool, with best wool sent to Persia. Persian market gains aided by dyes and vegetable colors. A Harput rug operation, funded by American capital and run by a locally trained Native, uses orphan-labor to produce designs for American buyers.
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Norton
Harput
State Department
Europe
Persia
Turkey
United States
Mystery Knife Blade Fragment in New York Heart
Coroner Jackson holds a human heart from William Barrett 24 a Bowery character thought to have died of pneumonia at Blackwell Island Hospital. The heart contains a 1.5 inch steel blade fragment with no external wound and no record of ingestion. Barrett’s mother Elizabeth Barrett disputes stabbing or swallowing such steel in youth.
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Jackson
New York
William Barrett
Blackwell’s Island
Elizabeth Barrett
Gould Rebuked by Court Clerk Over Fine Payment
Frank Jay Gould courted attention in New York as he rode with police escort to Center Street court and flung a $20 gold piece at Bail Clerk Lamont for his chauffeur Charles Gane dorf’s fine. The clerk dismissed the gesture and ordered proper payment.
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Financial District
New York
Frank Jay Gould
Center Street
Lamont
Charles Ganedorf
Broadway
Gould
Mayo
Salvation Army member seen near Senator Hanna home
A Salvation Army member was observed outside Senator Hanna’s Lafayette Park residence after the senator confessed sympathy with the Salvation Army. The sighting occurred in the capital city amid ongoing discussions of welfare and charitable work.
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Hanna
Salvation Army
Aeeen
Lafayette Park
Weather Bureau Chief Applies for Patent on Cooling Machine
Prof Willis L Moore head of the Weather Bureau files a patent for a gravity air cooling dry purifying device intended to maintain indoor temperatures at 70 to 73 degrees in hot weather. He claims the system is cheap safe portable and easy to operate with practical scientific value.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willis L. Moore
The
Weather Bureau
Moore
Czar's Cousin Boris to Visit United States
Grand Duke Boris, cousin to the czar and son of Grand Duke Vladimir, is expected to arrive in the United States around July 1. He will visit the Russian embassy in Washington, meet the president, study immigration and Russian emigration issues, then travel around the world before returning via the Trans-Siberian route. De Wolf is aboard a German ship in the country.
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Boris
United States
de Wolf
Grand Duke
Vladimir
St. Petersburg
Asen
Imperial Foot Guards
Washington
America
San Francisco
Schwab Orders High Speed Auto From Germany
Charles M. Schwab president of United States Steel orders a new Daimler automobile from Cannstatt Germany to arrive in July. The car must reach a mile in 40 seconds or the contract is void. It will carry four people, have 55 horsepower, and cost about $12,000 plus roughly $5,000 in duty.
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Charles M. Schwab
United States Steel Corporation
Germany
Mr. Schwab
W. K. Vanderbilt, Jr
Paris
Daimler Works
Cannstadt
Schwab
Librarian of Congress Warns Against Imposters
Washington notes Herbert Putnam announces a note to the public denying an agent named F. E. Stewart offering a traveling library service in the library’s name. He stresses the Library of Congress is free and not a circulating library and no such agent or program exists.
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Herbert Putnam
Librarian of Congress
Washington
F. E. Stewart
Library of Congress
Yourbrary
Geed Salesman Linked to Hetty Green Pistol Sale
The Chicago Inter Ocean profiles a salesman who sold a pistol to Mrs. Hetty Green and notes he was no slouch as a financier.
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Hetty Green
Chicago Inter Ocean
Hat Exchange Highlights First Roosevelt Portrait in Paris
Description of a unique etiquette moment as Mrs. Lodge and Mrs. Roosevelt swap hats during a portrait sitting. The artist chose a black hat and coat for Mrs. Roosevelt and a large black picture hat for Mrs. Lodge, a swap noticed at a Paris tea and later linked to a White House future.
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Mrs. Roosevelt
White House
Executive Mansion
Victimized Jews Question Aid for Boy Sent to Austria
Jewish donors who funded Solomon Schnurr’s return to Austria feel misled by a letter from imprisoned relatives claiming the family’s innocence. A East Side synagogue mass meeting raised 300 for travel costs amid store and tenement subscriptions. I B Fuchs of an Austrian paper calls the tale a gross deception from start to finish.
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Solomon Schnurr
Austria
East Side
Fuchs
English Education Study Plan Reaches United States
M E Sadler, head of inquiries for England and Wales education boards, arrived to study Alfred Mosley’s plan for a commission to survey global education. The group will first tour Germany, then visit the United States likely in October. members will publish personal views.
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M. E. Sadler
Board of Education
England and Wales
Sadler
Alfred Mosley
Germany
England
Mosley
Miss Astor and Her Chaperones This Season
Miss Astor daughter of William Waldorf Astor is again chaperoned this season by the countess of Selkirk who also leads Princess Sophia daughter of Dhuleep Singh. The government pays the princess twenty five thousand dollars yearly. Astor spends time with the countess of Ancaster and her son Lord Willoughby Derby as a possible match. Miss Astor will choose her husband in her own time despite royal and aristocratic entanglements.
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Miss Astor
William Waldorf Astor
Countess of Selkirk
Sophia
Dhuleep Singh
Great Britain
Misa Astor
Ancaster
Lord Willoughby Deresby
Hetty Green and the pistol in Chicago rumor
The piece suggests Hetty Green may not keep loaded the pistol she is allowed to carry, reflecting cautious commentary on her possession of a weapon amid social attention.
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Chicago Inter Ocean
Hetty Green
Sophomores Turn Tables in Northwestern Lantern Kidnaping
Northwestern University sophomores in Evanston chased the lanterns from the Sigma Alpha Epsilon lawn after freshmen kidnapped four underclassmen Miss Polly Little Miss Herta Gurme Joseph Weese and O M Rogers. The four were forced to entertain the sophomores with a speech a class yell songs and dances before being released amid jeers from the freshmen.
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Northwestern University
Evanston, Ill
Ecphmores
Sigma Alpha Epsilon
C. T. Hinckley
Sheridan Road
Fraternity
Hinman Avenue
First Methodist Church
Church Street
Polly Little
Herta Gurme
Joseph Weese
O. M. Rogers
Government approves German steel import for navy builds
The Navy Department approves a contractor’s plan to buy structural steel in Germany to speed Navy yard construction. A New York project uses German suppliers and foreign inspection reports to meet deadlines, with the Navy reserving the right to verify deliveries on arrival in New York.
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Navy Department
Germany
New York Navy Yard
Pennsylvania Steel
New York
Niece of McKinley to Wed in Washington Society
Carole announced the marriage of Miss Sarah Duncan niece of President McKinley who declined to live at the White House or be Washington society's belle. She is the daughter of Capt. and Mrs. A J Duncan of Cleveland and will wed George Herbert Winslow of Pittsburgh. She was studying to become a teacher when urged to move to Washington.
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Sarah Duncan
White House
Carole
Mc Kinley
Belle of Washington Society
A. J. Duncan
Cleveland
George Herbert Winslow
Pittsburg
Resolution to stock emergency medical chest in house
December resolution by Mr. Wilson of Brooklyn proposed the sergeant at arms acquire an emergency medicine chest with minor operation instruments for up to 50 dollars for use in illness or accidents at the house. The plan passed with an amendment to let three doctors choose contents, citing past illnesses among members and visitors.
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At Arms
Senate
Wilson
Brooklyn
Arme
Delgate Mark Smith
Arions
Committee On Accounts
Bally Delaware
Showalter
Pennsylvania
Meyer
Louisiana
Robertson
Minister Wu Dines Quietly on Rice at Rice Kitchen
Washington residents witness a Chinese minister and aides dining in an American eatery. Wu samples boiled rice, croquettes, salad, pudding, and pie while conversing in his language and using Western utensils, his blue attire drawing attention among the diners.
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Washington
Rice Kitchen
Legation
Cleveland spends summer at Gray Gables with exclusive oyster beds
Ex President Grover Cleveland plans a summer at his Gray Gables estate in Buzzards Bay Massachusetts. He appears to have secured exclusive fishing and oyster digging rights around Monument Beach and Manomet River by having his local superintendent buy long stretches of shore, despite Bourne town residency rules.
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Grover Cleveland
Buzzard’s Bay
Mass
Monument Beach
Manomet River
Mr. Cleveland
Bourne
Cleveland
Princeton
N. J
Bradford Wright
Bishop Bars Women From Episcopal Choirs
Bishop Burgess of the Long Island diocese orders the nine missions under Cathedral of the Incarnation to retire women singers as soon as possible. He says cassocks and surplices belong to men and women should wear modest attire though he allows singing if a womanly uniform is used.
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Burgess
Long Island
Cathedral of the Incarnation
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