Pleasant Weather and Local News from Grand Traverse
Pleasant weather resumes after last week’s blizzard. Social notes include visits by Mrs. A. E. Bellinger to Traverse City, Bertha Dull returning for holidays, and Dago the teacher receiving a shaving set from students. Church meetings, Christmas plans, school vacation, and local transfers are reported along with Northport department items and railroad service disruptions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Maple City
Herald
Geo. Clement
A. E. Bellinger
Traverse City
Misa Bertha Dull
A. S. Fritz
Carrie Bixby
Sweet
Miller’s HU
Howard Dull
Frenk Howkins
Jerry City
Ohio
David Borough
Friends Sunday School
Congregations
Santa Claus
Northport Department Herald
Gorreansnanee
Graham & Gustaff Hnve
Shor
Robert
Percy Smith
Robertson
Ace
Eric
Rapda
Olle
Melkeld
Grand Haven
Ife
Staton
Blanch Porter
Moutenant
Amelia Dame
Fannie Bartlett
Olletta Nelson
May Budd
Matti
Louise Brace
Sentinel
Nettie Spangle
Elizabeth Porter
Caroline Nelson May Budd
Ollette Nelson
Winnie Gagnon
Gala
Bps
Traverse
WN. G
J.H. Kennedy
Chas Joynt
G. G. Barth
Wm. Bartlett
Northport
W.M
D. H. Scott
J. H. Kennedy
Methodist Sunday School
Gabriel
E. F. Dame
Pearl
Evanston
D. H. Power
Suttons Bay
R.A. Bears
Lave
Ralph Robertson
Erring
Dre
Frank Sheri
Oltinger
George Heron
Elsard
Wheat
Rene Saunders
Dye
Myrtle Kennedy
Henry Sackatt
Clyde Hathaway
Aa.n. Burrows
J. N. Kennedy
Lillie Horton
Catholics Urge Separate Catholic School System
Arch bishop James E. Quigley urged establishing a state funded but church controlled subsidiary public school system for Catholics. He argued liberalism erodes state and church and that education should rest with the church, not the state, sparking Protestant concern. He called for minority schools under Catholic control with equal access.
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Chicago
James E. Quigley
Roman Catholic Woman's League
United States
Belleve
Government After Air Ship
Wilber and Orville Wright of Dayton Ohio, creators of the boxkite airship, have offered their invention to the U S government. Government contact is already established though details remain secret. A secluded Atlantic coast site near the Graveyard of American Shipping will host future experiments before the Wrights return to Dayton for the holidays.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norfolk
Wilber
Orville Wright
Dayton
Ohio
Kitty Wawk
N. C
Uncle Sam
Atlantic
Seaboard
Whan & Steamer
Government Mall
Roosevelt confronts canal treaty opposition in Congress
Rumor reaches the White House that Senator Gorman plans to mobilize his forces against the canal treaty. President Roosevelt called Republican leaders to a pivotal conference to gauge the strategy. Observers think Gorman aims to unit Democrats in the Senate to defeat the treaty.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Gorman
Maryland
Democrata
Senate
Hall's Catarrh Cure Promoted as Constitutional Remedy
An 19th century advertisement claims catarrh cannot be cured by local treatments and must be treated with internal remedies. It touts Hall's Catarrh Cure as acting on blood and mucous surfaces, describes it as not a quack medicine, and attributes its effectiveness to a physician prescribed formula. It encourages sending for testimonials and notes a accompanying Hall's Family Pills.
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Hall
Iba
EY & CO
Toledo
Cais
Four Free Preparations Promised by Dr Slocum
An advertisement offers four free remedies from laboratories. To obtain them readers must write Dr T A Slocum at 98 Pine Street New York with full post office and express address and will receive the remedies with usage instructions by return mail.
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T. A. Slocum
Pine Street
New York
Man's Strange Condi tion From Postmortem Haemorrhage
Brookings South Dakota Dec 22 surprising results from the post mortem of William Allison 21 died after ten days illness. He claimed poisoning and an opening through the diaphragm with a dilated stomach pressing left thoracic cavity. No left lung, a small rudimentary ring etc. The misfortunes said to be congenital. Also notes Michigan all American selections and a Spencer Iowa man set to receive 4 million dollars in estate matters.
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Roosevelt
Detroi
Mich
United States
Alger
Washington
Tribune
Theodore Roosevelt
Wall Street
Doherty
Michigan
Malndare
Imeastre
Panama
Brookings
S. D
Wiliam Allison
Ann Arbor
Yost
Rafferty
Yale
Maddock
DeWitt
Princeton
Hooper
Dartmouth
Bloomer
Hogan
Bodwitch
Harvard
Harris
Minnesota
Ieston
Mitchell
Schoelkop
Henry
Knowlton
Ollson
Short
Marshall Harvard
Schach
Sheviln
Rockwell
Nichols
Kafer
Smith
Columbia
Des Molines
Iowa
Ane Humple Hostler
Adam Mickle
Spencer
Scotland
Scotty
Michla
Parker Likely for Democratic Nomination if Tendered
Barton Smith, brother of Hake Smith, says Judge Alton B. Parker would accept the Democratic presidential nomination if offered. Smith notes Parker has Tammany support and faces no factional opposition, with delegates ready to back him at the convention as sentiment shifts favorably in both regions.
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Atlanta
Alton B. Parker
New York
Barton Smith
Hake Smith
Judge Parker
Parker
Russia Japan Korea dispute nears settlement in Tokyo report
An official source says Russia recognizes Japan's pre dominating influence over Korea. Japan insists on a written pledge that Manchuria will not become Russian territory. Peace advocates hope to limit the demand and avoid conflict as relations improve.
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Russia
London
Parly
Paris
Japan
Tokio
Manchuria
Peace Party
Strikers Bar Funerals Amid Chicago Funeral Rites
In Chicago on December 19 police charged about 200 strike sympathizers at a funeral for Mrs. Vicok. Funeral processions faced disruption as drivers’ strike actions spread with nearly 75 services planned and employers reinforcing defenses while streetcars aid funeral trips.
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Chicago
Joseph Vicok
Procopius
Hvery
Hoatsa
Dreyfus Reinstated To Army Command
Paris reports the war office council has selected the regiment and rank for Dreyfus reinstatement in the army. The decision includes holding officers who oppose the reinstatement to strict discipline.
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Paris
the Liberte
Council of the War Office
Dreyfus
Consumption Not Fatal In Ann Arbor Doctor Declares
In Owosso Michigan on December 21 a paper to the County Medical Association quotes Dr. Victor C. Vaughan of Ann Arbor asserting that consumption is not fatal. He argues new findings and medical perspectives support longer survival and potential treatment avenues.
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Owosso
Mich
County Medical Association
Victor C. Vaughan
Ann Arbor
Beekinix & Cau
Cutcage
Trent
Dr. King
Paw
Joneses
Trapper Confused by Odd Fur Animal Near Batavia
Harry Gallop and L S Taylor of Batavia trapped a mystery fur animal about two feet long with mattes color and fine texture. It resembles a mink in head shape and has trappers eager to identify the creature.
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Harry Gallop
L.S. Taylor
Batavia
James Parking
John Mtngerald
Standish
Isle Royale
Brown City
Melvin Dean
Carman Dean
Jesse Bradford
Battle Creek
Entertainment ‘Committee
Michigan
Owosso
Martin P. McMahon
Local notes and accidents in Benton Harbor area
Inland items report a boy suffered internal injuries after a collision with a sleigh and cutter. Captain Johnson Robinson tests burning apple pumice as fuel in Benton Harbor, producing high heat with eye-irritating gas. Westmen seek beet sugar factory waste contracts in Saginaw valley. Farmers near Benton Harbor mobilize against San Jose scale with widespread spraying. A Coldwater firm offers six sugar coated pills with each purchase. Detroit hosts 1904 Baptist Young People’s Union convention with dates pending. A romantic Jackson marriage ties Theodora Weigelt to Bartha Keummery after years apart. Italian laborers in Pere Marquette plan emigration to Italy after earning in New York. An Okemos man’s leaky lantern causes a fire while sleighing. An elderly man in Calesbury dies after long illness.
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Johnson Robinson
Lenton Harbor
Saginaw Valley
Benton Harbor
San Jose
Baptist Young People's Union of America
Detroise
Jackson
Theodora Weigelt
Bartha Keummery
Navy
South Seas
America
Detroit
Jackson the
Theodora
Doe Trait
AL Wint & Bunch
Law
Crick
Bollding
Cnlt
Warren Perry
Lapest
Afty
Okemos
Howe
A. H. Carr
Jie
Calesbury
Auction looming for Paradise Lost manuscript in London
London debates the fate of the original Paradise Lost manuscript dictated by Milton to an unknown amanuensis. Sothebys will auction in March 1904 unless a private sale occurs, with efforts to keep the work in England amid competing treasure interests and a New Yorker’s private bid.
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London
Milton
England
United Fitates
Bixpress
Cairo
New York
Norway
Henry Cartar
Reventy-six Auniniers
Mont Quogue
I 1
John Roe Smith
Patehogue
Long Island
Olfo Horticulturiahs
Doolin
Misalagippi
United States
Tallahatelle
Wisconsin
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Grand Traverse Herald
Morgan
Alabama
Wiliam L. Buchanan
United States Senate
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel
Wbouk
Tost Tve
Mr. Morgan
Czar
Berlin
Lokal
Grant and
Green Lake
Eee
M. T. Church
OT Tech
Ourio FF
Columbus
Aine
Battle Creek Wood Laws
State Street
DR. King’s
Fii Druggists
Easynet
Unionport
Nyon
Waite
Cinelnatic
White
Che
Guthrie
Saad
William Collins
Albfor
Jab Witkea Heath
Rom Washhayfan i Prrsutt
Roath
New Hiavvan
Devin
Ae ‘Uetintty
Wwe
Beth
Ato
Sams
Toward
Sandis
Cpe
WL H. Watedh
Ayia
Capt
Watson
Oakland
Cal
Dumont
Louis
Santos-Dumont
A. J. Wilhelm
Ulster
Sitvag
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