Holiday Trade Peaks With Stark Weather Disruptions
Sound market review notes Holiday trade reached a peak with strong demand across most sectors and goods tied to Christmas showing the greatest activity. Transport delays from severe storms complicate deliveries, raising pig iron and steel prices in the West while overall price levels lag inflation of 1900. Copper, tin, and lead fall, leather stocks stay tight, woolen lines improve, and wheat remains steady amid weather and livestock demand shifts.
Greatest Texas ranches loom large in Panhandle holdings
The X. I. 7 ranch in the Panhandle, the state’s largest, spans nearly 3,000,000 acres across six counties. Belonging to the Ganitol syndicate, it was acquired two decades ago in exchange for the statehouse at Austin. It runs 100,000+ cattle, with a 210 mile long pasture fence and a 25 mile width, totaling about 6,000 square miles. Land parcels sold over time and values rose from 50 cents per acre to about four times that amount.
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Texas
Panhandle
Ganitol Syndicate
Austin
Insuring the King's Life Amid Coronation Frenzy
London life insurers face a surge of applications to insure the king for after the coronation next June. Premiums have jumped from about 16 dollars per 500 to 76 dollars. Many policies are tied to coronation business such as managers, hotels, and real estate deals, while financiers speculate using mythical holdings along the procession route.
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London
London Stock Exchange
Uniform German Postage Stamp Uniformity On The Way
A German state is set to discontinue its own postage stamps after April 1, 1902, joining the general German issue. Wertemberg and Bavaria currently issue distinct stamps, but the Reichs sanziger notes stamping standardization across the empire.
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Wertumberg
Bavaria
Reichsanzeiger
Wurtemberg Wil
Germany
Hereditary Naval Families in British Service
The British navy has many hereditary lines with officers spanning two centuries. Many current officers trace ancestry to great grandfathers who served before them and have relatives who were naval officers or spouses of officers.
Six Thousand Questions Asked in Parliament Session
During the British Parliament session from January 23 to August 17, 6448 questions were asked in the house of commons, a figure surpassed only in 1893-94 with 6534 questions. The recent session sat 118 days versus 226 in that period. Ten years ago about 60 foreign fire insurance companies earned lucratively in Chile with little local competition. now Chile hosts 23 fire and marine insurers.
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House of Commons
House
Chile
TILLEY TELLS OF SAMOA HABITS AND GOVERNMENT
Commander Benjamin P. Tilley, commandant at Tituila Samoa, reports to Secretary Long after vindication on a drunkenness charge. He praises U S backed self government, notes frequent melanga visits, extreme hospitality, and lavish entertaining. He credits reforms to curb excess in wedding gifts and village generosity.
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Benjamin PP. Tilley
United States Naval Station
Titulla
Samoa
Washington
Long
United States
Tilley
Buffalo ten dollar bills issued by treasury department
The first ten dollar buffalo bills are in circulation with a large central buffalo figure ready to charge. Many have been returned to the treasury as mutilated or disfigured because they went into circulation before proper curing amid high demand from the engraving and printing bureau.
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Treasury Department
Treasury
Engraving and Printing Bureau
Ocean to Ocean Mail Race Sets Speed Records
A 15000 mile mail relay across the Pacific and American continents shows mail time gains. Since 1819 start, New York to San Francisco times have dropped 16 hours 3 minutes. Since November 3, Northwestern Union Pacific and Southern Pacific improved 1 hour 40 minutes.
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Pacific Ocean
United States
New York
San Francisco
Northwestern
Union Pacific
Southern Pacific
Colorado Colony for Consumptives Near Barnum Col
A cooperative colony for consumptives has started on a ten der tract of fruit land near Barnum Colorado. Patients live in tents and work outdoors as an experiment that could aid those unable to afford or access long Colorado stays. A rubber substitute from Rocky Mountain grease wood shoots is also reported.
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Barnum
Col
Colorado
Rocky Mountain
Buckingham Palace Clocks Keep Time Across Ages
The palace houses 260 clocks whose intricate mechanisms range from modern to antique dating back to Louis XVI era. The royal requirement is precise upkeep. when worn parts fail, replacements are installed to preserve functioning timepieces for the king’s ceremonial and daily routines.
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Buckingham Palace
Louis XVI
Rheumatic Fever Sufferer Praises St Jacobs Oil
A Wisconsin reader from Landsdown Terrace, Caine, Wiltshire, writes of enduring rheumatic fever six times in twenty years. He claims St Jacobs Oil eased pain immediately, unlike other remedies, and plans continued endorsement. He mentions other testimonials and notes a New Year greeting and various advertisements interwoven in the text.
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Mr Wiltshire
Landsdown ‘Terrace
Caine
Wis
St. Jacobs
St. Jacobs Oil
Jerusalem Ancient Water Supply Reveals Historic Aqueducts
The article notes Jerusalem's ancient aqueducts and reservoirs show abundant water in the city. Recently water is again sourced from Solomon's pools nine miles south, drawing from a sealed fountain cited in the Song of Solomon. Water flows via a subterranean spring through an arched channel to a distributing chamber.
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Jerusalem
A Christmas Dinner Not Eaten By Indigestion Remedy
A humorous note touts Naiise's Garfield Ten as a universal cure for stomach liver and bowel disorders. It claims the remedy cleanses the system purifies the blood and promotes long life while implying a joke about friendship and debts.
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Naiise
Garfield Ten
Hall's Catarrh Cure Ad Promises Cure All
An old advertisement touts Hall's Catarrh Cure with testimonials from druggists and merchants in Toledo and London stating trust in FT Chin nev and the firm Weer & Tacax. It claims internal use cures catarrh and promises free testimonials. A stray line notes a paint price of 25,900 over a bridge.
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Hall
Gare
Cresnyd& Co
Prona
Toledoo
Chin
Nev
Weer & Tacax
Voledo
Jo. Wallpiss
Kryvas & Manyix
Whipleale
Voleto
Quia
Wall
Hull
Obscure Patent Medicine Pitch and Pseudo Health Claims
The text advertises various tonics and cures with sensational claims for curing gout fits and nervous disorders. It ridicules others who demand payment and mocks a finance adage about a “foal scheme.” Local mentions include places like New York, Atlanta, Minneapolis, and Massachusetts. The tone mimics a late 19th or early 20th century promotional page.
A Union Soldiers' Home Planned At Johnson City
A remarkable soldiers home will be built at Johnson City to harbor Union and Confederate veterans and Spanish War volunteers. It will comprise 35 buildings including memorial and mess halls, a chapel and a canteen on a site a mile and three quarters long and three quarters of a mile wide in the mountains, with grounds designed by a landscape gardener.
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Johnson City
Venn
Spain
Beet Sugar Industry Advocates Growth Across Counties
The New York Evening Post editorial December 12 endorses beet sugar, citing Oxnard and Cutting on eastern beet production. It argues sugar can be produced cheaper domestically than in Europe, notes profits per acre, and asserts the industry stands on solid, protected-free footing while warning against tariff critics.
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Mosars
Oxnard
Cutting
New York Evening Post
Rocky Mountains
Guek
Cyhan Siar
Messrs
Mississippi Valles
West India Islands
Seaboard
United States
Io Nebraska
Messrs. Oxnard
Knope
Europe
Washington
Messrs, Oxnard
le Ieathing
Esse
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