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Newspaper
Indiana Democrat
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jan 29, 1902
Page
6
Tt Marcent pledges to reduce transatlantic communication to one cent a word. A French economist calculates that higher German freight rates relative to France could save German industries about $40,000,000 yearly. He contends France should invest in more canals to boost savings.
Berlin reportedly shelters 100000 unemployed workers and 45000 women, with metal trades accounting for a large share. Soup houses and free food depots spring up to aid the distressed work ig classes as poverty grows amid economic hardship.
United States Consul Boyle at Liverpool reports to the State Department that third place for Great Britain in world commerce alarms English economists. Von Hogland’s dominance in the carrying trade is challenged, and remedies may transform the nation’s industrial and social life.
Syracuse reports a two year operation of a municipal lodging house at a net cost of 6.03 to the town. It provided 12 869 lodging stays 25 738 single meals and 11 288 baths. The self supporting facility required each lodger to work four hours on city streets and one hour for a meal. The superintendent placed 1198 men in work during the lease.
The piece compares Australia’s blackberry invasion to past rabbit plagues, noting imported brambles now pose a pest as severe as the rabbit once did. It cites Indianapolis Sentinel averages on a baby boy’s odds of future roles and life outcomes, including presidency, governorship, and public misfortune.
The Forum notes many wealthy Chinese Americans with fortunes from 100 000 to 500 000 dollars. Chin Lan Sun is described as the richest Chinese man, owning towns, ranches, real estate, gold mines, diamonds, factories and canneries, lottery operations, immigration labor, and multiple San Francisco stores. He rose from steerage to become a self made merchant and political power, six feet tall and regarded as honorable in business.
Langfield, plain and red-haired, learns love and duty in the Alaska interior. After nursing a fever patient and saving a wounded prospector, he confronts a life pivot point with Tom Perry and Dolly, deciding between personal loss and companion loyalty.
In a clipped, frustrated moment, a male speaker pleads with a companion. A female voice responds with passion, shouting about love and perception. The scene conveys heated emotion and interpersonal tension captured in a terse, period tone.
A Sun report details new steam shovel technology at Lake Superior mines cutting ore handling labor. At Conneaut a 6000 ton ship can be cleared in 14 hours and ore delivered to Pittsburg in 98 hours after arrival. The 400 ton machine, 55 feet high, loads 36-40 cars in two hours with 10 ton clamshell scoops, reducing labor by 75 percent at 20 cents per ton.
A mash of facts notes a 20 hand horse in Kansas owned by Stout of Doniphan County, a Swiss family seeking funds to buy a grocery shop, Berlin’s goose market valued at over 23.5 million dollars annually, a beard-shaving contract dispute in Marienburg, and Chinese milk’s touted youthful virtue. it also covers russia’s hees tradition, flax and potato harvest routines, and Babylon’s ancient flood defenses with Euphrates embankments and a vast irrigation reservoir.
A San Francisco Bulletin item recalls a courtship romance involving wealth, referencing a supposed tale the man told his partner about his vast riches. The fragments suggest a gossip angle on a bygone pairing and its financial angle.
Yale defeats Princeton in intercollegiate hockey by seven to nine. John Suthoff and Harry Teal sign with Indianapolis. Phillies manager Shettsline plans spring training in Thomasville. Yale challenges Penn to a baseball game as talks of cross university athletic ties resume. British racing circles may elect an American patron with Keene or Whitney as likely choices.
A party of Tuaregs seized a leading trading caravan carrying 1500 packages of ivory ostrich feathers and hides valued around 500000 dollars. The camels and drivers were overwhelmed as the freight was diverted into Tuareg strongholds in the desert. French station at Zinder reported the robbery and sent 20 pursuers.
A framed odd letter from a Home Counties town applicant to a police chief in London details his laborer background and chapel attendance. He lists 23 years old, 5 feet 10 inches tall, about 40 inch chest, and willingness to convert church or chapel teaching. He signs sincerely and requests consideration for a police post.
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