Men of the House and Fortunes in Washington
The piece profiles key House figures under Speaker Reed and successor Cannon, spotlighting clerk Hinds for his precedents work and a wave of younger allies. It notes Overstreet and Hemenway as pivotal committee supports, the Landis brothers as witty dealers in a power-packed caucus, and the Indiana influence shaping post offices and appropriations amid a shifting leadership landscape.
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Washington
House of Representatives
Agder Winds
Tom Reed
Maine
Portland Press
Sheezar
Reed
Ccapital
Hinds
Wind
Tiinds
Tadiona
Waune
Tafians
House of Represcenig
Cannon
Apeater
Payne, Dalell
Grosvenor
Shetr Pesilfeng
Flemonway and
Overstreet
Hemenway Ja
Appropriations Committee
Oyarstvest Ia
Republican Congressional Committee
Jesults
Brown
Lions Committee
Hemenway
Esteer
Indiana
House
Senate
Landis Brothers
Boston
Charlie
Pred
Kenesaw
Walter Q. Gresham
Gresham
Cleveland
State Department
Chicago
Fred Landis
Louis 4
Coolidae
Post Office Scandal Report Ends public trust in reforms
The Fourth Assistant Postmaster General Bristow delivers a lengthy report on postal corruption, with the president and special counsel endorsing its thorough, impartial findings. Indictments proceed. justice must be swift, and衡 measures to prevent future frauds will be pursued relentlessly, while some attack Bristow personally.
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Bristow
Indianapolis Journal
Bri
Low
Messrs
Charles J. Bonaparte
Holmes Conrad
Hrnstow
Cruss
Heath
Post Office Department
Tyner
Niere
Wood
Sulu
Panama
Roosevelt
Hay
Detroit Free Press
Inds
Democratic leaders debate 1904 nominee choices
The piece weighs Cleveland’s continued disavowal of a 1904 candidacy against prospects like Parker Gorman and most favorably David Bennett Hill as a national figure. It critiques Gorman as a politician, Parker as a nonentity, and finds Hill as the strongest feasible standard bearer for a credible democratic revival.
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Grover Cleveland
Cleveland
Thomas Gahan
Illinois
Junge Parker
New York
Senator Gorman
Mozes
Chicago
Judge Parker
Indge Parker
Garman
Democratic Party
David Benmett Hill
National Democracy
Chiat Hope
Democratic views split over Cleveland third term and Bryan
The era's papers debate Cleveland's fate and third term stance while noting Bryan and Bryan money jokes. Congress and voters weigh in on a possible 1904 presidential bid as party lines shift and headlines absorb the Iowa and New England political mood of the moment.
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England
Col
Bryan
Philadelphia
Cleveland
Washington
Mass
Ind
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Confession Details Grand Rapids Water Scandal Involves Officials
In Michigan State News the court confession by ex City Attorney Lant K Salsbury lists implicated figures and alleged payments in the Grand Rapids water scandal. Names include ex mayor George R Perry and TE Conger, with sums from 50 to 13 726 dollars, plus other aldermen, reporters, and officials. Also noted is the marriage of Thomas B Lally to Edith Ganzer in Mishawaka Indiana with prior desertion allegations.
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Canndaw
Hilan
de Pagter
Alderman Muir
Sxinney
Donovan
Phillips
Alderman Johnson
Alderman Stonehouse
Alderman Lozier
Alderman Shriver
Alderman Mol
Alderman Ghysers
Alderman Hodges
Burch
Eoening Press
Fnat
Thomas B. Lally
Niles
Edith Ganzer
Mishawaka
Ind
Lally
Sally
Ganzer
Blikhart
Appointments Highlight State Board and County Posts
Gov Biss names Edward C Anthony to the board of control at Marquette branch prison succeeding John Hewes. Anthony a Democrat, one member of that faith required. Also named are William R Oats circuit court commissioner for Houghton county and Bernard LaChance country agent of Mackinac county. Health board reports show intermittent fever and diphtheria up while scarlet fever and smallpox decline. Consumption listed at 184, measles 14, typhoid 80, whooping cough 8, scarlet fever 59, smallpox 24 places.
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Biss
Edward C. Anthony
Negaunee
Marquette
John Hewes
Menominee
Anthony
State Board of Health
State claims ownership of all fish in Michigan waters
In a Grand Rapids suit answer the game wardens deny the federal officers’ arrest was illegal. Charlies Chapman and Charles E Breuster contend the state owns the fish in all streams and lakes whether navigable or not, and that the arrest violated no law.
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Grand Rapids
United States
Charlies Chapman
Charles E. Brewster
Insanity case ends with five dollar verdict in 10 000 suit
A circuit court jury awarded Mrs. Sarah A Love five dollars in her suit for false imprisonment against Sheriff Halladay after a prior insanity examination in Charlotte. The report also notes a fatal rear end railroad collision near Lapest killing A L Kittredge, a 45 year old freight conductor, with his family left widowed. Additional obituaries and local notices cover ministers deaths, corn shredder accidents, oil leases near Rapid River, fire safety groups forming in Detroit, a fire at Hotel Campus area, and library book circulation at the University of Michigan.
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Enux
Sarah A. Love
Charlotte
Burton Love
Chester Township
Allen
Halladay
A. L. Kittredge
Michigan Central Railroad
Lapest
Sylvester Calkins
South Lyons
Grand Rapids
Rapid River
Delta County
Detroit
Michigan Fire Prevention Association
Selling & May
University of Michigan
Hillsdale
L. A. Thompson
Indiana
Coldwater
Andrew Obling
M. E
Ypsilant
John Reed
Gamden
W. H. Hosking & Co
Calumet
Joss 'S
Penlaswis
Smart Dog and Parrot Bond Highlight Local Intelligence
A Times-Democrat reader tale praises a newspaper dog that retrieves the morning paper and assesses headlines for its ailing master. The account extends to a clever dog and parrot duo, showing a high order of understanding as they collaborate to escape the yard and reach the front.
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New Orleans Times-Democrat
Bing
Ela
Times
Iean
The Cure of Consumption Alleged by Noted Figures
The article asserts consumption is preventable and curable, listing Goethe, Peter Croper, Coppée as cured. It cites Herman Brehmer as a renowned German specialist who healed himself and many others, with contemporaries Dottweiler and Trudeau also described as active in this work.
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Goethe
Peter Croper
Coppee
Herman Brehmer
Japanese Petroleum Depose Ta Recognition Grows
Japanese petroleum appears in wells, asphalt springs and mud volumes. The importance of the deposit was only recently recognized.
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Parlimentary Law Authority
Asher
Meads
Rees
Head
Pennsylvania Avenue
Lyne
Congress
Army
Navy
Cushing
Portland Harbor
Fifth Avenue
Waldorf-Astoria
Pr. Amador
M. Varilla
Pullics
Waldorf
Authoriaei
N. Y
Canada
Dominion
Sherbrooke
Pepuier
Mr. Hinds
Brothers of Duticient Physicua
Stelet
Presdlent
Sid
Davids
Mim
Iit
Philac
Phla Press
Michigan State. News
Renda
Farrot
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