Two Beet Sugar Plants to Be Installed in Colorado
Denver reports two new beet sugar factories to be built in Colorado for the 1903 season, each costing about 600000 dollars with about 600 tons daily capacity. National Construction Company plans, may fund 200000 dollars, with locations undisclosed yet. R R Bane cites Colorado conditions, sugar yields higher and longer season, noting Cuba risks and tariff politics. Alfred Musy of Denver may be connected to the project and Union Pacific interests.
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Colorado
Denver
Colo
R. R. Bane
National Construction Company
Detroit
Michigan
Brown Palace
Bane
United States
Cuba
Republican Party
New York
San Francisco
Mr. Bane
Alfred Musy
Union Pacific Railway
Mr. Musy
Fire Devastates St Pierre Miquelon Town
A major fire in St Pierre Miquelon destroyed the governor’s residence, government offices, court, naval ministry buildings, a cathedral, a Presbyterian church, schools, and other structures. No fatalities reported though losses may reach half a million dollars. Limited water supply and weak firefighting aids blamed. town had burned previously in 1865 1867 and 1879.
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St. Johns
N. F
St. Pierre
Miquelon
Ministry of Marine
Presbyterian Church
Denver Firemen Injured in Street Car Collision
In Denver on November 2 a tramway car collided with a fire department hose wagon at Fifteenth and Curtis. Driver Vincent Davidson and Captain Joseph E. Troy escaped with minor bruises. Lieutenant Frank Gomer and Pipeman Victor Roberts suffered bruises, while motorman Chris Kline was uninjured but the car’s front and vestibule were damaged. The tramway crew were detained for criminal carelessness but released on recognizances.
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Denver
Fire Department
Fifteenth
Curtis
Vincent Davidson
Joseph E. Troy
Frank Gomer
Victor Roberts
Roberts
Chris Kline
Casey
Kline
Harry H. Hegner
Secretaty Chamberlain sails for Africa on new warship
A sequence of short telegram items reports Secretary of the Treasury reading to go to South Africa aboard a new warship. Oklahoma livestock season opens November 1 for sixty days. Italian steamer Elena lost at sea with some survivors. extradition case involving Joseph C. Taylor ends in his release.
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Chamberlain
Soxth Africa
Marseilles
Elena
Joseph C. Taylor
South Africa
C. F. Segelke
la Crosse
Wisconsin
Arthur Buests
Archie Woodin
Joseph Bulick
Mount Pleasant
Michigan
Jackson
Westmoreland Coal Company
West Irwin
Pennsylvania
House of Commons
John Redmond
United States
James Conn
Willow Creek
Bearmouth
Montana
Northern Pacific
Frank C. Andrews
City Savings Bank
Detroit
Supreme Court
Andrews
Jeremiah Hunter
North Beach
Labor Day
Long Island City
William Thorp
Hunter
Thorp
Happy Hollow
Hot Springs
Arkansas
Robert Tatum
Boulder Doctor Charged in Wife Poisoning Case
Dr Rudolph Baird of Boulder is charged by a coroner s jury with poisoning his wife Nannie J Baird who died October 16 1902 The verdict states she came to death by poison administered by her husband or with his knowledge The case attracts wide attention as a possible famous Colorado poisoning episode with autopsy findings confirming non natural death and physicians declining to name the poison.
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Boulder
Colo
Rudolph Baird
Nannie J. Baird
Baird
Dr. Burris
Longmont
Dynamite Blast Kills Family in Chicago Heights
A dynamite bomb exploded under a Chicago Heights cottage while the Kordeck family slept, killing G Joseph Kordeck and his child Lucy, wounding Mrs Licy Kordeck and others. Former boarder Charles Smith was arrested, accused by neighbors of threatening to blow up the family if refused marriage.
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Chicago
Joseph Kordeck
Chicago Heights
Sipaly Kordeck
Licy Kordeck
Kordeck
Lucy
Smith
Thomas Kobilinski
Night Ashes Darken Tapachula As Santa Maria Erupts
Alarm grips Tapachula as Santa Maria volcano in Guatemala erupts for the 53rd hour beyond. surrounding coffee plantations suffer losses while Guatemalan properties rear damage. Subterranean rumblings persist, debris ash soils ships at San Benito, and relief begins as telegraph links restore. Isabo’s peak near Isabó Salvador shows a brief violent eruption with black smoke but soon quiets.
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Tapachula
Chicapas
Mexico
Santa Maria Mountain
Guatemala
Tacana
San Benito
Palenque
Ocos
Santa Maria
Colon
Acajutla
Salvador
Isaleo
Isabo
Fury of a Woman Scorned in Pueblo Forger Case
Lizzie Morley a 20 year old bride accuses her husband Joseph Meyers of being a city wide forger. Police hold him as she recounts seven week marriage and his alleged crimes including disguises stamping outfit and large check frauds in several cities.
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Pueblo
Colo
Lizzie Myrley
Joseph Meyers
Jefferson City
Missouri
Morley
Four Men Die as Sewer Gas Suffocates Workers
In Niagara Falls a gas rush, likely sulphuretted hydrogen, killed four men and seriously affected three others near the Twenty Fourth street heading of a large tunnel trunk sewer. Thirteen men of the second shift were at work when a blast was discharged. several collapsed and one man, George Rhodes, fell from a bucket and died. Nine escaped.
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Niagara Falls
Twenty-fourth Street
George Rhodes
Across Continent in Eighty-Eight Hours
Chicago news reports the Golden State Limited will run from Los Angeles to Chicago in eighty eight hours with a 66 hour through time and an eight hour total including Chicago layover, cutting coast to coast travel time and enabling connections to Atlantic seaboard trains.
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Continent
Chicago
Golden State Limited
Los Angeles
Southern Pacific
Rock Island
Atlantic Seaboard
Gifts to Colorado College Museum in Colorado Springs
The new science hall rises as the college prepares to exhibit the Stratton natural history collection stored in the basement of Burbon library. Mary H. Tatnall presents the extensive herbarium compiled by Edward Tatnall, totaling about 21 000 species from 2 322 genera and 190 orders, with a 600 page and a second catalog. Sixty five collectors from twenty three states plus Canada England and Sweden contributed. The herbarium mainly covers American flora and offers comprehensive plant groups for botanical work and expert consultation, a lasting asset for Colorado College.
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Colorado Springs
W. S. Stratton
Coburn
Colorado College
Edward Tatnall
Canada
England
Sweden
Found Friend in Miller
Yone Noguchi, a young Japanese artist and writer praised by Charles Warren Stoddard as the dream child, leaves Tokio for San Francisco to write in English. He travels with a knapsack and arrives at Joaquin Miller’s Oakland home, where Miller welcomes him and asks how long he will stay.
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Yone Noguchi
Charles Warren Stoddard
University of Tokio
San Francisco
Joaquin Miller
Noguchi
Oakland
Sierras
Miller
Amen Boots or No Boots Story
Congressman Jones tells an amiable old tale from Washington about a theological student preacher and Silas Smith who shouts amen to rouse the crowd. To test restraint a member offers boots if amen is silenced, but the student’s end provokes Silas to exclaim Amen Boots or no boots.
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Congressman Jones
State of Washington
Silas Smith
Sas
Silas
American Farms Earned Five Billion In 1902
The Review of Reviews states five and one fifth billion dollars was earned by about 5.67 million U S farms in 1902, a record high. Farm products for 1899 totaled 4.739 billion dollars, cereals apart from corn matched 1899, corn output rose by 500 million bushels, and over three years more head of cattle were marketed. Farm numbers rose by 15 000 to 40 000 annually.
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United States
Four Persian princes study in Europe under strict royal control
The Shah of Persia has four sons in Europe for education. They are described as mild and quiet, lacking spirit due to fear of their father. Their grandfather Nesser ed Din was assassinated in 1896 while governor of a distant province. The princes had been confined in the harem with the shah's many wives until recently.
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Persia
Europe
Nesser Ed Din
Nordica Performs Gymnastic Bag Punching Exercise
Opera star Mme Nordica practices punching a bag daily to build muscle and reduce adipose tissue. She aimed to learn boxing but was advised that accidental blows to the neck or chest could ruin her vocal career. the bag serves as a compromise training method.
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Nordica
Mme
Authors Peculiarities in London Tatler
A London Tatler writer praises Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and Robert Barr as hearty genial men who lean fiercely Tory in politics yet remain true liberals in aiding others. Doyle is Reform Club, Barr Devonshire, both active in helping those in need despite party leanings.
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London Tatler
Arthur Conan Doyle
Robert Barr
Primrose League
Reform Club
Devonshire
Mementoes of Sunflower State at Washington encampment
Fourth Assistant Postmaster General Bristow, a Kansas native, was presented with corn, apples, pears, and potatoes from Kansas during the Grand Army encampment in Washington. The speakers hung these agricultural specimens about his room in the post office department as decorative mementos of the Sunflower State.
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Sunflower State
Bristow
Kansas
Washington
Post Office
Bernhardt Leads Costume Workshop Before Major Production
The French actress Sarah Bernhardt oversees costume creation for her theater piece. A diligent corps of girls works in a room pinning materials lace and trims on manikins. Occasionally she supervises operations and even the forewoman defers to her judgment.
McKinley’s Niece Becomes Noted Real Estate Financier
Margaret McKinley, niece of the late president and daughter of Abner McKinley, works as a clerk in an Oklahoma City national bank. She has accumulated a fortune through real estate speculation, starting by buying city lots at about $125 each in what became a prominent business district, with profits reportedly exceeding $40,000.
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McKinley
Margaret McKinley
Abner McKinley
National Bank
Oklahoma City
Miss McKinley
Denver Market Summary with Month to Date Receipts
Denver markets show month to date receipts 27,771 versus 18,967 last year, an increase of 8,804 and year to date total 279,271, up from 197,767. Price quotes cover beef steers and cows with ranges for choice grass steers from 1.100 to 1.250 and 900 to 1.150 for feeders, plus bulls and stockers in varied grades.
Sheep Market Prices and Receipts for Month to Date
The document lists comparative sheep receipts month to date versus last year and year to date, noting increases. It provides quotations for sheep and related commodities including wethers and ewes, lambs, feeder stock, various feeds, and hay. Notable prices include Colorado and Nebraska quotations for oats, corn, and bran, with upland hay and storage values listed.
His Reward. Cohenstein and the Life Saver Dialog
A brief, humorous quip from a bathers’ scene includes Cohenstein thanking a life saver with mock formality. The exchange, captured by Puck, ends with playful exaggeration about sharing heaven if the rescuer died first, reflecting a lighthearted, sea-bathing era banter.
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Cohenstein
Say You Must Think Youre A Bird In Air Story
A bashful young man backs into a bar at a mountain resort and is accused of stealing a hat. The landlady quips about him needing the pure mountain air, while the tenderfoot, unused to the altitude, laments not getting enough air. The exchange unfolds with light humor.
Armor Tests at Indian Head for Colorado Class Ships
Washington Oct 31 Tests of armor plate were conducted at Indian Head during the week. Six inch Krupp plate for the Colorado Pennsylvania Maryland and West Virginia cruisers endured three trials. The highest velocity reached was 1919 feet per second and the armor penetrated about two inches. The test was judged successful.
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Washington
Indian Head
Colorado
Pennsylvania
Maryland
West Virginia
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Theodore Roosevelt
Valdez
W. 7. Hoggatt
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J. J. Healey
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McNair
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Republic of Mexico
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San Juan Mountain
Tabasco
Huistopec
Case AT
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Santa Maria Volcano
Colorado College Museum
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Lover
South Park
Turkey
Puck
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