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Newspaper
Lawrence Journal World
Location
Lawrence, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1901
Page
2
Lawrence chatter spans politics and press as Kansans debate Metcalf’s pension appointment, Leland's clash with Burton, and Topeka reports. Editorial jabs fuse with rural mores, noting Marconi telegraphy, Topeka fears, and disappointed press critiques while medics and congress figures mix in the national riffraff of December.
Miss Anca hosts a party for friends with gifts and a spread of treats while John Heary returns from Kansas City to celebrate Christmas with his family. Kappa chapter holds a Christmas party in Kentucky. Foster Waist Club and Miss Mare Tisdele attend meetings. Marcella Howland Olmstead marks her seventh birthday with afternoon festivities for her young friends.
Ragged items describe a Lake Street house with men employed to weed near a small water body known as Drake Lake. Nearby families by that name lived along the water, deaths observed by the narrator, and locals report adventures at a ninth ward resort near Dickes’s store.
A catalog-style note lists affordable holiday items such as rockers sideboards dining furniture and office pieces at 936 938 Mass and notes a Christmas sale. The rest of the column reports on federal talks about Indian affairs in Washington with Senators Platt Quarles and Rep Curtin meeting Secretary Hitchcock plus a Rathbun murder trial in Jeffersonville Indiana and a health advert for Hall's Catarrh Cure with signatures.
The president nominated Wilder Mutesit to replace Ceran Leland as pension agent in Topeka, overseeing about 100000 pensioners and a district including Kaw Missouri Colorado and New Mexico with over 15000000 in expenditures. A dozen passengers injured in a Pittsburg Tennessee and Take Erie wreck near Houston junction as a locomotive failed and cars overturned. Snow delays cripple rail lines into Union, with Harlington freight blocked and engines stalled on side tracks. In New York, Gage addresses a bankers’ group at the Waldorf Astoria. A factory fire at Tees a Pa destroys Hyend School Slate manufacturing plant, losses under 60000. Willis Swofford, jailed for killing his stepfather, receives a life sentence.
Report notes weather caused the parade feature to be abandoned at the breaking ground ceremonies for the world’s fair site. Directors and guests will transfer to the ground in carriages for the ceremony, with public events in the Coliseum and a banquet planned later that day.
A volcanic eruption hit Mount Iviteh in Kamchatka on December 20. A roaring underground event occurred about 100 miles before the eruption. Lava overflow polluted rivers and killed thousands of fish across the region.
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