Admiral Schley's Bill of Exceptions Filed for Navy Court
Washington reports Rear Admiral Schley filed with the secretary of the navy a bill of exceptions to the court of inquiry findings. He seeks to present objections to the majority opinion and to be heard on Admiral Dewey's individual view, amid secretary Long's handling and word that written objections may replace oral ones.
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Washington
Admiral Schley
Secretary of the Navy
Court of Inquiry
Admiral Sampson
Dewey
Rayner
Teague
Capt. Parker
Long
Judge
Lemly
Department
Hanna
Judge Advocate
Winfield Scott Schley
U. S. Navy
George Dewey
A. E. K. Benham
Francis M. Ramsay
Samuel C. Lemley
United States
Commodore Schley
Cienfuegos
McCalla
Schley
Sampson
Aduja
Chinese Exclusion Debate Seen In House Hearing
Washington December hearing on Chinese exclusion drew mixed views. Asiatic Association members urged fair treatment for Chinese merchants travelers and students while Representative Kahn and Herman Curstadt pushed for strict exclusion. San Francisco merchants favored exclusion by about three to one per a Merchants' association vote. Delegates visited the White House to urge preserving access to Asian markets and protecting treaty rights for citizens.
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Washington
House Committee On Foreign Affairs
Asiatic Association
Kahn
San Francisco
Chinatown
Herman Curstadt
Federation of Labor
John Foord
S. D. Webb
China and
Merchants’ Association
White House
Earthquake and volcanic activity reported in Kamchatka
Victoria B C December 18 steamship Koosa Maru brings from Vladi vostock news of Chinese Boxers and insurgents in Manchuria being cleared by Russia with 2216 ex soldiers and Boxers arrested. Kamchatka reports a serious earthquake and a volcanic eruption at Mount Iviteh with lava flooding rivers and trees covered in volcanic dust. No loss of life. Hong Kong Harbor incident near United States flagship Kentucky involves Consul General Rublee and companion attacked by German sailors.
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Vladivostock
Kobe
Kamchatka
Hong Kong
United States
Kentucky
Rublee
Lester Reiff's Status Denied by Jockey Club Stewards
London officials report that the Jockey Club stewards rejected a circulated American claim that Lester Reiff, the American jockey with a revoked license since October, could apply for a license in 1902. No action on Reiff was taken at the meeting.
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London
Jockey Club
United States
Lester Reiff
Reiff
New Sleeping Car Service in Chicago
New sleeping car service advertised from Boston South Station at 6 p m to Buffalo Detroit and Chicago via Boston and Albany New York Central and Michigan Central railroads. It bills itself as the best quickest safest and only direct double track service from New England to these points and urges readers to send for West Bound by A S Hanson General Passenger Agent.
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Chicago
South Station
Boston
Buffalo
Detroit
Albany
New York Central
Michigan Central
New England
A. S. Hanson
Watch the Little Colds Grow Into Big Colds
It's the little colds that grow into big colds the big colds that end in consumption and death Watch the line about Dr Wood s Norway Pine Syrup as a remedy offered in a vintage medical ad urging preventive care for flu and respiratory issues.
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Dr. Wood
Riot at Birmingham Hall Destroys Town Hall
London dispatch reports a wild Birmingham town hall riot as David Lloyd George faced hostile crowds. Fighters fought police, windows were smashed, a white flag waved for Joey Chamberlain, and Lloyd George hid inside before leaving with officers. Estimates put demonstrators from 10 000 to 50 900.
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London
David Lloyd George
Birmingham Town Hall
Aston Park
Birmingham
Jos. Chamberlain
Chamberlain
Lord Randolph Churchill
Lloyd-George
Town Hall
Liberal Association
Birmingham University
Joey
Mr. Lloyd-George
Brooklyn Heiress Weds Ex-Convict Mission Worker
Miss Sarah R. Mangam a wealthy Brooklyn heiress, aged 43, has married Tom Syron, a former Sing Sing inmate. Mangam, 70, says her daughter believes the marriage blessed by God and that Syron has repented. The wedding occurred at the bride’s Willoughby Avenue home after she met him during her mission rounds in jail.
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New York
Sarah R. Mangam
Brooklyn
Tom” Syron
Sing Sing
Willoughby Avenue
Clinton
Vanderbilt Avenue
Syron
Political pessimism discussed by Naval officer in Boston
Hon. James C. Lyford, a naval officer for the port of Boston, warned at Young’s that political pessimism persists since the Spanish war. He cited fear of naval defeat and eroding liberties, contrasting with views of continual national improvement and stronger liberties today than at the republic’s founding.
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Boston
James C. Lyford
New Hampshire Club
Young’s
Mr. Lyford
Concord
Republic
MacMaster, Fiske
Lepp Mills Flees to Canada with Large Sum
Phoenix announces Lepp Mills local manager of Southern Mutual Investment fled to Canada taking a large sum of money. Local creditors left with several thousand dollars. Offices closed and Lexington Ky head offices assure care of interests. Shortage alleged at about $16,000 over six months. Believed in New Brunswick.
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Phoenix
Arizona
Lepp, Mills
Southern Mutual Investment Company
Canada
Lexington
Mills
New Brunswick
Weymouth embezzlement charger gets 3 to 7 year term
George J. Ries pleaded guilty to embezzling Weymouth town funds while head of the water department and received a sentence ranging from three to seven years in Norfolk Superior Court. Adelbert Mahan, a driver for S. R. Carter, was killed by a train at West Berlin crossing. Frank Stone, 34, a farmer, shot himself in East Watertown. Marlboro residents reported three shocks believed to be an earthquake. An ad for Burdock Blood Bitters concludes the item.
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George J. Ries
Weymouth
Water Department
Norfolk Superior Court
Dedham
Adelbert Mahan
West Berlin
S. R. Carter
New York, New Haven & Hartford
Frank Stone
East Watertown
Prices Current Lowell Retail Market December 18 1901
Prices by Munn O Co grocers J B Cover Co flour D W Horne Co coal Killpartrick rose F E Putnam 15 Prescott Street ish provisions and vegetables reflect a lumber of daily market quotes for dry goods and staples in Lowell Massachusetts with multiple local firms supplying price data.
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Lowell
Munn & O Co
J. B. Cover & Co
D. W. Horne & Co
Killpartrick Ros
F. E. Putnam
Prescott Street
The middle aged man and the golf fad risk
Dr. A C Bernays of St Louis warns that middle aged men should avoid radical life changes and violent exertion for weight loss. The article discusses Wayman McCreery, a St Louis athlete who died from apoplexy after rapid weight loss and intense golf activity. Physicians advise modest exercise, rest, and personal comfort over aggressive dieting and overtraining.
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A. C. Bernays
St. Louis
Wayman McCreery
McCreery
Bernays
Philadelphia
Old reporters confess city desk tricks for extra pay
In a reminiscence the veteran reporter recalls cheap ruses used to pad stories including inflated long titles for figures like Diss de Barr and the Princess Eulalie. He explains how naming tricks yielded more money and that editors eventually tolerated the humor, noting the payoffs and faded pride.
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Diss de Barr
Editha Loleta Ann O’delia Diss de Barr
Salomon
Infanta
Spain
Mr. Davis
New York Mail and Express
Tolstoy compares US army and ships amid American greatness
In an interview excerpt from Frank Leslie's Monthly Tolstoy comments the American army size growing from under fifty thousand to over one hundred thousand and critiques battleship building. He notes a postwar shift toward wealth and declares American brilliance in figures like Carnegie and Lincoln as a modern Homeric age eclipsed by war fever and gold.
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Frank Leslie
Popular Monthly
Leo Tolstoi
America
Carnegie
Carne i
Thoreau
Ballou
Emerson
Longfellow
Whittier
Walt Whitman
Achilles
Abraham Lincoln
Remarkable prison craftsman in miniature bottle
A Joplin man recalls convicts at the state penitentiary producing ingenious leisure hour works. A standout is an eight inch necked bottle containing a perfect model of a wood saw sawbuck and ax. The neck is sealed with a cork glued from inside, with no hole visible.
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Joplin
State Penitentiary
News-Herald
Kansas City Journal
Cupid's Strategy Wins A Sea Romance Conclusion
A Baltimore socialite recalls a comic sea tale aboard the Deutschland. German students and Boston chaperoned beauties collide in failed flirtations until a clever ruse with a hairpin conceals identities. A noble language plot wins the suitor favor, with vows exchanged before America landfall.
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Baltimore
Europe
Boston
Baltimore Sun
Davy Crockett Gun Trophy Linked to Virginia Figure
Mr. C. W. Callaghan received a flintlock rifle said to be Crockett’s favorite weapon from Robert Blair of Wytheville. Blair, son of former Virginia attorney general Irank S. Blair, notes the gun was given to his father by Crockett’s family. The .40 caliber, five and a half foot long rifle features handwork, brass trim, a brass eagle stock badge, and a brass telescope along the barrel.
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David Crockett
C. W. Callaghan
Maryland
Robert Blair
Wytheville
Davy
Blair
Irank S. Blair
Virginia
Baltimore Sun
Discovery of Nebuchadnezzar’s throneroom at Babylon
The German Oriental Society reports Dr Koldewey has located Nebuchadnezzar’s throneroom in Babylon, a 60 by 160 foot hall with preserved royal throne niche and rich ornaments. Excavations near Jumjuma reveal inscribed clay tablets with letters psalms and vocabularies, aiding Old Testament studies.
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Nebuchadnezzar
German Oriental Society
Koldewey
Babylon
Jumjuma
Weissbach
Gladstone’s Last Cathedral Dream Brought to Liverpool Appeal
The Lincoln dean, son-in-law of the late Mr Gladstone, recounted at a Liverpool cathedral building appeal how Gladstone, in Cannes in 1898, amid pain, exclaimed he wished for a million pounds and would spend it to build a cathedral and found a Liverpool chapter.
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Lincoln
Mr. Gladstone
Liverpool
Cannes
Considerate Pastor Praise Recounted by Raleigh News
North Carolina pastors receive praise from the Raleigh News for their consideration. A Morgantown sermon by Rev. Jesse Hl. Page is cited where he lowers his voice to avoid disturbing the rear pews as he laments waking the front rows.
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North Carolina
Raleigh
N. C
Jesse Hl. Page
Morgantown
Military Ardor Killed How McKinley Blocked Brigadier Post
Ex governor Robert L. Taylor recalls meeting William McKinley in Congress and at the Tennessee centennial. He describes seeking a brigadier general appointment during the Spanish American War, and McKinley’s moment of warm humor when warning of possible danger as Taylor pressed for command. Knoxville Sentinel.
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Robert L. Taylor
William McKinley
Taylor
Tennessee
McKinley
Washington
Congress
MacKinley
Prospector Coburn Advertises Body for Grubstake
W. 8. Coburn of Alpine Colorado a prospector in bad luck advertises to sell his body to raise money for development of mining claims. He has exhausted credit and creditors threaten to levy on his claims to recover losses. He offers a corpse market as a last resort, stating his body would make a good skeleton and offering a commission to any buyer.
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W. 8. Coburn
Alpine
Colo
Coburn
Dowie Claims Word church Rare in Gospels
In a Chicago auditorium on Sunday, Dr Dowie declared the word church appears only twice in Matthew and not at all in the other gospels. He contrasted it with Christ using the term kingdom of heaven and pressed the audience with questions about church authority.
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Chicago
Tos
Failings of an Emperor and the Mikado’s Dignity
A chronicle of Mutsu Hito, the one hundred and twenty third Japanese ruler, noting his simple uniform and reluctance to sit for portraits. The emperor, though plain in appearance, is described as bowlegged and pigeontoed yet possesses enduring majesty and capable leadership.
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Mutsu Hito
Salisbury as a Saint in All Souls Chapel Reredos
A niche in All Souls College Oxford houses a statue of Lord Salisbury as a Christian warrior. Elected a college fellow about forty years ago, he joins an elaborate screen in the chapel, with the sculptor choosing to honor a personal saint rather than canonized figures.
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Lord Salisbury
All Souls’ College
Oxford
Australian flag design contest ends with prize
More than 33,000 designs were reviewed in a competition started by the Australasian Review of Reviews. The government offered £200 for the best proposal after a naval experts board examined entries, reaching a decision on October 3.
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Australasian Review of Reviews
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