Growing Export Trade Reaches Record 1902 Levels
Washington reports manufactures now form about one third of U S exports. Ten months of 1902 data indicate total manufactured exports near 418 million dollars, after decennial growth from 1790 onward. Europe absorbs over half, with copper mineral oil iron and steel goods leading. Prices and historical shares outlined. ad for Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup offered at twenty five cents.
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Washington
United States
Bureau of Statistics
Europe
North America
South America
Asia Oceania
Africa
Mrs Mary Texter Dies After Long Illness Near Genoa
Mrs Mary Texter aged 76 died at her Genoa home Saturday afternoon after a year illness with cancer. She had lived near Genoa for over 40 years, coming from Pennsylvania her birthplace. Her husband David Texter and four children survive, including Mrs Will Sheddern and August Texter at home. Funeral from the family residence at 12 30 Monday with Rev Schake officiating. Interment in West Lawn Cemetery Canton.
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Mary Texter
Genoa
Pennsylvania
David Texter
Will Sheddern
August Texter
Schake
Westlawn
Canton
Dover Fire Devours Mills at American Sheet Steel Complex
A Saturday night blaze destroyed the galvanizing mills paint shop storeroom and four west side mills of the American Sheet Steel Company in Dover C. The loss runs above 1 million with about 750000 in finished products. Fire crews from New Philadelphia helped protect offices and east side mills. Rebuilding will start soon. 250 workers will be reassigned.
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Gavnl Dover
American Sheet Steel Company
New
Philadelphia
Rural Free Delivery and Good Roads Plan Considered
A Pennsylvania citizen proposes tying free rural delivery to road improvements. If a road is impassable, local authorities must repair it or lose rural mail service, as Martin Dodridge notes the need to educate the public on road work and reallocate funds to road improvement.
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Pennsylvania
Joseph W. Brown
Mr. Brown
Martin Dodridge
Bureau of Public Roads
Department of Agriculture
Dr. Bulgin to Remain for One More Week in Massillon
Dr. E J Bulgin of Chicago continues revival services at the Presbyterian church in Massillon for another week. The congregation voted unanimously for extended preaching with nightly services. He spoke on Esther a Type of Christ and Moses Scientific, arguing Moses acquired his knowledge from God. He closed with a sermon on Excuses. The community commends the deep spiritual atmosphere and praises Professor Montgomery and the fifty voice choir for their performances.
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E. J. Bulgin
Chicago
Presbyterian Church
Massillon
Moses
God
Dr. Bulgin
Montgomery
New Telegraphic Shell Dispatch System Proposed
A wartime messaging method suggested by Captain Hardin Beverly Littlepage uses a cannon fired dispatch boom. A timed explosive shell releases a fragile cylinder with a trailing color ribbon bearing the message, enabling night visibility and safe delivery even if the courier is captured.
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Hardin Beverly Littlepage
Division of Naval War Records
Navy Department
Washington Post
De Wet Forces Payment for Public Portrait Sitting
London cable to the Chicago Tribune reports Boer general De Wet outmaneuvers publisher over a frontispiece portrait. Artist John S. Sargent faced a stiff price before agreeing to sit for the Look upon the War frontispiece as De Wet demanded compensation.
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de Wet
London
Chicago Tribune
John S&s. Sargent
Pride of Profession Soldier Remembrance Commentary
A fragmented passage laments pride in profession and memorials for fallen soldiers. It warns against dishonor if a different vehicle carries the casket, contrasting respect for the fallen with shame over possible misrepresentation.
British Divine's Wit Anecdotes of Rev Joseph Parker
Anecdotes recount the late Dr Joseph Parker of London known for vigorous atheistic humor and blunt humor. In a church scene he sat in a rear pew joining a hymn then silenced a loud singing laborer by his whispered rebuke. The sketches highlight his sharp voice and stripped, serious style.
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Dev. Joseph i Hero
London
Joseph Parker
Gample
Machine Blieper
The Cost of Living Debate in 1902 Prosperity
The piece argues that wage workers are not worse off despite higher living costs as prosperity raises incomes. Professor George Gunton contends prosperity offsets higher food prices with cheaper goods elsewhere and notes no bread shortages or soup houses. It claims prosperity is not measured by low prices and cites global price comparisons to China and India.
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Troy
Hayner Distilling Company
West Fifth Street
Dayton
George Gunton
Gunton
China
India
First Steam Cruiser Royal William Crossed Atlantic
The Royal William, built at Cove Quebec in 1830 31, sailed across the Atlantic as the first steam driven vessel and later became a cruiser. Chartered in London in 1832 by Portugal to carry troops to Brazil, she served again under Spain against Don Carlos in 1836, firing the first hostile shot by a steamship.
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Atlantic
Canada
Johnson
Royal Willam
The
Cove
Quebec
Halrfax
London
Don Pedro
Brazil
Don Carlos
Thousands Have Kidney Trouble and Don’t Know It
Classic advert claims thousands suffer kidney trouble unseen. It instructs testing urine sediment, listing symptoms like back pain and frequent urination, then promotes Dr Kilmer Swamp Root as a universal remedy with sample offers by mail from Binghamton NY.
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Swamp Root
Swamp Root, Co
Binghamton, N
Restorative Nervine Promises Cure for Nervous Rheumatism
A reader from Redfield South Dakota credits Dr Miles Restorative Nervine and Dr Miles Anti Pain Pills with curing severe winter rheumatic pains and nervous prostration after grip illness. A Noblesville Indiana resident also reports heart and chest relief from heart disease treatments. All druggists sell Dr Miles remedies and a free book on nervous and heart diseases is available from the Dr Miles Medical Co Elkhart Indiana.
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Miles
Dr. Miles
Fred Myers
Redfield
S. D
J. W. Golding
Noblesville
Ind
Acetytene Propels Naval Floats Amid Court Report
Acetytene Por Flomting Shipe a committee member of the council of the Aerochit of Tunis presented a floating solution using radiated talloons under the water with acetylene parts. The method was tested successfully on a Seine top ton heat and in Marky sheens. The inventor foresees ships using the device to prevent foundering in collisions.
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Tunis
New York
Dineuisse
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