Secret Service Rivalry and Deficiencies in Britain
A historic critique of espionage in Britain, detailing how Russia Germany and England spy on each other. It urges a unified reorganization of naval military and diplomatic intelligence with the foreign office as the central hub. It argues that German and Russian systems are more centralized and efficient than Britain’s scattered approach.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
Russia
England
Shaw-Lefevre
Friends of Russian Freedom
Central Asia
Baluchistan
Persia
India
Penttin
Great Britain
Teland
Germany
United Kingdom
Foreign Office
Admiralty
Secret Service
Navy
France
Military
Rduce
French Republic
Berlin
Emden
Kiel
Killed by Its Friends in Port Policy Failures
The Baltimore American reports that women inspectors at the New York port failed to win support. Women passengers protested the probing questions, derailing a political push for gender equality. The piece frames the effort as thwarted by feminine oversight.
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Baltimore
Death Lurks in Desert Eleven Victims in Mojave
A sensational report describes a desert killer named The Strangler active across the Mojave. Eleven bodies found with rope marks, robberies noted, two prospectors Carmen and Frotham identified, suggesting one or more assailants. Authorities fear a gang may be preying on travelers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mojave
Harmon
India
John Carmen
Andrew Frotham
San Bernardino
Dagger
Carmen
Frotham
Indian Names Recast by Federal Order Angers Coffee Family
Washington reports reveal a federal move to rename Indians deemed uncouth or unpronounceable as they transition to United States citizenship. Commissioner Jones, urged by Hamlin Garland, orders all allottees and school teachers to adopt family names retaining original roots where possible while replacing vulgar examples like Tobacco Mogul and Coffee with suitable replacements.
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Washington
Commissioner Jones
Mr. Garland
United States
Interior Department
Anadarko
Mr. Jones
Hogs Are Unprofitable Packers Could Buy Sparingly
Live Stock World reports packers will not pay more for hogs if avoidable and prices near seven dollars are costly. Despite price drops, some believe high values may persist due to tight future hog supply, while others expect prices to ease further. Traders should beware bullish bets as margins tighten and risk increases.
Maxims for the Married and a Washington Star quip
A compact collection of marital maxims urging harmony and affection, plus a Washington Star quip about changing physicians to avoid criticism of one’s diet, reflecting light humor on personal relations and happiness. The notes reference public quarrels, affection, money, and personal choices in health.
Stairs and Shadows Drive a Rural Schoolmaster Far
In 1901Exton tale a young village schoolmaster Dick Barnett plans to leave after romance with Mrs Ellison meets suspicion after a mysterious murder in the Ellison estate park. He helps a fainting Mrs Ellison and is later implicated as the possible killer as townsfolk whisper of a trunk scare and a planned departure. The Innkeeper hears the case and hints at the ongoing controversy.
Echo in canyon lessons on perpetual motion tale
In Lippincott's tale Lesuis W. Quirk recalls a canyon river anecdote about an eastern man who falls from a boat and calls for help as the river carries him into rock walls. An echo travels between the canyon walls for nearly ten years, rebounding with the same loudness as when first heard.
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Lesuis W. Quirk
Lippincott's
Perpetual Motion
Colorado River
The Explanation at a Dairy Lunch Counter
A Chicago Tribune note records a proprietor remarking that a frequent guest brings a magazine to read during meals, the guest replying he uses it as an aesthetic to enhance his dining experience.
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Chicago Tribune
His Unlucky Lapse
A humorous courtroom or testimony line recounts a man nicknamed Seldom Fed losing a job after mistaking a city caller’s shout for a familiar Smith. The speaker recalls acting as an echo for a mountain hotel and, due to absent mindedness, answering the wrong Smith, derailing his employment.
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Smith
Contracts Let for New Agricultural College Buildings at Ames
Contracts have been let for a new livestock judging pavilion sixty five feet in diameter and a farm mechanics building of 60 by 100 feet to serve the Iowa State College of Agriculture at Ames. The second story will house the agronomy department while the judging pavilion and green house facilities back the department of animal husbandry led by Professor W J Kennedy and assistant R Marshall. Structures will be brick and pressed brick, freproof, and designed to meet growing college needs and aid Iowa farmers.
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Agricultural College
Ames
Lows Agricultural College
Hoor
Department of
Animal Husbandry
W. J. Kennedy
R. Marshall
Agronomy
P. G. Holden
Iowa
Iowa College
College of Agriculture
Morgan backer eyeing nationwide telephone trust formation
New York reports a Morgan backed scheme to unite all telephone and independent companies under a vast trust. The American Telephone and Telegraph Company raises capital to 250 million, with independent firms pooling under Consolidated Telephone Company led by B. G. Hubbell of Buffalo. The plan envisions shared control and a possible year to complete.
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Morgan
New York
Wall Street
American ‘Telephone and Telegraph Company
George Gould
Western Union
Clarence Mackay
Postal
Broad
Boston
American Telephone Company
General Combine
Iowa
Nebraska
Morgan's
Consolidated Telephone Company
Buffalo
N. Y
Bell Company
Outlook for 1903 Hog Market Says Production May Rise
The Nebraska Farmer notes high prices for registered breeding stock hint a revival in breeding and a larger pig production next season. It contests hog famine theories, cautions packers will push price breaks, and predicts normal hog supplies may recur despite claims of shortages.
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Nebraska
Get Her Fortune Before Snending
New York Herald reports Katherine Nause of Mount Vernon as heiress to nearly all of a $50 000 estate left by her grandfather John Vansteynberg a Brooklyn recluse buried at Cypress Hills. He was 68, favored granddaughter of a Dutch family man who earned his wealth with Mott Ivor works and lived in a single room on Fulton Street. Before dying in St Johns hospital he asked to keep his bank books found in his coat pocket with rolls of bills hidden on his clothing. Mrs Nause also inherits part of the property including real estate and money in several Brooklyn savings banks.
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New York Herald
Katherine Nause
Mount Vernon
John Vansteynberg
Brooklyn
Cypress Hills
Mr. Vansteynberg
Katherine
Vansteynberg
Mott Ivor Works
Ulton Street
St. John's Hospital
Miss Nause
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Washington Star
Ernest de Laney Pierson
Street & Smith
Dick Bartnett
Exton
Maelf
Jim
Bennett
Elison
Ellison
Grace
Mrs. Ellison
Peter Bowersox
Peter
Mr. Bowersox
Peters
Huison
Telephone Trust
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