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Newspaper
Moulton Eagle
Location
Moulton, Texas, United States of America
Date
Apr 20, 1901
Page
3
The article details General Funston's daring plan to trap and capture Aguinaldo with a small band of Americans and natives guiding him through enemy country. It weighs the capture's potential impact on ending hostilities and touches on imperialism, Cuban annexation, and reactions within the Democratic and silver Republican camps.
The late Secretary Elkins influenced a bronze pedestal monument to General Logan. Sculptor’s model led to a unique bronze statue with life size relief figures featuring generals, senators, and the oath scene. The fourteen and a half foot saddle horse rides along the line of battle as unveiled last week amid grand ceremonies.
The Nebraska Republican caucus resolves a long deadlock by electing Governor Charles H. Dietrich and Hon. Joseph H. Millard. Both are noted as businessmen and bankers with ties to railroads. They align with a pro business platform. no moves toward banking reforms or anti trust measures are promised. A new four thousand quarter counting machine is introduced but not for general use.
In a political note, the writer suggests financier J Pierpont Morgan should address Nebraska railroads to ease upcoming senatorial election tensions by promoting consolidation and reducing friction within the state.
The Boston Globe reports 600 million acres of vacant land, with 374 million suitable for grazing and farming, 96 million woodland, 76 million forests, and equal desert land. It says arable land could house 10 million people and timber could supply homes for generations, urging irrigation to bring land into cultivation and cautioning against neglecting domestic opportunities.
The remark notes both powers are too prudent to fight over China. It suggests that during any confrontation, other powers in the Concert of Europe would intervene and seize the disputed lands.
The piece mocks Mr. T. C. Platt for guberna torial elephantism and calls on the administration to weigh Aguinaldo’s repeated “deaths” when deciding his punishment.
A commentary arguing that Cubans will learn from senatorial elections about self government. It warns against compromising with evil for temporary gains and favors defeating parties over compromising with wrong.
Chicago correspondent profiles Carter H Harrison the seventh and Edith Ogden Harrison as the mayor’s son and his sister. Five year old Edith bears her mother’s maiden name and is devoted to her nurse Mary. The family keeps a Christmas toy charity, giving nursery toys to neighborhood children in exchange for goodwill.
The Buffalo managers of the Pan-American Exposition announce Sunday openings, praising John N. Scatcherd and John Milburn as the directing minds. They condemn federal authorities who refused social appropriation unless the fair would close on the Sabbath, saying this mandate shows lack of common sense.
The Buffalo Pan-American Exposition should be open Sundays to rival Niagara Falls power and keep workers and families able to enjoy the fair. Niagara Falls supplies the fair with power and remains open Sundays, a contrast to Sunday closing advocates. Also notes public figures William Woodward, Joseph Choate, and Alice Roosevelt in society coverage.
A seven year old Hungarian violin prodigy Kun Arpad wowed Paris Figaro readers with Mendelssohn Romance and Paganini movements. He tours Europe and America with Rodolphe Berger and is expected to cause a Chicago frenzy upon arrival.
In the North American Review Henry A. Castle audits postal issues. He opposes postal savings banks citing government losses and harm to the postal service. He notes the English system pays 2 percent, invested in 2 percent consols, with high accounting costs and voter backlash for rate cuts.
A fresh Bellamy colony to be established in the hills of New Hampshire vows improvements over earlier efforts. No ministers within its limits, those seeking clergy must go outside. Lawyers will be barred, and all residents must work for a fixed wage with expulsion for laziness or immorality.
The invention shows an elevated or surface railway with center slotted cars using three-wheel sets on a main rail and two under rails. Power can be applied to the upper wheel for single cars or via a top-mounted engine for trains, promising high speeds and reduced curve accidents. Seats face outward, doors at ends, and a turntable aids crossing tracks.
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