Nobels Awarded to English and German Scientists
The Nobel prizes honor Maj. Donald Ross of the Liverpool school of tropical medicine for malaria research and Dr. Emil Fischer of Berlin for chemistry. Prof. Finsen of Copenhagen shares the physics and medicine prize with Arrhenius of Stockholm. Each prize amounts to $40,000. Major Ross’s East Indies work linked mosquitoes to malaria, while Fischer’s Berlin discoveries bolster synthetic chemistry and Finsen’s lupus cure work is noted.
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Maj
Donald Ross
Liverpool
Eng
School of Tropical Medicine
Major Ross
Sweden
Oscar
Emil Fischer
Berlin University
Arrhenius
Stockholm
Finsen
Copenhagen
East Indies
Ross
Handsome actress shot dead by jealous lover in Philadelphia
Kate Hassett, leading woman at Keith's Eighth Street Theater, was killed by Barry Johnstone who then shot himself. Motive reported as jealousy. Hassett had just joined Richard Mansfield's company and gained notice in Leo Detrichs in's The Last Appeal.
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Philadelphia
Kate Hassett
Keith
Eighth Street
Barry Johnstone
Richard Mansfield
Johnstone
Mansfield
Miss Hassett
Leo Detrichs
Royalty in Congress and Hawley to Retire
Prince Jonah Kalauiauole of Hawaii becomes the first royal to sit in the U S House, with mixed titles debated by constituents. Senator Joseph Hawley of Connecticut, age 76, faces possible resignation due to illness after twenty one years in the Senate and a long legal career. The piece notes Hawley’s Free Soil Convention past and long service.
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Congress
Prince Jonah Kunis Kalauiauole
Hawaii
House of Representatives
United States
Prince Cupid
Prince Kunio
Kalauiauole
Joseph Hawley
Connecticut
Senate
Hawley
North Carolina
Greatest of German Artists Adolph Von Menzel
Adolph Frederick von Menzel the leading German historical painter has dedicated to the American people his new painting Frederick the Great in the year 1778. Born in 1815 he began art in Berlin at fifteen and supported himself by drawing. He has produced many Frederick the Great subjects.
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Adolph Frederick von Menzel
Frederick the Great
Germany
Berlin
Menzel
Frederick
Mrs Besant Still a Leader
Monster audiences gathered to hear Mrs. Besant, a prominent disciple of Theosophy, as she spoke on spiritual and social topics drawing crowds across the period.
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Mrs. Besant
Mrs Besant travels to India amid school work and lectures
Mrs Besant departed England for India to oversee the Benares natives school she founded, planning a continental route and a June return to London to continue her work. She lectured to a large audience in England before leaving, while her ongoing influence remains noted. Colombia recalls its Washington representative Jose Vincenti Concha after a contentious canal negotiation period.
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Mrs. Besant
England
India
School For Natives
Benares
Germany
Itzerland
Annie Besant
Not His Handiwork Speech Sparks Question Over Authorship
A Western friend notes to Congressman Cannon that Jim Courts, clerk of Cannon's Appropriations Committee, wrote the national finances speech last session. Courts denies authorship, explaining the sentences were all completed and he did not write it.
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Cannon
Joe
Jim Courts
Courts
Committee On Appropriations
Queer Egg Cooking Method Tied to Shepherds
A strange method used by East shepherds involves spinning an egg in a sling until motion heats and cooks it. This idle technique yields a cooked egg without flame or oil.
Watch Ticks Nine Hundred Million Times
The text notes that many watches tick five times per second totaling 157 788 000 ticks over a year.
Blind Man Becomes Webb Leys Champion Wrestler
The champion wrestler of Webb ley Missouri is a blind man who has earned top honors in local competition. His achievement highlights skill, determination, and the community’s support for athletes with visual impairment.
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Webbley, Mo
Krupp Will Makes Bertha Krupp World’s Richest Heiress
The Krupp will leaves the Essen works and subsidiaries to elder daughter Bertha Krupp, with widow as administrator until she comes of age. The factory empire is valued around 75 million dollars, making Bertha the wealthiest heiress, surpassing Miss May Goelet.
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Krupp
Herr Krupp
Essen
Bertha
Fraulein
Bertha Krupp
May Goelet
Fran Krupp
Frau Krupp
Barbara
First Woman Justice Garrett to Assume Garrett Court
Mrs M Agnes Garrett of Garrett Wyoming is elected as the first woman to don judicial ermine. She will take office after the first Monday in January and will manage her own docket with basic legal knowledge while enforcing orders through the acting constable E Slothower.
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Garrett
Wyoming
M. Agnes Garrett
Wyo
Alleged boodler Charles F. Kelly arrested after New York landing
Charles F. Kelly once speaker of St. Louis' house of delegates, indicted on boodling charges, was tracked across the United States and Mexico, recognized in New York, then arrested in Philadelphia and taken back to St. Louis. He wept at the station house upon hearing of his son’s death. A long text mix includes kidney remedy ads and shoe remark.
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Charles F. Kelly
St. Louis
Philadelphia
House of Delegates
United States
Mexico
New York
St Louis
New Women of Old Claim Equality Since Ancient Times
The article notes that Babylonian tablets depict a "new woman" active in business, property, and wills five thousand years ago. She could deed property, divorce, and even receive back her fortune if her husband remarried, while she pursued roles in church, medicine, and law.
Great Actress Walks the Ties
Signora Duse the Italian actress rode into Washington when her train halted by a wreck outside the city. After a long delay she and her manager walked in through darkness and rain to a suburban trolley line and reached their hotel. She remarks on dangerous passages and hopes it is not repeated.
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Signora Duse
Washington
Size of the Jackpot at Sixty Cents
A barber playing poker with friends opened a joke jackpot of sixty cents. When asked how much it was, he quipped it meant two haircuts and a shave.
Lightning’s longest cloud to earth stroke reaches four miles
A historical note states that the maximum observable distance for a lightning flash from cloud to earth is about four miles, marking an extreme in atmospheric electricity records.
American Railroad Lines
Advance sheets of Poor’s Manual show on June 30 1902 there were 198000 miles of railways in the country about 4500 miles of new line built last year total receipts from all roads 1612000000 net earnings nearly 600000000 over 27000 engines 36000 mail and passenger cars 1400000 freight cars in use if put into a continuous train they would reach 14000 miles the average dividend on railroad stock is 2.62 percent.
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Poor’s
Wealth of Colleges Sparks Daily Newspaper Push
The rising wealth of American colleges allows at least ten institutions to publish daily newspapers. Yale Harvard Cornell Princeton Brown Stanford Tulane and the universities of Pennsylvania Wisconsin and Michigan lead this trend.
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Yale
Harvard
Cornell
Princeton
Brown
Stanford
Tulane
Pennsylvania
Wisconsin
Michigan
Iridium Listed as Hardest Known Metal at High Price
The piece notes iridium as the hardest known metal and states a market price of 780 dollars per pound. It highlights its extreme hardness and premium value in industrial applications.
Senator Beverage meets Delegate McGuire in Oklahoma taunt
The exchange in Oklahoma features Indiana Senator Beverage contrasting his own work ethic with Delegate McGuire's claimed experiences. McGuire boasts about a hard life but Beverage dismisses his claims, noting McGuire never worked in a sawmill or as a section hand or hoisted steam? and cattle punching.
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Inklahoma
Beverage
Indiana
McGuire
Corean Woman Seeks Education in California
Mme. Chang, a high caste Corean woman, has arrived in California on a mission to learn American ways. After two years of persuasion her husband agreed to allow a glimpse of the world and dental education for her. She is noted as the first high class woman of her race to seek an American education.
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Mme. Chang
Califonia
Portrait in bronze for retiring NY College president
The faculty and instructing corps of the College of New York plan a bronze bas relief portrait medallion of their retiring president Gen Webb to honor his long successful administration of the college’s affairs.
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the College of New York
M. Dallion
Gen. Webb
Mississippi Honors Lincoln Portrait in Hall of Fame
A portrait of President Lincoln will join Mississippi’s hall of fame in Jackson. The image, furnished by Robert T. Lincoln, was provided after a request and will be displayed beside Robert E. Lee’s portrait.
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Mississippi
Lincoln
President Lincoln
Mississippi Hall of Fame
Jackson
Robert T. Lincoln
Robert E. Lee
Portia’s Qualities Highlighted In Opportunity
A brief excerpt notes the chance to exercise Portia's qualities. It emphasizes the frequent opportunity to bring into play characteristics she possesses.
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Portia
Better Class of Convicts Coming at Leavenworth
The Leavenworth Times reports on reforms at the federal prison promising a better class of inmates. It predicts fewer bootleggers and horse thieves from Oklahoma and more grafters and smooth sharks from Wisconsin and Indiana, with Congressman Scott quipping that even hell may have its smart set.
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Leavenworth
Ye Editor Confesses to Be Mean in Industry News
A satirical note from Industry News admits to being mean and prompts readers to acknowledge the same. The piece hints at temptations left uncommitted and frames the confession as a guilty plea to possible future misdeeds.
Lorimer Expected to Return to Tre Mont Temple
In Boston it is reported that Dr. George C. Lorimer has finally agreed to resume the pastorate at Tre mont Temple Baptist church. Opposition within the congregation has reconciled, and a unanimous call to the doctor is anticipated soon.
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Lorimer
Boston
George C. Lorimer
Tremont Temple Baptist Church
Deer Hunting With An Old Fashioned Satgun
Theodore A Randall of Indianapolis fires a large deer in pine woods using an old fashioned satgun loaded with powder and a few stream pebbles. The weapon and method reflect antique hunting practices noted in the report.
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Theodore A. Randall
Indianapo- 3
Senator Scott Faces Election Committee Scandal
A West Virginian report details a Senate inquiry into alleged election irregularities involving Senator Scott. The committee, wined and dined to excess, prepared a favorable report but faced backlash after further lavish entertainments. Scott allegedly warned they could live on bread and water, and the next day the committee released a scathing report.
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Broucht
Scott
Congress
Eleetion
Loeb and Deaf Cats
Professor Loeb of Chicago University discovers that injecting sodium and cadmium solutions can temporarily revive dead cats and dogs. The finding suggests animals may regain life beyond nine lives, a fascinating, if scientifically uncertain, development with medical implications.
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Loeb
Prof
Chicago University
Riddle on Bishop Potter Marriage Pun Jokes
A New York anecdote notes a double headed conundrum about Bishop Potter marrying Mrs Clarke. The joke plays on widow's mite and bishop's miter to explain motives in a light humorous frame.
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New York
Bishop Potter
Mrs. Clarke
First Baptist Church of St Paul Celebrates 50 Years
The First Baptist church of St Paul Minnesota marked its semicentennial after fifty years with twelve original members. The sole survivor, A H Cavender, attended the celebration at age eighty eight.
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First Baptist Church of
Women Bricklayers in Bucharest Labor at High Building Sites
In Bucharest Roumania women perform severe labor mixing mortar and carrying bricks to upper stories of buildings under construction. They work alongside men in demanding tasks across several stories.
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Bucharest
Roumania
Sussex village builds unique swordfish blade palisade
In a Sussex village a garden paling is fashioned entirely from salvaged swordfish blades. Local craftsman says the project blends maritime lore with practical fencing. The swordfish material creates a striking, durable barrier for the garden.
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Sussex
Defiance Starch Proclaims Superior Quality and 16 Ounce Pack
The advertisement touts Defiance Starch as superior to competitors and notes a 16 ounce package priced same as 12 ounce rival brands. It emphasizes value and consistency in weight and quality.
Notable Opinion on Toughness and Perception
A short aphorism suggests some men appear fragile to a brick wall shadow, implying perceptions of toughness vary and appearances can mislead in social judgments.
Six sheets of Bryson pastel reproductions for sale
Six 10x15 inch color reproductions of Bryson pastel drawings ready for distribution. They will be mailed on receipt of twenty five cents in coins or stamps. Address F A Miller General Passenger Agent Chicago.
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Bryson
F. A. Miller
Chicago
Fame is a Bubble and Laurel Wreaths
A reflective note contrasts fame with the easy burden of a laurel crown, calling the laurel lighter than the burden of fame and suggesting the wreath is a gentler reward.
Household Starch Claims Superior Value Over Rivals
The claim highlights that this starch is suitable for every household and offers 4 extra ounces for 16 cents more than competing brands, emphasizing better value and quantity in the cold water starch market.
Paradoxical Check End Endorsement Left End
A concise note explains that the proper end to sign a check for endorsement is the left side. The quip frames a common banking task in paradoxical terms.
Defiance Starch Pricing and Food Advertisements
An old newspaper item notes Defiance starch sold in 16 ounce packages for 10 cents, claiming one third more starch for the same money. Other lines mention a cold laxative product Bromo Quinine Tablets and a cheeky line about a girl's appetite signaling secret affairs.
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Defiance
Notoriety vs Popularity In The Spotlight
A concise cultural observation contrasts fame with notoriety noting that being infamous can command attention even if popularity is lacking. The piece weighs how public recognition differs in tone and impact across audiences and media.
How Advertising Grows N W Ayer & Son
N W Ayer & Son moving to larger quarters at 300-308 Street Philadelphia to accommodate growth. The firm, founded 33 years ago by two people with $15 000 yearly business, now employs about 190 and claims the largest advertising business in the world by focusing on paper and magazine advertising.
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N. W. Ayer & Son
Philadelphia
Ayer & Son
WILR
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Senor
Jose Vincenti Concha
Colombia
Isthmian Canal
Concha
United States of Colombia
Ive Rigler
Hose Company Noton
Ohio
Dean
Hall
F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
Chas, F
Kem Yu
American Railroad Lines
ST. Paul
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