Global unrest and conflicts ripple through nations
The item highlights varied events from 1902 era news including Roosevelt ordering reduced army strength, coal strike tensions, labor arbitration efforts with Judge Gray chairing, and a sprawling list of incidents: Nome storm losses, a jail lynching in Georgia, troop redeployments in Luzon, a presidential race intrigue involving Charles W. Clark, a congressman dead from illness, and international strains with France and Venezuela. It notes rail and shipping accidents, strikes, and political gatherings, painting a period of upheaval and rapid developments across the globe.
Engineers to Boycott Anthracite Coal Amid Strike
Chicago October 25 President Morton of the International Brotherhood of Stationary Engineers and Firemen says members nationwide will refuse to handle anthracite coal until all reinstated workers return on the miners’ terms. The union lists 14 000 members in 114 towns and cities and could block coal deliveries to protect those displaced. Meanwhile Wilkesbarre reports scarce vacancies as strikers seek work and President Mitchell advises patience for broad reinstatement.
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Bers of Engineers
Chicago
Morton
International Stationary Engineers and Firemen
Minera
Minera’ Union
Wilkesbarre
Mitchell
New Life Saving Device Demonstrated in English Channel
A life saving globe, eight feet across, was shown four miles off Folkestone. Norwegian inventor and assistant surfaced from the globe after it was recovered from a steamer near Havre. They claimed the device can sustain a man for 16 percent with 850 pounds of food and 1,100 pounds of water.
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New York
London
The
Herald
Folkestone
Globe
Havre
Coal Trains Granted Right of Way by Rail Officials
Reading officials do not expect anthracite coal shipments to rise before early next week. About 100000 tons are forecast for the first of the week versus a normal 340000 tons. All coal trains receive priority unloading, with yard work and crew in readiness to move cars swiftly.
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Reading
Reading Railway Company
Ian Ne
Crewe
Menice City Ort 98 10 Ie Reported
Fragmentary item notes a reported incident in Menice City Ort with unclear details about speed and a cited figure. The readable text mentions 98 and 10 but provides no full context or names. Further source needed for full summary.
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Menice
Term and Coal Strike Demands and Terms
The text outlines a coal strike with 168 days duration and 147000 miners involved across 600000 streets affected, totaling about 200 million in losses. Present coal prices per ton are noted, while miners demand an eight hour day, piecework pay tied to day laborers, fair coal weighing, fixed wage scales, and uniform pay rates, to be set by agreement between operator and union.
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Poche
P.etvera
Mineworkers end Philadelphia strike with arbitration plan
In Wilkeebarre Pennsylvania on October 22 representatives of about 47 000 striking coal workers voted to end the walkout at noon and place all related issues before a presidential arbitration commission. The move follows days of town celebrations as work is set to resume Thursday with the future terms still uncertain.
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Wilkeebarre
Arbitration Commission
United States
Scranton
Roosevelt
Committee of Resolutions
Executive Board
Navy board halves speed for armored cruisers proposal
Washington the naval board of construction settled the armored cruiser design choosing 30000 horsepower and a minimum speed around 21 knots over engineer Melville 2323s plan for 25000 horsepower and 23 knots. The result marks a shift from speed to power in the Inet act based program. the vote was four to one. The new ships will focus on firepower and protection rather to speed.
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Washington
Naval Board of Construction
Inet
Congress
Melville
The Morning Calculations on a Man’s Life and Winking Power
A St Louis Republic piece reports a statistician’s view of how a typical man’s 60 years are spent. It divides time into sleep eating work and leisure with figures such as twenty years asleep and seventeen years working, plus oddities like seven months shaving and 96,900,000 eye blinks yearly.
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St. Louis Republic
Confession over Woolen Garments Stirs Retail Banter
In a brief home run of shop talk a customer questions prices for woolen garments. The dealer explains the 75 cent item is all cotton while the $1 option is only half cotton.
Timber Land Act Notice for Sublication at Roseburg
United States Land Office in Roseburg Oregon issues a notice under the Timber Land Act of June seeking entries for a land parcel described as section and township in Range 12 West. Harlan J Miller of Portland files a mineral timber land claim with witnesses named and a February 1908 date for proof before the Roseburg Register and Receiver.
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Timber Land Act
United States Land Office
Oseburg
Oregon
Act of Congress
Kalkernia
Nevada
Washington
Harlan J. Miller
Portland
Pegunty
Multnomah
Anthon Kobee
Knute Goodmanson
Ak Howe
Myrtle Fell
James H. Mulcay
Port Any
Anl Parsons
J. T. Bridges
Register
Timber Land Act Notice for Publication Roseburg Oregon
Horace Hortaman of Seattle Washington files under the 1878 Timber Land Act for the purchase of section 2% south and will prove land value for timber or stone over agriculture. Witnesses named Herman Days Joseph Thomas Remote POO Oregon Wr Ps Porter and Wm R Murray. Adverse claimants must file by the stated deadline.
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ION
United States Land Office
Roseburg
Oregon
Congress
California
Nevada
Washington
Horace Hortaman
Seattle
Maid la
Herman
Joseph Thomas
P. OO. Oren
Ps Porter
Notice for Publication Timber Lands Act Oregon Filing
Evening record shows a public notice under the Timber Land Act of June 3 1878. It names claimant Thomas E Robb of Venetia Pennsylvania filing sworn statement No 280 for purchase of land described in California Oregon Nevada or Washington Territory and seeks purchase rights under the 1862 act.
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Oregon
California
Nevada
Washington Territory
Thomas E. Robb
Venetia
Washinon
Pennsylvania
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Myrtle Point
Ecruber
Olympia
New York Navy Yard
Stone
Coal Strike Arbitration Commission
Judge Gray
H. R. Nickerson
Mexican Central Railroad
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Behring Sea
Nome
Nome Sea
France
Island of
St. Vincent
Iron Mountain Road
Missouri
Georgia
Franklin Bell
Batangas Province
Luzon
Jenso M. Lee
Charles W. Clark
W. A. Clark
Montana
Aselet
Congreeeman A. Russell
Dameleon
Conn
Congreee
United Irish League
Texas
Oficera
Miles
Honolula
Wyoming
Oas
Onte
Great Britain
Secretary of the Interior
Siletz Yadian
House of Commons
Co.handes, Ohie
Edvertice
Otebe
Navel Board
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