Bad Outlook in Germany due to Reichstag Crisis
The Times and Times of London dispatch notes a Berlin view that Germany faces a dangerous drift shaped by the Reichstag coalition the government stance and Social Democracy tactics. Observers in Vienna see two opposing takes on Kardorf motion and tariff bills with implications for Germanys political system and potential isolation.
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London
Germany
Reichstag
Berlin
The
Times
Vienna
Baron von Kardorff
Reichsrath
Arthur Moore Attacks Irish Party in Dublin Telegram
Dublin cable reports Arthur Moore, former Nationalist MP, urging a new set of leaders and system. He denounces the Irish Party as a gang of obscurities filled with sycophants, organizers, prowlers, idlers, tipplers, and compromised clergy. The Evening Telegraph counters by labeling Moore a political microbe unable to poison Irish Nationalism.
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London
Dublin
the Times
Arthur Moore
Daily
Independent
Nation
Moore
Evening Telegraph
Emperor to present gifts to Pope at jubilee
Vienna corre spondent reports Emperor Francis Joseph will gift the Pope a gold Good Shepherd statue by Rudolph Marshall and a large gold medallion portrait, a jubilee tribute from the City of Vienna.
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Francis Joseph
Vienna
London
The
Times
Rudolph Marshall
Herr Marshall
Sultan's Macedonian Orders Aim to Quell Disturbances
London dispatch reports The Times correspondent that Sultan Abdul Hamid II’s new orders in Macedonia improve reforms yet fail to quell agitators. The Porte drafts a dispatch to the powers blaming Bulgarians for recent Macedonian disturbances.
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London
Constantinople
The
Times
Macedonia
Porte
Rubino to be tried in January for attempt on king
Brussels dispatch notes that Rubino faces trial at the Brabant Assizes next month for his attempt on King Leopold. The formalities have been completed and the case proceeds under Belgian jurisdiction.
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Rubino
London Times
NEW York Times
London
Leopold
Brussels
The
Times
Brabant Assizes
Gen Nord Enters Haitian Capital in Noted Return
Gen Alexis Nord, former War Minister, led his army into Port au Prince today amid a sympathetic reception. His intentions remain unclear though many expect he could win the presidency if he declares candidacy, backed by a large force.
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Nord
Port-Au-Prince
Alexis Nord
New Rand Labor Plan Approved for Central Africa Natives
London dispatch says the Foreign Office approves a general scheme to recruit natives from Uganda for Rand mines. Conditions on transport are being set before the natives depart.
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London
Central Africa
Uganda
Johannesburg
The
Times
Foreign Office
Cardinal Canevin Nominated for Pittsburg Coadjutor Bishop
Rome December 14 Cardinal Martinelli recommended to the Congregation of Propaganda the appointment of Rev. F Regis Canevin rector of St Pauls Cathedral Pittsburg to the post of Coadjutor Bishop of Pittsburg.
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Pittsburg
Rome
Cardinal Martinelli
Congregation of the Propaganda
F. Regis Canevin
St. Paul's Cathedral
Consolidated Lake Superior Directors to Decide President and Loan
At tomorrow's meeting the Consolidated Lake Superior directors will choose a new president to succeed Frank S Lewis and discuss a temporary loan. A $600,000 facility is expected, with a possible $8,000,000 limit. The deferred 18 percent preferred dividend may be paid soon under new management.
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New York
Philadelphia
Consolidated Lake Superior
Frank S. Lewis
Lewis
Pennsylvania Railroad
Consolidated
Advice to Boys Platform Meeting at Clermont Brooklyn
A large crowd gathered at Simpson Methodist Church for a platform meeting of prominent laymen focusing on boys work in churches. Speakers, including officials such as District Attorney John F. Clarke and Brooklyn Transit leaders, urged earnest purpose and Christian principles, with Clarke citing Ronald Brennan’s ten year prison sentence as a cautionary tale and praising President Roosevelt as a model of character. A forty-voice boys choir led singing from local churches.
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Simpson Methodist Church
Clermont
Willoughby Avenues
Brooklyn
Cornelius S. Loder
F. H. E B. Ebstein
Richard Young
John F. Clarke
Robert van Iderstine
Clinton L. Rossiter
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company
Otto Kempner
Edgar M. Robinson
International Committee
The
Young Men's Christian Association
Edward P. Lyon
Brooklyn Young Men’s Christian Association
Clarke
Ronald Brennan
Brennan
President Roosevelt
Disease-Ridden Indians at Sac and Fox Tribe
Guthrie Oklahoma December 14 Dr Wy man government physician at the Sac and Fox Indian Agency reports a large majority of the tribe are afflicted with tuberculosis scrofula and other incurable diseases and says the tribe will be extinct within a few years The latest report shows only 473 members remaining of this once powerful tribe
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Guthrie
Oklahoma
Wyman
Sac and Fox Indian Agency
Explorer Hilprecht to Tour German Lectures
Professor Herman V. Hilprecht sails on the Deutschland to Germany where he will address students in Leipsic and other university cities on recent excavations. He then goes to Constantinople to study tablets, fit out an expedition, and return to Nippur for further digging.
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New York Times
Philadelphia
Herman V. Hilprecht
Germany
Deutschland
Nippur
Leipsic
Constantinople
Terradell to reopen a lodging-house with wood-cutting unit
Thomas Terradell, who built a large hotel in Trenton for tramps about ten years ago and lost about $100,000, has received roughly $5,000 and plans a new institution with a wood-cutting adjunct. He named his place Terradel phia.
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Trenton
N.J
Thomas Terradell
Terradell
Terradelphia
Assouan Dam facts and imperial intrigue from 1902
Helios Bey of Brooklyn argues in a December 12 1902 letter to The New York Times that American officers like Col. Beverley Kennon contributed to early Assouan Dam surveys and that British occupation followed Egyptian reforms under Ismail Pasha. He alleges Anglo Egyptian politics, cites Arabi Pasha’s rebellion, and links Chamberlain Rhodes Milner Jameson to a broader crime.
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New York Times
TIMES
Assouan Dam
Egypt
London
Beverley Kennon
Commodore Kennon
United States Navy
William T. Sherman
United States Army
Great Britain
Kennon
Ismail Pasha
Assouan
Col. Kennon
Bureau
General Staff
Tsmail Pasha
Secundo
Nile
Gladstone
Gen
Gordon
Nile Valley
Ismail
Arabi Pasha
Arabi
Knave
Chamberlain
Rhodes
Milner
Jameson
Kruger
Helios Bey
Overdue Steamships Arrive After Stormy Atlantic Crossing
A flotilla of overdue steamers from multiple ports docked at Quarantine and then the North and East Rivers. Highlights include the St Paul Lucania La Touraine, with heavy weather reported by all vessels. Among arrivals were Ethiopia Noordam and Octubre, while a wedding couple aboard the Lucania was showered with rice as they exited the ship.
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la Touraine
Lucania
Patricia
Hamburg
Minnetonka
Leidon
Citta di Napoli
Naples
Manuel Calvo
Genoa
Patria
Fabre Line
Marseilles
Spain
Quebec Line
Pretoria
Bermuda
New York and Porto Rico Steamship Company
Flier
Coamo
San Juan
Mac
Porto Rico
Chicago City
Swansea
Ethiopia
Glasgow
Noordam
Octubre
Arthur Hagen, Jr
Senator Clark Returns From Europe Voyage
Senator William A. Clark of Montana arrived on the St Paul after a three week voyage from Europe. He spent time in London and Paris and said he came for rest before Congress. He brought a diamond brooch as a Christmas gift, could not pay $1,600 duties in currency, and left baggage with customs awaiting payment. Edmond Kelly, international law expert, also arrived and will stay three weeks at the Century Club.
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William A. Clark
Montana
St. Paul
Lucania
London
Paris
Congress
Clark
Edmond Kelly
Century Club
Progress of the Y M C A Dinner in Waldorf Astoria
The International Committee of the Y M C A holds its annual Waldorf Astoria dinner with about 400 guests including Major Gen Ss. B. M. Young Gen. W. H. Carter Lucius Tuttle and others. The year shows broad gains: 1 575 associations up 99. adult membership 284 912 up 16 435. junior department up 7 637. Notable growth in railroad and student sections with 175 railroad associations and twenty new buildings. Army and Navy work highlighted with 632 stations and five San Juan men earning commissions. Building work continues at Fort Monroe and Fort Hancock as naval efforts show similar progress.
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Young Men’s ‘Christian Association
Waldorf-Astoria
Ss. B. M. Young
W. H. Carter
Lucius Tuttle
Boston and Maine Railroad
H. B. F. MacFarland
Washington, D. C
J. F. French
Association
United States Army
Navy
Army
Forto Rico
Philippines
Young Men’s, Christian Ar Association
San Juan
Porto Rico
Fort Monroe
Fort Hancock
N. J
Y M C A In Honolulu Soldiers Entertained
Returning soldiers from the Philippines were greeted in Honolulu by Y M C A representatives who invited them to use the association’s shore headquarters with baths, writing tables, lecture rooms, and club privileges at no charge. Governor Sanford B. Dole, former Y M C A president, was among locals meeting the troops. the Honolulu branch includes 450 members with English and American majorities and growing branches among Hawaiian, Chinese, and Japanese youths. The Chinese branch, twenty seven years old, has its own building valued at about $5,000.
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Philippines
Honolulu
Young Men’s Christian Association
Sanford B. Dole
Rev Edward Stevenson Installed as Grace Church Rector
In Plainfield New Jersey on December 14 the Rev Edward V Stevenson former curate of St Michael's Church New York was formally instituted as rector of Grace Church. Priests from several parishes joined Bishop Scarborough in the ceremony.
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New York Times
Plainfield
N. J
Edward V. Stevenson
St. Michael’s Church
New York
Grace Church
Scarborough
Debt cleared as Bronx church raises 43000
At Willis Avenue Methodist Church in the Bronx subscriptions were received yesterday to pay the church debt of 43000. Services were conducted by Rev. Dr. Ezra Tipple and Rev. Dr. F. Mason North. The church owns its land and Rev. Melville Bovard is its pastor.
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Willis Avenue Methodist Church
Willis Avenue
Forty-first Street
Bronx
Ezra Tipple
F. Mason
North
Melville Bovard
Obituary Notes for Civil War Veteran and Clergy Leader
James Henry Jacobus of East Orange New Jersey died of pneumonia aged 76. Edward Hannin pastor of St Patrick Toledo Ohio died aged 76 after dedicating a new church last April. Daniel Barber former Van Ness House Burlington Vermont proprietor and later city official died aged 81. George W Donohue died in Mansion House Brooklyn Heights aged 54, educated at St Francis Xavier College, member of Board of Education under Mayor Van Wyck, and affiliated with Carlton Crescent Clubs and Fort Greene Council Knights of Columbus.
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James Henry Jacobus
Evergreen Place
East Orange
N. J
Morris County
New Jersey Volunteers
Edward Hannin
St. Patrick’s Church
Toledo
Ohio
Danie C. Barber
van Ness
Burlington
George W. Donohue
Mansion House
Brooklyn Heights
St. Francis Xavier College
Manhattan
van Wyck
Board of Education
Carlton and Crescent Clubs
Fort Greene Council
Knights of Columbus
Toys and treats fill the dolls shops this holiday season
The shops offer 17 and 34 cent toy carpet sweepers for dolls, new playthings like loom weaving sets, crochet kits with hooks and patterns, plaster modeling sets, and nut butters with date butter rivaling apple butter. Shelled nuts, boxed fabrics, and handkerchiefs in gift boxes add to holiday choices for children.
Gould Boys Allowed to Hunt in High Point Trip
Kingdon and Jay Gould sons of George J. Gould join a hunting party from Ewood New Jersey for a two day shooting trip to High Point North Carolina. The party leaves by special train with Mrs Gould and others to hunt wild turkeys quail and partridge. They expect to be away about a week.
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New York Times
Ewood
N. J
Kingdon
Jay. Gould
Orge J. Gould
High Point
N. C
New Jersey Teachers Retirement Fund Sees Low Share of Eligible Members
The annual report from the New Jersey State Teachers Retirement Fund shows about half of eligible teachers have joined, totaling 3,300. Younger teachers refuse to join, believing they will marry and not want to contribute to pensions for older staff.
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Trenton
N. J
New Jersey State Teachers’ Retirement Fund
Fire destroys New Dorp Beach Hotel in New York
The New Dorp Beach Hotel owned by Edward Hett was wiped out by a fire early yesterday. About 45 000 in losses covered building and contents of the three story, 100 room establishment. The blaze likely started from a faulty flue in the watchman’s room as poor roads delayed the first engine arrival. Lewis Nixon, Tammany Hall leader, resided there with his family during summers.
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New Dorp Beach
Edward Hett
Lewis Nixon
Tammany Hall
Sousa’s Band Fails to Perform at Metropolis Theatre
Prof John Philip Sousa and his band arrived at 2 30 PM to a packed Metropolis Theatre crowd. The instruments were delayed reportedly due from New Haven but found to be down town. After hours of waiting, money for tickets was refunded as patrons grew angry.
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John Philip Sousa
Metropolis Theatre
Third Avenue
Sousa
New Haven
Third Sunday Night Concert At Metropolitan
The third Sunday night concert at the Metropolitan Opera House drew a smaller crowd due to cold weather. Mme. Schumann Heink impressed with Mendelssohn recitative and Bolero by Arditi, while Mme. Fritzi Scheff sang Arditi and joined in a Die lustigen Weiber von Windsor duet. Tenor Mr Dani debuted with Una furtiva lacrima and Salve dimora, earning warm reception. Mr. Gilibert offered Pensee ad Automne and Malgré moi to applause.
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Schumann-Heink
Mendelssohn
Arditi
Fritzi Scheff
Parla
Mme. Schumann-Heink
Nicolai
Dani
Donizetti
Mr. Gilibert
Massenet
Pfeiffer
Salvation Army receives booth at New York exhibition
The New York Novelty Exhibition Company will operate Madison Square Garden on Christmas Day and provide a Salvation Army booth to collect contributions. The exhibition’s big Christmas tree arrived from Maine and was placed in the amphitheatre center.
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New York Novelty Exhibition Company
Madison Square Garden
Salvation Army
Maine
Curtis Blackwood and Grossmann Wright nuptials paste
Marriages recorded on December 13. Netta Easter Blackwood of Norwich England wed John Green Curtis at Christ Church Cathedral Montreal. Gertrude E Wright widow joined Edward Albert Grossmann at the Ellery Anderson residence per Rev. Dr Slicer. Philadelphia papers urged to copy.
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M. Fisher Wright
Edward Albert Grossmann
Philadelphia
Obituaries and Funeral Notices from Brooklyn Damaged Text
DIED. CLARK. Amy Hatfield Clark wife of Le Roy Clark Jr funeral at her home 72 West 52d St Dec 16 interment at convenience of family. CLARKE. Francis Clarke formerly of Brooklyn died Orlando Fla Dec 14 1902. HASTINGS. Catherine wife of Thomas K Hastings funeral from 325 Rivington St Dec 15 2 PM interment Calvary Cemetery flowers. PECK. William Jarvis son of Charles A and Mary E Peck died Dec 14 Brooklyn 24th year funeral Dec 17 1 PM 563 Madison St. VON SWARTWOUT. Dr William H Von Swartwout Memorial Hospital Brooklyn died Dec 13 in his 66th year funeral at convenience of family.
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Brooklyn
William H. von Swartwout
Eugene and
Claramond Washburn Swartwout
Utica
N. Y
Jeanette G. von Swartwout
London Cobden statue mocked as London’s ugliest
London Mail ridicules the Richard Cobden statue in Hampstead Road as the ugliest item in London. The piece, funded by Napoleon III and carved by a now-deceased German sculptor, features exaggerated frock coat flaps, oversized garments, a gramophone trumpet base, and a removed watchword from the 1895 Cobden Club slogan.
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London
Cobden Club
Richard Cobden
Hampstead Road
Napoleon III
England
London Mail
City Directory Snippet Lists Names and Addresses
A fragmented roster of residents and institutions appears with multiple names and street addresses such as 150 Rutgers Place and 57 Clinton St. The list includes individuals tied to various locations like Lincoln Hospital Fordham Hospital and Webb's Academy, though many spellings and entries are garbled in this OCR fragment.
The Russian and Turkish Baths at Lafayette Place
The original water cure for liver and kidney troubles offers every kind of spray and shower. The finest in America, always open with hotel accommodations available.
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Lafayette Place
America
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