BACK TO THE MINES AS SAFETY DRIVES RESUMPTION
In Wilkesbarre Pennsylvania on October 25 miners return with 82 060 at work as output nears 100 050 tons while 22 more mines operate. Delays due to safety checks and posturing between unions and operators persist as inspectors enforce safe underground conditions. Washington prepares for Monday hearings of the anthracite coal strike commission with key operators and labor leaders in attendance.
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Wilkesbarre
Delaware, Lackawanna & Woeostern Co
M. B. Willams
Wyoming
Lehigh
Schuylkin
Washington
Anthracite Coal Strike Commission
Chicago
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
George F. Barer
Reading
E. F. Thomas
Erie
John B. Kerr
Thomas Fowler
Ontario & Western
David Wilcox
Delaware & Halton
Alfred Walter
Lehigh Valley
Wright
Baer
Alitchell
John Mitchell
United Mine Workers
Morgan's Profits and the 1902 Outlook for J Pierpont
The fragment notes a optimistic forecast for 1902 from J Pierpont Morgan and the firm, suggesting a banner year ahead with expected profits and strong share performance. Details are unclear due to damaged OCR.
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Morgan
New York
J. Pierpost Toreex
Up. To
Brunswick Flood Drowns City Core In Heavy Rains
Brunswick Georgia endures 48 hours of torrential rain flooding five city blocks including Newcastle street stores and the fire department house. Jams, traffic, and railroad service on the Southern and Brunswick lines are disrupted as power and light services fail and mail delivery is delayed.
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Brunswick
Monk Street
Mansfield
Newcastle Street
Bay
Union Streets
Brunswick Electrical Supply Co
Jesup
Burnswick & Birmiezham
Illiteracy Gap in Immigrant and Native Children Revealed
Census figures show 95.6 percent of native white children of native parents aged 10 to 14 can read and write versus 99.1 percent for native white children of foreign born parents. Differences largely reflect urban immigrant clustering and regional schooling patterns.
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Washington
Census Office
United States
South Atlantic
North Atlantic
Living Bread Sermon from the Highway Preacher
A 1902 Chicago sermon outlines Christ as the Living Bread come down from Heaven. The speaker argues that true life requires partaking of this Bread, linking Jesus to spiritual nourishment, salvation, and eternal life while contrasting earthly hunger with faith’s deeper sustenance.
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A. N. Kellogg
Foj
Chicago
John
Jesus
Christ
God
Matthew
Abraham
David
Mirk
Luke
Adam
Peter
Moses
Elizabeth Cady Stanton Dies at 84 in New York Home
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, famed woman suffragist, died of old age at her West 94th Street residence. Survived by children Lawrence, Blatch, and several sons in New York and abroad. Funeral planned for Wednesday with interment at Woollawis cemetery pending service time.
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Nwew
Diamonds Stolen From Wocher and Weinman Vault
Diamonds valued at $8,000 were stolen from the jewelry arm of Wocher & Weinman in the Masonic temple. The break in occurred Saturday night or early Sunday morning. A night watchman, on duty all night, saw no trace of the robbers. The loss was discovered late Sunday by a firm member who visited the store.
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Chicago
Wocher & Weinman
Masonic Temple
Sale of Food Supplies Aids Batangas Laguna Mindoro
Twenty seven thousand dollars were realized from selling food supplies to Batangas Laguna Luczon and Mindoro. General J. Frank in Bel oversaw the sale and Gen Bell turned the funds over to the insular government for civil-commission use.
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Manila
Batangas
Laguna
Luzon
Mindoro
Gen. J. Frank
Bel
Gen. Bell
Civil Commission
First Treasury Note Heirloom Found In Carbondale Illinois
A five dollar first series treasury note, No 1, printed May 15 1862, was left as an heirloom to A D Milhouse of Carbondale Illinois. It bears signatures of L E Chittenden and W E Spinner and has been in the Milhouse family since 1864.
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Carbondale
Til
Treasury
United States
A. D. Milhouse
L. E. Chittenden
Register of the Treasury
W. E. Spinner
Milhouse
John Milhouse
Explosion at Fairmont powder works Causes 31000 in Damage
Explosion at the Fairmont powder works 78 miles from this city destroyed machinery and scattered iron for miles. About 600 kegs of powder Sundar exploded causing 31000 in damage. No injuries were reported and earth was torn up to a depth of 40 feet.
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Fairmont
W. Va
Cholera Spreading Across Mindanao and Panay Island
Cholera gains foothold on Mindanao and Panay as Manila reports no current cases. The disease remains severe in Noito province while overall cases exceed 100000 across the islands, with fears of wider spread.
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Manila
Mindanaoo
Noito
Panay
Mass meeting urges stop to Coralbet-Rich hour
The Christian Endeavor society and Eyworth League of Waterbury held a mass meeting at the First M E church and voted to present petitions to Mayor Kitdu and Assistant Attorney John P Kellogg requesting measures to stop the proposed Young Corbett Rich hour scheduled for November.
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Waterbury
Christian Endeavor Society
Eyworth League
M. E
Kitdu
John P. Kellogg
Well Known Writer Alfred Ayers Dies at 70
New York reports the death of Thomas Embley Osman known as Alfred Ayers after an apoplectic shock. The writer contributed to Elo Cutica and served in literary circles.
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New York
Thomas Embley Osman
Alfred ‘Ayers
Macedonian Leader Reported Killed in Turkish Conflict
London October 27 A dispatch from Constantinople says Mentenel the Macedonian leader was killed in fighting between insurgents and Turkish troops near Revrekop and Melnik in European Turkey. The insurgents reportedly suffered 25 casualties.
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London
Exchange Telegraph+ Co
Constantinople
M. Eontenel
Revrekop
Melnik
Turkey
Paget Shot by Friend While Shooting in Country
Almeric Hugh Paget was accidentally shot by a friend during a country shoot near London. He was rushed to London where doctors removed one eye. Paget had recently married Miss Pauline Whitney of New York.
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London
Almeric
Hugh Paget
Pauline Whitney
New York
Paget
Sane solree eae aocaisns ce an pith Por
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Living Bread and the soul’s nutrition of faith
A preacher compares mind and heart in receiving spiritual truth, urging that belief must move from head to heart. He links Christ as Living Bread to salvation and warns that the world remains bound by ignorance, despite the cross which offers life to all.
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Jesus
Marcus
Dads
Christ
New York State
Lincoln
United States
Satan
Jury Deliberation Leads to Acquittal in County Murder Case
Evansville Indiana October 27 Wilbur S Sherwell charged with choking to death three women Georgia Bailey Lena Renner and Fannie Butler was Saturday night acquitted of the murder of Mrs Bailey The jury of farmers deliberated four hours and three ballots produced the verdict The prosecution is said to have weak evidence and two other murder charges remain unresolved with no other verdict possible under the evidence
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Evansville
Ind
Wilbur S. Sherwell
Georgia Bailey
Lena Renner
Fannie Butler
Sherwell
Bailey
Neely abandons Cuba plans to settle in Muncie Indiana
Charles F. W. Neely will not return to Cuba and instead will stay in Muncie to manage his business. He abandons pushing the US government for the $6000 seized at his arrest, plans to join his wife in California, then bring her back to start anew in Muncie.
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Charles F. W. Neely
Cuba
Muncie
Ind
United States
Missouri
California
Wild Woman Roams Woods Near Michigan City
A nude woman seen in woods near Michigan City is believed to be Mrs. Liddia Ames of South Bend missing for three weeks. Authorities say she is probably demented and has wandered for a week feeding on garden vegetables, eluding Capt. Gallas and a posse.
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Liddia Ames
South Bend
Ind
Michigan City
West Washington Street
Gallas
Train crashes into crowd in Marion Indiana with fatality
A freight train on the Pennsylvania railroad plowed into a 5,000 strong crowd awaiting Senator Hanna. A brake rod extended over the side and mowed the crowd down. Alexander Ford, 68, of the soldiers home, was struck on the head and fractured skull and is expected to die. No other serious injuries reported.
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Marion
Ind
Senator Hanna
Pennsylvania Railroad
Alexander Ford
Man Accidentally Guns Wife In Dog Fear Tragedy
Laporte Indiana October 25 Wm Leh Tyne of Chesterton is described as a raving maniac after a tragedy in which he fired at a dog he believed mad and hit his wife Lahryne who survives but with little hope of recovery.
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Laporte
Ind
Wm. Leh Tyne
Chesterton
Lahryne
Assault on College Campus Leaves Operator Near Death
Bloomington Indiana October 27 Miss Ida Weimer a telephone exchange operator is reported at death’s door after an unknown man struck her with a tub as she crossed the college campus late Saturday night. The assailant remains at large and police search for clues.
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Bloomington
Ind
Ida, Weimer
Travelers Protective Association opens city library service
Traveling men from Terre Haute Indiana report two representatives of the Travelers Protective Association installing a library in a hotel as part of a program to place 100 popular books in each of the larger cities.
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Terre Haute
Ind
Travelers’ .Protective Association
Indiana
The Indian apolis Ghouls Indicted In Grave Robbery Case
Marion county grand jury issues first report charging twenty five individuals with grave robbing and trafficking bodies. Names of implicated parties are kept private. among the listed ghouls are Rufus Cantrell Sol Grady Burford Pauley William Jones Isam Donnell Sam Martin Walter Daniels and William McElroy. A separate count indicts William and Bebe Caldwell for the murder of Daniel Sullivan.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Marion County Grand Jury
Joseph Alexander
Central College of Physicians and Surgeons
Rufus Cantrell
Sol Grady
Burford Pauley
William Jones
Isam Donnell
Sam Martin
Walter Daniels
William McElroy
Alford
Tock
Strand
William
Bebe Caldwell
Daniel Sullivan
Cement Workers Strike at Syracuse Plant
One hundred unskilled laborers at Sandusky Portland Cement Co. in Syracuse walk out to form a local union. The plant manager warned he would not re employ those who left. The workers met, organized, and appointed a committee to confer with company officers. They represent over half the plant's workforce earning 15 cents an hour with no demands yet for higher pay or shorter hours.
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Warsaw
Ind
Sandusky Portland Cement Co
Syracuse
Meeting Called to Address Liquor Traffic Nationwide
James Wood representing the quinquennial Friends' meeting asks all Christian denominations to meet in Washington on March 1, 1806 to discuss strategies against liquor. The Methodist church endorses the call and will send delegates to work with Five Years meeting committee.
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Indianapolis
Ind
James Wood
Washington
Methodist Church
Body Found in Woods Near South Bend Woman
The body of Mrs. Lydia Amos was found five miles north of South Bend by hunters. She disappeared from her home three weeks ago and the case is considered mysterious. Authorities think she may have wandered the woods while demented and died of starvation.
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South Bend
Ind
Lydia Amos
Bunters
Rushville Stars Defeat Sexton 12 to 2 in Derby Victory
Rushville Indiana October 27 The Rushville Stars routed Sexton 12 2 in a Sunday game. Pitcher Yazel led the win with 12 strikeouts and just 3 hits allowed. Batteries Yazel Pea for the Stars Mullins Thompson for Sexton.
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Rushville Stars
Rushville
Ind
Sexton
Yazel
the Stars
Pea
Thompson
Mullins
Navies Defeat Sidney in Ten Inning Baseball Showdown
In Anderson Indiana on Sunday afternoon a crowd of about two thousand watched the Navies beat Sidney by a 3 to 1 score after ten innings. The game thrilled spectators as the local team secured the victory to cap the season.
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Anderson
Ind
Sidney
Last Game of the Season at Winnings Park
In Montpelier Indiana on October 27 a final season game between Muncie and the local club drew a large crowd. The Montpelier team, reassembled by Capt. Brown after disbanding, defeated Muncie 4 to 3 in a highly regarded contest.
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Montpelier
Ind
Winnings Park
Muncie
Capt. Brown
German woman grows fond of dogs leaves home homeless
Indianapol is Ind Oct 25 Mrs Ma ry Chetester an old German woman has developed such a love for dogs and is now homeless after friends abandoned her. She was given shelter at the police station on Friday but protested as her household pets were driven away.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Mary Chetester
Couple Wed in Noblesville Ceremony
Aged Charles and Miss Elizabeth Thompson wed in Noblesville Indiana on October 27. The ceremony joined two families as local friends offered best wishes for the couple.
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Noblesville, _Ind
Charles
Elizabeth ‘Thompson
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