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Newspaper
Philadelphia Times
Location
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1902
Page
8
Public notice from Philadelphia dated June 12 1902 outlines mail postage charges for daily and Sunday editions at monthly and yearly rates for domestic and foreign mail. Includes Illustrated Magazine Weekly Review of Books and Supplements. Currency figures and specific rates are partially obscured in the text.
The State Convention displays Senator Quay's supreme control as he appoints committees and officers, suspends rules to name his chosen slate, and crushes independent challenges. Col Watres withdraws, Elkin yields, and Pennypacker appears as a compliant governor pick while Browns symbolize party machine workers.
Swarthmore aims to raise 600000 for its new fund but has secured 400000 with strong local backing. Dr Swain agreed to lead Swarthmore after adjusting terms from his Indiana University presidency. The community’s support reflects deep Quaker educational interest in the Philadelphia region.
The Society of Friends upholds Swarthmore as a Friends' school and a community beacon. Despite declining membership, the Quaker spirit remains strong, bolstering support for intellectual movements. The college, with a new endowment fund and new president, is seen as gaining usefulness and future promise.
The editorial calls District Attorney Weaver to act on findings that Twenty-eighth Ward school officials and others took bribes for teacher appointments. It urges strong action to purge the system, noting public opinion expects decisive justice and accountability.
The Pennsylvania Republican platform endorses President Roosevelt and pledges renomination. It favors reciprocal trade with Cuba, marking a notable shift from strict protection. The document omits praise for Governor Stone and the last Legislature, noting silence on state affairs.
The resolution pledges a pure ballot and honest count in Pennsylvania. The party offers to aid other parties in fixing defects in the suffrage system or to back new plans for a fair, speedily enacted law. Critics doubt earlier promises, urging voters to judge candidates' character and connections for the legislature.
A prominent article foresees new mega trusts in the electrical industry led by Elkins-Widener-Dolan interests with Morgan at the helm. It notes a Bergen Norway meeting to lay plans for GE and Westinghouse forming a dominant electrical equipment monopoly, warning of concentrated power and potential financial risk.
The Germantown Academy hosts relics from Germantown’s early settlement and its role as a center of enterprise. The exhibit highlights the old academy building dating to the mid eighteenth century, a symbol of the district’s long history.
The piece promotes an illustrated exhibition tracing Germantown's history from early German immigration to later English influences. It stresses the town’s intellectual, industrial, and social development and urges Pennsylvania students to attend for a vivid study of local history amid attractive surroundings.
The essay argues that the street car conductor, once a feared enforcer of timetables, becomes a model of benevolence for children. It notes the conductor’s authority and the mother’s reliance on him to shape behavior, then imagines a future New York where conductors embody gentleness and courtesy.
The piece notes Senator Brown of Lawrence as a prominent figure in the ripper Legislature and implicated in unsavory schemes, with Quay designating him to preside over the Senate replacing Gobin who fled an allegedly corrupt atmosphere. The text claims the platform endorses a practical endorsement for lieutenant governor, signaling party harmony.
Quay’s bid for convention control falters amid bold tactics and rival Elkin gaining more delegates. Watres’ pledged votes keep Quay afloat, while Pennypacker tallies 96 outside Philadelphia and Elkin 154. Durham secures victory with Watres’s help before Watres withdraws.
Charles M Schwab, once a protege of Andrew Carnegie, donates to Pennsylvania State College for a chapel costing 65000 dollars. An honorary degree may follow to honor the benefactor.
The Italian deputy wounded in an ear in a duel may gain an advantage if he can still hear little yet talk as much as before. The son of Tedyuscung should vow to be proud as his statue is unveiled on Wissahickon Ravine and people will likely pronounce his name.
A wry saying warns that a pitcher who returns to the well too often risks trouble, while a straw man regrets past bold moves that now seem unwise. The reflection suggests restraint and prudence in repeated gambles.
China keeps the small change. A mere $10,000,000 figures in the Harrisburg race as it proceeded with the contest not to the beouter.
A reader argues that abolishing tariffs adds up to a direct tax per capita but saves money through cheaper shoes and sugar. He claims tariff removal cuts prices 15 percent for ordinary supplies, lowers steel costs to railways, and would lift America to first in world commerce, urging direct taxation avoided by savings.
A letter from an old timer in Philadelphia urges the city to expand the water pipe fire service, restore the old fire department, and roll back insurance rates after a series of daylight fires near Sixth and Market and Willow. He notes such close, daytime blazes could not occur with the old hand engines.
A letter from Ryerson W. Jennings of Philadelphia dated June 11 invites readers to submit opinions on any subject with conditions. Names may be published or withheld and must avoid offensive personalities as the paper forecasts Robert F. Pattison will become Pennsylvania governor.
Indiana Democrats tire of staying out in the cold, while editorials note reciprocity as protectionism and tariff reform. Miles is unlikely to win Democratic standard bearer, per Memphis and Kansas City columns. Kansas joys at a production party governor bid replacing a comfortable salary.
Lord Kitchener reports remount troubles in South Africa stem from new soldiers lacking horse care knowledge. Viennese women form a dress reform league to ban corsets and promote divided skirts. Pewter making declines in England as cheap glass and tin replace it. Lowden School Board opens a crippled children’s school in Whitechapel with dinner and ambulance transport.
A lyrical manifesto speaks of onward exploration beyond known borders and old beliefs. It envisions storm and dawn as guides, names the stripping of oaths, and declares a quest where aspiration, virtue, and crime blend in a new, fearless path beyond the sea and mountains.
A memorial gift of 100000 dollars toward the building fund for the new medical laboratories at Thirty-sixth and Pine streets is announced. The donor remains unnamed. Funds will support the pathological department and the engineering laboratory as the medical complex expands, with future plans for a veterinary department and site decisions pending trustees’ fall meeting.
The Rev Patrick J Dailey rector of the Roman Catholic Church of the Annunciation at Tenth and Dickinson streets returned from a California trip for his 32nd ordination anniversary. He was greeted at Broad Street Station by a committee and escorted to the parish house where a dinner and blessing followed. Parish homes were decked with flags and bunting and a post reception in the church basement honored him with a token purse. Tasker Hall will host a school entertainment this evening in his honor.
The presentation to the Fairmount Park Commissioners of a stone Indian figure at Indian Rock Wissahickon Creek will occur Saturday at noon. Judge Samuel W Pennypacker will speak and James M Beck will present the statue donated by Mr and Mrs Charles W Henry.
Lieutenant Preston Brown, son of former Kentucky governor, promoted to captain. The officer was once convicted of murdering a Filipino and sentenced to imprisonment and dismissal, a sentence later commuted by President Roosevelt to loss of several numbers.
Representatives of Philadelphia Methodist quarterly conference reject Rev. Dr. Russell's offer to use First Church for the 1904 session, choosing to hold the next meeting at the Academy. The decision highlights tensions between denominations and practical venue considerations.
Charlie M. Schwab, president of United States Steel, is elected an active member of the Union League. Others are placed on the active roll.
Berlin reports the Telegatic Cable Company has decided to lay another transatlantic cable from Germany to the United States. The announcement signals expansion of communications infrastructure with potential impacts on telegraph and telecommunication services between Europe and North America.
The Philadelphia Times invites readers to submit 300 word tales about people and affairs in Philadelphia for a weekly Tales Worth Telling column. The six best stories win prizes of 5 dollars for first, 3 dollars for two runners up, and 2 dollars for three more, with space rates paid for accepted pieces.
The obituary-like note recalls William R. Travers and a broker friend planning a faraway fishing trip. They board a New York train at midnight, spend farewells and wake with ringing heads. A comic miscue follows as Travers mistakes a bag for a mirror and jokes about shaving.
In Lancaster a local Sunday school festival featured speeches by the minister the superintendent and the mission-society leader plus choir hymns. After music the children enjoyed strawberries ice cream lemonade and cakes though an organist played solemn chants. A teacher asked for lighter tunes and the organist offered Onward Christian Soldiers played very fast.
Colonel McClure recounts a tale from his schavidars with a timid boy named Inates. The pupil asked to bring fresh pork to the school, saying his family planned to kill a pig. The master joked of a pension, weeks passed, then the boy sighed that the pig got better.
The piece notes twelve of R. R. Whitehead and his wife’s thirteen children attended their sixtieth wedding anniversary in Macon county Missouri last Saturday. It highlights Mark Twain’s early career anecdote and profiles Twelve Jin Wilkinson a longtime United States Deputy Marshal known for fearsome outlaws with bullet scars and a Comanche arrow wound.
The United States auxiliary cruiser Dixie returned from St. Vincent and Martinique with relief supplies and sailed this afternoon for League Island Navy Yard Philadelphia. On arrival she will be decommissioned and undergo extensive repairs. Captain Berry and the officers will transfer to the converted cruiser Panther at League Island.
Friends of the late Rev. Joseph H. Kennard have bought 1828 North Broad Street adjoining Temple College and will donate the property as a memorial named Kennard Hall of Theology.
A jumble of quotes and anecdotes from various sources including Washington Post and Leslie's Weekly. It notes humorous lines on arithmetic books, a London bishop story about frogs in cream, and Justice Gray finding humor on the bench during a map moment.
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