City Democrats Prepare Case for 60 Delegates at State Convention
The Philadelphia Democratic committee chose to draft a pamphlet arguing for sixty delegates to the Commonwealth Party gathering, with a possible 105 delegate claim based on past votes. Leaders say the courts would rule on the seating if Philadelphia is denied representation, while state officials move toward Erie for the convention.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles P. Donnelly
Democratic City Committee
Philadelphia
Guffey
Union Party
Creasy
Bryan
Erie
Randolph Shirk
Mutchler
Northampton County
Washington
Kerr
Pennsylvania
Colonel Guffey
James Kerr
West
William J. Brennen
Allegheny County
Willow Grove Trip with Reading Lines Delights
A brief notice urges a pleasant summer outing to Willow Grove via Reading's swift service. The text highlights convenient departures from Philadelphia, inviting travelers to enjoy a relaxing journey on a warm afternoon.
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Willow Grove
Reading
Swift
Comfort
Philadelphia
Reform the ballot and Rescue the State banners described
The article notes two colored banners, one bearing silver letters reading Reform the ballot and the other Resue the State, displayed as part of a political display.
Standard Oil Men Eye Chester Shipyard Rebuild
The Standard Oil Company backs a plan to take Roach's Chester yard into the Delaware River Ship and Engine Building Company, expand the Roach plant, and build vessels for Standard Oil. John Roach heads the deal in New York with Daniel E. Ford named general manager. a large modern dry dock is planned as a first improvement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Standard Oil Company
Roach
Chester
Delaware River Ship and Engine Building Company
Oil Trust
Carnegie Steel Company
Steel Trust
Carnegie Company
Great Lakes
Rockefeller Iron Ore
John Roach
New York
Daniel E. Ford
Standard
New Roach Company
Ford
Roach Yard
Cramps
Newport News
Triggs
Bath Iron Works
E. S. Levy
Standard Oil
United States Shipbuilding Company
Nixon- Morgan-Schwab Company
Steel Trust Earnings Seen At 38 Million For Quarter
New York June 20 a Wall Street statement on United States Steel earnings places the quarter ending June 30 at about 38 million dollars net. Last year the same quarter yielded 26.36 million. The report notes a June total around 13 million versus 9.35 million a year ago. A Morgan representative declined to comment. It is also learned that the steel syndicate has ceased to exist though profits remain in a discretionary pool controlled by J P Morgan & Co.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia Times
New York
United States Steel
Wall Street
J. P. Morgan & Co
Woman in Battle in the Philippines Wields Rifle
Mrs. Charles Graves wife of the Twenty first regimental band leader spent two hours on the firing line in a fierce Philippine skirmish at Lipa where more than 300 Filipino attackers overwhelmed a small garrison. A soldier beside her was killed and several wounded while she kept fighting until the threat ended. Mrs Graves has accompanied her husband for three years in the Philippines and earlier served in St Paul.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Graves
Snelling
Lipa
Beach resort planned at Ballona near Santa Monica
Wealthy Southern California investors form a company to develop Playa del Rey as a premier beach resort six miles south of Santa Monica. Two miles of ocean frontage are secured on about 1000 acres with building restrictions. Transit by 60 days via Los Angeles Pacific Railway, 25 minute city ride. Prominent incorporators include Frederick H. Rindge Chester A. Congdon Charles D. Frasier Eldridge M. Fowler Calvin Hood and P M Green.
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Los Angeles Pacific Electric Railway
New Beach
Frederick H. Rindge
Milllionaire
Los Angeles
Santa Monica
Chester A. Congdon
Duluth
Emporia
P. M. Green
Green
Pasadena
San Francisco Call
Fire records burn damages across Illinois and the Midwest
A blaze damaged the Royer Wheel works in Aurora Indiana with losses near 75000 dollars. In Rugby North Dakota the business district suffered almost 50000 dollars in damage, partially insured. A mill fire at Massand Company Germantown Street caused extensive damage estimated at 150 dollars yesterday night.
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Royer
Aurora
Ind
Rugby
N. D
the Massand Company
Germantown
Fraud Charged In Metallic Condense Company Receiver Bid
George S. Graham filed a bill in Common Pleas Court asking for a receiver for the Metallic Condense Company of Delaware with its office in Wilmington. The suit alleges a dishonest officer held a majority and that about $13 000 was diverted by former treasurer Robert McKnight. McKnight controls 525 000 shares and blocks action to recover the funds. The petition cites insolvent finances, mismanagement, and failure to assign patent rights amid a stockholder group led by Graham and other holders.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George S. Graham
Leo J. Schmitz
Metallic Condenser Company
Equity
Common Pleas Court
Delaware
Wilmington
Andrew S. Steigerwald
Robert McKnight
Frank McKnight
Henry Deinninger
Ralph C. Lupoon
G. W. F. Sulzer
Finley Acker
Moses Paxson
Charles Sulzner
Ellsworth
Hawthorne
H. A. Nolte
McKnight
Steigerwald
Board of Directors
Andrew
Assassin’s unknown fate proves hard to discern
The Brooklyn Eagle notes that Russia’s student riots lack a clear, censored view of their grievances. It describes the unrest, the use of Cossacks to quell demonstrations, and the dramatic killing of Interior Minister M. Sipiaguine by Balmashov, who refused to name accomplices.
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Russia
Brooklyn Eagle
Empire
M. Sipiaguine
Interior
Lot
Stephen Valerianovitch Balmashov
University of Kieff
Balmashov
Serge
Sipiaguine
Primitive Maine township defies church and courts in 61 years
The Boston Herald profiles Township XVI Range 12 in Allegash Maine a remote farming lumbering settlement at the St John river junction. It notes a mixed Nova Scotia Scotch and Montreal French population living without religion with no local church store or post office. The powerful ruler Alexander Castleton owns 1500 acres and fixes taxes for roads schools and expenses while residents work as farmers or lumbermen and ship hay to Fort Kent mills.
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Maine
St. John River
Chementicook Stream
Aroostock County
Nova Scotia
Scotland
Allegash
England
Edward Kent
Reuben Fairfield
Fort Kent
Township 16
Alexander Castleton
King Castleton
Jean Boyer
Boston Herald
Local Weather Forecast For Eastern States
Rain and cooler. fresh south winds turning west. Eastern Pennsylvania New Jersey and Delaware see rain this Saturday and Sunday with fair skies and cooler conditions after.
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Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Delaware
Local Weather Report for Philadelphia June 20 1902
United States Weather Bureau notes inst temperature and sunshine with 15 percent excess of national tem perature day. rainfall since June 1 and January 1 show minor increases.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States Weather Bureau
Philadelphia
Arrivals of Ocean Liners Germanic and Liverpool
Ocean liner Germanic and the Liverpool bound liner arrived from New York as part of the Atlantic passenger service schedule. Reports indicate smooth customs and onward transfers for passengers, with anticipated city arrivals at the piers during the morning hours.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Liverpool
New York
Fire Marshal Ties Broad Street Fires to Suspect McNeeley
Assistant Fire Marshal Wilkins testified against Edward McNeeley in a hearing tied to a series of fires around Broad street and Washington avenue. McNeeley, 1611 South Carlisle, was jailed after a Tuesday arrest as testimony linked him to a Norfolk box factory blaze and a rail station platform fire.
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Wilkins
Broad Street
Washington Avenue
Edward MaeNeeley
McNeeley
South
Carlisle Street
Rochersperger
Norfolk Box
Philadelphia, Wilmington and Baltimore
Mary Pinckney
Bancroft Street
Robert Thompson
Ellsworth Street
Thomas Stewart
Alter Street
Fifteenth Street
Stewart
Wood and the Sugar Lobby in Cuban Reciprocity Debate
Washington Letter from Springfield Republican reviews the Cuban reciprocity controversy focusing on General Wood, Thurber, and Havemeyer. It details Thurber’s role as a lobbyist and witness, the use of Cuban money, and critics who equate the affair with improper use of government funds to influence legislation.
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Thurber
United States Export Association
Washington
Congress
Teller
Cuba
Wood
Havemeyer
Sugar Trust
General Wood
War Department
Washington Letter
Springfield
Mass
Republican
Ind
New View of Atmosphere Reaches 500 Miles High
Charles Morris in Lippincott's argues the atmosphere may extend to 500 miles or more, based on meteorite he observed heating to incandescence at that altitude. He notes the upper boundary depends on gravity and centrifugal force, which rise with height, and declares the exact limit unknowable.
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Charles Morris
Lippincott's
Nothing Good Without Chop In Italy Tale From Toronto
A Toronto traveler returning from Italy tells of an Englishman aboard a Bay of Naples pleasure steamer. He portrays the average Britisher as contemptuous of other nations, arguing imperialism would fail in Canada if all Englishmen shared that view.
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Toronto
Italy
Bay of Naples
Verdure and Volcano Spark Tourist Banter
A Canadian and a Briton banter amid a lush hillside near Vesuvius with smoke rising from the old crater as tourists take in the view. The Briton quips that beauty fades without a mutton chop, reflecting tongue in cheek humor from a Toronto Star clipping.
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Vesuvius
Toronto Star
Twice Paid For His Freedom Dick Nugent Hunter Dies At 76
Richard Hunter known as Dick Nugent near Laurens died at 76. He earned fame as the slave who bought freedom twice, paying 100 dollars a year to 15 years, with final settlement after emancipation. He later bought land, sold produce, and was famed for frugality and honesty. He was twice married to free women of color.
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Laurens
Richard Hunter
Dick Nugent
Dublin Hunter
Hunter
Thomas Hunter
Dublin
Samuel Nugent
Mr. Nugent
Nugent
Eliza
Clark Templeton
Templeton
Augusta
Chronicle
Negroes Boycott Street Cars Over Segregation Law
A Macon Georgia boycott emerges as a city society vows fines of one dollar for any member riding street cars in segregated sections. Some locals condemn the tactic while others support the law, and operators have not filed complaints or acknowledged the boycott.
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Macon
Uncle Joe Covington Prepares Graves for Self and Wife
A Bennettsville Dispatch reports Hebron farmer Uncle Joe Covington in his 30s has cemented graves for himself and his wife with monuments. He plans a summer unveiling with speakers T. C. Hamer and J. P. Gibson, drawing thousands to hear memorial addresses in an unusual local event.
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Bennettsville
D. C
Joe
Covington
Hebron
Messrs
T. C. Hamer
J. P. Gibson
Atlanta Journal
West Virginia Miners to Reach Luzerne Amid Tense Riot Fears
Sheriff in Wilkesbarre braces for possible clashes between Hungarian and Polish groups as several hundred Black miners and engineers from West Virginia coal fields arrive en route to District No. 1. Deputy Albert Kirk has organized fifty special police to guard collieries of Lehigh Valley and Wilkesbarre Coal interests.
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Jacobs
Luzerne County
Wilkesbarre
West Virginia
Albert Kirk
Lehigh Valley Division
Pennsylvania Railroad
Lehigh and Wilkesbarre Coal Company
Lehigh Valley Coal Company
Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Coal Company
Strikers face possible revolt as colored miners arrive
Captain Jones, famed from the Spanish war, leads several hundred deputies at Nanticoke near Wilkesbarre armed with Winchester rifles. Detective John Anderson organizes another patrol of special policemen to Pottsville and Schuylkill Haven on Monday, joined by a contingent of college men.
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Captain Jones
Nanticoke
Wilkesbarre
John Anderson
Walnut Street
Pottsville
Schuylkill Haven
Pensioner seeks cut in pension but ends in asylum
Commissioner Eugene F. Ware received a letter from an Illinois man asking to reduce his $30 monthly pension as he prospers. The pension examiner reported the applicant is now in an insane asylum, having been so for some time.
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Commissioner of Pensions
Eugene F. Ware
Illinois
Preso
Pension Bureau
Ware
Washington Times
MEN, WOMEN AND UNIFORMS IN NURSING EFFECT ON HEARTS
A columnist notes that uniforms charm both genders, but warns that the nurse’s attire wields power over men and women alike. It argues men, especially in religious communities, are drawn to the uniform’s authority and the nurse’s perceived ability to save, shaping behavior in households.
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N. Y
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Harrisburg
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John G. Orr
Chambersburg Daily Spirit
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Friends
Pattison
Robert E. Pattison
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Delaware River Company
BIG Steel Trust
Pacific Coast
Newport
Condense
Geo
J. Schmidt
Maine Backwoods
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Arighest
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Luzerne
Rive
Virginia
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E. W. Kemble
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