Eleanor Baldwin Moves Near Uncle Phineas in New York
Eleanor Baldwin arrives at Prof. Baldwin’s New York home with her trunk and a plan to visit the professor, meet William Struthers the electrician, and settle her path with her aunt Emma and Uncle Phineas. The professor welcomes the guest while juggling work, meals, and his eccentric household.
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Eryoma
Phineas
Harold
Prof
Baldwin
Emma
Einma
Eleanor
Owen ‘Page
Prof. Baldwin
London
Phin
William Struthers
Mahomet Ali
Adolph
Uncle Phin
Delmonico’s
Peachblossom
Christmas Interlude in a Student Room with a Canary
A lively scene unfolds in a student room as a professor and Miss Strange admire a caged canary. The landlady plans to remove the bird while the professor jokes and comments on wage-spenders and wage-spinners. Uncle Phin engages in playful banter about work, picnics, and a future voyage.
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Todd
Strange
Indy
Phin
Merest Trifle Notion Sparks Quiet Exchange
Fragmentary dialogue reveals a focus on self and trifles as Cholly and Miss Pepprey converse, hinting at worry over trivial matters and a self centered viewpoint. The overheard exchange captures a social vignette with characters named Cholly and Miss Pepprey.
Accident at Grand Island Shoots Out Eye
Henry Boeltz age 21 residing on his brother’s farm north of Grand Island Nebraska suffered a severe eye injury when an old loaded musket exploded during a misfire experiment. The blast shattered the right eye and disfigured the face. he is at St Francis hospital with probable loss of sight in the right eye.
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Grand Island
Neb
Henry Boeltz
St. Francis Hospital
Traveling Man Killed by Fall From 12th Floor Hotel
Harrison L. Potter a Detroit store company traveling salesman fell from the twelfth floor of the Great Northern hotel in Chicago while seeking air for a headache. He died on the sidewalk after a brief moment of life. An unfinished letter to his mother was found in his room describing arrival and a need for a breath of air.
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Great Northern
Harrison
Potter
Detroit
Chicago
St. Joseph
Mich
Supreme Court Dismisses Layton Case Over Federal Question
The U S Supreme Court dismissed Whitney Layton vs Missouri for lacking a federal issue. Layton from St Louis was convicted for using alum in baking powder and fined $100. the verdict stood. Chief Justice Fuller delivered the opinion.
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United States Supreme Court
Whitney Layton
State of
Missouri
Layton
St. Louis
State Supreme ‘Court
Fuller
Secretary of Agriculture
Connecticut
Bureau
New England
Cheesbrough
United States
War Revenue Law
The
Admiral Dewey
Caribbean
South Dakota
North Carolina
Treasury
General Fund
Temple Iron Stockholders Approve Bond Increase in Pittsburgh
Stockholders of the Temple Iron company met in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and approved increasing bonded indebtedness from 2,826,000 to 3,326,000 to cover a deficit caused by the recent strike. The company controls several anthracite coal mines with George F. Baer as president.
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Temple Iron Company
Pittsburg
George F. Baer
Buck Dies in Tokio Amid High Diplomatic Esteem
The Associated Press reports United States Minister Alfred E. Buck died of heart failure in Tokio while a guest of the emperor during a duck hunting visit. Japanese officials and foreign diplomats offered condolences. Buck’s body was embalmed and to be interred in Washington after voyage aboard the Corea from Yokohama on the 24th. funeral services planned at Trinity Cathedral on the 8th.
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Associated Press
Tokio
Japan
United States
Alfred E. Buck
Buck
Legation
Trinity Cathedral
Yokohama
United States Naval Hospital
Corea
San Francisco
Washington, D. C
Porto Rican Schools Show Gains Under American Rule
The Porto Rico education commission reports 874 schools, 40 993 pupils and 923 teachers last year up from prior figures. Enrollment peaked at 59 096 in ordinary schools plus 2 767 in higher and special schools totaling 61 863 pupils, about 49 percent of school age. Free American system nearly doubles educational advantages.
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Tthe Commissioner of Education
Porto Rico
United States
Public farewell by Dr Lorenz ends local operations
A New York dispatch dated December 22 reports Dr Lorenz performed his last public operation in the area for congenital dislocation of the hip. Patient Alvin Louis Black aged six sent a letter to Lolita Armour of Chicago pleading for the procedure. Armour appealed to J Ogden Armour to bring the surgeon, and the Sunday operation was deemed successful.
Plague Outbreak Reported at Mazatlan Seaport
Advices from Mazatlan describe a bubonic plague outbreak with three deaths on Saturday and nine on Sunday. A pest house is set up and quarantine rules are strictly enforced as weather conditions on the west coast are aiding spread.
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Mazatlan
Mexico
Snow blockade lifted as trains resume movement
News wires report the Union Pacific block between Cheyenne and Sidney Nebraska reopened with trains moving. Netherlands to observe neutrality in Venezuela crisis and ban blockading ships from Dutch colony ports. Sault Ste. Marie links to Chicago via new rail service starting December 29. Thomas Toby to die in electric chair February 9 1903 for murder of Captain James B Craft. A S Matheson resigns as National Tube third vice president effective January 1 with no successor. William W. Bristol jailed for one year for fraudulent use of mails related to Surety Guarantee and Trust. John R Prime claims to have been swindled out of 1500 by Bristol’s misrepresentations.
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Union Pacific
Cheyenne
Sidney
Neb
Netherlands
Sault Ste. Marie
Chicago
Chicago & Northwestern
James B. ‘Craft
Glen Cove
L. I
New York Dispatch
A. S. Matheson
National ‘Tube Company
New York
William W. Bristol
John R. Prime
General. of
Iowa
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Harold Stagg
Robert Bonner
Uncle Phineas
Struthers
Hall County
Nebraska
Great Northern Hotel
Washington. News
Wis Laat
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