Quay Fights for Territory Statehood Amid Senate Clash
Senator Quay presses for admission of three promised territories with party platform support, facing opposition from Beveridge. A mutual agreement delays action to January 5 when Congress reconvenes as Quay predicts victory despite Republican opposition. Senator Morgan proposes colonizing African Americans in the Philippines with land and transport to ease South racial tensions.
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Senator Quay
Beveridge
Congress
Quay
Senate
Morgan
War Department
South
Philippine Islands
Philippines
Direct Steamship Service to Manila Inaugurated
The Pacific Steamship Lines begin direct sailings from San Francisco to Manila in connection with the Chicago and North Western Railway. Monthly departures, about 28 days travel, use fast Pacific liners, replacing routes via Nagasaki and Hong Kong. This marks a boost for American interests in the Far East and supports growing transpacific freight and passenger traffic.
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Chicago & North-Western Railway
Trans-Continental
Chicago
San Francisco
Manila
Nagasaki
Hong Kong
Pacific
Aerican
Far East
Europe
New York
Overland Limited
Dow's mirrors and Pehl's Wholesale House ad
An advertisement promises a large selection of mirrors at Dow's and invites holidays shoppers to Pehl's Wholesale House at 115 West Second Street. It promotes Anheuser-Busch beers and fine Kentucky whiskies and wines from California and Europe with low prices and a goods guarantee.
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Pehl
West Second Street
California
Europe
Twenty-Five Years Ago in Sedalia
A fragment from Fires of the Sedalia Bazoo dated December 22 1877 notes light rain and evening snow on the shortest day, counts Broad Way School pupils at 32, reports unusual fish street sale including two white salmon, and mentions delays to the Missouri Pacific mail. It also records Woolrey’s stabbing of Kleiner in Georgetown with serious injuries, plus local hunting trips and a peculiarly misfiring gun incident with a woodpecker. No inquest.
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Sedalia Bazoo
Broadway School
Lamine
Missouri Pacific
P. M. Parker
Woolrey
Kleiner
Georgetown
J. W. Jobe
Montseratt
Lute Welsh
Inlaw
Geo. Ford
Phillipsburg
N. Y
Sedalia National Bank to Elect Eleven Directors
The regular annual meeting for the election of eleven directors will be held at the bank’s rooms on Tuesday January 13 1903. Polls open at 9 a m and close at 12 m. E R Blair. Dow’s advert follows.
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Sedalia National Bank
E. R. Blair
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Pettis County
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Panama
Pacific Steamship Lines
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