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Newspaper
Sedalia Sunday Sentinel
Location
Sedalia, Missouri, United States of America
Date
Dec 08, 1901
Page
14
A Mr. Hanna goes to the White House as usual and delivers a republican style message. The president’s message will be discussed in next week’s Bryan’s Commoner. Queen Wilhelmina’s husband is urged to find a swift royal hatpin job.
The message argues that easing the white man’s burden in the Philippines requires more than a single note. It criticizes friends of Rathbone and Neely for seeking White House sympathy, labeling the move a serious misstep.
A speaker urges Henderson to understand that Reed rules are safe only when in the grasp of a man who is entirely great, implying strong leadership is required to uphold them.
Senator Wellington confronts a broad set of obstacles and challenges in Washington. The path ahead promises many difficulties amid political currents and shifting tides, with opponents and uncertain outcomes shaping the journey.
Frank Monett attorney for the American Anti-Trust League expresses dissatisfaction with President Roosevelt's proposed methods for handling trusts and monopolies.
The fragment notes humor about Senator Depew and a graphophone placed near a Christmas tree, reflecting a light political quip. No explicit event or date is provided.
Alton Illinois is praised as a highly organized labor city with under 3500 voters and about 2500 men in the Trades and Labor assembly. Joseph Giles, an Alton printer, has organized 27 unions in two years, uniting skilled and unskilled workers and lifting wages 10 to 50 percent with fixed hours and dispute arbitration. Industries include a glass factory, three flour mills, a boot and shoe factory, a plow works, brick works and more.
Hotel keepers in the city protest against high school and college students idling in their lobbies after school hours. The youths gather at hotels occupying chairs intended for patrons, turning these premises into unofficial head quarters instead of pursuing study.
C. W. Welsh a brakeman on the Missouri Pacific east end sprained the left ankle badly while switching in Tipton yards Friday afternoon He left Saturday night for St Louis to enter the hospital.
The Western field trials meeting in Glasgow Missouri closed Saturday despite bad weather. The final brace ran in the all age stake with Uncle B. winning first for Devereaux & Edwards of Cleveland handled by D. E. Rose and Senator P. taking second for J. W.
Flynn in San Francisco and Ortiz Vic's Vic tied to Guthrie and Criswell, with Mexico Missouri connections. George McLin and Doc Hick handle duties alongside J W Considine and Charles Askins in San Francisco. Third money is provided.
Rich Hill nut coal will advance to 2.75 per ton starting Monday morning. Buyers urged to act now at KOAL outlets. Contact F. Taylor Cain promptly for purchase details at the Bell number 578 Q. C. 1,000.
A smooth con man known as Truman Nye alias M H Allen alias Albert Stanton used a check perforator and rubber stamp to pass bad checks in Sedalia and Kansas City. He drew larger sums and received a five year penitentiary sentence after being caught.
The London Mail notes about 10,000 Americans book complete tours of England by linked coaches with railway largely ignored. Coaches now run profitably as commercial ventures with guaranteed passenger totals along each route. An agent cites thousands of travelers who have seen England from inn to inn, with many more planned this year.
I recall the late Fenian era when the Royal Irish Constabulary arrested strangers suspected of Fenianism after habeas corpus was repealed. Trials faced partisan judges and crowded juries, while witnesses risked retaliation for strong testimony, as Judge Keogh questioned a supposedly loyal witness.
The New York Sun reports a novel use of electric power on Chicago’s South Side Elevated Railroad. Electric motors mounted in small cars drilled 7/8 inch holes in rail webs while trains operated, avoiding delays as 20 000 holes were drilled between trains on nine inch space.
In a physiology class the teacher asks about the use of the vermiform appendix. Tommy Tucker quips that it is useful to keep things out of. The remark appears in a Chicago Tribune humorous note.
A census of the colored population in Columbia is conducted under Dr. C. A. Ellwood of Missouri State University. The project aims to measure progress since emancipation and gather demographic data.
A quoted line from the Indianapolis Journal hints at memories of a party fair picture when it was new. The fragment suggests a reflective caption about a historic or notable image associated with a master or masterful figure.
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