American Luxury Drive Rules Nations Economy
The piece argues Americans chase luxury, noting impulsive shopping by women and excessive wealth buildup. It highlights travel, hotels, and liners catering to affluent American tastes, with commentary on weather impact on retail and a critique of political and social complacency. It references figures like Tom and Uncle George and laments a zero generation of reform in Congress.
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Deepee
Tate
George
Tom
Aomeelanee
Congress
Sober King and Cunning Insurance Quip In Old Tales
A witness testifies the old man was sober on returning home and was to be awakened for the May queen. The tale ends with a fine for the king. A Leeds Mercury joke notes a woman seeking £200 to insure her house, fearing a catch in the policy. Also cited: the Sultan of Turkey as an extravagant household manager with a $3,000,000 budget for repairs and vanity items.
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Turkey
Philip D Armour dies leaving vast fortune and memorials
Chicago giant Philip D Armour dies aged 66 at his prairie avenue residence after years of heart disease. The Armour family patriarch leaves an estate valued around 76 million with sons Philip D Armour Jr and Simeon B Armour and brother Simeon Armour. His career built Armour & Co and Armour Institute plus Armour Mission and bank ventures in Kansas City.
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Philip D. Armour
Iming Enterprises
Jol Cage
Prairie Avenue
Chicago
Philip, D. Armour
Hmd
D. Armour, Jr
Simeon Be Armour
Kansas City
Great Packing Establishment
Madison County
New York
Frederick JB. Affles
Malvini Belle Ogden
Cincinnati
Miles
Plankinton & Armour
Pork Packers
Herman O. Armour
Milwaukee House
Terman
Armour, Plankinton & Co
Joseph I. Armour
Chicago House
H. O. Armour & Co
Robert J. Lee
P.D. Armour & Co
Armour ‘Bros.’’ Banking Company
Andrew Watson Armour
Atansas City
Park
Armour Mission
Joseph F. Armour
Armour, Institute
Armour
London
Blaze at Standard furniture store traps hotel lodgers
Panic seized the patrons of the Standard furniture store building after a rear origin fire spread through the ground floor and up to the second and third floors. Lodger Charles Harrison raised the alarm. day clerk George O’Connor kicked in doors and tried to rescue others but was overwhelmed by smoke. Firemen ladders failed to save trapped occupants found dead or unconscious in front rooms on the second and third floors.
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Javes
Charles Harrison
George O'Connor
O'Connor
Yolwnes
Hfe
Tennessee grants chapter for colored university
Telegraphic brief item notes Tennessee approves a chapter for a colored university. It mentions John Snyder of Chicago fatally shooting his wife and then killing himself. Other short items include figures such as W E H Durr, a Chicago ex theatre manager, and a claim about a moose herd in Adirondacks.
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Tennessee
John Snyder
Chicago
W. E H. Durr
de. Webb
New York
Wind Cave
Rapid City
Lawrence Bryant
Boers Seize Cape Town Panic and Boer Strategy Debate
Cape Town alerts as over 6,000 volunteers rush to repel Boer Transvaal invasion. Monarch battleship lands big guns. Botha’s plan seen as strategic to draw Lord Kitchener’s force from the Transvaal and strike at Pretoria. Kruger may visit the United States. Pekin talks pause with Manchuria as a Russian protectorate.
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Cape Town
Transvaal
Monarch
Cape Colony
Botha
Lord Witchener
Pretoria
Cape Own
London
Kruger
United States
Atlantic
Europe
State Legislatures Worldwide Finance and Elections
The article surveys how forty five states meet in biennial or annual sessions, cites salary ranges from 3 dollars a day to 1500 dollars a year, and notes mileage and postage allowances. It discusses term lengths for state senators and representatives, and highlights forthcoming U S Senate elections and notable candidates in various states. It also reviews ten year church growth across major denominations.
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New Hampshire
Nevada
New York State
Georgia
Massachusetts
New Jersey
New York
Rhode Island
South Carolina
Kansas
Pennsylgania
Maine
Delaware
Iowa
Maryland
Illinois
Senate
Between Seasons in New York and Chicago Markets
In New York the post holiday slow season slows merchant activity while stock markets show a volatile week with prices rising beyond intrinsic values. Chicago notes a year start boost in speculative volume on the Board of Trade, with hopeful signs that grain markets may rally as wheat prices rebound from expectations of a larger than believed crop.
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New York
Chicago
Board of ‘Trade
Moves to Make Kidnapping a Capital Offense
The Cudahy kidnapping case has stirred debate across the West. Iowa lawmakers may amend the statute to make kidnapping a capital crime, with death as the penalty. Similar moves are seen in South Dakota and North Dakota may follow, though current penalties vary by state.
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Cudahy
Iowa
Crin
South Kota
Pealty
Thy
North Dakota
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AmMerican
Federation of Labor
Quesbedy
Ly 'N. J
Daritalenia
Tom ‘Terradel
Hugland
Popuot
Miami
Ohio
Pekin
Emperor Kwang-San
Prince Ching
Wark Li Ifung-Chang
China
Russia
Manchuria
Germany
France
Corea
Asia
Great Wall
Rom Wavana
Uy Two
Republic
Vatican
Rome
Leo
Italke
Minnesota
Montana
Nebraska
United States Senate
George D. Meiklejohn
Edward Rosewater
Omaha
D. K. Thompson
Lincoln
Bryan
Thompson
Coldwater
Mich
Ife
San Francisco
Thompson Whith
Omaha Exposition
W. BE. Clark
St. Augustus Heinze
Heinze
Clark
Utah
George Q. Cannon
J. Edward Addicks
Colorado
O. S. Thomas
Marian Butler
Clinrch
Colored Baptists
Congregationalists
Protestant Episcopal Church
Alteenea
Aformons
Reorganized Mormon Church
Methodist Episcopal Church
Northern Presbyterian
Cumberland Presbyterian Reports
Salvation Army
Unitarians
Universalists
TGS
Cutherans
The
Baptists
Colored Church
Hettt
Disciples of Christ
Reformed Episcopal
Methodist Episcopal
Methodist Episcopal Church South
Presbyterian Church North
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