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Newspaper
Sumner Press
Location
Sumner, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jan 30, 1902
Page
8
The nation marked McKinley Memorial Day with services across churches and tributes for the late president. Details recall the president’s final days, the Buffalo hospital scene, and the doctors’ effort to save him as crowds and officials gathered.
A mournerly scene unfolds as President McKinley lies gravely ill and bids farewell to his wife Mrs. McKinley with a whispered blessing. Reports describe tears, devotion, and a nation sharing in the sorrow as doctors and family guard against a final relapse. The piece also notes new roles for women in drawing yards and anticipated growth of women in professions such as architecture.
A museum timeline traces McKinley from his 1843 Ohio birth to his 1901 assassination. It lists education at Allegheny College, Civil War service, law career, prosecutions, Congress, Ohio governorship, and two presidential terms including inauguration and death. It notes a New York press clipping bureau compiling 12 000 editorials on his death.
The Deaconess home and hospital in Lincoln, built of brick and stone, was formally dedicated under St. John's Evangelical Lutheran Church. Attendees from nearby towns filled Broadway Theater for public exercises with speeches by Prof. J. A. Schneider and several pastors and dignitaries. The facility cost about $35,000 and is described as a modern, imposing institution.
Frederick G. White rose from Chicago and Alton Railway section hand to Livingston County Judge. Appointed by Gov. Yates to fill an unexpired term, his career spans schooling at Bloomington Normal, teaching, city clerkships, law admission in 1898, and recognition as an orator and prudent leader.
Livestock prices for cattle sheep hogs and stockers shown with varying weights and grades. Quotations include cattle general stock light and medium weight, fat heifers and bulls, sheep good to choice and lambs, and hogs heavy and mixed weights with price ranges and per head figures.
Pricing list shows items including dairy, hay, timothy, clover, lard, and live poultry. Poultry includes chickens, turkeys, and pigeons with per head or per dozen rates. Several odd spellings and OCR artifacts appear, but items and quantities indicate a rural farm market catalog.
Reports from Huntsville Shawnee Philadelphia and Paris note a fatal shooting in Shawnee and a new superintendent appointment in Tac World’s Fair. Governor Shaw pardons 473 convicts. Helen Gould plans a Hudso m fete cooking school for girls. Fire inflicts 200000 damage on Rice Stix factory. state coal output hits historic high. A Parisian leaves art gallery to Louvre. Joplin extends hospitality to a political convention. A temporary receiver sought for Albany Commercial Bank. earthquake in Chipamtega Mexico causes 900 deaths. Chicago and Eastern installs black system. power plant contract for World Fair awarded for 1000000. Knoxville postal clerk injured in explosion. public silence policy noted. Fire at hotel in Chicago proves dramatic. White law Hed slated to be national official with coronation precedence.
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