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Newspaper
The Beaver Herald
Location
Beaver, Oklahoma, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1900
Page
2
Fragmented scatted notes cover wars and politics, finances, and social issues. It cites Hiram Cronk at 100 in Ovid county. France's nobility costs. Roosevelt era events. Turkish census figures. and German colonial claims as well as a New York prison anecdote and a study on eyesight in Chicago public schools.
Oklahoma election data shows total poll count with party distribution and references to convention outcomes. The report notes populist and republican factions, with references to candidates and legislative implications amid national background.
The morning session of the General Missionary Committee of the Methodist Episcopal Church discussed reducing the foreign field budget by 25 000 while reallocating funds across home and foreign missions. Bishop Charles W. Fowler of Morantown urged renewed efforts for world Christianization and referenced expansion toward the west and missions in China and Russia.
Mrs. Weed delivered the president’s annual address noting the organization has about 20, 10 members and over 40 chapters. She urged education of children in the true southern heritage and the reasons their fathers sacrificed for the Civil War principles.
Washington reports a petition from nearly all leading cotton manufacturers urging Secretary Maytas to act to curb European powers and protect U S import trade in cotton goods. Petitioners insist the pen door policy is needed to secure cotton markets and shiftings with China, largely produced in the interior states.
Reports detail candidates seeking seats in Kentucky and discussions at a national party conference. Mentions of Goebel, Te mmanys and others indicate contested races and shifting political alignments during the election period. Headlines note population updates for Michigan and Kentucky and a presidential parade review in Washington.
At a Washington cabinet meeting on Tuesday President McKinley urged that every cabinet member remain in his official family for the next five years, calling the election results an endorsement of his policies and of each department. Other items note a proposed reduction in war revenue taxes and regional political shifts.
Washington reports in the annual post office review that Philippine service earned 117 845 dollars to June and shows a surplus. The note cites 21 American led post offices including 1 money order office, 37 staffed by army officials, and a push to English adoption and new Manila post offices.
Oklahoma Territory leaders and Indian Territory delegates meet in Sim watson to draft resolutions seeking statehood. A 600-delegate convention is planned with cross-territory representation for a December meeting to memorialize Congress.
Fragment from a wedding scene shows a clergyman prompting vows with obedience lines. The bride asserts she will not vow obedience, prompting a tense exchange about traditional roles and marital promises.
A letter from a North Dakota magnate describes a man who, facing funeral costs, offers to borrow ten dollars to cover the bill and is teased about the cheaper option. The scene includes a German musician and a mayoral figure, with a quip that a funeral might cost more than paying the debt. The piece ends noting Ruskin’s views and a ship’s rudder as a moral metaphor.
A distressed speaker asks about the first duty of a physician to a dangerously ill patient. The text describes nervous prostration and night after night sleep loss, with pain dulled by medicine, until eyes burn from darkness and the patient prays for sleep.
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