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Newspaper
The Bottineau Courant
Location
Bottineau, North Dakota, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1902
Page
4
A Bottineau advert promotes a wide stock of latest novelties including stationery smoking sets perfumes toilet sets mirrors traveling companions and gilt silver horn and wood novelties. It highlights California perfumes and a broad confectionery and cigar selection from MAIN STREET. M W FAWCETT.
Chancellor James R Day of Syracuse University denies opposing college athletics but criticizes features of football. In a World interview he cites injuries and massed play as dangerous and calls for saf er open games with fewer fatalities. He urges colleges to protect players while preserving the sport's educational value.
A Guam telegram from the Lambs Club and 150 members plus 100 others sent poems, sketches, and notes of cheer to R. Percy Crandall, US Navy surgeon in Guam, the “sunshine sailor.” The response included works by De Wolf Hopper, Dixey, Remington, and many artists and writers. In Washington, coal talks with miners and operators collapsed as Mitchell Darrow and Lloyd left Scranton after New York instructions, while Lehigh Valley president Alfred Waller resigned effective Nov. 30.
San Francisco reports a large iron and copper smelting plant to employ 1,500 workers as the next big Pacific coast industrial project. Mineral lands with copper and iron in the state are said to have been secured by the parade and oil fuel will power the operation to outcompete Paseo rivals.
Pinkerton warns that a new breed of criminals called yegmen has supplanted professional burglars. They use nitroglycerin, operate in four to six person bands, travel from town to town, and evade prosecution, with leaders teaching others quickly. The shift follows a rise in bank and train robberies across Illinois Wisconsin and nearby areas.
Lawn tennis indoors for the season, the older brother cricket refuses to be left out. Pingpong will be matched by table cricket, which is expected to attract many devotees as the other games.
Toronto dispatch notes a new deal easing the Northern railway into Manitoba via the Canadian Northern line at the boundary, tying to Great Northern routes across the prairies. J J Hill aims to compete with the Pacific for Manitoba and Northwest traffic by spring, while a prior agreement with the Canadian Northwest is recalled amid dialogue at the boundary.
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