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Newspaper
The Chanute Times
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Aug 15, 1902
Page
3
A reflective poem argues that fate is shaped by inner self and outlook. It urges resilience and hope, urging readers to meet fate with confidence and inner strength, suggesting kindness, self-reliance, and moral resolve as paths to a brighter world.
Henry Davis Middleton recounts Uncle Bob a fearless orderly at a hospital in Eltonville. He braves night duty despite superstitions, dreams of dying inmates, and a haunting ghostly visit by wicked Jim. His comic terror reveals delays, escapes, and a fond, funny ending.
Washington Post recounts a Georgia team visit to Sent Girtte rifle range where a colored boy and a goat mascot created tension. A rival rifleman bought a button with hairs from the goat tail, claiming hoodoo, prompting the mascot to utter a curse and the boy to cry.
The German emperor shows a gold cannon inlaid with jewels valued at 25000 dollars, guarded by a special guard. Trustees of the Hamburg museum kept it for two centuries before giving it to the German government some time ago.
Charles De Letsepa, quoted by Figaro, says Americans will likely finish the Panama canal without locks. He estimates completion within six years and notes that removing locks would raise initial costs but save time and effort once opened.
A portable house of worship has been dedicated in Philadelphia as the chapel of Temple Evangelical Lutheran Church at Twenty second and Race Street. The building is designed to be taken apart and reassembled elsewhere whenever desired.
General J Franklin Bell, newly noted for Samar peace, restored Fort Riley lawns by sprinkling from the roof to fool the grass into growing. He claimed soil and moisture misled the lawn, and vowed the grass would learn the trick, succeeding with a lush, well cared for yard.
Andrew Carnegie shared a parable at a Pittsburgh banquet asking whether the mother or the whisky came first in a glass to illustrate a point about fortitude and timing. A Scotch laird seeks spirits on a misty day and is served a weak drink, prompting the punchline about which ingredient came first.
A New York Times anecdote recounts District Attorney Jerome recalling his father Lawrence Jerome, famed wit. He admits some tales may be manufactured but asserts a remembered origin where as a boy he rode on his father's knee in a Fifth Avenue stage and witnessed a seat etiquette moment with a stern reminder to yield his seat to a entering lady.
Harry Furniss recounts a popular Scotch lecturer touring the Lowlands whose introduction by a chairman led to a long address. On stage the speaker asked for his address and announced 222 Rob Roy Crescent Edinburgh. A letter would find him there as he exited before anyone could challenge him.
Algernon Bartoris, a grandson of Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, plans to enter the army. The 08 year old Sartoris is a capable, athletic youth eager to serve in the foreign branch and was educated at Oxford. He served as a captain in volunteer forces during the Spanish war on the star of Geh.
The piece argues tariff revision is unavoidable with a Clinton era tone likening Vilas to Cleveland. It discusses Republican and Democratic strategies, calls for explicit policy detail, and notes reciprocity and free trade as pivotal topics affecting trusts, protection, and U.S. trade with Britain, Germany, and Canada.
Chicago Tribune notes growing land speculation in Iowa and the Dakotas driven by cheap Canadian government lands and rising wheat demand. Director of the Mint says farmers move west ahead of crop funds transfers, with 25,000 acres sold daily to Americans and reciprocity talk boosting Northwest interest. Canadian wheat expansion could feed Minneapolis and St Paul mills.
The Philadelphia Press argues President McKinley favored reciprocity to open markets without harming American workers, not free trade. It notes his stance on using surplus duties for reciprocity, cites coffee and hides examples, and claims he remained distant from free trade ideals at his death.
The piece argues that Michigan four Repub Congressmen Aplin Weeks Sheldon and H Smith lost renomination for personal rather than policy reasons, notably not Cuba reciprocity or beet sugar issues. It notes Eastern papers chase straw polls while reformers debate tariff reach, with few concrete allies and unclear national influence.
A Virginia Weather Bureau bulletin explains plant transpiration by comparing it to animal respiration. Water vapor exits via moist leaf surfaces, requiring kept moisture to allow gas exchange, much as lungs stay wet inside the chest to sustain oxygen intake and carbonic acid release.
A reader notes evidence from a Ohio Experiment Station bulletin claiming melilotus alba thrives only on hard trodden soils and roadside patches. The writer counters that sweet clover also flourishes on rich mellow soils, limey patches, and uncultivated fields, with examples from Cook County and Winnetka, and questions if the station has tested limey, rich soil effects.
Experimental findings show nurse crops are generally inadvisable with clover and grass. Barley performs best among cereals, being open and earlier, while oats rye and wheat underperform. It is suggested to abandon nurse crops and plant clover and grass directly for optimal soil moisture and forage.
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