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Newspaper
The Chanute Times
Location
Chanute, Kansas, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1902
Page
7
Partial train ledger lists arrivals for the Missouri Kansas and Texas line including Owen 20 Passenger, Lou Freight, 9 Passenger, and Local Freight services with several notations of arrival times and destinations. The fragment indicates multiple classes of cars and passenger numbers.
Chanute Kansas professionals are listed, naming Gielby C Brown and A Cox lawyers, Hoshaw a physician surgeon with office hours, Lich physician surgeon at Sewell's drugstore, George I Brown M D and other medical men including O Baird physician surgeon with specialty in stomach bowels and women. Entries note offices in Jones block and over Bloomheart Wright's with telephone numbers.
The Economist outlines debt, gold reserve, and cash balance changes from 1865 to 1902. It credits Republican tariffs and the Dingley law for debt reduction and debt refinancing, while criticizing Cleveland’s free trade approach for enlarging deficits. It notes gold reserves at 150 million, cash at 204 million, and ongoing bond purchases.
The Textile Record notes that high prices stem from prosperity as consumers spend more, while many producers gain. falling markets endanger business. It argues prices are not artificial, but a natural outcome of American wealth production, provided currency is sound and foreign rivalry does not blunt home production.
English and German fleets have blocked Venezuela's principal ports while President Castro grows furious and conciliatory. The United States seeks an arbiter with Bowen authorized, and Roosevelt suggested the Hague Tribunal. Peace likely followed by Venezuela facing obligations and political pressure.
A crowd of boys in a Northern Ohio town found old nitro glycerine cans near a roadside. The ringleader planned to cause a fatal explosion as a joke, seeking trouble beyond curiosity. Other youths joined in with similar reckless intent.
A Joliet Republican editorial recalls a youthful mischief turning dangerous as three funerals followed a stone-throwing incident aimed at glycerine cans. The piece likens such reckless acts to political agitation, arguing that while minor defects exist a broad tariff policy from 1892 to 1896 is preferable to any revision.
The writer extols a joyful Christmas praising bountiful crops, high wages, and widespread prosperity for workers, capitalists, merchants, and even newspaper men. He urges forgetting past sorrows, embracing neighborly kindness, and starting the new year with a clean ledger as political debate in Democracy continues and the Lawrence World notes politics shifting like a turtle toward shore.
Public sale at my place four miles south of Chanute on Monday December 29 starting at 10 a m. 26 head of cattle including 12 cows 8 yearlings and 6 calves 2 horses one goat farm horse one dairy pony four sows and additional stock plus a fall line of farm goods Usual terms Herbert Jobosna Kennedy clerk Det Kennedy county paper notice details read clearly for sale day
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