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Newspaper
Warren Mail
Location
Warren, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Apr 17, 1902
Page
2
Industrial field news plus personal and political items highlight domestic and international happenings. The column surveys events at home and abroad, noting economic and social developments and notable occurrences across regions.
The 9th to 12th session notes cover Senate discussion of the Chinese exclusion bill and criticism of Chinese Minister Wu, with the Senate also passing the post office appropriation bill. In the House, Cuban reciprocity advances and pensions move, including a $5 000 annual widow’s pension for Mrs. McKinley, as Depew hints at retirement. A national forest reserve bill gains favorable reporting.
The Iowa supreme court reversed the life sentence of Mary Hossack for her husband’s murder in Indianola and ordered a new trial. The dispatch also notes diverse items from across the country including a 500 pound Sparta Michigan woman, a McArthur Ohio fire, and a $120 million hardware consolidation.
Seven days ending the 11th saw United States exchange volume reach 2.25 billion dollars, with a 10.6 percent drop from last year. Notable events include hangings in Kansas City and St. Louis, a Chicago fire loss of 250000, a Zapata county drought appeal, and political shifts such as Odell signing a McKinley statue bill and Ware becoming pensions chief. The era also notes a disbanded Western Baseball league, patent portland cement invention, and international tensions shaping European alliances.
The Republican held seat renominates Vespaian Warner for Congress while Democratic state convention nominates George F. Chamberlain of Portland Oregon for governor. Other notes include Miss Alice Roosevelt returning to Washington from Cuba and resignations in Illinois politics.
Reports from Brussels say King Leopold was mobbed by socialists as crowds surged around the royal carriage. The incident sparked widespread concern among authorities and observers in the Belgian capital.
Maspeth race track suffered a major blaze destroying the grand stand paddock and hotel. The fire ravaged the half mile facility that revolutionized New York state racing, with 4000 seats lost and no immediate word on casualties.
Policemen's jobs will be offered to highest bidders in Hazleton Pennsylvania. Ignatius A Sullivan elected mayor of Hartford Connecticut marks a labor victory. New York police court reveals beggars' cooperative. Alfred Austin dedicates American edition of poems to President Roosevelt. Massachusetts house committee opposes 25000 for Butler statue. Mrs McKinley's condition steady she travels and visits cemetery. US embassy in London denies prince of Wales invitation to visit US. Wireless telegraph station planned for Key West connecting to Havana. Jessie Morrison released on 10000 bond after eight days in Eldorado jail awaiting third murder trial. Maud Dewitt Talmage and Clarence Wyckoff wed in Washington. US tobacco industry reports 15252 establishments up 31 percent since 1890 with 124 million capital. British press links American business rise to new methods and science. Grant Memorial Association to hold annual banquet at Waldorf Astoria on April 26.
Poem extols sending flowers to the distressed, praising the donors who bring fragrance and joy to poor hearts and those in trouble. It honors the hands that pluck blooms and the feet that deliver them, urging cheer amid pain and hardship.
A reflective column notes the speaker avoiding complaint despite fever and ague rheumatic troubles. He recalls slang and scams learned, laments climate misfit, and muses that luck and stars could offer a brighter planet, but concludes it might have been worse.
A vivid poem excerpt celebrates treetop mornings in early spring with roaring winds and swaying branches. The narrator notes the wind’s thunderous power and the lively movement of trees clothes lines and birds. The lines evoke joy in gusty mornings and the energetic world above.
A tribute to the farmer’s labor praises the calloused hand that tills, hoes, and tends the earth. The poem extols honest toil as the source of abundance, noting fields yield riches beyond Ophir and the farmer’s work feeds daily bread. The speaker, quoting Charles Denys Connell, honors rural labor as essential and dignified.
A short poem by Frank Dempster Sherman appears in Woman's Home Companion. It paints April as a ventriloquist weaving music through morning mist and showing the first blade of grass and a crocus as spring arrives. The lyric voice wanders between images of growth and time.
The poem notes the charm of children's footsteps and their impact on adults though they bring financial strain for shoes. It contrasts busy parenthood with the fleeting moments of infancy and a girl’s promising future. The verse also celebrates crocuses hyacinths and the bluebird signaling spring through playful garden imagery.
A Colorado admirer sent a genuine mounted mountain lion to the White House as a trophy of hunting prowess. Initially causing consternation, the lifelike specimen will be kept at the White House rather than sent to the zoo, with possible placement in the private or library areas.
Open colonist excursion offers to California with summer round trips at very low rates via Union Pacific and Southern Pacific. W H Connor, General Agent in Cincinnati invites readers to request details by postal with names and addresses for educational and business value trips. March and April only, send today.
A young woman questions society news in a chatty exchange about summer plans. The matron confirms travel ideas, mentioning a farm visit with relatives and an upcoming Europe trip, highlighting cautious social reporting.
Readers test the patent medicine St Jacobs Oil noting rapid relief and cures for lumbago sprains toothache and neuralgia. A Leeds inquiry finds Taylor and Co selling over a thousand bottles weekly with strong praise from customers.
A verse fragment reflects on mortality and the moment of death as a gateway to faith and a larger afterlife. The speaker questions past courage and notes the soul’s ascent beyond fear, recalling a line from J. W. Douglas quoted in the New York Observer.
In a Philadelphia Press excerpt, guests at a Footealt party press for an encore from Mr Basseau and a streetwise singer resists. The hostess teases about a neighbor’s barking dog keeping late hours. The exchange captures a lively social scene and humorous banter.
Mrs E Sailor of Los Angeles testifies that Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound cured her after two years of change of life symptoms including heat chills and fluctuating appetite. She praises the product and endorses Lydia Pinkham offering free advice from Lynn Mass stating 5000 forfeit if testimonial is not genuine.
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