Pennsylvania Leads World In Glass Making And State News
A Harrisburg dispatch notes Pennsylvania now has 127 glass factories, up from two hundred years ago, with output rising from $79,000 to $21,186,246 annually. Labor totals 9,806 skilled and 9,464 unskilled workers plus 1,633 females and 2,130 children, with average earnings $1.05 daily overall and $3.03 for skilled workers. In window glass, skilled workers earn $4.66 daily and labor cost is 60 percent of selling price. The Penn sylvania crew to England under Penn University excelled, winning 3 of 4 in foreign waters, including beating Dublin. Senator Quay departs for Maine this week and will miss the Harrisburg Republican convention August 21. possible nominees include Judge Potter for supreme court and Frank Harris for state treasurer. The last volunteer regiments have been mustered out as citizens await future service. Colorado turns 25 next month and plans celebrations.
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Pennsylvania
Republican State Committee
Opera House
Harrisburg
Supreme Court
Frank Reeder
Keystone
Quay
the Woods
Maine
Judge Potter
Frank Harris
Clearfield
Courts to test tax on company store orders in local counties
The constitutionality of a new law taxing company orders and other evidences of indebtedness will be tested in a county where these stores operate. The piece notes Americans paid over three hundred million dollars in war taxes over three years and did not complain, calling that patriotism.
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Mikey Gra
J. H. Mitchell Mitchell
James T. Brennan
Ae —— Eement
H. E. Mitchell Oon
Pai
J. H. Mitchell
W.alexander
Mitchell, Brennan & Company
Democratic Nomination Battle Heats Up Between Hill and Bryan
The contest for the Democratic presidential nomination intensifies as David B. Hill and W. J. Bryan clash, while Republicans seem to relish the intra party spectacle.
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David B. Hill
W. J. Bryan
Wealth per capita and Carnegie fortunes described
The piece notes US wealth per person around 1200 dollars. It mentions Kernel Bryan holding much more than average and suggests Andrew Carnegie with about 280 million dollars plans to die poor, needing to spend to exhaust his fortune.
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United States
Bryan
Carnegie
Shirt-waist fashion aids cooling in men’s wear
Strand of notes on summer apparel notes the shirt-waist cooling effect for men. It advertises young men's straw hats with split ends, smooth straw, and telescopes priced from 50 cents, offered by Geo Ball Ing Co.
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GEO. Ball, Ing Co
Gov Stone signs apportionment and education bills into law
Governor Stone approved a batch of laws including the Congressional apportionment bill placing Warren county in the 28th district with Mercer Forest Venango and Elk counties. Also approved were the Ford compulsory education bill and a sheriff’s fee law to standardize state fees. Several other measures were enacted covering water contracts for fire protection assessors duties trespass in fields bridge reconstruction road funding road and street paving court staffing and state normal schools. A number of bills were vetoed including sealers of weights and measures in large cities and a proposed general pension for Lydia Whitby.
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Stone
Warren County
Mercer
Forest
Venango
Elk
McKean
Lew Emery
Clothing Courts of Common Pleas
Commonwealth
Board of Health
Lydia S. Whitley
Mercantile Appraisers
Treasury
Roosevelt Pioneer of a Western Presidential Bid
From the west and middle west a strong movement for Roosevelt for president in 1904 is reported. The people there see him as the American they want to see exalted, while the rest of the country remains unsure. Teddy is all right for president. Select a strong Republican from the west for vice president, and the Republicans will win by a large majority.
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West
Middle West
Roosevelt
Teddy
Rochester Democrat Praises Farm Lad Nation at Ontario Beach
The Rochester Democrat lauds a group of former boys who defeated a gang of city toughs at Ontario beach on Sunday. The piece condemns the city bullies as cowardly wolves, contrasting them with the pluck and strength of disciplined rural youths.
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Rochester Democrat
Ontario Beach
All Job Printing of the Mail Office
A note asserting that all job printing from the Mail Office is accurate with full counts and prices described as reasonable.
Pan-American Expo Praise Sees Record Growth and Visits
Directors issued a July 13 statement hailing the Pan-American exposition as the most elaborate display of Western Hemisphere progress in the nineteenth century. The exhibit buildings landscape and electric illumination are complete and have drawn hundreds of thousands, with John Hay lauding the courts and palaces as a grand spectacle. Many Warren residents have visited or plan to, and the paper urges prompt attendance.
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Western Hemisphere
United States
John Hay
National Editorial Association
Buffalo
Warren
State Enacts Tobacco Age Limit Law
The legislature passed a law prohibiting sales or furnishing of tobacco to anyone under 16. Violators face a misdemeanor conviction with fines up to $100 or up to 30 days in jail, or both, as determined by the court. The governor approved, making it effective.
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Board of Pardons
Trade surges with protective policy cited as export record
Treasury reports show exports reached 1.5 billion dollars for the fiscal year, a 100 million rise from last year, amid Republican protectionism. Obscure notes discuss philanthropy by Jacob S. Rogers, a looming court battle over his bequest to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, and bank and constitutional changes in Virginia. Oklahoma plans land draws for open reservations August 6 1901, contrasting with the 1889 land rush.
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Treasury Bureau of Statistics
Republican Party
Jacob S. Rogers
Metropolitan Museum of Art
Rogers
Carnegie
Oklahoma
Swamp Root Kidney Remedy Ad Claims Wide Cures
A vintage advertisement promotes Dr Kilmer s Swamp Root as a cure for kidney, liver and urinary issues and claims relief from back pain and frequent urination. It offers sample bottles and a free book by mail from Kilmer Co of Binghamton New York, urging readers to mention the newspaper.
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Dr. Kilmer & Home of
Swamp Root. Co
Binghamton, N. Y
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