Corn Is King in Kansas Feast Fetes and Folklore Rise
The Inter Ocean notes Kansas Missouri and Oklahoma glow with corn craze. Farmers praise harvests despite weather, as King Corn inspires fetes corn husk costumes and robed monarchs. Tales of field marvels and regional growth boost Kansas City’s role in corn belt prosperity and Kaffir corn farming.
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Chicago Inter Ocean
Kansas
Missouri
Oklahoma
Prairies
West
Hventus
Corn
Relahves
Kansas City
San
Tts
Howe
Cincinnati
Chicago
King Corn
Great
Corn Belt
Kansas City Metropolitan Street Railway Company
Nebraska
Meridian
Africa
The Poor Man's Party in Harper's Weekly Satire
An 1890s Harper's Weekly cartoon satire attacks plutocracy portraying farmers and laborers rallying against rich financiers. It lists many magnates by name and depicts a dramatic battle between the Poor Man's Party and the wealthy elite.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harper's Weekly
Paul Revere
the Tribune
Judge Parker
August
Perry
C. H. P. Belmont
Harry Payne
Payne Whitney
Clarence H. Mackay
James J. van Alen
Robert Goelet
Harry Lehr
Adrian Iselin
Alexander E. Orr
Thomas F. Ryan
Nathan Straus
Alles
John D. Rockefeller
William
Carnegis
Schwab
Henry C. Frick
Corsair
Commodore Morgan
Kanawha
HO H. Rodgers
Josephine
P. A. Bo Wedtiner
Noma
Wiliam B. Leeds
George J
Gould
Austel Sage
Edward H. Harriman
Jacob A. Schiff
James _Spreyer
Edwin
Frank
Howard
William K
W. IK
Alfred
The Ideal and Its Angel of Judgment by Bates
Poem meditating on destiny and inner flame with a narrator voice claiming the reader as seeker and fighter. Evokes dawn, sea, oak, wind, and solitary pursuit, asserting moral trial and endurance before an ultimate reckoning. Also a brief catalog note on Speer's port wine from 1881.
Naval Academy reforms urged for longer course and staff
A Navy informant summary reports the Board of Visitors recommendations to Secretary Morton. The plan calls for a four year undergraduate course with a one year post graduate program, a three year duty tour for officers, reduced age limit, expanded teaching staff, and modernized physical training. It also proposes a fixed three year term for board members and continuity in oversight.
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Morton
Board of Visitors
Naval Academy
M. J. Wade
Iowa
Naval School
Navy Department
Navy
West Point
Changes of station and duties in Marine Hospital Service
List of officer transfers and leave actions for the Public Health and Marine Hospital Service ending August 31. Includes leaves of absence for multiple officers, reassignment to Fort Stanton Hawaii St Louis and Philadelphia, examinations and appointment changes, and duties at Louisiana Purchase Exposition. Also notes repairs authorization for ships and militia officer schooling updates and Secretary Morton’s Fort Monroe visit with Santa Fe associate.
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Public Health and Marine Hospital Service
W. J. Pettus
Joseph B. Greene
P. M. Carrington
Fort Stanton
N.M
L.T. Cofer
Hilo
T. H
Taliaferro Clark
John McMullen
R.H. von Ezdorf
Washington
Norman Roberts
B. W. Crown
Evansville
Ind
N. M
Harrington Marr
H. Owen
A. E. Spohn
R. H. Gibson
R. W. Richardson
R. H. von Ezdert
St. Louis
Louisiana Purchase
van Erdorf
If. J. Merty
Boston
Mass
Washington, D. C
I. A. Southard
Southard
Pharmacia
F. J. Merty
George Neves
Chicago
Ells Island
M. D
G. W. Stoner
A. M. Thomas
Medical Concern Command
Samuel D. W. Light
Key West Quarantine
Arthur M. Thomas
Walter H. Keen
George C. Ferdinand
Morton
Fort Monroe
Sylph
Thomas Brown
Santa Fe
Soldiers fall easy prey to San Francisco swindles
Short-term soldiers returning from the Philippines face extensive robbery in San Francisco. Maj. Gen. Arthur MacArthur warns that many are swindled out of final pay and belongings, with 50 of 200 men robbed after disembarking and 19 of 31 staying over overnight beaten or robbed. Fort Mason wireless system praised. Ensign J H Comfort assigned to the Texas.
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Philippines
San Francisco
Arthur MacArthur
Department of California
Department
Col
Markley
Gen
MacArthur
United States
Fort Mason
Alcatrazdsland
Gen. MacArthur
Naval Reserves Depart for Philadelphia on Puritan
Two hundred men of the District Naval Battalion left Washington aboard the 11 o'clock Pennsylvania train for Philadelphia to man the monitor Puritan. Lieut. Commander Brummitt leads the citizen marines with officers including Paymaster Bieber and Surgeon Cox. The battalion will spend days aboard the Puritan before the September 12 Washington return and recruitment benefits are noted.
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District Naval Battalion
Washington
Philadelphia
Naval Reserve
Pennsylvania Railroad
Quaker City
Tt. B. Brummitt
Brummitt
Sidney Bieber
S.C. Cox
A. J. Dempf
W. H. Gantz
L. F. Cleyphane
J. Dpd. Carmody
Arthur Chase
Frank Sigourney
Movement of Troops Arrives at Fort McKinley and New Assignments
The War Department reports the arrival of the Thirty-seventh Company Coast Artillery at Fort McKinley Maine from Fort Washington on the 2d instant. Also arriving for temporary duty at Fort Jay New York are the Fifty-first Company from Fort Hamilton and the Fifty-sixth from Fort Wadsworth. Numerous officers receive leaves, transfers, and reassignments including Capt. Guy M. Godfrey and Lt. Dan Moore. The Army retirement board appointment shifts are announced for Col. Alfred C. Girard and other officers, with changes in artillery and signal corps postings and duties in Virginia Washington and Puget Sound theaters.
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Thirty-seventh Coast Artillery
Fort McKinley
War Department
Department of the East
Governors Island
Coast Artillery
Fort Washington
Coast Artilery
Fort Wadsworth
Fort Jay
N. Y
Eighth Infantry
Manassas
Guy
Charles
Mortimer
Artillery Corps
Field .Artillery
James
Butler
Signal Corps
Seattle
Wash
San Francisco
Cat
Elisha G. Abbott
Sumner
St. Louis
William 4. Raymond
Artillery District
Puget Sound
Tor
Big Sugar Mill Contract For Alexander Baldwin's Plant
The Honolulu Iron Works wins the contract to build the world’s largest twelve roller sugar mill for Alexander Baldwin at Olakaweli. The plant will feature revolving cane cutters and a Krajewski-Pesant cane crusher driven by Cortiss engines, to be erected in a new building in 1905. The project marks a major advance in Hawaiian milling capacity and efficiency.
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Honolulu Buliein
Honolulu Iron Works
Alexander & Baldwin
Olakaweli
Hiedemann
Tfonolulu Tron
Maklewell
Cortiss
Hawaiian Sugar Company
HP. T Baldwin
Honolulu Iron Works Company
Kakaako
Hedemann
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Chery & Moran Co
5Emrae
Tarkin
David Rankin
Cheriah
Katherine Lee Bates
Speer
Burgundy
Naval School Reform
Marine Hospital Service
Bureau of Construction and Repair
Isla de Cuba
Don Juan de Austria
Portsmouth Navy Yard
Thamasville
Boston Navy Yard
Isla de Luzon
Pensacola Navy Yard
Florida
Colorado
Army
Forts Leavenworth
Riley
Monroe
G&g
Herrmann’s
Verona
Csacu
House & Herrmann
N. W
Beauty and Comrune
Owen Davenport
Golden Oak
Wet Inc
J. H. Comfort
Texas
Monitor
League Island
St. Helena
Cape Town
United States South Atlantic Squadron
Brooklyn
Tanta
Marietta
Castine
Island of
New York Dry Dock
J. B. Spearin
New York City
St. Louis Fair
M. C. Buckey
General Electric Company
Lambert Point
Bancroft
San Juan
Lawrence
Sewall Point
Wasp
Pensacola
Newart
Colon
Boca del Toro
Olympia
Hawaii
Lorenx
Ho Harfield & Co
Oahn
Oahu
Am Hare
Colifere
Depew
Senate
Europe
Somerville
Somerville Journa
Herpicide
Newbro
Tmos
Sabqurand
Paris
Alea
Laster
Bishop
Edward Stevens
Specia
Detroit
Mich
Pa. Ave
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