Explorer Pau du Chailly Sees Two Worlds
Freeman-Teibune Fab reports Pau du Chailly, a rare living explorer, versed in tropics and Arctic regions, pursuing truths and good practices in philosophy. Professor Loeffler hints at malaria inoculation possibly alleviating or eradicating cancer. New Zealand to teach swimming and life saving in public schools with Life Saving Society manuals.
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Pau du Chailly
Tropics
New Zealand
Life Saving Society
Italy’s King Reduces Stud of Carriage Horses
The Italian king is replacing carriage horses with automobiles. The late King Humbert kept 380 horses. now 150 remain. He owns ten cars for himself and the royal party, with a count and the Duke of Aosta also cutting stables and expanding car use.
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Italy
Humbert
Turin
Duke D’aosta
Automobiles tested for Congo Free State transport
Experiments in Brussels tested a lorry loaded with 36 hundred weight of iron on very difficult muddy roads. The result was satisfactory and the vehicle could replace sixty five native carriers. Aims include using more lorries to dispense with carriers. A magnetic survey report suggests detectives and antiquaries use street line deflection to date towns and compass variation.
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Brussels
Congo Free State
Gold Mining Growth in Korea Attracts Foreign Firms
The Oriental Consolidated Mining Company has concessions over Korea's richest gold district at Wonsan. Current work targets quartz deposits with placer mining to follow. About seventy foreigners and over 3,000 natives are employed in the operation.
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Korea
Oriental Consolidated Mining Company
Wonsan
Greatest Woman in History Proposed by Missouri Educator
At a Missouri teachers institute Miss Vickrey won for originality by answering who is the greatest woman in history. Her reply: the wife of a modest Missouri farmer who cooks, washes, irons, raises many children to be useful citizens and still pursues intellectual and moral improvement.
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Missouri Teachers’ Institute
Cuban Teachers Start Two Year Training At New Paltz
Sixty Cuban schoolteachers began a two year course at the New York State Normal School at Newpaltz under Principal Doremus Scudder. They study English and domestic arts, weaving, carpentry, gymnastics, and amassment for leisure as part of a practical curriculum.
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New York State Normal School
Newpaltz
Doremus Scudder
Reverend Cuyler and the Lesson of the Straight Road
The Rev Dr Theodore L Cuyler, famed preacher, notes that when young boys ask for his autograph he writes no man was ever lost in a straight road. His quip urges steadfastness and moral clarity amid life’s choices.
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Theodore L. Cuyler
Righteousness
A Bountiful Mix of Iowa News and Crime Reports
A corn field tragedy reports Freddie a 10 year old dragged to death by a pony tied to his arm near Avoca. Forgery arrests of two youths west of Low Moor. Florence Porter fatally shot at C R Whites restaurant in Holstein vicinity by Harry Hortman. Timber map plan for Iowa parks. Italian labor strike at Fort Dodge depots and wage cuts. Democrat Thomas J Phillips found guilty of assault. Miss Sadie Claftin mental illness deterioration in transit. Anna Crawford trial for Dillon murder in Clinton. Seven dollar hogs forecast for Sioux City market next spring.
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Cherokee
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C. R. White
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Iowa
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R. H. Moore
Ottumwa
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Kime Sanitarium
Anna Crawford
Jenks” Dillon
Clinton
Reform School
Sioux City
John J. Murphy
Cudahy Packing Company
Capitol Improvement Commission Reports Large Capitol Repair Plan
The Capitol Improvement Commission sends a report to Governor Shaw urging a 232 950 dollar appropriation to repair and beautify the Des Moines capitol. Three members cite years of neglect and outline detailed costs for corridors elevators lighting domes and more.
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Iowa City
Shaw
Des Moines
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Capitol
Peter A. Dey
H. S. Josselyn
Cedar Rapids
Charles A. Cumming
Hepburn Defeat Highlights House Liberalization Fight
Washington December reports detail Hepburn of Town leading a three hour caucus push to liberalize house rules. The effort failed as Henderson was unanimously chosen speaker and old officers re elected.
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New York
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Alexander McDowell
Pennsylvania
Henry Casson
Wisconsin
W. J. Glenn
Joseph C. McElroy
Ohio
Henry N. Couden
Michigan
Dalzell
Reed
Senate
Shattuck
Treasury chief submits 1903 appropriations request
Secretary of the Treasury sent to Congress a full FY ending June 30 1903 appropriation estimate totaling 610 827 688 dollars. The figure is 16 million below 1902 and 4 million above the 1902 total with department by department tallies including Legislative 10 188 099 Executive 294 100 000 State 2 466 328 Treasury 156 484 925 War 161 920 101 Navy 100 701 122 Interior 161 710 535 Post Office 4 464 966 Agriculture 5 509 540 Labor 190 480 Justice 6 917 330.
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Congress Opens as Senate and House Form New Sessions
The Senate and House sworn in new members including Die trich Gibson Kittridge and others. A recess and committees were appointed to notify the president, followed by organzation, seat drawing, and a flood of bills. A memorial for McKinley triggered adjournment for respect.
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Pacific Cable
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Committee On Rules
Iowa
Dalzell
Pennsylvania
Grosvenor
Ohio
Richardson
Tennessee
Underwood
Congress Must Act Soon on Philippines Revenue Legislation
Washington reports a supreme court decision on the Philippines prompts House leaders to draft revenue and import measures modeled after Puerto Rico. Ways and Means will handle non revenue questions as a broader Philippine bill framework forms this holiday season. Taft to take leave of absence to recover health and inform committees on needed island legislation. Late wedding note also mentions a bride who was best man.
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Archipelago
Porto Vico
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House
Taft
Secretary of War
Manila
Laft
United States
Committees of Congress
Dooley Case Upheld Over Porto Rico Tariff Duty
Supreme Court sustains second Dooley case ruling that Porto Rico is not foreign territory and that Congress may tax goods shipped to Porto Rico under the Foraker act. Justice Brewer writes the decision with Brown and White concurring. ruling confirms lower court. Governor Jenkins of Oklahoma not reappointed after cabinet review. Mourning hides other feelings.
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United States Supreme Court
United States
Porto Rico
Brewer
Brown
Justice Brown
White
New York
Oklahoma
Congress
Jenkins
Supreme Court Rules Philippine Islands Were Not Foreign Territory
The Supreme Court, in Pepker v United States known as the Fourteen Diamond Rings Case, held Philippine islands ceased to be foreign territory after the Paris peace treaty and that customs duties on rings purchased there could be imposed as domestic merchandise. Chief Justice Fuller wrote the opinion reversing the lower court with Justice Brown concurring.
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United States Supreme Court
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de Lima
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Philippines
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Luzon
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