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Newspaper
Westville Indicator
Location
Westville, Indiana, United States of America
Date
May 26, 1904
Page
2
A Chicago study estimates daily lunch spending in the downtown area at about 35,000 dollars with around 100,000 local workers plus visitors. It notes many patronize bakery lunch rooms paying roughly 20 cents per person and describes a State Street room feeding 8,000 daily between 11 and 2 with 12 minute meals and 20 cent checks.
The piece notes rising lunch prices as a minority shift fuels a growing market of pricey eateries in Chicago. It cites Delmonico's and Rector's fame, new ultra-luxury rooms, and small venues serving 50 patrons daily yet earning high per-head profits. Chinese and French spots also expand, with Clark Street chop suey spots feeding hundreds and bohemian patrons flocking to Parisian style lunchrooms.
Chicago crowds surge through department store grills and employe restaurants at Fields and other venues. Noonday Rest and 15 lunch clubs serve nearly 5 000 women with low cost meals and rest rooms. Factories fuel a vast lunch pail army, with 200 000 lunch boxes daily, forming a peace economy feeding a billion dollars in annual production.
London May 23 Russia prepares for a two year war with Japan and may mobilize 750000 troops to the far east to guard railways relieve Port Arthur and drive Japanese armies into the sea. Reverses in Manchuria have aroused war fever and reserves in St Petersburg are to be mobilized.
May 23 Findlay Ohio seven killed and 12 to 15 injured in a dramatic explosion in the Lake Shore Novelty company's drying rooms. Ten of the less seriously hurt may die from blood poisoning. property loss estimated at 60000. The plant likely will not be rebuilt and many funerals were held.
Paris reports France has severed diplomatic relations with the Holy See after Ambassador Nisard was recalled from Rome. The rupture follows a protest over President Loubet's visit to the King of Italy and the pope. Friction since Pius X’s election grew as papal criticisms mounted.
Chicago May 23 Roosevelt is assured the Republican nomination for president with 744 instructed votes and 226 uninstructed as of the final delegation report for the June 21 convention. Names from nine districts in Illinois Missouri North Carolina Ohio Texas and Wisconsin were not yet received.
The lifeless body of Peter O Elliott was found Sunday morning suspended from a railroad bridge girder in South Minneapolis. Elliott, once arrested in Washington on suspected lunatic and possible threats to President Roosevelt, had been released after being an escaped inmate of the St Peter insane hospital.
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