Sixtieth Congress Ends First Session Signatures and Signals
Washington D C The first session of the Sixtieth Congress closes with Roosevelt signing key bills including the Currency act and Government Liability measure. The session ends after a dramatic endgame on the Aldrich Vreeland currency plan as senior senators depart and Vice President Fairbanks calls the roll.
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Washington
D. C
Congress
Senate
House
Roosevelt
Capitol
Loeb
Rausdell
Secret Service
Root
Cortegou
Garfield
Grandfeld
Ulrich
White House
Aldrich-Vreeland
Borah Bourne
Brown
Heyburn
la Follatte
Senator Stont
Gore
la Pollette
Hlaightleas
Stone
Pairbanke
Culd Do
A Two Billion Dollar Congress Ends Its Session
The session was the most expensive in U.S. history, with the fifty-ninth Congress exceeding $2 billion in appropriations. The first session allotted $874,549,183, and this season tops that by about $144,006,000. Nearly 20,000 bills were introduced, breaking records as 7,270 were filed in the Senate and 22,266 in the House. About 200 public and 100 private acts became law, including around 4,000 private claims in the 100 private sets. Estimated saving of printing and related costs totals $31,000,000. }
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Washington, D
Congress
Senate
Currency commission named and Omaha shop plans announced
The Vice President names a Currency Commission with Senators Aldrich Allison Burrows Hale Knox Daniel Teller Money Bailey and others. House members and party affiliates are listed. Also, Union Pacific announces $2,000,000 to build new Omaha shops authorized by Harriman, to proceed immediately.
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Commission ON Currency
Washington, DP
Aldrich Allison
Burrows
Hale
Knox
Daniel
Teller
Money
Bailey
Currency Commission
Vreeland
New York
Overstreet
Indiana
Burton
Ohto
Weeks
Colorado
Smith
Padgett
Tennesse
Burgess
Tex
Pujo
Louisiana
Omaha
Omathe
Neu
Union Pacific Ailroad
Mansager Moblar
Omaha Commercial Club
Harriman
Remains of George Clinton Laid To Rest in Kingston
The body of Vice-President and Governor George Clinton was buried with military honors at the First Dutch Churchyard in Kingston amid a heavy rainstorm. A parade from the Wasp to the church featured eight sergeants from Fort Hamilton, artillery and naval escorts, with numerous dignitaries and officials in attendance. Bells tolled, flags half-masted as the cortege proceeded, and the service concluded with volleys and a nineteen-gun salutes before burial at the Clinton monument site.
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Kingston
Court House
George Clinton
United States Army
Fort Hamilton
Theaval
Wasp
Rob
Roosevelt
Stuart
Pennsylvania
Port
New Jersey
National Society of Daughters of the American Revolution
Broadway
State Artillery
Tha
Supreme Court
A. T. Clearwater
Benjamin M. Brink
Clinton
J. G Vanslyke
First
Senate House
Washington
Hill
Cour House
John Jay
Supreme Court of
New York State
White House
Hughes
O. O- Howard
First Dutel
Wurts Street
D. C. Hughes
Umba
First Dutch Church
Naval Flotilla
National Guard
New York Engineers
Brown Station
Ashoka
Afghans Invade Persia Camp Teheran Dispatch
A Teheran dispatch reports 700 armed Afghans invaded Persia and occupied the town of Regan. The action follows regional tensions and unsettled borders, with the incursion prompting emergency measures and international concern.
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Persia
Teheran
Regan
Portland banker J Thamrn Boas sentenced in Salem
Judge Burnett in Salem Oregon sentenced Portland banker J Thamrn Boas to five years in prison and a fine of 576094 for wrongful conversion of state funds. The case centered on his role as president of the Title Guarantee and Trust Company and tied to political figures Taft Bryan and Taft Agro.
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Salem
Ore
Burnett
J. Thamrn Boas
Portland
Rose
Scien Fundy
Title Guarantee and Trust Company
Ford Tip Kills Catcher In Cincinnati Baseball Accident
John Walcotte nineteen assistant foreman in a Cincinnati factory was struck behind the right ear by a foul ball during a game between two amateur teams. The blow fractured the skull and caused instant death.
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Ford
John Walcotte
Cincinnati
Oho
Tae
Pastor Finds A Moral In Wreck Of His Own Happiness
Winthrop Massachusetts report on Rev Hiram Vrooman of Providence after Miss Alice C Loud of Roxbury drowned three weeks earlier. Vrooman delivers a sermonlike reflection claiming divine providence guided the tragedy for his purification and regeneration, describing emotional loss, renewed love, and spiritual rebirth as he seeks a higher, less selfish faith.
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Winthrop
Mass
Alice C. Loud
Roxbury
Hiram Vrooman
Providence
Misa
Women and Work Stir Chicago Medical Meeting
A Chicago gathering of the American Medical Association debated women's roles in the workforce, with physicians warning of women becoming unsexed by industrial work while others urged equal opportunity and education. Dr. Putnam supported suffrage and home making studies, and Dr. Culbertson urged male female cooperation in business life.
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Chicago
American Academy of Medicine
Helen C. Putnam
Providence
Emma Culbertson
Boston
Edward Jackson
Denver
Otto Juettner
Cincinnati
George Hoxie
Kansas City
American Medical Association
Wright Brothers Ready Aeroplanes for Service Exports
Washington D C The Wright brothers say several aeroplanes are practically ready for service and only await clarification of a government contract before public exhibitions. Their work is widely regarded as surpassing rivals, fueling public curiosity about future demonstrations.
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Washington, D. C
Wright Brothers
Dayton
The Tudlan Government Opposed by Telegraph Operators
The Tudlan Government resists demands from telegraph operators as British colliery enginemen adopt the 1897 wage scale. Lifesavers in Coney Island seek unionization via the Brooklyn Central Labor Union. California convention of stationary engineers to meet in Stockton on June 11.
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Tudlan
Tron, Steel and Tin Workers
Lifesavers
Coney Island
Brooklyn
N.Y
California
National Associaticn of Stationary Wegineers
Stockton
Mascot Bears Parade for Atlantic Fleet in Seattle
The Atlantic battleship fleet paraded through Seattle with 2000 armed troops and twelve Aberdeen bears as mascots. Each bear was led by a prominent Aberdeen citizen, while onlookers watched from the reviewing stand as the procession proceeded past.
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Seattle
Wash
Ely
Aberdeen
Baseball notes from a foggy season page
Votes of the Diamond, Frank Smith is the hard luck pitcher of the White Sox Willie Keeler is hitting better this season than last year. President Pulliam's new umpire, Frank Rudderham, has made whilt in the West. Mike Donlin is New York's individual star. He ranks fourth among the league's slapers. Manager Cantiliiga has emulated wajole's example, and Mas tabooed poker playing among the Washington players.
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Frank Smith
Picher
White Sox
Willie Keeler
Pulliam
Frank Rudderham
W Hilt
Mike Donlin
New Yorks
Cantiliiga
Wajole
Washington
Wright Airship Confident of Government Test Success
Orville Wright states that the Wright brothers have nearly completed their flying machine and expect to meet the government contract. He notes the design, its compact frame, front rudder, wheels, and a 300 mile range with a 25 to 30 horsepower engine. Tests at Kitty Hawk show speeds up to 60 mph, with August 23 as a key deadline.
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Ohio
Orville B. Wright
Wright Brothers
Wright
Fort Myers
Mr. Wright
Europe
Ameria
New York
Wrights
Amooth
Kitty Hawk
Active
Oreville Wright
Murder at Rue de Vaugirard Ends Painter Life
Paris reports the strangling of painter Adolphe Steinheil and his mother in law in the artist’s residence on Rue de Vaugirard adjoining Seymour Thomas’s studio. The house was looted, wife tied and gagged, and the servant found them early morning. The wife claims two men and a woman planned the crime.
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Paris
France
Adolphe Steinheil
Steinhell
Granna
Mme. Steinhell
Boy Bandits Try to Stop Train Near Great Falls
Three youths aged fifteen to seventeen forced a Northern train to stop near Great Falls Montana. They disarmed the conductor with a hat gesture and stole several hundred dollars. The trio fled into darkness but were captured the next day. The youngest, Albert Hatch, was fifteen.
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Vass Hat
Great Falls
Mont—Thros
Arcan Generations for Prince of Wales View Near Complete
The arcan genmnts for the view of the Prince of Wales to Quebec mninly have been completed. Heinrich Kuote, a German tower, wed Kathe Fellner in Minch, one of his pupils. The Duke of Albruzel was ordered to focus on duties as an Italian naval officer for a year. Father Thomas P. McLaughlin of New Rochelle, N Y, who endorses Sunday baseball, says Roosevelt noted he often played tennis after church.
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Prince of Wales
Quebec
Heinrich Kuote
Minch
Kathe Fellner
Murdertelex escalates as lumber camp tragedy unfolds
Watertown NY Louis La Salle telephoned from Cranberry Lake to Sheriff Hyland and District Attorney, admitting murder of Charley Jonchas a French Canadian worker at a Grasse River lumber camp. He tracked twelve miles then urged arrest, after quarrel over a whisky fueled feast ended with La Salle firing at Jonchas.
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Watertown
N. Y
Leon la Salle
Cranberry Lake
Adirondacks
Nylle Hyland
St. Lawrence County
Charley Jonchas
Grasse River
la. Salle
Canton
Windfall
la Salle
Non
Herbert Deane
Cranberry Lake Settlement
Deane
Sherif Hyland
Salle
Affaira
Jonekas
Jonchas
Carleton Reads to Sailors on New Hampshire
On the battleship New Hampshire at Brooklyn Navy Yard Wil Carleton, editor of Everywhere magazine, gave a reading for about 100 sailors and guests. Ada A. Borden opened with a solo followed by Carleton’s readings including A Baseball Story and A Song For Our Fleets. The event ended with singing patriotic airs as the ship echoed with voices of sailors and guests.
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New Hampshire
Brooklyn
Brookyn Navy Yard
Wil Carleton
Carleton
YM. C. A. Navy Auxiliary
Navy Yard
Ada A. Borden
America
Gridley
Jackies
Fair Maids
General Stephen D Lee Dies at Vicksburg
General Stephen D Lee of Columbus Miss and Commander-in-Chief of the United Confederate Veterans died at Vicksburgs official residence after a cerebral hemorrhage while delivering a welcome speech to regiments of Iowa and Wisconsin soldiers. Born in Charleston South Carolina in 1833 he helped order the first Civil War shot at Fort Sumter.
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Miss
Stephen D. Lee
Columbus
The
United Confederate Veterans
Nac
Lee
Vicksburg National Park Commission
Iowa
Wisconsin Soliers
South Carolina
Beauregard
Fort Sumter
General Lee
Charleston
S. G
Helpful Advice From a Trusted Advisor in Lynn Mass
A fragment from a column advises women to share private illness details with their doctor. It notes a longstanding correspondence with sick women and hints at revealing letters that prove the advisor’s knowledge and helpful power.
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Pinkam
Lynn
Mass
Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Claims Success
A longtime testimonial proclaims Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound cures for female ailments. It claims Mrs Norman R Barnett of Allen town Pa improved from organic disturbance and weakne ss after using the remedy and following advice. The advertisement touts the product as standard for thirty years and asserts thousands of women cured of displacement inflammation fibroid tumors and related symptoms.
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Norman R. Barnett
Allentown
Lydia E. Pinkham
Tam
1900 Coke Ovens Resume Work in Wise County
In Wise County Virginia the Stonega Coal and Coke Company restarts about a thousand coke ovens after a suspension of several weeks. Other coal field industries plan to resume operations, many idle since December and January, with dry goods dealers seeing improved orders. Yaqui Indians Submit. The Yaqui tribes, long at war, agree to submit to Mexican authority after 120 years of conflict. Leper Settlement Visited. Professor Koch visited the leper settlement at Mulubal Hawaii.
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Stonega Coal and Coke Company
Wise County
Virginia
Professor Koch
Mulubal
Hawaii
Nevada Governor Sparks Dies at Ranch Near Reno
Governor John Sparks of Nevada died at his ranch near Reno. The report also notes the Brownsville test case support from the courts, minister Russell's comment on a Venezuelan plague, and a Joe-like confession by William Barnett alias Gold-Tooth Billy about a murder swindle in Harrison New Jersey.
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John Sparks
Nevada
Hig Ranch
Reno
Brownsville
Russell
la Guayra
Venezuels
William Barnett
Billy
Theodore Whitmore
Harrison, N. J
Hare in the Moon Inspires New Spring Astronomy Book
In Garrett P. Berviss's Astronomy With the Naked Eye, a Hindu legend explains the hare on the moon. The tale recalls a Brahman s deception, a mango gift, and the moon hare’s self sacrificing fate as a moral emblem.
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Garrett P. Berviss
Harpers
South Dakota AG Rules Contracts With Rail Lines In State Not Prohibited
Attorney General W. 5. Clark advised the State Press Association that an anti press law does not bar good faith contracts between newspapers and allroad companies for transportation goods within the state on an exchange basis.
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W. 5
Clark
South Dakota
State Press Association
Bells and their ancient origin in churches
The article traces bells origins to China and Europe, noting their use to驱s spirits and storms, with early European records showing bells repelling devils from believers. It states bells appeared in Europe by the sixth century and entered Western churches around the eighth century, per New York American.
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China
Europe
New York
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