New Dreadnoughts to Mount Fourteen Inch Rifles
In a later session Congress authorized two massive battleships with ten fourteen inch rifles each. Each gun costs 85,600 dollars and has a life of about seventy shots under battle pressure. The ships displace about 27,000 tons, vastly surpassing earlier American battleships.
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Congress
Delaware
North Dakota
America
Spain
Maine
Santiago
Iowa
Indiana
Massachusetts
Oregon
Texas
United States
Expense in Crippen case record in London
It is estimated that pursuit, capture and trial of Dr. Crippen will cost the taxpayers ghyndon $25,000. A large item in the Yard bill is telegrams and cables describing Crippen sent to police headquarters. Posters describing Crippen and Miss Le Neve numbered twenty five thousand and were broadcast across two continents. Twenty five thousand posters and thirty or more clerks were used for wrapping and mailing. Expenses also cover sending Inspector Dew to Canada and a wardress to Quebec, plus a $1,250 reward to Captain Kendall of the Montrose. The coroner's inquest and chemists fees add to costs while the trial is expected to last three or four days with possible appeal avenues thereafter.
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Inspector Dew
Canada
Quebec
England
Kendall
Montrose
Government runs on in Washington as staff departs
In a Harper's Weekly piece, Jefferson Coombs notes Secretary Mitchel’s Europe trip and a cabinetless Washington. He mocks the empty government offices while the country supposedly keeps running with no staff and no committees washing away accountability.
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Washington, D. C
Jefferson Coombs
Harper's Weekly
Noted Liberian in London near Battersea Park
Mrs. Jane Roberts widow of Liberia’s first president Joseph J. Roberts, born in 1818 in America, lived much of her life in Liberia before moving to London. She met him in 1836 and toured European courts in the 1850s, residing in Liberia for over seventy years.
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Republic of
Liberia
Battersea Park
London
Jane Roberts
Joseph J. Roberts
Roberts
America
Waring
Prince A Poor Lawyer Defends Burglary Suspect
In Berlin a laborer charged with burglary appeared before a police court without counsel. The defense was assigned to Prince Ratibor of the House Hohenlohe. The prince, new to law, offered a vigorous defense, but evidence prevailed and the defendant was sentenced to four years penal servitude.
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Berlin
Serene
Prince of
Rubber Planting Converts Singapore Waste Land
Wide tracts of waste land on the island of Singapore are being planted with rubber trees and thriving. In Malacca, former vast areas covered with la lang that hid tigers have been transformed into productive rubber plantations.
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Singapore
Malacca
A Delusion Exposed on Free Trade and Pennsylvania Industry
A Pennsylvanian epaper questions the idea that tariff protection is essential to prosperity. It argues that foreign competition could idle no one, and suggests free trade would force Bethlehem Steel and Pittsburgh mills to operate honestly with legitimate returns for capital and labor.
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Pennsylvania
Carnegie
Stealing by Law A Lament On Tariff Robbery In Politics
The author argues that bank theft is inferior to legally sanctioned robbery through tariffs and lawmaking. He claims intelligent thieves seek influence over Congress and markets, while crude bank robbers are amateurs. The piece satirically urges thieves to pursue law changes to enable theft. Author T Scanlon signs off.
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Congress
Washington
Alaska
Oklahoma
T. Scanlon
Postmaster General Outlines Cash Register Postal Banks Plan
Frank H Hitchcock explains a future postal savings system that uses cash registers to track deposits and deter embezzlement. The plan abandons pass books, starting with manual deposit slips from $1 to $9 and duplicate slips for higher amounts, with larger sums to follow once a suitable machine is available.
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United States
Frank H. Hitchcock
Hitchcock
Europe
French mayor seeks to police aviator costume at Etampes
Mile Abukais, a leading aero planeist, wore knickerbockers and stockings for a week in Etampes provoking the mayor to summon her daily. Police may fine her at trial as papers demand clear guidelines on women’s costumes to protect rural propriety.
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Etampes
France
Mile
Abukais
Mile. Abukais
Canary guinea seen as warner on infection via codex
Paris researchers from the Pasteur Institute report a canary infected by a codex insect shows marsh fever. Dr Roux announced the fever bacillus was isolated and a serum made to inoculate canaries. Vaccinated birds showed relative immunity while unvaccinated birds suffered severely.
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Pasteur Institute
Paris
Roux
Academy of Science
Canaries
Cape Town Evening Shows Draw Large Crowds
In Cape Town South Africa there are only two moving picture shows with entertainments of higher average than in smaller US cities. Evening performances are packed to overflowing attracting many patrons.
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Cape Town
South Africa
United States
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