Happenings of the Week Across the Nation
Condensed report highlights postmaster general favoring canteen restoration and Ceylon to exhibit at St. Louis. Events include 70,000 at Chicago International Livestock Exposition, deaths of Welch and Horton, fires at Dickinson hall and Stillwater, Wisconsin football plans halted, rice prices in Manila, and high level political moves in Washington and Ottawa.
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Chicago
William Henry Welch
New York Central Railroad
Seattle nurses form mutual aid association in state
Washington state news notes Seattle graduate nurses have organized an association for mutual benefit. An annual meeting of the state Federation of Labor is set for Seattle on January 5.
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Seattle
State Federation of Labor
Senate Military Affairs Committee OKs Bill Without Amendment
Washington December 5 reports the senate committee on military affairs held a hearing on the bill for the organization of the military. Representations in support were heard from Secretary Root and Gen. Carter. After Root spoke the committee decided to report the bill as it passed the house without amendment.
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Washington, D. C
Senate Committeee On
Root
Gen. Carter
Municipal Ownership Ballot Defeated in San Francisco
A special election in San Francisco defeated a movement for municipal ownership of street railways. The Geary Street Railroad bond proposal of 100000 dollars failed 11,205 to 11,334, short of the two thirds required for passage.
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San Francisco
Sstreet Railways
Geary Street Railroad
Senate confirms Holmes to Supreme Court
The senate confirms the nomination of Oliver Wendell Holmes of Washington D C to be an associate justice of the Supreme Court.
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Holmes
Washington, D. C
Senate
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Supreme Court of the United States
New Federal Prison Sought Near Pacific Coast
Attorney General Knox states in his annual report that a new federal prison will soon be needed in the extreme West to replace McNeil's Island. He cites overcrowding and inaccessibility on the island and notes the institution is more jail-like and almost unemployed. He does not specify a site, but urges proximity to the Pacific coast.
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Washington
Knox
McNeil’s Island
Congress
Department
Pacific Coast
Delay in Selecting Spokane Site Until Turner Arrival
Washington December 4. The Spokane building site will not be chosen until Senator Turner arrives on the 15th. Delay stems from none of the offered properties being a full city block, requiring new streets to be cut if a pending site is selected.
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Shamrock IL
Thomas Lipton
Dennin
Dumbarton
Hay
Washington
Washington, D. C
Spokane
Turner
Upton Miller
Mt. Morris
Boston
New York City
New York
Cincinnati
Baltimore
Pittsburg
Buffalo
Philadelphia
Cleveland
St. Louis
Chicago
Duke of Devonshire
Claude Lorraine
Europe
Duke
Paris
Francaise
London
Wilhelmina
Vancouver
Eity
Seattle Market Report Prices Fill Local Dealer Offers
Seattle market report lists prices for oats barley and wheat at 24 25 per ton and 24 per ton respectively with chicken feed at 25 ton. It covers eggs poultry live stock beef cattle hogs veal lamb and hay with varied per unit figures and regional price ranges including Bluesstem wheat 75e and club 71 9e per bushel.
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Seattle
Shorts
Puget Sound
Washington
Washington Creamery
Settlement Talk in McVeagh Case Shows Narrow Hope
Lawyers for mine workers push witnesses before the strike commission in Steanton Pennsylvania to expose blacklisting by coal firms. Testimony cites dangerous mine conditions and injured workers as evidence while discussions of outside settlement yield no clear progress. McVeagh and Parker depart for New York as operators hedge on resuming negotiations.
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Steanton
Coontinue
J. J. Curran
Wilkesbarre
MacVeagh
Parker
New York
Alaska governance urged to overhaul land laws and aid exhibits
Washington reports Governor Brady of Alaska urges sweeping reforms including public land law overhaul, funding for an Alaska exhibit at St Louis, liquor license law changes, a five year donation claims law, a district interests debate in Washington, creation of fisheries and mines commissions, a natives study with congressional recommendations, and transport subsidies. A mule prank ends in death after a crab is tied to its tail. Antitoxin cures rattlesnake bites but may not affect Kentucky. A preacher questions some Ten Commandments while housing reform and philanthropy debates continue in global contexts.
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Washington, D. C
Brady
Alaska
St. Louis Exposition
Washington
British Columbia
Congress
Century Span Loan Grows To Peak With 24 Percent Rate
A dollar loan compounded at 24 percent for a hundred years would reach 2 551 790 108 dollars. Other items note German farms in Central America with coffee trees, Camellia in Plinitz, and various global figures from agriculture to leadership.
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Central America
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