Transport Ships Impressed by Japanese Government In War Call
A Pacific Mail dispatch says Nippon Maru Hong Kong Maru and America Maru are pressed into Japanese transport service. America Maru arrives Saturday and Nippon Maru left December 30. Nippon Yusen Kaisha Seattle agents anticipate similar notices and note subsidized ships may be called up for war use while non subsidized vessels remain available.
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San Francisco
Pacific Mail Steamship Company
Oriental Steamship Company
Far East
Hong Kong
Seattle
Nippon Yusen Kaisha
W. E. Farr
F. M. Studley
Rival Fleets at Port Said Reported Entrance to Suez
Russian torpedo boat destroyers and cruisers Dimitri Donskoi Aurora arrived at Port Said with ships guarding the canal entrance. The Japanese cruiser Kagasi anchored offshore while Nisshin awaited. shore contact was blocked and crews were not allowed ashore.
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Port Said
Russia
Japan
Suez Canal
Aurora
Dimitri Donskoi
Port Arthur
Kagasi
Moreno
London
Far East
Rots
Mediterranean
Boer Colony to Settle in Montana on Shields River
News from St Paul dated January 18 reports near completion of plans to establish a Boer colony in Montana. Possible sites along the Shields river or Milk river valley are under consideration and Boer immigration is expected to start in the spring. Gen G Joubert and Capt W S O'Donnell lead preliminary arrangements with J J Hill pushing Montana as the site. Washington notes change from Mexico due to yellow fever and cites a $7 million Philippine bond issue handled by Harvey Fiske & Sons for land purchases.
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St. Paul
Montana
Shields River
Milk River
America
G. Joubert
O’donnell
Mexico
J. J. Hill
House Bill Strikes Out Civil Service Agency Funding
In a three hour debate the house committee of the whole voted 78 to 65 to strike from the legislative appropriation bill the salaries and expenditures of the civil service commission and its clerks. Debate featured pro and anti civil service arguments led by Hepburn Grosvenor Bartlett Cooper and Gillette.
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Washington
House
Civil Service Commission
Hepburn
Iowa
Messrs
Grosvenor
Bartlett
Cooper and
Gillette
Bingham
Georgia
Bristow
Civil Service
Post Office Department
General Bristow
Cooper
Wisconsin
Proctor
House approves large legislative budget with civil service restored
Washington report says the house passed the legislative executive and judicial appropriation bill totaling 29 711 700 dollars. The vote was 88 to 172 and the chamber rejected striking the civil service commission salaries and expenses, restoring the item to the bill.
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Washington
Civil Service Commission
Independent packing plants urged at livestock convention
Portland Jan 14 The national livestock convention endorsed creating a stockmen owned corporation to build independent packing houses to rival the packers' combine. Plans call for $5,000,000 capital and distribution to stock raisers who would own and direct the enterprise to raise prices for producers and stabilize consumer costs. Denouncing the combine, delegates urged stock raisers to unite and fund the plan while committees in stock raising states recruit subscribers. The day included state reports on livestock conditions.
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Portland
Packers' Combine
Packers’ Combine
Historic Clark House in Missouri to be torn for race track
The old home of General William Clark in northwest St. Louis County, built around 1810 to 1820 on Clark family land, is slated for demolition to make way for a race course by the Union Jockey Club. Clark served as Missouri territorial governor from 1813 to 1821 and died in 1838. the house is tied to early state history and Osage treaty events.
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St. Louis
William Clark
Missouri Territory
Clark
Union Jockey Club
Pittsburg
General Clark
Missouri
Northwest
Indian Territory
Weather doctrine on climate stability tied to four factors
The article cites J. W. Smith of the government weather service arguing climate depends on distance from the equator and sea, elevation, and prevailing winds. It stresses no lasting change in seasons over 300 years and notes personal perception colors weather judgments despite fluctuations. It ends with a Globe aphorism about waiting and money.
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J. W. Smith
Boston Globe
Village Parson Saintly Life In Rich Charity
An Old Favorites selection recounts a village parson renowned for charity and piety. He shelters and helps the poor and sick, comforts the bereaved, and leads his neighbors in prayer with gentle authority. His steadfast virtue shines from home to church and village life.
Local Fire Ends Quietly After Energetic Crowd
The chemical engine left the scene and a crowd dispersed after smoke and a broken window. Several boys lingered around the house, peering into the basement and parlor, watching for any renewed flare up.
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Vesti
Private fire disrupts boys at VW in VW bale
A front door bursts open and a man shouts at the boys causing a brief scare. They flee then return as a frightened woman tries to calm them and dismiss the disturbance describing it as a private fire.
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Chicago Daily News
Senate committee weighs canal treaty amendment on Panama harbor jus
Washington on January 18 the senate foreign relations committee debated an amendment to the Panama canal treaty seeking greater U S jurisdiction over harbors adjacent to Panama’s harbor. Both parties expect ratification.
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Washington
Senate Committee On Foreign Relations
United States
Panama
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Suez Entrance
War Department
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Fiske & Robinson
National City Bank
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Gen
Oliver Goldsmith
University OF
Puget Sound
Tacoma, Washington
the School of
the Methodist Episcopal Church
State of Washington
Tacoma
College of Liberal Arts
College Fine Arts
College of Oratory
College of Commerce
Edwin M. Randall
D. D
Rainier Liquid
H Street
Aberdeen
Montesano
Hoquiam Sash and Door Co
Norm & Hartung
Wishkah Street
A. I. McCall
J. H. McFadden
City Livery and Transfer Company
HERON
Broadway
Aberdeen, Wash
Patterson & Logee
General Insurance Agents
Heron Street
Geo. L. Hilton
R. P. Porter
Cherie Brands
Aberdeey
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