Winter frost and snowstorm hit Ohio and midwest crops
A Thursday snowstorm swept parts of Ohio Pennsylvania and Kentucky delaying travel and damaging fruit and ornamental trees. Frosts reached down into Wisconsin Iowa Kansas Minnesota and Texas with temperatures as low as three degrees in Des Moines and 24 below freezing fruit and garden crops suffered though vast crop losses are not yet certain. Marshalltown Jefferson City Carthage and St Joseph areas reported significant damage to vegetables and fruits with strawberry plants frozen and thousands of dollars in losses anticipated.
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Pennsylvania
Kentucky
Wisconsin
Iowa
Kansas
Texas
Lampasas
Des Moines
Marshalltown
Jefferson City
Carthage
St. Joseph
Minnesota
Train Hold-Up Near Walkers Station Nets Four Bags
Two masked robbers boarded the New York and St. Louis express at Union Station Pittsburg and overpowered the messenger at 10:15 PM. They gagged him and carried four bags of currency from the Pan Handle line, fleeing toward Walkers Station eleven miles west of Pittsburg on a lonely stretch.
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Pan Handle
Union Station
Pittsburg
Walkers Station
Gott Sentenced in Cincinnati Murder Case
Robert W. Gott pleaded guilty to the murder of Dr. Leo Danziger in Cincinnati and received a ten year penitentiary sentence. The crime followed Danziger’s visit to Anna Spangler, Gott’s 16 year old niece.
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Robert W. Gott
Cincinnati
Leo Danziger
Gott
Dr. Danziger
Anna Spangler
Blast sinks warship. 200 lives lost in Japanese cruiser
The training cruiser Matsushima exploded in the Makang harbor on the Pescadores islands sinking within minutes. About 100 crewmen were saved, but most officers and cadets, including sons of Baron Chinda and Prince Oyama, are feared dead. The 4277 ton ship built in 1890 carried a 12 inch and eleven 4 inch guns.
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Itsukushima
Hashidate
Makang
Pescadores Islands
Japan
Baron Chinda
Foreign Office
Prince Oyama
Name
Yoshmori
Yashiro
United States
Olympia
Admiral Ito
Yalu River
Farm News Snapshots From 1910s Era Agriculture Report
Government experts cure for locoed cattle and propose new farming ideas. Pennsylvania farmer Robert McGuire fathers twenty one children. U S lumber production peaks at 37 550 736 000 board feet. Oklahoma reports green bugs with limited damage. Iowa experiment station stores apples for winter use. Illinois dairy herd of 100 cows condemned as tubercular. St Paul road to end wool baling rate to cut costs. Western Utah border lands 38 000 acres salt damaged worth 400 million. Freak horse with curly hair sells in Chicago market. New York park officials urged to grow potatoes or corn in Central Park for grass. Minnesota and Dakotas report favorable seeding season. Birmingham man buys Rodriguez ranch in Durango Mexico with livestock and goats. Prince Victor Narayan of India studies agriculture at Cornell then to tobacco work in South. Wisconsin sugar beets yield nearly 20 percent sugar in trials. Grant and Haskell counties Kansas farmers test dry land alfalfa from Peru with seed for ten acres each. If successful seed supply could cover arid districts.
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Nubbins
Farm News
Government Agricultural Department
Robert McGuire
Pennsylvania
United States
Oklahoma
State Board of Agriculture
Iowa
Illinois Eastern Hospital
St. Paul
Utah
Chicago
Wilson
New York City
Central Park
Minnesota
Dakotas
Birmingham
Ala
Rodriguez
Durango
Mexico
Prince Victor Naryan
India
Cornell University
Wisconsin
Grant
Haskell
Kansas
Agricultural Department
Peru
South America
May Weather Promises Tornadoes and Severe Storms
The forecast warns of continuous May danger with violent thunderstorms, tornadic activity, hail and frost. Forecaster Hicks predicts severe conditions from mid month through month end across central and western states, with a notable anniversary cyclone on the 27th and possible seismic disturbances late month.
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Srl R. Hicks
St. Louis
Hicks
Notable oddities mix gossip and prophecy in spring musings
The column satirizes spring fashion and affordability, wealth and marriage, and social pretensions. It jabs at immigration policy, royal bills, and the era's fixation on affluence. It notes a western bishop's advice to single women and muses on Uncle Sam's wealth and global arms plans. It ends with Mme Anna Gould's perseverance.
Political Parties and Electoral Votes in 1904 Election
The article surveys party vote distribution in 1904, noting two parties carried electoral votes while several minor groups failed to produce presidential winners. It recalls historical splits and third party influence in past elections, then shifts to industrial progress and a dramatic trust forming to control playwriting materials in America and Europe.
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Mr. Weaver
People’s Party
Colorado
Idaho
Kansas
Nevada
North Dakota
Oregon
Thomas E. Watson
Mr. Bryan
Horace Greeley
Millard Fillmore
Maryland
Quotes Mix Wit and Politics Across Nation
A collage of quotes and notes from various U.S. papers lampooning politics, society, and current events. Items reference English learning, fortune blame, fashion, nursing, insurance, taxes, labor, and international affairs with sharp humor and regional flair. Strong names, places, and organizations appear throughout.
Congress Passes Pension and District Appropriations Bill
The Senate approved pension and District of Columbia appropriation bills while a presidential message on legislative plans was read. It also debated the commodity clause and heard Senator Davis attack the interior rolls controversy. House action covered sundry civil and naval measures with several amendments and a conference on disputed provisions.
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Elkins
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Arkansas
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Foraker
Ohio
Fowler
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Mississippi
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Stevens
Dalzell
Pennsylvania
National Art Gallery
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Forest Service
Townsend
Michigan
Interstate Commerce Commission
Jeff Davis
Committee On the Judiciary
Department of Agriculture
National Capital
Hepburn
Forestry Division
Post Office Department
William R. Wheeler
California
Department of Commerce and Labor
Lawrence QO. Murray
Navy
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