Trans Alaska Railway Plans Stir Denver Investors
Denver capitalists push a Trans-Alaskan railway from Time lakes to Cape Prince of Wales linking to the Trans-Siberian. The 859 mile route would cross navigable rivers and open vast Alaska gold fields with coal timber and copper prospects. The venture expects a five year completion and is billed as a major money maker for the era.
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Trans-Alaskan Railway
Denver
Tiamna Lake
Cape Prince of Wales
Trans-Siberian Railway
Cook's Inlet
Nushgek River
Kushowim
Tanana
Great
Yukon
Mississippi
Bering Strait
Prince Hisltop
Siberian Railway
J J. Frey
Trans-Alaskan
Joseph T. Cornfield
White Pass
Trans- Alaskan
Uncle Sam
Czar
Untitled cabinet reshuffle hints at new department creation
A fragment hints at a near term cabinet reshuffle and a possible new department. References to President Roosevelt appear, with vague notes about a message to Congress and the creation of an agency. Details are unclear in the readable text.
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Roose
Congress
Man Hide Tax By Preparing Inheritance Envelopes
A New Jersey man with 460000 in stocks and four children probated recently devised a scheme to dodge inheritance tax. He split the estate into four envelopes addressed to each child, to be delivered after his death. The plan, if intended to cheat the state, exposes a swindler’s greed, highlighting the duty to pay taxes even after death.
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New Jersey
Educating the Filipinos under American system gains ground
Hon Fred W Atkinson reported on Philippine education from November 5 1900 to May 27 1901 revealing an appalling ignorance left by Spanish rule and detailing the push to build a new public school system patterned on American models. He notes 8000 applicants sought positions and American college presidents supplied teachers.
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Philippines
Fred W. Atkinson
Spain
Atkinson
Congress
Eighty teachers from U S and Philippines noted
The superintendent's report lists eight U S and two Philippine superintendents with eighty teachers from the Philippines. Salaries are often lower than in the U S, yet reform and new school buildings are advancing in the archipelago, signaling a transformed education system post Spanish rule.
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United States
Philippines
Spain
Pacific
Currency reform debate sparks Treasury questions
The Buffalo Express reports Secretary Gage warning of a system where redeemable paper totals 346 million with a 15 million gold reserve, asking how much could shift to banks and if government guarantees help. potential gains would favor banks while public benefit remains unclear.
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Buffalo Express
Gage
Legzser
Rape case the main local news in Dalton dispatch
Governor Candler refused commuting the death sentence of Bill Collins who raped a Whitfield County wife and was to be hanged in Dalton jail where the condemned man will die today. The piece notes other local incidents including a white woman briefly detained with a black man, a streetcar and jailyard updates as well as the Catholic minister’s visit and court actions.
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C4npler
Bill Collns
Dalton
W. LE. Lingle
Collins
Whitfield
Candler
Dayton
Manila Life and People Through an Explorer's Eye
A travelogue of Manila's Walled City and surrounding districts describes the old Spanish fortress, narrow streets, and bustling markets. It notes wealthy residents, Filipino dress and manners, women smoking, policemen, traffic, and the carabao as a crucial but troublesome work animal.
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ae @ tity
Taft
Palacio
Manila
Ermita
Malate
Malacanan
Tondo
Binondo
Paco
Philippine Islands
Spain
Luneta
Paby
Walled City
Broadway
New York
Soliers
Masnila
United States
Atlantic
Pasig
General Chaffee
Nog
Reserve Hospital
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Claude
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Atlanta
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Ted States
Canada
Mexico
Tlanta, GA
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Henry Sore
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Milwaukee
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Leland Stanford, Jr. University
Indianapolis News
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Lonaville Courier-Journal
Panama Canal
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Panama
Nicaragua
Calabra
Germany
Baltimore Herald
Venezuela
la Guayra
Charley Moses
Marth Street
Fair
Union Depot
Moses
West Point
Dr.Ward
John Jones
Jones
Harry Plumb
Charlotte
Attlanta
Plumb
W. C. McLesky
Rapid Transit
Recorder’s Court
C J Simmons
A. Balsey
Pratt] Street
Recorder's Court
Balsky
N Kepf Smith
Llzabethtown
American Rubber Tire Company
Findlay Rubber Tire Company
Newman
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Brotherhood OF Locomove Firemen
Turn Verein
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John B. Roberts
Currier Street
Roberts
John Colvin
St Joseph's Infirmary
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Inman Park
Wright
Polich Relief Association
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James Carlisle
Chief Ball
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