Sixtieth Congress Ends First Session in History
The Sixtieth Congress closes its first session after passing an emergency currency measure and several appropriations bills. Bills flooded the hopper, with 29,218 total introduced in both houses, including many private pension measures. Filibuster and roll-call tactics by John Sharp Williams led to extended adjournments, wasting about six days of time.
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Cannon
Treasury
House
Washington
Congress
Senate
John Sharp Williams
Williams
Britain’s Bryce Interferes in White House Tennis Session
Diplomatic uproar follows Amb Bryce of Great Britain as he interrupts a White House tennis cabinet, delaying a session attended by President Roosevelt Jusserand of France and Assistant Atty Gen Cooley. Secretary Bacon misses the start. a three handed game ensues until Secretary Garfield arrives. Bryce regrets the unintentional disruption and hopes no entanglement with France.
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Bryce
Great Britain
Roosevelt
M. Jusserand
France
White House
Jusserand
Atty Gen. Cooley
Bacon
Ambassador Bryce
State Department
Root
Garfield
Cooley
Heir to Mexican Throne Becomes a Monk
Prince Iturbide, heir by descent to the Mexican throne, renounces politics and joins the Third Order of St. Francis. The article traces the Iturbide lineage from Emperor Agustín de Iturbide, the 1821 revolt, Maximilian, and the family’s later years in Washington and Philadelphia.
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Tince
Augustine DE Itur
Bide
Liberator
Mexico
Tlan
Jeunesse Doree
Third Order of St. Francis
Land of the
Maximilian
Emperor Iturbide
Prince Iturbide
New Spain
Iturbide
Europe
Washington
Philadelphia
Early Available Coal To Last 150 Years
A Roosevelt directed Geologic Survey study and a 4 percent map estimate the United States has about 327 000 square miles of early available coal with nearly two trillion tons in reserve. At current consumption growth the supply could exhaust before mid century next century. Western lignite areas show higher fuel value, potentially rivaling eastern coals in industrial use.
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United States
Roosevelt
Geological Survey
George Otis Smith
St. Louis
Beatrice Grimshaw's Papua New Guinea Cannibal Tales
In a city letter, adventurer Beatrice Grimshaw recalls Goari Bari and nearby cannibal rituals in 1902 1904. She describes villages with skulls and human remains hung in trees, a tea party amid shocked cannibals, and the cannibals’ claim that human flesh tastes better than pork or dog.
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London
Beatrice Grimshaw
South Seas
New Guinea
Gulf of Papua
Goari-Bari
Chalers
Gov. Robinson
Col. Antill
Mixself
Port Moresby
Nice
China
Judge Murray
Chalmers
Thursday Island
Boy Crushed by Rooster in Pottsville Tragedy
Three year old Charles Horn of Donaldson, son of Lincoln Horn, was seriously injured in a rooster attack in a Pottsville yard. An older brother led him into the yard where the game bird mauled him with wings beak and spurs causing a deep scalp wound and grave facial injuries.
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Pottsville
Charles
Lincoln Horn
Donaldson
Little Charles
Kiss Saves Woman From Living Burial
A Tonbridge woman Mrs Carton fell into a trance and was laid in a coffin for funeral preparations after a short illness. Her husband, an engine cleaner, kissed her cheek as the coffin was about to be screwed down. She revived, later recovering in hospital, and she recounted sensing everything around her while unable to move or speak.
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Mr. Carton
Night of Terror in Freeland Ends With Rescue
Mrs. John Klinger, an elderly Freeland resident, wandered from home during a heavy rainstorm and spent the night in the mountains. A search party led by Burgess Hariman on horseback and two state constabulary members pursued footpaths and roads, fearing a mine cave. By eight the next morning her ten year old grandson found her on railroad tracks near Dlifton, exhausted and taken home to recover under a physician's care.
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Freeland
John Klinger
Burgess Hariman
State Constabulary
Rats Attack Two Babies in Philadelphia Home
Louis Jaffin awoke to screams and found several rats biting his babies Mamie and Issie on the second floor of their South Second street house. The children were moved to hospital where wounds were cauterized.
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Philadelphia
Mamie
Issie Jaffin
South Second Street
Issie
Louis Jaffin
Jaslin
Large Sum Spent In Two Months By Salvation Army
In Toronto over two months more than $11,000 was spent by the Salvation Army to relieve poverty. The city and army officers contributed time without pay to distribute the funds, aiding over 600 families.
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Aattle
Salvation Army
Toronto
Aity
The Reincarnation of Bud Warner
A pale man in a hillside shack recovers from illness with a mysterious benefactor named Smith. The tale follows his near recovery, the discovery of a Wells Fargo reward for Bud Warner, and a dramatic town confrontation ending with the outlaw's apparent arrest. The sheriff Windy Sam confronts Bud Warner in Sulphur after the recovered man’s ailing past and a misidentification.
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Wells, Fargo & Co
Bud” Warner
Bud Warner
Warner
Smith
Peters
Sulphur
Windy Sim
Sulphur County
Sim
Sangre de Cristo
Sam
Jing
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Gorri-Bari
Kiss
Woman
Shortstory Pub. Co
Chicago
Sangre de Cristo Range
Sulpur
Pete
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