Senators Report Bay City Fair to Be Greatest Ever
Senate committee on industrial expositions reports that a Panama Canal completion exhibit in San Francisco would be the greatest ever, citing California's 17.5 million dollar promise and the event's educational value and trade potential for the Orient.
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Senators
Bay City Fair
Washington
Panama Canal
San Francisco
Senate Committee On Industrial Expositions
Senate
California
Pacific Coast
Imperial cotton as good as southern cash crops
In Los Angeles on February 15, Tozo Kimbara of Morimura Arai & Co New York reported three months in the Imperial valley cotton fields confirming the local cotton equals any in the South. He evaluated growing picking and ginning processes and left convinced the fleecy product is fit for export to Japan.
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Los Angeles
Imperial Valley
Tozo Kimbara
Morimura, Arai & Co
New York
Imperial
South
Kimbara
Alexandria
Japan
Citrus Growers Gather as California Markets Flooded
In Los Angeles on February 15, growers report the peak citrus period in Southern California. The market shows heavy receipts of oranges, tangerines, navels, and grapefruit with strong demand for grapefruit. Strawberry vines mature under favorable weather and continued showers will aid the new crop. Potatoes flood the market with large stormbound arrivals and prices are expected to stay weak until supplies thin.
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Los Angeles
California
Fifteen Dead in Wrecked Colorado Mine Blast
In Cokedale Colorado near Trinidad seven teen workers died in an explosion at the Carbon Coal and Coke mine on Monday night. Fifteen bodies including Assistant Superintendent Sutton and rescuer Robert Meek were recovered. Superintendent Bayless suspects blasting powder ignition. deaths due to after-damp. Most victims were Poles and Italians, many with families. Company to aid widows and children.
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Trinidad
Colo
Cokedale
Carbon Coal and Coke Company
Sutton
Robert Meek
Bayless
California Senate Passes Bill Flood of Introduced Measures
Sacramento reports a flood of bills passing the Senate toward 1,000 introduced. Key measures include a state liquor tax proposal by Senator Sanford, licensing barbers, an eight hour day for women workers, raising the age of majority for women to 21, and a push to abolish the death penalty debated by Attorney General Webb and the Anti-Capital Punishment League.
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Sacramento
Senate
Sanford
Indiana
Alabama
Cassidy
San Francisco
Laurel Hill
Caminetti
Burnett
Hare
Johnson
Wolfe
Assemblyman
Lyons
California
Kennedy
Assembly
Congress
United States
Wyllie
Juilliard
Messneger
Campbell
Boynton
Shannahan
Southern
Griffin
Clyde Bishop
Santa Ana
Assembly Judiciary Committee
U. S. Webb
Webb
Cattell
W. W. Lathrop
J. H. Young
The
Anti- Capital Punishment League
Mr. Young
Michigan
Rhode Island
Kansas
Shoe Prices to Jump Report From Chicago Conference
A Chicago conference between the Tanners National association and the shoemakers outlines moves toward higher shoe prices especially for cheap grades. Discontinued 5 percent discounts on four months payments prompt a potential curb in output. If needed, there may be federal action under the Sherman act and a tariff-free leather threat is raised.
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Chicago
Tanners*National Association
Shoemakers Organization
Pageantry to open fair ground with four day carnival
San Diego plans a four day carnival and pageantry to mark the Panama Canal exposition ground breaking. Promoter Dick Ferris and the city celebration committee completed details. Count De Lesseps may turn the first dirt for the expo and notify the director general of the exact date.
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San Diego
Dick Ferris
Los Angeles
Count de Lesseps
Collier
Invitation Day Boosts California Tourism Drive
Southern Pacific Railway plans March 1 distribution of 4,000,000 postcard literature to every postman bag to urge travel to the state. The campaign, called Invitation Day, aims to attract a large influx of eastern visitors and capitalize on colonist rates to showcase California at its best.
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Los Angeles
California
Southern Pacific Railway Company
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House
Bishop
Harriet Burlingame
Orange County
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