Nicaragua and its coastlines a distant land of trade and towns
The article surveys Nicaragua's geography from the Pacific to the Caribbean coast, noting key ports like Corinto and Bluefields, major inland cities, and a single railway from Corinto to Managua. It details population ranges, climate variety, and 1908 foreign trade totals with U.S. commerce in textiles, bananas, coffee, and more.
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Washington
New York
Chicago
Mississippi River
Binefields
New Orleans
Sittds
Colon
Greytows
San Juan River
Nicaragua
Cape Gracia A
Dios
Pacific
Leon
Ma‘Ragua
Matagalpa
Granada
Corinto
Meme
San Juan del Sur
Managua
Latin America
Nic
Atlantic
New Orleana
Mobile
San Francisco
Mexico
Salina Cris
Bluefields
Sapeatin
Panama
United States
National Assembly
Wester
Pont Alae
Ee Ptc Serbae S
Central
America
South America
Lan
Greytawn
Zelaya
WEW Supreme Court Judge Horace H. Lurton Appointed Associate Justice
Judge Horace H. Lurton, Tennessee Democrat, named Associate Justice of the U S Supreme Court. Former Tennessee Supreme Court Chief Justice, U S Sixth Circuit judge since 1893, born Newport Kentucky 1844, Cumberland College alumnus, longtime Vanderbilt law professor.
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Horace H. Lurton
Supreme Court
Supreme Court of Tennessee
Lurton
United States Circuit Court
Sixth Circuit
Newport
Cumberland University
Tennessee Courts
Tennessee Supreme Court
Vanderbilt University
Annual meeting of AAU set for University of Wisconsin
Disjointed notes report an automobile collision involving Mrs H Rogers in New York, a near lynching of Ed Pardee in Marianna Pennsylvania, and a Cheyenne visit by Charles Bladie with a cryptic bundle. The passage references the Supreme Court and a New London item amid garbled text.
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Ed Pardee
Marianna
Pardee
Charles ‘Bladie
Rock City
Iowa
Cheyénné
Wyo
New London
United
Chesapeake Bay Gibraltar project described by Taft
An American Gibraltar would rise in Chesapeake Bay under Taft's plan if endorsed by Congress. A concrete fort with 50 foot thick walls would defend Norfolk Portsmouth and Newport News, using the most powerful guns, near Cape Henry, in a wide entrance. The site recalls naval battles at Hampton Roads including Monitor versus Merrimac and the 1814 burning of Washington, linking history to the defense proposal.
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Chesapeake Bay
Taft
Congress
Norfolk
Portamouth
Newport News
Cape Charles
Cape Henry
Cape ‘Henry
Gibraltar
United States
Hampton Roads
Washington
Baltimore
Chesapeake
Monetary Commission Report on National Banking Resources
The National Monetary Commission report cites total resources of 21.1 billion across 6,893 national, 11,319 state, 1,703 mutual and stock savings, 1,497 private banks and 3,078 loan and trust companies. Per capita figures vary by region from 450 in the East to 71 in the South, with deposits largely checkable at 7 billion and savings near 5 billion. The data reflect June figures including bank deposits and interbank credits, with attention to regional disparities.
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National Monetary Commission
Middle Atlantic
Far West
South
Brutal triple murder shocks city as police hunt suspect
Police arrested 150 Black residents in a manhunt after a brutal attack and killings in a central city home. Victims include Eliza Gribble and her daughter Carrig Ohlander, both mortally harmed, and a third woman found injured. The suspect, a white man described as tall and heavy, remains at large. The case raises concern in Yamacrow where tensions flare among officers and citizens.
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tiStanmaie
Draighet Okf
Carrig-Ohlander
Strolman
Nick Agate
Wis Atea
Skell
Bavannal ‘Hospital
Oplander
Pan
Fen
Yamacrow
Brownsville Shooting Seen Attributed to Twenty-fifth Infantry
Military court evidence reportedly links the Twenty-fifth Infantry colored troops stationed at Brownsville fort to the town shooting incidents. Court members would not discuss details but southern Congressional delegations favor abolition of black troops amid renewed Roosevelt era tensions. Bullets and fire trails traced to barracks support the claim.
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Brownsville
Texas
Twenty-fifth Infantry
Military Court of Inquiry
Congress
Roosevelt
Railway Wreck in Iowa DERAILED NEAR BAYARD
Train No. 7 bound west on the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul Railway derailed two miles east of Bayard Iowa. Thirteen passengers were injured as engine tender and all cars left the track. Cause not known but broken wheel suspected. regular Overland Limited delayed under an hour. Sioux City and Des Moines local carried passengers from Chicago.
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Chicago, Milwaukee and St Paul
Bayard, Lows
Sioux City
Des Moines
Chicago
Three Die In Mine Smoke At Shoemaker Mine
Three men died of suffocation and twenty one were overcome and rescued as a fire swept a Shoemaker Mining Company shaft fifteen miles northeast of Johnstown Pennsylvania. Flames reached the adhe fanhouse and smoke backed into the mine despite ventilation.
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Shoemaker Mining Company
Johnstown
Murderers identified in distant case
Fragmentary OCR reads show a murder report with garbled phrases and unclear names. The readable bits mention a shooting and defendants or suspects described as murderers, but full details, locations, and identities are not recoverable.
Enormous Wheat Oats Yields Reported for 1909 Harvest
Government figures show oats reached 1 007 000 000 bushels the largest on record. Wheat and corn also set records with high farm values and revised acreages. Final corn output stood at 32 772 376 000 bushels with strong price gains across grain markets.
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Department of Agriculture
Bureau
Aires
Breeding plans and racing losses span 1910 season notes
The Broncho 200% may sire to Minor Heir 1.59% next season. Three fillies bought at Chicago by Adam Starin of Wyndmere ND. Pontiac a famed racehorse dies age. Pontiac won 1885 Suburban handicap. Guard Butter from University of Illinois football named 1910 captain. Four Kentucky stallions Salvator Ben Strome St Blaise Sir Dixon died recently. Half mile track under construction at Herington KS nearing completion. Madison WI fair contemplates converting mile track to half mile. Manila report claims Edward Bowditch Harvard football star named private secretary to the governor general. Motorcycle accident in Sahi Joe, Sabra area.
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Chicago
Adam Starin
Wyndmere
N. D
Pontiac
Guard Butter
University of Blliots
Kentucky
Salvator
Ben Strome
St. Blaise
Sir Dixon
Herington
Kan
Pearing
Fair Association
Madison
Wis
Fire Kills At Least Seven In Cincinnati Tenement Blaze
A four story tenement at 327 and 329 East Third Street Cincinnati killed seven residents and injured many more. Fifty people were inside as kerosene lamp sparked flames trapping tenants on upper floors and forcing some to jump from windows. Firefighters saved several from the rear and carried down two corpses from the ladder. Identification of the burned bodies proved impossible.
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East Third Street
Cincinnati
Freman
Frozen to Death in Swamp While En Route to Sermon
Tatheran Mivelonary, a United Lutheran Church missionary and associate of Rev. Frank Sig gins, known as the Lumberjack Sky Pilot, was found frozen near a bog ten miles from Nels Rippes's homestead hut at Silver Creek. He had left at 2 PM for Clementson, thirteen miles away, in heavy snow to hold a service that evening. His Bible lay open by his side as he collapsed near the edge of a floating bog.
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Tatheran
Ole O. Fugiekie
United Lutheran Church
Frank Siggins
Sky Pilot
Hardy
Nels “Rippes
Silver Creek
Clementson
Ussambled
Rippés
Lake Shore Trains Collision Kills Four
An eastbound Lake Shore limited collided with Lake Shore No. 10 near North East. Four people were killed and many injured, all victims aboard the slower train. Eyewitnesses reported frightened passengers and a chaotic scene.
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Lake Shore
St North East
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WEW Supreme Court
Horace H. Lution
Association of American Universities
University of Wisconsin
President Taft
Monetary Commission Report
Ryuunato
Yorke
Wegero
St. Paul
Bayard
Agricultural Department
Dudley
New England
Phillips
Gettysburg
Manila
Edward Bowditch
Harvard
Wasi
Colina
Trorse
Sity
Bot
Aslee
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