Nicaragua and its coastlines a brief survey
A historical overview describes Nicaragua's geography from the Caribbean shore to the Pacific slope, naming key ports, cities, and rail routes. It notes population distribution, major towns like Leon and Managua, and the principal port Corinto, plus trade figures for 1908 and basic governmental structure.
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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
Bluefields
Sapeatin
Panama
United States
National Assembly
Tropics
Wester Sécion
Pont Alae Wis
Ee Ptc Serbae S
Supreme Court Picks Horace H. Lurton as Associate Justice
Judge Horace H. Lurton, a Tennessee Democrat, named Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. Formerly Chief Justice of the Tennessee Supreme Court and a judge on the United States Circuit Court, Sixth Circuit since 1893. Born 1844 in Newport Kentucky, educated at Cumberland University, later dean and constitutional history professor at Vanderbilt University.
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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
Streetcar-Hits Auto. Widow Escapes Injury in New York
Fragmentary notices report a street car strike on an auto belonging to Mrs H Rogers in New York with the widow escaping injury. A separate item notes the Association of American Universities will hold its annual meeting at the University of Wisconsin January 4 and 6.
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Association of American Universities
University of Wisconsin
American Gibraltar proposed for Chesapeake Bay defense
Taft seeks congressional endorsement to build an artificial inland fort in Chesapeake Bay near Cape Henry to guard the Norfolk Hampton Roads area from attack. The concrete fort would be up to 50 feet thick with the world’s strongest guns, leveraging Hampton Roads’ historic naval battles as strategic justification.
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Gibraltar
Chesapeake Bay
Taft
Congress
Norfolk
Portamouth
Newport News
Cape Charles
Cape Henry
Capé ‘Henry
United States
Hampton Roads
Washington
Baltimore
Chesapeake
Monetary Commission Report on National Bank Resources
The National Monetary Commission shows total resources of 21.1 billion across 6,893 national banks 11,319 state banks 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 large deposits subject to check and savings credits totaling about 7 and 5 billion respectively.
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National Monetary Commission
Middle Atlantic
Far West
South
Brutal city killings trigger manhunt in Yamacrow
Police say a man attacked three women in a central city home, killing Mrs. Eliza Gribble and her daughter Mrs. Carrig-Ohlander and injuring Mrs. Hunter. A suspect, described as a “negro,” was pursued as officers widen the dragnet and detain about 150 residents while seeking eyewitness detail.
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tiStanmaie
Draighet
Woliin
Eliza Gribple
Carrig-Ohlander
Aragon
Trolman
Nick Agate
Wis Atea
Bavannal ‘Hospital
Oplander
Pan
Thair
Fen
Evidence Links Brownsville Shootings to Twenty-fifth Infantry
A military court of inquiry holds that the Twenty-fifth Infantry colored soldiers fired through Brownsville streets during a driving incident, with bullets found in three houses and shots traced to within the fort. Southern congressional leaders may seek abolition of the troops, renewing Roosevelts dispute.
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Brownsville
Texas
Twenty-fifth Infantry
Military Court of Inquiry
Congress
Roosevelt
Railway Wreck in Iowa Delays Overland Limited
Train No. 7 bound west on the Chicago Milwaukee and St Paul line derailed two miles east of Bayard Iowa. The engine tender and all cars left the track. Thirteen passengers were injured. Cause unknown. broken tender truck suspected. Sioux City and Des Moines local out of Chicago carried passengers for those cities. Overland Limited delayed less than an hour. Track cleared and Sioux City train proceeded.
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Chicago, Milwaukee and St Paul
Bayard, Lows
Sioux City
Des Moines
Chicago
Three Die In Mine Fire At Shoemaker Mine
A fire at a Shoemaker Mining Company shaft near Johnstown Pennsylvania caused deadly smoke suffocation. Three men died below deep in the mine while twenty-one others were overcome and rescued as fans circulated air toward the shaft mouth.
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Shoemaker Mining Company
Johnstown
Murderers Identified in Clyne Case Riddle
Fragmentary OCR text mentions murderers and names such as Clyne and Seahalet. Readable elements imply a report on suspects or an investigation with potential identifications. Further details are unreadable in the source.
Enormous Wheat and Oat Harvest Reported for 1909
The 1909 agriculture department release shows oats at 1,007,000,000 bushels the largest ever with corn and winter and spring wheat also at record levels. Average farm prices shifted, but total crop value rose to a record. The report notes oats value near 40.5 to 47.2 cents per bushel and a total crop value of about 403 million dollars. The corn output reached about 32.77 billion bushels with modest price gains maintaining overall farm prosperity.
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Department of Agriculture
Bureau
Aires
Thoroughbred trades and sports notes in brief
The Broncho 200% may be bred to Minor Heir 1.59% next season. Three fillies bought at the Chicago sale by Adam Starin of Wyndmere ND. Pontiac the famed racehorse dies after Suburban handicap 1885. Guard Butter of the University of Illinois football named captain for 1910. Four Kentucky stallions Salvator Ben Strome St Blaise and Sir Dixon die. Half mile track near completion at Herington KS. Madison WI fair contemplates converting mile track to half mile. Manila reports Edward Bowditch Harvard football star named private secretary to the Governor General. Motorcycle record attempts and other scattered notes.
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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 Fatalities Hit Cincinnati Tenement
A four story tenement at 327 and 329 East Third Street Cincinnati suffered a massive blaze with fifty tenants inside. A kerosene lamp overturned ignited dry wood sending flames through halls trapping residents. At least seven killed and many injured with bodies too burned for identification.
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East Third Street
Cincinnati
Freman
Frozen death on swamp claim ends lumberjack sky pilot odyssey
Missionary Tatheran Mivetonary of the United Lutheran Church, a colleague of Rev. Frank Sig gins known as the Lumberjack Sky Pilot, was found frozen to death in a bog near Silver Creek. He had left Nels Rippes’ homestead hut at 2 PM for Clementson thirteen miles away to hold a service, but heavy snow blanketed the area and his body lay near a floating bog with his Bible open beside him.
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Tatheran Mivetonary
Ole O. Fugieskie
United Lutheran Church
Frank Siggins
Sky Pilot
Hardy
Nels “Rippes
Silver Creek
Clementson
Ussambled
Rippés
Lake Shore Trains Collide. Casualties Reported
East bound Lake Shore Twentieth Century Limited collided with train No 10 near North East. Five persons were killed and many injured, all on the slower Lake Shore train with passengers left shaken by the crash. Authorities and crews respond to the wreck scene.
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Lake Shore
St North East
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America
Mexico
South America
Lan
Greytawa
Atlantic
Zelaya
WEW Supreme Court
Horace H. Lution
Ed Pardee
Marianna
Pardee
Charles ‘Bladie
Rock City
Iowa
Cheyénné
Wyo
New London
United
President Taft
Monetary Commission Report
Ryuunato
Yorke
Wegero
St. Paul
Bayard
Agricultural Department
Dudley
New England
Phillips Academien
Gettysburg
United States Rahal
Hhis
Manila
Edward Bowditch
Harvard
Colina
Trorse
Sity
Bot
Aslee
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