Circling the Globe and a Nation in Turmoil
President Roosevelt sent a bureau report to the House on radical regislation and packing houses. Loren Sinclair was not heard. Chicago visit canceled. Fifteen Hamline girls were poisoned by ampur milk and all but three recovered. South Dakota convention attacks President, nominating Gov. Stransky with a municipal owned enterprises plank. Baton Rouge fire rescue saved the state capitol, losses around five thousand dollars. A club seeks action over a fatal accident at Midway park, and a parachute incident near New York follows a dramatic summer scene at a stadium.
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Roosevelt
House Committee
Ime
Chicago
Loren Sinclair
Hamline University
Minneapolis
South Dakota
Democrat Convention
Democrat Convention Strongly Retormed Arvanter
JL AL Stransky
Munnipal
Baton Rouge
Edgewater deaths and multiple crime reports headline chaotic news
A widow Mrs Bertha Rinne and her five year old son were found dead at Edgewater New York near Holder Street. In Ohio,Benjamin Stewart killed D F A Graham and injured others in a separate incident. Other items include counterfeit arrests in West Virginia, a deadly tornado near Wyoming and North Bramh, and a series of trials and crimes across the country including a June 20 execution date for a mass murderer and a Goessil German Mennonite town hit by a tornado with eighty injured. Police report a coal mine disaster in Montana and labor wage disputes across Indiana Kansas City and Ohio.
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Bertha Rinne
Edgewater
Holder ST
Graham
Benjamin Stewart
John Miller
Sears
Rbernard King
Binefield
Wo Va
Wyoming
North Bramh
James Ro Wl
Los Antsrles
Folsom
Joseph VO Matro Amensser
Toledo
Findlay
Ohio
Hemelf
Mra McKee
Char
Auburndale
Mass
Mabel Page
Charlestoun
Sracuse
N. Y
Desmond Davis
Llomer Alexander
Vis
Gladys
Goessil
Montana
Northern Pacific
Rocky Fork
Indiana
Southwest
Terre Haute
Kansas City
Columbus
Packers Makh Reply Charges Meade In Report
South Congress reports that Chicago leading packers answered criticisms after the Prest conference. University of Clinocis and H. Grindley presented two experts who questioned diseased meat in the Neill Reynolds study. Packers deny insanitary conditions and urge stricter slaughterhouse inspection under U.S. Agriculture oversight.
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Meade
South Congress
Chitezgo
Prest
Neill-Reynolds
T. J. Barrill
University of Clinocis
H. & Grindley
Roosevelt
Department of Agriculture
Germany
United States Department of Agriculture
Remarkable cure of spinal injury in Philadelphia woman
A Philadelphia woman named Mrs. Clara Nichols, paralyzed below the wound after a back shot five years ago, has regained sensation and mobility after a young physician sutured the severed spinal cord. Over years of massage and careful treatment she progressed from inability to sense touch to walking with crutches, with a forecast of eventual full recovery.
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Philadelphia
Clara Nichols
Burbank Proposes Race Cultivation Plan For Humans
California plant expert Luther Burbank argues in the May Century that human races can be improved by selective breeding. He envisions 12 normal families from blended races living apart in a controlled environment with ample air and food. Weak or unfit persons should be prevented from propagating, and mental defects eliminated, claiming ten generations will fix desired traits.
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Luther Burbank
California
Burbank
Automobile Efficiency Contest Report
In a test by the Automobile Club of America sixty five cars started from New York with two gallons of gasoline. Under bad weather conditions fifteen exceeded forty miles and a twelve horse power runabout traveled eighty seven miles to North Haven Conn, weighing 2300 pounds with two passengers and an 800 pound handicap. Five reached beyond fifty miles.
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Automobile Club of America
New York
North Haven
Conn
Roosevelt urges federal meat inspection from hoof to can
President Roosevelt transmits the Neill Reynolds preliminary report on Chicago stockyards urging rapid enactment of the Beveridge amendment for strict federal inspection of all meat and meat products moving in interstate commerce. He notes unsanitary conditions, calls for packer funded inspection, and warns current law leaves shipments of uninspected meat open to abuse.
London Hospitals Reform Scarring With Slant Skin Cuts
Several London hospitals adopt a surgical method that makes post operative skin unions invisible. The technique trims skin slantwise rather than perpendicularly and employs hollow ground scalpels to reduce noticeable scarring.
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London
England
Pensions reach 141 million for Civil War veterans
The United States government paid out 141 million dollars in pensions last year, largely to Civil War veterans. On January 1 the pension roll listed 1,004,196 names.
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United States
Perkins Cleared of Criminal Intent in Campaign Gift
The New York appellate division ruled Friday that George W Perkins did not have criminal intent in contributing 44000 to the Republican campaign fund for New York Life Insurance Company. The ruling upheld the district attorney’s position, reversed Justice Greenbaum, and the case proceeds to the Court of Appeals.
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New York Supreme Court
George W Perkins
Republican Campaign Fund
New York Life Insurance Company
Perkins
Jerome
Justice Greenbaum
Court of Appeals
President urges Beveridge amendment to fix stockyards’ conditions
The President calls for interstate commerce safeguards and full meat inspection at all stages. He criticizes Chicago stockyards as revolting and unsafe, says current law cannot ensure cleanliness, and warns that without inspected labels on canned products the law could be defeated by inadequate funding.
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Senate
House of Representatives
James Bronson Reynolds
Charles P. Neill
Chicago
Congress
Bureau of Animal Industry
Department of Agriculture
Bureau
Reynolds and Neill
Messrs. Reynolds and
Neill
Autograph bid for relief in New York item
A list of brief items notes Roosevelt autograph bringing 15 dollars in New York for San Francisco sufferers. It mentions the Italian consul G Fara Forni moving to Philadelphia, Marcus M Marks named president of the National Clothiers Association with L H Kohn as VP, and Chancellor Von Bulow vacationing on Nordeney. Also Silas McBee met King Victor Emmanuel to discuss church state relations, H J Crocker awarded for Hawaiian stamps in London, and Drake University’s 25th anniversary set for June 14 with T P Shonts as chief speaker.
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Roosevelt
New York
San Francisco
New Orleans
G. Fara-Forni
Philadelphia
National Clothiers’ Association
Marcus M. Marks
L. H. Kohn
Chicago
Chancellor von Bulow Baa
Berlin
Nordeney
Germany
Victor Emmanuel
Silas McBee
Churchman of
Italy
H. J. Crocker
London
T. P. Shonts
Isthmian Canal Commission
Drake University
Des Moines
Iowa
Congressional proceedings recount railroad rate and statehood debates
The report covers the House and Senate actions on the railroad rate bill, Panama Canal supply issues, Niagara River control, Blackfeet lands, and various public bills. It notes adjournments, deaths of Senator Gorman, and conference reports while detailing naturalization, naval funds, and district needs.
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Reed Smoot
Panama Canal
United States
Murphy
Committee On Military Arts
Senate
Gorman
House
Niagara River
Niagara Falls
Port Arthur
Texas
United States District Court For
China
Blackfeet Indian Reservation
Montana
Lake Michigan
Lake County
Indiana
Mann
Congress
Brundage
Ark
Executive Department
Minor Morris Case
Grosvenor
Ohio
Morgan
Isle of Pines
Hopkins
District of Columbia
Keifer
Alaska
National Capital Notes Conspiracy Case and Commerce Inquiry
Ex State Senator G E Green of New York and W D Doreman are on trial in Washington charged with conspiracy to defraud the government postal service. Representative Gardner of Texas introduces a resolution directing the Secretary of Commerce and Labor to determine if iron and steel prices differ between domestic and foreign markets and whether United States Steel Corporation owns or controls other firms in violation of the Sherman anti trust law.
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National Capital Notes
G. E. Green
New York
W D Doreman
Washington
Government Postal Service
Gardner
Texas
Secretary of Commerce and Labor
United States Steel Corporation
Peruna Helps Kidney and Bladder Troubles Says Testimony
Read statements from Mrs Geo H Simser of Grant Ontario and a Kentucky schooled patient about relief after using Peruana and Manalin for years of kidney trouble. The letters claim improved health, credit Peruna for cure, and urge others to try the remedy as support for kidney function and toxin removal.
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B. Fizer
Sterling
eGeo
H. Simser
Grant
Ontario
Con
Peruna
Manalin
Paderewski Dismissal French Bellboy Rescinded
Rosamond Johnson of Cole and Johnson once worked as a bellboy at Young's Hotel in Boston. He played Paderewski's Minuet for the pianist who, after learning the boy intended no insult, faced his manager with the case. Paderewski then ordered the bellboy reinstated after the manager had him discharged.
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Paderewski
Rosamond Johnson
Cole and Johnson
Young’s
Boston
Young Johnson
Paaderewski
Ind
Johnson
Success Magazine
Ways and Means Bill Debate Referenced in Puck Quip
A short quip from Puck contrasts legislative action with graft and checks. The dialogue notes the bill introduced in the Legislature and characterizes grafters as reckless before this point.
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Puck
Building food to bring the babies around
A Colorado mother recalls her ill son who improved after feeding him Grape-Nuts and milk in Kansas City. She credits Grape-Nuts with rebuilding strength, then feeding it to her daughter as well. The ad promotes Grape-Nuts and cream as nourishing, citing brain and nerve benefits and directs readers to look in prigs for The Road to Wellville.
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Colorado
Kansas City
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
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