World At Aran Interesting Items From All Parts of the World
The private physician for William Rockefeller testified that his patient could not appear before the Money Trust committee. The government engraving and printing bureau prints twelve million par cels post stamps daily and cannot meet demand. The Senate again refused to confirm any of 1500 Taft appointments. The House Indian Affairs panel finished its Osage oil leases inquiry with Secretary Fisher asserting royalties were insufficient to the Indians. The inaugural committee voted to omit the ball for Wilsons inauguration, a first since Madison. House money trust hearings will end due to limited bank access.
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William Rockefeller
House Money Trust Committee
Government Bureau of Engraving and Printing
Senate
Taft
House Indian “Affairs Committee
Osage
Uncle Sam Oil Company
Fisher
Washington
Wilson
Madison
House
Money Trust
Osage Nation rejects blanket lease for oil lands at Pawhuska
Osage tribal meeting in Pawhuska repudiates a proposed blanket lease covering about 800000 acres of Osage oil and gas lands. Secretary Fisher’s stance is sustained by near unanimous vote.
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Pawhuska
Fisher
School Board of
Des Moines
Equitable Powder Company
Fort Smith
Ark
Willie Patterson
Helen Gould
Tarrytown
N. Y
Bowery Mission
New York City
Peter Hart
Chicago
Southern Railway
Riverside
Ala
Kansas City
Rock Island
Allerton
Enid
Larned
Kan
Packers’ Combine
Missouri Supreme Court
Combine
Multiple Crime and Local Incidents Dominate Briefs
A wide range of items fills the page including smuggling arrests in New York and Illinois, a Kansas railroad accident near Emporia, a Brilgin Illinois parcel post inquiry, indictments of a Kansas City worker, and a Maine congressman's son tied to a large fraud. Also noted are a Chicago city hall theft, a mysterious shooting in Emporia, record low New York death rate, an undertaker’s quizzical request, Ute Indians leaving their reservation, and a mass mining accident in Leavenworth.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nathan Green
New York
Holland
Pitts
Brilgin
Washington
Bert Brown
W. J. McCain
Kansas City
Indianapolis
O R Jackson
Olathe
Kan
Harry M. Dingley
Dingley
Maine
Jackson
Chicago
Ola Allen
Emporia
Kaw
Harris Brigham
Ulysses
Colorado
Big Rabbit
Leavenworth
Flood Claims Hundreds of Pilgrims Near Mecca
A flood drowned 350 Moham medan pilgrims en route to Mecca. Volcanic eruption in Colima Mexico driven inhabitants to flee. Poison gases killed cattle and animals.与 Adiranople cession and Balkan war tensions loom in near east. London thieves failed to steal 400000 in pearls from Mark Rubin.
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Mecca
Adrianople
Near East
Colima
Mexico
Admiral von Hellmann
Germany
Berlin
Raymond Poincare
France
Chamber of Deputies
Senate
Ts. Lieut.Origene
Argentina
Buenos Aires
Turkey
Aegean Islands
Balkan
London
Mark Rubin
Walter Johnson Purchases Hutchinson Gazette Business Role
Walter Johnson a former Topeka and Kansas City newspaper man buys a controlling stake in the Hutchinson Gazette and will serve as its business manager. Clark N. Bateman of Kansas City is named manager of the Methodist Episcopal printing plant in Madras India. Senator Knute Nelson is reelected to the U S Senate by Minnesota's legislature. Wilson will not resign as New Jersey governor before March 3. George W Norris Progressive winner of Nebraska U S Senate by the state legislature. Francis Blake inventor of the Blake telephone transmitter is dead. Percy Silvers of Topeka surmised as a local note.
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United States
Nebraska
Francis Blake
Blake
Hewes
Percy
Topeka
Missouri Lawmakers Flood Capitol with Bills in Session
In Missouri the two houses opened a flood of bills with 208 House introductions and 150 Senate proposals. Measures seek wage salaries for officials, education funding, labor union rules, clairvoyance bans, and stricter liquor controls. Several high profile items target railroads, public utilities, taxes, school funding, and new state boards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jefferson City
Missouri Assembly
House
Senate
Swearingen
Lutes
Whittaker
Hickory
Boone
Mississippi
Orr
Busby
Carroll
Wilson
Allee
Hawkins
Greene
McClintic
Senator Cassidy
Beaven
Carter
E. L. Moore
Barton County
McRoberts
Lewis County
Moore
Barton
Taylor
Wright
Fugate
Adair
Missouri
Dugan
Boyd
Monroe
McGrath
St. Louis
Public‘ Service ‘Utilities
State Dairy
Service
Commission
State Auditing Board of
Secretary of State
Optoemetrical Board
State Drainage ‘Department
State Education Commission
Imagration Board
Public Service Utilities Commission
Pardons Board
Senate to Probe Fire Insurance Rates Investigation Ordered
The senate adopted a resolution to investigate fire insurance rate plans and will appoint a three member committee to act with a corresponding House committee. The measures also involve selection procedures and reference to state governance steps.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Whitledge
Senate
House
Kansas City legislator proposes transfer of duties to state seat commission
Le R. Wilson of Platte introduced a bill to move duties currently held by the capitol commission to the permanent seat of government commission. The measure would place the governor auditor attorney general and secretary of state on the new commission. The bill targets the April 19 1913 key date and seeks to shift powers accordingly.
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le R. Wilson
Platte
State Capitol Commission
Gas price rise discussed by Kansas City officials
Kansas City officials and the Kansas Utilities Commission met to resolve gas price increases. A report by W T Newman shows higher delivery costs and reduced natural gas production, while engineers’ reports differ and will be submitted for commission review.
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Topeka
John ©. Pollock
Kan‘sas
State, Utilities Commission
W.T. Newman
Kansas Utilities Commission
Kansas
C.C. Witt
Newman
Aled
Fatal Collapse Ties Store and Farm Goods Building
Eight people died and fifteen were injured when the walls of a farming implement firm building collapsed into a crowded department store in McKinney Texas. Fire followed the ruin as rescuers halted work overnight, fearing a larger death toll. Clerks and shoppers fled into the street as the two structures buckled under heavy stock.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McKinley
Texas
Stamp Thefts Involving Brokers And Employees Revealed
Postoffice inspectors disclose vast illegal traffic in stolen postage stamps worth millions. Investigations reported to Postmaster General Hitchock show brokers and confidential employees in large firms bought stolen stamps from burglars and embezzlers and resold them below face value.
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Washington
D.C
Postoffice
Hitchcock
United States
Thei
Des Moines School Board Purchases Towels for Pupils
Des Moines public schools purchase 4 160 000 towels to furnish each child with a set of individual towels under the new ordinance. The order reflects a district wide effort to implement the towel program for all pupils.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
School Board of
Turkish diplomat Nazim Pasha killed in Constantinople
Nazim Pasha, former minister of war and Turkish army commander, was shot by Enver Bey and Talaat Bey of the Young Turk faction after a coup. He had resigned with the cabinet and was in his Sub-Hegem apartments as crowds jeered the deposed diplomats. Enver and Talaat moved among hundreds in the streets.
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Constantinople
Nazim Pasha
Idillea
Enver Bey
Talaat Bey
Young Turk Party
Enver
Talaat
Levee Breach Opens Gap at Big Lake Missouri Side
A four hundred foot gap in the Big Lake levee on the Missouri side allows water to pour into the Fish Lake Basin area near Mississippi county.
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Lako
Ill
Big Lake
Missouri
Mississippi
Fish Lake
Mount Venuivius Observatory Reports Major Landslide
Naples dispatch says the Mount Venuivius Observatory director notes an extensive landslide on the crater’s upper ridge. The western ridge portion collapsed as ejecta threaten surrounding areas.
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Coe
Naples
Mount Venuivius
Feauueniten Ag
Mystery surrounds Haworth youth Ebby White death
Ebby White, 18, of Haworth Okla was found dead with a bullet through the heart in her Fort Smith Arkansas area home. The incident is treated as a possible self inflicted shooting in a mysterious case drawing local inquiry.
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Oklahoma
Fort. Smith
Ark
Ebby Whiteman
Haworth
Farmer's Wife Magazine Testimony on Pinkham's Compound
Westwood Maryland resident Mrs Joan F Chards reports relief from monthly pains back and right side inflammation after using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound. She urges other suffering women to write for confidential advice and reader support.
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Joan F. Chards
Westwood
Maryland
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lydia E.pinkham
Emerald Mines of Muzo Colombia Describe 16th Century Found
The article details the Muzo emerald mines in Boyaca Colombia, mined since 1558. It notes Spanish history, later English joint control with the government, and mining by Indian workers using steel bars to dig calcite veins. Emeralds are sorted into fifteen graded categories by color and transparency.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Republic of Colombia
Muzo
Boyaca
Bogota
Nice Distinction About Patriotism Through Time
Quote contrasts patriotism across eras with a father and son exchange. It traces a patriot from Washington’s barefoot winter resolve to modern civic duty through employment, illustrating evolving definitions of service to country.
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George Washington
The Process and the Silent Truths in Love
The text contrasts a bankrupt heart with supplementary proceedings of truth. It notes blame shifting to those who seek candid opinions. It hints at a detective figure who peers honestly, yet fails to uncover all.
A Good Breakfast From Grape-Nuts
A reader praises Grape-Nuts for restoring his wife’s health after years of poor digestion. He describes four weeks of use delivering a strong breakfast with milk, noting the food’s delicious nourishment and the overall improvement in well being. Name given.
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Aran
Foreign Affairs
State Assembly
Swhers
Christian County
Swiers
Armstrong
Oliver
Dholtan
Jackson County
Wudge ~Pollock
Ohio
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