National and World Briefs From Washington and Beyond
A Rockefeller Foundation bill aims to pool oil wealth for charity. Senate approves $35 million in indebtedness for irrigation. Oregon opens 51 200 acres under enlarged homestead. Flathead opening moved to May. Naval bill totals 130 million for construction and maintenance. Two 27 000 ton battleships and diversets planned. overall naval construction may reach 26 million. Supreme Court resumes. tobacco case pending. Meyer touts 34 000 ton battleship with 12 14 inch guns. Meat packers to be investigated for high prices and cold storage impact. Alaska land fraud testimony alleges pressure on Taft to block Garfield. Rivers and harbors: St Joseph appropriations cut from 150 000 to 75 000. Dreadnaught class battleships of at least 28 000 tons proposed.
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National Capital
Senate
Rockefeller Foundation
Oregon
Secretary of the Interior
Flathead
Idaho
Montana
Naval
House Committee On Naval Affairs
Naval Committee
Navy
Congress
Supreme Court
Washington
Meyer
Horace T. Jones
Land Department
Ballinger
Alaska
Taft
James R. Garfield
Stone
St. Joseph
Prosecutor seeks grand jury access to directors minutes
Hudson County New Jersey prosecutor Garven has petitioned the state supreme court to compel production of directors meeting minutes before the grand jury. Floods and snowslides block transcontinental railroad lines and lands at Yuma reclaimation district open to entry for 173 farms of 40 acres each. The Wakefield Kansas acetylene plant explosion killed one, damaged most buildings, light seen 15 miles away.
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Garven
Hudson County
New Jersey
State Supreme Court
Grand Jury
Santa Fe
Hereford
Wakefield
Kan
Yuma Reclamation District
Los Angeles
Cal
Department of Superintendence
National Teachers’ Association
Indianapolis
Ind
Cherryvale
Independence
Mace
Idaho
Burke
Kansas City
Mutual
United States
Wright Brothers
Paulhan
State board reports cattle and hogs decline and assets rise
The Oklahoma state board of agriculture notes cattle at 84.5 percent and hogs at 81.3 percent of last year. County assessor returns show Missouri property value up by 103,281,610. C C Calhoun wins bullion claims of Spanish American volunteers totaling about 100,000. Illinois considers income tax constitutional amendment. Floods displace 2,000 in Ohio. Arkansas diamond mine test corporation formed. Iowa Retail Hardware convention held in Des Moines. Philadelphia delegates call 100,000 for streetcar strike support. Corporations must file earnings under new federal tax law or face fines up to 10,000. Jersey City warrants issued for conspiracy in restraint of trade against 21 directors of beef trust. Kansas wheat prospects at 80 percent of average. World Federation League seeks US help to form United States of the World for disarmament. 3,000 threshermen expected at Wichita meeting. New Jersey grand jury indicts National Packing Co and 21 directors for conspiracy. Miners and operators stake. national convention in April. Cruiser New York to lead Asiatic squadron. Shawnee County Kansas denies new trial in insurance trust case. appeal planned. A New York scientist says life expectancy should be 200 years. Byron E. Church arrested in Kansas City amid bank irregularities near 100,000.
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Oklahoma State Board of Agriculture
Asdéséors
Missouri
C. C. Calhoun
Hadley
Illinois
Ohio
Arkansas
Iowa Retail Hardware Association
Des Moines
Philadelphia
Collector of
Internal Revenue
Jersey City
Beef Trust
World Federation League
Congress
United States of the World
Wichita
Kaw
New Jersey
National Packing Company
Kansas City
St. Louis
Chicago
New York
District Court
Shawnee County
Kansas
Insurance Trust
Supreme Court
Byron E. Church
Bank of
Russia warns on China plans in Manchuria war fears
Russia fears China intends to drive czarist subjects from Manchuria and anticipates war as the consequence.
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Russia
China
Manchuria
Wealth hidden in Burlington woman's home worth 100000
Elizabeth Hays aged 86 died suddenly in Burlington New Jersey and was found to have concealed gold and currency totaling 100000 at her home. The report notes her poverty and the large hidden estate discovered.
New stomach theory draws public and doctors to Cooper campaign
L T Cooper promotes a New Discovery claiming stomach health governs overall health and that his medicine rejuvenates the stomach in 90 days. Campaigns in major cities draw thousands, with Chicago and Boston residents praising relief from chronic indigestion, pain, and loss of appetite. Cooper’s medicine is sold through druggists nationwide.
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L. T. Cooper
Mr. Cooper
Cooper
Chicago
Boston
H. B. Mack
State Street
Edwin F. Morse
Oakley Street
Dorchester
Cooper Medicine Co
Dayton, Ohio
Corbett Praises Jeffries Style In Mauretania Smoking Room
James J. Corbett in the Mauretania smoking room extolled Jim Jeffries style as neat and quick, likening it to a child’s remark to a minister about an omitted amen during a long call. The quip draws on a humorous image to capture Jeffries’ concise boxing rhetoric.
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James J. Corbett
Mauretania
Jim Jeffries
Crosses Seen as Means to Selflessness, Fenelon Quote
A reflective line credits Fenelon: crosses are not useful in themselves but aid surrender and forgetting self for spiritual focus.
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Fenelon
United States Court Blocks Elevator Charge Order
In Kansas City a circuit court permanently enjoins the Interstate Commerce Commission from enforcing its order prohibiting railroad companies from paying elevator firms for grain elevating and transfer. Peavy & Co. led elevator interests in the suit. the decision by Judge Walter H. Sanford was concurred by Judges Hook and Adams. The commission’s May 1 effective date is impacted and an appeal is expected.
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Kansas City
United States
Interstate Commerce Commission
Peavy & Co
Walter H. Sanford
W. C. Hook
Elmer B. Adams
Explosion at Treadwell mines in Alaska kills many
Sixty miners were blown to fragments and about 100 injured by a powder magazine explosion in the Mexican shaft at the Treadwell mines near Juneau Alaska. The blast trapped workers at the 1100 foot level with bodies and wreckage described in harrowing terms as rescuers arrived.
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Treadwell
Juneau
Alaska
Eczema Sufferer Tells Of Cure By Cuticura Remedies
Mrs Alfie Elson of Battle Creek Michigan describes a nine year cure from eczema after using Cuticura Soap Ointment and Resolvent. She recalls severe itching and sores, years of illness, and relief following the first bath and subsequent treatments.
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Alfie Elson
Inn Road
Battle Creek
Mich
Hundredth wedding anniversary in Hungarian village
In Isonbalgi Hungary Anton Szarthmann and his wife Marie celebrated 100 years of marriage. They have 250 descendants with over half gathering for the anniversary. The husband is 120 and the wife 116, and they have lived their entire lives in the same village.
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Vienna
Isonbalgi
Hungary
Anton Szarthmann
Marie
Talkative Women. Hewitt and Jewett Exchange Quips
A witty exchange on conversation humor between Hewitt and Jewett with remarks about talkative spouses. The dialogue contrasts men who talk yet express little and wives who mirror the sentiment in sharp, humorous lines.
Rheumatism Cured in a Day by Detchon’s Relief
Dr Detchon’s Relief for Rheumatism claims rapid cure in 1 to 3 days. It asserts it removes the cause and the disease disappears quickly with the first dose providing great benefit. Sold by tic druggists.
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Detchon
Tic Druggists
Quip on Saints Wrestling with the Devil and Bail
A curling aphorism compares saintly restraint to wrestling with the devil, suggesting better effort in wrestling with a bail for an hour or two. The old line blends religious imagery with legal worry about bail.
Western Ice Manufacturers Convene in Kansas City
The annual convention of the Western Association of Ice Manufacturers met at the Coates house in Kansas City with over 200 delegates from Missouri Kansas Iowa Nebraska Colorado New Mexico and Oklahoma. Frank Riddle of Iola Kansas serves as president.
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Kansas City
Western Association of Ice Manufacturers
Coates House
Missouri
Kansas
Iowa
Nebraska
Colorado
New Mexico
Oklahoma
Frank Riddle
Iola
Kan
Ex Kansan Dead in Oklahoma Judge Finley Dies at 70
Hobart Oklahoma Judge Harris Finley aged 70 died at his home from Brights disease. Finley, a former prominent Kansas politician, was Kiowa county Oklahoma’s first probate judge after moving from Topeka.
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Oklahoma
Harris Finley
Topeka
Hobart
Okla
Kansas
Bright
Finley
Kiowa County
Senate Favors Subsidy Bill For Mail Steamship Lines
The Gallinger Mail Pay bill to establish mail steamship lines between the United States and South America the Philippines Japan China and Australia was ordered favorably reported to the senate.
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Washington, D. C
Gallinger Mail
United States
South America
Philippines
Japan
China
Australia
Senate
Mrs Grover Cleveland in Paris guest at Baldwin home
Mrs Grover Cleveland is spending a few days in Paris as a guest at the home of Prof and Mrs Mark Baldwin.
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Grover Cleveland
Paris
France
Mark Baldwin
Firemen of Southern Pacific Vote to Strike
San Francisco firemen at a meeting vote to strike on April 1 if the company does not grant a ten percent wage increase. The demand was previously submitted and rejected.
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San Francisco
Cal
Southern Pacific
More Cherry Mine Bodies Found
Peoria reports fifty or sixty bodies found huddled at the north entrance of the St. Paul mine in Cherry Illinois. Inspector Richard Newsam of Peoria confirmed the discovery.
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Cherry Mine
Peoria
Ill
St. Paul
Cherry, Ill
Richard Newsam
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N. J
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N. Y
Conger
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Swope
Jordan
John Pierre Aubrey
Cutler Township
Franklin County
Roosevelt
Africa
Nile
Khartoum
State of Kansas
Jose Domingo Obaldia
Republic of Fanama
John Hodge
Haskell County
Quinton
Herbert Zimmerman
Landis
Sims
James A. Patten
Board of Trade
United States Court
Eczema
Association
Leos
Maaee
Baby Saneee
Sgead
Nealt
Thea Manufarturere
Seec
Dairy Association CO
Lyndonville, Vt
Colo
Libral Commission
Artesian Land CO
Third
Nat'l Bank
Brown
John I. Brown & Son
Mass
Mrecycsusey Thompson
California Fig Syrup CO
Resinol Chemical Company
Baltimore
Geo. A. Laney
Montreal
Canada
Spohn
Pametactarern
Medical CO
Goshen, Ind
U.S. A
Theodor C. Peltzer
Seocarritt Bidg
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