Two-Cent Fare Bills Tally Across States
A compilation of brief notices reports Indiana Senate passage of the Bland bill for a 2-cent railroad fare with no extra charges for not buying tickets. Alabama Senate also advances a 2 12 cent passenger fare. Other items note a prohibition enforcement meeting in Paris Texas and a featured glass cup in Dresden linked to a glass disease study.
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Indianapolis
Indiana Senate
Indiana
Montgomery
Ala
Senate
Alabama
House
A Big Calculation In Water
The article estimates the Earth’s water surface at 145 million square miles with an average depth of 12,000 feet containing at least 3.27 quadrillion tons. It notes rivers flow enough to cover 36 cubic miles daily and calculates that if oceans dried, it would take about 3,500 years to refill the basins at current river flow rates.
House panel tables Sims resolution on Brownsville incident
Washington February 1 1939 a subcommittee of the military affairs committee narrowly laid on the table a resolution by Representative Sims Tennessee praising the presidents handling of the Brownsville Texas shooting incident involving Black soldiers. Senators Clapping and Stone named to investigate Indian affairs under a recent senate resolution.
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Washington
Subcommittee of Military Affairs Committee
The
House
Sims
Tennessee
Brownsville
Tex
Clapping and
Stone
Senate Committee On Indian Affairs
Senate
Tolstoi Improving in Yasin Report and Jackson Education Note
Advices from Yasin in Tula province say Count Tolstoi is steadily improving. The piece on Andrew Jackson recounts his early schooling from a field school to higher academy and his pride in reading the Declaration of Independence aloud in Waxhaws. Caustic scene on a streetcar ends with a sharp quip by a mother about her crying baby.
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Tolstoi
St. Petersburg
Yasin
Tula
Count Tolstoi
Andrew Jackson
Old Field School
Branch
David Humphreys
Waxhaw Settlement
Tarleton
Carolinas
Waxhaws
Thomas E. Watson
Watson
Jeffersonian Magazine
Rayner Attacks Roosevelt Over Usurpation of Power
Senator Rayner of Maryland criticizes President Roosevelt for expanding federal power and intruding into state and judicial affairs. He cites the Santo Domingo treaty, the meat packers case, execution notes to Massachusetts, the sea level canal, and Admiral Schley. Senate replies from Lodge and Carmack touch on biographies and government ownership debates. The piece notes Ralph Tyler, a Columbus Negro, under consideration for Cincinnati customs receiver and mentions Galveston training for the Washington league.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Ator Rayner
Maryland
Senate
Root
Rayner
Santo Domingo
Humphrey
Meat Packers
Illinois
Gov. Guild
Massachusetts
Charles L. Tucker
Mr. Rayner
Congress
Nenius
Schley
Admiral Schley
Lodge
Mr. Bryan
Carmack
Bryan
White House
Ralph Tyler
Columbus
Cincinnati
Thaw Trial Resumes Amid Jury Panel Shuffle in New York
Justice Fitzgerald oversees a crowded New York courtroom as the Thaw trial resumes with a new 109 member fourth jury panel and about sixty from the previous day. Evelyn Nesbit Thaw and May MacKenzie arrive as jurors are called, while District Attorney Jerome and others consult at the judge's desk amid talks of potential juror excusal.
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Justice Fitzgerald
Farmer's Desk
New York
Rgg
Talesmen
Thaw
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw
May MacKenzie
Clerk Penny
Countess of
Yarmouth
George L. Carnegie
Josiah Thaw
Jerome
Garvan
Prohibitionists Back Rose Amendment For Popular Vote
In Guthrie on February 1 prohibitionists, after the majority committee report was beaten, joined opponents to back the Rose amendment to submit the prohibition question to the state at large. The roll call was 89 for substitute and 15 against. The convention awaits a fight over the exact wording of the submission. Murray spoke on the South Carolina dispensary system and a Williams resolution protesting a Frisco merger in Indian Territory was adopted.
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Guthrie
Murray
South Carolina
Williams
Congress
Indian Territory
Government Ownership Debate At San Francisco Luncheon
Interstate Commerce Commissioner F K Lane told Chamber of Commerce directors that federal rail government ownership is unlikely soon. Lane cited political entanglements and urged railroads to stay out of politics while J C Stubbs defended railroads and argued enforcement of laws against all competitors.
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Lane
J. C. Stubbs
San Francisco
San Francisco Chamber of Commerce
Interstate Commerce
F. K. Lane
William Jenktnings Bryan
United States
Interstate Commerce Commission
Railroads
Congress
Solomon Islands Visibly Altered by Severe Quake
San Francisco reports Governor C H Moore arriving from Samoa brought news of a fearsome Solomon Islands earthquake that changed the islands' appearance. Seismographs at Apia recorded minutes long shocks, the worst ever known, with no loss of life reported.
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Solomon Islands
San Francisco
C. H. Moore
Oceanic Steamship Company
Sierra
Samoa
South Seas
Apia
Cleveland President Elected Chairman of Life Insurance Heads
Hon. Grover Cleveland was elected chairman of the Association of Life Insurance Presidents at a New York meeting on Thursday. The election was unanimous and Cleveland accepted the position. Also reported, Hon. Tom G. Smith died at Cash Greenville Texas aged eighty one. he served in the Seventeenth Legislature and was a high degree Mason and ex Confederate.
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New York
Grover Cleveland
Association of Life Insurance Presidents
Cleveland
Tom G. Smith
Greenville
Tex
Cash
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Higgs & Haygoods
Wilson Grain & Coal CO
W. C. Fountain
Crown and Bridge Work
Burt Norwood
Stor
J. W. Batts
Taliaferr Building
Court House
Brazos County
Law and Order League
Paris
Museum of Art
Dresden
Germany
Berlin
Jim
Galveston
Washington Slube
American Baseball League
Wayner
John Wan
John Wittma
Haswell’s Book Store
City National Bank
Smith Building
Southwestern Life Insurance Co
Dallas
TEXAB
Texas
Joe B. Reed
Jor B.reed
Talexas
S. H. Franklin
Parsons
Zinati Block
L. Rizzotto
Star Rran
Caddo Fertilizer Compaq
Shreveport
Louisiana
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