Nation's political notes and world views in brief
Summary of the Daily Eagle items: State Democratic Chairman Caden discusses a constitutional amendment petition. House coinage committee favors restoring In God We Trust on coins. Mississippi liquor laws tested. reform falls short constitutionally. Japanese minister Takahira on the unlikelihood of war. Oklahoma blocks cracked teacups in hospitality venues. large bedsheets required. Southern Cotton Growers denounce bucket shops and futures trading. Peru proclaims Washington's Birthday and fleet holiday. Lyman J. Gage rebukes Aldrich bill. favors Fowler outline. Gov. B B Brooks of Wyoming rose from farmhand to ranch owner of 100000 acres.
Clemmency Plea For Hargis Sparks Breathitt County Debate
Seventy five Breathitt county residents appeal for executive clemency for young Hargis who killed his father arguing he was raised in a godless community. They claim such communities reflect broader Kentucky religious tensions and urge Christian citizens to respond to the crisis.
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Breathitt County
Hargis
Kentucky
Commonwealth
Fertilizer tests on Irish potato crop in Texas
Bulletin No. 101 reports four year results from Troupe Texas starting 1903 with Irish potato trials. Nitrogen consistently boosts yields, while acid phosphate and combinations with nitrogen show gains. Potash yields are modest and sometimes negative, but improve fruit and vegetable keeping quality. A mixed nitrogen and phosphate with cotton seed meal or nitrate of soda is recommended, with practical formulas for sandy East Texas soils.
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Texas Agricultural Experiment Stations
W. S. Hotchkiss
E. J. Kyle
Troupe
Texas
College Station
News Notes in Brief
Thousands of dogs exhibit at the twenty fourth annual New England Kennel Club show in Boston. The Pennsylvania Y M C A holds its fortieth annual convention at Connellsville. Iowa Cement Users report nearly two million dollars yearly in cement products. Young naval sponsors organize after christening warships. Manitoba dairymen conclude two day session at Winnipeg A and M College. Ambassador Whitelaw Reid is guest at a Pilgrims banquet. he sails for England Thursday.
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New England Kennel Club
Boston
United States
Canada
Ada
Pennsylvania
Pilgrims of
Delmonico
Ambassador Ried
England
Cotton Receipts At Local Warehouses To Date
The cotton receipts in the article list Lawrence Warehouse at 7434 bales Brick Warehouse at 6252 bales and another warehouse at 12686 bales.
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Lawrence
Stoessel Convicted and Faces Death Penalty
In St. Petersburg on February 20 General Stoessel was found guilty by a court martial of cowardice in connection with the Port Arthur surrender and condemned to death. General Fock was reprimanded while Generals Smirnoff and Reiss were acquitted. the court recommends commuting Stoessel sentence to ten years in a fortress and removal from service.
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Port Arthur
St. Petersburg
Stoessel
Russia
Japan
Smirnoff
Reiss
Improvements Ordered for International and Great Northern
The railroad commission mandates over 1 million dollars in upgrades for the International and Great Northern including the Palestine Houston span and Spring Fort Worth branches. Replacing wood bridges with durable structures, adding seventy five pound rails, and a new Crockett depot are planned. Officials Dailey Leach Enright Price and Eads met state officials in Austin expressing satisfaction.
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Crockett
International and
Great Northern Tral Railway
Dailey
Leach
Enright
Price
Homer Eads
Statehouse
Austin
Fish Won't Comment Until Text of Decision Seen
New York Feb 20 At the office of Stuyvesant Fish it was said that Mr Fish would make no comment on the Illinois Central case until he had seen the text of the decision.
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New York
Stuyvesant Fish
Fish
Ilinois
Notice of administrator for Lee Stephenson estate
State of Texas Brazos County administrator A P Terrlini announces in the estate of Lee Stephenson deceased that all indebted persons must settle and all claims must be presented at his Nava soda Grimes County Texas residence, February 4 1908.
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State of Texas
County of Brazos
Lee
Lee Stephenson
Brazos County
Texas
A. G. Board
Said County
A. P. Terrlini
House for Rent Near Mrs Proctor Address
Classified note states a house is for rent with contact Mrs C M Proctor at 58 likely street or unit, inviting applications.
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C. M. Proctor
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Wagner
Brandon
the Daily Eagle
Bryan
Carnes & Wallace
Bryan, Texas
Caden
House Committee On Coinage
Mississippi
Takahira
Oklahoma
Southern Cotton Growers Association
Dallas
Washington
Collao
Fomer
Lyman J. Gage
B. B. Brooks
Wyoming
Albany
W. R. Hearst
National Democracy
Aldrich
Andrew Jackson
The
Audubon Society
Red Cross
Grip
Emmel & Maloney
Alty
General Fock
General Stoessel
Southwestern Life Insurance§Co
Tex
Wapte
Joe B. Reed
Friend-In-Need Society
Piris
Nava
Sota
Grimes County
Cavitt’s Drug Store
John Winter
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