Foresty bureau planned to advance domestic farming gains
Secretary Hitchcock announced a plan to organize a forestry bureau in the interior department to reforest the rapidly dwindling woodlands, aiming for Germany like success. Secretary Wilson described progress in tobacco, wheat, macaroni wheat, rice, and beet sugar expansion driven by domestic production and new technology. Eastern capital funds beet mills and irrigation boosts in the arid west, with Arkansas valley seeing $1,000,000 in factory construction.
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Washington
Hitchcock
Interior Department
Germany
Wilson
United States
Tropics
Porto Rico
Hawaii
Philippines
Agricultural Department
Japan
Gulf Coast
Utah
Central Station
Arkansas Valley
Warrant Request Denied in Bank Probe as Evidence Lags
United States Commissioner Shields ruled the evidence from applicants seeking warrants against Seventh National Bank officers was insufficient. The complaint involved a check for 800000 drawn on the Seventh National Bank to National Park Bank. Attorneys were given time to submit more evidence. In Pittsburgh, wage-scale talks failed between Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers and three steel firms. President Shaffer ordered a strike affecting all union sheet mills and about 20000 skilled workers.
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New York
United States
Shields
Seventh National Bank
Marquand & Co
National Park Bank
Pittsburg
Amalgamated Association of Tron, Steel and Tin Workers
American Sheet Steel Company
American Steel Hoop Company
Shaffer
Amalgamated Association
Body Found Hanged From Tree in Floral Park
The body of Samuel Turner, a black physician, was found early this morning suspended from the topmost branch of a tall tree in Floral Park. Authorities faced great difficulty in lowering the body as it hung about 50 feet above the ground. The case is under investigation.
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Louisville
Samuel Turner
Floral Park
Train wrecking suspected in Atlantic Express crash near Greensburg
In Pittsburg on June 20 the Atlantic Express derailed two miles east of Green ey Pennsylvania after Turner complained of heat and said he meant to move. Three passengers were injured but not seriously, and a searching investigation was ordered into possible deliberate wrecking.
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Turner
Pittsburg
Atlantic
Pennsylvania Railroad
Greeney
Tornado Lashes Minnesota Wisconsin Districts Causes Heavy Losses
Heavy storms in Minnesota and Wisconsin cause extensive damage with four inch rainfall. No lives lost in the main tornado near New Richmond Wisconsin though farms lose buildings livestock and machinery. Star Prairie Hector Island and Montevideo report crop and property losses. hail and lightning damage noted in Los Angeles.
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St. Paul
New Richmond
Wis
Star Prairie
Hector
Minn
Bi Island
Montivideo
Fought His Way Out Price Kills Two Men in Mob
Peter Price, a Negro accused of insulting a lady, fought cornering mobs in Sager West Virginia. He killed George Hooks and F M McGraw and seriously cut Charles Davis before leaping from a saloon room window. Captured, he is jailed at Welch to avoid mob justice. Hooks and McGraw were noted locals. Fort Worth reports wheat yields improving near Kingfisher Oklahoma Territory. Oats in southern Oklahoma are described as failing.
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Panther
W. Va
Peter Price
Price
George Hooks
F. M. McGraw
Charles Davis
Sager
Here
Hooks
McGraw
Davis
Welch
Fort Worth
Tex
8. B. Hovey
Chicago, Rock Island and Texas Railway Company
Oklahoma
Kingfisher
O. T
Congress seeks study of deadly Panhandle plant on livestock
Congressman Stephens urged Secretary Wilson to send a competent official to the Panhandle of Texas to study a foot plant harming horses and cattle. Dr. Salmons promised full investigation and a chemical analysis to seek a remedy for loco poison, which he has not yet antidoted.
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Washington
Stephens
Wilson
Department
Panhandle
Texas
Salmons
Gomper s Critical After Injury at Home
Samuel Gompers president of the American Federation of Labor lies dangerously ill at his Washington home with concussion of the brain and possible skull fracture. Doctors say the condition is critical but recovery is likely, following an injury when he alighted from a car during a family outing with his two children.
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Washington
Samuel Gompers
American Federation of Labor
Drowning of Clarke Family Near Newberne Waterworks
Hon. W. B. Clarke and his two daughters Mary 12 Frances 8 and George B Bryan 10 drowned when their boat swamped while row ing opposite the waterworks. Clarke’s son William Jr. was saved, clinging to the boat until rescue.
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Newberne
N. C
W. B. Clarke
Mary B
Frances D
George B. Bryan
Mr. Clarke
William Jr
Coronation of King Picard Proclaimed in London
Royal proclamation announcing the coronation of King Picard will be issued in June at St James Palace Temple Bar and the Royal Exchange. The proclamation was read amid medieval pageantry signaling the accession of the king.
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London
Picard
St. James Palace
Temple Bar
Royal Exchange
Van Buren Man Rayburn Found Not Guilty in Murder Retrial
Van Buren Ark June 29 Love Rayburn declared not guilty by jury in second trial for the murder of Almond Carpenter last November. First trial produced a hanging sentence but the supreme court reversed the verdict.
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van Buren
Ark
Love Rayburn
Almond Carpenter
Rayburn
Supreme Court
For Sale 300 Acres Adjoining A and M College Road
Property listing in Bryan describing a 300 acre tract adjoining the A and M College road. Highlights include excellent hill land, prime location, proximity to two major railroads, and anticipated regional growth with a new cotton factory and other developments expected to raise value. Listed by Gaviett.
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A. and M. College Road
Bryan
the College
New Railroad
Arceline Convent
Free Will Baptist College
Centre
Texas Fair
Gaviett
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Royal Blend Tea
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Artive Monnday
Blank
Howell Bros
iMeeder & Chatham
Dixie Bar
James & Castles
Bryan Steam Laundry
A. E. Worley
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Los Angeles
Loco
Gompers
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Bryan Grocery CO
King Edward
Bluefield
Landgraff
Norfolk and Western Road
Battle Ax Hlour
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