The Global Mail Web Behind Uncle Sam’s System
The article extols the vast postal network creating a world spanning mail route. It notes a single letter could traverse routes by rail ship and animal, circumnavigating the globe multiple times, with envelopes marked to baffle deciphering experts, as in a Washington Post Office record.
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JSE United
States
Ita Fourner
New York
Alaska
Californian
Manila
Hong Kong
Singapore
Canton
Toklo
Vindivontok
St. Petersburg
Vienna
London
South Africa
South America
Pabic
South Atlantic
Guhidh
Post Office Department
Washington
St. Nicholae
Farming is a high honor and a true business
The author argues farming should be treated as a profession and the highest form of business. He recalls being mocked for attending an agricultural college, urges farmers to modernize with better methods and machinery, and insists farming sustains society and deserves respect and formal business status.
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E. J. Watershipe
Estes
Sermon on the Sunrise at Mt Constance Peak
The writer describes a sunrise sermon seen from the top of Mt Constance in the Olympic range Washington. The ascent offers a vivid view of Mt Rainier and Cascade silhouettes, with light, color, and vast blue sea below, a daily natural sermon free to all observers.
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Strered
Mt. Rainier
Cascade Range
Mt. Constance
Olympic Range
Washington
Netle Steamboat Landing
Bringon
Hood's Canal
Pield and Stream
Revolution in Chemistry and Atomic Theory Emerges
The essay contrasts astronomy with chemistry, describing atoms as systems of electrons and ions. It notes hydrogen’s simple structure and suggests matter reduces to electricity. It mentions alchemical ideas and speculates on translating lead into gold via electron arrangements. The text also touches Japan’s empire birthday customs and a brief note on venom and historical miscellany.
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Kelvin Ave
Oliver Lodge
The American Queen Across the Atlantic
On a cross Atlantic voyage Captain Powell and Miss Lockhart form a wary bond as she nurses her ailing aunt. Powell recalls past schemes and discovers Margaret Kennedy may be his lost betrothed, prompting a tense, eventual reunion aboard ship.
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Margaret
Kennedy Powell
Powell
Hernies
Particoes
Neaven
Brut
Madge
Iast
Hugh
Largest German beacon lights Helgoland harbor world record
The German government installed a massive lighthouse on Helgoland in the German Ocean. The beacon reportedly has a power equivalent to 30,000,000 candlepower, flashes every one fifth of a second, and can be seen over forty miles in favorable weather.
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Helgoland
Ueber Land and
Meer
Schuckert
France
Nuremberg
Brenehman
Hind
Sea Amiles
West Wight
Bustin
Avira Thant
Ushines
Washington items organize minor events of the week
The Democrat Senate votes on resolutions and discusses appointments and investigations. Roosevelt aides attend ceremonies for John St Proctor. a plan for Franco-American legislative exchanges is floated. a lighthouse project gains support. a pension bill advances. foreign visits and awards are noted amid a broad mix of domestic and international items.
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Senate
cGeus
Roosevelt
Hitelboch
Oftteinia
John St Proctor
Civil Service Commission
Haron &Beck von Sternbucy
Hts
Germany
Emperor Willnug
House
Japanese Diet Dissolved Amid Government Negotiations
The Diet in Tokyo has dissolved after an extraordinary Cabinet meeting. The House of Representatives will be allowed to reconsider but is effectively dissolved, enabling the government to act freely for months without calling a new session before April 5. In St Petersburg discussions continue on Far East affairs and Japan's demands. London reports Russia may accept Japan's Korea terms with Manchuria issues unsettled.
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Japan
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Wiet
St. Petersburg
Russia
Imperial Commission
Far East
Cam
Alexifel
Baron de Rasen
Tupan
London
England
Pekin
Korea
Manchuria
W. J Bryan Accused In Bennett Will Case
Mrs. Philo S. Bennett, through Judge Henry Stoddard, seeks to set aside Mr. Bennett’s will in Superior Court New Haven alleging deceit in the preparation. She argues the letter to Mrs. Bennett misstates arrangements and hides a real bequest to Bryan and his wife, claiming they knew the paper and letter were part of a false bequest.
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New Haven
Conn
Superior Court
Philo S. Bennett
Henry Stoddard
Bryan Hinself
Willem J. Bryan Knesy
Pat
William J. Bryan
Mr. Bennett
Freeman admits theft of jewels from Pacific Express
Charles Freeman, a messenger for Pacific Express, confessed to stealing a package of United States valuables valued at about a hundred from a train between St. Louis and Texarkana. He leaped from the moving train at thirty miles an hour and disposed of most of the jewels in Chicago before capture.
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Messenger
Chicago
Charles Freeman
Atlas Fred Nef
Lavin
Freeman
Pacific Express Company
Na Messenger
St. Louisa
Texarkana
Texas
Securities Recovered After Bank Thefts
Securities valued at 1700 dollars were recovered by local detectives after an unknown person telephoned from New York. The stocks and bonds were inside registered letters delivered to Hill and hidden under a door stoop in Homestead, Baltimore.
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Stunner
Merchants’ National Bank
Register
Baltimore Post Office
Focal
Hill
Ats
New York
Homestead
Ptburl
More land for Texas survey extends 309 foot strip
United States engineers relocate the New Mexico Texas boundary arriving at Anthony New Mexico. A 309 foot wide strip is assigned to Texas by the newly established Innes line. A joint US and Texas commission will confirm the survey once Congress grants anchor provisions.
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Austin
Texas
United States
New Mexico
Anthony
N.M
Innes
Aoxico
Joint Boundary Commission
Vexas Engineers
Congress
Bandits Loot Two Safes in Camden Rail Robbery
A group of masked burglars opened fire at the Camden railroad area injuring no one, blew two safes including the Pineyvanth allroad and Marston stations, stole a few hundred dollars, and escaped into a swamp after destroying lines and taking Watchman Til’s money. Night Watchman Til alerted authorities with a telegraph message as the robbers fled with loot and tools.
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Camden
N. T
Cricksmen
Wines
Tines
Oscar Til
Pennsylvania
Prison Checks Brouhaha In Kentucky
State Inspector Henry B. Hines reports to Governor Beckham that Auditor Coulter withheld checks totaling 503 000 for convict labor at Frankfort Chair Company. Checks dated monthly from February to June drew funds from prison revenues. company claims no bank funds exist. Bondholders and Martin the manager were notified. Prison Commissioners demand monthly labor settlements.
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Frankfort
Henry B. Hines
Beckham
Gun" Coulter
Frankfort Chair Company
Bondsimnen
Martin
Drowned After Rescue From Lake Aldawampsett
In Middleboro Massachusetts two men Harry Haskins and Frank Alen perished after a frail ice floe broke away from shore on Lake Aldawampsett. They were rescued by A Lewis who rowed out to help but the boat overturned in a squall. Lewis grabbed one man but the others sank weighing down by heavy clothing and cold.
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Middleboro
Mass
Aldawampsett
Harry Haskins
Frank Alen
Lewis
Post Office Fraud Clerks Sentenced to Jail and Fines
Metiregor and Upton, rural free delivery clerks, were convicted in U S District Court of conspiracy to defraud the Government on a postal contract. Judge Thomas J. Morris sentenced them to two years in the Maryland Penitentiary and a $1000 fine each after a six day trial. A motion for a new trial was denied.
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Thomas W. McGivegor
Elsworth Epton
Cour Baldiware
Baltimore
Thomas W. McGregor
C. Ellsworth Upton
Postoffice Department
United States District Court
Thomas J. Morris
Maryland
Morris
Storm Kills Two in Ohio Town Amid Dark City After Storm
A severe storm in Akron Ohio killed two people and injured several as trolley lines and wires were down. The city lay in darkness with debris filling the streets and widespread damage reported.
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Ohio
Akron
Jonathan
Fires claim baby in Red Bank tragedy and town notes
In Red Bank a mother fights to reach a child as a blaze traps a two year old girl in a seaside home. The fire destroys the house and the infant is found charred in the embers. Separate items discuss Ocean City boardwalk talks, a Glass Works lawsuit, Junction name change plan, and other Middlesex County issues.
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Red Bank
Insane Barber
Maine
Nebraska Supreme Court Grants New Trial in Bratt Case
The Nebraska Supreme Court gave George W. Bratt a new trial after ruling he was prevented from meeting two witnesses and cross examining them. The two witnesses, bloodhounds, freed him to a horse winch that had been robbed. The court noted dog testimony is inadmissible and Bratt was sentenced to 1000 years in July. In Cherokee County Texas, Allen Brown a Black man was convicted of attempted assault and sentenced to 1000 years though the jury could not impose a death sentence under the law.
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Kermorguat
Bertiner Kiintsche Wochenschrift
New Caledonia
New York
Mtocent Journal
Southampton
Sea O
Powell
Haly
Americka
Cickens
Miss Lockhart
Lowell
Emily
Atlantic
Cuba
Xenaly
Hetle
Sud Ib
Astener
Bahl
Madge
Nebraska Supreme Court
George W. Bratt
Nemaha County
Cherokee County
Texas
Allen Brown
Bank cashier commits suicide at Yale National Bank
A. C. Bushnell, cashier at Yale National Bank in New Haven, killed himself with a revolver after A. D. Burrows, national bank examiner for Connecticut, arrived to audit the books. Bushnell, 46, had faced speculation losses and debt to the bank, leaving a widow and three children. He had served as a bank officer for twenty years and was active in civic and religious groups. The bank and state officials opened a formal inquiry into the circumstances.
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New Haven
Conn
A. D. Burrows
National Bank
Connecticut
Yate National Bank
A. C. Bushnell
Burrows
Bushnell
Greely
Ife
Te Bank
Lim
Grote Hospital
Shier Bushnel
Yale ‘National Bank
EB. S. Wheeler Company
Root denies predicting imminent war in banquet remarks
Secretary Root told army and navy officers at a Washington banquet that he did not say war would come soon. He recalled his words about defending the country with comradeship and noted he has repeated the sentiment in private talks, arguing that future generations tend to face a great war.
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Army
Navy
Root
United States
Root Anid
West Point
Murder in Chinese Theatre in San Francisco
A Chinese theatre in San Francisco's Washington Street district was shaken when a gunman fired four shots at Gee Ah Gong during a play. Gong died within thirty minutes. Police have no lead as the killer vanished into the crowded theater, with fears of a broader Chinatown feud.
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San Francisco
Cal
Washington Street
Gee Ah Gong
Gong
Ives
Chinatown
Hale Chosen Senate Chaplain Era of Milburn Ends
Edward Everett Hale of Massachusetts is elected Senate Chaplain to succeed the late Will iam H. Milburn. Hale, 82, former pastor of Roxbury and Boston Unitarian church, authored The Man Without a Country and studied at Harvard.
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Washington, D. C
Senate
William H. Milburn
California
Edward Everett Hale
Massachusetts
Edward Everett
South Congregational (Unitarian
Boston
Wis
Roxbury
Harvard
Stalin by Maniac and a Violent Ledger of Mayhem
A garbled wartime style sheet reports a string of violent incidents and oddities. It mentions Superintendent William Mayme of the Losine Asylum in Lancaster Wisconsin and a patient Thonutsy Fox beating a Drekts. Avery Crockett Crockett and others connected to frontier legends and cotton fights. It also notes a self-inflicted death at Thorp Springs Texas linked to cotton crop prospects, a Louisiana legislature extra session on boll weevil issues, and imperial punishment of a crown prince. Separate items describe a fatality in a Pittsburgh horse event and border clashes between Persians and Turcomans.
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Stalin
William Mayme
Losine Asylum
Lancaster
Wis
Thonutsy Fox
Louisiana
New Orleans Cotton Exchange
Louisiana Cotton Growers' Association
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