Cheap Homes in Texas and Arkansas on Cotton Belt Route
Affordable homesteads along the Cotton Belt Route offer land from 2.00 to 5.00 per acre with cut-over timber and farm plots suitable for wheat oats cotton and fruits and vegetables. Markets in the north prize quality and early maturity. Literature on regional opportunities is offered and travel specials include discounted one-way and round-trip tickets on first and third Tuesdays with stopovers and 21 day return limits. For details contact E. W. La Beaume, GP. TA., St. Louis.
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Arkansas
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Louisiana
Texas
E. W. LA Beaume
St. Louis
Low Rates for Travel Across the Midwest and West
Advertises low one way and round trip fares from St. Louis and Kansas City to many states and Pacific Coast points. Mentions tourist and standard sleeping cars, free reclining chair cars, and best dining car service. Includes author contact for illustrated matter.
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Kansas City
Kansas
Missouri
Nebraska
Utah
Colorado
Arkansas
Congress adjourns after long session and policy moves
Reports detail Senate and House actions on fortifications funds and homestead bills, passage and adjournment dates, and attempts to support retiring leaders. Others note rail and political upheaval, trials, and corporate and labor shifts across the nation with multiple named figures and institutions.
Delaware Supreme Court Talks On Legislature Adjournment
In Dover Delaware March 6 the state court judges consider the legality of the minority in adjourn ing the assembly for more than a day. The constitution authorizes only day to day adjournment and the majority later adjourned. The ruling states the legislature remained in session until majority adjourned yesterday.
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Dover
Del
Delaware
United States
Washington
Holcomb
Wilmington
Supreme ‘Court
Names for Warships to Be Remembered in New Battleships
Secretary Moody named five new battleships as Vermont Kansas Minnesota Mississippi and Idaho under the naval law. He plans to propose preserving historic ship names Cumberland Merrimac and Constitution in the next naval act. Plans for the 16 000 ton Connecticut and Tennessee class ships are underway while 13 000 ton ships require longer preparation.
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Washington
Moody
Vermont
Kansas
Minnesota
Mississippi
Idaho
Congress
General Board
Naval
Congress Adjourns and Extra Session Looms
The Fifty seventh congress expired by limitation as Speaker Henderson retired from the chair. Senate adopted the usual thanks to President Pro Tem Frye, while the house failed to approve a thanks resolution amid sharp partisan tension. An extraordinary senate session followed with Robbed floral tributes, Gorman lauded, and Roosevelt urging action on treaties with Colombia and Cuba. A separate report details a Rock Island Kansas City rail crash near the junction injuring a dozen aboard but no fatalities.
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Senate
House
Congress
David B. Henderson
Mendelson
Washington
Henderson
House of Representatives
Gorman
Mr. Gorman
Roosevelt
Colombia
United States
Cuba
Rock Island Kansas City
Rock Island
Union Station
Union Pacific
Rock Island Junction
Kansas City
Texas
George Jacobs
Colorado
Jacobs
Plot to Kill Man Linked to Murder Case
Peter Yerkins, uncle of Mrs. Kate Taylor, is arraigned on a charge of complicity in the murder of her husband after allegedly instigating Taylor to kill him. Taylor confessed to Yerkins and to others, with daughter Ida De K testifying about Yerkins’ role. A complex web of accusations follows in Monticello, N. Y. and surrounding reports.
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Monticello
Peter Yerkins
Kate Taylor
Ida de K
James Taylor
Kaimesha Lake
Yerkins
Bluefield
W. Va
Powhattan
Here
James Mack
James Hickman
Hickman
Mack
North Carolina
Tillie Hampton
Michael Hampton
Kentucky Tragedy: Farmer Melton Shoots Daughter and Wife
Henderson Kentucky reports Allan Melton, a prosperous farmer, fatally wounds his daughter and shoots Mrs. Culver before dying by his own hand in a barn. Neighbors say he holed up as bloodhounds hunted him, later swallowing Paris green and ending his life as pursuit closed in.
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Henderson
Allan Melton
John Culver
Melton
Mary Melton
Culver
Union
American Window Glass Company Plans Shutdown for Labor-Saving Machines
Pittsburg March 7 One of the era’s most sensational moves by the American Window Glass Company the executive committee issued a formal notice that after seven days on March 14 all factories will close for the season while a large force installs new glass blowing machines to replace skilled labor. The process aims to cut production costs to less than one third and marks a response to independent plant shutdowns.
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Behring Sea
Russian
United States
Russia
Peking
Cleveland
Kanawha
New Rivers
West Virginia
Fairhaven
Wash
Murchison
Hill-Webon
Northern Pacific
Germany
Ernest Fox Nichols
Wilder
Dartmouth College
Columbia University
Powell
Clyde Steamship Line
Pittsburg
American Window Glass Company
American Widow Glass Company
James A. Chambers
American Win- Company
New Jersey
American Window Glass Machine Company
The
Glass Company
Findings of Coal Strike Commission Promised by Roosevelt
Advance expected for miners with at least ten percent wage increases from last October. Per diem workers not raised, but advised to receive nine hour day pay. Pay by weight or lineal yard to be used where possible. Union boycott condemned and miners have right to work without molestation. Verdict valid three years with settlements reviewed later. operators urged to bargain with miners committees in local disputes.
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York
Coal Strike Commission
Roosevelt
Yorke Finds Interest in American Railroads
London March 7 Col A H Yorke chief inspecting officer of the Board of Railways reports from the Blue Book on his American railroading study. He finds much to admire in construction but little usable for England due to cost benefits. He favors American exam system for railroad promotions and hopes to return to tour the United States.
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N. J
Grand Jury
Central Railroad
Westfield
Vail
Davis
Philadelphia & Reading
Easton Local Express
Berlin
Frankfurter Journal
Germany
London
A. H. Yorke
Board of Railways
Board of Trade
Col. Yorke
Great Britain
Roosevelt
America
United States
Trade Bulletin shows favorable freight movement and gains
R G Dun weekly review notes improved general situation due to freight and fuel movement. Building permits rise giving strength to lumber. February prices mostly steady. Foreign trade heavy. exports slow. Cotton goods demand cautious. print cloths higher. Spring fabrics opened. woolens slow. Failures: 22 US, 16 Canada. vs last year 176 and 17.
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New York
R. G. Dun & Co
United States
Canada
The Buffalo Tragedy and Michigan Delegates listed
Buffalo reports indicate a belief the Burdick murder will go unsolved as police pursue a hackman who drove a woman to the crime scene and a possible eyewitness corroboration emerges. Detroit notes Judge Frank A. Hooker wins Republican renomination for Michigan supreme court over seven challengers while Peter White and Loyal E. Knappen are named for University of Michigan regents.
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Detroit
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Supreme Court
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Gov. Bliss
Hooker
Edward D. Kine
Ann Arbor
Judge Hooker
University of Michigan
Peter White
Marquette
Loyal E. Knappen
Bridge Workers Strike Idles 800 in Pittsburg District
The national strike call by the International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers shuts down about 800 workers in the American Bridge Co. Pittsburg district after a two week walkout. The general order also halts all structural men on buildings.
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International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers
Pittsburg
Buckeye Pickups Four Men Badly Injured
A Dayton & Troy traction line collision near Piqua injured four crewmen with severe injuries. Roy Coffenberger lost a foot to amputation, Tom Mooney suffered leg injuries, Joe Sanford head cuts and a broken leg, and Alex Fryfogle had head injuries and mangled fingers.
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Dayton & Troy
Here
Roy Coffenberger
Dayton
Tom Mooney
Joe Sanford
Tippecanoe City
Alex Fryfogle
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