Indiana Good Roads Drive Gains Momentum Across Fourteen Counties
A South Bend good roads congress organized by the Chamber of Commerce drew city and county officials from fourteen Indiana counties. Speakers from Indiana and Michigan highlighted road improvements. Carl G Fisher pledged 5000 dollars of crushed rock and oil to cover 150 miles from Indianapolis to South Bend, aiming to fund a permanent highway system by June. Aaron Jones opened the session with notes on benefits of better roads, with other speakers including Robert D Graham, Clarence A Kyon, Charles S Garfield, and Lemuel Darrow.
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Indiana
South Bend
Plymouth
Indianapolis
Aaron Jones
National Grange
Indiana State Grange
Robert D. Graham
Michigan State Board of Agriculture
Clarence A. Kenyon
Charles S. Garfield
Michigan State Forestry Association
Lemuel Darrow
Laporte
Plow Plant for Canada
Olivers of South Bend Indiana completed negotiations to build a 1.5 million dollar mammoth plow and agricultural machinery plant in Hamilton Ontario. The facility will cost 1.5 million, employ 2000 people, and serve Canadian and foreign trade with R A Smart of the South Bend works manager directing layout and operation. The nearby South Bend plant is also expanding with over 1 million dollars in new buildings.
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Canada
Olivers
South Bend
Ind
Hamilton
Ont
R. A. Smart
Notable Mortality and Events Across World News
A collage of 1905 era notices reports J W Van Cleave dying in St Louis, Samuel Gregsten Chicago packer, and other deaths. Forest fire peril in Bemidji with relief efforts. Halley’s Comet passage without predicted disaster. rail rate campaigns. Canton Ohio blast kills 13. Pinar del Rio barracks blast kills 100. Cannon Nelson bout. Roosevelts London visit. various political and legal items across the US and Europe.
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Samuel Gompers
St. Louis
Samuel Gregsten
Chicago
Board of Trade
West Hinsdale
Bemidji
Minn
Pinar del Rio
Chicago Board of Education
Hella Flagg Young
Halley
Cherry
Shippers form union to challenge railways arbitration
Pacific to Atlantic shippers meet in Chicago to push arbitration via the Interstate Commerce Commission over freight rate increases. A new permanent body and a $50,000 fund are planned to wage the campaign with potential legal action if conciliatory talks fail. A separate note reports a food strike at the New Jersey State Hospital for the Insane over meals and staffing.
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Atlantic Seaboard
Congress Hotel
Chicago
Interstate Commerce Commission
Sinels Manufacturers' Association
Railroads
Abbeyiance
Twanne Axylam
Henry A. Cotton
Samuel T. Atchley
New Jersey State Hospital For
Dynamite Blasts Destroy Cuban Guard Barracks
Two dynamite explosions intended to contain 3000 pounds wrecked the rural guard barracks at Pinar del Rio Cuba. One hundred percent casualties were reported killed with nearly as many wounded in the blast.
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Pinar del Rio
Cuba
Persen
Rock the Boat Drowning Tragedy at Huntington Mills High
Eight youths die when a mill pond accident at Huntington Mills Pennsylvania claims six girls and two boys from a local high school party. Four boys escape as others attempt rescue. victims include Maud Sutliff Caroline Koons Ruth Bonham Iris Davenport Kathleen Good Rachel Thompson Robert Minnick and Ray Dodson.
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Mill Pond
Huntington Mills
Maud Sutliff
Caroline Koons
Ruth Bonham
Iris Davenport
Kathleen Good
Rachel Thompson
Robert Minnick
Ray Dodson
Trade and Industry Roundup From Across the Country
The 1902 Minnesota farmer payments totaled 25 million dollars as creameries aided farmers. Lake Side Company’s Watertown packing plant in operation, handling up to 500 hogs daily. Mrs T R Griffin of Los Angeles reports blue Andalusian hens laying 225 eggs annually. University of Wisconsin poultry department receives many hatching donations. D Lauricella of Long Beach harvested produce from six cucumber plants selling at 6 cents each and grows spineless cacti. Robert Steele of South Vancouver Washington picked ten bushels of almonds from eighty trees, a hard shell variety. Crookston Minnesota hosts negotiations that give Stillwater capitalists control of Universal Tractor Company for gasoline engines and farm work.
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T. R. Griffin
Los Angeles
Poultry Department
College of Agriculture
University of Wisconsin
D. Lauricella
Long Beach
Cal
Robert Steele
South Vineland
Wash
Crookston
Minn
Stillwater
Universal Tractor Company
Ohio Insurgents Lose In Republican Primary Battles
Seven Ohio Republican incumbents facing insurgent rivals over the Aldrich-Payne bill saw six win as regulars after fighting bitter primaries. Goebel Cole Douglass Taylor Kennedy Thomas plus district winners listed. Senator Dick of Akron seeks United States Senate endorsement in a lone primary ballot.
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Edward B. Garriott
United States
New Mexico
Rollins
New Hampshire
New York
Senate
Ohio
Aldrich-Payne
Jumber
Herman P. Goebel
Cincinnati
Ralph D. Cole
Findlay
Albert
James Joyce
George White
Ammon
Critchfield
William A. Ashbrook
TwentiethDistrict
Paul Trowland
William Gordon
James H. Cassidy
R. J. Buckley
Flo Gentsch
Ieventh
Frank B. Wilts
T. C. Mahon
Charles Dick
Akron
United States Senate
Mysterious Stranger Returns $1000 to Minneapolis Man
A heavyset stranger returned $1,000 to L. O. Gale of Minneapolis who had accused Michael Rock after a $1,000 robbery in a revolving door. Gale reported the man asked if he was Gale and claimed Rock was arrested, then handed over the money and left. Rock has been released.
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Minneapolis
L. O. Gale
Michael Rock
Gale
Rock
Murder verdict in Swope case shocks Kansas City crowd
Dr B C Hyde found guilty of murder in first degree for poisoning Col Thomas H Swope, life term set. After sixty hours deliberation amid hopes for acquittal, verdict delivered as Frank Walsh vows motion for new trial and appeal. case ties to Swope fortune and hospital bequest.
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B. C. Hyde
Kansas City
Col
Thomas H. Swope
Frank P. Walsh
Dr. Hyde
Swope
B. Clark Hyde
Christman Swope
Hyde
Col. Thomas Swope
Ten Prominent Pittsburg Men Sentenced for Bribery Conspiracy
Six were sentenced by Judge Robert S Frazer for bribery and conspiracy tied to city corruption. A. A. Vilsack, Charles Stewart and Hugh Ferguson received eight months in jail and fines up to 5000 dollars. W H Weber four months, P B Kearns four months and 250 dollars, Morris Einstein six months and 2500 dollars. Sentences for BE Jennings and F A Griffen postponed due to illness. Further sentences for G W Friend and M L Swift Jr postponed to next week.
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Pittssburg
Robert S. Frazer
Frazer
A. A. Vilsack
German National Bank
Charles Stewart
Hugh Ferguson
Dr. W. H. Weber
P. B. Kearns
Morris Einstein
BE. H. Jennings
Columbia National Bank
F. A. Griffen
G. W. Friend
Clinton Steel and Iron Company
James W. Friend
M. L. Swift, Jr
Lawmakers Debate Inauguration Date Change to April
The National House of Representatives refused to submit to the states the question of moving the President and Vice President inauguration from March 4 to the last Thursday in April. Proponents argued a later date could yield better weather and a seven week postponement from the constitutional fixed date.
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National House of Representatives
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