G N Engineer For Panama
R D Hawkins, a general master mechanic of the Great Northern, Minot, received a Panama Canal Commission offer for first assistant mechanical engineer with a $5 000 annual salary. He declined, citing family distance and a recent promotion at Great Northern.
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Panama Canal Commission
R. D. Hawkins
Great Northern Road
Minot
Hawkins
Secretary of the Canal Commission
Army of Engineers
Panama
Great Northern Company
Threshing by electricity shocks Manitoba farm
Fred Koester witnessed threshing by electricity near Brandon Manitoba last week. Power traveled seven miles from the Brandon power house along telephone wires to the farm where taps fed the threshing machine. The system kept the machine in radio like telephonic contact with the city as it moved across the fields.
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Condo Herald
Fred Koester
Manitoba
Brandon
Father and Son Arrested in Liquor Sale Case
Frank Gladue Sr. was jailed in Cass county, charged with selling liquor to Turtle Mountain Indians after an indictment in U. S. court. His son, Frank Gladue Jr., serves time in Ramsey county jail on a related charge.
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Frank Gladue
Fargo
U. S
McKay
Rolla
Cass County
Turtle Mountain
Gladue
Frank Gladue, Jr
Ramsey County
Man Killed Near Crary
William Stewart about forty years old, living alone on a Crary farm, died from a self inflicted gunshot wound while duck hunting near a slough. Coroner’s inquest returned a verdict that the death was accidental and caused by the deceased, who had no local relatives. He was highly regarded and left substantial property. burial occurred at Crazy Friday.
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Wm. Stewart
Crary
Gilbertson
W. F. Orr
Louis Ladue
A. P. Forstor
Ireland
Stewart
Jerry Simpson Dies Former Kansas Congressman
Jerry Simpson of Kansas died at 6 05 Monday morning after a yearlong illness from an aneurysm of the aorta. Known in Congress as Sockless Jerry he was born in New Brunswick on March 31 1842 and died at age 63 years 6 months and 21 days. He had spent time in Chicago for medical counsel before his death.
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Jerry Simpson
Kansas
Café
Chicago
Ile
Congress
Dunn Named Auditor and Traffic Manager for Farmers Road
Dunn formerly Great Northern agent in the city accepts the role of auditor and traffic manager for the Farmers road. He will assume duties in a few days and brings extensive railroad experience from the bottom rungs of the industry, a strong asset for preparing the road for expected heavy business after its expansion.
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Dunn
Great Northern
Farmer’s Road
Winter travel plans lure to California or Florida routes
Advertises trips to California or Florida via the Chicago Milwaukee St Paul line with low rates. Highlights postal free information on rates trains service and resorts from B Dixon at St Paul Minnesota. Also includes a testimonial about a cough remedy.
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Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
Calfornia
Florida
B. Dixon
St. Paul
Minn
President seeks new cabinet post for insular possessions
The president’s message to Congress is expected to recommend a new department to manage insular possessions. If approved, a cabinet position would be created and two existing departments would gain relief. Colonel Clarence R. Edwards, head of the War Department’s Bureau of Insular Affairs, is widely named as a likely appointee.
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Roosevelt
Congress
Department of Government
Philippines
State Department
Porto Rico
Navy Department
Guam
War Department
Bureau of Insular Affairs
Clarence R. Edwards
Ohio
McKinley
Hanna
Ruling on homestead entries affects marriage cures residence
The secretary of the interior holds that a woman with an unperfected homestead who marries and later resides with her husband, then returns to her own claim, can cure residence default and perfect her entry. The ruling contrasts with some interpretations of the homestead law. The decision, similar cases awaited by land office officials, is reported in the Inter Ocean.
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Secretary of the Interior
Land Office
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Nature
Devils Lake Petrified Brick and Stone Company
D, F, Bangs
Whipple
H. E. Baird
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Union Central Life Insurance Co
Cincinnati
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California
J. H. Simmons
Casey
Iowa
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Dr. King
Greene
Mankato Commercial Colege
Mankato
Hodgkinson’s
Hodgkinson
A. E. Hodgkinso
C. P. Brainard
Bevile Leke
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