New Solar Theory From Chicago Professors
University of Chicago professors Maniton and G Chamberlain propose a sun from outside our system created planets by dust clouds. They claim a great early sun swept through space millions of years ago, forming planets as spiral dust, with Earth and Venus as specks. The disturbing sun hovered for 30 million years before vanishing, to reappear in a few million years.
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Maniton
G. Chamberlain
Iit
University of Chicago
Venus
Earth
Baseball Standings And Canal Fight In Congress
A report cites a conspiracy to delay the Panama Canal by backing the Nicaragua route with former Senator Warner Miller directing the effort. Railroads support the delay, aiming to hinder canal construction.
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Congress
Panawa Canal
Pounma ‘Canal
United States
Warner Miller
New York
Drownings, shootings, and a murder included in Indiana report
A chaotic Indiana dispatch reports Emma Winstanley drowning her child Ruth in a bath tub, then shooting her husband who lay ailing with typhoid, before ingesting acid and dying within an hour. Other items note a Philadelphia manslaughter sentence, Northwest forest fires, and political shifts in Helena and Norway.
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Indiana
Emma Winstanley
Chester Winstanley
New Albany
Ruth
Winstanley
Florida Governor Broward visits Chicago on drainage plan
Governor Broward of Florida arrives in Chicago with Adjutant General Hi Ullo and staff to study drainage of the Everglades. He notes 5,000,000 acres of swamp land could be developed for agriculture and envisions a long, ambitious project to boost vegetable and fruit output.
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Florida
Chicago
N. B. Broward
Motlia
W. Hi
Ullo
Everglades
Tilia
Firemen Burned In Boiling Soap Explosion
Twenty firemen were severely injured and six hospitalized after a boiler explosion at the W H Daggitt Sons soap factory on West Twelfth Street New York. Seventy thousand gallons of soap fats erupted from tanks as flames were controlled, creating a poisonous smoke cloud and rivers of hot liquid that forced firemen to crawl on the sidewalk. Estimated loss stood at $50,000.
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W. H. Daggitt
West Twelfth A
New York
Storm Havoc In Ohio Kills Several And Destroys Crops
A Monday night storm in southwestern Ohio caused damage in the hundreds of thousands of dollars with lighter effects elsewhere in the state and in Kentucky and Indiana. In Hamilton rainfall reached two and a half inches washing out bridges, a traction car was struck by lightning near Middletown injuring Mrs. William Kroeger, two deaths occurred near Mansfield from lightning, Nellie Smith and Lulu Wilson suffered serious injuries at a Marysville farm, and seven people near Circleville were stunned but expected to recover.
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Ohio
Kentucky
Indiana
Hamilton
Miami River
Middletown
William Kroeger
Loutaville
Mansfield
Joseph Finney
Missea Nellie Smith
Lulu Wilson
Marysville
Circleville
Disbarment Risks Involving Consul Donaldson In Nicaragua
The State Department questions the cancellation of Consul Donaldson’s exequatur in Managu a and may demand an explanation. Donaldson was told to investigate the imprisonment of an American in Nicaragua and President Zelaya de Nevesha oversees the case. Minister Merry’s report to Washington states the consuls acted within authority, likely prompting Nicaraguan clarification.
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Nicaragaa
Donaldson
Managus
State Department
Washington
Nicaragua
Zelaya de Nevesha
William Merry
Accused of killing husband arrestee in Pratt Kansas
Mrs. Harvey McPherson Null charged with first degree murder for poisoning her well to do farmer husband. H O Kelley, farm hand, charged with aiding and abetting. Kelley jailed for lack of bond, Null released on bond. Coroner's jury reported after husband died Aug 6 from arsenic in his stomach. twenty four grains found.
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Arsenio
Harvey McPherson Null
H. O. Kelley
Pratt
Kan
Null
Burglar Tracked After Sleep Snoring Ends Heist
A Chicago thief Theodore Hursiaf, 18, dozed in the furnace air shaft during a burglary at J A Adama’s Vernon Avenue home. Family’s snoring woke them, search spanned the house, and jewelry found on him led to police.
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Theodore Hursiaf
J. A. Adama
Vernon Avenue
Chicago
Burzlaff
Secretary Shaw May Issue Bonds for Canal Work
Inquiry among officials notes nearly all of the 10,000,000 appropriation by Congress in 1904 for the canal initiation is spent. Treasury bonds may be issued to carry on work as sanitary needs and worker quarters require priority. Supplies and two ships cost 1,800,000. reports say work halted at the Galebra cut and Dauchey on indefinite leave.
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Office of
Inthailan Canal Commission
Washington
Congress
Secretary of the Treasury
Thare Fe
Galebra
Dauchey Hae
Culebra
Datchey
Infernal device found addressed to Governor La Follette
Grin Steinhoff, a Michigan farmer, discovered a long white box on Silver Lake beach bearing Gov La Follette Madison Wisconsin care of Executive Mansion. Inside lay a pipe shaped device with gun cotton and a two foot fuse. He ignited it and it exploded, creating a large crater and risking casualties within fifty feet. Authorities believe the device intended for the Governor and may have been carried to Milwaukee and dumped into Lake Michigan.
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Wisconsin
Grin Steinhof
Oceana County
Mich
Silver Lake
la Follette
Madison
Wis
Steinhoff
Steinhoff Anya
Milwaukee
Lake Michigan
Enatahore
Immigrant smugglers held and other perilous crimes
Department of Commerce and Labor disclosed the capture of four immigrant smugglers near Niagara Falls on Aug 6. Nineteen Romanians and three Hungarians were arrested, three boats confiscated, and additional cases include gunfire on a Washington train, a presidential assassination attempt in Argentina, a fatal Kentucky trotting horse fire, a missing Chicago minister, a Racine man found murdered, a St. Louis bank liquidating, and a San Francisco harbor project award.
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Niagicw Falls
Department of Commerce and Labor
Snyder
Yellow fever outbreak grows in New Orleans area
The yellow fever plague worsens in New Orleans and Louisiana with rising deaths and high case rates. National health authorities take charge, boosting efforts, while local quarantine measures face enforcement challenges. Frost is mentioned as a potential natural enemy to halt spread.
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New Orleans
Chiepelle
France
St Mary’s College
Baltimore Ja
Wreshing
Pdt Waa i
Salpointe
Banta Te
Lowie T. Chapelle
Nnil
Cuba
Philippines
Louisiani
Toeal
Mississippi
Texas
Walter Wyman
United States
St. Lows
Antherst
St. Louis Medien College
Marine Hospi Dit. W.wyatantal Corps
Fort Stanton
N.M. Burgeon
Wyman
Society of Colonial Wars
State Board of Health
Worsyth
Monroe
Riniehned
Trade and crop prospects in Chicago weekly review
The weekly review by Sk. G. Daun Co notes official crop estimates surpassing the banner year 1902 with favorable weather boosting corn growth and business activity. Grain shipments rose to 10,455,575 bushels while bank clearings reach 170,479,402, with market demand for additional crops and broad trade gains in New York and Chicago districts amid mixed exports and growing farm sales. The August government crop report forecasts solid national yields, with corn at 2.593 billion bushels, spring wheat 270 million, oats 444 million, and total wheat about 714 million, short of previous peak years.
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Sk. G. Daun Cona
Rill
S Lake
Wester
Tron
Ruil Steel
Chicago
York
Axporta
Dakotas
Minnesota
City and Midwest Market Prices on Cattle Hogs and Grains
A regional listing shows Chicago-Cattle at prime 4.00 to 0.10, hogs prime heavy 4.00 to 0.25, and sheep 1.00 to 5.25. Wheat No 2 ranged from 60 to 65 cents, oats 25 to 27 cents, rye 58 to 60 cents, with regional values in Indianapolis Cincinnati Detroit Milwaukee Toledo Buffalo and New York for cattle hogs sheep and grains. Weights and prices vary by market and grade across cities including Chicago, Detroit, and New York with butter eggs and potatoes noted.
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Cincinnati
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St Louis
Philadelphia
Boston
Chicago
Brooklyn
Hoatan
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Cleveland
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Louis
American
Columbus
Indianapolis
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Minneapolis
Toledo
Lavisyila
Kansas City
W. Dea Moines
Omaha
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Rye
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Iowa
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Rochester
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Hdsward Towers
Joseph Unser
Kanas City
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W. B. Willcox
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John D. Rockefeller
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William H. Meyers
Eldon Surver
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British Columbia
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New York State Supreme Court
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Missouri River Power Company
Light and Traction Company
Helena, Mont
J. G. White & Co., Electrical Engineers,and Contractors of
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James Be, Daly
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Sumner
Wash
Michael Helfrich
Cumming
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Charles 2. Williams
George Buck
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Henrys Robinson
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Leroy Hooker
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