Congress debate on buying in open market to aid American industry
A 1917 style report notes agitation over government purchase policies and calls to limit purchases to American goods. Senators and commissioners discuss restricting purchases to American cement and other goods to protect domestic manufacturers amid Republican debates and proposals in Congress.
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Tate
la. Stud ‘Ykély
Congress
Sena- Dick
Ankeny
Jax the
Sena
Mro Taft
Mombera
Demand Honor for Old Navy Memorial at Vicksburg
Naval officers urge Congress to create a memorial at Vicksburg National Military Park honoring naval forces in the Vicksburg siege. They note General Grant praised the navy’s role and contrast state funding for volunteers with the need for a national tribute.
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Vicksburg
ATL
Vicksburg National Military Park
Grant
Chvice
Congress
Employee Confesses Embezzling 170000 From Philadelphia Firm
Mawin S and S Greenfield a longtime employee of Harrison Snyder Co Philadelphia confessed to embezzling about 170000 over several years. He was arrested and jailed at Moyamensing prison as the firm faced bankruptcy. A petition for compulsory bankruptcy was filed against Harrison Snyder Co.
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Philadelphia
Clark
Harrison Snyder & Co
Mawin S&s
Hind
Immigrant Commissioner Says US Can Admit 1 Million Annually
F P Sargent urges admitting up to one million immigrants yearly for ten years at the Philadelphia Baptist City Mission meeting. He says the American people are stirred but not alarmed, noting 4,026,000 admitted last year and predicting another million this year. He emphasizes admitting the right kind of immigrants.
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Sargent
America
United States
F. P. Sargent
Philadelphia
Spier Charged With Theft and Suicide After Defalcations
The defalcations of Charles L. Spier of New York, who killed himself, are discovered to total about 200000 with a possibility they may not exceed that amount. Danl W F Bechtel former president of Northwestern National Life Insurance Co is on trial in Minneapolis. The case reveals hidden expenditures and a prosecutor says funds misused approach 1090000.
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Spier
Charles L. Spier
New York
Amazing Insurance
Danl
W. F. Bechtel
Northwestern National Life Insurance Company
Minneapolis
Ans
Eptlamngton
Boycott of American Goods Affects Trade in 1905
A historical report notes waning United States growth amid a boycott of American goods. Imports rose before war fears, then slowed. overall injury to American manufacturers appears limited. Cotton, flour, and oil trade shifts, plus friction at southern ports, mark the year.
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United States
United
Coast General Tay
Canton
China
Standard Oil Company
Sey‘otal
Canada Agrees To Save Falls And Appoint Commission
The Dominion government will not fully adopt the International waterways commission agreement on Niagara Falls and Sault Ste. Marie power. It will seek U S agreement to appoint a permanent waterways commission or empower the present one to settle issues. Ontario will appoint a permanent Niagara Falls commission with authority to fix power sale rates to municipalities or private parties based on actual costs, operation, and a sinking fund for redemption.
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International Commission
Dominion
International Waterways Commission
Niagara Falls
Sault Ste. Marie
United States
Permanent Commission On Waterways
Ontario
Haa
Leiter Estate Burglary Hits Chicago Offices
Burglars broke into the Leiter estate offices at 81 Clark Street Chicago opening two vaults and rifling strong boxes for negotiable papers bonds and cash. Losses estimated from 100 000 to 125 000 with additional smaller items including watches. Offenses also struck the Crowe law offices where bonds and negotiable papers were taken.
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Bonda
Burgigra
Joseph Leiter
L. Z. Leiter
Clark Street
Chicago
Robert EB
Frank Crowe
Hugh Crabbe
Loster
L. Z Leiter
China for Chinese. Appointment to govern Chinese customs
The imperial decree in Pekin replaces the British overseer at Chinese customs with local officials, raising fears of ending foreign control after twenty years. The move echoes the 1800s English contract that required a British appointee oversee customs, prompting expectation of inquiries by major powers into potential subversion of that agreement.
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China
Pekin
Weh Liang
Wang-Shao Yi
England
Robert Flark
Methodist proposal seeks new creed for world church
A resolution at the Methodist Episcopal Church South General Conference in Birmingham proposes new articles of faith. Introduced by H L Tillett and W R Lambeth, the motion urges a five member committee to draft a revised statement and invite other Methodists to join in creating a unified faith.
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General Conference
South
Methodist Episcopal Church
Methodist Mplscopal Church
Birmingham
Ann
HL. Tillett
W. BR. Lambeth
Tenens Conference
College of Bishops Fe
California fruit shipments to boost orchard owners
California fruit shipments look strong as the season opens with prospects of over 7,000 cars of green fruit and grapes sent east of the Rocky Mountains before next fall. The cherry crop is superb and peach, pear, and apple yields look large, with grapes also promising good volumes. Apricots and plums are not as strong this year.
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California
Rocky Mountains
Waterloo pastor charged with arson in N Y
Reverend G O S Bain, pastor of the First Baptist Church in Waterloo, New York, was arrested on a third degree arson charge and arraigned in police court. Hearing adjourned. he was committed to jail after church fires on March 6. Bain arrived from Newburgh last October. prosecutors question letters Bain allegedly wrote. He denies setting the fire. Also reports a violent death in Tripoli where procurator general Nedim Efdin Bey was killed by All Shamyt Pasha who mauled him like a bulldog.
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G. 0. S. Bain
Waterloo
N. Y
O. O. Stuart Bain
First’ Baptist Church
N.Y
Bain
File
Wee
Attornney
Bodine
Gain
Himelf
Bath
Newburgh
Xeijim Efdin Bey
Prayet
Tripoli
North Africa
Austrian man admits killing wife to prevent asylum return
Julian Payllule, an Austrian, told Newport News police he shot his wife seven times in the head as she slept to prevent her return to an insane asylum. He said she feared being committed and that he fulfilled a promise she allegedly expressed.
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Virginian
Julian Payllule
Newport News
Secretary Taft Seeks New Grant for San Francisco Relief
The President sent to Congress a Taft letter urging a further $500,000 for San Francisco relief. It notes $2,405,883 of the $2,500,000 already appropriated has been spent or contracts committed. Allocation includes Quartermaster $1,741,684 subsistence $320,425 medical $304,039, rigual corps $15,000 and mileage $14,095.
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Taft
San Francisco
Congrena
Quartermaster’s Department
Multiple incidents of violence and accidents unfold
Reports describe a Cape May express derailment near Camden injuring fourteen passengers, a Passaic rioting clash with police leaving rioters shot and officers hurt, a Randall Ohio revolver duel where Samuel Wallace is dead and Matthew Aurell missing, a Mulaya river bank battle with Sultan’s forces causing thirty killed, Moody prosecuting drug manufacturers in Indianapolis, and Henry G. Golt a Milwaukee banker jailed for ten years for embezzlement.
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Passaic
N. J
Samual Wallace
Matthew Aurell
Randall
Ohio
Wallace
Aurell
Open Nebraska lands to settlers by federal order
Federal Judge Munger at Omaha ordered twenty five cattlemen to remove unlawful fences from the government domain within five days, after which marshals were directed to pull them down and destroy them at the cattlemen’s expense. The cattlemen are permanently enjoined from fencing on the public domain.
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Nebraska
Omaha
Munger
Marabal Warners
Convicted Pastor Algernon S Crapsey of Heresy
Rev Algernon S Crapsey, pastor of St Andrew's Rochester N Y, found guilty of heresy by the ecclesiastical court that tried him. He was charged with creating dissension in the church through his attacks on the creed and faced bitter adverse reaction from church authorities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hoeraay
Algernon
Crapsey
St Andrew's Protestant Episcopal Church of Rochester
Ecclasiagical
Seven Years for House Looter in Minneapolis Robbery
Thomas J. Wainwright is sentenced to seven years imprisonment for robbing Dr. Pinault’s Minneapolis residence of two wagon loads of valuable household goods. The case names Dr. Pinault and the accused, with the crime detailed as a home robbery involving sizable property theft.
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Thomas J. Wainwright
Dr. Pinault
Minneapolis
Frost Kills Vegetation Across Nebraska Areas
Frost covered the ground in Lancaster and Broken Bow regions causing widespread damage to crops and vegetation. The report notes that several counties endured heavy frost with notable impact on early growth and harvest prospects.
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Nebraska
Lancaster County
Broken Bowce
Riots in Guadeloupe as two socialist leaders killed
News reports allege election unrest on the island of Guadeloupe with mobs clashing in Tinssy Lorre. Candidate M Bolshen faced accusations of opening fire, while two socialist leaders were killed and a police officer wounded. A U.S. naval ship was ordered to Guadeloupe to protect American interests.
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Tiling
Guadeloupe
Basea Tarra
Guaddluitine
Tadley
Adead
Adyleen
Tinssy
Lorre
Bolshen
Bolaneni
State Department
Navy Department
William TH. Hi Southerland
San Domingo
Preservation of Niagara Water Diversion Report
President Roosevelt sent Congress the international waterways commission report on Niagara Falls preservation. It recommends restricting water diverted for power, suggesting treaty or legislation limits. The proposal sets 86 000 cfs from Canada, 18 600 cfs from the United States, and 10 000 cfs for the Chicago drainage canal. The impact on Great Lakes navigation will be reviewed in a separate report. American members say broad treaty principles fall outside their mandate and their jurisdiction is limited to the Great Lakes system.
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Stoosevelt
Congress
International Waterways Commission
Niagara Falls
Chicago Drainage Canal
Great Lakes
Presbyterians Consider New Book of Worship
The general assembly committee on services and forms issued a new Presbyterian book of common worship led by Rev. Henry Van Dyke. Advocates say it blends poetry and practicality, while opponents call it too ritual. The plan lets churches adopt it wholly, in part, or not at all as pastors and presbyteries decide.
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General Assembly Committee
Henry van Dyke
New York
Jocko Briggs Freed After Prolonged Trial in Chicago
A year after a sentence of death and five robbery charges, Jocko Briggs was acquitted on a murder conviction and later cleared of remaining robbery counts. In Judge Smiths court Briggs gained full freedom as the docket was cleared, marking a notable Cook County prosecution episode. Also reports note miners in Scranton voting against a strike, preserving 1908 scale with idle men restored, and Zulu forces in Natal engaging in battle with sixty Zulus killed.
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Jocko" Briggs
Gallow
Jocko” Briggs
Criminal Court
Chicago
Cook County
Briggs
Scranton
Pennsylvania
Co. Mansell
Obief Bambaata
Cattlwayo
Natal
South Africa
Col. Managli
Receiver Appointed for Beet Sugar Plant at Leavitt Neb
Receiver for the Beet Sugar Plant of the Standard Beet Sugar Company at Leavitt Nebraska appointed. It is among the West’s largest, cost 1 277 000 dollars, daily capacity 1100 tons of beets and 270 000 pounds of sugar.
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Standard Beet Sugar Company
Leavitt
Neb
Thia
West
Naval Legislation Focuses on Navy Power and Rail Reform
The House adjourned after a busy day debating naval policy and rail rate measures. Lawmakers pressed for open market purchases for naval supplies while tightened rail discounts faced new penalties. Senate action covered coal production, transportation costs to the Philippines, and confirmation of open market purchases if cheaper. National notes include ambassadors to the United States and royal wedding plans in Madrid.
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Kinga
Mountain
House
Tartholdt
Minouri
Johnson
South Carolina
Webb
North
Caroling
Tirrell
Mc. Weeks
Massachusetts
D Piation Sbi
Navy
Naval Training Station
Senate
Navy Department
Atlantic
Gulf
Philippine’ Islands
Groavenor
Secretary of the Navy
Elkins
McLaurin
Washington
Pensacola
Lydia E Pinkham Vegetable Compound Advertisement
This text promotes Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound claiming it cures female ailments including period pain nervousness backache and displacements. It cites a long record of testimonials from the Pinkham Laboratory in Lynn Massachusetts and invites women to write for free advice from Mrs Pinkham or her daughter in law who continues the work.
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Lydia H. Pinkhom
Pinkham
Lynn
Mass
Lydia E. Pinkham
Pinkhams
Lydia
E. Pinkham
Walilonia and Welsh Indians in America
A quirky excerpt discusses the phrase Come In Walilonia and a Boston girl dialogue about a cat and cure adverts. It shifts to Welsh Indians in America, noting eighteenth century interest and claims of Welsh-descended tribes in the Missouri region. Mentions John Josselyn and Sir Thomas Herbert and Captain Abraham Chaplain reports.
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Walilonia
Manina
Boston
America
Amerie
John Josselyn
New England
Thomas Herbert
Atheta
Abraham Chaplain
Kentucky
Missouri
Madore
Owen Gwynedd
Loudon Chronicle
Proposal inquiry from family spat in Cleveland Leader
In a Cleveland Leader fragment, Mya and Vera Ritch discuss a marital proposal with a response from Mr Knottso Ritch about expected financial support. The exchange reveals familial tensions over engagement details and paternal involvement in the arrangement.
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Mya
Vera Ritch
Mr. Knottso Ritch
Ndt
Cleveland
Transformation Tale praises Postum Coffee Substitute
A vintage promotional passage argues coffee quitting is hard like alcohol or tobacco but swapping to Postum Food Coffee eases the transition. It claims Postum tastes better, similar to fine Java, with a ten day to two week body transformation and nourishment through a contained Naquid substitute.
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Book OF Worship
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August Brann
Germany
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Wire Insurance of
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Oren Root, Jr
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Metropolitan Street Railroad Company
Wawatta Street
Denver Transit and Warehouse Company
Foraker
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Priday
Hugsley
Interstate Commerce Commission
Rayner
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National Capital
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Viscount Aoki
Japan
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Afigsouri
King Alfango
Madrid
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Hougo Committee On Territories
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