Senate Approves Inquiry Into Railroad Rates and Isle of Pines
The Senate adopted a joint resolution directing the Interstate Commerce Commission to investigate railroad discrimination and restraint of trade. Senator Tillman accused administration missteps while Senator Lodge backed Esch Townsend style rate control. Executive session released reports on the Isle of Pines treaty with Cuba, Morgan drafting a remedy favoring arbitration over title transfer.
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Tillman
Senate Committee
Interstate ‘Commerce
Interstate Commerce
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Knox
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Pennsylvania Road
Lodge Speaks
Lodge
Esch-Townsend
Isle of Pines
Committee On Foreign Relations
Cuba
Morgan
W. A. Clark
Meikiejohn
United States
Paris
Ireland
Egypt
Republic
Congress
Preparations for War Tension in China Grows
Washington reports indicate the United States is preparing for possible conflict with China. The army is on a war footing and extra troops race toward Manila as pressures rise. Officials cite the mandarins governing China and anti foreign sentiment for the crisis while Secretary Taft seeks urgent funding to act.
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United States
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Allison
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Camp McKinley
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Leonard
Wood
Mavy
Galveston
Chattanooga
Coulstn
Village Founder Sells Town to Buyer for Six Thousand
A historical figure named Ross built cottages and a store, bought butter from farmers, and traded goods for calico and notions. He planned retirement when Mr Dellinger offered six thousand dollars for the town as it stood with two old market wagons. Dellinger now rules a village of about 50 residents.
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Dellinger
Consolidation Swells as Country Schools Close Across Indiana
South Bend reports 700 country schools abandoned since consolidation began. Outside Crawford County 699 already, with 280 consolidated schools overall. Ninety one counties show 48 of their people in favor after trial, nine counties oppose. Daily 1905 transfers average 8,312 children at $824.85 daily cost and $2 per wagon per day, wagons averaging 17 children.
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South Bend
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Crawford’ County
Quail Raising Starts in Indiana With Mass Hatch
Indiana presses forward with a quail industry led by E. E. Earle deputy state fish commissioner and League of American Sportsmen representative. Two dozen quail arrived from Wellsfield Massachusetts and were placed on Marshall Pugh 800 acre Eagle creek farm eight miles west of Indianapolis. They will live in a large pen until warm months and then be released to form coveys of up to twenty four birds.
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Ind
E. E. Earle
League of American Sportsmen
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Wellsfield
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Marshall Pugh
Eagle Creek
Indiana divorces rise as marriages fall in 1905 report
Indianapolis reports state statistician figures for 1905 show 3 840 divorces from 26 797 marriages, with 958 granted to husbands and 2 796 to wives. The era marks a shift from one divorce per eight marriages in 1904 to one per seven in 1905.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Indiana
Children Scalded in Claytons Ind Kitchen Accident
In Clayton Indiana on February 19 three small Brown children were scalded when a bucket of boiling water overturned from a stove rocker. One seven month old child died and another remains in critical condition as doctors treat severe burns.
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Clayton
Ind
Tragic Winter Fire Claims Young Marsh Family Members
A fatal fire in Winamac Indiana claimed the lives of Thelma Lucille and Claude children aged two to eight of Mr and Mrs Ray Marsh of Marshtown The blaze occurred February 19 and the older siblings were among the deceased authorities report.
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Winamac
Ind
Thelma
Lucille
Claude
Ray
Marsh
Marshtown
Gift giving and family tensions across miles and moods
In a Manayunk household the aunt gives a paid up course in drink care to her nephew for his birthday, angering him. The mother-in-law and slippers, across Tacoma, travel as reproach while a sister’s four boys wear worn stockings. A college niece receives a book on slang with a chastising chapter.
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Grort
Manayunk
Tacoma
The Night That Made Me a Revolutionist in Everybody's
A young Russian peasant narrates a night at the police station in Ernest Poole's tale. The chief of police is described as a 50 year old, stout, vodka-trembling man with a red face. The scene depicts his frail state and unsteady breath as he sits with a white cat on his lap.
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Ernest Poole
The
Cross
Mexican railway worker patents new explosive
A Mexican Central railway employee has filed for a Mexican patent on an explosive claimed to match the breaking strength of 40 percent dynamite, but with no smoke due to fuse or spark ignition. Experiments at Asientos mines show promise, with potential for commercial use if patent rights are granted.
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Mexican Central Railway
Asientos
Florid Language Described as Regal and Ambiguous
A fragment reflects on eastern languages as more florid and ambiguous than western speech. It notes a Burman ruler of Ava calling himself the regulator of the seasons and master of the sea's ebb and flow. The text mentions brothers of the sun on Jord and references the numbers four and twenty in a cryptic style.
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Ava
Burma
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