Roosevelt's eleven hour New York visit delights crowds with jig on balcony
President Roosevelt spent eleven hours in New York, attending a luncheon and two banquets, awarding a bride, and leading a jig to St Patrick's Day music on Delmonico's balcony. Crowds packed Fifth Avenue, cheered him, and police were briefly swept aside. He praised Irish character at the Friendly Sons of St Patrick banquet.
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New York
Roosevelt
Delmanico’s
Fifth Avenue
Delmonico’s
St. Fatrick’s
Teddy
Friendly Sons of St. Patrick
Andrew Tackson
New Orleans
Chadwick Property Sold at Auction for 25200 Dollars
Household effects of Mrs. Cassie L. Chadwick were auctioned with A. D. Nelson of New York winning at 25200 dollars. Chicago bidder Samuel L. Winternitz placed 25100 dollars as the second highest bid among twenty bidders. Nelson plans the purchase for an art gallery in New York City.
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New Yorker
Cleveland
Cassie L. Chadwick
A. D. Nelson
New York
Samuel L. Winternitz
Chicago
Mr. Nelson
Chadwick
New York City
Grain and Live Stock Price Quotations
Grain and live stock prices listed across major markets. Wheat figures show ranges for Chicago New York Minneapolis St Louis and others. Corn oats and live cattle sheep and lambs prices are reported by city with varied cents and dollar amounts.
Plans Approved for Bellevue Hospital Expansion
New York on March 18 reports plans to build the massive Bellevue hospital to be the world’s largest. An appropriation of 850000 dollars is approved to begin the project.
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Mammoth Hospital
New York
Bellevue ‘Hospital
General Dies New York March 13 Brig Gen Barber
Noted obituary item from New York reports Brigadier General Barber dies. Uncertain details indicate a sanitary or funeral notice in dispatches dated March 13 with brief confirmation of the general’s death.
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New.’ “York
He Barber
Frat
Sanitary Bov
Latest cash market reports Chicago produce and dairy prices
Market list of butter creamery prints firsts seconds renovated dairies eggs fresh stock high grade packed for city trade cheese full cream varieties including edam and cheddar rates for black bass carp pike pickerel perch eels live poultry potatoes onions and sweet potatoes with specific price ranges and quality terms across Wisconsin Minnesota Michigan and local markets.
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Chicago
Wisconsin
Minnesota
Michigan
Burbanks
Yvellow
Illinois
New York Produce and Dairy Price Report Fragment
Unclear OCR listing prices for butter creamery products and cheeses. Mentions Butter-Virm creameirye cerpmenta extra 20 2043c state dairy, Cheese-Firm unchanged, Pearish and fancy selected with 1745¢, western firsts 16%4c¢, southern 14% Tbe.
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New York
Butte
Cormmen
Market Quotes and Grain Prices Across Cities
The page lists commodity prices for corn oats hogs sheep and lambs across Chicago New York Minneapolis St Louis Kansas City Milwaukee Omaha and Pittsburgh. Values include No 2 red corn 48s 4884 oats 32146 33c and hogs at 2.50 65.22 percent with regional variations and multiple destination prices.
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Chicago
New York
Minneapolis
St. Louis
Duluth
Kansas City
Milwaukee
Iverpool
Peoria
C. St. Louis
C. Milwaukee
Omaha
St. Joseph
Pittsburg
Buffalo
St. Louiis
Minneapol
Northern
Gilid
Toledo
Liverpool
New
Siam's King to End Gambling
The Siamese king plans to seek permission from the United States, Great Britain, and other treaty powers to limit legalized gambling. He intends to raise import duties to replace revenue now earned from gambling concessions in Siam.
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Siam
New York
America
England
Arthur J. Brown
Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions
Women pallbearers falter at funeral in Pound Wisconsin
At the funeral for Miss Julia Nachtway six young women acting as pallbearers could not lift the coffin and laid it on the snow. Two left to fetch men to finish transporting the remains to the cemetery.
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Pound
Wis
Julia Nachtway
Automobile Mail Line Aims To Link Encampment And Walcott
A stock company is formed in Encampment Wyoming to establish an auto line between Encampment and Walcott Union Pacific fifty miles to carry government mail passengers and express.
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Encampment
Wyo
Union Pacific
Walcott
Copper magnate Meyer Guggenheim dies in Florida
New York reports Meyer Guggenheim, the copper magnate and head of a leading smelting and mining empire, has died at Palm Beach, Florida. He began his business career as an itinerant seller of stove polish.
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New York
Meyer Guggenheim
Palm Beach
Fla
Guggenheim
House rejects senate amendment on gambling bill
In Jefferson City on March 17 the house voted 99 to 28 against concurrence with the senate amendment to the bill prohibiting bookmaking and pool selling. The measure would reduce gambling on horse races from a felony to a high misdemeanor.
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Jefferson City
House
Senate
Deer numbers rise in Pennsylvania this spring
Harrisburg reports more deer in Pennsylvania this spring than in many years says Dr. Joseph Kalbfus secretary of the state game commission.
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Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
State Game Commission
Grandson for H H Rogers Linked to Standard Oil Heir
The brief item notes a birth of an heir born to a member related to H H Rogers of New York and connected to Standard Oil wealth. Details are fragmentary but imply a significant family linkage to the oil magnate.
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H. H. Rogers
New York
Standard Oil
Peace Prospects discussed as Russia weighs terms
In St Petersburg officials urge a peaceful settlement with Japan on reasonable terms. A minister argues Russia could endure a humiliating peace but seeks a dignified settlement with Manchuria repudiation, protectorates, and international control of the Chinese Eastern railway.
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Japan
Russia
Korea
Kwantung Peninsula
Port Arthur
Manchuria
Vladivostok
Prisoners Dash for Liberty at Mason Jail
Mason Michigan March 20 One prisoner seized Sheriff Steele and toppled him as four inmates fled the jail after a planned breakout. They struck Mrs Steele and escaped into the night. Four escaped are Charles Miller Martin Goins Lucius Mosher and Frank Jordan. Steele was injured and a 25 dollar reward is offered for each fugitive. A posse of twenty five pursued them.
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Mason, Mich
Martin Goins
Lucius P. Mosher
Frank Jordan
Sheriff Steele
Steele
B. Earnest Parker
Ruse of Wife Proves Fatal in Cleveland Train Deaths
Cleveland, Ohio. Mrs Patrick Kinsella sent a false telegram to hasten her husband back from Erie, Pennsylvania. He believed the death of his closest friend and while boarding a freight train on the Lake Shore Southern railway between Cleveland and Girard, he was fatally crushed two miles east of Girard.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Erie
Patrick Kinsella
Kinsella
Lake Shore & Michigan Southern Railway
Girard
Steamer Spartan Wrecked in Fog Near Block Island
The Spartan of the Boston and Philadelphia Steamship Co ran aground on Block Island in dense fog on March 20 while en route from Providence to Philadelphia. A 15 foot bow hole opened and the steel ship of 1596 gross tons soon sank with decks awash. Twenty three crew remained aboard by day then were removed at night as wreckers began lightering the cargo.
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Block Island
R. I
Spartan
Boston and Philadelphia Steamship Company
Providence
Philadelphia
Pay raise triggers strike at Quincy Mining in Michigan
Houghton March 20. At the monthly payday workers were informed wages rose March 1 to 65 dollars per month for miners and 60 dollars for trammers. Trammers walked out over unequal pay, a practice not seen before in the Lake Superior district.
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Houghton, Mich
Quincy Mining Company
Lake Superior
Lincoln Birthplace Gift for Roosevelt in Louisville
In Louisville on March 20 a reception honors President Roosevelt with a drink from the Lincoln birthplace farm in Larue County and a large keepsake from Lincoln's birthplace, described as a big stick.
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Louisville
Roosevelt
Lincoln
Larue County
Macalester College Receives $32,000 Land Gift
President Wallace announced Mrs. Thaw of Pittsburgh donated a land tract valued at $32,000 to Macalester College in St. Paul Minnesota. She purchased it in 1893 to aid the college during its financial straits.
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St. Paul, Minn
Wallace
Macalester College
Thaw
Pittsburg
Reclusive Muskegon Man Celebrates 101st Birthday
Daniel McPhail of Muskegon Michigan celebrated his 101st birthday on March 18. He lives by trapping and fishing and is described as hale and hearty. He does not require glasses and still has all his teeth, and he smokes and drinks, expecting to live twenty more years.
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Russia
Japan
Bismarck
Muskegon
Mich
Daniel McPhail
Dreyfus Rehabilitation Expected After Revision
Paris reports the Dreyfus case near its end with the appellate court naming Maitre Maurice Jaffard to draft its report. Observers expect the final decision to fully rehabilitate Dreyfus.
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Dreyfus
Paris
Maitre Maurice. Jaffard
Showman Is Electrocuted at Tex Exhibition
John G. Nelson aged 25 a widely known trainer was instantly killed in Waco Texas while taking down a tower of an exhibition show by a live wire crossing a lighting cable. He leaves a widow and child in Iowa.
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Waco
Tex
John G. Nelson
Iowa
Tornado strikes Porch in Hobart area causing damage
A tornado hit Porch near Hobart Oklahoma on March 20 damaging sixteen homes and injuring several residents. Local reports list Charles Howes as among those hurt and note the event in Hilling County. Authorities code EB are coordinating relief efforts.
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Oklahoma
Hobart
Okla
Porch
Hilling
Charles
Howes
Spring trade growth lifts Chicago area outlook
Chicago Dun and Co reports favorable trade developments with expanded production and distribution. Interior demand grows for dry goods, clothing, hardware, farm tools, and grain as spring activity rises. rail purchases and machinery orders expected to rise. Grain receipts total 6,472,840 bushels with shipments up 37.6 percent year over year, livestock receipts 317,137 head. Failures in Chicago district rise to 25 from 20 last week and last year.
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Chicago
Dun & Co
Free medical institute offers on site consults and cures
An institute advertises free on site consultation and examination by specialist doctors over a weekend on March 25 and 26. It promises diagnosis, advice, and medicines to cure or prolong life, claims new natural treatments, and urges only those with valid cases to call. Married women without husbands and minors without fathers are not admitted. Office hours are 9 A M to 7 30 P M.
Latest Cash Market Reports From Dairy Egg and Produce Prices
Butter creamery prices range 25 to 27 cents with various grades, eggs at mark 14 to 15 cents, cheese includes full cream and cheddars with 11 to 13 cents ranges, fish and poultry quotes listed for multiple species, potatoes onions and sweet potatoes shown with Midwest origins and price bands for different grades, market notes cover several commodities and regional lots.
Local Market Dairy Prices Slotted by Grade and Region
The list shows butter steady at unchanged levels, cheese firm, eggs varied by grade and region. Pennsylvania and nearby areas feature fancy selected white at 19 cents, choice at 18, mixed extra at 18, western firsts Ate, seconds 1644 cents, southern 1534017.
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New
Free Bridge Bill Advances In Missouri Legislature
Gov Folk sent a special message asking the Senate to pass a bill permitting a free bridge across the Mississippi River at St Louis. The House immediately took up the bill and passed it.
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St. Louis
Jefferson City
Folk
House
Senate
Mississippi River
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WIEAT
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Nicholas
Linovitch
Fourth Army
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Mason
Wife
Husband
Hole
Rhode Island
the Chicago
Board of Trade Today
Sept Park
Adrian MedicoSurgical Institue
Elkhart, Ind
Bucklen
Daniel McCaffrey’s Sons Co
Pittsburg, PA
Duquesne Nat
Washington Nat'l Bank
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