Former Chief Engineer Predicts Panama Canal Failure
Join F Stevens, VP of New Haven railroad and ex chief engineer of the Panama Canal, says the canal will not meet expenses or aid shippers. He argues the passage will not boost U S trade with South America or Pacific regions, noting most South Americans live east of the Andes and inland markets rely on rail transport.
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Isthmian Waterway
New Haven, Conn
F. Stevens
New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad
Fanama Canal
Myr. Stevens
United States
South America
Andes
Pacific
Far East
Stevens on coal, canals, and global trade routes
The source quotes Mr Stevens arguing coal supply will shrink, China and Siberia as future suppliers, and India as a major grain region. He doubts Panama Canal economics, contending its cost may outpace benefits for wartime mobility and a larger navy.
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Stevenis
China
Siberia
India
Stevens
Panama Canal
Fenal
Av. Stevens
Ala Shows No Interest In Trial For Sacrament Incident
Guwiseppe Ala, player of Father Leo Meinrichs, stood in Denver court on March 10 for a sacrament related incident at St. Elizabeth's church. He sat in the prisoner’s box with little reaction as jurors were called and examined, wearing plain clothes and blinking toward spectators.
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Heinrichs
Denver
Guwiseppe Ala
Leo Meinrichs
St. Elizabeth's Church
Alia
Painter Dies in Fort Dodge Platform Accident
Thomas Jovsted, 40, slipped on an icy Fort Dodge platform, fell twelve feet and landed on his head. Death was instantaneous as his neck was broken and head mashed. Jovsted was a painter by trade.
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Thomas Jovsted
Fort Dodge
Senator Blanchard Dead After Brief Illness
Hon. J. C. Blanchard prominent attorney and Republican politician, former circuit judge and state senator, died of heart failure at Oshaloo sa after an hour of illness.
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Senator Blanchard
J. C. Blanchard
State Senate
Oshaloosa
Wireless Message From Battleship Fleet Reaches Pensacola
A Pensacola wireless station unexpectedly relayed a message from the Atlantic fleet, crossing the Gulf of Mexico and parts of Texas and Mexico, showing the reach of naval communications. The note from Rear Admiral Thomas asks if there is important news from home. Separately, Antonio Strovy is sentenced to death at Sing Sing for a 1908 New York murder. Four miners are believed safe after a mine fire in Calumet, Michigan, and Mrs Doerr, a wealthy asylum patient, ends her life in Mattoon, New York.
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Pensacola
Washington
Navy Department
Atlantic
Persicola
Heer
Gulf of Mexico
Texas
Mexico
Thomas
Oesming
Antonio Strovy
Amonto Torseilla
Ven Cortlandt Park
New York
Sing Sing Pingeon
Calumet
Mich
Frank- Hn
Mattenway
N. Y
Brief Bits of News Highlight Multiple 1900s Figures
Henry Bosch dies in Chicago leaving a major American paper, paint, and oil business. John Wellesley of Worcester named a cancer expert and philanthropist. ada Neil Nebraska division consolidates offices with Kansas City and Atchison. Milwaukees public schools ordered vacated for fire escape absence. William E. Dodge Jr. of Daily Missoulian dies from ptomaine poisoning. John T. Dower set to inherit 10 million from Melbourne uncle Thomas Wallace. William P. Manning, once Parker campaign manager, now heads pneumonia ward in New York.
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Henry Bosch
United States
Chicago
John Wellesley
Worcester
Muse
Hag
Ada Neil
Nebraska
Omaha
Kansas City
Atchison
Urxan
Milwaukee
Edward ¥. Koch
William E. Dodge
Missoulian
Missoula
Mont
Dodge
Minneapolis
John T. Dower
Mass
Thomas Wallace
Melbourne
Australia
William P. Manning
Alen B. Parker
New York State
Chanler
New York City
Market Quotations From Duluth and Chicago Grain Prices
Market wire notes Duluth wheat and flax futures with on track values for No 1 hard and Northern grades, May and July positions, plus flax bids. Minneapolis Dairy and cattle prices appear alongside figures for cattle veal and lambs. Chicago grain and provisions list May wheat and corn futures, oats and butter, eggs, and poultry prices with regional variations.
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Duluth
Northern
Minneapolis
Arch
Ty Northern
P Northern
Chicago
Iowa Coal Mines Face Major Shutdown Threat
Happenings in Iowa warn that a complete shutdown of the states coal mines may occur as 15 000 miners would be idled. With contracts expiring March 31 and eastern disagreements delaying a new agreement the Iowa operators fear mines could halt by April 1. John P Reese Iowa coal operators association secretary said a shutdown seems likely given the eastern stalemate.
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Iowa
John P. Reese
Iowa (Co) Operators’ Association
Reese
Iowa ruling upholds private charity right to refuse coffee
Des Moines Judge James A. Howe ruled that under civil debt law in Iowa a coffee company at a public show may refuse service to negroes when giving away coffee. The decision came in a suit by S Joe Brown, a black attorney, whose wife encountered the coffee stand. The court held a person or business may give away goods to whom they please and refuse service to others.
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Iowa
James A. Howe
District Court
Des Moines
S. Joe Brown
Cofee Lngth
Pure
Cofferan
Cleveland school board orders immediate safety upgrades
The Sioux City board of education closes all fire escape lacking schools and dismisses pupils until fire escapes are installed. Grills will be kept up, doors will be unlocked and open outwards to improve safety after a series of school house scare reports. About thousands of children affected as directors pledge life protection.
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Cleveland
Sioux City Board of Education
Safexuerda
Board of Directors
Tragic kitchen fire kills Miss Maile Wilson in Independence
Miss Maile Wilson, twenty, died from severe burns after her apron caught fire while performing duties at the Gedney hotel in Independence. She lived in Independence most of her life. The mishap occurred over a week ago as she attempted to throw up her hands to escape flames unleashed by burning lard. Meanwhile aDes Moines streetcar strike risk eased when a board of arbitrators granted employees a roughly 15 percent raise, far short of the requested 46 percent, to take effect in two years, ending a two week period of citywide anxiety.
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Maile Wilson
Gedney
Independence
Deas Moines
Des Moines
Engineer Killed by Falling Derrick at Sioux City Brewery
An industrial accident at the Interstate brewery in Sioux City killed Engineer Conlon who was operating an engine in the basement as a derrick failed from the third story. A large portion of brickwork collapsed in the derrick’s downward fall.
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Interstate
Sioux City
Conlon
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