Roosevelt and Taft discuss Philippine tariff bill setback
President Roosevelt and Secretary Taft conferred after the senate committee on the Philippines refused to report the tariff bill. Taft stressed he will continue to advocate lower tariff rates for Philippine products and aid the Philippines.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Taft
Lodge
Massachusetts
Cannon
Senate Committee On the
Philippines
White House
Congress
Lodge to Seek Senate Action on Philippine Tariff Bill
Senator Lodge, chair of the Philippines committee, moves to discharge the committee and take up the Philippine tariff bill for debate. He plans to argue in its favor but will not press action until after the statehood bill is finished.
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Washington
Lodge
Committee On the
Senate
Judge bars cemetery expansion near resident home
Hudson Wisconsin March 3 Judge O'Neill of Eau Claire rules in Neil Frederickson vs Willow River Cemetery that law protects the living habitat from being disturbed for graves. Frederickson of Hast Hudson objects to cemetery land bought to plat into plots adjoining his residence.
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Hudson, Wis
O'Neill
Eau Claire
Neil Frederickson
Willow River Cemetery Association
Frederickson
Hast Hudson
Army Seeks 1 Million For Summer Maneuvers
The army appropriation bill lacks funding for summer maneuvers at brigade camps. The War Department will push Senate committee to insert 1 million dollars. A detailed staff report outlines seven camps, troop allocations, and per-organization costs. Senator Hemenway will advocate for the Indianapolis camp if funded.
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Washington
House
Senate Committee On Military Affairs
War Department
Senate
General Staff
Congress
Hemenway
Indianapolis
Finley Twins One Soul Yet Two Lives In Schoolcraft
Cronies since infancy William and Archibald Finley, aged 81 in November, have lived in Kalamazoo County near Schoolcraft. Born in Boston, they moved to Michigan seventy two years ago, worked side by side in clearing woods and farming, sharing most days and never much apart. Archibald now feeble, William runs a cigar store, and both once spent eight years in the California gold fields.
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Schoolcraft
Mich
Finley
Papooses
Michigan
William
Archibald Finley
Finley Brothers
Boston
Kalamazoo County
Detroit
Archibald
Art
California
Elds
Banker to Test Case in Courts
Drake investigating committee plans to test in courts the subpoena refusal by T. J. Davis cashier of the First National bank. President Rowe of the bank stated the matter will seek enforcement of the subpoena and possible contempt action. Cincinnati deliberations suggest a lively legal fight ahead.
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Cincinnati
Rowe
First National Bank
Drake
Senate Committee
T. J. Davis
Pure Food Laws Bar US in Global Trade War
R M Allen notes looming pure food standards tighten border rules and publicity for imports. Germany tightens antiseptic and color use laws on butter milk meat and wines, expanding enforcement via city laboratories and state controls.
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R. M.allen
National State Dairy and Food Departments
Germany
Frontier
America
Agricultural Department
United States
United States Bureau of Chemistry
Connecticut
Kentucky
Pennsylvania
North Carolina
Empire
England
Bavaria
Saxony
Berlin
Department of Agriculture
Imperial Laboratory
Svete
American need to study food preservation and distribution
The text argues that Germany emphasizes turning produced foods into usable products and that the U.S. lacks higher education focused on food industries. It notes 70,000 food industries in America and claims no college trains students for this field as engineers are trained, urging university study of practical food engineering.
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America
Germany
United States
Subpoenas Issued for Bank Clerks Tied to Walsh Arrest
Chicago March 3 United States Commissioner Foote issues subpoenas for four former Chicago National Bank employees in the Walsh arrest case. Bank Examiner Curry holds notes valued in the hundreds of thousands signed by clerks, with memoranda bearing another name.
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Walsh
Chicago
United States
Foote
Chicago National Bank
John R. Walsh
Curry
Printing of detailed hanging story draws indictments
The St Paul Dispatch St Paul Daily News and St Paul Pioneer Press were indicted for violating the law against publishing more than a bare notice of an execution. The charges stem from Feb 13 hangings in St Paul and allege the papers ran detailed accounts including claims a reporter attended. This marks the first enforcement action under the decade old statute.
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St. Paul, Minn
St. Paul Dispatch
St. Paul Daily News
St. Paul Pioneer Press
William Williams
St. Paul
Justice Anderson Admits Intoxication at Funeral
Associate Supreme Justice John C. Anderson of Alabama admits being intoxicated at Chief Justice McClellan’s funeral in Montgomery. He writes to Rev J R Ellis of Birmingham promising no more liquor. Moments after reading the letter, Ellis dies.
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Alabama
Montgomery
Ala
John C. Anderson
State Supreme Court
J. R. Ellis
Christian Advocate
Birmingham
Spokane man found guilty of using mails for lottery
Helena Montana March 3 H L Haupt of Spokane president of the Montana Mining and Investment company was yesterday found guilty of using the mails for lottery purposes. He will be sentenced Tuesday.
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Helena
Mont
H. L. Haupt
Spokane
Montana Mining, and Investment Company
Prisoner Strikes State's Attorney In Chicago Court
Assistant State's Attorney Frank Crowe was struck and knocked unconscious by prisoner Joseph Brown as Brown faced sentencing for robbery. Crowe planned to ask for leniency, but Brown received an indeterminate penitentiary term of one year to life while Crowe lay unconscious.
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Chicago
5State
Frank Crowe
Joseph Brown
Brown
Crowe
Saddle horses bring the money in great market demand
The article notes saddle horses command high prices in New York, Philadelphia, and Baltimore with sale figures of 500 to 1000 dollars. Breeders shift from saddle stock to light harness horses, prompting Charles L Bailey to urge Kentucky farmers to return to saddle horse breeding and training, highlighting regional breeding potential and profitability.
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New York
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Charles L. Bailey
Kentucky
Middle West
East
Witness Recalls Damaging Tale in Haugh Murder Trial
Dayton March 3. Neighbor Thomas M. Farrell testified in Oliver C. Haugh’s murder trial after finding him at the burning house and hearing Haugh say a box would be sufficient for his family’s remains. Court adjourned until Monday at 9.
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Dayton
Ohio
Oliver C. Haugh
Thomas M. Farrell
Haugh
Forger y by Phonograph Alois Szabo Arrested in Hungary
A Hungarian case reports Alois Szabo, son of a wealthy Ezegedia peasant, arrested for forging a will via a phonograph. Servants heard a voice from the bed declaring the will, and courts once upheld it as valid. police later found the phonograph record linking Szabo to the trick. Szabo faces fraud charges.
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Alois Szabo
Ezegedia
Hungary
Alois
Szabo
London Express
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