Lilley’s Quiz Starts Witness List for Electric Boat Probe
The House special committee under Speaker Cannon begins its probe into the Electric Boat and Holland Boat companies. Lilley, who seeks legal representation, proposes witnesses including Isaac L. Rice and others while claiming he and his wife are shadowed by detectives and asks to summon three Washington detectives.
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Holland Boat Computmy
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Bailey's View of Roosevelt on currency bill in 1908
Washington March 10 Bailey comments on the Aldrich currency bill and President Roosevelt. He praises Roosevelt for arousing attention to corporate evils but says his expansion of federal power dwarfs states and could destroy the federal system. He criticizes Roosevelt as rash and arbitrary yet honest in parts.
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Roosevelt
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Washington May See Warer Impact On Wheat Prices
In a crowded congressional session Washington delegates discuss wheat stock levels and price signals tied to March market data. Analysts note farm inventories and crop prospects influence policy debates as speakers address currency bills. A separate notice mourns the death of a local figure.
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Washington
Mauredio de Vine
Adolph Meyer Adjourning Session Notes Mourns His Death
Report from Washington March 10 describes a brief House session adjourning for the nomine of Adolph Meyer’s death. The text notes actions around the Navy Yard, a near delay due to sailors sick with mines, and mentions Bowler introducing a proposal to the President.
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Adolph Meyer
Meyer
Representative Tinckney Moo Proposes Interior Mines Bureau
Washington report notes Representative Tinckney Moo introduced a bill to create a bureau of mines within the Department of the Interior. The aim is to organize and oversee mineral resources, mining claims, and related activities at the federal level.
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Washington
Marett
Tinckney Moo
Bureau of Mines
Department of the Interior
Berlin Court Ruling on Street Demonstrations Causes Stir
In Berlin a minor court upheld a ruling that shouting on the streets in support of universal suffrage is a gross misdemeanor. Three Socialists appealed a police arrest order for street protests and sought Chancellor von Buelow as a witness, but the motion was denied. The case framed the issue as dissidence versus patriotic homage to leaders. The defendants were accused of singing the workers Marseillaise.
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Berlin
von Buelow
Imade
Cro
Guthrie Presses Bonds to Aid Unemployed in Pittsburg
Mayor Guthrie urged the city to issue bonds totaling 1000000 for street repaving to help the unemployed. The council refused, preferring tax funding, and favored city work through taxation rather than bond finance.
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Guthrie
Norwegian suspect linked to Janesville attacks
Janesville police may have solved recent assaults on local women after arresting a Norwegian named Otte Ende Wallin. Police believe Wallin is insane and found a stash of items including six women’s pocketbooks and several knives among his possessions.
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Wis
Otte Ende Wallin
Wallin
He Was Wed in Haste in Philadelphia March 10
Tracy, a capital ist and clubman of Chicago, has married Miss Genevieve West of New York. The couple met at a social event and reportedly married in haste. They sailed for their honeymoon today from Philadelphia.
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Tracy
Chicgtee
Genevieve AS West
Pit West Forty-third Street
New York
Mo tourists aid eruption glimpse by torchlight at Vesuvius
A party of American tourists, guided by three local women, explored Mount Vesuvius by torchlight and observed a fresh fissure during the eruption. The newly opened section of the crater had not been visited by guides until now, drawing interest from observers.
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Marcella
United States
Mount Vesuvius
Nishe
Respite Granted for Quarter in Norfolk Case
Respited for literary reasons, Norfolk. Val Marta fo Crevery op Chrude AL Swantsen telephoned Stor Lawler that Tea Whorrou has been respited to the 27th. The prisoner’s counsel expects a brief delay tied to the quarter of the guard and related proceedings.
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Swantsen
Stor Lawler
Receiver named for Alecerie Co Milwaukee project
A receiver was appointed for the Alecerie Company project in Milwaukee after an application by Pie Columbia Construction Company. The order directs receivership to manage assets and progress, with details filed in Wisconsin court records. The case names Pie Columbia Construction Company as petitioner and outlines duties for the appointed receiver.
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Alecerie Co
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Maredis
Corey
Oon
Columbia Construcion Company
Duel inabili deadly duel ends with physician intervention
A staged duel ends after a first shot when Mor. X. is attacked by a sudden hypodia like effect. The seconds and the doctor halt the engagement after a gravely spoken report outlines the incident and notes the world would not yield to treatment.
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Pean
How it Was in Giston Across the City
In a terse overheard exchange characters discuss money and debt. Tiler D admits borrowing five dollars from Ricker after learning Ricker knows the speaker. Giston notes Ricker’s acquaintance with the speaker and questions Pim’s relation to the others, implying a wary social dynamic.
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Revolt at Reform School as Blackjack Squelches Riot
Insurrection by desperate prisoners at the reform school leads to guards subduing three ringleaders with blackjacks on the parade ground. Leaders confined to solitary. investigation resumes into deaths and alleged cruelties at the institution. Superintendent Mallary ill with nervous prostration amid hearings.
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Professor Dillon as town drama and mob scene unfolds
Carmi March 1 1948 a controversial incident centers on Professor J A Dillon accused of resisting a fine and paraded on a post. The event sparked public viewings, arrests for shoplifting and forged warrants, with town figures clashing over authority while locals discuss the drama and its impact on the university community.
Andrew Carnegie Civil War Service Certified by War Department
Official records certify that Andrew Carnegie served in the military telegraph service during the Civil War. General Oliver, acting secretary of war, endorsed the certificate under the act authorizing such documentation. The department notes that soon after the war began Thomas A. Scott, then assistant secretary of war and superintendent of the Pennsylvania Railroad, summoned his assistant to Washington to establish a utility telegraph system.
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Raecordihee
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Mc Carnegie
Washington
Ridder Accuses North Over Paper Prices and Dereliction
New York figure Maretti and I N Y North are central in a dispute over paper prices. Ridder, president of the American Newspaper Publishers Association, alleges official dereliction and cites a letter to Representative Dalvel about steam print paper costs over a fifteen year span. He claims North falsified records, notes a three year gap in pricing, and says mills merged into International Paper during the period.
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Means Freedom for Schmitz ex mayor freed on remand
The California Supreme Court denied rehearing in the extortion case against ex Mayor Schmitz and Ruef. Schmitz awaits possible jail release while Ruef, who pleaded guilty, also faces pending sentences.
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State Supreme Court
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Phil
District Court of Appeals
Abraham Ruef
Flower-strewn funeral for Lake View school victims
In Cleveland on March 10, twenty one caskets carried the remains of seventeen unidentified children and four identified ones were laid to rest in Lake View cemetery. All were buried together in a single large pallbearer funeral following the Collinwood school fire tragedy.
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Lake View
Collinwood
Ambush in Ybor City Injures Four Italians
In Tampa at St. Joseph's convent grounds four men hid and shot Giovan mi Grana a leading physician his brother-in-law John Orfino and Alfonso Male at night. Male is likely to die while the others sustain minor wounds. Italian targets suspected tied to a Block Pand plot.
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Giovanmi Grana
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Alfonso Male
Ybor City
St. Joseph's Convent
Male
Alp
Pistret Attorney Jerome Toes Reply To Governor
Albany March 10 Jerome Pistret attorney toes delivered to the governor his reply to various accusations against him as district attorney. The reply is very full and contains a seriatine review of the charges denied in most items as to guilt or fault of Peroni.
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N.Y
Pistret
Jerome Toes
Peroni
Warden Contes Improves After Prison Break Injury
Maretta reports Warden Contes of the state penitentiary at Teer Ladies was seriously injured while thwarting a bold break. He is improving and will likely recover, according to hospital updates and penitentiary officials in Butte Montana.
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Jetix G. Penn
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Conley
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Fire escape facilities probe at schools and other events
Chicago investigates fire escape facilities at schools amid disruptions. railway traffic slowed with fewer freight cars idle. A US torpedo ban stalls Craus Cuillva project in Peru. Mayor Marklrelt delivers address at University convocation after records rendition. Forest fires threaten Wormhawk area. four people burned. Court cases and political talks unfold in Milwaukee and New York. Rhode Island Republicans push claims of leadership. Jewelry theft reported in New York City with losses around 2000 dollars.
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Peru
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New York
Notice of grocery stock sale and address change
After purchasing the grocery stock of J. J. Cunningham at the corner of Cherry Street and Clark Avenue, Gro. A. Shafer announces he is open Saturday morning for business and asks former customers to settle accounts due to Cunningham by directing payments to Shafer.
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Piano tuner ad listing F. J. Burdett contact in city
F. J. Burdett, piano tuner, appears in Brown and Vollmeyer’s listings or by phone at 23 1-4ael. Local ad notes piano tuning service with contact details for scheduling and inquiries.
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Brown & Vollmeyer
Hysteria Is Rebuked Kaisers Letter 18 Innocuous
London March 9 government kept private Emperor William’s letter to Lord Tweedmouth regarding naval estimates. Lord Rosebery mocked sensational press coverage while defending the monarchy. The Lords debated the issue as the Times and other papers drew hostile inferences between Britain’s friendship with France and hostility to Germany. Lord Esher’s role in Windsor drainage was noted amid the uproar.
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Times and Genoa naval debate draws partisan lines
The Times resists calls to drop a dispute over alleged dishonorable conduct by the Genoa emperor. An editorial defends the paper against Rosebery and Tweedmouth allegations while faulting German naval aims as commercially oriented and focused on distant operations rather than immediate threats.
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Night Riders Warning From Unknown Message
Fragmentary report notes a warning message about night riders pressuring locals to surrender or face consequences. Text is garbled but references threats and urgent call to act quickly. Names, places, and dates are unreadable in the excerpt.
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Anna Gould Sails to New York with Family
Paris socialite Anna Gould sails with her children on a voyage to New York. The party travels aboard the Nort Cerna Poloydner Krongsing Wilhelm and plans a two month stay in the United States, with expected remuneration.
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Marvel
Wilhelm
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United States
Thousands of Women Sacrificing at Home Need Help
A protest piece notes women in American homes bear daily burdens keeping households orderly and well-dressed children, yet suffer pains and aches in silence. It argues for aid to relieve these burdens and support faithful homemakers.
Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Boosts Women's Health
Thirty year standard remedy for female ills from roots and herbs. Testimonials from Mrs. Ellsworth of Mayville and Mrs. Boyd of Beaver Falls praise relief from displacements, inflammation, fibroid tumours, irregularities, backache, and nervous prostration. Mrs Pinkham invites sick women to write for advice from Lynn Mass.
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W.P. Boyd
Beaver Falls
Lydia E. Pinkham
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Lydia EK. Pinkham
A Nautical Secret in a Sailor Tale
A playful exchange explains why the boat pitches 50 on the waves. The sailor hints at a nautical secret, saying the reason is the waves, but the truth is kept as a light joke for the passenger.
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Bluffer Claims Court Presentation Seen as Boast
A Baltimore American quote questions Bluffer who boasts of a court presentation. The exchange notes uncertainty about truthfulness and guesses the recent grand jury was involved, reflecting a sharp, skeptical tone.
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Bluffer
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