Roosevelts Navy Secretary a Change in Cabinet
Vast foreign and domestic items. Chicago postoffice clerks appeal to Roosevelt for an eight hour day and graded pay scale. Boer magazine found near Pretoria with large ammunition stores. Fires claim multiple deaths in Matane Quebec. Mt Clemens gas asphyxiations. Methuen wounded as British lose heavy, roosevelt cabinet shift. Roosevelt daughter and party head to Cuba. National People's Party committee set for Louisville meeting.
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Chicago Postoffice
Roosevelt
Chicago Postoffice Clerk Union
American Federatignegfabor
Elt
Geng
Congress
Washington
Smallpox Vaccination at Tombs Prison in NYC
Three hundred ninety two prisoners in the Tombs New York City were vaccinated after a smallpox case was found in the prison. An explosion at the E J Dupont powder plant near Keokuk Iowa killed two men and left a third to die with three others seriously injured. Wm M Johnson assistant postmaster general received a $70 conscience fund contribution from an Indiana resident for the treasury conscience fund. The wreck near Vermont reported involves a lacomo vessel with missing passengers and a rolled crew member.
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New York City
E. J. Dupont de Nemours & Co
Keokuk
Iowa
Wm. M. Johnson
Ofichmond, Lnd
Treas
Photius Resin
New York
Oine
Staukee
Adlowls
Pacific Flour Trust Aims at Pacific Northwest Merger
Portland and San Francisco prepare a massive industrial consolidation uniting major coast flour milling firms. Target capitalization around 10 million dollars with capacity to produce 5 million barrels annually. Interested parties include Portland and Flouring Mills Puget Sound Flouring Mills Tacoma Centennial Mills Seattle Spokane Sperry Flour Mills Stockton San Francisco.
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Portland
Ore
Pacific Northwest
San Francisco
Paacific
Porth and Flouring Mills
Puget Sound Flouring Mills Company
Tacoma
Centennial ‘Fills
Seattle
Spokane
Sperry Flour Mills
Stockton
Vladivostok
Port Arthur
Siugapore
Old Soldier Finds Missing Purse After Dream
Benjamin York of Monticello New York, famed for a sudden discovery in Sullivan County, woke from a dream about a purse buried under a snowdrift on Main Street. He spent an hour digging and unearthed Mrs Brand's pocket book containing six thousand seven hundred fifty dollars, prompting a large reward notice.
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Monticello
N. Y
Sullivan County
M. C. Besinn
New York
Main Street
Court Martial Ordered for Marines Over Natives Executions
Maj. Littleton W T Wal ter and Lieut. Joh Ho are ordered to stand trial in Manila on charges of executing natives on Matar island without trial. Accounts allege a slow sequence of killings tied to a tree and shot wounds over four days. Accusers say privations in Samar drove them to murder a whole family. A separate New Orleans incident reports Italians tried to murder a family. stabbing occurs as authorities investigate. An American firm secures a large contract to build twenty gunboats for Philippine service. The Glenog steamer involved in civil government matters is noted as awarded.
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Manila
Littleton W. T. Walter
Joh Ho
Marine Corps
Matar
Pfrienda
Samar
Three Miners Die in Mine Cage Accident
Three miners at the Standard mine in Motuiet Pleasant Pennsylvania were instantly killed when the cage to the surface failed and toppled. A rescuer said one man lost holding and dragged others down in the fall.
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Standard
Motuiet Pleasant
Dangerous niche at site yields risky water-filled hole
Police scoured the area at the dangerous spot where poles sunk twenty feet before bottom. The location formerly housed a clay pit that was abandoned and now holds water and refuse. A thin surface coating belies the depth and risk.
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P. J. O'Neill
Judge Cuts Question of Asphyxiation Inheritance Case
Judge Cutting of the Probate Court rules that Margaret Askwith survived John long enough to inherit his portion of about $2700 after their deaths from accidental asphyxiation at 964 Canal Street Chicago on April 29 1898. With no children or will the ruling favors the woman heirs at law, based on deductions from the bodies condition and courtroom hearings over months.
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Cutting
John
Margaret Askwith
Canal Street
Chicago
Teds Cutting
Love Leads to Digaster. Ohio Supreme Court Refuses Damages
Ohio Supreme Court reverses the Cincinnati Superior Court ruling in a widow’s suit for damages over her engineer husband’s death aboard a Baltimore and Ohio train. The collision near the wife’s home involved a Vanderbilt special train and a derailed path, leaving many dead and injured in one of Cincinnati’s worst disasters.
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Ohio Supreme Court
Columbus
Ohio
Supreme Court
Superior Courto of Cineinnati
John Price
Baltimore and Ohio
Price
Vanderbilt
Cinccinnati
Gard Quanys
Poison in Mail Poisons Woman in Lowell Village
Mrs William Klump ingested a powder later dying from likely strychnine poisoning. Sheriff Chuaypanan of Grand Rapids leads a murder inquiry with no motive yet found. Other brief items note a deadly stageslide near Trenton, legal action in Minnesota, a perilous sea ordeal ending at Newport News, and various local disasters and crimes.
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William Klump
William Scimmp
Lowell Mich
Ste Wats
Kilnwip
Chuaypanan
Grand Rapids
Senate debate on rural free carriers and related bills
Washington notes report ongoing Senate debate on rural free carriers and related measures. Amendments and votes discussed include a March 17 deadline and references to lighthouse construction, census actions, and a possible survey for the Great Lakes Mississippi waterway.
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Messrs
Jardner
N. J
Ant
Fox
Gal
Hill
Gi. Littlefield
Fire
Calumet Harbor
Deadly Texas Rail Disaster Triggers Widespread Panic
A Southern Pacific mixed train traveling from San Antonio to Galveston derailed near Maxon after a broken rail. The wreck left at least fifteen dead and over twenty injured as flames engulfed cars. Crews rushed from El Paso and Lawrenson to aid survivors, while reports warned the death toll could rise toward forty.
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San Antonio
Penay
Geen
Maxon
Sanderson
Hoo Clock
Galveston
Harrisburg
Church and Clergy News From Various Cities
The Christian Endeavor Society reaches its majority while Methodist groups raise 50000 toward a hospital in Indianapolis. The May conference of Methodist Episcopal bishops is set for Chattanooga. Pope staff secretary Michael Antonini marks twenty four years with the Vatican. Emanuel Baptist Church Chester near dedication costing about 15000. Dr. McConnell criticizes theology seminaries for chasing quantity over quality. Universalist Church of the Redeemer installs Rev Henry B Taylor with elaborate services. Rumor of St John’s Richmond selling property to be contradicted. Robert Chapman of Plymouth Brethren preaches in Devonshire at age 100, after seventy years of preaching. Dean Stanley urges funds to complete cathedral tower memorial to Bishop Whipple. Dr Charles Nichols, famed for listing America’s elite, receives many lecture bids.
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The
Methodist Episcopal Church
Chattanooga
Tenn
Michael Antonini
Vatican
McConnell
Henry B. Taylor
Church of the Redeemer
Universalist
St. Paul
Richmond
Patrick Henry
Robert Chapman
Devonshire
London
Dean Stanley
Cathedral of Our Merciful Savior
Faribault
Minn
Trade and Weather Affect Industrial Output in Winter Grip
The period saw curtailed New York month activity due to two holidays and severe storms yet overall trade results were satisfactory. Weather hindered coke and pig iron production while foreign steel demand rose. domestic buyers faced rising prices and uncertain raw materials. Weather reports forecast mixed winter conditions across midwest and plains, with corn and wheat markets reacting to crop data and export movements.
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Ros
Din & Cows Weekly
New England
Market reports from Chicago to New York cattle and grain prices
The record lists bid and asking ranges for cattle hogs sheep and grain across major markets including Chicago St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Milwaukee and New York with No 2 and No 3 grade wheat corn oats and rye cited. Prices show wide variations by market and product with Creamery butter quoted as 22 to 32 cents and lambs to 8.05 per hundredweight in places.
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Indianapolis
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Atile
Detroit
Toledo
Milwaukee
New York
Domestic service inquiry leads to odd exchange in village
A quarrel over Gretchen Kruesel’s position as domestic in Judge Vaughan’s household ends with Bemused remarks about the girl. The tale blends a social scene with dubious medical advertising for catarrh cures, urging readers to seek treatments from Henry & Co. in Toledo.
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Herre Kruesel
Gretchen
Vaughan
Neruegel
Salzer Seed Co Promotes Onion Seed and Varieties
Selections from Salzer Seed Co LaCrosse Wis advertise onion seed and other lower and vegetable seeds. The notice touts large seed catalogs and new methods, with pricing listed and mail order details.
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Jobo A. Salzer
Coughing Leads to Consumption and Trade Details
Coughing leads to consumption warning and advice to visit a druggist for a free sample of Batsam. Note on bottle sizes 25 and 50 cents. Urges immediate action. Mentions Suez Canal length eighty eight miles and shipping distance savings from England to India about 4,000 miles.
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Kemp
Suez Canal
Engand
Iudia
Mothers Praise Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound
Mrs J H Haskins of Chicago presidents Chicago Arcade Club shares comforting childbirth advice. She recounts using Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound and Pills during pregnancy to ease pain and regain strength, noting she recovered by ten days after birth and kept the remedy for spring and fall use.
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J. H. Haskins
Chicago, Ill
Chicago Arcade Club
J. WH. Haskins
Lydia E.pinkum
Lydia E
J. Hi
Hasxine
Chicago, Dl
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