Department Clerks to be Dismissed in Civil Service Shuffle
A Washington special reports cabinet officers plan to purge clerks by relying on bureau lists and civil service appointments. Communications will be confidential and focus includes partisan behavior and misdeeds. Officials expect to dismiss up to 25 percent of clerks this summer to clear vacancies for competition driven hires.
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Washington
Globe-Democrat
Civil Service
Civil Service Commissioners
Heroic Bridge Tender Halstead Shielded City From Disaster
In a Chicago storm Harry Carmody, bridge tender at Halstead street, closed the bridge as a vessel passed then warned and halted a northbound street car. He sprinted across the swinging span, grabbed the horse bits, and ordered the brake, saving likely many lives as the car stopped ten feet from the river.
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Chicago
Harry Carmody
Halstead Street Bridge
Carmody
Judge Mackey’s Son Trial Opens Amid International Support
Judge Mackey, father of United States Consul Mackey, confirms via cable that his son’s trial has begun in Rio Grande do Sul Brazil. The leading local lawyer offered help and consular support from several nations is pledged. The father recalls sending two revolvers and 100 cartridges to his son with orders to defend himself at all costs.
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Mackey
United States
Rio Grande Do Sul
Brazil
Patent cough syrup blamed for child’s death in inquest
Philadelphia coroners inquest found death of a child caused by a patent cough syrup containing morphia. Dr Sam K Cox of Washington says most cough medicines carry risks and endorses Red Star Cough Cure as vegetable and free from opiates, poisons, and narcotics.
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Philadelphia
Sam‘. K. Cox
Washington
Dallas County funds five roads at $1000 each
Dallas County controls appropriation of $1000 for each of five roads from the city. The routes include Dallas and Grapevine, Lancaster and Dallas, Preston and Dallas, Rockwall and Dallas, and Grand Prairie and Dallas. About twenty convicts are at work, fewer than usual due to assisting on poor farm crops, with progress on the Preston and Denton roads.
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Dallas
277S Court
Grapevine
Lancaster
Preston
Rockwall
Grand Prairie
Denton
Texas Planter and Farmer Returns With New Ownership
The Texas Planter and Farmer of Dallas returns after a brief hiatus now under the Planter and Farmer Company. The weekly five column quarto targets Texas agriculturists with quality reading matter, printed well and attractively priced at one dollar annually.
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Texas Planter and Farmer
Dallas
Planter and Farmer Company
Texas
Mexican exhibitor sues over seized goods at Laredo
Mr. O'Brien, recently back from the New Orleans Exposition, files a complaint against Laredo customs officials. He had brought part of his exhibits from New Orleans toward his Mexico home, with goods valued at 2500 dollars. Officials offered release on investigation, but he refused and chose to sue for damages.
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O’brien
New Orleans
Laredo
Mexico
Customhouse
Brown's Iron Bitters Promoted for Health
Rolls and carbuncles are described as volcanoes of the human system arising from impure blood and digestive imbalance. The remedy urged is Brown's Iron Bitters to tone up the body. Annapolis druggists Handy & Bullman note strong sales and positive feedback with no complaints.
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Messrs
Handy & Bullman
Annapolis
Death at the Southern Hotel in St Louis
R M Reynolds former first auditor of the treasury was killed in a fall from the third floor at the Southern hotel in St Louis. An air shaft runs through the building and a coroner's jury found death by own action though friends in Washington doubt suicide citing vertigo and illness. Reynolds had left the treasury two weeks earlier and was en route to Kansas to buy land.
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R. M. Reynolds
the Treasury
St. Louis
Reynolds
Kansas
United States Treasury
Washington
Texas News Highlights From Del Rio To University Regents
A band of robbers near Del Rio and Dry Devil’s River exerts pressure on ranchers with cattle and horse theft. Skeletons found near the Champion Farm hint at a large earlier structure. Panhandle Stock Association forms with $10,000,000 in assets. University Regents report a prosperous term ending with graduates. Jefferson firm facing marshal action and $14,000 in attachments. State cash and revenue figures detailed. Bassett & Bassett assigns assets. Remains of cotton swindler Baum buried in Jackson, Michigan.
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Delrio
Devil’s River
Champion
Corsicana
Panhandle Stock Association
Charles Goodnight
N. T. Eaton
Robert Moody
H. W. Cresswell
O.H. Nelson
Mobeetie
University Regents
Austin
Jefferson
W. P. Torrans
Brenham
B. H. Bassett
Bassett & Bassett
C. C. Garrett
J. T. Swearington
Baum
Jackson
Michigan
Texas Wheat Promise to Make State Greatest Cereals Producer
The Southern Trade Gazette argues Texas climate soil and transport will boost wheat corn oats barley and millet production. Ex Governor Hubbard and Dallas speakers cite Texas acreage capacity yields surpassing United States norms and proximity to Gulf ports to claim Texas could feed and export vast grain amounts amid global supply dynamics.
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United States
Texas
India
England
Russia
America
R. B. Hubbard
Missouri
Ilinois
Indiana
W. G. Veal
Dallas
W. W. Lang
Galveston
Brazil
Genesee County
New York
Stark County
Ohio
California
Great West
Southland
Texas Crops Promise Record Harvest, Says Texas Planter
Reports from north and central Texas point to magnificent crops of wheat oats barley rye and corn. A Dallas observer traveled twenty counties, denying ruin from wind and rain and predicting the heaviest Texas harvest yet. Cotton in lowlands needs rain but will recover. fruit and orchard crops are in splendid condition.
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Texas
Dallas
Sahara
Aransas railway seen as vital to western Texas growth
The San Antonio Times argues the Aransas Pass road will unlock Gulf access for western Texas. A gulf terminus would enable Boston New York and New Orleans goods to arrive by steamers and cut rail shipment costs. Lumber trade with Florida Alabama and Mississippi mills would also drop prices.
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San Antonio Times
Aransas
Gulf of Mexico
Texas
Aransas Pass
Gulf
Boston
New York
New Orleans
Florida
Alabama
Mississippi
Iron and Steel Strike Closes Mills Nationwide
A broad strike by the Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers and United Nailers halts mills from Pittsburg to Chicago and Cleveland. With many workers idle, owners refuse new wage scales, signaling a prolonged period of lay-offs and hardship amid low product prices and ample inventory.
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Amalgamated Association of Iron and Steel Workers
United Nailers
Pittsburg
Chicago
Cincinnati
Cleveland
Youngstown
Milwaukee
St. Louis
Terre Haute
Bridal Robes for a Burial In Texas Tragic Creek Drowning
Miss Annie Elmore and her brother died when their buggy and horses were swept by Big Bear Creek near Fort Worth while en route to town for a wedding. Henry Windom, the intended groom, rescued Annie but she did not survive. Elmore is missing, and Windom bought funeral robes and a coffin, planning a wedding outfit for a postponed ceremony.
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Fort Worth
Tex
Big Bear Creek
Annie Elmore
Elmores
Vincennes
Ind
Henry Windom
Annie
Trousseau
Windom
Bear Creek
Young Elmore
Miss Annie
Elmore
Henry
James Elmore
Cou Pridge
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Graham Leader
J. W. Graves
Graham
Corman N. Jornay
Texas News
Texas Wheat
Lone Star State
Union
Madame Chariton Edholm
Southern Trade Gazette
Earl of Durreriy
Canada
Tron Works
Wheeling
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