Congressional News and Domestic Events Highlight Sessions
A Senate session debated voting rights for all citizens and named nominees in agriculture and naturalization reforms. The House reported on tariff bills, pensions, and territorial acts while disaster, crime, and societal stories from Memphis fires to a Kansas City mail robbery noted a broad, unsettled domestic scene.
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Senate
United
Con
United States
Evarta
Gn J. Colman
Missouri
Judiciary Committee
Elsioth
Avis
Carroll D. Wright
North Dakota
Montana
RABLS
National Board of Health
General Rosecrans
Farmers’ Institutes
Mills
Iya
Moan
Panimna
James Berger
Washing County
Tex
Mccallan
New Mexico
Score of the Interior
Civil Service Commission
Palmer
Mich
Lews Cass
Michigan
T of Representatives
Texas
Sullivan
Fex
California
Congress Raises Pensions to One Hundred Dollars a Month
A late report notes a congressional act increasing pensions to 100 dollars monthly for those who served, amid a flood of calamities and events across the country. It mentions railroad fires in Cincinnati and Youngstown, banked-up losses in Philadelphia, a suicide in Pike County, and multiple public notices including tariff league meetings in Chicago and a deadly cyclone toll in Banks County Georgia.
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Ripxer BantLett
Boston
Heartill
Bia
Oveer Abner Daten
Frederick County
Dayton
Oonthe
Gronvk Hinn
Rhode Island
Providence
Evwan
Willett
New York Bundsy Dispatch
Cotonzt
Tel States
F. M Usquaazr
da Hollaxy S McTyErenn
Methodia
Episcopal Church South
Vanderbilt University
Nashville
Tenn
Jonyx W Street
Chicago
Patti
New York
Repaces Cany
Hamilton County
Cincinnati
Samuel F. Cary
Airs
Cary
Presbyterian Church
Arkansas House
Ith
Congress
Philadelphia
Indianapolis
St. Louis
Pike County Air
Witc
Jexon
Youngatown
American Tariff Reform League
Joveland
Vth
Attala
Ala
Citizens’ Law and Order League of the
United States
CC Bonney
Grand Tank Road
Ste. Hracinthe
Que
Anpent Jouxros
David Ploming
Sears
Malden
Musa
H W van Drxy
Minnie Dongloes Opera Company
Iowa
Janen Ronpis
Franklin
Ind
Wabash
Banks County
Joseph Houston
Illinois Legislature Proposes Prohibition and Tax Reforms
A dense report covers Senate and House actions on prohibition measures, labor hours for factory workers, crime penalties, state institutions, and legislative proposals. It notes appointments, constitutional questions, and bills affecting rail, education, and public works with multiple votes and potential amendments.
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Senate
National Lincoln Monument
Horst
Sheets
Firemen's Pension Fund
House
Chicago
Roche
Don R. Frezer
Mount Carroll
State Board of Railroad and Warehouse Commissioners
Don Frazier
Carrol County
Thomas Jamieson
Cook
Herman Schneider
Board of Pharmacy
Board of Town Auditors
Municipalitica
Woman's Relief Corps
Illinois
Witnets
Sxnaate
House-Billa
Directors and Boards of Education of
Public Schoola
State Board of Agriculture
Terrible Costa Rica Earthquake Destroys San Juan Churches
Reports from Costa Rica recount a December 20 quake with multiple shocks, heavy damage in San Juan including the cathedral and national palace, with streets blocked by ruins and more than 3200 000 in losses in San Jose. A family buried together and others displaced describe the disaster's toll.
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Apineke
China
Anhui
Riangsu
DeLonis
Ifavana
Cuba
Ith
Bnd
Carnot
Costa Rica
San Jose
Alajuela
la Laguna
Lake Starnborg
Munich
Pasasa
San Jono
San Juan
Carmen and
Merced
National Palace
Central Barracka
National Printing Offices
Union Bank
Sho
Indians in the United States Population and Housing Figures
The record lists Indian agency counts at sixty one and housing occupancy figures. Alaska Indians number about nine thousand with a total US population around 18.7 million. It also cites church memberships, citizens in dress, and land cultivation data for the Indian population.
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Alaska
United Bies
Umarx
Jim Mower
United States
Noxsen
Noxwer
Death's Harvest: Park Central Hotel disaster in Mariford
An explosion at the Park Central Hotel in Mariford Conn. wrecks the building near High and Allyn streets. Fire sweeps the ruin as rescuers pull survivors from the debris. about forty five believed killed with many injured. The boiler blast is blamed. night engineer Alexander Thuer is jailed on manslaughter charges.
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Memphis
Tenn
Neely
Tort’ Syne
Ind
Maryland
Penn Lyania
Owixo
Wilhelmina Wiebeelscauser
Crestline
Ontasr
Geneva
Neb
Nevada
Cannes G. Wasapunn
Worcester
Washburn & Moon Manufacting Company
Louis Janin
Taruxa Dora Henty
St Louis
Cathiocese
Chicago
Ay Powxas
Te, Ind
National Association of Builder
Phili Iphia
Mth
Edward F. Keribner Paul
Frank Folira
Louisville
Florida
Defunick
Cates W. Ganen
Reading
St John
Wangy
Lafayette Ge
Easton
Cape Vincent
Grand Lake Coal Company
Pitta
Union Stock Yards
Nashville, Tenn
West End
Chippens Falls
Wis
Alexandria
Minn
Martin Moe
Taz
Jacob Faucett
Mount
Ww. C
Amax
Trwan
Lake Superior
Duluth
United States
Tierenen Batkad Opera House
Kand
Sturea
Butler
Bo Tts Ieee
Bernard Beechler
Veine
Hota
Jovernon Laryjanke
Love
Polk County Grand Jury
Abel
Nurney
Jababerg Fiyk
August Penmann
Philadelphia
Krers
Mataafa
Namon
San Francisco
Washington
State Department
Thomas Witona
Ashland
Wr Witlons
Sexatox Davin F Hoverox
Roanoke
Lancaster
Chattanooga
Georgia
McDowoat
Parkernburyg
W Va
Qglenville
Joseph Chemeleck
Mia Chemeleck
Rose
Mary
Lewis Crocker
Frank Layton
Lopez
Kuck Hapids
Aia
Hinass Vanpusyn
Harlem
Landis Transfer & Livery Company
Kansas City
James Hoffman
New York
Cotton Palace
Ladies’ Charitable Aid Association
New Orleans
MogMon
Barnett
Banks County
Thomas Stevens
Aow
Mendera
Galena
Giberard
Key West
I Arrre B. Stevenson
Wellsville
Koya Pabao
Ith
Augusta
Park Central_Hotel
Mariford
Conn
Haxtrorp
Park Central Hotel
High
Allyn
Scgne
Perty
Tonaro
Andrew F Whiting
Hartford Life and Annuity Insurance Company
Lavallette Perrin
Memorial Hall Association
Edward Perry
Dwight A. Buell
Hartford
George Gaines
J. George Engler
John W. Housman
Revere Rubber Company
Boatongs
Dufalo
Louis N. Bronson
Hartford Store and Plumbing Company
Sod
George Ketchum
Eddie Ketchum
George W. Root
Lrockport
N. Y
White, Williams & Co
Boston
A. H. Tillot‘gon
Merrill Chemical Company
Cincinnati
Maximilian Galady
Sarteford Herald
Andrew S. Whiting
Lawrence
Selex Leport
New Britain
Jennie Deaker
Unionville
Jacob
Turpin
Rachel Cramer
Ity Haa
Aaa
Pitkin
Wartford Team Boiler Inspection and Insurance Company
Alexander Thuer
Portland
Hamony
Whiting
Temperance League to Organize Local Children
Missbury Gaston district president of the Loyal Temperance League visits to help form a children’s Loyal League in cooperation with the W T U. State president Miss Northam spoke recently urging the move and Miss Gaston continues the effort. Organizers plan provisional arrangements with Mr Alex Harper as first superintendent.
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Missbury-Gaston
Loyal Temperance League
Northam
Miss Gaston
Alex Harper
Infant death and funeral at M E Church
The infant daughter of Prof H. C. Koch died Sunday morning after a brief illness. The funeral was held Monday afternoon at the M. E. church with Rev J. H. Scott delivering a fitting sermon. Neighbors assisted the family in funeral duties and the bereaved family expresses gratitude for the sympathy and help received.
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H. C. Koch
M. E
J. H. Scott
Syrup of Figs Promises Easy Health Brightens Hazy Medicine Choice
The notice touts Syrup of Figs as a pleasant California liquid fruit remedy simpler and more beneficial than bitter medicines. It claims to strengthen liver, kidney, stomach, and bowels while stimulating activity. The item lists 60c and 1.00 bottles sold by Dr Powell.
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California
John Wentworth and the Solbriquet Tale
In a Chicago obituary the long and lean John Wentworth recalls his schooldays in Connecticut. An examiner called him a pretty loop Jobe after seeing him perch on a bench, and the nickname stuck for life.
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Long John Wentworth
Chicago
Connecticut
John Wentworth
Mites for Mechanics and Woodworking Preservatives
Pant made with turpentine is better for iron work than when mixed with linseed oil. A flexible cement not injured by remelting is made of equal parts gutta-percha and white pine pitch. Linseed lime is avoided due to salt in the lime. wood-burned lime is best. Naphthaline is used as a wood preservative, imparting a faint aroma and dry wood. Itzpead on iron provides an anti fowling basis, guarding against galvanic action.
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Edward Streat
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Charles Booth
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Ed Haddon
Elias Wright
Duncan Campbel
Feiway
Pat Slavin
Bandy Creek
Charley Booth
H. J. Gregory
Theo Disusway
George Field
William Fosdick
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Kinnear
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