World arms split and tax shifts in old article excerpt
The report shows Britain with 6929 steamers over 100 tons, Germany 1193, and the United States 816. Tonnage figures and a deficit of 85 million highlight pressures to raise the income tax or find new revenue. The Isthmian canal commission is praised for selecting able, nonpolitical members. The piece also notes drought driven price rises and higher state costs under Gov Taft era policies.
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Hoglisch
The
Chicago Tribune
Yateo
Taoner
Tanner
Champeign University
Mendota Bulletin
Unsanitary wells blamed for typhoid outbreaks in St Louis
Professor W P Mason of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute testified in a Missouri case that typhoid germs survive canal water for up to four days and that river water is not safe to drink. He warned that Chicago to St Louis water flow and unsanitary wells and cisterns fuel the epidemics.
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Chicago Drainage
Tifiacis River
City of
St Louis
Missouri
W. P. Mason
Rensselear Polytechnic Institute of
Minole
Troy
St . Keowle
The Scrappy Little Jappy in Wartime Imagery
A fragmentary, stylized wartime poem depicts a small nation called the scrappy little Jappy as a fierce, improvised force using shells torpedoes and warships. It contrasts this creature with a bear and a Czar figure, ending with a boast of naval power and battered adversaries.
Mortgage sale in Herreke v Berge farms 170 acres
The mortgage sale on the Sol Sowarda farm described as 170 acres in Lacon township proceeded at the county courthouse with Special Master in Chancery LLLC McMurtrie, the land bid by Charles Herreke for 10,000, below the mortgage balance.
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County News
Lacon Journal
Charles K. Herreke
Adam Berge
Elizabeth Berge
Charles Co. McCure
Court House
Varna
Lacon
Mra McFadden
Jorado
Thomas H. VenBuren
Mee
J. EB. Ong
John W. Remley
Gertrude Viola Holland
J. D. Bolland
James Mitchell
Devlin Coat Co
Mitchell
Marshall County
St Louis
Board of Supervisore
Psus
Lacon Democrat
Jacob Jones
Santa Fe ‘Tailroad
Charles Moss
Bennington Township
Mose
World’s Fair Highlights From a Century Ago
A fragmentary list details exhibits at the World’s Fair including the Mammoth cheese, a 300 ton ice plant, a 285 foot tall mining tower, the United States Government Building costing 6 478 000, and the Palace of Machinery. Other entries mention the Liberty Bell, the Vulcan statue, ten Palace of Education and Electricity structures, and large displays by foreign governments.
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St. Louian
Victoria
Palace of Machinery
United States Fishers
Louisiana
Vulcan
Palace of Liberal Arts
Palace of Education
Palace of Electricity
Anthropology
Palace of
United States Government
Louisiana State
Cabilao
New Orleans
Liberty Bell
Pennsylvania
Art
Palace of Mines and Metallurgy
Forestry, Fish and Game
Watasal Gardene
Robert Burns
Ayrshire
Palace of Transportation
Cascade
Manila
Philippine
Horace Greeley
United States
U. S. Army
Ino
Exposition Grounds
Hermitage
Andrew Jackson
Tennessee
Emanuel Swedenborg
Sweden
Adelina Patti Cancels Chicago Engagement Amid Frost Rumor
Opera star Adelina Patti withdraws from a Chicago concert citing a cold though rumors claim a Chicago frost behind the move. Auditorium advance sales were just over $1800, with Patti demanding higher fees for the performance and a string of steamer connections planned to St Louis and other cities.
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Adelina Patti
Chicago
Resson
Wheat decline and mixed world notes on steamship and rail
A jagged digest reports wheat price drops while global tensions from Russia to East Asia prompt military rumors. It notes the LaBalle Street Fair Association electing officers and planning an October fair, a Mormon leader's Senate Smoot inquiry remark, and Red Cross relief funds. Also covered are Union Pacific leadership changes, the Peoria Gun Club fire loss, and Pullman Breakfast announcements enhancements.
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Thera
Po Bull
Putaide Intansat- Ialete
Conese Gralehold Frm
Provisidus-gretoner
People's Bank, & Banking Loatt
Tava Banka
St Patrick
Dreams City
Epworth League
LaBalle Street
Teeoday
Smith
The
Mormons Church
Senate
Smoot
Aitee the Maniifesto
Richard Dixon
Springfield
Ohio
Mra Lottle Wiley
Order of Eastern Star
Streator
Corneil
Long Point
Viadivostok Harbor
Yinkow
Vladivostok
Red Cross Society
St Petersburg
Red Cross
Chicago Drainage Board
Hopkine
Tne Board
United States Treasury
Peoria Gun Club
Bat
Ths
Hobots
Horace G. Burt
Union Pacific Railhway
Driect
Trane-Siberian
Orehburg and Tashkent
Library power in schools shapes children’s reading habits
The article argues public school libraries greatly influence students toward reading good books, comparing library availability to textbooks. It notes many schools lack libraries while libraries aid learning and character development, urging wider access and support for school library programs.
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Marhall
Cnilgren
Rayiol
Hobsoka
Tinatics
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