Week in Review: Rhodes Defeat and Tripoli Victory
A condensed roundup notes key events: Turks defeated on Rhodes but won at Tripoli. Confederate veterans’ reunion wreck claims ten veterans and six trainmen killed. price rollback to 26 cents in Portland. Chicago publishers claim a quick end to the pressmen’s strike. Roosevelt leads Maryland primaries with Clark ahead for the Democratic nomination. Baroness Hermione von Preuschen Telman travels in San Francisco. Homer Lea returns from China as a physical wreck.
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Rhodes
Tripoli
Portland
Roosevelt
Maryland
Clark
Baroness Hermione von Preuschen Telman
Germany
San Francisco
Price List From Local Dealers Shows Varied Farm Rates
Purchasing prices for eggs poultry butter and meats list per dozen per pound and per box or sack. Included are live hens ducks geese turkeys and chicks with live and dry weights, various beef veal pork and mutton rates, and vegetables fruits and staples with regional and country origin details.
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Seattle
Plague Precaution Taken In US Ports
Surgeon General Blue of the Public Health Service assigns assistant surgeons to supervise departures from Vera Cruz and Tampico to prevent bubonic plague yellow fever and other diseases. They will report port sanitary conditions sign bills of health and fumigate vessels to kill mosquitos and rats.
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Washington, D. C
United States
Mexico
Blue
Public Health and Marine Hospital Service
Vera Cruz
Tampico
Knox to Hear Complaints on Cruelty in Mexican Jails
Secretary of State Knox will arrive from New Orleans to listen to complaints about cruelties in Mexican jails. He telegraphed willingness to hear all who have stories, including C. A. Heberlein who was jailed at Jimenez by General Orozco.
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Knox
Los Angeles
New Orleans
Americana
C. A. Heberlein
Jimenez
Orozco
Tornado Near Laredo Kills Four, injures Many
A tornado north of Laredo, Texas, killed three young women and a baby, with many others injured and farm buildings destroyed. A special train carrying surgeons was sent, as information remains fragmented due to damaged communication channels.
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Laredo
Tex
Here
Montana Snowstorm Sparks Million Dollar Benefit Expectation
Snow covered Montana on Saturday from three to 11 inches, named the million dollar storm for its hoped benefits to agriculture. Traffic remained light. In Gallatin County the wheat belt saw 11 inches of snow in 24 hours.
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Butte
Mont
Montana
Gallatin County
Rebels Advance Across Desert With 7000 Army
In Jimines Mexico the rebel army led by General Pascual Orozco, about 7000 strong, has moved to offensive action against the federal forces. General Huerta faced a mounted defense as the rebels crossed into seizure of frontier territory.
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Orozco
Jimines
Mex
Huerte
Pascual Orozco
Stereotypers Strike Ties Up Chicago Newspapers
After a day of chaos and arrests over unions in Chicago, stereotypers walked out defying an injunction from International President James J. Freel. Afternoon editions were printed by non union pressmen, causing fresh disruption across offices.
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Stereotypers
Chicago
James J. Freel
Stereotypers’ Union
Yan and Colo tunnel nears completion for irrigation project
In Yuma Arizona the 956 foot tunnel under the Colorado River reaches practical completion as the largest component of the Guna dam irrigation project. The 14 foot bore will deliver water to 90 000 acres between the dam and the Mexican border awaiting water flow by mid June per engineer Sellow.
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Yuma
Arizona
Colorado River
Guna Dam
Sellow
Silk mill strike seeks 16 percent pay rise and shorter week
One thousand operatives in the silk mills of R. and H. Simon have walked out demanding a 16 percent wage increase and a reduction of the weekly hours from 69 to 54. The action centers in Raston, Pennsylvania, reflecting labor unrest in the industry.
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Raston
R. & H. Simon
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Mark Hanna
Homer Lea
China
Canada
Cheyenne
U. S
Nevada Penitentiary
Taft
Major Butt
Northwest
Alaska
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Arkansas
Walla Walla
Kennewick
California
Texas
Florida
Lavenoorl
Great Tunnel
Baldwin
Paris
College OF Music
the Savage Music House
N. Liberty Street
Salem, Oregon
Independence Bien School
Independence Odd Fellows Building
New Independence Hotel
Monmouth High School
Corvallis High School
Perrydale School
Lincoln School
Polk County
Dallas LuMber & Logging CO
Dallas
Independence, Ore
the Independence Enterprise
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