Forts in Canal Zone Worry All Great Nations
Washington reports nations show interest as the United States advances defense plans for the Panama Canal ahead of its 1914 opening. Experts debate fortification while Taft weighs proposals under Hay-Pauncefote treaty terms and congressional scrutiny.
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Pacific Oceans
Oceans
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Board of Army Experts
Lusitania
Great Britain
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Suez Canal
Germany
Japan
Army
Board of Fortifications
Catchy Eyes That Supplant Goo Goo
Paris September 21 Three sets of the wonderful eyes of Madame Cavalieri Chanler who is said to have bewitched Bob Chanler into turning over every cent he had in the world according to John Armstrong Chaloner Cavalieri's husband brother He studies her face and reads emotion in chiselled features and in a languid calculating eye He calls her the siren reincarnation Lorelei with the eye of a mermaid
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Paris
Madame Cavalieri Chanler
Bob” Chanler
John Armstrong Chaloner
Cavalieri
Lorelei
Life Renewing Fountain Found by Attlesboro Man
Boston reports David P. Shaw of Attlesboro Massachusetts claims to have discovered a life renewing fountain. He says a simple mix of water salt brine a spray pump and standard bath setup restores health vigor and youth. Shaw aged 79 next month demonstrates remarkable endurance and strength claiming the fountain keeps him fit and energetic.
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David P. Shaw
Attlesboro
Mass
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Worcester Boy Burglar Nabbed After 20 Breaks
Worcester Mass September 21 Police arrest Raoule Trudall a 15 year old boy believed to be a skilled burglar who targeted Worcester Springfield Hartford and other cities since July 27. Authorities say he confessed to being the wanted man and a pawnshop clue aided the capture.
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Hartford
Raoule Trudall
Graft Scandals Trigger Arrests in Polish Poland War
Premier Stolypin orders arrests after Senator Neidhart reports massive embezzlement in Poland’s military and civil offices. Officials allegedly siphoned funds from ammunition and army feeding contracts, and even the Polish cathedral project saw sixty thousand rubles spent on ink. The probe claims millions diverted, books falsified, and officials fled. The czar’s regime faces calls for immediate bureaucratic reform.
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Russia
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Douma
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Czarina
Free schools in Jamkhandi India boost education
Jamkhandi state near Bombay has introduced free education. With a population around 105,000 the state operates seventy two schools serving 5471 pupils, yielding excellent results a report from Bombay states.
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Tate
Jamkhandi
Million-dollar Pan-American sale reshapes Mexico rail system
David K. Thompson of Lincoln Nebraska, ex ambassador to Mexico, profited over five million dollars from selling the Pan-Americana railroad to the Mexican government for about eleven million dollars. The line runs from Gamboa to the Guatemala border, a 275 mile stretch, and will be merged into the governments national railway network. The deal, financed in part by Paul Morton and others, followed Thompson’s resignation to manage the road, with officials in Mexico approving a government purchase estimated at seventeen million in gold.
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Lincoln
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Mexico
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St. Louis
Joseves Limuntour
Limantour
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B. H. Harriman
Guatemala
Central America
Paul Morton
Equitable Life Assurance Society of New York
Mr. Thompson
Pan-American
Tehuantepec
Mariscal
Guentamala- Mexico
Allegheny County Road Network Praised in Report
In Allegheny county about 450 miles of paved roads have seen 11 million dollars spent in fifteen years. Fifty two miles are now under construction as caretakers and four road engineering corps oversee daily maintenance and future builds. Visitors from the US and Europe call the county roads among the finest in the nation.
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Europe
Mahogany ship sought near Warrnambool coast
Melbourne reports that the legendary Spanish mahogany ship wrecked along the Victoria coast near Warrnambool in the 17th century. Despite repeated searches no success has been recorded, but Warrnambool town clerk reportedly holds information likely to lead to the find.
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Melbourne
Victoria
Warrnambool
Tenement Housing Aims to Curb Blood Money Rents
Indianapolis housing expert J N Hurty warned that October death rates among children would rise due to poor tenement housing. Mrs Albion Fellows Bacon leads a likely campaign for new legislation, criticizing slums, crowded conditions, and poor sanitation. She stresses water access, ventilation, and architectural responsibility to curb disease and crime.
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State Board of Health
Albion Fellows Bacon
Charity Organization Society
Bacon
Indiana
Mrs. Bacon
Fea
London
Berlin
New York
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