Think in billions now the wealthiest nation in world
Washington report quotes a Roosevelt ally describing the United States as the wealthiest nation in history. He cites 107 billion dollars in wealth, vast gold reserves, exports, railways, farms, mines, and a wide distribution of luxuries. The note highlights soaring affluence and a fourfold universe of asset conversions.
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United States
Washington
Presient
Roosevelt
Sam
Anniversary of Blizzard Strikes South Dakota in 1888
The piece recalls the nineteenth anniversary of the January 12 1888 blizzard that stunned the west with a fast moving storm. It notes calm morning then a sudden cannon like gale with needle sharp ice and fifteen hours of fury. One hundred and nine died and many were maimed or frostbitten as the north plains endured the terrible visitation.
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South Dakota
West
Beil Fourche Bullock Water Settlement Approved
Wesley A. Stuart reports that Raymond F. Walter notified him the Bullock Fourche Valley Water Users Association settlement has been approved by the secretary of the Interior. The case involved backwater from the intake canal headworks affecting Bullock lands and a city area. The agreed sum is 11000, with witness estimates up to 20000 and a jury verdict not less than 15000.
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Wesley A. Stuart
Ale Fourche
Yuirk
Abe Attel Retains Featherweight Crown in LA Bout
Abe Attel defeated Marty Baker of San Francisco in the eighth round at the Pacific Athletic Club in Los Angeles last night to retain the featherweight championship. The Attel brothers are noted for their pugilistic skill though Abe outclasses rivals with physical advantage, easing concerns that Baker might trouble the champion.
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Los Angeles
Abe Attel
Marty Baker
San Francisco
Pacific Athletic Club
Attel
Abe
Becaus
Baker
Masons plan visit of Silver Trowel to Sioux Falls
Cedar Rapids Masons will accompany the silver trowel to Sioux Falls next month with a large delegation from Cedar Rapids. After a thirty day stay the party may travel to another city, possibly Omaha, depending on arrangements. Cedar Rapids and Sioux Falls lodges urge other Masons to join and note an $11.10 home seekers rate with potential discounts for groups.
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Cedar Rapids
Sioux Falls
Omaha
Sioux City
Minnehaha Lodge
Masons of
Crescent Lodge
Onen
Frank Filip
A.M. Conn
Hugh Livingstone
Artesian Basin Study by Condra Reports Nebraska Wells
University of Nebraska professor G T Condra reports on the Dakota Artesian Basin in Holt Knox Cedar Dixon and Dakota counties northeastern Nebraska. The US Geological Survey completed the study with field work by G E Tondra. The report details flowing vs pumped water, surface and shallow wells, and mineral resources including cement prospects. Free distribution planned.
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G. T. Condra
University At
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Dakota City
Neb
Holt
Knox
Cedar
Dixon
Dakota
Nebraska
United States Geologies
Haseen
Everal
Heraport
G. E Tondra
Nebraska State Universy
Indian for Senate Nominates Charles Curtis for Kansas Seat
Kansas becomes the first state to be represented in the United States Senate by an American Indian Charles Curtis is nominated by the Republican legislative caucus Curtis is a Saw tribe member and one of the few remaining in that nation His family received allotments during the allotment era of Indian lands cedar The piece notes Curtis and his children gained allotments when lands were parceled out by the government.
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Kansas
Washington
Senate
Charles Curtis
Republican Legisative Caucus
Islands
Kingston 13
Spanishtown
Kingston Habor
Port Royal
Blue Mountain Chain
Morean
Henry
Charles II
Lollongis
Mausveldt
Gay Port Royal
Jamaica
Coroner's jury Blames Railway Officials in Volland Wreck
Alma dispatcher's and Volland operator blamed in coroner's inquest into the January seventh Rock Island wreck near Volland Kansas that killed thirty two people. The jury clears others and expects no further provocation or action.
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Alma
Kan
J. H. Shoemaker
Topeka
Fohin Lynes
Volland
Mansas
Rock Island
Government to Sell Infested Timber to Fight Beetles
Government moves to cut, skid, and burn insect infested timber in South Dakota's Jack Hills reserve to slow the pine bark beetle spread. With study guidance from Dr. A D Hopkins, the service seeks prompt bidders to purchase infested logs and standing trees, icing bark to destroy brood.
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Black Hills
Jack Hills
Daota
Forest Service
A. D. Hopkins
Bureau of Entomology
South Dakota
Senator Senter Rallies Against Bailey In Eight Hour Fight
Texas Senator E G Senter spoke eight hours to block Bailey opposition as the Senate debated a proposed investigation. The session featured a new lieutenant governor presiding and heavy Bailey support, with Senter mocking the crowd and drinking whisky before finally yielding due to exhaustion.
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Texas
Bailey
Austin
Tex
G. Senter
Senate
Senter
Overnor
Patey
Jamon
No War With Japan Says Stanford Leader in San Francisco
David Starr Jordan president of Stanford University spoke at Equity hall on the Asiatic problem. He said no congress could pass a Japanese exclusion act and no president would stand one, calling such acts hoodwink. He asserted we must avoid fighting Japan for Pacific mastery and believed Japan sincere in curbing unskilled labor immigration.
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San Francisco
Cal
Congress
David Starr Jordan
Stanford University
Equity
Japan
Pacific
Jamaica the Beautiful and the Ruined Paradise
Julian Hawthorne extols Jamaica as a spectacular island of forests cliffs and bays. He recalls Port Royal’s catastrophe and Kingston’s rise, notes brown planters, sea harbors, and hurricanes, earthquakes, and fires shaping the island’s history and landscape.
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