Michigan Higher Commercial Education Program Expanded
An 88 course plan for higher commercial education is detailed, with 28 in history, 10 in government, 14 in political economy, 10 in industry and commerce, and more. Prof. Paul Creer and Dr. Freer lead new Philippine government lab assignments, while Miss Margaret J Kalmunds goes to Seoul as a nurse trainer. University of Missouri praises Michigan’s organization efforts as Maddox visits Ann Arbor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
University of Michiynp
Paul Creer
Les Ataried
Phillippines
Freer
Beiyg
Board of Health
Mach Laboratory
Free
Aire Hs
Spe
Extractive Indusiries
United States
China
Japan
Philippines
Dorpsaf
Airuetors
University of Missouri
Maddox
Ann Arbor
Tie
Enatry
Mir Maddox
Angell T. Wiscosy
Michigan Lid
Vnl
Michigryr
Wii
Corea
Margaret J. Kalmnnds
Toledo
Nirses
Methodist Missions Board
Seoul
Mdimmunds
Countris
Wihil
Myanila
Floye Y. Gilmore
Elwood
Forester Work to Begin in Northern State Next Month
The State Forestry Commission in Lansing will start active field work in the northern part of the state next month aided by T H Sherard of the National Forestry Commission. An appropriation of 1000 is noted for experimental work. Delinquent tax lands in Itosvam county are to be withheld from homestead entry until funds are reallocated. The 19000 acres of delinquent tax funds in the north are requested by the Marble Lake Fishing and Hunting Club and will likely be sold at public sale to the club.
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State Forestry Commission md
Lansing
T. H. Sherard
National Forestry Commission
Auditor Generalln
Itosvammon County
Forestry Commission
Powershay
Maetle Lake
Saginaw Lumber July Report Reveals Timber Shipments
Deputy Collector of Customs Stewarts notes July timber activity from Saginaw shows river and land shipments, with 2,580.01 feet landed by land and 188 percent of expected waterborne output. Receipts of timber along the Saginaw river reached 9,801,708 feet for the month and 4,545,119 feet since navigation began. July figures include 23,000 code poles and 640 tons of coal, with 200 sailors in hand.
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Stewarts
Saginaw
Distine
Pegrcen
Saeinay
Talia
Limbery
Insurance Firms Pay Fees to Michigan Treasury
Insurance companies paid multiple fees to Michigan authorities for authority to operate in the state last year. Total receipts included fire and marine fees of $8.5. life companies paid $9.58 million. cooperative firms $785. and retaliatory fees $15,804.65. Old line life and fraternal risks in Michigan stood at $175,000,000 and $370,000,000 respectively.
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Firstrande Dompanies Dole
Michigan
Anayey
Dotiad Amant
Fire and Marine Insutones
Pod
Nie Life Companies
HIG Leas
Cagually
Old Line Life Companies
Fraternats
Man Named Ryan Arrested After Wife Shooting Trial Uncertain
A man matching Albert Ryan’s description was arrested in An Sable after an attempted shooting at Litelielt on Wy 24. He denies identity. authorities believe they have the right man. Mrs Ryan’s condition is improving while Ryan faces possible murder trial.
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Albert Ryan
Litelielt
An Sable
Alheers
Litchfield
Rural high schools authorized by township vote
The legislature provides for rural high schools to operate from September 3 and allows townships without an incorporated village or city to establish such schools if a majority of taxpayers approve the proposition.
Lansing Wins Largest Industry Move Secures Olds Motor Works
Negotiations close as Lansing attracts Detroit’s Olds motor works, pledging to hire 1,200 workers within a year to boost the city’s already strong manufacturing base.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lansing
Olds Motor Works
Detroit
Michigan State News Faint Dimate and Dawn of Poisoned Peaches
Faint Dimate reports Captain Bennett of Oliver Mining shot poundmaster Joe Lennen after a dispute over a cow in Crystal Falls. Captain Bennett was arrested. A separate case details Mrs Clara Wardell poisoned by tainted peaches, with suspicion on Edward Deforest. State health reports show rises in pleuritis and whooping cough, and various other illnesses across counties. Port Huron’s St Glair hotel honored Filipinos with bronze medals for their service.
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Joe Lennen
Crystal Falls
Bennett
Oliver Mining Company
Lennen
Sennett
Upper Peninsula
Clara Wardell
Battle Creek
Clara
State Board of Health
St. Glair
Port Huron
Port Heron
Philippines
Sergt
Beeley
Walfman and
Nichols
Morrill
Emerson
Krenke
Wanted Things to Fly John Vinson Sentenced in Albion
John Vinson a colored man from Tennessee has been sentenced to ten days in jail in Albion for boarding a train. He is charged with obstructing the Michigan Central track and will be tried on that charge later. He admits the act and says he meant no harm and only wanted to see things fly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Vinson
Tennessee
Albion
Vinson
Death sums two Kindersack elders in grim fate
In Kindersack Mr. and Mrs. Alva Jones, aged and wealthy, faced a grim response to a wife’s wish to outlive her husband. Mr. Jones died suddenly at a neighbor’s house. Upon her arrival, the wife collapsed and died beside him, concluding a strange fulfillment of the last wish.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alva Jones
Kindersack
Crop Weather Report Shelters Michigan Crops
The weekly crop report from the Washington weather bureau notes very favorable growing conditions in Michigan with slight delays to field work. Corn and sugar beets show poor condition, pastures and meadows improve, beans and buckwheat prosper, peaches near ripe, apples dropping, potato harvest near completion, and light yields expected. A student, Henry L. L Mone dieu, son of T L Hame dieu of Michigan Central, was killed instantly in Ann Arbor when struck from behind by the Grand Rapids express while surveying railway yards.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington Weather Bureau
Michigan
Adams
Ann Arbor
Henry L. L'Monedieu
Tl’ Hamedieu
Michigan Central
University
Grand Rapids Express
Balloon ascent ends with parachute drop in Owosso
Lillie Aenoid, an aeronaut from Landed in 2 Tree, ascended by balloon at Owosso and parachuted down, landing in a tree where she became stuck 73 feet above ground. She remained trapped for three hours in a perilous position before dropping into blankets held by a dozen men to escape unharmed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lillie Aenoid
Owosso
Detroit ex justice Kinney found dead in garden
News items from the era report ex justice Lawrence Kinney, age 48, found dead by his wife in his Detroit garden with apoplexy listed as the cause. Other briefs note a Cheshire child drowning, a Lyons mill accident, a Wagar settlement fire, and various local incidents including arrests, military notes, a Port Huron veteran, and academic appointments.
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Lawrence Kinney
Detroit
Marcus Ferris
Cheshire
John Pool
Lyons
Rallers
Hale & Son
Wagar
Hesperia
Harvey Wardell
Adrian
Twenty-ninth Infantry
Fort Sheridan
Frank Whipple
Port Huron
Ife
Mary Snow
Cuscate Township
William Wanford
Grand Rapids
Mackinaw City
Hanford
A. G C. Binck
Holland
Lee Smith
Lucy Sloan
Central Normal School
Mount Pleasant
Michigan Property Valuations Rise in County Tables
Auditor General Powers reports a state board of equalization table showing a $372 million rise in assessed valuation from 1896 to 1901 across Michigan counties. Totals compare 1901 with 1896 for acres, real estate, personal property, and both assessed and equalized valuations, noting more than a million extra acres and substantial growth in personal property, with equalized value closely mirroring assessed value.
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Powers
State Board of Equalization
Boards of Equalization
Ban on Educators and the Chicago Firm Targeted by State
The attorney general seeks to purge the League of Educators from the state. The Chicago organization uses a cooperative insurance plan with certificates costing 300 dollars and promising returns up to 500 dollars after five years. Members receive escalating sums for marriages and new enrollments, reflecting extensive activity in Wisconsin and the Upper Peninsula.
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League of Educators
Chicago
Dundington
Attorney General's Department
Ehase
Miss Company
Upper
Peninsue
Wisconsin
Salisbury's price war lands him on druggist blacklist
About a year ago Drugglat WN Sale iabury in Ann Arbor began cutting proprietary medicine prices. Salisbury fights back by suing the Michigan Drug Co of Detroit the Saginaw company and ten local retailers for 10000 in damages alleging a conspiracy to bar him from supplies. He claims national associations conspired to blacklist him to stop his price-cutting.
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Iabury
Ann Arbor
Salisbury
National
Wholesale Druggists’ Association
Retail Druggists’ Association
Dropristary Remedy Men's Association
Michigan Drug Company
Detroit
Saginaw Company
Sagi- Taw
Gift to a Latesman in Niles From Rockefeller
Daniel Wisten of Niles, employed by Standard 611 company as a statesman, received a letter from John J. Rockefeller with a check for $1,000 and an order for a month’s vacation. Whalen is overjoyed by the surprise and will take a seashore vacation.
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Daniel Wisten
Niles
Standard 611 Company
Caprcity Cyeling Statesman
John J. Rockefeller
Neheck
Jb W
Whalen
Mr. Whalen
Rescue Lifeboat Shipped for Pollavk Prize Contest
The Rescue Lifeboat company of Muskegon sent a 30 foot lifeboat to Capt. H Dechaille director of signal and life saving service for the September 9 contest. The event, under Havre chamber of commerce, offers a $20000 prize in the English channel. An unrelated alarm at Tansing drew Capt. Homer D Parker from his chair as onlookers feared an insane escape.
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Rescue Lifeboat Company
Muskegon
8. Dechaille
Signal and Life Saving Service
Tansing
Homer D.parker
Michigan winners named in El Reno land lottery list
Lucky Michignadera lists successful Michigan contestants in the El Reno Oklahoma land lottery. Dennis A. Barnum of Owosso Frank Wol verton of Flint G. Barnum of Saginaw D W Putnam of Port Huron Frank H Waldo of Concord Flora M Bherwood of Grand Rapids Charles M Schneider of Adrian Porter Densmore Litehneld L M HI residence not given C H Hulbrook of Portland.
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Lucky Michignadera
Michigan
el Reno
Okla
Dennis A. Barnum
Owosso
Frank Wolverton
Flint
G. Barnum
Saginaw
D. W. Putnam
Port Huron
Frank H. Waldo
Concord
Flora M. Bherwood
Grand Rapids
Charles M. Schneider
Adrian
Porter Densmore
Litehneld
L. M. HI
C. H. Hulbrook
Portland
Democrats Shifting On Expansion Front
Editorials in Democratic newspapers and party leaders hint at a change in stance on expansion. The Ohio convention rejected Bryanism but other states show pressure to align with expansion, arguing Democrats would pursue a policy in power that mirrors past expansion and recalls party front changes in 1898 and 1899.
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Democratic Party
Times
Ohio
Bryan
Illinois
Washington
Republic
Roosevelt
Northwest Territory
United States
Chicago
Free Trade Critique Faces Imperial and Domestic Shifts
A column echoes a London Daily Express stance for protectionism, arguing free trade undermines Britain’s growth and noting that American Republicans favor tariffs. It links England’s decline under free import policy to broader imperial cohesion and praises protection as essential for national revenue and self-sufficiency. It cites past debates between Gladstone and Disraeli as signs of imperial support aligning with American Republican policy.
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Democratic Party
United States
Great Britain
Great Briain
London Daily Express
Republican Party
London Express
SILYS
England
Biniie
Gladstone
Jslaine
Maryland’s Democrats Repeal Consent Of The Governed
The Maryland Democratic Party reverses the Kansas City creed by arguing for white control of state government. They claim 60,000 colored voters threaten white governance and advocate depriving nonwhite citizens of full political power while promising education and fair government for whites. The piece critiques the stance as racial discrimination and cites the Chicago Record-Herald.
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Demoscratic National Convention
Kansas City
Maryland
Commonwealth
Republican Party
Democratic Party
Marylaind
Chicago
Bryanism obituary foreshadowed in 1904 party rifts
The St Louis Globe Democrat notes that Bryanism faces decline as Democratic factions in Ohio Missouri and Indiana debate recognizing the New Braskan. Editors warn that if Democrats retreat from Bryan they must craft a radical platform opposing Republicans while Bryan stays influential with many voters.
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Neryaniam
Ohio
Bryan
Mississippi
Missouri
Democritu
Kansas
Neveaska
Commonwealths
St. Louis
Kansas City
St. Joseph
Omaha
trans-Mississippi
Tryan
Republican Party
Tryin
Viryanism
Cone
St. Louis Globe-Democrat
Indiana
Globe-Democrat
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Philipps
Prof. Freer
Corce Ann
Alowary
Nulen
Ind
Manila
TE. Tt. Johnson
Glascot
Henry 8
Carhart
Clastow
American Institute of Electrical Engineering
Howes
Tot
Oo Neuse
Seumu
Hos
Yost
Trem Albion College
Tt. Mt. Be
Saginaw Lumber
Po Deere Maowels
Massey
Othe State Treasury
Coder
Avrept
Hucal
Michigan State News
Health In
Auditor General Powers
Deugelat
Micnhigan
Fiema
Biudkeistingsize
France
Indianapolis Sentinel
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