Various 1900s Incoherent Snippets Sparkling With Local Color
A collage of odd notes reflects early talk on water safety tobacco taxes aviation crime and social quirks. Vignettes mention a Missouri state approach to taxation, a London Egyptian mummy market, Doctor Wiley food disputes, Canadian wilds and a moose wreck, a St Louis suicide, and social observations about chores wives and aviators.
Fires and disasters loom in western states and cities
Groton South Carolina suffers a $75000 loss from fire while a northern forest blaze threatens heavy damage near Hoquiam Washington for forty eight hours. Seattle sees a major blaze destroying the Seattle Cracker and Candy Company building with losses around $50000.
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Hoquiam
Wash
Seattle
Seattle Cracker & Candy Company
Taft vows veto if reciprocity bill amended
Taft pledges to veto the Canadian reciprocity bill if amendments pass. Senate opposition to reciprocity hardens into open revolt. The House advances the wool tariff revision. Taft nominates Charles B T Moore for rear admiral. Panama bond bids finalize with significant subscriptions. Taft blasts dangerous drug frauds and seeks stronger pure food and drug law.
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Taft
Senate
House of Representatives
Underwood
Congress
United States Supreme Court
Portugal Proclaimed a Republic by Lisbon Assembly
The United States recognizes the Portuguese republic after a 19 percent deputy ratification in Lisbon. In Havana Bay wreck of the Maine workers uncover a left forearm bone and a right foot among spar deck debris.
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United States
Republic of Portugal
Lisbon
Maine
Havana Bay
Boxing and Baseball Roundup From The West and Coast
The Cheyenne Indians beat the Raton Grays 11 to 0 at Raton New Mexico. Freddie Welsh outpointed Mattie Baldwin over 20 rounds in San Francisco. Packey McFarland and Tommy Murphy drawn for a 10 rounder before the Badger A C in Milwaukee June 3. Coffroth invites Bill Papke to a 20 round bout with Frank Klaus for the middleweight title. Yale fell to Harvard in a commencement game for the first time since 1908. Harvard’s power hittin gfeatured the contest.
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Raton Grays
Raton
N. M
Freddie Welsh
Mattie Baldwin
San Francisco
Packey” McFarland
Chicago
Harlem
Tommy Murphy
New York
Badger A. C
Milwaukee
James Coffroth
Bill Papke
Frank Klaus
Yale
Harvard
Powder trust dissolved by U S Circuit Court of Delaware
The U S Circuit Court of Delaware orders the alleged powder trust dominated by E I Du Pont Company dissolved. The news item lists various other 1900s era events including drownings near Pensacola, a Grady bill in New York, long distance walks to New York, a Chicago banking consolidation, a federal grand jury investigation, and other legal and local events.
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E. I. du Pont Company
U. S. Circuit Court of Delaware
D. H. Woolf
Kansas City
Washington
New York
Continental Commercial and Hibernia Banking Association
Chicago
United States
Federal
Federal Grand Jury
United States Steep Corporation
George A. Carpenter
United States District Court
J. Ogden Armour
Union Pacific Railroad
Southern Pacific Railroad Company
United States Circuit Court of the Eighth District
St- Louis
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Alaska
E. T. Earle
Evening Express
Los Angeles
Morning Tribune
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T. H. Gardner
Baltimore
Nebraska
South Plate
Mormon Church
American Sugar Refining Company
House Committee of
Sugar Trust
Henry O. Havemeyer
Utah Sugar Company
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints
Charles B. T. Moore
San Francisco Naval Training Station
Weee Wares
Capa
Lincoln
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Swerees
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Sioux City
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Topeka
Des Moines
Pensacola
Fla
New York Senate
Lillian Graham
Ethel Conrad
W. E. D. Stokes
Virginia
Cook County
Board of Assessors
Clinois
Sangamon County
Edmund Burke
Springfield
Lee O'Neil Browne
Shasta Limited
Drain
Yoncalla
Oregon
Henry W. Taft
Thomas Sopwith
Mineola
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