Congress to be busy with postal savings and reform bills
Washington notes list key measures awaiting action in the new session including postal savings bank legislation, parcels post, Sherman amendments, forest reserves, corporate licensing, labor reform, census funding, and a rivers and harbors bill. The postal savings bank leads priorities, with broad bipartisan support, while tariff revision and naval reorganization loom.
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Washington
Congress
Postal Savings Bank
Appalachian
White Mountain
Brownsville
Navy Department
Atlantic Coast
United States
Civil Service
Inland Waterways Commission
Leroy T. Vernon
Chicago Daily News
Fire costs and city losses across Europe and the US
A comparative look shows per capita fire costs in the US averaging $2.30, Europe 38 cents, with Italy 12 cents and Germany 49 cents. New York reports 12,182 fires yearly causing $7.57 million in loss, while London and Rome incur far smaller fire costs.
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Europe
Italy
Germany
New York City
London
Rome
Blindness Cured After 36 Years
Miss Alice Hollis of Heron Michigan lived in darkness for thirty six years after a caustic injury at age thirteen. She traveled alone to Wiesbaden Germany to seek treatment and returned with sight nearly restored, inspired by a prior cured case attributed to Pagenstitcher.
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Alice Hollis
Heron
Mich
Wiesbaden
Germany
Miss Hollis
Pagenstitcher
Huron
Wiesbaten
Foot and Mouth Disease Spurs Personal Action by Secretary
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson will personally direct the fight against the spreading hoof and mouth disease in Pennsylvania and New York. More than 200 inspectors work in the affected zones as railroads east of the Mississippi are urged to disinfect cattle equipment from the area. Buffalo remains a major outbreak center and Philadelphia reports quarantines with slaughter and strict inspections continuing statewide.
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Secretary of Agriculture
Wilson
Pennsylvania
New York
New England
Mississippi
Buffalo
New Jersey
Chicago
Philadelphia
Season's hunting accidents show fewer fatalities this year
The season reports 57 hunting deaths, down from 72 in 1907 and 74 in 1906, with 91 injuries up from 81 and 70. Illinois, Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin account for over half the fatalities, including a Chicago broker Sidney Tremble killed by a hunting partner in Kansas, and Judge J C McKinnon killed in Florida. Two women were killed, both by husbands during hunting incidents.
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Illinois
Michigan
Minnesota
Wisconsin
O. S
Chicago
Sidney B. Tremble
Frank Stuart
Kansas
Tremble
J. C. McKinnon
Marianna
Fla
Jacob Gantz
Warsaw
Ind
Albert Skinner
Peru
Calcutta Terrorized by Crime Wave and Far-Flung News
Reported events include a terrorized Calcutta political crime outbreak, a false claim of Emperor William’s ascension via Zeppelin, Berlin census figures showing 40 124 unemployed with 1716 women, France proposing Victor Emmanuel as arbitrator over Clipperton Island, and the Belfast Minnewauska launches for 1909 service. Additional notes cover Serbians mining near Bosnia, Vienna student clashes, Casablanca incident arbitration, Lord Fairfax’s peerage, and penny cable postage advocacy in London.
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Calcutta
William
Berlin
France
Victor Emanuel
Italy
Clipperton Island
Minnewauska
Atlantic Transport Line
Belfast
Ireland
New York
Drina
Severnick
Bosnia
Austria
University of Vienna
Germany
Casablanca
Leg
House of Lords
Albert Kirby Fairfax
Virginia
Lord Fairfax of Cameron
John Henniker Heaton
Royal Colonial Institute
London
Noted Omaha Murder Case Ended in Acquittal
After thirteen hours and nineteen ballots the Omaha jury found Charles E. Davis not guilty of murder in the case of Dr. Frederick T. Austin killed Sept. 2. Davis, relatives to prominent First National Bank officials, was discharged by Judge Sears.
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Charles E Davis
Frederick T. Austin
Omaha
Sears
Roosevelt's congressional message outlines reforms across sectors
The document proposes public interest corporations with strong government control, worker ownership gains, broader employers' liability laws, higher federal judge pay, faster courts, safeguards against injunction abuse, forest preservation, inland waterway improvements, postal savings banks, and merit-based promotions plus a navy general staff.
Death of Swedish vice consul Ekstromer in St. Louis
Charles A. Ekstromer Swedish vice consul in St. Louis who sparked a dispute with President Roosevelt died by his own action at his St. Louis home. Business associates say he was short in his accounts. Ekstromer’s exequatur was revoked after the dispute but later reinstated. He was manager of the
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Charles A. Ekstromer
St. Louis
R Roosevelt
Mr. Ekstromer
Bank official kin linked to New York financiers
The First National Bank of Davis is tied to top New York financial figures through the vice president and president’s relatives inclining the cashier and other officials. It notes no further Austin prosecutions expected unless new evidence appears. The West Disinfectant Company in St. Louis is linked to a cited shortage. The vice consul killed himself at home and is survived by a widow. A ten year sentence was given to Charles Stevens for stealing a mail pouch containing $50,000 from a Kansas City train.
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First National Bank
Davis
New York
Austin
The
West Disinfectant Company
Olive Street
St. Louis
B. G. Lewis
People’s United States Bank
Hk.stromer
Charles Stevens
Kansas City
Fort Leavenworth
Kan
Conressman Hurt At Play In Opera House Fall
Albert Douglass of Chillicothe Ohio successor to Gen Grosvenor as Ohio Eleventh district representative was struck on the head by falling opera glasses from 100 feet above in the Metropolitan Opera House New York. He escaped with only a severe scalp wound due to his heavy hair.
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Operon
Ohio
Albert Douglass
Chillicothe
Gen. Grosvenor
Congress
Metropolitan Opera House
New York
Tragic Fire Claims Two Atkinson Children in Lockport
In Lockport two Atkinson children, a 4 year old boy and a 7 year old girl, died in a house fire. Authorities believe the boy’s clothing caught fire at a stove and the girl perished while attempting to put out the flames.
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James Atkinson
Lockport
Cooking Time Table and Recipe Fragments
A historical cooking guide lists bake times for beans eight to ten hours biscuits twenty minutes bread forty to sixty minutes and other items. It also includes a chop suey recipe with pork gizzards livers ginger celery mushrooms and a sauce then a baking soda cinnamon ginger caraway currants nutmeg butter sugar molasses and buttermilk batter steamed in a buttered mold.
Orchard Fruit Salad with Walnut and Malaga and Oyster Stew
Peel and segment four oranges with walnuts and Malaga grapes in an ice cold salad. Prepare stewed oysters in milk with butter salt and pepper. Make a raisin Indian meal bread and a spiced raised dough biscuit with molasses and buttermilk. Finish with sugar and cinnamon glaze.
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Malaga
Practical Household Tips From A Corner Of The Kitchen
The excerpt offers tips on cooking and cleaning including frying radishes with beefsteak for mushroom like flavor, slicing guidance, methods to smother oil fires with flour sand or earth, and classic dishes like fried chicken with cream sauce and corn fritters. It also covers stain removal tips softening hard water and soap aging.
Contractor Repays $11.90 for Past Bounty Error
C Vail of Colby Kansas sent a draft for 11.90 to George Link clerk of the Laporte County Circuit Court with a letter claiming restitution for a bounty collected forty years ago. He said his eternal welfare was at stake and noted he received 3.50, now with 6 percent interest for forty years totals 11.00, the sum he includes. The amount was credited to the bounty fund as conscience money.
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C. Vail
Colby
Kan
George Link
Laporte County
Butcher Recovers Lost Purse Shows 48 Dollars
Alonzo Fulp, a Columbus butcher, found his purse in a Bartholomew county field after losing it while buying cattle. He originally counted 32 dollars and papers, then discovered 48 dollars when recovered, noting a 16 dollar overnight gain with no explanation.
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Alonzo Fulp
Columbus
Bartholomew County
Tie
Fulp
Illinois man claims Belle Gunness is found in Oglesby
An Illinois man writes Sheriff Smutzer to say he has located Mrs Belle Gunness and Jennie Olson foster daughter. He demands reward money before producing her. Gunness allegedly arrived in Oglesby last May joined a man believed to have accompanied Gunness to the Lamphere farm on July 9. The woman is said to be Jennie Olson now wife of that companion.
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Illinois
Laporte County
Tra Marsh
Ogiesby
Smutzer
Laporte
Belle Gunness
Dennie Olson
Proprieter shoots man found with wife in Switz City
William Good of the Good Hotel surprised by wife and a railroad man William Dwyer in a room, then fatally shot Dwyer with four bullets. Good had long suspected infidelity and planned a sudden return to trap his wife. Mrs. Good claims she was in Dwyer's room as housekeeper and that her husband had no just cause.
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William Good
Good
Switz City
William Dwyer
Dwyer
Runaway Injures Frince ton Man in Owensville
Joseph Totten a 19 year old resident of Frince ton was seriously injured in a runaway at Owensville after vandals cut a horse harness. Totten had visited Miss Alta Montgomery and was dragged after the harness failed tearing three ribs and causing internal injuries. Suspects remain unknown as further tampering occurred with tire cuts on a later occasion.
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Joseph Totten
Frinceton
Owensville
Totten
Alta Montgomery
Lucas Convicted in Noblesville for Assault with Intent to Kill
Andrew Lucas was found guilty by a Noblesville jury of assault and battery with intent to kill. He faces a sentence of two to fourteen years in the Michigan City prison. A prior incident involved Lucas throwing a brick at Henry Hizer, striking him and causing blindness and lasting mental harm.
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Andrew Lucas
Noblesville
Michigan City
Henry Hizer
Lucas
Tlizer
Hizer
Despondent man kills self in Peru
Harry Geeting 26, despondent, shot and killed himself in Peru. In White County the Andrewses own two white faced ring tail monkeys from Venezuela. A Warrick County barn owned by W H Gossar was destroyed by night riders. tobacco inside valued at about 3000 dollars. J Smith Talley coal operator died of dropsy in Terre Haute born Wilmington Delaware May 23 1840. former Indiana Operators Association president for fifteen years. widow and four children survive. Albert Brizius while dining in Evansville found two pearls. sold one for 300 dollars. Hartford City bachelor Wilson Todd survived a lightning strike after sleeping on a feather bed. woke to find a hole in the roof.
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George Andrews
White County
Venezuela
W. H. Gossar
Warrick County
J. Smith Talley
Terre Haute
Wilmington
Del
Indiana Operators’ Association
Evansville
Albert Brizius
Wilson Todd
Hartford City
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America
Florida
Charles E. Davis
Liberty
First
National Bank
Roosevelt
Postal Savings Banks
Army
St. Louisa
Charles Davis
Frederick Rustin
DR. Rusting Resideneer
Conressman
Indiana
Mrs. Gunness
Harry Geeting
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