President Signs Rate Bill and Other Measures
Washington reports the president signed the railroad rate bill at 11:15 p m along with the immigration and isthmus Panama canal bills. The pork barrel public works bill remains in conference as differences persist between houses. The rate bill takes effect sixty days from June 29, 1906 while meat inspection provisions prompt debate among supporters and opponents in the Senate.
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Washington
Panama
Senate
Cases Against Corporations and Railroad Rebates Detailed
Washington June 30 Attorney General Moody sent to the senate a statement of all suits by the Justice Department under the Sherman Elkins and interstate commerce laws. The summary covers indictments and convictions across administrations from Cleveland to Roosevelt and notes rebating actions, plus a separate incident in Michigan where Seymour Philips threw a boy into the Kalamazoo river and was fined. The North Side laundry also shut temporarily due to labor shortages.
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Washington
Moody
Senate
Department of Justice
Cleveland
Roosevelt
Nolle
Harrison
McKinley
Senate Recedes as House Passes Bill in Key Fight
The Senate pulled back while the House secured victory and moved the bill forward. Lawmakers approved the measure after a contentious debate signaling a major legislative win for its sponsors.
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Senate
House
Public Works Board to sell horse at fire station site
The Board of Public Works will sell a horse in front of No. 1 fire station on July 5, 1906. The notice frames the sale as a bargain driven by competition and cautions bidders to be purse-conscious.
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Board of Public Works
Death of Lewis Stritt at 1015 South Fourth Street
Lewis Stritt aged 1015 South Fourth Street died this morning from bone tuberculosis after an eighteen year illness. Funeral services will be held Monday at 9 o'clock from the cathedral with burial in the Catholic Cemetery. Miller Bros. in charge.
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Lewis Stritt
South Fourth Street
Miller Bros
Scaffold Fall Kills Four in Roanoke Shaft Accident
In Roanoke NL on June 30 Augustus Mueser Andrew Mitchell Joseph De Wasme and Camiel Faucon died when a scaffold broke in a shaft they were enlarging. The four men plunged more than 400 feet in the incident.
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Roanoke
Mueser
Andrew Mitchell
Joseph Dewasme
Camiel Faucon
Circus Tent Collapse Kills Two in Aurora
Two people died and many were injured as a circus tent collapsed during a Ringling show in Aurora Newfoundland on June 30. The tragedy occurred mid performance prompting panic and further injuries.
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Aurora
Dinner Menu Highlights at Hotel Grand La Crosse Wisconsin
Featured dinner selections include olives dill pickles boiled ham with cabbage fricasse of chicken short biscuit boiled ox tongue spiced gooseberries Boston baked beans brown bread steamed potatoes buttered beefs currant pie assorted cake tea. Hotel Grand offers prime roast sirloin roast spring lamb roast veal sage dressing roast pork with apple sauce shrimp salad new potatoes carrots on cream chocolate pie apple pie strawberry short cake whipped cream vanilla ice cream mixed nuts milk. Meal hours: Dinner 12 to 2, Sundays 12:30 to 2:30.
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Boston
Bargain Sale Prices on Laces Ribbons Belts and Parasols
Mercered and lace stripes and dotted swiss offered at up to 3y yard, 224¢ per yard. Half dollar dotted swiss pieces left at 39¢ per yard. Embroidered swiss at 50¢ per yard. Colored parasols with borders 1.98, regular 2.25. Ribbons 29¢ and 39¢ per yard. Elastic beaded belts in multiple materials from 10¢ to 1.50.
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JOYCE
Loveland
Proctor
Senate Conferrees
Hansbrough
Beveridge
Nelson
Stone
Chicago
McCumber
Rattle Creek
Mich
Seymour Philips
John Krans
Kalamazoo River
Philips
North Side
Ients’ Furnishings
Stavrum & Hulberg
W.W
The
Ladies Industrial Society of
First Baptist Church
Main Street
Trempealeau
la Crosse
Daniel Bante
Otterville
Iowa
New York
Foley
O. T. Erhart
L. P. Cordell
Main St
Knothe & Grabhorn
S. Third St
Pomme
Saratoga
Tea Hotel Grand
T. H. Coulam
Wis
Ginghams
Arnold Suilings
Madras
Madam Conklin
Eton
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