Relief Effort Aids Phillips County Suffering Farm Families
A Colorado county overwhelmed by blizzards and crop failure receives aid from Denver and New York sources. Holyoke residents face hunger as farmers struggle with loans, frozen stores, and scarce income. Rev. W. E. Collett leads local relief with clothing, flour, coal, and cash drives.
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Phillips County Aid Committee
Phillips County
Holyoke Methodist Church
W. E. Collett
Denver
Louis Klopech
New York
Blizzard Blockades Lift As Rail Lines Weaken
Beset by heavy snow Buffalo and Niagara Falls rail links reopen gradually after a crippling blizzard. Central's snow plow works the lines toward Rochester as trains resume service from New York after Friday. Ottawa reports fifteen firms burned in a morning fire causing about 70000 dollars in damage with several insured losses.
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Bouffalo
N. Y
New York Central
Rochester
Central
Burgen
New York
Auburn Falls
Lockport
Lackawanna
Lehigh Valley
Erie
Buffalo
Niagara Falls
Mayor Pingree presses municipal bulletin boards
Detroit reports show City Hall boards 4x6 feet hung around the square and at entrances to the building. A hand lettered notice lists smallpox cases in the pest house, recoveries, deaths and quarantined houses as Mayor Pingree argues with newspapers over health board reorganization.
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Manteipat
Detroit
Mich
Pingree
Cripple Creek Postoffice Location Settled in Price Block
The long contest over Cripple Creek post office site ends with a postmaster general order, issued today at Senator Walcott’s request, placing the post office in the Price block.
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Washington
Cripple Creek
Walcott
Senate Approves Pacific to Hawaii Cable Project Start
The Senate voted 36 to 25 to begin laying a cable from the Pacific coast to Hawaii. An amendment of 2.5 million appropriated for starting work and authorizing the president to contract for the full project, estimated at 3 million. The vote split largely along Hawaii policy lines, with six Democrats joining Republicans and three Populists. Pettigrew sided with Democrats against the cable.
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Senate
Washington
Pacific
Hawaii
Morgan
Gorman
Hill
Butler
Call
White
Pettigrew
Stockbridge
Michigan
Democrats Give Up on Bond Bill as House Prepares Last Weeks
Washington February 10 The House enters the final three weeks of the session with no plan to pass a bill authorizing gold bonds. Republicans oppose the move, Democrats deem it a waste of time without GOP support. The week focuses on routine business, resuming the Legislative appropriation bill and naval appropriation work, then the general deficiency bill pending ahead.
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Washington, D. C
House
Congress
Ways and Means
Committee On
District of Columbia
Naval Committee
Accusations of Favoritism in Relief Distribution
Lincoln Neb Feb 10 The Lutheran Ministerial Association confronted widespread complaints of partial relief aid across western settlements. A special relief commission was formed to help claimants and coordinate supplies, amid accusations of creed nationality politics and kinship bias affecting aid. In Kearney observers noted hungry farmers from Phillips county near a Union Pacific car.
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Lincoln
Neb
Lutheran Ministerial Association
Ashland
Kearney
Phillips County
Union Pa
County Farmers Await Feed Relief After Supply Theft
A track loaded with relief supplies was looted by individuals who helped themselves. Conservatively estimated at over 70 000 dollars in feed and grain is needed to sustain county farmers for next season's sowing.
Colorado Tax Returns Hurry as Deadline Looms for Corporations
Denver February reports show only about half of required income tax returns filed under the new law. Corporations must file within four weeks or face a 50 percent penalty, with the collector authorized to file for them. Charitable non profits are exempt. Over 5,000 Colorado corporations fall under the act and many are expected to rush in blanks before the March deadline.
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Denver
Colorado
Terrible Storm Hits Ireland with Deep Snow and Ship Misfortune
A fierce snow storm blankets Ireland with three feet of snow on level ground and drifts up to ten feet in places. Trains halted and telegraph lines down at Queenstown as high tides damage shoreline and harbor traffic suspends. Norwegian bark Freya arrives battered. she spoke with the injured Carmel off Savannah. Cunard steamer Servia reports rough seas near Queenstown.
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Dublin
Ireland
Queenstown
Freya
Rio de Janeiro
Carmel
Savannah
Liverpool
Cunard
Servia
New York
Gold to Leave England for New York Loan
The Evening Post’s London cable reports gold shipments to New York will begin next week as part of the American loan. The Bank of England is expected to lose about £2,000,000 with rest from open market sources. Paris and Berlin exchange indicate remittances to London to participate in the loan, while London markets opened flat then rose amid credit concerns.
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New York
Evening Post
London
Bank of England
Paris
Berlin
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Colo
Sedgwick
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Opee
Holyoke
Coltern
Ély
Phillip Oanty
Bryan
Copp
Ottawa
Kan
Hamblin
Rhorbaugh
Silas Priesal
People’s National Bank
David Miller
8. B. Rherbaugh
Postoffice
Nebraska
Income Tax Returns
New
England
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