President Urges Currency Reform and Postal Savings Banks
The president urges currency system reforms and supports postal savings banks and parcel post. He argues for extending interstate commerce control, expanding eight hour day, boosting judges' salaries, saving forests, enforcing pure food laws, granting Porto Rican citizenship, admitting New Mexico and Arizona as states, and expanding the navy with four battleships and destroyers.
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Congress
Supreme Court
Postal
Statehood
New Mexico
Arizona
Porto Rico
Navy
General Board
Congress opens short session pays tribute to Senator Allison
Washington lawmakers reconvene to honor the memory of Iowa senator Allison as Speaker Cannon and Vice President Fairbanks preside. The session proceeds with a tight fiscal stance, planning to push only essential appropriations and awaiting river and harbor funding likely exceeding 75 million dollars. Oregon and Washington delegations push for river projects and a Portland assay office amid a lean treasury.
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Cannon
Fairbanks
Senate
Allison
Iowa
Albert B. Cummins
Treasury
Army Engineers
Pacific Coast
Jones
Washington
House
Columbia River
Oregon
Cascade Mountains
Portland
Oregon City
Isthmian Canal Commission Buys Shawmut and Tremont
Seattle ships Shawmut and Tremont bought from Boston Navigation by the Isthmian Canal Commission for Panama supplies. Congress allotted 1,500,000 dollars for the project. the price paid is 1,157,301 dollars, about a third less than recent cost. Vessels to be delivered to New York at no cost and later used as navy colliers. cement contract for 4,500,000 barrels ships from New York to Colon.
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Seattle
Wash
Shawmut and
Tremont
Isthmian Canal Commission
Boston Navigation Company
Panama Canal
Congress
New York
Navy
Colon
Indian Potlatch at Bellingham Ends at Lyn den Ranch
The potlatch hosted by Jim yellow hamm chief of the Nooksack tribe closed at his Lyn den ranch. About 400 Washes from Skagit to Fraser River attended the gift feast marked by wild aboriginal ceremonies. The burial of Nooksack dead was reenacted in yellow hamm’s cemetery as gifts valued in the hundreds and thousands of dollars were distributed.
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Bellingham
Jim Yellowhamm
Lynden
Skagit County
Fraser River
British Columbia
Chinese Gifts Presented to Longworth Family in Washington
Mrs Nicho las Longworth daughter of the President receives jeweled bracelets from the late Empress Dowager of China after a visit years ago. Tang Shou Yi special ambassador delivered the gifts at the Longworth home. Mrs Roosevelt also receives presents while the President is given hundreds of volumes of Chinese literature bound in Chinese.
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Washington
Nicholas Longworth
Empress Dowager of
China
Tang Shou Yi
Longworth
Roosevelt
Roosevelt to Probe Forest Destruction in Copper Versus Farmers
President Roosevelt after White House hearing with Anaconda Copper Company representatives said he would limit any Justice Department restraint to a full investigation. He will seek a practical method to extract poisonous fumes from smelter emissions in Anaconda Montana, amid farmer complaints.
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Washington
White House
Anaconda Copper Company
Anaconda
Mont
Roosevelt
Department of Justice
Peculiar Vancouver Child Case Involves Abduction
A father forcibly took his child from another family crib and returned it to its mother despite orders by the county coroner and sheriff. The Board of Charity reports Napoleon Bonaparte and wife in destitution with five children and a malnourished five month old baby said to be starved by the mother. Deputies investigated and found the child undernourished. the county placed the infant with a foster family at county expense. The father reportedly abducted the baby Saturday night and reunited it with its mother.
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Vancouver
Napoleon Bonaparte
Board of Charity
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Currency Commission
United States
Interstate Commerce Commission
Hall of Representatives
National Capitol
Joseph G. Cannon
Illinois
House of Representatives
Speaker Cannon
Bays Canal Transports
Everett Cash Grocery
P. A. Oakes, Prop
Save Man
Frye-Bruhn, Inc
West Holly Street
MONTAGUE @ McHUGH
Bellingham, Wash
KID Body
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