Urgent Push for Tariff Bill to Raise Revenue
March 16 dispatch from Washington cites a speaker urging Congress to convene in extraordinary session to enact a tariff increase. The memo stresses a growing deficit, rising interest costs, and the need to fund pensions and the public debt while boosting domestic industry, farming, and labor wages. The note urges prompt action before other business and highlights the imperative to correct revenue shortfalls.
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Bussia
Sean Wift
Meinley
Hopeful features slow in improving trade mood
New York March review notes gradual improvement in productive industries and legitimate business but warns lasting gains will come slowly after four stagnant years. Moral markets favor industrial recovery and avoid speculative capital drain. Business volume down about 8 percent year over year. weekly failures 7 percent in the US, 61 in Canada.
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New York
Jamk. G. Bes & Co.p
United States
Canada
Greece Stands Firm Against Powers in Crete Crisis
Athens reports a prolonged cabinet session deciding not to yield to demands from the powers. Officials expect Greece to take active measures, possibly war against Turkey, to preserve Crete and maintain the army while resisting external interference.
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Athens
Nnc
Turkey
Crete
Mother Dies After Poisoning Following Deaths of Children
In Cleselind, Q. on March 15 Mrs. M. St. Clair Kreydford of 75 Vienna Street East End was found in a dying condition after swallowing a dose of Laudanum and Oxide of? She died within minutes despite medical efforts. The sad tale follows Mrs Bradford aged 29 whose melancholy after losing three children led to self destruction after her mother left her.
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Cleselind
Il. St. Clair Kreydford
Vienna Street
East End
Bradford
Burned to Death in Chicago Residence Fire
A Chicago fire at 3645 Vernon Avenue tonight destroyed the Spiers home as William Spiers family slept on the second floor. Miss Newinko was burned to death. her cousin leaped from a window to the sidewalk and is badly injured, feared dead. The fire began on the second story and is believed Miss Newtoun perished before firefighters arrived.
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Chiasnigo
Mareh
William Spiers
Vernon Avenue
Llutbata Newman
Jose Maytel
Thousands Homeless in Flood Distress Along River
Memphis reported thousands homeless as flood distress bands along the eastern riverline stretched for many miles. Hundreds of people and livestock crowded ground above water, with cutter officers noting no relief prospects for some. William Drury, famed landowner of Colorado and Kansas holdings, died at 87 amid wealth built from vast farm acres. A destructive fire in Elking wiped out 12 stores and the opera house, with heavy, unassessed losses. Frank J. Larrieu, native of Cubs and naturalized American, released after arrest in 1806 case details not disclosed.
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Wiliam Devry
Keithsburg
Willkam Drury
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Nebraska
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Elking
W. Va
Extra Session Opens as Senate Reads President's Message
Washington reports the Senate met in special session under President McKinley's order with Vice President Hobart presiding. The chamber focused on the president's message and seating Kansas Senator-elect Viclorris. In the House, Thomas Reed was reelected speaker and the Ways and Means Committee gained full control as tariff bills and appropriations were discussed and reintroduced. The chamber composition shows 206 Republicans, 122 Democrats, 29 fusion members, with 148 new members and 132 first-time lawmakers.
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Fun on the old clippers on modern record-breaking liners
An elderly skipper recalls sailing on clipper ships and detesting modern steam liners. He describes sharp, canvas-heavy craft racing across seas, the danger and skill of pre-steam navigation, and memories of the Southern Pacific era with the Northern Light and 78 days 4 hours from San Francisco.
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Europe
Noston Harbor
San Francisco
Insurance fight over suicide clause in Knights Templar policy
Washington March 17 The equity court ruled in favor Knights Templar and Masons Indemnity Co Chicago in the estate of Frank Schwartz insured for 5000 dollars. Judge McComas held the death by own action cannot collect insurance. Blow Up Train in Cuba: a Havana World dispatch reports a train carrying Spanish troops blown by dynamite near Candelaria in Pinar del Rio province.
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Fiddlin John Turner A Mountaineer and Fighter
Fiddlin John Turner born in Yellow Creek Valley eighty three years ago is praised as a fighter and fiddler who battled mountain desperadoes in Kentucky. He once studied under Don Morgan and settled on a Kentucky farm later living in the mountains. The tale notes his kin, a bloody feud, and his famed bushwhack killings while highlighting his popularity among mountaineers.
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John" Turner
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Virginia
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Kentucky
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Chicago
Ife
Don. Morgan
Cumberland Gap
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Jobo
Clive
Woman's Influence and Lydia Pinkham's Cure
The article praises women's influence on civilization and highlights Lydia Pinkham and her Vegetable Compound as a breakthrough for women's health. It credits her discovery with lifting thousands from misery and emphasizes the power of women through health.
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Remarkable Dyspepsia Cure Featured in Local Notice
The piece cites Mrs. Sarah A. Skeels of Lynnville Jasper County who suffered twenty five years with dyspepsia and reports swift relief after using Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets. She praises the remedy, noting no distress for six months and urges others to try it, despite doctors calling the case incurable. A separate item mentions a London Lancet report of a Swiss Italian regaining speech after startling by a runaway horse.
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Switzerland
Ane
Sarah A. Skeels
Lynnville
Jasper Cobna
Boston visitor confuses preacher substitute with Whitfield
A Boston man, arriving in Newburyport, mistook a peamby minister for Whitfield. He reacted with tremors and a fit during the sermon, praising the power of preaching then discovering the mix up. He left declaring it the worst sale ever heard.
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