Wool free list sparks tariff clash in House vote
A tariff debate centers on whether wool should be placed on the free list. The House adopts the Mills bill provision 120 to 102 after opponents warn of harm to Pennsylvania Ohio and Virginia wool industries. Supporters note Texas wool policy and industry stakes.
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Tr House
Alsington
Taylor
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Virginia
Adams
Jack
West Virginia
Cer. Williams
Texas
Attenderson
Iowa
Breckinridge
Kentucky
Wilkins
Lowden
Important Collection to Be Made by Professor Magon
Professor Magon of the Smithsonian ethnology department is appointed to collect inscriptions seals and artifacts relating to Semitic and Hematic runsces of the race before the Christian era. The collection will survey scientific institutions and private collections across countries to be as complete as possible.
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Magon
Washington
Maon
Mithsonian Institute
Weather and the Crops Weekly Signal Office Bulletin
Reports from corn and wheat states show favorable weather for crops last week with rain improving corn potatoes and grass in the central Northwest. Mid Atlantic showers delayed harvests and boosted crop prospects. New England saw below normal rainfall and will likely reduce hay yields. Oats flax harvest in Kansas Illinois and Southern Michigan and hay harvest in Southern Minnesota reported favorable weather.
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United States
Waashington
Northwest
Middle Atlantic
New England
Kansas
Ilinois
Michigan
Minnesota
Burlington Dynamiters Examine Alleged Conspirators Resume
The examination of alleged conspirators before Commissioner Iayne resumes in Chicago with no expected developments until prosecution begins. Bowles remains in marshal’s custody, while defense seeks to strike his testimony. Witnesses recount dynamite placement on Burlington tracks near Aurora and Q tracks, with minor damage and details of procurement through Godding’s household.
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Nebraska City
Hoge
Chicago
Iayne
United States
Bowles
Kelley
Smith
Bauereisen
Burlington
Aurora
Baucreisen
of Godding
Godding
Plot to blow up Missouri River bridge alleged in Stirlington
Officials in Stirlington Nebraska claim dynamite shipped by striking engineers to spoil a new Missouri River bridge has been located and those found with it are under surveillance awaiting sufficient evidence for arrest. In Chicago July 17 Chairman Hoge of the Brotherhood finance committee has vanished with all traces of his movements erased as Inspector Banfield denies knowledge of his whereabouts.
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Nebraska City
Neb
Stirlington Road
Missouri
Caicaco
Hoge
Brotherhood Finance Committee
Banfield
Dissolution Reported for Western Iron Manufacturers Association
Pittspur July 17 President Kexting confirms the dissolution of the Western Iron Manufacturers Association. His firm withdraws and he will resign at the first meeting.
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Ry Pittspurg
Kexting
Western Iron Manufacturers’ Association
Boulanger falls from popular idol to questioned hero
Paris reports a shift in public opinion after the Lanterne's desertion of Boulanger and his dueling fiascos. Meanwhile doctors deem his condition favorable and his recovery likely. Queen Natalie complaints of political scrutiny as Kiel hosts Emperor William and entourage.
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Boulanger
Paris
The
Lanterne
Gambetta
Wen
Hurricane Devastates Fruit Plantations Along Honduran Coast
The steam ship Professor More reports a hurricane off the coast of Spanish Honduras. It destroyed numerous fruit plantations along the Interoceanic Railroad, delayed trains, and wrecked freight. Puerto Cortez beaches are strewn with rotten fruit.
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New Orleans
Professor More
Charles L. Hardie
Honduras
Guatemala
Spanish Honduras
Puerto Cortez
Balloon ascent ends in river rescue after fall
Samuel Young rose 1,000 feet at Coney Island near Cincinnati on July 17. His parachute failed at 900 feet forcing a plunge into the river. he sank twenty five feet but was rescued unharmed by boatmen.
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Cincinnati
Ohio
Coney Island
Samuel Young
Passenger Train Telescoped Near Berk's Siding
The rear coach of passenger train No. 3 on the B and M railway left Lixcoty at 10:15 p m. It was struck at Berk's siding four miles east of Crete Nebraska at 10:35 p m last night injuring four or five passengers.
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Lixcoty
Neb
Berk’s Siding
Crete
Nerve transplantation from a rabbit cures man’s nerve loss
A Vienna professor with a detached thumb nerve suffers pain from neuroma. Dr Gersing ties a rabbit’s six centimeter thigh nerve to Professor Von Fleischl’s arm nerves. After two months sensation returns in the fingers with no pain or neuroma recurrence, suggesting successful nerve replacement. London World reports cautious optimism.
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Gersing
Vienna
Professor von Fleisch
von Fleischl
London World
Not the Lawn Mower
A quoted quarrel over a noisy device ends with a Boston Transcript joke noting the sound is not a lawn mower but a son winding up a Waterbury clock. The exchange highlights neighbors mistaking a clock for a lawn mower and the repeated nocturnal grinding.
The Interest in Athletics and Its Growing Public Appeal
The piece notes rising public enthusiasm for outdoor sports from base ball to lawn tennis and horse racing. It discusses intercollegiate contests, initial excesses in ambition, and the need for reasonable limits to ensure sports support overall education without harm. It concludes that the current sports craze will subside to a beneficial, lasting influence on life and study.
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St Paul Pioneer Press
Superstition of an Author and His Ghastly Study
Texan writer Howard Seely, noted for frontier sketches and the novel A Nymph of the West, keeps a skull and femora atop a bookcase as a writing aid. The skull once belonged to a Mexican senorita, with a velvet lined brain cavity and ink fonts in the eyes. He uses the skull’s head as a muse, claiming the left eye governs fiction from the right brain.
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Howard Seely
New York Graphic
The Versatile Cocoanut Tree In Market Report
A Washington market dealer extols the cocoanut tree, noting its many uses from food to fiber to fuel. The article cites substantial production and price data, reporting last year 360 000 coconuts at four cents each and a projected 500 000 this season.
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Washington
New York Mail and Express
Largest sailing ship afloat Palatrave ranks with giants
The Palatrave is described as the largest sailing ship afloat at 3 678 tons. It surpasses most vessels in size except the Great Eastern and a handful of steamships, with only three sailing ships above 2 500 tons: the Reliance 2468 tons the Fingal 2510 tons and the New York 2699 tons built in 1858. The Fingal is steel and the others iron.
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Palatrave
Lloyd
Palgrave
Liverpool
Dublin
New York
Greenock
Detroit Free Press
A Difference in Dress Creates a Widow and Fortune
A New York Sun note tells of a former cook who saved wages to buy a fine wardrobe, posed as a refined lady on a city trip, and after marrying her employer she became a widow with a fortune. The tale contrasts class attire with social ascent within a suburban household.
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Nell
Calico
New York Sun
Indian Slavery in Brazil Reported by Brazilian Travel Scholar
The New York Sun quotes Mr Wells noting that in Amazon tributaries bands of Indians engage in captive raids to supply Indian rubber tappers. The Brazilian government admits lawlessness, but distant regions lack any enforceable checks on these practices.
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Brazil
Wells
Amazon
India
New York Sun
Depew On Railroads and Public Grievances
Chauncey M. Depew argues that railroads bear blame for public unrest among farmers and shippers. He urges settlement with shippers, warns against demagogues, and predicts a future where ill will toward railroads fades as honest work returns wealth to the state.
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Chicago
Chauncey M. Depew
Northwestern
Railroads
Shilai's plaster and cough cures advertised for consumption
Lame back chest and side remedies offered with Shilai's porous plaster Viits whets Por sile. Sealed packaging, spark-gured, with trochin and sweet breath. Cures consumption claimed. Sold by Seallin and others. Injector free. Prices not listed.
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Shilai
S. Hh. Seallin
Ns An Ager
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