Waterways Money for Surveys and Dredging
The House advances an emergency and maintenance bill funding 9.97 million dollars for river and harbor surveys and maint enance from Illinois to Michigan. It seeks Great Britain talks on Great Lakes navigation, sets water use payments for St Marys River, and limits Secret Service use in treasury.
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Washington
Burton
House Committee On Rivers and Harbors
Great Britain
Great Lakes
Secretary of War
St. Mary’s River
United States
Atlantic
Gulf
Chicago
Rock
Chicago Harbor
Chicago River
Calumet Harbor
Little Calumet
Lake Calumet
Lake
Gary
Ind
Wabash River
Illinois
Des Moines, Cedar
Iowa
Marquette
Muskegon
Pigeon River
Livingstone
Detroit River
Michigan
Mississippi River
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Minnesota River
Rainy River
Duluth
Minn
Superior
Wis
Ashtabula
Lorain
Maumee River
Toledo
Ohio River
Mount Carmel Development Company
Wabash County
Ill
Mount Carmel
Congress
House Committee On Appropriations
Secret Service
Treasury Department
House
Roosevelt
Indiana Bankrupt Governor Warns of State Treasury Crisis
Governor Marshall sent a special message to the Indiana legislature reporting the state treasury is bankrupt with funds enough only through March. No new revenue is expected until June 1 when county treasurers settle semiannually. The deficit is about 400000, and a law to require county tax payments to fund state expenses is urged to avoid closures or borrowing.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Marshall
Austria threatens war over Servia disarmament deadline
London reports that unless Servia disarms by February 27 Austria will declare war and move a large force to the frontier. The warning follows the latest note sent to Belgrade detailing demands and actions.
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London
Austria
Belgrade
Roosevelt calls world conference on resource conservation
President Roosevelt announced a call for a world conference on the conservation of resources to be held at The Hague next September. The announcement sets the stage for international deliberations on managing natural resources and environmental policy.
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Washington
Roosevelt
The
Hague
Tariff Convention Ends in Indianapolis and Lincoln Cent Plan
The national tariff commission conference in Indianapolis adjourned with officials confident the work will become a permanent tariff commission. In Washington a plan to place Abraham Lincoln's head on new one cent coins was approved by President Roosevelt and will debut in about a month.
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Indianapolis
Ind
National Commission
Lincoln
Washington
Abraham Lincoln
Roosevelt
Indictments for Editors Charged with Libel in Panama Case
Washington indictments target Joseph Pulitzer Caleb Van Hamm Robert Lyman and Indianapolis News owners Delevan Smith Charles Williams for criminal libel over Panama canal purchase coverage. Warrants issued for arrest and extradition proceedings set to bring defendants to federal court in New York and Washington.
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Washington
Joseph Pulitzer
Caleb M. van Hamm
Robert H. Lyman
New York
The
New York World
Delevan Smith
Charles R. Williams
Indianapolis News
United States
Panama Canal
United States Grand Jury
Clerk of Criminal Court
the Press Publishing Company
Theodore Roosevelt
Williamh. Taft
Elihu Root
J. Pierpont Morgan
Charles P. Taft
Douglas Robinson
William Nelson Cromwell
Press Publishing Company
Otto Carmichael
John R. Shields
Indianapolis
Ind
Delavin Smith
Federal Grand Jury
District of Columbia
Wealthy Kansas City merchant foils extortionist with bomb threat
Lawrence M. Jones, head of Jones Bros. Dry Goods, resisted a blackmailer who held his home at gunpoint and carried a dynamite bomb. The suspect, C. H. Garnett of Omaha, confessed a plot to kidnap and extract money from millionaires. Police found a secluded Independence house with secret prisons and chains prepared to hold victims.
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Kansas City
Lawrence M. Jones
Jones Bros. Dry Goods Company
C. H. Garnett
Omaha
Independence
Garnett
William Gagle Confesses to Luring Child and Slaying
Chicago police report William Gagle confessed to abducting young Lizzie Schrader of Gary Indiana and killing her over a year ago while she carried lunch to her father. He hinted at being the Tolleston woods slay mystery, then denied Lizzie's death. Grand Duke Vladimir dies in St Petersburg from asthma after a parade.
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Chicago
William Gagle
Lizzie Schrader
Gary
Ind
Halpin
South Chicago
Rimbach
Hammond
Martin
Gayle
Tolleston
Gagle
Schrader
St. Petersburg
Valdimir Alexandrovitch
Soldier at Mare Island Shoots Self in Disappointment
United States Marine Corps Sergeant W. H. Dawson, from Forest Indiana, died by self-inflicted gunshot at Mare Island Navy Yards in Vallejo California on Friday. Officials say a broken romance caused the tragedy.
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Vallejo
Cal
W. H. Dawson
United States Marine Corps
Mare Island Navy Yards
Forest
Ind
Poole Arrested for Improper Language to Woman over Phone
Former Adjutant General J T H Poole is under arrest in Bismarck North Dakota on a charge of using improper language to a woman while talking on the telephone.
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Bismarck
N. D
Adjt
J T. H. Poole
Panel for 29.24 Million Standard Oil Rehearing Drawn
A 150 man venire will supply the panel for the re hearing of the Standard Oil Company $29 240 000 case. Judge Albert M. Anderson of Indianapolis will preside. The Chicago petit jury will be drawn beginning Monday.
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Chicago
Standard Oil Company
Albert M. Anderson
Indianapolis
Farmer Flies 250 Feet In Homebuilt Aeroplane
W N Martin a civil engineer and farmer of Canton Ohio performed a 250 foot flight at a height of six feet in his aero plane on Thursday The device used a horse on a rope and pulley system to provide initial power.
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Farmer
Canton
W. N. Martin
New Strength for Women's Backs and Kidney Pills
Mrs Mary Hinson of Mt Sterling Kentucky credits Deans Kidney Pills with curing her backache dizziness and headaches. She reports visual disturbance and weakness improved after using the pills and says they helped from the first use. Sold by all dealers 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
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Mary Hinson
Strother St. Mt. Sterling, Ky
Dean
Mrs. Hinson
Coah
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N. Y
The Boy As We Know Him Narrated At Dinner
Mrs. Belle De Rivera recounted public school episodes at a dinner. She told of a winter moment when a girl or boy faced cold water and a teacher scolded a boy for a dirty cheek before sending him to wash. The tale centers on classroom life and humor.
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Belle de’ Rivera
Mrs. de Rivera
Jimmy
Baldness Reversals Through Keene Institute Hair Food
Baltimore February 21 The Lorrimer Institute headed by Wm Charles Keene reports continued strong interest in its hair food. Free trial outfits mailed prepaid offer a no charge start and promise rapid improvement for baldness and faded hair.
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Baltimore
Wm. Chas. Keene
Lorrimer Institute
Keene
Where He Stood The Question of Pearl and Percy’s Marriage
In the dialogue Pearl contemplates marriage to Percy while acknowledging her father's possible objection, suggesting tension over family approval and personal choice. The exchange centers on whether Pearl’s father would object, hinting at parental control and social expectations in their relationship.
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Percy
Pearl
Penny Saved Entangled in Candle Trust Tale
A penny saved is banked then hears two voices discuss a 50 million dollar loan for a candle trust. The bank later passes to a receiver. the owner, a candle maker crushed by the trust, is told to return in a year or two for any assets.
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Puck
Prize Food Palatable Economical Nourishing
A Nebru woman extols Grape-Nuts as the most palatable economical and nourishing breakfast. She says seven years of use, stopped tea and coffee, improved after nervous symptoms, and notes her children’ health and avoidance of stomach trouble during whooping cough. The letter, attributed to Postum Co. Battle Creek, Mich, ends urging readers to try Grape-Nuts with the slogan There’s a Reason.
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Nebru
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
Personally Conducted Excursions Offer Lowest March Rates
Colonists may buy one way Chicago to the Pacific coast tickets via the Chicago Union Pacific and Northwestern Line at $338 during March and April. Double berth in a tourist sleeping car is $7 with through service to San Francisco Los Angeles and Portland. No extra charge for personally conducted tours. Write S A Hutchison Manager Tourist Department 212 Clark Street Chicago.
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Chicago
Pacific Coast
Union Pacific
Northwestern
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Portland
S.A. Hutchison
Clark Street
Ill
Hall's Catarrh Cure and Family Pills advertisement
Local application claim for Catarrh Cure taken internally to affect blood and mucous surfaces. Presents testimonials and asserts a regular prescription by leading physicians. Produced by Fr Cheney & Co Toledo Ohio. Sold by druggists for 2 shillings. Also recommended Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
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Hall
Fall
Cheney &,Co., Props
Toledo
Drugerats
Toke Hall
Begging Letters Flood New York Wealthy Circles
The article notes that about 35 000 begging letters reach wealthy New Yorkers daily. It claims most writers fail to obtain money as philanthropists give charity only after careful plans and investigations.
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New York City
Early porcelain origins debated by experts
An exhibitor in China cites Chinese literature claiming porcelain was invented about 25 centuries before Christ, but foreign experts doubt that the art existed before the seventh century of the current era.
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China
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Signor Harmonetti
Munyon
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Norris
Taft
Lippincott’s
Lewis
Lewis’ Factory
Peoria
Allen
California Fig Syrup Co
California By Syrup Co
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New York,ny
Hilliard
Bed Rock
Wisconsin
Cts
North Florida
Willard
Twllard
Florida
Hillard
North Worlda
Jacksonville
Vrakxn Michigax
Ohio
Evanevilles
Rock Farms
Chicago Title & Trust Co
Capital
Trac
Chicapru Mtle +rush
Hifest
Best Gurantee Utle
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Chattanooga
Atlanta
Civilization
Atlantic Coast Line
North Florida Trust
Lruck
Ronny NO Tru OO
PHI
Norfolk
Wilmington
Charleston
Ohlenge
Polnta
HilHard
North Worlda Trust
Savannah
F. W. Cornwall
Cornwall Farm Land Co
Avacksonville
Augustine
Ist National Bank
Watson KX
Coleman
Wash- Paterington D.C
Ginere
Monroe Drug CO
Quincy
GRASP
Thhalth
Whalth
Happinissh Assurisd
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West 100Th Street
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