Long Struggle Predicted as Republican Split Pauses Senate Race
In Springfield a Republican rift in the legislature threatens to delay the United States senate election to succeed Albert J. Hopkins. A joint session will ballot daily until a nominee emerges, with party splits and shifting allegiances shaping the process. A separate tragedy involves a Texan family killed by a gas explosion after a misused fuel.
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Springfield
United States
Albert J. Hopkins
Senate
Legal mystery over Panama canal libel case investigation
Washington reports the federal grand jury continues its libel inquiry into the Panama canal purchase. Witnesses include Douglas Robinson and Charles Taft. reporters and dealers testified to selling the implicated papers. Government cites common law in libel pursuit amid ongoing public interest.
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Washington
Panama Canal Purchase
Federal Grand Jury
Messrs
Douglas Robinson
Roosevelt
Chas P. Taft
New York World
Indianapolis News
District of Columbia
New York
Indianapolis
Pormans
Fibel
Charles A. Dana
New York Loan
Adams
United States Court For
Columbia
United States
Patterson's Veto Blocks Tennessee Prohibition Bill
Governor Patterson vetoes the prohibition measure as Tennessee faces a political clash. The veto follows a January 20 filing as the state capital weighs the religious and social impact, with lawmakers poised to decide next steps.
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Nashville, Tenn
Patterson
Mystery of grand jury subpoena lifts veil on canal matter
The federal grand jury subpoenas William J. Dempsey head of the mailing department of the New York World to testify in the United States against the Press Publishing Company, revealing details about alleged sensational matter connected with the Panama canal purchase.
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New York
Federal Grand Jury
United States
William J. Dempsey
New York World
Press Publishing Company
the World
Legal battle opens in Carmack shooting trial at Nashville
Nashville witnesses an exceptional crowd as Duncan B Cooper, Robin Cooper, and John D Sharp face trial for the November shooting of former Senator Edward Ward Carmack. Governor Patterson, Senator James B Frazier, and Gaston T Fitzhugh join the prosecution effort while defense lawyers include J M Anderson General W H Washington James K Bradford and M H Weeks.
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Nashville
Tenn
Duncan B. Cooper
Robin Cooper
John D. Sharp
Edward Ward Carmack
William M. Hart
United States Senate
Tennessee
Carmack
Itklihood
Patterson
James B. Frazier
Gaston T. Fitshugh
Memphis
Jeff McCain
Coopers
Tennessee Bar
Davidson County
J. M. Anderson
W. H. Washington
James K. Bradford
M. H. Weeks
Messina Refugee Outskirts Grow Businesslike Amid Recovery
Messina January 20 refugees in the city outskirts are forming a functional area with makeshift shops in damaged structures. Primitive stalls sell items while property recovery continues. Excavations proceed and at the cathedral pictures and tapestries are found in good condition.
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Messinane
Messina
Duke of Abruzzi Refuses Navy Resignation
A Turin dispatch reports the Duke of the Abruzzi will marry Katherine Elkins and renounce rank, but the king will not accept his resignation from the navy.
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Paris
Turin
Abruzzi
Katherine E]lkins
Reed Smoot Reflected in Utah Legislature Telegram
The Utah legislature reflected United States Senator Reed Smoot. Wesley L. Jones was elected to the US Senate from Washington. Rockefeller donated 1,000,000 dollars to the University of Chicago.
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United States
Reed Smoot
Utah
Wesley L. Jones
United States Senate
Washington
Constipation Caused By Indigestion
A medical note links constipation to indigestion and faulty digestion, describing nerves, bowel waste buildup, and indigestion’s effect on the bowels. It promotes Saurt's Dyspepsia Tablets as a digestant and nerve support, claiming rapid digestion and renewed vitality, with a price and free trial offer from F A Staare Co in Marshall, Michigan.
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Saurt
Addresea
Matifree Addraea F. A
Staare Co
Smaart Bldg
Marenall
Mich
Jury Rules Against Taggart In Defamation Suit
Thomas Taggart former Democratic committee chairman testified in his own defense in a suit by Reed Carradine alleging unlawful imprisonment on September 22 2005 Carradine won a $2500 verdict. Taggart denied arranging a detective custody while Carradine proved the cashiers check validity. The Louisville Kentucky dispatch notes a Lincoln centennial event may shift to Louisville due to crowd control. J H Trimm a railway clerk from Guadaloupe county Texas pleaded guilty to mailing theft and was sentenced to two years Leavenworth penitentiary.
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New York
Thomas Taggart
National Democratic Committee
Supreme Court
Reed Carradine
Committee
Taggart
Carradine
San Antonio
Tex
J. H. Trimm
Guadaloupe County
Leavenworth
Earthquake Kills Eight Near Phocaea in Turkish Coast
Smyrna dispatch reports eight dead after a quake at Phocaea twenty five miles from Smyrna with damage to buildings in the area. A statement by GeoLlect says there will be no legislation against Japan. California legislature details appear mixed in the text.
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Geer Gitlect
California
Life 100000 Years Ago Caves Reveal Early Human Dwellers
Scientist notices in a Swiss cave show early humans 100000 years ago lived amid beasts and hazards. A. W. Brown of Alexander Maine credits Dr King’s New Discovery for saving him from a severe lung ailment and persistent cough. The medicine helps sore lungs and stubborn coughs, with 50c and 1.00 prices offered.
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Switzerland
Benea
A. W. Brown
Alexander, Me
Dr. King
Obas
Indiana's New Senator Elect Shively Named by Democrats
Indiana's Democratic majority in the joint caucus votes to elect Benjamin F. Shively to the U S Senate seat to succeed James A. Hemenway with 83 votes to 67. Shively, a South Bend lawyer and former congressman, will take office March 1 and has long been active in state politics.
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Indianapolis
State Senate
House of Representatives
Benjamin F. Shively
United States
Indiana
Mr. Shively
James A. Hemenway
Senate of the
Shively
Hemenway
South Bend
Ezra Mattingly
Senate
Agriculture College of Purdue University
Samuel Benz
Benz
Toledo Blaze Destroys Brown Enger Hut Book Store and Hud son Dry Goods
A major Toledo fire gutted the Brown Enger Hut Book company store and the Hudson Dry Goods building, spreading to adjoining police and warehouses. The four story structure suffered total destruction with property losses estimated above a quarter million dollars.
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Toledo
Brown, Enger & Hut! Book Company
Hudson Dry Goods Company
Vind Is Best for Winter Ills Say Rutland Man
Edw R Wooster of Rutland Vermont testifies that Vind restored his health after a year of weakness appetite loss and severe cough. The ad claims the product packs iron and cod liver oil as a “greatest body builder” and offers money back if no benefit with a local distributor Charles D Kuppe in New Albany endorsing it.
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R. Wooster
Rutland
Charles D Kuppell
Luroggiss
New Albany
Senate doubles president's pay in early U S history
Washington reports the Senate set the president's salary at 140000 per year and kept vice president and speaker at 15000. The panel increased the chief justice to 15000 and associate justices to 14500, amid debates. The note warns of pensions bills and naval funding, plus a push to investigate Liberia conditions.
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Washington
United States
Senate
House of Representatives
Heveridge
Borah
Brown
Burkett
Clapp
Dolliver
la Follette
Piles
Rayners
Panama Canal
Committee On the Judiciary
Willert
New York
House
Liberia
Africa
McKinley Correction Highlighted by Amos J. Cummings
Washington dispatch notes Amos J. Cummings as a former printer helped correct McKinley’s wording during a house debate on a loan for a Cincinnati festival exhibit. Cummings’ sharp eye settled a language issue, revealing his early printing background shaped his congressional career.
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McKinley
Nick Longworth
House
Secretary of War
North American Gymnastic Union
Cincinnati
William McKinley
Amos J. Cummings
New York
Ohio
Cummings
Ioan
Bacon to Succeed Root in State Department Post
Washington reports Secret ary Root elected as senator from New York by the state legislature. Robert Bacon to become secretary of state with John C. O Laughlin named assistant secretary. O Laughlin has long experience in diplomacy and journalism, including time in Washington and abroad. He was born in New York City in 30s.
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John B&b. Rockefeller
University of Chicago
William Sims
Farmers’ State Bank of
Chicago
New York
Samuel H. Gibson
Memphis
Francis BR. Loomis
Ohio
Tokyo
Loomishis
Venezuela
McKinley
Ben Butler
New Orleans
United States Treasury
Congress
Treasury
Phil Thompson
Kentucky
Washington
Secretry Root
State Department
Hot Springs
Ark
Robert Bacon
John C. O’laughlin
Mr. O'Laughlin
Bacon
London
Parne
Berlin
St. Petersburg
New York Herald
Associated Press
Russia
The
Chicago Tribu
Market Quotation Indianapolis Grain and Livestock
Market quotes from Indianapolis and Chicago show mixed signals across wheat corn and oats with No 2 red wheat at 1.09 in Chicago and 1.04 in Indianapolis. Livestock prices edge up and down with hogs around 6.10 to 6.70, cattle near 3.25 to 8.60, and lambs near 3 to 7.76. a steady but uneven opening auction market and regional buffalo and New York listings.
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Indianapolis
Chicago
New York
A Queer Trunk Problem for Elder Homes
The New York press notes a recurring issue in elderly home management: trunk accumulation as residents’ private property cannot be sold or given away. Managers fear future needs yet face despair as trunks pile up, with worn items eventually consigned to the scrap heap.
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New York
Woodland navigation and signaling among Indigenous people in Foley product note
A contemporary description outlines how Indigenous hunters communicate in the woods using telegraph like signals with slickeke scents and planted stakes showing direction. It notes summer markers a withered bough and skirts attached to ground sticks to indicate routes taken. It ends with an unrelated medical advertisement for Foley’s Orino Laxative.
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Cpeghker
Ots
John H Walker
Witness
Lewis
Abilene Tex Dan
Koby
Fames
Albert Hopkins
Plese Sentte
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Sheriff Sharp
Senator Carmack
Liant
New Mexico
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Hodgenville
Louisville
Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln Farm
Turkey
Cau
Cus
South Bend Man
Turpie
Ator Hemenway
Pires
SIGK
Vermont
Vinol
Mars Adelaide Yerkes
Charles T. Yerkes
Louis S. Owsley
Yerkes
W. L Gilpatrick
Dan‘orthle
Electric Bitters
D. Knoefel
M’kinley
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Charles W. Arthur
Speaker
Burnett
Bulkeley
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Foley
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