Naval fleet prepares for target practice and maneuvers
Admiral Evans leads the American battleship fleet approaching Magdalena Bay for days of rest and intensive practice after the Peru voyage. The four divisions will maneuver in sequence with target drills, then broad fleet tactics across California coastal ports from San Diego to Santa Cruz.
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San Diego
Cal
Robly D. Evane
Magdalena Bay
California
Callao
Peru
Admiral Evans
Connecticut
Kansas
Vermont
Louisiana
Emory
Georgia
New Jersey
Rhode Island
Virginia
C. M. Thomas
Ad- Tolall Evans
Minnesota
Ohio
Maine
Missouri
Sperry
Alabama
Milinois
Kentucky
Kearsarge
Yange
Magdalena
San Francisco
San Pedro
Los Angeles
Santa Barbara
Santa Cruz
Post Office Bill Boosts Salaries and Adds Funds
In Washington the house approved amendments to the post office appropriation bill raising letter carrier salaries to 1200 dollars and adding funds for clerks and contract stations. A prohibitory provision on sending intoxicants through the mails was broadened to include cocaine derivatives. Overall appropriations rose by 1,225,000 dollars. The senate discussed the currency bill and advanced several calendar measures.
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Washington
House
Overstreet
Goebel
Ohio
Houston
Tennessee
Senate
Miners Delegation Heads to Indianapolis Rally
A 125 member United Mine Workers of America delegation from District 5 led by President Feehan and district officials departed for Indianapolis to attend the special nationwide miners conference called by President Mitchell, which convened today.
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Pittsburg
United Mine Workers of América
Feehan
Indianapolis
Mitchell
Peruna editorial argues herbal ingredients prove its catarrh remedy
The piece cites Dr. Hartman and the United States Dispensatory to affirm Peruna’s ingredients Hydra stis Canadensis Corydalis Formosa Cedron seeds and Copaiba as catarrh remedies and tonics. It quotes Bartholow Scudder Millepaugh and Collinsonia Canadensis authorities to claim Peruna’s effectiveness across mucous membranes digestive and urinary systems. It concludes with a bold claim that Peruna is a superior catarrh remedy supported by high medical authorities.
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Hartman
United States
Bartholow
Scudder
Virginia
Kentucky
Tennessee
Carolina
VOTED DEAD MEN IN LOUISIANA PRIMARY
In New Orleans and across Louisiana charges of fraud were filed with the Democratic state central committee by both lieutenant governor candidates. J. J. Bailey alleges hundreds of dead or nonvoting names on rolls and about 9,000 fraudulent New Orleans votes. Paul Lambremont counters with legality questions on tally sheets. City results favored Lambremont, county results favored Bailey.
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New Orleans
Louisiana
Democratic State Central Committee
J. J. Bailey
Mr. Bailey
Paul Lambremont
Bailey
Lambremont
Brave Girl Intervenes as Pistol Battle Wounds Three in Oklahoma
In Shawnee Oklahoma on March 12 a pistol duel in a dark bedroom at Thomas Nichols home wounded three men from the McClutcha and Nichols families. Mace McClutcha and Thomas Nichols are near death, William McClutcha is lightly hurt. Miss Bessie Nichols, sixteen, leaped between fighters and knocked a weapon aside, saving her brother. Charles Nichols and Joe McClutchcha are jailed.
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Shawnee
Okla
Thomas Nichols
Mace MecClutcha
William McClutcha
Knowa
McClutcha
Nichola
Charles Nichols
Bessie
Joe McChitcha
Illinois Railroads Report Higher Passenger and Freight Earnings
Springfield March 12 The Illinois board of railroad and warehouse commissioners released the annual report for year ending June 30 1907 showing passenger earnings at 41 157 957 up 4 075 319 freight earnings 120 620 799 up 19 555 418 other operating earnings 16 245 917 up 324 919 income from property 12 541 063 up 1 783 444 total earnings and income 190 565 756 up 25 564 417 Tons carried 155 672 528 up 9 544 755 Steam road mileage up 122 electric roads up 269 miles Two cent railroad law effects not yet data due to post period release.
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Springfield
State Board of Railroad and Warehouse Commission
Iinois
State Board of Railroad and Warehouse Commissioners
Illinois
Taft faction Holds Separate First District Republican Convention
In Paducah Kentucky on March 12 delegates split as Taft and Fairbanks factions each met. Dr Frank Boyd of McCracken chaired the Taft group while Carl Henderson of Crittenden led the anti Taft session. Both sides nominated contenders for congress and will contest delegations to the national convention. The Nebraska state GOP convened in Omaha.
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Paducah
Taft
Neboe
Fairbanks
Graves County
Frank Boyd
McCracken
Carl Henderson
Crittenden
Senate studies Brownsville affair reports and president's stance
Reports from the Senate military affairs committee on the Brownsville incident discharging three companies of Negro soldiers from the Twenty fifth Infantry are debated. The president’s message says testimony sustains his position. calls for reenlistment extensions for those not within the order.
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Washington
Committee On Military Affairs
Senate
Brownsville
Tex
Twenty-fifth Infantry
Warren
Lodge
Warner
Dupont
Talaferro
Foster
Overman
Frazier
McCreary
Foraker
Scott
Bulkeley
Hemenway
Senator Foraker
Senate Committee
War Department
Miners and Operators Clash as National Convention Looms
Indianapolis dispatch reports 350000 organized coal miners from the United States and Canada mobilizing for a war footing ahead of an April strike. Delegates from all fields arrive as wage contracts expire, with calls for joint talks and possible district by district contracts delaying operations after April 1.
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Indianapolis
United States
Canada
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
Ohio
Kentucky
Indiana
Michigan
Illinois
Iowa
Missouri
Kansas
Texas
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Maryland
Witness
Western Pennsylvania
Tlinois
Liberal realizes sales stall Chicago wheat market
Washington reports the House passed a resolution directing the secretary of the navy to furnish letters and data on the Maine wreck. It seeks cost and impact details about removing the battleship Maine and arranging burial for the dead entombed in its hulk.
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Chicago
Maine
Washington
House
Jon
Secretary of the Navy
Highwayman Slashes Face With Carbolic Acid
In Fort Wayne Indiana on March 12 Frank M Bryam of Arcola was accosted west of the city by a man who ordered him to surrender. With one arm Bryam could only partly raise his hands. the assailant threw carbolic acid into his face blinding one eye and robbed him of $40 before leaving him for a police officer to find.
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Fort Wayne
Ind
Frank M. Bryam
Arcola
Bryam
Po Nce
Appellate Reverses Disbarment Of Two Indiana Lawyers
The appellate court reversed the disbarment of Lemuel Darrow and John W. Talbott on a technicality. It cited improper exclusion of Talbott's good character evidence and a statute instruction about appeal and reinstatement in the case.
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Indianapolis
Lemuel Darrow
1Aporte
John W. Talbott
South Bend
Talbott
Burglary at McCordsville Post Office Alarmed Town
Early morning burglars blew the outer safe door at McCordsville Indiana post office but fled when residents gathered and frightened them away. In Warsaw Indiana Theodore Tangemann a Winona academy student died after being injured attempting to alight from a train. Washington debates President Roosevelt Panama canal authority as Fifty-eighth congress ends.
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McCordsville
Ind
Warsaw
Penneyvania
Theodore Tangemann
Postville
Winona Academy
Washington
Roosevelt
Panama Canal Zone
Harrison
New York
Canal Zone
Congress
United States
Fifty-ninth Congress
Wanger
Expense of Congress Congress Appropriations Target
At the White House Representative Tawney, chairman of the house committee on appropriations, said the current session's congressional appropriations would be kept within 900 million dollars, not including battleship appropriations.
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Congress
Washington
White House
Tawney
House Committee On Appropriations
Legal Notice to Thaw in New York Marriage Case
Harry Thaw has been served with the summons and complaint in Evelyn Nesbit Thaw's annulling case. Mrs. William C. Thaw is named co defendant as next of kin. The law presumes her son to be dead.
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Thaw
New York
Harry Thaw
Evelyn Nesbit Thaw
William C. Thaw
Inquest Opens into Death of Walter F. Baker
Found in Arcento Hackensack New Jersey March 18 inquest into the death of Walter F. Baker of a noted Bow ton family. He died in Bogota New Jersey after an evening in New York City. Dr William Boose testified the chemical examination suggested arsenical poisoning.
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Arcento
Hackensack
N. J
Walter F. Baker
Bowton
Bogota
New York City
William Boose
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Mivani
Point Loma
Peruna, Editorial NO. 2
Minele
Nebraska
Omaha
Assur
Ayer
Aver
Genaress
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