Picturesque Chinese Figure in Washington Recalled
National capital notes recall of Dr Chang Yin Tang as successor to Dr Wu in China’s diplomatic posting. Tang, known as a witty figure, previously served in San Francisco and at the Chinese legation in Washington. Wu’s recall follows Yuan Shikai’s downfall and Boxer trouble ties to U.S. interests.
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Ooheek
EL At
Chang Yin Tang
India
England
Thibet
United States
Fece
Yuan Shai Kai
Tao Tai
Shanghai
Conger
Legation
Pekin
State Department
United
Son
San Francisco
Washington
Officer Performs Torpedo Escape From Submarine Test
Midshipman Aneth Whiting commanded the marine Porpoise in Manila when he crawled into a torpedo tube beneath a submarine. The tube filled with water as it moved, Whiting held the port, was drawn out, then surged to the surface unharmed.
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Washington
Navy
Det
Aneth Whiting
Marine Porpoise
Manila
Whiting
Cavite
Weesel
Washington crop report shows mixed dairy and grain yields
The department of agriculture issues a crop report with winter wheat at 632.92 million bushels, corn at 437.908 million, spring wheat at 1.6, oats at 86.6, and related per acre estimates. It compares current totals with last year and 10 year August averages, noting yields per acre and on hand oat stocks.
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Washington
Department of Agriculture
Plan Gompers Welcome Parade Set for October
Washington plans a monster parade in October to honor Samuel Gompers returning from Europe. Eastern labor organizations unite under the Washington Central Labor Union for a mass gathering and a late afternoon convention hall meeting.
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Plan Gompers
Washington
Samuel Gompers
Europe
Eee
Government Guarantee Stamp for Philippine Tobacco Imports
Purchasers of Philippine tobacco will receive a government guarantee of quality and cleanliness. The bureau of insular affairs and the Philippine government arranged for a stamped certificate on every imported package, indicating material quality and workmanship, in line with the new Philippine tariff law.
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Washington
Bureau of Insular Affairs
Philippine Mnment
United States
Power site filings denied by land office in Montana
Acting Assistant Commissioner Schwartz states no power site filings were made in Bozeman or elsewhere during Secretary Ballinger's tenure. He notes two privately owned water power sites on the Missouri river supplying Helena and Butte, and rejects President Ramsey Riverside Land & Stock Co. for 168.68 acres.
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Washington
Ballinger
Montana
Schwartz
General Land Office
Bozeman
Mont
Jermiah Collins
Colling
Collins Land Company
Missouri River
Helena
Butte
Helena Power & Light Company
Capital Improvement Company
Baron to Sail for Japan On Leave From Washington
The baron departs for Seattle noon to depart for Japan and assist in revising Japanese treaties. He returns at the government’s direction in the fall and notes no special remarks on US Japan relations aside from dismissing earlier sensational reports as fabrications.
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Seattle
Japan
Washington
America
Secretary Ballinger to report Western water withdrawals
Secretary Ballinger will brief Congress in December on numerous withdrawals of temporary water power sites in Western states. Acting Secretary Wilson notes acreage in Montana and Utah including 1 222 acres on Yellowstone river 4 268 on Hell Gate 1 160 on Judith and 240 on Ashley creek.
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Washingoes
Ballinger
Congress
Wilson
Montana
Utah
Yellowstone River
Hell Gate River
Judith River
Ashley Creek
Bradley to sue for half of ex Senator Brown estate
Mrs Annie Bradley plans to sue in Salt Lake City for one half of the $125,000 Brown estate claiming her two children are Brown's sons, a fact she proved at the Raleigh hotel murder trial two years ago.
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Brown
Washington
Arthur Brown
Utah
Raleigh
Annie Bradley
Salt Lake City
Bradley
Water Fights Acute in Ballinger Pinchot Clash
Washington August 12. Interest runs high over the looming fight between Secretary Ballinger and forest chief Pinchot. Pinchot supporters insist Ballinger will be dismissed once it becomes clear he has aided the water power trust and compromised the forestry bureau.
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Washington
Ballinger
Forester Pinchot
Forestry Bureau
Pinchot
Cost of Special Session and Page Costs
Congress passed a tariff bill last week that likely reduced schedules and cost the U S treasury about 4 million dollars. The Senate pages will receive 4300 dollars for the extra session and House pages 1600 dollars.
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Washin
Congress
United States Treasury
Senate
House
Wheat of State Banks High
Washington Aug 12 government crop report shows total wheat production 16 961 000 bushels. August 1 condition index 90 and 1 year average 85.
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Washington
Britain Loses Grip Amid Imperial Crisis in McClure Essay
The piece argues Britain faces collapse if America asserts dominance, tracing a vision where the United States becomes the empire’s seat of power. It contrasts England and Germany as rival forces and uses a parable of two farmers to illustrate threats to property and national strength.
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Chautauqua
N. Y
United States
Washington
McCiczs
America
England
Rosebe
Isles
Germany
Chile
Santa Clara robbery seen as test by Oakland youth bandits
The youthful robbers describe the Santa Clara bank job as an experiment and reveal plans for a bigger theft next time. They entered the First National Bank in Oakland around noon, scoping the layout, armed, and noting the crowd outside as a hurdle to their escape. Carr and an accomplice boasted of a planned broader heist to seize large sums.
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First National Bank
Oakland
Santa Clara
Carr
Train Collision Near Husted Costs Ten Lives
A head on wreck on the Denver & Rio Grande near Husted, 13 miles north of Colorado Springs, kills ten and injures between forty and fifty. Eastbound No. 8 crashes into westbound No. 1 at 10:25 Saturday. three engines and several cars are derailed and damaged. Investigators suspect a misread order or mistaken switch engine as the cause.
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Colorado Springs
Denver & Rio Grande
Husted
Shackleton to Lecture Tour March 1910
Lieutenant Ernest H. Shackleton will lecture in the United States and Canada beginning in March 1910. He will receive a record fee, but funds go to paying off debts totaling about $70,000 from his Antarctic expedition. The Daily Express criticizes the British government for not contributing to expedition costs.
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London
Ernest H. Shackleton
United States
Canada
Daily Express
Shackleton
Smallpox Measures Enforced in Chile to Contain Outbreak
In Santiago on August 16 authorities report 348 smallpox patients at the laza retto. Stricter rules ban infected individuals from public coaches and prohibit exposing smallpox corpses in churches for funeral services or funeral processions to crematories.
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Chile
Santiago
the Land Inspec
Destructive Japanese Earthquake Shakes Provinces
An earthquake struck the Japanese provinces including Tokyo on Saturday, causing widespread damage and fears of heavy casualties. Communications have been severely disrupted as rescue teams race to reach affected areas.
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Japan
Tokio
Nagon
Ponies of Sable Island and the annual round up
Sable Island lies 85 miles east of Nova Scotia home to wild ponies. Each year the herd is driven into a pound and boarded on a government boat to Halifax. Ponies sleep standing, avoid shelter, and gather in hollows during severe weather. Some become sturdy, rideable horses after care, sheds and sanitary upgrades. Farmers improve feeding stations and push for government inspection of goods.
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Nova Scotia
Sable Island
Mr. Silver
Maritime Canada
Masa
Halifax
Sable I Sland
Growth of Poultry and Egg Trade in New York Markets
The poultry and game business expanded from a limited female driven trade in New Jersey and Staten Island to large scale national shipping. By 1908 New York market poultry and eggs valued at 60 million dollars. Cold storage and refrigerator cars enabled year round supply, boosting demand and allowing preservation in extreme winters.
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New York
New Jersey
Staten Island
Washington
Indiana
New York Sun
Texas
Missouri
Kansas
Northwest
Canada
Vermont
Ghippera
Homesickness and Hard Choices at the Boarding House
Christine laments her four year stay and homesickness in a bustling boarding house. Nellie contrasts their woes with a dying girl’s sacrifice and the burden eight tenants bear under poverty and addiction as shoppers bustle below. Christine finds perspective in another’s tragedy.
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Christine
Nellie Sack
Nellie
Jack
Phil
Dora
Policeman Guards Pigbury Morals Amid Bridge Row
A London Globe blurb notes a country policeman tired from guarding morals at Pigbury-super-Splash. Three tramps locked up earlier are causing trouble as they demand a fourth player for bridge.
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Pigbury-super-Splash
London Globe
Missouri man seeks advice on shoe heel repair
A Missouri man sent a note a few hundred miles to learn how to cave his sock heels. The response suggested cutting out the heels with scissors and placing them in a new position.
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Missouri
Legal opinions and court rulings across multiple cases
A summary notes various rulings from federal and state courts. It covers a naturalization witness competency issue, the General Slocum disaster manslaughter case and related appeals, a fraud and jurisdiction dispute in a probate matter, collateral attack on a nonrecord court judgment, and a Minnesota case on applying payments to partially barred notes and statute limitations.
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United States District Court For
Circuit Court of Appeals
Im van Sechaick Va
United States
Mathews Va
Carman
New York
Minnesota Supreme Court
Anderson Vs. Nystrom
Northwestern Reporter
Railroads and the Tramp Graveyards
In five years twenty four thousand trespassers were killed by railroads and twenty five thousand were injured. If laid end to end the dead would stretch nearly fourteen miles, while the injured would require over four hours to traverse the second line. Private tramp graveyards bury unknown dead without inquest.
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Bangor
Maine
Burlington
The Reason for It
A mother explains to Elsie that some men reach heaven by a close shave. The playful exchange centers on belief and humor about angels and appearance.
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Elsie
Heaven
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