Capital construction scandal testifies on padding and bills
In Harrisburg April 25 testimony before the capitol investigating commission shows Payne & Co contractoring for interior capitol work used stationery from Morse elevator firm to pad bills. Morse testified extensions and extra charges total 15 504 07, Payne profited 5 604 07. Other Philly firms corroborated surreptitious bill heads. Charles Wetter cited board pressure. Johnson denial discussed.
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Tharlep Wetter
Billyon
Johnison
Harrisburg
Payne & Co
Capitol
Board of Public Grounds and Buildings
Dilla
Capitol Investigating Commission
Edwin F. Morse
Morse, Williams & Co
Philadelphia
Payne
Morse Company
Morse
Charley G. Wetter
George F. Payne
Board of Public Buildings and Grounds
Senator Fisher
Philip Johnson
Philadelpha
Jacob M Shenk
Lebahot
Johnson
James Cameron
Comrelsion
Vulcanite Company
Roosevelt Maxims Revised by Jacob Riis For Boys
Jacob Riis, addressing De Witt Clinton High School in New York, restates Roosevelt maxims as three rules: Be ready for anything, every boy is entitled to honest fun, and apply judgment then go ahead. Riis notes Roosevelt's motto as it appears in Philadelphia reports.
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Jacob Riis
de Witt Clinton
New York
Roosevelt
Philadelphia
New York Sun
Biis
Mr. Roosevelt
Meat Packing Plant Burned at Allegheny
Zoeller Packing company on Spring Garden avenue in Allegheny was totally destroyed by fire causing about 300000 dollars in losses. Origin of the fire undetermined the blaze spread rapidly threatening neighboring property and thousands of dollars of cattle were killed or destroyed.
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Pittsburg
Zoeller Packing Company
Spring Garden Avenue
Allegheny
Double Murderer Pardoned by Governor Guild
Boston April 25 Governor Guild pardoned Peter F King of Sturbridge upon committee recommendation. King had been confined at the state hospital for the criminal insane for killing his father and mother at Sturbridge on September 12 1899. The pardon requires immediate departure from the state and he is expected to go to his brother’s home in Chicago.
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Boston
Governor Guild
Partisan Committee
Executive Council
Peter F. King
Sturbrig
State Hospital
Sturbridge
King
Chicago
Express Wrecked Near Bennett Station
The Chicago express on the Baltimore and Ohio line, bound for New York, derailed and crashed into a Pennsylvania railroad freight train near Bennett station on the West Penn division. Several persons were injured as the passenger engine and freight caboose were demolished.
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Pitsburg
Chicago Express
Baltamore & Ohio Railroad
New York
Bennett Station
West Penn
Pennsylvania Railroad
Senate bill doubles legislature pay to $125 a month
Harrisburg April 25 The senate bill fixing the pay of the members of the legislature at 125 dollars a month, double the present salary, was passed finally by the house by 105 to 47. The announcement of the vote was greeted with cheers by supporters. The bill now goes to the governor.
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Harrisburg
Senate
House
Gallant Soldier Ends Life in Petersburg 1865
Petersburg April 25 John T Parham aged 65 years a gallant Confederate soldier and color guard in Pickett’s charge at Gettysburg shot himself in the head with a Colts revolver. He had been a respondent.
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Petersburg
John T. Parham
Pickett
Gettsburg
The Rope Trick Myths From Indian Jugglers
Charles Bertram reports on travels in India and debunks the famed rope trick as moonshine. He describes how Hindoo tricks use a wire in a rope, a hidden basket method, and a mango tree illusion, plus other bold feats by beggars and sheet thieves in the East.
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Charles Bertram
India
Far East
Bey
Beiung
Malay Peninsula
Orient
New York
King Henry VIII Saturday Wash and Barbers Duties
The article notes that Henry VIII reportedly performed partial Saturday night washings with his barber John Pen. Barbers were required to attend, shave daily, and maintain cleanliness, marking early aseptic practices. The role included entry restrictions and oversight by royal attendants to prevent foul play, with Pen featured in Holbein’s Henry VII portrait.
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Sidney Young
Barbers’ Hall
Henry VIII
John Pen, Penn Or Penne
Edward IV
Asepsis
Pen
Holbein
Henry VII
Barbers and Surgeons
London Lancet
Landing a Big Amberjack Duel at Sea
In a tense fishing narrative a boatman details a battle with an amber jack offshore. The angler fights for thirty minutes as the line snaps, the reel screams, and the fish powers through water. A gaff finishes the struggle, delivering the prized catch for the triumphal moment narrated by Forest and Stream.
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California
Angier
Gsb
Amber Jack
Remarkable Fungus On An Old Wood Road
A reader recalls finding an orange, club shaped fungus near a sunlit wood path. The small parasite’s roots embedded in a brown chrysalis head show a transformation as nature alters host and form.
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St. Nichone
Praying For Rain in a Soviet Minister’s Pulpit
A Soviet church faces a weather request as congregants deliver a petition signed by all members. The aging minister, reluctant to pray, reads the document aloud and bluntly chides the crowd to get to the point rather than delay.
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Hir
Raia
Artist's Slip and a Traveling Journeyman Tramp Magazine
A London weekly once hired Sir John Gilbert to illustrate a short story. Editor warns of changes, then errors crop up. readers ask how cavalry ascended a mountain. Everett Lloyd, a wandering genius, publishes Vag abond in San Francisco and plans a May 1 press date from 1262 O'Farrell Street. Lloyd, age 24, will tour Europe after U.S. cities.
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John Gilbert
London
Everett Lloyd
O'Farrell Street
San Francisco
Europe
Navy Store Burned at Kittery Yard in Fire Loss
A three story pattern shop and storehouse at the navy yard in Kittery Maine measuring about 100 feet by 40 feet was consumed by fire on April 25. A large number of costly patterns brass fittings and other stores were destroyed damaged or burned.
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Kittery
Navy Yart
Animal Dinner a Surprise for Lehman Strauss
A masquerade birthday dinner for Lehman Strauss the horseman was held at his New York home 604 West One Hundred and Fifteenth Street. Guests arrived in animal costumes, hid their identities, and the room featured horse themed decor including whips spurs saddles and a central hay stack with horses wearing a blue ribbon.
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New Yorker
New York Times
Lehman Strauss
West One Hundred and Fifteenth Street
New York
Peach Tree Worth Fortuna Plant Surpasses Records
A farmer near Yakima Washington, Cala, north of the city, reportedly possesses a peach tree of unknown variety so valuable that Detroit News-Tribune says it could bring 106000 for his place. One tree reportedly shipped yields many more trees, after pollenating apricot flowers produced the new fruit.
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Fortuna
Cala
Yakima
Wash
Detroit News-Tritvone
Busiess
Cale
Indigent Muscogee allotment sale request in Kansas City Wiees
Rich Indica Alistment Application at Muscogee Lt by Dixie Colbert a Guckisay Indian seeks sale of part of his allotment and portions of five children's allotments near Sulpher town site totaling 734 acres for town siting. Colbert and heirs to receive 7495 dollars in cash. Also Pen Argyl slate quarry sale proceeds reported after a dispute among owners Stephens Jackson Co. and relatives.
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Muscogee
Dixie Colbert
Sulpher
Kansas City
San Eestop
Pen Argyl
Stephens, Jackson & Co
Riehon
Jackson
Harry Stephens
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Capitol Probers
Peoria
Ill
Edward Tate
School Board
N. E. Dougherty
St. Francis Hospital
Uneeda Biscuit
Yspai
Palmer
Purley
Epsom
Wolfram C. Fuchs
Dr. Fuchs
Kornelia Kinks
Mammy
H-O CO
Buffalo, N. Y
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Dr. Bell
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American Dentifrice CO
Beeseeret Modern Prarmacy
Steiner Bros
Frederick
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