Sanity urged on bond issue amid intersates talks
The house speaker warned against rushing a 1 billion dollar bond plan for rivers and harbors, urging safe and sane expenditures. New York faces 672 million debt, about 10 percent of taxable real estate, with only 58 million more borrowing room. A Newark case ends in tragedy as a San Francisco woman kills her wolf guest. Erie railroad shops trim 500 Scranton workers to two thirds time.
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Rivers and Harbors Committee
Congress
Canton
Cannon
New York
Herman W. Motz
Legislative Committee
Edgar J. Levey
Misa Carrier
Burns
San Francisco
Freight Rates to Be Advanced Next Year
Washington December 11 Transcontinental freight tariffs will be advanced on east bound traffic starting January 1 next by rail and water. West bound class rates remain unchanged. Eastbound commodity rates from the Pacific coast to Atlantic points rise about 18 percent, with some items up to 60 percent and others as low as 3 percent. First class shipments see decreases on certain routes to equalize east and westbound rates.
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Washington
Atlantic Seaboard
Pacific Coast
Chicago
Oldest Illinois Publisher Kilpatrick Dies at Danville
James D. Kilpatrick longtime printer and publisher died at the National Soldiers' Home hospital in Danville. He was an intimate friend of Abraham Lincoln when they rode the circuit as lawyers in this region. Kilpatrick was father to Charles Kilpatrick the trick bicyclist famed for riding down the Capitol steps in Washington.
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Illinois
Danville
James D. Klpatrick
Ilinois
National Soldiers’ Home
Abraham Lincoln
Charles Kilpatrick
Washington
Eighteen Mules Die in Suffolk Colliery Fire
In St Nicholas near Mahanoy City Pennsylvania the Suffolk colliery of the Philadelphia and Reading Coal and Iron company caught fire. The blaze began in an underground stable and eighteen mules were killed. Officials including Mine Inspector Fenton arrived to supervise efforts to extinguish the blaze in a mine employing over a thousand workers.
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Suffolk
St. Nicholas
Mahanoy City
Philadelphia & Reading Coal & Iron Company
Here
Fie
Fenton
Annual Christmas Tree Cutting Underway in Adirondacks
Shipping thousands of Xmze trees from the Adirondack forest north of Utes New York as 30 thousand trees have come out in two days. Trees range five to ten feet long and fetch about 10 cents a piece after freights, with carloads sent to distant points.
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Utes
N. Y
Dee
Adirondacks
Adirondack Forest
Nomination Sent For Civil Service Chief Examiner
The president sent to the Senate the nomination of George R. Wales of Vermont to be chief examiner of the civil service commission. Nobel peace prize recipients were K P Arnoldsen of Sweden and F Bajer of Denmark, both ex parliamentarians.
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George R. Wales
Vermont
Civil Service Commission
Nobel Peace
Awardie
K.P. Arnoldsen
Sweden
F. Bajer
Denmark
Xmas Rush Fur and Gift Goods Sale Half-Price Range
A garbled ad lists a wide array of small wares and apparel from fur items to handkerchiefs, umbrellas, pockets, neckwear, hosiery, gloves, aprons, suspenders, belts, and shirts. Prices span from cents to a few dollars, highlighting value and variety for holiday shoppers.
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Lincoln
Haye Ball
Jy Henin
Jay
Bea
Alze
Rene
Philo Hay
Newark
Hay
Herline
Ra Ro
Fxtro
Sie Steiner Bros
Bell Telephoned
C. H. Kreg
Freer. Ik
FOR
Union Taffetta
Directoire
Everwear
Ood
Astrakhan
Mike
Brighton
Teddy Hear
Santa Claus
Tom O'Shantas
Thos. Kemp
Wapa
Doll Bros
Anaturday
Gargain i
Bargain Paturday SC
Saraturday
Bureau
Etripes and
Plaida
Reay
Colgate
Saturn
France
LaFrance
H. R. Flautt
City Opera Bolse Shoe Store
Besant & Knott
Gry Bote
Bowindevilot
Amos Ubawe
Glart
Devilbiss & Urner, Insurance
Onrre Selte Neon Pe
Patrick Street
Frederick, MO
First Nations Banki
Frederick, Md
Catia, Owe
News Office
Carty
Carty’s
Feade
Bennett’s
City Hall
Lowenstein & Wertheimer
Tooki Rainconta
IAS
B. Rosenour & Sons
Market and
Patrick Streets
E. S. Mobley & Bro
West Patrick Gtreat
Prederick, MD
Footer’s
Footer’s Dye Works
Cumberland, MD
C. Thomas Kemp
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