Dynamite Conspiracy Suspects Nabbed Nationwide
Indianapolis authorities report the United States government arrested virtually all fifty four suspects tied to a dynamite conspiracy. Among those detained are high ranking officials of the International Association of Bridge and Structural Iron Workers including president Frank M. Ryan and other executives. Each man posted a ten thousand dollar bond for arraignment set for March 12. Police indicate over forty men were in custody by nightfall and the remainder expected within forty eight hours.
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Indianapolis
Ind
United States
International Association of Bridge and Structural Ironworkers
Frank M. Ryan
John T. Butler
Buffalo
N. Y
Herbert S. Hocking
J. J. McNamara
White Flat
Texas
Taft
New Mexico
Democratic State Central Committee
Clovis
Baltimore
Republic
Heinrich Grosse
Winchester
Eng
Congress of Honduras
W. S. Valentine
Puerto Cortez
Robert Baden Fowell
Boy Scout Movement
Columbus
Ohio
Joseph W. Falk
St. Louis
Washington
George Danworthy
Theodore Roosevelt
National Conference of
Roosevelt
Chicago
DeWitt C. Huntington
Nebraska Wesleyan University
University Place
Mount Zion
African Methodist Episcopal Church
Brownsville
Monongahela
Denver
Great Western Oil Company
Joseph J. Ettor
Arturo Giovannitti
Lawrence
Mass
Anna Lopizzo
Industrial Workers of the World
San Diego
Cal
Hunt
Cincinnati
Express
Billikin Cupid Brings Bride to Lincoln Dealer Groom
Kansas City reports Miss Florence Petz creator of Billiken the god of things as they ought to be has married Robert Smalley a Lincoln Nebraska car dealer. Petz derived the idol in 1906 while teaching at a local manual training high school and sought cheerful worship, though legal entanglements limited her earnings.
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Kansas City
Billiken
Cupid
Florence Petz
Miss Petz
Chinese Politicians Respond to Premier Postings
A Shanghai dispatch reports Tang Shao Yi declined the offered premiership though parties in China push for his acceptance. Another dispatch states Dr Sun Yat Sen has resigned the presidency in favor of Yuan Shi Kai.
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London
Tang Shao Yi
Shanghai
China
Sun Yan Set
Yuan Shi Kai
Folk Declines Presidential Nomination in Telegram
Former Missouri governor Joseph W. Folk asks Nebraskan friends to withdraw his name from presidential consideration. He states he is pledged to Speaker Champ Clark and not a candidate, declining to have his name placed on the petition.
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St. Louis
Joseph W. Folk
Nebraska
Champ Clark
Clark
Prohibition Party Blocked From Ballot in 1910 Primaries
In San Francisco the prohibition minority loses ballot access after failing to poll three percent of the state total in the 1910 general election. This denial means they will not be represented on the presidential primary ballot scheduled for May.
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San Francisco
Cal
Roosevelt Will Decide In A Week On Governors Letter
Col Theodore Roosevelt says he has received a letter from eight governors sent from Chicago. He will study it carefully and reply within a week. Until then he will say nothing on the subject.
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New York
Chicago
Col
Theodore Roosevelt
Arizona Becomes Forty-Eighth State as Hunt Is Inaugurated
George W P Hunt was sworn in as Arizona's first governor in Phoenix. Earlier, President Taft signed the proclamation admitting Arizona to statehood, completing the union of contiguous territories as the forty eighth state.
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Phoenix
Ariz
George W. P. Hunt
Arizona
Washington
Taft
American consul George F. Davis drowns in Honduras river
George F. Davis United States consul at Ceiba Honduras drowned Tuesday while swimming toward a river bar. He was overcome and his body recovered. Davis a Missouri native was nominated for the Ceiba post in August 1911.
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Tegucigalpa
Honduras
George F. Davis
United States
Ceiba
George W. Davis
Missouri
Ceiba F
Washington Tariff Bill Seeks $3.53 Million Revenue Rise
The Democratic chemical tariff bill released by the House Ways and Means Committee on Tuesday aims to boost government revenues by 3,530,840 dollars.
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Washington
Ways and Means Committee
House
Ohio constitutional committee backs woman suffrage proposal
A proposal granting equal suffrage has been adopted by Ohio’s constitutional committee. The committee vote reflects growing support for extending voting rights to women across the state.
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Columbus
Ohio Constitutional Committee
Nebraska in Briefs recount local events and incidents
Numerous items from across Nebraska include two revivals at Ansley and Ashland’s ice house at capacity, a Plattsmouth house fire, Donovan funeral in Madison, and Duroc Jersey hog sales near fifty head at over eighty dollars. Other notes cover a Lincoln legislator’s death, a Wymore legal arraignment, Iowa extradition requests, Stanton public works vote, Hastings College leadership, and county sheriff arrests in Otoe and Johnson counties.
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Ansley
Swift & Company
Ashland
A. E. Leighty
Plattsmouth
Donovan
Madison
Cuming County
Robert B. Graham
Nebraska
Lincoln
I. N. Miller
Wymore
Iowa
H. L. Closson
Ewing
Neb
Hamilton County
Stanton
City Electric
Hastings College
Martin Kemp
Department of Education and Philosophy
Otoe County
Nebraska City
Burlington
Johnson County
Tecumseh
Dakota City
Farmers’ Institute
H. M. Swigart
Hastings
Swigart
Blanche Lapsley
First National Bank
Beatrice
Goldie Williams
Grand Island
Willard Doane
Utah
McCoy
Montana Insurance Department
Barton
Bankers’ Reserve Life Insurance Company
Omaha
Illinois
H. E. Wolf & Co
New York
Joe Edmondson
Chicago
Oscar Harmon Thas
Oscar Harmon
James Harmon
Wayne
Harmon
J. W. Rhoads
D. W. C. Huntington
Nebraska Wesleyan University
University Place
Huntington
H. P. Lau & Co
Department of Agriculture
National and Local Political Sparks and Crises in 1912
A long roundup notes Missouri Senator Reed's anti third term amendment proposal and Congressman Kent's retirement. Taft delays Harlan successor. McKinley leads Republican campaign efforts in Washington with Knox opposing Mexican troop movements. Bryan set to testify on money trust. Senate pensions fight folds into McCumber bill. Red Cross aid travels to China and Shanghai relief follows.
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Reed
Missouri
William Kent
California
Congress
House
Champ Clark
Washington
Nebraska Anti-Saloon League
Taft
Nagle
Supreme Bench
Department of Justice
Justice Harlan
United States Supreme Court
Senate Committee On Pensions
McCumber
William J. Bryan
House Committee On Banking and Currency
Money Trust
el Paso
Knox
Mexico
William B. McKinley
Illinois
Republican Congressional Campaign Committee
American Red Cross
China
Shanghai Relief Commission
Murray
Treasury Department
Mixed global news brief from early era dispatches
Reports from across the world note quakes felt in Butte and Martinique with no damage, Arctic coal shortages in Nome, Maine wreck freeing mud, and a Paris death of James K. Polk Jr. Abbe Pere Hya cinth dies at Parry, Pu Yi abdicates China, and a church group forms in Kansas.
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Butte
Mont
Martinique
Mexico
Nome
Alaska
Arctic Circle
Maine
Polk
Paris
Tex
Lake Superior
Eagle River
Isle Royale
Abbe
Charles Layson
Pere Hyacinth
Parry
Warriors of
Woodmen of America
Kansas
Fort Francis
Ont
B. W. van Riper
Nebraska Wesleyan University
Boston University
Abraham Lincoln
Ben Pitman
Mary Surratt
United States
Canada
Detroit
Frances Adams
Adam Adams
Griswold
Union Depot
Kansas City
Joseph R. Lehmer
Omaha
Gomez
Governor Proclaims Nebraska Forty Fifth Anniversary Observe State Growth
Governor Aldrich issues a proclamation marking Nebraska’s forty fifth anniversary of statehood. He notes postwar settlement driven by government land offers and urges schools to study growth in population, education, churches, railroads, farms and production. Citizens should write to friends in other states about the state’s development.
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Aldrich
Union
Nebraska
Commonwealth
Curtis Petition Aims To Annex Agricultural School Farm
The town of Curtis petitions the Board of Public Lands and Buildings to annex private lands into its corporate limits to take in the agricultural school farm. The move requires state land acquisition. The state board has not acted and the petition is likely to be rejected.
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Curtis
Board of Public Lands and Buildings
State Auditor Reverses on Nebraska Health Insurance Rule
State Auditor R. Barton now enforces the Nebraska law barring life insurers from offering health and accident policies. He will also block foreign life insurers from conducting such business in the state.
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R. Barton
Nebraska
Warrants Presented for Cash by State Treasurers
Most of the registered state warrants have been cashed under the February 1 call. Holders are urged to bring in their warrants to collect payment as interest ceased on the date of the call.
Governor drafts historic primary proclamation stature grows
The governor works on a proclamation for the primary to be in the hands of county clerks sixty days before the election date. Officials say it will be the longest document of its kind issued from the executive mansion.
Metcalfe Seeks Populist Governor Bid on Primary Ballot
Two petitions filed with the secretary of state on Friday ask that Richard Metcalfe be listed as a populist candidate for governor. One petition comes from Nevada County and the other from Clay County.
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Secretary of State
Richard Metcalfe
Nevaha County
Clay
Omaha Railway Business Climbs in Record Year
State railway commission reports show total Omaha business rising from 10,108,917 in 1908 to 11,045,238 in the past year. Ticket sales on all roads grew from 1,629,657 in 1908 to a high of 2,027,674 in the most recent fiscal year.
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State Railway Commission
Omaha
University registration system labeled a success
The new registration plan tried last week to organize class conduct while students arrange study for the upcoming semester has been voted a success by the faculty. It is claimed that errors in registration were minimized by the system.
Nebraska Guard May Attend Fort D. A. Russell Maneuvers
Nebraska national guard members may join summer maneuvers at Fort D. A. Russell Wyoming if war department plans are approved. The Nebraska legions are invited to participate along with troops from Kansas Wyoming Colorado and the Dakotas.
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Nebraska National Guard
Fort D. A. Russell
Wyoming
War Department
Nebraska Organization
Nebraska
Kansas
Colorado
North
South Dakota
Fruit Growers urged to modernize orchard practices in Nebraska
The state horticulture society closed meetings in Blair Plattsmouth Peru and Beatrice to urge orchardists toward modern fruit growing methods. Prof Howard of the university directed the sessions highlighting spraying packing and care.
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State Horticulture Society
Nebraska
Blair
Plattsmouth
Peru
Beatrice
Prof
Howard
The
University
Val
Seed Corn Trains to Tour Nebraska Urging Seed Supply
Washington's Agriculture Department dispatches Prof. L. L. Zook to Nebraska to accompany seed corn trains in late February. Four trains from Burlington Northwestern Union Pacific will travel Omaha Lincoln, with 22 speakers led by Prof. C. W. Pugsley. Farmers report surplus seed corn for sale via the Omaha Publicity Bureau.
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Nebraska
Department of Agriculture
Washington, D. C
L. L. Zook
Zook
Washington
Burlington
Omaha
Lincoln
Northwestern
Union Pacific
Department of Agricultural Extension
University of Nebraska
C. W. Pugsley
Pugsley
8. Avery
Nebraska University
E. A. Burnett
W. P. Snyder
North Platte Experiment Station
F. W. Chase
T. A. Kiesselbach
Irwin Hopt
C. B. Lee
H. J. Gramlich
Nebraska Experiment Station
Farmers’ Institute
O. Hull
Alma
Neb
E. P. Brown
Arbor
J. D. Ream
Broken Bow
Frank G. Odell
A. Nelson
S. R. MecKelvie
T. F. Sturgess
G. W. Hervey
H. A. Bereman
Omaha Dispatch
Bureau of Publicity
The
Maha Commercial Club
Victor Hoffman
Victor Hoffman, Neligh, 2,000 Bushels; G. W. Fenerstein, Gerhardt, Neb
Paul Peterson
Utica
A. B. Patterson
Harvard
W. H. Miller
F T. Calhoun
A. B. Davis
Logan
T. W. Hill
Monroe
Land agent probes homestead claims in Hyannis cases
A United States land agent visited Hyannis to collect evidence in ongoing cases alleging several individuals are not entitled to their homesteads.
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United States
Hyannis
Albion Seeks Upgraded Union Station Facilities
Albion residents petition the railroad commission complaining railroads lag behind the city’s progress in Boone county. They note Albion has funded water works electric lights and other modern conveniences while railroads retain antiquated frontier era facilities.
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Albion
Railroad Commission
Boone County
Nebraska association of cleaners and dyers to meet in Lincoln
The Nebraska association of cleaners and dyers will hold a meeting in Lincoln May 18 19 and 20 according to action taken by the executive committee of that organization. The association meets every four months and at present has about sixty members.
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Nebraska Association of Cleaners and Dyers
Lincoln
Jewish Group Seeks Nebraska Site for Colony
A Chicago Jewish organization of 100 families has asked Labor Commissioner Gaye of Nebraska to locate a suitable site in the state where the group can settle as a colony. The request aims to establish a cohesive community within Nebraska’s borders.
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Chicago
Gaye
Nebraska
Governor Aldrich to Inspect State Irrigation Areas
Governor Aldrich plans a near term tour through the irrigation region of the state. He will be accompanied by Engineer Price of the Board of Irrigation. The dry weather of the past two years has spurred irrigation interest, especially in the southeast, and the governor aims to visit virtually all irrigated districts before returning.
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Aldrich
Price
Board of Irrigation
Cold Weather Pushes Up State Coal Bills in January
January coal bills for state institutions totaled 15,490.39 with December at 14,100.27, a difference of 1,390.12, as severe weather increased consumption. Supplies on hand were lower than January 1 despite a cold spell leaving institutions well supplied.
Maple Syrup Testing Under State Pure Food Law
The pure food department tests maple syrup offered for sale as Cakes season raises demand for the sweet. Law requires branding the percentage of pure maple syrup in mixtures on the package. Some dealers comply while others brand the mixture differently amid ongoing litigation.
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Pure Food
Passenger Nervously Questions Iceberg Collision Outcome
A passenger asks what would happen if the ship struck an iceberg. The captain replies that it would probably compromise the ship's timbers.
Missing certificate delays government post applicant
A dialogue shows the head clerk noting a missing government certificate while an applicant confirms it is absent. The exchange highlights an identity verification issue and potential delay in processing.
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Tove
Fragmentary 19th century prose excerpt
A garbled dialogue fragment discusses value and virtue with playful wordplay. The text features odd names and phrases, suggesting a literary or satirical piece with scattered references to salt and inverse ratios.
The Evils and Sorrows of Mankind
Not provided with a complete article. Summary reflects a quotation credit to Marle Corelli, noting human evils and sorrows as a theme.
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Marle Corelli
California woman credits Postum for health after coffee quit
A California woman writes she drank coffee most of her life and suffered insomnia and illness. After a week on Postum she felt strength rise and months later gained 26 pounds and a healthier complexion.
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California
Postum
S.hich
Wellville
Phys Iver
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