Burning roads in Mississippi tested for durability and cost
Sunflower County seeks bids to burn compact earth roads as an experiment with potential statewide adoption. The plan, piloted by Walter Clark and county supervisors, uses layered earth and wood to create a water resistant surface costing about 1400 dollars per mile, with delta counties already reporting durable results and reduced wear on teams and vehicles.
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Sunflower County
Mississippi
Delta
Walter Clark
Cotton Association
Board of Supervisors
Clark
Teele
Russell Sage Dead and Mexican Tensions Rise
New York financier Russell Sage dies at Cedar Croft Lawrence Long Island age ninety. He rose from a Troy grocer to railroad director and congressman. In Mexico Diaz calls governors to discuss unrest with anti foreign sentiment spreading. Some Americans leave as reports of possible revolution and U S involvement grow.
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New York
Russell Sage
Cedarcroft
Lawrence
Long Island
Russell
Russell Lace
Verona
Oneida County
Connecticut
Mr. Sage
Troy
United States
New Orleans
J. Mather
Ohio
Mexico
Turmoil in Russia as Czar Dismisses Premier and Peasant Revolt Spreads
World attention fixed on St Petersburg where troops flood the capital after the czar dissolves the duma and bans the people’s address. Peasants torch estates and famine and destruction follow as Gen Stoessel, once Port Arthur commander, is condemned to be shot. The czar’s circle replaces Garemykin with Stalypin as a possible next move in a widening political evolution.
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Russia
St. Petersburg
Duma
Stoessel
Port Arthur
Summary of Various Federal and State Policy Notes
A compilation notes shifts in governance and policy including Sitka to Juneau as capital moves, Taft granting Niagara Power permits, eight hour law enforcement, expanded agriculture crop reporting, marriage and divorce statistics, coin demand affecting mint output, shipbuilding jobs for 15,000, a US Spain trade treaty, and a census report on blind and deaf Americans totaling 64 763 with male percentage.
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Bureau of Census
United States
Pattern of terse telegrams from 1907 about global events
A condensed report lists German meat exclusions for Americans, European finance unease, grain markets in Liverpool, Argentine wheat shipments to England, gold imports, Missouri politics, Roosevelt discussions, and various deaths, legal notices, and incidents across the United States, including labor law enforcement and maritime bonds. The assembled items sketch a turbulent early 20th century news landscape with frequent notable names and local incidents.
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Sterlim
Germany
Ressian
Liverpool
England
Fairbanks, Cannon and
Warner
Missouri
Aly Gen
Hadley
Beieves Roosevelt
Mickey
Nebraska
Bryan
Byron Nugent, Jr
St. Louis
United States
Indiana Auditoriars
French Lick Co
Theo. Bahlesen
Louisville
E. P. Craig
Birmingham
Ala
Mason
Illinois
Hopkins
Panama
Hal Snyder
Decatur
Larkin Jones
Tez
John McCord
McDade
Tex
Jose Seis
Skidmore
Frankel & Frank
Kansas City
Kankakee
South Dakota
Ste. Genevieve
Los Angeles
Koch
America
Wabash
Consolidated Bonds
A. W. Diet
Georgia T. Reed
Santa Fe
Benj. T. Redman
Cincinnati
Thomass. Baer
Supreme Court of Maryland
Baltimore
Guyn
Philadelphia
Wm. M. Akin
Evansville
Ind
Arkansas Senate
Searcy
Chas. A. Justus
Boise
Idaho
N. J. Wellner
Marenta
Oklo
Tobacco Trust
Tennessee
Wright Harrawood
Norris City
Richard Lee
Pike County
Bernhardt Rejected for Legion of Honor Decoration
Paris officials report the Legion of Honor council rejected the government's recommendation to award Sarah Bernhardt with the insignia. The move follows debate over her eligibility and honors, highlighting tension between state recognition and chamber scrutiny.
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Sarah Bernhardt
Paris
Council of the Legion of Honor
Igorrots Ordered Sent Home From Chicago Parks
In Chicago federal court Judge Bethea ordered Igorrots back to their homeland after being condemned for exhibiting humans “like animals.” In Lexington Kentucky, feudal war leaders Dick Hall and John Thornbery were ambushed and killed as Thornberry had fled his faction.
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Chicago
Bethea
Lexington
Dick Hall
John Thornbery
Hall
Jerome Defends Humphrey Before Georgia Bar Association
Worm Springs and Gay District Attorney Jerome of New York defended United States District Judge Humphrey against President Roosevelt’s criticism over the beef trust decision.
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Jerome
Humphrey
Worm Springs
New York
Georgia Bar Association
United States
Roosevelt
Beef Trust
Statue of Liberty to Receive Green Exterior Coat
New York reports the Statue of Liberty on Bedice Island will be painted. The goddess will wear a coat with an inner color and an outer delicate green finish.
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Goddess of Liberty
Gree
New York
Statue of Liberty
Bedice's Island
American Troops Enter Mexico From Fort Menchuca
El Paso Texas reports the first squadron of the Fifth United States Cavalry on a march from Fort Menchuca to cross into Jaurez Mexico to reach El Paso and then advance ten miles to cross the Rio Grande bridge. General tone notes permission granted amid the Unwritten Law controversy. Fulton Missouri jury returns not guilty for Edmund Bailey in murder case with Bailey claiming unwritten law. Mrs Bailey found not guilty of complicity.
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el Paso
Tex
Rio Grande River
Fifth United States Cavalry
Fort Menchuca
Ariz
Mexico
Jaurez
Fulton
Edmund Bailey
Jay Lawler
Bailey
Peace in Central America on board the Marblehead
A peace treaty among Guatemala Salvador and Honduras was signed at sea aboard the Marblehead. Mexican mediation aided the accord. The conflict escalated with a May Guatemalan revolution, Salvadoran troops, and a later war declaration. Regretfully, former Salvadoran President Regaleto was killed with his troops. 600 Guatemalans died in battles.
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Honduras
Salvador
Guatemala
Regaleto
Recaleto
Nicaragua
Desperate Situation After Syzran Fire Wipes Town Dry
Advices from St Petersburg report Syzran in Simbirsk government was burned to the ground and has ceased to exist. Survivors are described as in pitiable condition after the disaster.
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St. Petersburg
Syzran
Simbirsk
Syz-ram
Fie
Seattle man discharged in plot on emperor
August Rosenberg of Seattle Wash was arrested in Altona Prussia on charges of designing to assassinate the emperor. The judge ruled there was no evidence to substantiate the charge and discharged him.
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Altona
Prussia
August Rosenberg
Seattle
Wash
The Longworths Thrown Out Of Car in Bavaria
Wuherschurz congressman Nicholas Longworth and Mrs Longworth were jolted from their auto in Bavaria with a bruise or two but no serious injuries reported.
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Longworths
Wuherschurz
Bavaria
Nicholas Longworth
Longworth
Genius of the Japanese Army Dead
Gen Kodama, called the genius of the Japanese army, dies in Tokio. Baron Kodama Med here. He was educated at Rutgers College before his rise. His wife Satematsu Yamakawa was educated at Vassar College.
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Tokio
Baron Kodama
Gen
Kodama
Rutgers College
Satematsu Yamakawa
Vassar
Interparliamentary Peace Conference Meets in London
The fourteenth Interparliamentary peace conference convened at Westminster Hall in the House of Lords and urged enlarging the functions of the Hague tribunal.
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London
Westminster Hall
House of Lords
Seaboard Passenger Train Crash Near Hamlet Kills Dozens
A Seaboard Air Line passenger train and an extra freight collided one mile west of Hamlet. Reports state 1% people killed and 24 injured, with victims described as predominantly Black. An additional line notes Pulajanes kill fourteen in Leyte, Philippines, with a Cuban-led unit pursuing them near Burnen.
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Charlotte
N. C
Seaboard Air Line
Hamlet
Manila
Lieut
Williams
Burnen
Leyte
Warswick
Life Insurance Profits Dip in New York 1905
Albany report by Superintendent Kelsey shows life insurers in New York wrote 151 724.85 less in 1905 than in 1904. The decline indicates weaker business activity for the year across the state.
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Albany
N. Y
Kelsey
Pan-American Congress in Rio De Janeiro Progress noted
The Pan American congress in Rio de Janeiro aims to save important results by building relations among smaller South and Central American republics on a basis of comity.
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Pan-American Congress
Rio Janeiro
The Fruits of Peace in Pittsburg Coal Region
In the anthracite coal region operators authorize a statement that profound peace and order reigns and that coal production is nearly normal.
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Pittsburg
Texas Killing at New Boston Ends In Fatal Shooting
In New Boston Texas Barfield was shot dead by N Odom during an altercation. Barfield had previously killed Dr. John Lee at the same bar, for which he served a 20 year penitentiary term. Odom had served on the Lee murder jury and tensions reportedly lingered between them.
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Texarkana
Texr
New Boston
Texas
Barfield
N_ Odom
John Lee
Odom
Lee
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Lutheran Etonvey
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Indian Territory
T News
Valdem
Huckatumna
Fruitdale
Fairhope Ala
Southern Floral Nursery Company
Alabama
Europe
Saerteien
Eupora
Webster County
W. T. Gwin & Son
Uader
Laurel Ledger
Jones County
Laure
T. J. Decell
Brookhaven
Kentucky
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Okelona
Wall Street
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Laredo
Rio Grande
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Reyes
Nuevo Leon
Czar
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Garemykin
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Sitka
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Treat
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Spain
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James Dailey
Sapear
Price Stewart
Dailey
Leavenworth
Kas
Shaw F. Neely
Hamsaa
Clevelana Dure
Tralgia
Robert B. Roosevelt
Menxico
Central America
Treaty
U. S
Marblehead
Little Hock
Ark
Reid Gant
House of Arkansas
Garland County
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Hot Springs
Reid Gantt
Mexicana
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Mexico City
Republic
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Ming —al Havekenbach
Art J
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Iola. Kas
Iola Chautauqea
Southern Pacific
Sale
Ff. E. Battwra
A. M. Post
General Preserver
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Ft. Worth
Great Texas Health and Pleasure Resort
E. P. Turner
Crerea
Paesrece
Acownt
Dallas, Tex
Kansas City Southern Railway
Silens
Bron Jum
Orleans
F. E Roesler
Eee
Senet
Warner, G. P
T.A
Taree Bisc
Rangas City, MO
S. D. Bland
Brewton. Ga
Stamier
Saad
Wits Eccmaism Neurslais
Hicuey le
Apy Kildred
Deraggiste Pk
Laks Street
Wy’ Hiitte
Ballard-Snow Liriment Co
Lovur
Moo
Chamberlain
Pras
Guanes
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