Preservation of cane syrup advised to boost Mississippi industry
The Mississippi department urges trials of preserving cane syrup for summer use to prevent fermentation and boost the state’s molasses and syrup exports. It calls for volunteers in southern and northern regions, notes existing crops, and promotes an agricultural train tour to educate farmers on fertilizers subsoiling and other practices. The notice also reports on local farming success, land assessments, and infrastructure improvements across the state.
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Illinois Central
Yazoo
Mississippi Valley
Memphis
Condi
J. ©. Claire
Ca J. F. Merry
A. & M. College
United States Department of Agriculture
Mississippi
Southern Cotton Association
Wilson
Explosion At Pequea Dynamite Plant Dies In Lancaster Toll
Eleven men were killed and five others seriously injured when a dynamite plant near Pequea on the Susquehanna River exploded. The blast was heard fifteen miles away and tore bodies to pieces, with fragments found hanging to trees up to a hundred yards distant.
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Lancaster
Pequea
Susquehanna River
Lancaster County
Packers Say It Hurts as Hearings Open on Packing Industry
Chicago hearings before the House Agriculture Committee reveal Thomas E. Wilson and Neill testifying on the impact of agitation on meat packing. Wilson cites European demand drop and material harm while Neill defends the joint report. Crumpacker calls Beveridge amendment unconstitutional as proceedings wrap. City orders for Union Stock Yards improvements raise Packers costs about one million dollars.
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Thomas E. Wilson
Morris Co
Bie Chicago Packing Houses
House Committee On Agriculture
Wadsworth
Europe
Nell
Neill
Reynolds
Packera
Chicago
Union
Bank Messenger Vanishes With 200000 In Cash
New York City Wing of First National Bank reports messenger Harvey has disappeared from No 2 Wall Street with nearly $200000 in cash checks and drafts. Harvey age 19 had been with the bank under a year. Nearby reports note the sum is close to two hundred thousand dollars.
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J. B. Martin
Yazoo County
Yazoo City
Mr. Martin
New York City
Wheelock Harvey
First National Bank
No. 2
Wall Street
Harvey
Lusitania Launched as Largest Fast Atlantic Liner
The Lusitania, new Cunard trans Atlantic liner, was launched at Clyde Bank Scotland. It will be the largest and fastest ship afloat at 32 000 tons 785 feet long with quadruple screws and turbine engines capable of 25 knots. It carries 35 first class 500 second class and 1300 third class passengers with 800 crew and may cross in four and a half days.
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Clyde Bank
Scotland
Cunard Line
Atlantic
McCabe report supports Congress on meat inspection details
President Roosevelt sends the McCabe report on Chicago packing house conditions to Congress. It largely corroborates the Neill report, naming Mobler Steddom and McCaine as signers and urging rapid federal inspection expansion despite ongoing investigations. The document notes personal inspection and calls for immediate improvements.
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Department of Agriculture
Chicago
McCabe
Congress
Roosevelt
Neill
John Mobler
Rice P. Steddom
Bureau of Animal Industry
George P. McCaine
Department
A. D. Melvin
Abattoiry
Wadsworth
House Agriculture Committee
Land and land reform sparks peasant orator in Russia
Eokois St. Petersburg Opisko rouses the house with fiery invective for full nationalization of land. He argues private estates are wrong and a righteous peasant-led redistribution will follow the cry of land from the people.
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St. Petersburg
Opisko
Solons Fight Fire at Louisiana Capitol
Gov Blanchard and hundreds of citizens helped the state capitol survive a blaze started by faulty wiring in the senate chamber. The eastern wing was destroyed and the base value cited between 50 000 and 100 000 with the painting The Battle of New Orleans valued at 40 000. The senate in Elks theater continued amid repairs. The Capitol, a Mississippi River landmark, was rebuilt in 1880 after a prior Civil War fire.
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Blanchard
Secierature
Senate
Elks
Capitol
Bank of the Mississippi
Woman kills brutal husband in Terre Haute
In Terre Haute a glass blower named William Robert Robertson, intoxicated and jealous, beat his wife after returning home. She retrieved a pistol, shot him as he attacked again, and he later died at a hospital. Authorities refused to prosecute.
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Terre Haute
William Robertson
Robertson
Registration Dates June 14 to 28 for Crow agency lands
Government arranges registration for Crow agency lands to be drawn July 2 at Billings. Burlington offers low round trip rates from Omaha Kansas City Denver and east of the Missouri River. Tickets sold June 20 to 26 with return by July 10. Billings Sheridan and local authorities prepare lodging tents police and camping to handle crowds.
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Neb
Crow Agency
Billings
Sheridan
Burlington
Omnaha
Kansas City
Denver
Missouri River
Kansas
Fort MacKenzie
Chamber of Commerce and City Council
Trade with Japan tops U.S. oriental exports and imports
A Commerce and Labor bulletin shows Washington data that trade with Japan is the largest for the United States among oriental countries. Exports to Japan rose from about five million dollars in 1895 to over fifty five million in 1905, while imports from Japan grew from twenty seven million to nearly fifty one million in the same period. Major items include raw cotton and iron and steel products, flour, leather, and silk.
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Washington
United States
Japan
Department of Commerce and Labor
Coronation in Norway Set for June 22 at Cathedral
The program for King Haakon VII and Queen Maud coronation is complete. They will reach Trondhjem June 19 to await foreign princes and ambassadors, with the ceremony scheduled for June 22 in the cathedral. In Mexico, Gen Toledo claims two decisive defeats of Cabrera’s forces as reinforcements pour in.
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Haakon VII
Maud
Trondhjem
Gen
Toledo
Cabrera
Mexico City
Revolutionary Party
Guatemala City
One Killed and Twenty-Two Injured on Iron Mountain Run
A collision between two Iron Mountain passenger trains near Poplar Bluff Missouri killed St Louis fireman F H Richards and left 22 injured including 15 passengers. An engine reportedly ran away triggering the crash.
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St. Louis
F. H. Richards
Iron Mountain
Poplar Bluff
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