Diversification and rotation for Southern farming
The article argues diversification as crop division, favoring a four year rotation with cotton, corn, oats, peas, and truck crops. It cites practical tips from Elllisville farmer B E Blakeslee and notes southern railroads doubling tracks to meet growing product shipping. It discusses Gulfport harbor acceptance, Panama Canal trade, Mississippi industrial expositions, and local development in towns like Lexington, Tupelo, and Meridian.
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Orange Herrington
Ellisville
Piney Woods
France
Immigrants Expected to Pass New York Port Exceed Yearly Record
Immigration Commissioner says over one million immigrants will have entered the United States through New York for the year ending June 30. By June 1 about 870,000 had landed, and if the trend holds the million mark will be reached. May saw the highest deportations in a similar period with 1,753 turned away, suggesting the total for the fiscal year will exceed all prior years.
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United States
Gulfport Harbor
Capt. Jones
Mississippi
Pascagoula
Weele Sam
Panama Canal
York
Wateborn
Ellis Island
May
Oklahoma and Indian Territory Form One State Soon
The president signed enabling acts uniting Oklahoma and Indian Territory as a single state to be named Oklahoma with Guthrie as capital until 1915. Arizona and New Mexico may enter as a single state if their people vote yes next November. Each territory votes separately and must approve union. Roosevelt signed with a gold pen and an eagle quill pen. the quill was given to the Oklahoma Historical Society.
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Washington
Oklahoma
Indian Territory
Guthrie
Arizona
New Mexico
Union
Theodore
Roosevelt
Oklahoma Historical Society
Rock Island Bridge Fund Appropriation and San Jacinto Battlefield Care
Reported appropriation of 125000 to repair a government bridge at Rock Island and news that the Republic of Texas or NS Daughters will oversee care of the San Jacinto battlefield. Other items note fires in St Louis stables, indictments in Missouri circus riots, saloon reopenings, immigrant trends, and various political and legal briefs across multiple states.
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Daughters
Republic of Texas
San Jacinto
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Saratoga
N. Y
Farmers’ Union
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Wm. J. Kolerim
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Meers
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H. J. Miller
Argenta
Ar) News
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Benj. Cull
T. J. Caldwell
Des Moines
Turkey
Canada
Washington
Bryan
Indiana
National Editorial Association
Jamestown
Jay Gould, Jr
England
St. Peter
Daniel Boone
Russell Sage
Toledo
Newlands
Palace Hotel
Frisco
London
Bambaata
Natal
Cobbler Messich
Tangier
Squire Smith
Prescott
Ark
Kansas City
Georgia
Uncle Sam
Wisconsin
E L. Eaton
Smoot
Alfonso
Scaddings
la Grange
Oregon
Benson
Fromansas
S* Dor
Honduras
Guatemala
Burgia
Elizabeth
Crow Land Odine
Mass casualty and ethnic unrest report in Bialystok Russia
The dispatch cites mass casualties and Jewish persecution in Bialystok and suburbs with thousands involved. Jewish shops ruined, residents hiding in forests guarded by troops, and a government blame line over Telegrams raise risk of broader conflict. St. Petersburg notes recess and summer session debates.
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Bialystok
Russia
St. Petersburg
Meat inspection fight stirs Congress and the President
The House Agriculture Committee completed a Wadsworth substitute for the Beveridge meat inspection amendment within the agricultural appropriation bill. Roosevelt vows to veto the bill claiming it harms honest stock raisers and packers, while Wadsworth and Brooks press changes to meet the president’s views. An airship piloted by Lincoln Beachy flies over Washington, circling the monument and landing near the White House area before docking near Capitol grounds.
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Washington
House Committee of Agriculture
Wadsworth
Heveridge
Federation
Roosevelt
Agricultural Department
Loeb
Secretary of Agriculture
Wadsweorth
United States
House of Representatives
Friends of the
Representative Brooks
Colorado
Lincoln Beachy
Virginia
Monument
White Horse
New
Capitol
Penonsylvasiia Avenue
National Banking Law Amended In Senate Vote
The house concurred in the bill amending the national banking law with senate amendments by a 125 to 1 vote. The change allows a national bank to loan to a single borrower up to 10 percent of its capital stock, with the surplus twice the capital stock.
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Washington
House
House Backs Panama Canal Lock Plan at 110 to 36
Washington report notes the House favored a lock canal across the Panama Isthmus with a 110 to 36 vote on Littauer amendment. The debate compared sea level versus lock design, with costs projected around 400 million and a twenty year build period.
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Washington, DC
House
Panama
Littauer
New York
Burton
Ohio
Furton
Bartlett
Georgia
Littaner
Watson
Indiana
Governor of Davao Murdered in Mindanao
Manila reports the murder of Edward C Bok ton, governor of Davao Province, Mindanao, and Beni Civistian, foreman of a government farm, killed by a Mangalawan and his two brothers on the west coast of Davao. In Kentucky, builders lay the cornerstone for a new state capitol building described as magnificent.
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Davao
Manila
Edward C. Bokton
Seventeenth Infantry
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