Mormon Elders Stir Mississippi Rural Communities
Mormon elders reemerge as a disturbing factor in Mississippi's rural counties after a two year eclipse. In Talla hatchie and Monroe areas they win converts, while locals fear demoralizing influences and possible clashes. Separately, Monroe County Hort icultural Association reports tomato plants mostly survived the freezes with replacements from the State Agricultural and Mechanical College, planning larger crops for next season.
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Mississippi
Murphreeshoro
Tallahatchie County
Ple
Monroe County Horticultural Association
H. E. Reynolds
State Agricultural and Mechanical College
Illinois Central strike ends over race of foremen
Last week in Jackson Illinois Central freight yards engineers and switchmen refused to work unless negro foremen were removed. Yardmaster Sullivan had placed blacks in charge. Assistant General Superintendent Dunn investigated and officials pledged white foremen would supervise engines in the future ending the dispute.
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Illinois Central
Jackson
Sullivan
Dunn
Oil Well At Enterprise Shows Steady Improvement
The Enterprise oil well progress continues with successful pipe extraction and casing installation. The oil is refined and similar high quality oil is produced at Burning Springs district West Virginia Watson Flat and Petrolia Butler county Pennsylvania. Excitement over oil funding remains. The state department of insurance has received most annual reports from life and fire companies. Deputy Commissioner West says a tabulation of last year’s insurance business is being prepared and should be ready in ten days to two weeks, expecting a rise in business and a fall in fire losses.
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Enterprise
Burning Springs
W. V
Watson Flat
Petrolia
Butler County
First Insurance
Department of Insurance
West
State plan to lengthen term and rural school organization
State Superintendent Whitfield prepares a general plan of work for institute conductors and normals to be distributed statewide. Printed with suggestions for organizing rural schools and adding a pay term to follow the free school term. County Treasurer Douglass reports Tunica County’s $32,192.52 share from Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad back taxes.
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Whitfield
Douglass
Tunica County
Wirt Adams
Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad Company
Leake County Citizen Emanuel Walker Buried in Indianola
The Carthagenian notes Emanuel Walker, a Leake county resident and noted as the Negro murderer hanged on February 18 in Indianola, requested his body be buried there with his parting breath.
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The
Carthagenian
Leake County
Emanuel Walker
Indianola
Knights of Pythias Donates to Natchez Orphan Asylum
Grand Keeper of Records and Seals H. M. Quinn forwarded a check for 125 dollars to the Protestant Orphan Asylum at Natchez as the Knights of Pythias yearly contribution to the charity.
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H. M. Quinn
Knights of Pythias
Natchez
Court to convene April after delay due to injury
Circuit Court in Clarke county was postponed from the third Monday of this month because Judge Nevill's son was seriously injured by a horse. A special term is ordered for the first Monday in April.
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Clarke County
Nevill
County boards approve jail project and lease court site
Lau derdale county supervisors accepted a 35000 dollar jail building from contractor Chas M Rubush and leased Sheehans hall on Twenty fifth avenue for eighteen months as a court house. Washington county held its annual land tax sale with few forfeitures, signaling healthy land ownership. A near forty thousand dollar cotton deal saw Laz Levy Sons of Port Gibson selling 750 bales to Newburger Levy of New Orleans. S C Frazier store in Myrtle was burglarized, about 25 dollars in goods stolen. Secretary of State Power received a letter from Bucatunna Wayne County offering a cotton factory site with ten acres, plus water timber and brick clay resources.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Supervisors
Lauderdale County
Chas. M. Rubush
Sheehan
Twenty-fifth Avenue
Washington County Board of Supervisors
Court House
Greenville
Laz. Levy & Sons
Port Gibson
Newburger & Levy
New Orleans
Bucatunna
Wayne County
M. A. Hooge
Claiborne County Begins Drive for Courthouse and Jail
An agitation for a new courthouse and jail has begun in Claiborne county. The moving cause lies in the need for two new structures and the county’s receipt of 21000 dollars as its share of the railroad back tax recovery. Past distributions by the revenue agent have spurred rapid public improvements.
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Claiborne County
Gov Francis in Paris Honor banquet for St Louis Exposition president
A grand Franco American demonstration marked a Saturday banquet at the Hotel Continental in Paris for Francis, President of the St Louis exposition. Attended by about 500 officials, the event featured guards, a band, and formal speeches praising cordial relations between France and the United States. Francis arrived from Madrid and planned to depart for Berlin shortly after, with tributes including a Sevres vase and an ivory lace fans for Mrs Francis.
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Paris
Continental
Francis
Commerce Trouillot
Loubet
Chamber of Deputies
Judiciary
Madrid
Berlin
One Hundred and Fourth Regiment of Infantry
Commerce
M. Ancelot
Belgium at World’s Fair pavilion plans revealed
Belgium’s national pavilion for the St Louis exposition, designed by P. Sain tenoy of Brussels, features a French renaissance style with bulbous corner spires, a 126 foot spire, and a 267 by 191 foot footprint. The steel framed building costs 30000 dollars and will be dismantled after the fair for re erection in Liege in 1905.
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St. Louis
Belgium
Cridler
P. Saintenoy
Brussels
Bruges
Ghent
Antwerp
Liege
Armour & Co Tests Wireless Telegraph for Plant Links
Armour & Company plans a wireless telegraph test to connect its packing plants with major offices. Current leased lines reach Kansas City St Louis Omaha Sioux City and Allegheny Philadelphia New York and Boston. If successful the system could save at least 190000 annually across key cities.
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Chicago
Armour & Co
Kansas City
St. Louis
Omaha
Sioux City
Allegheny
Philadelphia
New York
Boston
Merriam Resigns as Census Director for NYC Move
Gov. Merriam resigns as director of the census, effective May 15, to become vice president of the International Mercantile agency in New York. He will relocate from Washington to New York City for the new position.
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New York
Washington
Gov. Merriam
International Mercantile Agency of New York
Belgium Protocol Setstle Venezuela Debts Umpire Named
The Belgian protocol for settling Venezuela's debts to Helzium was signed in Washington on Saturday by Minister Bowen and Baron Moncheur. The accord mirrors the American protocol and provides that The Netherlands queen will appoint the umpire for the commission.
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Venezuela
Washington
Bowen
Baron Moncheur
Belgium
Netherlands
Rivers Continue Rise in Arkansas Mississippi Flood Threat
Memphis reports the river climbed to 34.4 feet after two days rest and is again rising. Crittenden and Lee counties in Arkansas near Memphis are nearly flooded. levees hold but large tracts of lowland south of Memphis are submerged. Rail traffic suffers widespread delays of one to three hours as floods advance.
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Memphis
Tenn
Crittenden and
Lee Counties
Arkansas
Grand River Flood Impacts Grand Rapids Rail Bridge
The Grand River has overflowed in Grand Rapids Michigan on March 9. The temporary steel bridge superstructure at North Park for the street railway company was carried away. Three sections of the North Park wagon bridge collapsed and washed away. West side lowlands in the south part of the city are flooded isolating several houses. Dams failed in the area.
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Grand Rapids
Mich
Grand River
Street Railway Company
North Park
Flood forecast spans Ohio valley this week
The Cincinnati river report shows the Ohio River rising again after dipping below danger levels. Rainfall amounts across several cities range from 1.8 to 2.4 inches in 24 hours ending 8 a.m., signaling another flood along the Ohio valley this week.
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Cincinnati
Ohio River
Observer Smith Warns of Fifty Feet of Water Ahead
Weather observer Smith warns areas south of Cairo to brace for at least 50 feet of floodwater. A vast area around Cairo is submerged, forcing many families to flee their homes as the local gauge reads 45.8 feet. This flood ranks as the worst in nineteen years.
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Smith
Cairo
Weather Bureau
Rivers Rise as Flood Threat Spreads to Ohio Basin
Wabash Cumberland and Tennessee rivers plus other tributaries surge as Ohio river remains high. From Paducah to Cairo the flood situation is described as the worst in 19 years, with continued rise ahead of the next reports.
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Paducah
Ohio River
Wabash
Cumberland
Tennessee
Cairo
Flooding Boosts Ohio River at Louisville and White River Rise
The Ohio River at Louisville reaches 25.1 feet surpassing the danger line as water floods Fourth Street and Shipping Port. In nearby Washington Indiana the White River climbs .75 inches per hour with extensive property damage and skiff rescues of families underway.
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Louisville
Fourth Street
Ten Miles Wide At One Point
Evansville Indiana March 9 Great crowds were carried out of here by boats because of high waters. The river stood at nearly forty two feet and rising. All boats are delayed as the river between here and Owensboro is over ten miles wide. White and Patoka rivers are rising rapidly and many towns between Owensboro and Cairo are at the mercy of the flood.
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Evansville
Ind
Here
Owensoro
Patoka
Owensboro
Cairo
Bodies of two sheepherders found after Red Desert storm
Cheyenne reports the bodies of two sheepherders found after the recent Red Desert blizzard. C Huffman of Donahan Nebraska was found near Rock Springs and William Daly of Rawlins near Wamsutter, both as exposure victims.
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Cheyenne
Wyo
Red Desert
C. Huffman
Donahan
Neb
Rock Springs
William Daly
Rawlins
Wamsutter
Riot at Waterbury Conn Ends in Police Killing
Waterbury police report a deadly riot tied to a streetcar strike. Officer Mendelsohn was fatally shot at Forest Park as masked assailants attacked non union motorman John Chambers and conductor George Wetherford. Chambers survived after brutal beating and led pursuing officers to the gunmen.
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Waterbury
Conn
Connecticut Railway and Lighting Co
Paul Mendelsohn
John W. Chambers
George Wetherford
Forest Park
Mendelsohn
Chambers
Five Injured In Wreck Of Louisville & Nashville Train
Five people were injured when northbound Louisville & Nashville train No 4 derailed 22 miles south of Birmingham Alabama during a high speed attempt to regain time. Injured include mail clerk C J West Nashville and Pullman conductor H C Cooke Cincinnati. Officials blame a split switch as the cause and the engine tender baggage express car and two coaches were wrecked. Siluria telegraph line broken prevented word from the scene.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birmingham
Ala
Louisville & Nashville Railroad
Here
C. J. West
Nashville
Tenn
H. C. Cooke
Cincinnati
Siluria
Six Die in Leiter Hotel Fire Near Elkins West Virginia
A fire in a small Leiter hotel near Elkins West Virginia Sunday morning left six people dead and one fatally injured. The victims include Maggie Coughlan Annie Burke Henry Burke George C Anderson Mrs George C Anderson and a child of the Andersons. Robert Lon died of injuries.
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Burns
Leiter
Elkins
West Virginia
Cumberland
W. Va
Maggie Coughlan
Annie Burke
Henry Burke
George C. Anderson
Seismic Disturbances Stirr Dominica Island
On Dominica in the D. W. I. L. area earthquakes strike with repeated, severe shocks. The island’s residents report prolongued tremors and growing unease as the seismic activity continues.
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Dominica
St. Thomas
Platform Collapse Injures Fifteen At Broussard Dedication
A platform at a Broussard Louisiana school dedication collapsed injuring fifteen spectators. Three people were seriously hurt Anatole Piat Elio Broussard and Mrs Lucas Bernard while about a dozen others sustained minor injuries.
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Broussard, la
Lafayette
Broussardville
Anatole Piat
Elio Broussard
Lucas Bernard
Governor signs felony gambling bill in Washington
Olympia March 9 the governor signed a bill making gambling a felony in Washington state. The measure categorizes gambling as a crime with penalties to be enforced statewide.
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Washington
Olympia
Wash
State of
Hardwood collection for St Louis exposition announced
A diverse hardwood gathering in the Peto district aims to form the most complete display yet for the St Louis exposition. The collection travels from Merida Yucatan to showcase regional species and timber variety.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Merida
Yucatan
Peto
Rain Visitation Halts Suburban Trolley Traffic
Chattanooga Tenn March 9 A rainstorm bordered on a cloudburst Sunday disrupting traffic on several suburban trolley lines and nearly suspending service for the day.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
Chattanooga cruiser launched at Elizabeth N J with Tennessee officials
Governor Frazer and Mayor Chandliss of Chattanooga led a ceremony as the Crescent shipyard launched the protected cruiser Chattanooga. Miss Lillian Chandliss christened the vessel while Tennessee guests and Chattanooga manufacturers attended. The ship features a 308 foot length, 44 foot beam, four decks, and main armament of ten 5 inch guns with a 700 ton coal bunkering capacity and wireless telegraph equipment.
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New York
Crescent Ship Yards
Elizabeth
N. J
Chattanooga
Tennessee
Lillian Nelson Chandliss
Reta Faxon
Frances Lippett Bond
James B. Frazer
Chandliss
George W. Ochs
Boynton
Maj. Knight
Col
C. A. Baldwin
Chamber of Commerce
Chattano Ugs
Gen William Buel Franklin Dies at 80 in Hartford
Maj. Gen. William Buel Franklin, born February 27 1823 in Franklin Pennsylvania and a West Point classmate of Ulysses S Grant, died at his Hartford home Sunday aged 80 after years of declining health. He served in the Mexican War and rose to major general of volunteers in 1862. He led the Sixth Army Corps and commanded the left wing at South Mountain and the corps at Antietam.
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Hartford
Conn
William Buel Franklin
Franklin
A. 8. Grant
West Point
Twelfth
United States Infantry
United States Army
Richmond
Sixth Army Corps
Army of the Potomac
South Mountain
Antietam
James H Blount Dies After Public Service in Georgia and Hawaii
Hon James H Blount longtime Georgia congressman for twenty years and later commissioner paramount to the Hawaiian islands during Cleveland's second term died in Macon Ga on Sunday from congestion of the lungs after two years of impaired health His last public duty was in Hawaii retiring in November 1893 and he then lived quietly at home pursuing private business
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Macon
James H. Blount
Congress
Georgia
Paramount
Hawaiian Islands
Cleveland
Blount
Oakland Alderman John W. Newman Dies by Own Hand
Ridgefarm Illinois March 9 John W Newman city alderman of Oakland Illinois a fugitive from justice committed death by own action here Sunday by swallowing carbolic acid Newman was a stock dealer at Oakland and stood high in commercial circles Three months ago he left Oakland and his where abouts was not known until yesterday
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Ridgefarm
John W. Newman
Oakland
Ill
Newman
South Dakota Assembly Adjourns After Sudden Death Notices
The eighth session of the South Dakota general assembly adjourned sine die at three o'clock Saturday morning. Merriment ended abruptly with the news of the deaths of Senators Dowland, Walsworth, and Rudolph of Lincoln.
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Pierre
5. D
South Dakota General Assembly
Doyland
Walsworth
Rudolph
Lincoln
Remington to Create Giant Cowboy Statuary for World's Fair
Frederic Remington will sculpt a colossal bronze group titled Comin Through the Rye for the World's Fair entrance concessions street. Four cowboys on fiery branches ride in heroic plaster, guns blazing, mouths wide, recreating a wild jamboree that captures festive street spirit for visitors.
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St. Louis
Frederic Remington
Wild Western Life
Bitter
New York
Remington
Beckham Seeks Ballot For Governor In Kentucky Case
Versailles Ky March 17 Judge Cantrill overruled Allie Young chair man of the democratic state committee demurrer to Gov Beckham mandamus to compel placing his name on the May 9 primary ballot as governor. Attorneys for defendant noted exceptions and an appeal was granted to the court of appeals. The action tests Beckham eligibility to succeed himself.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Versailles
Cantrill
Woodford
Allie Young
Democratic State Committee
Beckham
Young
Democratic Committee
Gov. Beckham
Court of Appeals
Relative of Dewey Dies in Omaha at 80
Capt. William A. Winder prominent western government official died of cancer in his Millard hotel apartment Omaha aged 80. Mexican and civil war veteran, 18 years as allotting agent at Rosebud Agency South Dakota. Brother in law of Admiral Dewey and father of William Winder commander of the Michigan at Erie. Body to be taken to Portsmouth New Hampshire for interment.
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Omaha
Neb
William A. Winder
West
Millard Hotel
Winder
Land Department
Rosebud Agency
S. D
George Dewey
William Winder
Michigan
Erie
Portsmouth
N. H
Blind student urges aid for adults in education bill
Miss Helen Kellar, a Radcliffe College student who is deaf, dumb, and blind, spoke to the legislative committee on education in Boston via an attendant. She urged support for a bill aiding adult blind people to find roles in industry, saying higher education is not needed by most.
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Boston
Mass
Helen Kellar
Radclife College
Legislative Committee On Education
President Roosevelt to Attend Topeka Y M C A Convention
President Roosevelt will attend the international convention of the Railway Y M C A in Topeka Kansas from April 30 to May 3. The visit date is not fixed. He may officiate at the corner stone laying for the new Railroad Y M C A building funded largely by President Ripley of the Santa Fe. Miss Helen Gould of New York and other notable supporters will attend.
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Topeka
Kas
Roosevelt
Railway Y. M. C. A
Railroad Y. M. C. A
Ripley
Satta Fe
Helen Gould
New York
Illnois Minister Declared Insane by Jury
Chicago March 7 Rev J M Caldwell former presiding elder of the Methodist Episcopal church has been declared insane by a jury in Judge Carters court. He faces transfer to a private sanitarium following an attempted self harm after arrest for disorderly conduct.
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Caldwell
Chicago
J. M. Caldwell
The
Methodist Episcopal Church
Carter
Two Men Held Without Bail in Chloral Murder Case
Chicago reports John Donnelly alias Lyons confessed to giving chloral to James Howard for robbery causing death three years ago. Joseph Mohr is implicated. They were formally charged with murder and held without bail pending March 16 hearing.
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Chicago
John Donnelly
Lyons
James Howard
Joseph Mohr
Mystery of Nellie Blanchard Death Continues
Chicago police seek a man after Nellie Blanchard was found dead in a West Thirty seventh Street furnished room. A doctor’s verdict suggested natural causes but bottles of medicine and a Chicago sleeping car check tie the case to a physician who warned her to take the medicine. The landlady’s sister recalls the instruction and an alligator skin reticule, Morton's Pharmacy bottles and a Miss Fletcher label appear among the effects. A Metropole Hotel key is also found.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Nellie Blanchard
West Thirty-seventh Street
Chicago
Michigan Central
Morton
Rush Street
Dr. Hyde
Miss Fletcher
Metropole Hotel
No Light At Chicago Clew In Rooming House Mystery
Chicago police lack any identity clue for the dead woman found in a New York rooming house who used the name Nellie Blanchard Chicago. Dr James Nevins Hyde says Miss Fletcher sought treatment February 27 for a slight fever and may have worked as a house servant, but no employer name is known.
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Chicago
New York
Nellie Blanchard
James Nevins Hyde
Fletcher
Hyde
Knapp to Plead Insanity at Preliminary Hearing
Alfred A. Knapp the self confessed murderer who strangled his wife will plead insanity at the forthcoming preliminary trial in Hamilton Ohio. His Cleveland lawyers say they cannot be ready this week for the hearing and an inquest is expected as the first move. Knapp’s relatives and neighbors will testify to alleged mental instability dating back to a childhood colt accident. He remains indifferent in jail, playing cards and reading.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hamilton
Alfred A. Knapp
Cleveland
Knapp
Knapps
Henderson Is Hanged In Duluth Courtroom
Charles E L Henderson was hanged in a court room No 1 at two o clock Friday morning after receiving thirty minutes to speak He claimed the crime was unpremeditated and would be shown so The murder of his mistress Ida McCormick occurred after jealousy drove him to attack her with an axe This was the first execution in Saint Louis County
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe Manila
Indianola
Manilla
Gunnison
Alexander
Duluth
Minn
Charles E. L. Henderson
Ile
Henderson
Ida McCormick
McCormick
St. Louis County
Empires of Chicago Break Five Man Bowling Record
The Empires of Chicago set a new five man bowling record with 1,152 points in a Chicago league game, surpassing the previous mark of 1,141 scored in Chicago a few weeks earlier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Empires of
Actress Kathryn Kidder Rebounds from Pneumonia Tour Return
Kathryn Kidder the actress has recovered from a slight pneumonia attack and will resume her Texas tour at once, reporting from Little Rock Arkansas on March 7.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kathryn Kidder
Litle Rock
Ark
Texas
Beahan, Health Officer, Flees to Shanghai
Manila reports James Beahan disbursing officer for the board of health fled to Shanghai after recent conviction for altering board records and while awaiting trial on embezzlement charges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manila
James Beahan
Board of Health
Shanghai
Michigan University to establish Pasteur institute
The University of Michigan board of regents in Ann Arbor announced the creation of a Pasteur institute at the university to treat hydrophobia. The decision was made on March 17 as part of the university’s medical program expansion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ann Arbor, Mich
Board of Regents
University of Michigan Today
Pasteur Institute
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South Dakota
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International Convention of the Railway
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