State asylum to feature modern oil powered plant and wards
The article outlines plans for a state asylum with a modern power house fed by a grade oil fuel system. It describes a three to four floor building layout with male and female wards, administration and service areas, a hydrotherapy room, dining rooms, kitchens with tracked food transport, laundry and power house facilities, plus a 265 foot stack and multiple boilers for heating and hot water.
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Portland
Sta Archites
Murphy
Thinang
O Irama
Ory
Walter
Foundry
Miners Endure 120 Degree Heat in Death Valley Camp
Report from Death Valley miners describes three weeks of 120 degree plus days and nights. Workers sleep outdoors on canvas stretchers and wet them to cool. An engineer’s private thermometer recently hit 137 in the sun.
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Miner
Death's Valley
Weather Mike
Los
Penn students eat alum for pay in government test
Twelve University of Pennsylvania medical students participate in a government experiment to test alum’s effects on the endocrine system by daily meals prepared with alum. Dr. Alonzo BE Taylor leads fourteen chemists. the men, paid five dollars weekly, are watched by a physician and two unknown “controllers.” Results won’t be known for a year.
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Philadelphia
University of Pennsylvania
United States
Alonzo BE. Taylor
Rameen Board
Song
Alfred Stengle
Phreloian
Taylor
Port Defense Short of Men Says General Weaver
General B M Weaver, chief of coast artillery, reports a deficit of 97 352 men for coast defense as of his annual review. He notes the need to boost regular troops by 676 officers and 14 694 men and coast artillery militia by 662 officers and 21 298 men to avoid false security and fund the existing fortifications.
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Uncle Sam
Cort Defense
Washington
B. M. Weaver
Coast Artillery
Wenever
Hetilets
Women’s Fifty-Greatest Opponents of Men
Women’s equal rights group in Chicago announced a list titled Twenty Greatest Women to compare with men. The notable selections include Catt, Stanton, Willard, Addams, Nightingale, Pankhurst, and Nightingale among others. Carrie Nation and Lady Tennessee Claflin Cook were proposed for inclusion.
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Ines
Chicago
Ml Noble
Lint
Man
Corre Chapmaen Catt
Mary Biker Kady
Francis Willard
Harriet Teecher Browe
Jane Addams
Ella Flueg Youne
Frameline Pankhurst
Plorence Nightingale
Glam Barton
Rheebeth Cady Stanton
Susan F Anthong
Lucreta Mott
George Elliot
Margaret Fuller
2Izabeth Browning
Charlotte Bronte
Lord Hornhardt
Congress Feud Over MacVeagh Estimations
Washington. Chairman Fitzgerald of the House Committee on Appropriations charged that Secretary MacVeagh sent Congress misleading estimates of the government's needs for the next fiscal year. He claimed the Treasury Department’s figures showed proposed appropriations exceeding last year by about $209 million, with the total estimate under debate.
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Washington
Fitzgerald
Hout Committee
MacVeagh
Congress
Trent
Treasury figures omit postal service costs in 1909 budget
Secretary MacVeagh’s estimates total 1,019,882,728, not including 260,935,468 for the postal service. The department is expected to be self supporting. Fitzgerald notes 13,109,701 is needed to continue building projects authorized by prior congresses.
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MacVeagh
Postal Service
Fitzgerald
Convict Escapes Salem Penitentiary After 12 Years
Sitem Ore A prisoner named Fred Weaver serving five to 16 years for robbery escaped Salem Penitentiary for the first time in 12 years. He pried apart three bars at the front gate after hiding in the bakery corridor and basement, then blocked the basement exit to trap others. Weaver, weighing 125 pounds, was received May 27 in Wasco County and has not been found.
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Wasco County
Peddler Ventresco Reveals Caruso Like Voice in Pittsboro
For ten years Diomede Ventresco peddled through Pittsboro crying Coom-1 Coarli He now astonishes experts with a voice likened to Caruso After being jailed for disorderly conduct the warden arranged a singing test with Prof Landon and others to hear the remarkable announcement
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Pittsboro
Diomede Ventresco
Cora-li
Ftruso
Ventresco
Lewis
Christmae
Prof. Landon
Inspectors Forecast Coalman's Rise to Opera and Vaudeville
The coalman’s voice captivates listeners who expect a rapid ascent to grand opera within two years, with a first try in vaudeville cited as the initial step.
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Coalman
Washington man accepts berth on commission
Spokane man George Turner of Spokane former U S senator and chief justice in territorial days accepts appointment by President Taft as a member of the International Joint Commission on Boundary Waters succeedingThomas H Carter He previously served on the Alaska boundary commission and argued U S fisheries cases at The Hague He has mining interests in British Columbia and Pacific Northwest projects tied to the upcoming National Apple Show in Spokane in November.
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Spokane
Wash
George Turner
United States
Washington
Taft
International Joint Commission On Boundary Waters
Thomas H. Carter
Montana
Turner
Alaska Boundary Commission
Olan Ae
Hague
Hele
British Columbia
le Rol
Holato Whitaker Wright
London
England
Pacific Northwest
Alao
Indians Solving Kinship Problems in Spokane Pioneer Descendants
Spokane readers learn how descendants of early pioneers such as the Finleys Arcasus MacDonalds Marchants Rameurs and Roberts address kinship challenges in a community narrative. The piece explores family ties and social networks shaping local heritage in Spokane Washington.
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Spokane, Wash
Finleys
Arcasus
MacDonalds
Marchants
Rameurs
Roberts
Colville Treaty Council Opens Kinship Debate
Native and mixed blood delegates gathered at the Colville council near Inchellum to resolve kinship issues as Victor Nicholas, a full blood, presided after Chief Barnaby's July 24 death. J M Johnson led U S government. Joseph Ferguson interpreted. $1,449,000 to be disbursed to Colville Indians as a first step to opening the southern half of the reserve. Deep coughs prompt both external and internal treatment with Ballard’s Horehound Syrup and Herrick’s Red Pepper Plaster offered by Koeppen & Bros.
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Spokane
Washington
Oregon
Idaho
Montana
Grand Council
Colville Indiana
Inchellum
Victor Nicholas
Barnaby
J. M. Johnson
United States
Joseph Ferguson
Chif Barnaby
Councell
Colville
Ballard
Herrick
Koeppen & Bros
Jeevee Seligman Heads for Panama in Mono Plane
New York reports Jeevee Seligman son of the banker sails with his bride to Panama aiming to become the first to cross the Panama Canal in a Molsant monoplane. His aim is to achieve the historic overflight with the aircraft.
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New York
Jeevee Seligman
Panama
Panama Canal
Lengthy La Follette Speeches Need Shortening
The writer complains that La Follette’s addresses run three to four hours and urges his closest ally to persuade him to shorten them significantly. The note conveys frustration with endurance and suggests practical conciseness.
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la Follette
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