Independent party of Alabama forms at state convention
In Birmingham on April 30 representatives of labor and reform groups joined free lance politicians to create a state convention for the Independent Party of Alabama. The aim is to name electoral candidates, designate delegates to a national convention, and build a permanent party structure aligned with Hearst's Independent League to unite farmers wage earners and non-privilege businessmen against the two old parties.
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Labor and Reform
Birmingham
Ala
Alabama
Independence Party of Alabama
William Randolph Hearst
Independent League
Roosevelt
Republican Party
Grover Cleveland
Mr. Bryan
Judge Parker
Weeklong Oregon weather overview with storms and frost
The article details a stormy week across Oregon with cool showery conditions early, severe storms and high winds midweek, heavy western rainfall and frosts in southern and eastern regions, followed by clearing skies and rising temperatures. Reports cover Hood River Wasco County The Dalles Wasco County Pendleton Umatilla County and other locales with wind, frost and dust, noting overall below average sunshine.
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Cascades
Oregon
Columbia River Valley
Hood River
Wasco County
H. L Hasbrouck
Mountain Park
Raymond Markley
Condon
Gillam County
C. Dodson
Umatilla
Helen T. Duncan
Hermiston
C. W. Kellogg
Pendleton
H. F. Johnson
Weston
Matilla
Maud M. Paker
Plateau
Vale
Mulheur
H. P. Oxborn
Weather Summary for Oregon and Nearby Counties
Partly cloudy weather prevailed with considerable wind and light rainfall in Ontario Malheur county and William OBrien. Fore part of the week was clear with latter part cloudy and high winds, including a particularly severe gale on Friday in Palsley Lake county and E C Woodwaard. Weather remained generally threatening with occasional showers.
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Ontario
Malheur County
William O'Brien
Palsley
Lake County
E. C. Woodwaard
Grave of Jack Pot Cellar Revealed During Dig For New Boise Block
The ruins of the old Senate saloon in Boise expose the buried cellar where high stakes poker and fortunes once thrived. Builders removing floors and walls for a new block threaten to erase the historic gambling den and the grave of “Jack Pot,” once a shadowy meeting place for professional gamblers and a fixture of city lore.
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Jack Pot
Senate
Eighth
Idaho Streets
Boise Capital News
Senate Snloon
Law
Eighth Street
A Cold Weather Plot In A Wife’s Frustration
A humorous verse depicts Priscilla Jose as an ideal wife who endures fault finding, while the narrator laments a nonworking furnace causing Priscilla Jane to cry. The speaker, after years of marriage, vows the furnace fails when cold, leaving the parlor draft chilling both wife and home.
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Priscilla Jose
Priscilla Jane
Absentminded Professor-Denar me Harper's Weekly note
Fifteen convicts were transferred to Wright Island from the Walla Walla penitentiary. The men will be kept coupled breaking stone and chopping wood until the beginning of September.
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Wright Island
Pitt Like
Walla Walla Penitentiary
New York Harbor Frontage Surpasses London
Selections New York shows 404 miles of dock frontage, over half of what London has, with New York handling $1.2 billion in annual trade of which $804 million is foreign. London’s foreign trade tops $1.37 billion. New York’s vast coastwise and foreign trade profile underlines its growth against European rivals. Broadway Magazine.
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New York
London
England
Liverpool
America
Boston
Baltimore
France
Germany
Cloier
Atlantic Seacoast
New Orleans
Charleston
Mobile
Norfolk
Philadelphia
Chicago
Hamburg
Antwerp
Rotterdam
Havre Haa
Atlantic Seaboard
Mississippi River
Broadway Magazine
When the Elevator Stops in Downtown Skyscrapers
The New York Tribune notes that elevator service suspension on Sundays forces janitors and families living on top floors to walk 20 to 30 flights for contact with outside world. One 24 story building records a ten year old girl making three round trips weekly to church, Sunday school, and playmates, totaling 2,880 steps.
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New York Tribune
Short on Princesses Amid Royal Births
The birth of a son to Prince and Princess Alexander of Teck raises the count of unmarried English princes to eleven, with two more sons of Prince and Princess Louis of Battenberg pushing the total toward thirteen. Europe faces a dearth of young princesses, and with boys multiplying, finding suitable brides for these princes grows difficult as eligible princesses grow older.
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Alexander
Teck
Louis of
Battenberg
Europe
Santos-Dumont Bets On 60 MPH Hydroplane
Santos-Dumont bets he will construct a hydroplane within eight months capable of sixty miles per hour. The notion of gilding craft or hydroplanes dates back to 1831 when Garpon built a flat bottom river boat with minimal draft and a tail-like propulsion apparatus at the rear, resembling a fish finned tail.
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Santos-Dumont
M. Santos-Dumont
Garpon
London’s American Colony Counts and Distinctions
A London correspondent notes the US resident count in London sits around 6,000, with 8,600 named in the London directory and about 1,500 uncertain. the figure is approximate. Le Tour du Monde mocks the prohibition movement by a map joke, while a dig at child discipline ends.
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London
United States
London Directory
London Times
Mason and Dixon
le Tour du Monde
South
America
Mason
Dixon
Mud at Moscow Weather Turns Palouse Ground to Six Inches Deep
Moscow reports portray a new mud condition as five days of rain saturate the soil turning the Palouse ground into six inches of mud. A dust storm followed the rain, leaving yellow soil unfamiliar to the region. Local weather conditions describe phenomenal precipitation and unusual earth coloration.
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Moscow
Sunday Night Fires At Baker City Sparking Mystery
Two fires within Baker City raise questions about arson as the Willowal skating rink and the high school annex burned. The Baker City Herald notes a troubling pattern with no satisfactory explanations, hinting at deliberate causes and a growing concern over criminal fires.
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Baker City
Saloon Safe Blown Open by Logan Cracksmen
Cracksmen in Logan Montana entered Chas Markin's saloon on Thursday night. They built a skidway at the rear door, rolled the safe into the alley, placed dynamite on top, and blew out the side. The bandits escaped with the entire cash contents of the strong box, about $210.
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Logan
Mont
Chas. Markin
It Is a Sad Commentary on the Housewife
A humorous quip notes a husband preferring baker's bread over his wife's cooking, casting light on domestic tensions and kitchen remedies in a lighthearted social column.
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Diaie
Independence League
Boise
Priscilla
Metropolitan Magazine
SUSU
The
East Oregonian
Metropolitan
East
Gonian
Mall
Metropolitan Magasine
Sellers & Matlock, Props
New Illustrated Song
Edison
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