Important News Notes Of A Week
A digest of national events includes the House passage of the Democratic free sugar bill by 198 to 103 with Republican insurgent support and Democratic defections. Dr Harvey Wiley resigns after 29 years as chief chemist of the food bureau amid pressure from interest groups. Chancellor Mahlon Pitney is confirmed as associate justice of the Supreme Court by 50 to 26. Indiana tops U S in miles of improved roads with Ohio next, followed by New York and others. The government suit to split the Union Pacific and Southern Pacific railroads opens in the Supreme Court with representatives set to argue after April 1.
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House
Washington
Louisiana
Colorado
Department of Agriculture
Harvey W. Wiley
Food Bureau
Wilson
Mahlon Pitney
New Jersey Court of Errors and Appeals
United States Supreme Court
United States Senate
Indiana
State
Ohio
New York
Wisconsin
Kentucky
Illinois
California
Massachusetts
Office of Public Roads
Union Pacific
Southern Pacific Railway Systems
Supreme Court
Wickersham
Frank B. Kellogg
Cordenio A. Severance
Anthracite miners reject three year contract extension
Domestic hearty endorsement of leaders in refusing renewal of the existing coal agreement was voiced at numerous locals meetings across the anthracite district. Negotiations with operators ended in New York City with a threatened strike set to begin April 1 as union leaders stood firm.
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New York City
Jle
Pat. E
Victor Emmanuel
Rome
Antonio Dalba
Pantheon
Ocean liner collision risks lives of passengers and crew
Reports state that four foreign passengers and several sailors may have drowned after a collision between the Peninsular and Oriental liner Oceana and the German bark Pisagua off Beachy Head. The Oceana carried 41 passengers and 280 crew members all in danger.
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Oceana
Pisagua
Beachy Head
English Channel
Deaths and Illnesses in Early Reports
Personal Rear Admiral George W. Melville dies suddenly at his Philadelphia home age 81 from a stroke. Dr. Mary E. Walker, suffrage advocate, is dangerously ill with pneumonia at New York City’s Presbyterian Hospital. R S Lovett, Union Pacific Railway executive committee chair, is too ill to exit his Salt Lake City car. “It’s just a bad cold,” officials say.
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George W. Melville
United States Navy
Philadelphia
Mary E. Walker
Presbyterian Hospital
New York City
R. S&. Lovett
Union Pacific Railway Company
Salt Lake City
Notable 1900s Headlines Mixed With Local Incidents In One Report
The article catalogs a violent Carroll County courthouse shooting in Hillsville Virginia with Sidna and Floyd Allen captured after injuring a judge prosecutor and sheriff. It also notes deaths of Nancy Ayres and Sidna Allen’s wife, and various political and transport incidents including Panama Pacific Exposition site selections and Roosevelt victory in Oklahoma, a Detroit bathtub trust trial, a Dunkerton Iowa train derailment, a Nebraska penitentiary riot, a New York Central wreck near Poughkeepsie, Wells Fargo robbery defused in Texas, and a NY medical operation on Henry Griffin involving a gold wire heart wall.
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Sidna
Floyd Allen
Carroll County
Hillsville
Sidna Allen
Nancy Ayres
Posse Kills Three Last of Nebraska Penitentiary Gang
In Omaha a running gunbattle ends with the deaths of John Dowd and John Taylor alias Shorty Gray, and the surrender of Charles Morley. Roy Blunt, an innocent victim, is killed. the fugitives had escaped Lincoln penitentiary and were pursued by Six posses including Omaha detectives, Sarpy and Lincoln deputies, and Gretna National Guard.
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Omaha
Neb
John Dowd
John Taylor
Shorty” Gray
Lincoln
Roy Blunt
Taylor
Dowd
Charles Morley
Gretna
McShane
This
Hyers
Chase
Sarpy County
South Omaha
Briggs
Gretna Company
National Guard
John C. Trouton
Blunt
Briges
Springfield
Mowinkle School
Young Blunt
Trouton
Chief Briggs
Morley
Boiler blast at SP shops kills 32 in San Antonio
A massive boiler explosion at the Southern Pacific shops in San Antonio killed at least 32 workers. Debris and body parts littered blocks around the site as an engine fragment crashed into a nearby home, injuring a woman.
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Southern Pacific Roundhouse
San Antonio
Tex
Southern Pacific
Aviators Bomb Turk Camp Killings Near Benghazi
Italian air force bombs from a high altitude strike a Turkish and Arab encampment several miles from Benghazi killing ten Arabs in a desert camp. An army aviator piloted the plane with an officer as passenger.
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Benghazi
Tripoli
No Objections From Tony
Sunday evening after the races the crowded trains prompted a kind gesture as Mrs. Jones lifts a boy, Tony, to her knee during a tunnel pass. The boy, twenty five, answers shyly and the scene ends with a sudden scream as Tony Spurs, the lightweight jockey, falls to the floor.
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Mrs. Jones
Tony
Tony Spurs
Eczema Cleared for Child by Cuticura Remedies
Mrs. Freeman Craver of Syracuse describes a baby’s eight month outbreak of eczema on face neck and back. A physician blamed teething and offered no relief. After using Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment per the Cuticura booklet the child was cured by age one and remained well.
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Freeman Craver
Lewis St
Syracuse
N. Y
Jones Invents Airship Facing Doubts and Hope
In a wary talk, observers doubt his risk but concede a bold claim as Jones asserts an airship invention. Critics recall prior failed schemes while supporters predict success if the design proves viable and scalable.
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Jones
Pierce’s Pleasant Pellets Recall Aged Regulator Claim
The ad notes Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets as a 40 year old remedy claiming to regulate and invigorate the stomach liver and bowels with sugar coated granules. It also comments on cost burden of dress, a prediction about the Millennium removing churches, and remarks on women’s appearance.
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Dr. Pierce
Not That Kind
A newspaper man asked Representative Slayden of Texas for access to the caucus on the money trust investigation. Mrs Slayden declined, joking that interviews would be against his principles, and refused to kiss and tell after the fight.
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Slayden
Texas
Henry
Money Trust
Contary
Mr. Slayden
Allen’s Foot Ease Antiseptic Powder Ad
A historical ad claims over five million free samples annually prove the merit of Allen’s Foot Ease powder for tired aching feet. It promotes sample distribution and provides the Allen company address in Le Roy New York.
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Allen
Olmsted
le Roy
N. Y
Pink Eye Epidemic and Home Remedies in a Candid Talk
A colloquial dialogue covers social friction with Roxley, a warning about phone calls, a joke about feminine secrecy, and a light plug for Garfield Tea and Marine Eye Remedy as spring remedies. The speakers jest about gossip and male vanity amid everyday concerns.
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