Laws Enacted in Fifty Ninth Congress Highlight Broad Reforms
Washington reports a first session with major measures extending federal regulation. Railroad rate and meat inspection bills loom as laws, pure food acts advance, and Panama Canal issues are settled. Alaska gains delegates and expanded funds, while war veterans groups push for insignia protections.
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Thentry
Congress
Panama Canal
Organized Labor
House Labor Committee
Niagara Falls
Naval Academy
Secretary of the Navy
Nort
Grand Army of the Republic
Alaska
Secretary of the Interior
Roosevelt
Jamestown
Virginia
Refugees May Stay On Military Reservation
San Francisco reports Maj. Gen. Greely will not disturb the refugees until they are ready to move. He will continue supervising aid to the homeless and has adopted a plan to help severities reestablish themselves in better quarters. Camp cards request statements of each person’s present and prospective condition.
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San Francisco
Greely
General Greely
President's Traveling Expenses Bill Passed
Congress approved an independent measure allowing the President to spend up to $25,000 per year on traveling expenses. The amount is to be appropriated from time to time and disbursed at the President's discretion, with accounting on his certificate.
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Washington
United States
Congress
Colorado State Negro Business League Holds Second Convention
Twenty five visiting Black men and women attended in Pueblo for Colorado's second annual Colorado State Negro Business League convention. Officers were elected including President J. W. Jackson and treasurer L. L. James. sessions featured M. B. Brooks and Ida Joyce Jackson reports, with appeals for investment in homes, businesses, mining, and agriculture. The gathering endorsed civil rights measures and urged circulars highlighting Colorado opportunities.
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Pueblo
Colo
Colorado State Negro Business League
J. W. Jackson
Denver
M. B. Brooks
W. H. Hooper
Eastonville
W. A. Gatewood
J. H. P. Westbrook
L. L. James
H. F. Bray
E. R. Booze
Colorado Springs
J. H. Jackson
S. H. Talbot
J. A. Ford
A. 8. Huff
J. Bates
Jennie Drumm
C. EB. Jackson
Aspen
G. W. Gross
Rocky Ford
W. E. Gladden
Colorado Times
Ida Joyce Jackson
Jackson
J. D. King
West
Alva Adams
Colorado
State Business League
League of Republican Clubs
Congress
Roosevelt
United States Army
Punished for rebates in Kansas City court
United States District Court Judge McPherson in Red Oak Iowa sentenced seven defendants convicted of conspiring to accept rebates on shipments. Fines totaled 85 000 with 15 000 against Swift Co Cudahy Packing Armour Packing Burlington rail way and 6 000 for George L Thomas 4 000 for L B Taggart. Appeals filed stay granted until June 29 to perfect appeals.
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Kansas City
United States District Court
McPherson
Red Oak
Iowa
Swift & Co
Cudahy Packing Company
The
Armour Packing Company
Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railway
George L. Thomas
New York
L. B. Taggart
Burlington
Hundred Millions Congress Designated for Boise Meet
Boise, Idaho awaits the National Irrigation Congress in September to push a direct $100,000,000 appropriation to boost the reclamation fund. Leaders say the current fund lags behind the many projects, growing only from land sales and ten-year installment payments by farmers. The aim is to accelerate opening arid lands as homes.
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Boise
Idaho
National Irrigation Congress
Congress
No Day in Court over Militia Acts in Cripple Creek Case
Federal judge rules residents injured under martial law have no legal remedy against the state or its agents unless malice is shown. In Michael Gibbon vs Hill and others, Judge Robert E. Lewis directed a non suit, stating civil rights are subordinated to military rule during insurrection. The decision implicates numerous similar suits seeking damages from deportations arrests and confinements under martial law in Victor and surrounding Colorado districts.
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Denver
Robert E. Lewis
United States District Court
Michael Gibbon
L. EK. Hil
Nelson Franklin
F. M. Woods
H. BE. McGarry
Sherman Bell
Victor
Gibbons
Military Commission
Bell
Independence
Plaintf
Sait
Dell
Peabody
Gibbon
Hell
Lewis
Colorado
Hill
Veterans face long road to recovery after San Francisco fire
Governor Pardee led an inquiry that found 300 Grand Army men lost their homes in the San Francisco fire. They received about $5,000 from Grand Army posts, enough for immediate relief but far short of future needs, requiring a much larger sum.
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Sacramento
Pardee
Grand Army
San Francisco
General Gleanings of Odd Facts and Claims
The text lists various curiosities and statistics from diverse topics. It notes the Ashanti king’s claimed wives, a birth rate for a young Jones, stars exceeding 100 million, London Times pay per column, abstention rates in the American navy, parrot and leech facts, a prune orchard in Los Gatos with profits, and a promotion for Defiance Starch claiming safety for fine fabrics and economic use.
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Ashanti
Jones
London Times
Los Gatos
Cal
Give and Take In Society Banter
A Philadelphia Ledger snippet shows two society ladies trading barbs about illness and age. One teases the other for looking older, while the other insists she is well and has improved to look younger.
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Philadelphia Ledger
Up to Him. Regular Toarder Pie Exchange
Comic exchanges between a waiter and a regular traced in Detroit Free Press and Philadelphia Public Ledger clippings. One line jokes about repeated pie and a dare to move to Swamphurst with a climates quip for a wife.
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Detroit Free Press
Swamphurst
Philadelphia Public Ledger
Humorous Quotations on Mails and Soap
The passage gathers quips on communication and commerce from Puck and reflections on fatherly heroism. It contrasts men avoiding scrutiny of pricing with witty lines about soft soap carried by mails and a man disappearing when prices dip.
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Lalitm
Hardened. Child faces life’s battles after battles fought
A father questions readiness for life’s struggles as his child reveals surviving three engagements. a somber Washington Star exchange reflects on preparation, resilience, and courage in facing hardship.
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Papa
Pennleas
Blanche
Washington Star
Box Size of Lumber Rises as Strawberries Shrink
A Detroit Free Press snippet notes fruit limits with a hint of rising lumber prices and daily increases in box size. The brief contrasts scarce strawberries with growing timber costs.
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Detroit Free Press
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