Money Carried by Bills Breeds Germs and Disease
A Technical World Magazine report notes money tainted by use carries bacteria. Fresh currency is near sterile, but passage through hands increases germs. average clean paper money bears about 22 500 bacteria, dirty bills about 73 000. Most bacteria are harmless, yet some are disease carriers.
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Jong Service
Richard Benter
Technical World Magazine
Treasury
Research Laboratory of
New York
Record of US merchant tonnage milestones in 1907
The Boston Transcript notes 1907 total merchant tonnage at 502,508 gross tons, second only to earlier peaks in 1854 and 1885. The shift shows modern tonnage serving foreign trade, with 60 years ago ships sailed worldwide, including Cuban service aided by subsidies. Authors warn lack of federal support limits future American shipbuilding for foreign routes.
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United States
Boston Transcript
Debate on female education from Godfrey's zoological view
The excerpt argues that female education in Godfrey's terms advances from zoological to ethical perspectives. It notes comparisons of humans with animals to defend gendered language and implies progress in how educated women should be addressed as ladies rather than females, reflecting evolving social standards.
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Godfrey
New’ York
Unclear fragment highlights public notices and remarks
Disjointed excerpt cites sociological musings on gratitude, Japan’s budget notes, defense spending, actresses praised for realism, a Long Island man with twenty seven children, and Roosevelt reference, reflecting a fragmented era of public discourse and pop culture commentary.
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Long Island
Darling
Mr. Roosevelt
World News Bits From Congress and Senate
Interesting items note Congressman Charles Scott of Kansas proposing county level experimental farms run under government agricultural experts. The House Military Affairs committee backs a 27 percent pay rise for enlisted Army and Marine personnel. Senator Long seeks 40,000 dollars to acquire land outside Leavenworth known as the KyondiBe, amid disreputable present use. The president asks Congress to place wireless telegraph under government control to curb interference with official dispatches. A new employers liability bill is introduced to align with the recent Supreme Court ruling, with passage in both houses. Senator Owen’s government school bill for Oklahoma to teach Indian arts faces adverse Senate action. Representative Chatuplark of Missouri entertains the House with a long talk on the president and address to Congress. Conferees reach a complete agreement on the urgent deficiency bill. Senator Raynor of Maryland opposes the Aldrich financial bill in a forceful Senate speech. The House passes the Indian appropriation bill, about 5 million dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles Scott
Kansas
House Committee On Military Affairs
Army
Marine Corps
Long
Leavenworth
Kan
Kyondibe
Senate
United States Supreme Court
House
Owen
Oklahoma
Chatuplark
Missour
Congress
Raynor
Maryland
Aldrich Financial
Bar on T akeahira Calls War Inhuman In Interview
Baron Takeahira the Japanese ambassador returning to Washington says war between the United States and Japan would be the most inhuman event in world history and too hellish to contemplate in an interview. A report by Admiral Converse to satisfy the president says the U S navy is not inferior to foreign powers, while Missouri counties move to ban saloons locally. A Rich Hill bank was dynamited and robbed of 20000 in currency and gold with a reward offered. Wisconsin Democrats name three delegates to back William J Irvin at Denver. Omaha reports one dead and two injured in a runaway streetcar crash. A St Joseph payroll case is dismissed for lack of evidence. Frisco stores coal for a potential miners strike in April. McKeesport furnace explosion kills two and injures several. Night riders strike Isid vite Kentucky. Taft sweeps Ohio primaries backing Foraker’s delegates. A wealthy contractor confesses to neighborhood robberies in Albany. The battleship Maine passes Valparaiso with honors to the Chilean president. Detroit interview quotes Shaw about a Morgan-backed presidential run. Leavenworth inmate robbed a business and fled. Maggie Hott vessel reaches Philadelphia from London. Kentucky legislature spends money in senator election deadlock. Baltimore & Ohio adopts nine-hour workday for all train employees. Oklahoma’s “ind” Craw law requires separate facilities. Streetcar measures set degrees. suffragettes and socialists in New York stage five-hour parades.
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Baron Takeahira
Washington
United States
Japan
Converse
Missouri
Farmers and Manufacturers Bank
Rich Hill
Wisconsin Democrats
Denver
William J. Irvan
Omaha
Neb
Theo
St. Joseph, Mo
Frisco
Sts. Mune
Dlass
Mckeesport
Isydyville
Taft
Senator Foraker
Ohio
Suate
Alttony Til
Admiral Evans
Valparaiso
Chile
Detroit
Treasury
Shaw
Pierpont Morgan
Charles Wilkenwitg
Leavenworth
Kan
Oklahoma
New York
Numerous US notices and events pull national concerns
A wide array of items from Congress actions to railroad rulings, court cases, and university vaccination orders fill a national update. Highlights include the 20th Kansas unit honored post enlistment term, railroad discrimination cases, the Northern Pacific fine for hour law violations, and the American Express postal matter. Also noted are vaccination orders at Nebraska university, Alaska peacekeeping troops, Lincoln’s birthday event in Grand Rapids, indictments against New York bankers, and political candidacy announcements in Missouri and Kansas.
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Yne
Kansas
Congress
Marlington Railroad
Nebraska
Jettsburg
Act of Congress
United Sates
Pajarito park to host major excavations near Santa Fe
Professor Edgar L Hewett will lead large scale scientific digs at Pajarito park, a Santa Fe area with ancient cavate houses cliff dwellings and pictographs. The Santa Fe Society of Archaeology pledges 500 dollars to support the investigations seeking to uncover who built the sites how they lived and what became of them.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Christopher Columbus
Pajarito Park
Santa Fe
Edgar L. Hewett
American Institute of Archaeology
John R. McFie
Santa Fe Society of Archaeology
Hewitt
New Road Likely: Fay ette Jones to Lead Survey Northward
El Paso dispatch reports Fay ette A. Jones of Albuquerque will head a party of engineers from El Paso to survey a proposed north south road linking El Paso with San Juan coal fields in New Mexico. The route would pass through Gila forest area and several counties toward Durango or Farmington, with four months planned on site. A Q O Bailey confirms a second engineering party is in the field and notes promoters intend mining and other development along the line.
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el Paso
Fayette A. Jones
Albuquerque
New Mexico
I Paso
Columbus
San Juan County
Durango
Colorado
Farmington
Juana
Grant
Gila Forest Reserve
Mogollon Mountains
Socorro
Valencia
McKinley
San Juan
A. Q O. Bailey
Jones
Temporary land withdrawal eases Native allotment concerns
Rural communities in Rio Arriba San Juan Sandoval McKinney and surrounding Navajo areas protest an executive order widening the reservation. A letter from Assistant Secretary Jesse E. B. Wilson to Delegate Andrews argues the withdrawal is temporary until parcels used by Indians and their ancestors are allotted to them.
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Jyute
Lakers
Rio Arriba
San Juan
Sandoval
Andrews
Jesse EB. Wilson
Department of the Interior
Shooting Near Silver City Ends in Cowboy's Death
A Lyons Campbell Cattle Company foreman Tom Johnson shot and killed cowboy Joe Cox near the Gila river home ranch thirty five miles northwest of Silver City. A witness says Cox drew on Johnson before Johnson fired with a Winchester. Cox, a company employee, and Johnson disputed over three dollars Cox allegedly owed. Johnson was bound over by the district justice of the peace to await the next grand jury with a $1000 bond.
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Silver City
Tom Johnson
Lyons-Campbell Cattle Company
Joe Cox
Gila River
Tirty
Johnson
Cox
The
C. Company
Justice of the Peace of
Santa Fe Attorney Offers Cup For Best Flower Display
Attorney A B Renehan of Santa Fe offers a silver loving cup for the best flower display by any exhibitor at the Interstate Industrial Exposition in Albuquerque, held with the National Irrigation Congress. The cup will feature an impressive design with coral decorations and bear the inscription and donor and winner names.
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A. B. Renehan
Santa Fe
Albuquerque
Dimetni
R Twitchell
Board of Control of
Receivers Appointed for Consolidated Coal Mining Co
Judge McFie appoints Eugene C. Wilson of New York and Eugene S. Neal of Cutler Sierra County as receivers for the Consolidated Coal Mining Company of West Virginia. The firm had sought relief in Las Cruces through attorneys W. F. Lewellyn and J. Benham to Judge Parker of the third district, but Parker is personally interested in the mining company and was disqualified.
Territorial banks endure panic in New Mexico report
Traveling Auditor Charles V. Safford reports no bank failures in New Mexico under territorial charter and notes banks hold larger cash reserves than a year ago. He cites strong financial health across the territory, with 25,000 homesteaders and 45 banks established in twenty months and a growing population projected to reach 600,000 as Congress considers New Mexico statehood.
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New Mexico
Traveline
Charles V. Safford
New Mexican
Safford
M O Brittain and Frank North Charged in Mail Fraud
M O Brittain and Frank North were arrested at Raton by the sheriff on the orders of Post Office Inspector E P Smith charged with fraudulent use of the mails. They were taken to Las Vegas for a federal hearing. Location of the suspects in Raton followed mail from other towns indicating similar operations.
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M. O. Brittain
Frank North
United States
Ratoon
Post Office
E. P. Smith
Las Vegas
Raton
Benjamin Allmadge
Geneva
Nebraska
Kansas City
Atchison, Topeka & Santa Fe Railway
Portales
Texas
Roosevelt County
Paso
Washington
Reclamation Service
Elephant Butte
Dan
Engle
New Mexico
Congress
Leasbore
J. A. French
Santa Fe
Penrose
Colonel Hopewell
Andrews
Warden- Bursen
Colonel Fianewell
Postoffice appointments and closures in New Mexico counties
Arch ie C Hall named Cumberland postmaster in Chaves county while Annié M Bryan becomes postmistress at Coates Union county. Airlsyco in Bernalillo county loses its post office with mail routed from Albuquerque. Trenton in Quay county closes with patrons to use Holland. A new post office opens at Lard Quay county with R M Horne as postmaster. Jonesville Quay county appoints J C Jones as postmaster. Orton Quay county served from Ruth Guadalupe and Hassell southeast and Alamo west. Johnson S Poppino listed.
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Archie C. Hall
Cumberland
Chaves County
Annié M. Bryan
Coates
Union
Airlsyco
Bernalillo County
Albuquerque
Trenton
Quay County
Holland
Lard
R. M. Horne
Jonesville
J. C Jones
Orton
Ruth
Guadalupe County
Hassell
Alamo
Johnson S. Poppino
Prisoners Held on Assault Charge in Las Vegas
Pru dencio Martinez and Felipe Garcia were brought before Chief Justice Mills on assault charges against Miss Margaret Car ling. Identified by the woman and aided by a sworn confession, they were bound over to the next grand jury under 10000 dollars bond and committed to Santa Fe penitentiary for safekeeping.
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Las Vegas
Prudencio Martinez
Felipe Garcia W
Mills
Margaret Carling
Garcia
Martinez
Land Bill Helps New Mexico Timber Lands
The house committee on public lands reports favorably a bill to legalize timber land transactions by the New Mexico territorial land board over the past three years. It allows 30 000 acres to be retained at 3 dollars per acre and approves a 70 000 acre transfer with timber rights retained by buyers while title remains in the territory, aiming to withdraw pending suits if enacted.
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House Committee On Public Lands
New Mexico Territorial Land Board
Irrigation Congress draws foreign exhibitors
An Albuquerque dispatch reports Chairman W S Hopewell of the sixteenth annual Irrigation Congress says the state department is aiding the event from Washington. The department’s help is bringing exhibitors from several foreign countries, including China, to participate in the congress.
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Albuquerque
W.S. Hopewell
Board of Control
Sixteenth Manual Irrigation Congress
Washington
State Department
Congress
Longest telephone line in United States bridges 250 miles
The Eastern Railway of New Mexico reports a 250 mile ground circuit line from Belen to Texico enabling clear conversations for transmitting train orders during construction. Charles Meban, a railway postal clerk from Albuquerque, is arrested on charges of stealing registered mail. The Penrose bill gains favorable fisheries committee support for a Trout Springs fish cultural station. The New Mexico delegation in Washington, led by Governor Curry, lobbies for displays at the Interstate Exposition of the Sixteenth National Irrigation Congress with promises from War Navy and Post Office Departments. The Bureau of Forestry plans a grand exhibit at the congress.
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Eastern Railway
New Mexico
J. W. Keys
United States
Belen
Texico
Charles Meban
Albuquerque
KE. T. Smith
Denver
Wade
Mehan
Post Office
Senate Fisheries Committee
Trout Springs
San Miguel County
Washington
Curry
War, Navy
Post Office Departments
Bureau of Forestry
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San Marcial Standard
Our, Merchant Marine
St. Lois
John Smith
News OF the
Northern Pacific Bailroay Company
Missouri Supreme
Autre
Federal District Court
Cincinnat Chargius
American Express Company
Nebrisk University
Pappellor Andrews
Fort Gilbon
Fairbanks
Alaska
War Department
Lincoln
Grand Rapids
Mich
Secretar
Wi Morse
Yo 3
Kansas Railroad
Iniles
Paris
Interstate Commerce Commission
United States Naval
Guantanamo
Cuba
West Virginia
Jackson
Wyevelver
Mutual Reserve Life Insurance Company
Newton Edmiinds
Dakota Territory
Ita.kotal .Bank
Yankton
L. Cd
Glen Mdgerton
Manhattan
Iow
West. Point
William J. Bryan
Buffalo
Henry Carroll
America
Colorado Springs
Charles WW. Marge
Clara C. Hoffman
Missouri Woman's Christian Temperance Union
Holman
WeKalb
N.Y
Young Republicans of
Mt Convention Hall
Knsas City
Oliga Gray
Isang BP. Grays
Indiana
Indianapolis
Pajarito Ruins
Washington Post
Solomon Luna
Congressional Committee
Iowa
Tierra Amarilla
Thomas D. Gurus
Roosevelt
Interior
Garfield
Jemez National Forest
Burns
Jemez Forest
Jicario
Fred Mendenhal
Douglas
Arizona
Sierra County
Mendenhal
Hillsboro
Folsom
H. A. Wolford
Irrigation Congress
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