Holland Type Submarine Boats Approved by House
The House struck the proviso limiting the secretary of the navy to Holland type submarines, granting a free hand in boat selection. Other items note a Currency Commission bill, a Lincoln birthplace shrine project, Indian land policy talks, adjournment hopes, two battleships debate, a national bison range bill, and Senate passes two public site and forest bills.
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Washington, D. C
United States Navy
Committee On Naval Affairs
House of Representatives
Secretary of the Navy
Currency Commission
Washington, D.C
Fowler
House Committee On Banking and Currency
House
Congress
House Library Committee
Madden
Kentucky
Abraham Lincoln
Lincoln Farm Association of New York
Robert L. Owen
Okla
Secretary
Interior
Roosevelt
Oklahoma
Senate
Flathead Indian Reservation
Montana
Poplar Bluff
Cass Lake
Minnesota
Congress Signals Will Not Pass Major White House Aims
Washington leaders informed the president that several key measures he sought during the session likely will not be enacted. Prominent items include curbing federal court injunctions in labor disputes, licensing interstate commerce, railroads’ rate stability, anti blacklisting, stock and bond control, railroad receivers, pulp duty, battleship construction, and postal savings banks. Aims leaders may still press elastic currency, civil servant compensation, child labor limits in DC, tariff hearings, and inland waterways funding.
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Washington
D. C
Congress
Interstate Commerce Commission
District ‘of Columbia
Ways’ and Means Committee
House
Finance Committee
Senate
Inland Waterways Commission
Prohibitionists Endorse Oklahoma Law and Haskell
Guthrie Oklahoma Prohibition state convention met Wednesday and endorsed the present law as a model. They backed Gov Haskell and his administration and urged national prohibition and government ownership of distilleries. Eight delegates were elected to the national convention and the platform calls Prohibitionists to support Oklahoma’s dispensary law at the polls. Gov Charles N Haskell addressed the delegates.
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Guthrie
Gov. Haskell
Oklahoma
Charles N. Haskell
Gold Starts Back in Post-Panic European Shipment
New York reports the first gold shipment for Europe since October’s financial panic. National City Bank announced a one million dollar transfer for Paris on Wednesday signaling a resumption of gold movements to Europe.
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New York
Europe
National City Bank
Paris
New Treaty With Spain Reported by Official Gazette
Madrid announces in the Official Gazette a new extradi tion treaty between the United States and Spain after months of negotiation.
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Spain
Madrid
United States
New York Democratic Convention Chooses Unpledged Delegation
The New York state Democratic convention ended after two days of bitter factional fighting with a vote that ousted Brooklyn factions led by Senator Patrick H. McCarren and selected an unpledged delegation to the Denver national convention. Harry Walker signaled plans to call another Democratic convention in Denver.
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New York
Wm. J. Bryan
Kings County
Patrick H. McCarren
Denver
Bryan
Committee On
Brooklyn
McCarren
State Committee
Harry Walker
Eliot calls college football “the least useful of all games”
Cambridge, Mass. President Charles W. Eliot of Harvard, in his annual report to the board of overseers, condemns the exaggeration of athletic sports in schools. He reiterates his view that football is the least useful of all games and decries the overall harm of sports culture in colleges.
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Cambridge
Mass
Charles W. Eliot
Harvard University
Board of Overseers
Wheat Outlook Conditions In Kansas April Report
Topeka Kansas April 11 wheat condition stood at 91.4 percent per the agriculture board bulletin issued by secretary F D Coburn. The report notes last year at this time 84 percent with 74 million bushels and two years ago 89.5 percent with about 93 million bushels.
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Kansas
Topeka
Kan
F. D. Coburn
Board of Agriculture
Foreign firms barred from Oklahoma banking houses
Oklahoma state senate passed a measure prohibiting foreign building and loan companies from doing business in the state. Existing foreign firms are given one year to close operations and depart Oklahoma.
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Guthrie
State Senate
Iron Mines Resume In Bath County After Stringent Downtime
Lexington Kentucky reports the Ross iron mines in Bath County have resumed work after a shutdown caused by financial stringency. Owned by Alabama and Missouri capitalists, the operation employs about 400 men most of whom had nearly exhausted their funds for living costs during the pause.
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Lexington
Ross
Bath
Alabama
Missouri
The Painting Season and White Lead Testing
A guide to selecting painting materials stresses pure White Lead mixed fresh with Linseed Oil. It advises testing several brands by reducing to metallic lead with a blowpipe, warning against adulterated leads. National Lead Company offers a free blowpipe and a booklet featuring the Dutch Boy Painter as a purity guarantee.
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National Lead Company
Woodbridge Building
New York City
Losing a Tenant in Highlands Crofter Case
A Scottish landlord kept a crofter as tenant paying ten shillings yearly. After two bad harvests the rent was cut to five shillings, then waived entirely in year three. In year four the tenant warned that without a barn he would have to move. The landlord faced mounting hardship and a looming lease dispute.
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Highlands of
Scotland
Old Man Learns Lesson From Childs School Help
A man notes that a small amount of schooling can lead to danger as his son seeks assistance with lessons. The remark suggests caution about overestimating casual education.
Coffee Eyes and Postum Cure Report
A Oswego Mont woman reports slow eye disease linked to coffee as she adopted Postum Food Coffee at high altitude. After three months, eye pain and weakness vanished, and her nursing baby stayed healthy. A friend with dyspepsia and headaches also improved after switching to Postum. There is a cited justification from the Postum company.
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Oswego
Mont
Postum
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Train encounter in Charlottesville sparks trust inquiry
An elderly man on a northbound train in Charlottesville Virginia asks a little colored boy about family, faith, school, and prayers, offering five cents to buy apples, in a scene quoted from Success Magazine.
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Charlottesville
Yassuh
Yyassuh
Success Magazine
Forgotten Romance Echoes in Moonlit Whisper
Fragmentary OCR text recalls a private exchange between two lovers Jane and John recounting a moonlit night. The faded lines hint at affection and a humorous remark about a swollen nose, suggesting a long ago past romance.
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Jane
Jennie
John
Cure at City Mission Demonstrates Soap Treatment
A young woman arrived at a city mission in severe condition with scabies incipient paresis rheumatism and sores from exposure. After seven weeks with little progress a Cuticura regimen including soap Resolvent and ointment led to recovery in five weeks. Laura Jane Bates 85 Fifth Ave New York March 14 1907.
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Laura Jane Bates
Fifth Ave
New York
N. Y
Mer
1907
Maintaining His Dignity in an Apartment House
A New York Evening Post writer recalls a notable encounter with a fraternity member. A woman instructs the elevator boy to tell her caller she will return, but the boy admits he never answers unless he hears. He adds a halted, comical reply reflecting the era’s social codes.
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New York Evening Post
Percy
Catarrh Cure Advertised With Reward Offer
An old advertisement promotes Hall’s Catarrh Cure with a $100 reward for any case it cannot cure. It claims testimonials from druggists in Toledo Ohio and lists prices and internal use benefits. Also mentions Hall’s Family Pills for constipation and endorsements of F J Cheney and associates.
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Hall
Hali
Poet and critic clash over muses and Bacchus joke
A poet’s friend defends him as a true poet who serves the muses though the critic quips that Bacchus is not one of them. The exchange highlights tensions between art and indulgence in a witty dialogue.
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Bacchus
It Cures While You Walk Allen's Foot-Ease Advertisement
It cures while you walk for hot feet sweaty feet callous swollen and aching feet. Sold by all druggists price 25 cents. Do not accept substitutes. Trial pictures free address Allen S Olmsted Roy New York.
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Allen
Allen S. Olmsted
Roy, N. Y
Forbidden political mass meetings in all parts of empire
The notice proclaims a ban on political mass meetings across the empire. It also promotes Garfield Tea as a health aid and offers free samples from Garfield Tea Co in Brooklyn New York. The fragment ends with an unclear moral motto.
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China
Garfield
Garfield Trea Co
Brooklyn
N. Y
Ball Blue Ad Mentions Red Cross and 2 oz Price
An old advertisement promotes Red Cross Ball Blue laundry product in a large 2 oz size for five cents. The line includes a biblical sounding note about patient endurance and a quote attributed to St. Teresa.
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Red Cross
St. Teresa
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