Italians In America Counted In Early 1900s Census
The record notes 1 217 124 people born in Italy or of Italian parentage in the United States in 1900. New York State Italians totaled 486 176 per a 1904 census by the Italian Chamber of Commerce of New York. Savings banks held 15 million, real estate 20 million, 10 000 Italian stores 7 million, wholesale business 7 500 000. The Italian colony in New York City valued at 60 million, with higher figures cited elsewhere. A 1900s Appleton article quotes Baron des Planches on Italian character and the risk of prejudice.
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America
United States
Italy
Italian Chamber of Commerce of
New York City
New York State
George C. Speranza
St. Louis
San Francisco
Chicago
Boston
Baron
Des Planches
Appleton
Adam Br
Foreign students highlight American higher learning reach
Statistics from major educational institutions show the extent of U S influence as students from abroad study at colleges. Columbia reports 150 foreign students from 80 countries while Canada, Japan, China and others are represented. the trend extends across Europe and the Americas.
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America
Troy Times
Columbia
United States
Canada
Japan
China
Persia
New Zealand
Europe
West Indies
Central
South America
Judge’s Tale of Temptation and Self Penalty
In a comic anecdote a judge off the bench indulges and later pleads guilty to a self arraignment. A Mississippi grand jury indicts its own members for violating Sunday law and fines each $10, proving their own sincerity by yielding to conscience.
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Mississippi
Bees and hexagonal cells in combs
The text discusses whether honey bees’ hexagonal comb cells arise from instinct or mechanical pressure. It notes solitary bees make circular cells and hive bees also form circular cells until they are deformed into hexagons by pressure. A naturalist is cited on soft cylinders becoming hexagonal under such forces.
England tests compression method to preserve flour
The army and navy report a new preservation method using hydraulic pressure to compress flour into brick form. Tests show pressure kills larval life and prevents mold, while preserving quality. Three hundred pounds of compressed flour occupy the space of 160 pounds ordinary flour.
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England
Roosevelt's Regulating Influence Praised by Buffalo Banquet
W A Brown of the New York Central voices belief that the public has a right to regulate railroads. He calls for government protection against abuses while supporting fair investment returns and prosperity. Governor Hughes also spoke at the chamber of commerce event in Buffalo, highlighting heavy presidential influence on railroad policy.
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Buffalo
N. Y
W. A. Brown
New York Central Lines
Brown
Chamber of Commerce
Hughes
United States
Constitutional convention in session at Guthrie Oklahoma
Ninety five delegates answered roll call as the convention reassembled to finish the basic law for proposed Oklahoma. Little business occurred Tuesday. An effort to raise the maximum school levy from five to twenty mills was defeated. No adjournment time was set.
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Guthrie
Okla
Ninty
Oklahoma
National Publicity Law Debate at Victoria Hotel
A special meeting of the National Publicity Law group at the Victoria hotel discussed Tuesday the adoption of an effective national publicity law requiring publication of contributions to national and congressional committees and related expenditures.
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New York
National Publicity Law Organization
Victoria Hotel
Arrest of Kansas Robber Ties Missouri Pacific Train Heist
Joseph Bush was arrested at Myrtle Point Oregon on a charge of involvement in a Missouri Pacific train robbery. Kansas officials and detectives with a deputy U S Marshal from Portland effected the capture. John Henry, a hadsenier, was killed.
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Marshfield
Ore
Joseph Bush
Myrtle
Point
Missouri Pacific
John Henry
Kansas
United States
Portland
Oklahoma constitution adopted after five months of debate
Guthrie Oklahoma saw the proposed state constitution adopted with 27 of 85 delegates not voting and no dissenting voices recorded. President Murray announced the completion amid prolonged applause as he signed with an alfalfa pen and district details were added with a Bryan pen. The election committee may set a date for sine die adjournment Saturday.
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Guthrie
Okla
Oklahoma
Murray
Cloud
W. J. Bryan
No Danger of War Over San Francisco School Controversy
Secretary Root stated at the American Society of International Law that there was never any danger of war between the United States and Japan over the San Francisco public school segregation dispute. He said state rights were not involved and referred to the Japanese treaty questions in his address at the society’s first annual meeting.
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Washington
United States
Japan
San Francisco
Secretary Root
American Society of International Law
Root
Hagerman Quits Governorship Amid Exposures
Governor Hagerman of New Mexico departed for Albuquerque after three days in St. Louis saying his resignation was requested due to enmity over his efforts to expose graft. He planned to submit the resignation to President Roosevelt and announce exposures that would create a sensation.
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Hagerman
St. Louis
H. L. Hagerman
New Mexico
Trad
Roosevelt
Albuquerque
Receiver Appointed for Uncle Sam Oil Company
Judge J C Pollock in Topeka Kansas said he would grant the petition of complaining stockholders and appoint a receiver for Uncle Sam Oil Company. Secretary treasurer H H Tucker Jr was recently indicted on a mail fraud charge. The firm has 10 000 stockholders nationwide and a statement dated April 5 showed receipts from stock sales of about 1 9 million.
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Oil Company
Topeka
Kan
J. C. Pollock
United States District Court
Uncle Sam Oil Company
H.H. Tucker, Jr
Appalling Suffering Report From Russian Famine District
Dr Kennard of the Society of Friends reports from the famine district in Russia describing an appalling scene of hunger. He states the worst famine Russia has known with as many as twenty million people unable to survive without aid to witness another harvest.
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London
Kennard
Society of Friends
Russia
University to distribute parasites to fight green bugs
Lawrence Kansas. The University of Kansas entomology department led by Prof J Hunter will begin releasing parasites to attack green bugs in wheat fields. After observing cool weather the plan proceeds with two students Will Grisea and Ebb Crumb deployed in southern districts for daily reports and supervision of the parasite release.
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Lawrence
Kansas
University of Kansas
J. Hunter
Hunter
Will Grisea
Ebb Crumb
Battleship Kansas Commissioned at League Island Navy Yard
The battleship Kansas was placed in commission at League Island Navy Yard in ceremonies on the quarterdeck. Captain Charles Vreeland was read the orders and accepted command, with officials, crew, and navy yard attaches present as the pennant was run to the masthead.
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League Island Navy Yard
Philadelphia
Kansas
Navy Yard
Navy Department
Washington
Charles BE
Veerland
Vreeland
Tucker Files Bond Topeka Kansas Indicted Official
H H Tucker Jr of Cherryvale secretary of Uncle Sam Oil Company arrived in Topeka and filed his bond with United States Marshal Mackey at noon. The bond for twenty four thousand dollars was signed by Cherryvale Atchison and Minneapolis Kan though the court had required fifteen thousand. Marshal Mackey states the bond is first class and approved.
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Topeka
Kansas
H.H. Tucker, Jr
Cherryvale
Uncle Sam Oil Company
Grand
United States
Marshal Mackey
Atchison
Minneapolis
Kan
Supreme Court Rules Against Dowie Estate in Sutton Will Case
The Illinois Supreme Court issued an opinion adverse to the estate of John Alexander Dowie in the Sutton will case. Frederick Sutton, a New Zealand native and Dowie convert, left about 54,000 to Dowie, but Sutton's heirs contended he was unsound in mind and unduly influenced. The court upheld the lower court findings in favor of Sutton's heirs.
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Springfield
Supreme Court
John
Alexander Dowie
Sutton
Frederick Sutton
New Zealand
Central American Conference Opens With Tense Tone
Washington dispatch reports from Amapala Honduras that Salvadoran and Nicaraguan representatives began a conference on Thursday. The telegraphed note did not reveal any result, raising concerns of a renewed Central American hostilities as talks proceeded.
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Washington
Brown
State Department
Amapala
Honduras
Salvador
Nicaragua
Central America
Ottawa committee probes lumber combine in Canadian West
A parliamentary committee in Ottawa said it will probe alleged lumber price collusion. It found prices excessive and reported a combine within the retail lumbermen's association and the lumbermen's manufacturers association in the Canadian West.
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Ottawa
Ont
Canadian West
Retail Lumbermen’s Association
Lumbermen’s Manufacturers Association
Health department plan eyed in Washington
National Health New York reports steps toward creating a new government department or bureau in Washington to oversee public health. A committee of 100 chaired by Hamed discussed the idea last June, as noted by the American Association for the Advancement of Science.
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New York
Washington
Hamed
American Association For the Advancement of Science
Jamestown Exposition Opens Amid Incomplete Preparations
Jamestown Exposition in Norfolk Virginia faces unfinished structures with about 80 percent completion though the event promises a grand water show and a premier naval display. President Roosevelt slated to lead opening program with foreign and domestic delegates and a large Atlantic fleet present under Rear Admiral Evans.
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Norfolk
Roosevelt
Hampton Roads
Atlantic
United States Navy
Evans
Liberal Leader Opposes Church Property Purchase in Havana
Jose Miguel Gomez accuses the government of overpaying $2,000,000 for church properties. He argues titles are questionable and buildings are in poor condition, urging deferral and transfer of the issue to Cuba’s future government.
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Havana
Jose Miguel Gomez
Cuba
Texas Law May Spur Statewide Telegraphers Strike
El Paso reports a Texas law limiting railway telegraph operators to eight hours per day could trigger a state wide strike officials say. Preparations stem from railroad plans to cut pay to cover costs of hiring more workers.
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Texas
el Paso
Smutted Russian Wheat Crop Sparked Bank Complaint
In Samara the peasant bank petitions the governor over smutted Siberian wheat in the Buzuluk district. The bank claims half the crop is spotted and permanent contagion is introduced, with 6,000,000 bushels affected and mortgages on half the arable land held by the bank.
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Samara
Russia
Buzuluk
Congressional Junket to Hawaii and Return
Congress plans a trip starting April 26 in Chicago with a visit to Hawaii at the invitation of the territorial legislature. The party will travel to San Francisco by sleeper on the Overland Limited and sail April 30 on the transport Buford, bound for Shanghai with famine relief. Western members Ellis of Missouri and Campbell of Kansas are among those joining.
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Congressional Junket
Hawaii
Washington
Congressional Party
Chicago
San Francisco
Overland Limited
Buford
Shanghai
Swar’ Department
Congress
Honolulu
He Ellis
Missouri
Campbell
Kansas
Snow Closes Valley Gardens in El Paso
Snow fell in El Paso on Sunday morning at a lively rate for over an hour. The record snowfall damaged small fruit and truck gardens in the valley, with losses estimated from 50 000 to 100 000 dollars.
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el Paso
Tex
Texas
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Jamestown Exposition
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