The Sixtyeth Congress Sessions and Debates Highlights
Reports from Washington cover Democratic and Republican clashes over currency and homestead acts. Illinois legislators criticize banking favoritism while Aldrich currency amendments pass Senate proposals. House approves pension bill funding 150 million. Ship subsidy passes Senate as Hall receives promotion. Parole granted to Wyandotte murder convict. Missouri brewery workers strike ends with mediation board findings.
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Standard’ Oil
New York City
Washington, D. C
United States
Washington
House
Committee On Appropriations
Aldrich
Senate
Committee On Finance
Policemen Charged With Murder in Oklahoma
Muskogee city patrolmen Kep ler Fields and Stein were jailed after Justice Burks held them on first degree murder charges for fatally clubbing Ha Parry, an agent of the Missouri Kansas Texas Railroad, during an attempted arrest. Parry died from injuries sustained resisting arrest.
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Muskogee
Kepler
Fields
Stein
Justice Burks
Ha Parry
Missouri, Kansas &Texas Railroad
Parry
Steel Cutter for San Francisco Immigration Service Passed
The House approved a bill Friday authorizing the purchase of a steel ferry boat and steel cutter for the immigration service at San Francisco and the donation of obsolete Springfield rifles bayonets and bayonets to veterans military companies formed from Civil War veterans.
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San Francisco
Immigration Service
Bank Robbery Near Muskogee by Same Band
Two masked men entered the Davis bank at Hoffman Oklahoma and robbed it of 900 dollars at 3 30 p m. They fled on horseback into dense country with a quick getaway and no trace has been found. The bank officials I E Davis vice president and W B Davis cashier were present. The Tyre bandits were traced 40 miles north of Hoffman.
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Muskogee
Bank of Tyre
Kan
Davis
Hoffman
Here
I. E. Davis
W. B. Davis
Battle in Kala Hari Desert Engulfs German Force
Cable report from South Africa describes a clash between German expeditionary troops and Hottentots in the Kala Hari desert while pursuing Simon Koppers. German losses include Captain Von Erckert Lieutenant Ebinger and 12 privates killed. 17 wounded. Enemy casualties totaled 58 killed and several captured. Koppers escaped.
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South Africa
Berlin
Kalahari
Simon Koppers
Koppers
von Erckert
Ebinger
Warning Letter Warns Kansas Bank Robbers Active in Osage Hills
An anonymous letter sent to Home National Bank of Caney warns of bank robbers now in the Osage hills nine miles southwest of Caney. The writer claims the Tyre bank bandits are being supplied with horses and kept informed of pursuers by a man known in southern Kansas courts.
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Kansas
Coffeyville
Home National Bank
Caney
Kan
Someon
Tyre
Osage Hills
Wreckers Try to Obstruct Santa Fe Train near Garden City
A 60 pound steel tamper placed on the Santa Fe track west of Garden City failed to derail No. 8 when the low engine pilot cleared the obstruction. The high speed train was not derailed, and police are rounding up a tramp gang seen loitering in railroad yards.
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Santa Fe
Garden City
Kansas
Here
Big Telephone Profits in New York Annual Report
President Vail of American Telephone and Telegraph reports profits of 23.478 million this year versus 17.857 million last year. He describes a national system of millions of subscribers and miles of circuits, all linked by 1,664,000 miles of wire and local exchanges into a cohesive network.
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New York
Vail
American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Alli
Leavenworth Joint Keeper crackdown stirs liquor fight
Leavenworth Kan Attorney General Jackson renewed the state's assault on jointkeepers. Thursday he instituted criminal proceedings against leading property owners and the sheriff served notices on 20 jointists to vacate, upheaving a battle many believed dropped by state officials.
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Leavenworth
Kan
Jackson
Mexican War Veteran Dies in Denver at 88
Joseph Hamilton Wear died at his Denver home Thursday night aged 88. A veteran of both the Mexican and Civil wars, he was born in Carlisle Pennsylvania. His mother was a cousin of Alexander Hamilton. He had lived in Denver five years after moving from Eskridge Kansas.
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Denver
Joseph Hamilton Wear
City
Carlisle
Alexander Hamilton
Eskridge
Kan
School Superintendents to Meet in Kansas City
Kansas City Missouri reports county and city superintendents of Missouri Valley schools will gather April 14 at the Midland hotel to form a permanent organization for advancing educational work in the region.
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Kansas City
Missouri Valley
Midland Hotel
St Louis official arrested on embezzlement charge
Alonzo F. Shriner chief deputy surveyor in the St Louis customs house was arrested Thursday night on a warrant charging embezzlement and failure to deposit government funds in his custody.
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St. Louis
Alonzo F. Shriner
White Lead and the test for purity
A vintage explanation of White Lead as the standard paint material and a warning against adulterated brands. It describes how pure White Lead is produced, the blow-pipe test to prove purity, and offers the National Lead Company blow-pipe test kit and booklet, with address in New York.
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National
National Lead Company
Woodbridge Building
New York
Strenuous Rescue Descent From Desolate Mountain
Two officers hunting wolves on Dry mountain in central Servia lost their way in fog. After 14 hours one officer collapsed in snow. His partner bound him, sat him up, and rolled him down the slope to safety. The uninjured companion later reached help. the rescued officer is hospitalized with injuries from the descent.
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Servia
A Mean Advantage in a Witty Exchange
A Diplomat remarks on seven years of courting as a woman jokes about finding the right day. Mrs. Torkins recalls gifting cigars to her husband who cherishes them, now smoking a pipe to preserve their quantity.
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Algernon
Grape-Nuts Endorsed For Health In Old Age
A Postum Co advertisement extols Grape-Nuts as ideal for aging digestion strong brains and nerves. A 74 year old Iowa reader reports daily business, 92 year old customer credits Grape-Nuts and Postum, constipation relief, and easier thinking and writing. Read The Road to Wellville in packages.
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Iowa
Postum Co
Battle Creek, Mich
Wellvilla
Seed Catalog Ad Promises Billion Dollar Grass and Farm Boost
A vintage seed catalog pitch from John A. Salter Seed Co of La Crosse Wisconsin touts Billion Dollar Grass and Macaroni Wheat with claims of high yields and multiple crops. The ad invites readers on 100 acres to send for the original seed catalog and a free package of new seeds.
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Graga
John A. ‘Salter Seed Co
la Crosse
Wis
America
Sly Miller
Sainfain
Victoria
John A. Salter Seed Co
The Telephone Girl's Amendment received a grouchy response
A business man vented frustration at a telephone central clerk who misheard his digits. He recalled calling for four hundred and being directed to fourteen hundred, then attempting fourteen oh oh and facing the same miscommunication.
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Telephone Central
Red Cross Ball Blue and Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup Ad
Short, antique advertisement fragment sells Red Cross Ball Blue to keep clothes white and Mrs Winslow's Soothing Syrup for teething children. Includes terse moral lines about choices and oblivion. Product mentions are typical of early 20th century grocer notices.
Facts for Sick Women and Lydia Pinkham’s Remedy Ad
A historical ad urges women to seek health through Lydia E. Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. It claims the product treats displacements inflammation ulcers fibroid tumors irregularities period pains backache and nervous prostration and invites readers to write for advice from Lynn Massachusetts.
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Lydia RE. Pinkham
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