Kansas Legislature Advances Agriculture and Education
The legislature praised for progress in farming and rural schools. It funds seven month terms, supports sparse districts with $100000, requires teachers to study agriculture, funds high school and rural school programs, and endorses consolidation, transportation, free tuition in small counties, and broader school administration reforms. It also expands livestock disease controls, soil studies, irrigation experiments, and county level agricultural testing to boost crops, dairy, and regional farming.
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Kansas
Ihansas
House
Senate
Barrer
Greenwood
Agricultural College
United States Department of Agriculture
Robinson
United States Department of Agriculure
Manhattan
Hunter
Railroads Indicted Over Rebate Conspiracy in Cleveland
A federal grand jury handed down 17 indictments accusing Lake Shore Pennsylvania Bessemer and Lake Erie and Nickel Plate railroads of conspiring with ore shippers and dock firms to grant rebates. Three individuals including Dan Hanna and J T McCabe face charges under the Itkins law with contracts promising rebates via Ohio and Western Pennsylvania Dock Company. Penalties include up to two years in prison and a $10,000 fine. Evidence indicates railroads own dock companies and lease docks to operating firms under different names.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Lake Shore
Pennsylvania
Bessemer
Lake Erie
United States
Lives
Jay
Dan A. Ilanna
J. T. McCabe
The
D. R. Hanna
D. T. McCabe
Hanna Company
Ohio and Western Pennsylvania Dock Company
Nillits
Grand
Farmers Free List bill debates in the House
The House opens debate on the Farmers Free List bill with Underwood of Alabama championing the measure for the Democrats and Mann of the Republicans opposing. Passage is unlikely. the Senate plans to wait for wool and cotton schedules before tackling tariff revisions.
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Washington
I” C
House
Underwood
Alabama
Ways and Means Committee
Representative Mann
Senate
Cox pushes Philippine cost as party issue in Congress
Representative Cox of Ohio leads a Democratic move to make Philippines and independence a party issue. He plans a caucus push for a War Department cost statement on the islands since U S occupation, hoping the measure serves as a step toward neutralization by a world treaty.
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Washington
D. C
Cox
Ohio
Philippines
War Department
United States
Aon
Mexico protests British landing at San Quintin
Mexico has filed a formal protest with Britain over Capt. Vivian of the Shearwater landing marines at San Quintin Lower California, calling the act interference in Mexico's internal affairs.
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Vivian
San Quintin
London
England
British Foreign Office
Shearwater
California
Mexico
Pirates Attack Pacific Mail Asia After Wreck
Passengers rescued from the Pacific mail steamship Asia report pirates attacked the wreck site at Finger Rock. Officers fired revolvers to repel a fleet of Chinese pirate craft while passengers were transferred to safety. Ship and cargo losses are estimated.
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Asia
Shanghai
Pacific Mail
Finger Rock
Alleged Dynamiters In Jail After Train Transfer
In Los Angeles three alleged dynamiters are jailed awaiting due process. J W McNariina alias J B Bryce, charged with murder in the Times disaster, and Ortie McManigal, self confessed dynamite agent, were moved from the California Limited at Pasadena to the county jail within minutes, guarded at every point as authorities moved swiftly to secure them.
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Los Angeles
California
California Limited
Santa Fe
J. W. McNariina
J. B. Bryce
Times
Ortie McManigal
Pasadena
Geriff
The M Manigal Confession Reveals Chicago Links
In Los Angeles authorities publish a synopsis of Ortie McManigal confession. He admits aiding John W. McNamara and J. J. McNamara in dynamite plots and details the cooperation with the McNamaras. The document suggests Los Angeles explosions were the culmination of a long plan.
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John W
J. d. McNamara
Los Angeles
Ivak Miters
Chicago
Ortie McManigal
Llewellyn I Iron Works
McManigal
John W. McNamara
J. B. Pryce
J. J. McNamara
McNamaras
Guttenberg Bible Sells at Auction for Record 50000
The Guttenberg Bible from the Robert library sale at Anderson auction rooms sold for 50000 dollars, the highest price ever paid for a book at any sale. Henry Huntington of California, nephew of Collis P. Huntington, bought the piece, with Joseph Widener of Philadelphia a close rival at 49000 dollars. The bid was the most animated ever seen at local book auctions.
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Henry E. Huntington
New York
N. Y
Robert
Anderson
Henry HE. Huntington
California
Collis P. Huntington
Joseph Widener
P. A.B. Widener
Philadelphia
Postmaster General Sees Penny Postage as Likely
Washington reports Postmaster General Jittercock remains confident penny postage can become a future reality due to ongoing postal reforms. He noted the department faced a $17,600,000 deficit when he assumed control and says reductions are proving the possibility.
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Washington, D. C
Jittercock
Noble News Owner Arrested for Arson Claim
Lane King 20 from Tuttle Oklahoma, who moved to Noble weeks ago with a printing outfit, is jailed in Norman on arson charges. His newspaper plant was burned, and the facility was insured.
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Guthrie, Oki
M. Lane King
Tuttle
Noble
Noble News
Cleveland County
Norman
Ilis
Fireman Killed in Missouri Texas Train Collision
Denison fireman R W Pearson was killed when the southbound Flyer on the Missouri Kansas and Texas struck a freight train at Varado. Engineer J T H Williams of Denison also died. The fireman was shoveling coal and pitched headlong into the firebox.
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Furnace
Denison
Texas
Missouri, Kansas & Texas
Varado
JT. H. Williams
R. W. Pearson
Would Establish Central Bank Washington
A bill by Representative Forynes of New York proposes the United States National Bank of America to be set up in the District of Columbia with capital of $100,000.
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Central
Washington
United States National Bank of America
District of Columbia
Representative Forynes
New York
Congress on child welfare opens in Washington
The second international congress on child welfare under the National Congress of Mothers will open its ses-
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Mothers
Washington
Second
International Congress On Child Welfare
National Congress of Mothers
Grateful Women Credit Lydia E Pinkham Remedies
In Waurika Oklahoma Sallie Stevens reports long female troubles and insomnia relieved by Lydia E Pinkham’s Vegetable Compound. In Huntington Massachusetts Mary Janette Bates says nervous, run down condition improved and life saved by the same tonic. The notice urges others with female ills to try the remedy for conditions like inflammation ulcers displacements fibroid tumors irregularities backache and nervous prostration.
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Waurika
Okla
Lydia EH
Pinkham
Sallie Stevens
Tiuntington
Mass
Lydia E. Pinkham
Mary Janette Bates
Huntington
Lydia HE. Pinkham
Unreadable Social Quips From a Vintage Page
A fragment suggests comments on women talking and romance. It mentions Lewis' Single Binders and the notion that a woman's access to male insight comes from having an older brother, avoiding marriage.
His Limit
A fragment from Harper's Bazaar notes Joshua made the sun stand still with imitations and a quip about Willie Jones, hinting at the comic stunt and audience challenge in a playful noted display.
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Joshua
Willie Jones
Farper
Care of the Child in Los Angeles County Promoted
The county government plans to spend as much on child care societies as on animal welfare groups. The stance suggests future equality in the value placed on children and animals, with a hopeful view that children might be regarded as equally important.
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Los Angeles County
Horges
Irish Landmark Destroyed in Ulster Fire
The famous temple of liberty at Toomebridge, Londonderry, near the River Bann, was burned to the ground the other morning. Built about sixty years ago by the late Rev. John Carey, a Cromwellian descendant once arrested for murder but acquitted, the landmark had a romantic history and wealth behind its founder.
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Ulster
Toomebridge
County
Londonderry
Bann
John Carey
Tie
London Alail
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Waters
Henry J. Waters
State Agricultural College
Mann
Los Angeles Times
M’manigal
Guttenberg Bible
Post
Postum Cereal Co., Ltd
Battle Creek, Mich
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