The Hindoo legend prompt and the senses debate
The article discusses the six blind men and the elephant as a metaphor for perception and mental phenomena, comparing it to how knowledge arises from combined senses. It then summarizes a report by the interstate commerce commission showing railroad casualties and improvements, and notes the return of Houdon’s Washington profile on new postage stamps alongside Franklin on the one-cent stamp.
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Saxe
Hindoo
Technical World Magazine
Interstate Commerce Commission
Ascal
Meyers
Washington
Franklin
Hartford Bridge Replaced by Grand Stone Structure
A wooden covered bridge over the Connecticut River at Hartford has been replaced with a granite stone bridge touted as the largest in the world. It surpasses the Moldau’s Karlsbruke and London’s Westminster Bridge in width, though not length, and aims to convey strength and permanence over iron or steel designs.
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Connccticut
Hartford
Moldau
Prague
Waterloo
Thames
London
Crown Princess Promoted to Colonel Rank by Kaiser
The Kaiser raised the crown princess to colonel of her regiment while her husband holds the rank of major. This unusual elevation prompts questions about royal authority and the shift in hierarchical balance within the royal household.
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William
The Shah Faces Tests of Bombs and Dagger Plots
The shah, tired of experts toying with constitutions, may face trials from bombs and daggers aimed at forcing a monarch to confront growing unpopularity. The remark warns of dangerous challenges to royal authority amid political unrest.
Second White Star liner Titanic raises ship size wonder
The second 60 000 ton White Star steamship is named the Titanic. News highlights the vast scale of the vessel by comparing its tonnage with the whole Spanish Armada. The note underscores modern shipbuilding's enormous dimensions and speed ambitions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iie
Counterfeit Pills Spark Bank Tellers’ Alert
Bank tells stamp counterfeit on wired money, prompting scrutiny as counterfeit worry spreads amid misdirected shipments and rejected pills. Local officials urge caution and report increases in suspicious transactions.
Iowa News Items Include School, Factory, Delays And Gifts
A long list of Iowa developments reports a new Gilman school building costing 14000, a Bellvue farmers co operative project, Cresco exchange fire, Bloomfield church remodeling into an opera house, a Marshalltown Eks club house plan, Nishnabotna drainage survey, and a 10000 Gilman brick school project. Other items note Clinton factory prep for a former Standard Button building, Nevada sanitarium steel contract to Dodd Works, and Elks Christmas baskets for Des Moines poor. Robberies, municipal bond votes, and public notices appear alongside crime, rail plans, telegraph coins, a German Lutheran anniversary, and various farm and river projects with named towns and firms cited.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gilman
Farmers’ Co-Operative Company
Bellvue
Northern Iowa Telephone Company
Cresco
O. O. Mayes
Bloomfield
Marshalltown
Pottuwittamie County Board
Nishnabotna
Clinton
Standard Button Company
Jtmelson City
Willie
Nevada
Dodd Steel and Iron Works Company
Des Moines
Aaron Clark
Newton
Nebraska
Elks
Romane Society
Fred Stephan
Iowa City
Billy
Muareh
Keokuk
Harber
United States
James Brabier
War Department
Washington
National Guard of
Iowa
Linus Lamb
Montezuma
Bidwell
M’gregor
Burdette Bailey
Steen Hill
George H. White
Emerson
J. B. Haggin
New York City
Mr. White
Chicago
Kansas City
Clear Lake
Cerro Gordo County
Mulot
Dubuque
Boards of Supervisors
Marty Mclain
Wesley Redhead
Polk County
Sheffield
Great Western
Grace Coffey
Union
Minnesota
Roosevelt asked Bonaparte to review Gompers case records
President Roosevelt received many telegrams urging mercy for Samuel Gompers John Mitchell and Frank Morrison all AFL leaders convicted of contempt for violating a court order against listing Bucks Stove and Range Co on the Unfair or We dont patronize list They were released on bail pending appeal Taft planned a Texas visit after inauguration and the Panama Canal was slated to open January 1 1915 Carnegie testified before Ways and Means on steel tariff in a lively but not instructive manner
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Roosevelt
Gompers
Mitchell
Morrison
Bonaparte
Samuel Gompers
John Mitchell
Frank Morrison
American Federation of Labor
Justice Wright
Supreme Court of the District of Columbia
Bucks Stove & Range Company
St. Louis
Taft
Texas
Congress
Panama Canal
California
Joseph Buckling Bishop
Canal Commission
Andrew Carnegie
House
Johnson wins world heavyweight title in Sydney
Jack Johnson defeated Tommy Burns over 14 rounds in Sydney to become world heavyweight champion on points as police halted the bout. Cipriano Castro signaled resignation of the Venezuelan presidency from Berlin.
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Jack Johnson
Tommy Burns
Sydney
Australia
Johnson
Cipriano Castro
Berlin
Venezuela
Thomas F. Ryan
H. Bary Elliott
First National Bank
Eufaula
Okla
William H. Newman
New York Central
John T. Adkinson
Galveston Rifles
United
Federal Grand Jury
Waco
Tex
S. C. Lillis
Lemoore
Cal
William A. Dolph
Neil Dolph
Memphis
Tenn
San Francisco
Tortured feet drama ends in theft and murder mixes with world events
A cluttered report surveys crime and politics: H A Schabow, a Curtice farmer, loses 180 to robbers after torture. Julia Pice, 14, refuses a marriage, Powell Formich and Michael Milanovitch duel with knives in darkness, Formich killed. Failures and political violence appear alongside sports, social aid, industry plans, and a Kansas pardon amid a sprawling 1900s era snapshot.
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H. A. Schabow
Curtice
Julia Pice
Powell Formich
Michael Milanovitch
Cleveland
Formich
Clement Armand
Fal- Heres
France
Place de l'Etoile
Mappis
United States
Longmont
Col
Englewood
Chicago
Denver
Salvation Army
United States Steel Corporation
Lake Superior
Superior
Duluth
Gary
Ind
Hoch
Kangaa
John Collins
Kansas State Penitentiary
J. 8
Collins
Topeka
Chi
Multiple Disasters Reported In US and Abroad
A collage of incidents from coast to coast and beyond reports a trolley auto crash in New York injuring George C Hurlbut and daughter Iliane, a fatal blaze in Smyth County Virginia cremating A Gollahorne, a massive fire wiping Ravia Oklahoma business district, a pistol duel injuring five in Kentucky, a diamond necklace theft in Boston, robberies and murders from Nebraska to Arkansas, and various political and maritime events across the US and Latin America.
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Oakland
Cal
New York
George C. Hurlbut
American Geographical Society
Iliane Hurlbut
Broadford
Smyth County
Virginia
A. Gollahorne
Ravia
Oklo
Fidella
Christian County
Kentucky
Boston
John de Coste
C. W. Massingale
Valentine
Neb
Eldorado
Ark
Fisheries Committee
Vancouver Board of Trade
Dominion
Canada
North Pacific
Warsaw
Ind
Naples
Hermosillo
Mexico
First National Bank
Monrovia
H. M. Coax
Portland
Hot Springs Ark
Milan
Kan
Clearwater
Holliday
Wellington
Jennie Lippitt
Wall Street
New York Stock Exchange
Consolidated Stock Exchange
Monequa
Ini
Pan-American Scientific Congress
Santiago
Chile
L. S. Rowe
Cuba
Jose Miguel Gomez
Alfredo Zayas
Santa Barbara
Standard Oil Company of
Indiana
Republic of Company of Ohio
Waters Pierce Ofl Company
Missouri
Supreme Court of Missouri
Commonwealth
Pittsburg
Navy
Pitman Pulsifer
Senate Navy Committee
W. S. Buchanan
Venezuela
Board of Trade
Little Rock
Portugal
Sephor Antonio Azevedo
Castro
Togaseaginate
Gomez
North American Conference on Rural Resources
Presidents Roosevelt and Diaz plan a North American conference to conserve rural resources. Gifford Pinchot, as national conservation commission head, will invite Canadian and Mexican officials and consult with U S state and federal representatives at the White House in a due course. Pinchot will visit Canada first.
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Washington, D. C
North Americ
White House
Preard Roosevelt
Canada
Diaz
Mexico
Gifford Pinchot
National Conservation Commission
Undy
Roosevelt
Pinchot
Mexico City
Washington
Standard Oil attorney denounces ouster ruling
Alfred D Eddy, general western attorney for Standard Oil, declares this is the first time a Standard Oil company has been ousted from a state. He notes the Waters Pierce company was ousted from Texas but reorganized. Eddy says a rehearing may be sought in the state supreme court and a federal question could go to the U.S. Supreme Court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
Alfred D Eddy
Standard Oil Company
Waters Pierce Company
Texas
State Supreme Court
United States Supreme Court
Big Labor Demonstration Planned in New York
In New York on December 23 a plan was announced for a demonstration by about two hundred laborers next Sunday in support of Samuel Gompers John Mitchel and Frank Morrison. The Central Federated Union appointed a committee of thirty to organize and adopted resolutions sent to President Roosevelt. The federation urged unions not to seek pardons for the men sentenced, claiming no crimes were committed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Samuel Gompers
John, Mitchell
Frank Morrison
Central Federated Union
Roosevelt
Federated Junlor
Gas Kills an Entire Family in Chicago Home
Chicago reports a grocer Morria Lwake man and his wife Elizabeth plus children Annie 16 and William 15 were suffocated by escaping gas on the night after Christmas. The man’s overcoat lay beneath a broken gas fixture, police suspect he flung it there before bed, a Christmas tree with gifts stood in an adjoining room.
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Fairfield Gas and Electric Company
Lehigh Clay Products
Lehigh
Council of
Clear Lake
Will Kelly
Waterloo
Jed Corder
Des Moines
Sioux City
Omaha
Council Bluffs
Des Molins
Fort Dodge
Joseph Westendorf
Ald
Haverhill
Iowa Central
Church of Visitation
Mack Olsen
Iowa State Republican League
William H. Taft
League
Ames
Jack the Hugger
Story County
Will Johnson
Kiel
Coune
Joe Josephs
Martin McNamarra
Grafton
Union Pacific
Barker
District Court
Davenport
Oscar Blook
Jens J.hanson
Hanson
First Trust and Savings Bank of
Marshalltown
Jesse Macy
Town College
Department of Political Science
Magy
Fox
Chicago
Morria
L.wke
Elizabeth
Annie
William
Liman
Opium Edict Enforced Sparks Riot Near Amoy
Dec 28 report from Amoy recalls orders to stop poppy planting issued to natives at Tungan twenty miles from Amoy. Natives refused, riot followed, one flyer and ten civilians killed. Local populace took up arms. 600 troops sent to restore order and enforce the edict.
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Amoy
Tungan
Investigate Exchanges in New York by Governor Commission
The New York exchanges will be investigated by a commission appointed by the governor. The committee decided to defray expenses for those involved, covering their personal juries and reimbursements to the state.
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New York
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Denison
Washington’ Notes
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