War and disaster highlights sweep of early notices
War department charters the Dublin to transport 40 animals to Manila while ships Hooker and Morgan City face wrecks and losses. Fires ravage Lima, Peru’s San Francisco church. Prices rise for steaks in Chicago. A British battleship London visits Portsmouth amid crowds. Multiple accidents, strikes, and political maneuvers unfold across the Americas and Europe as leaders plan moves in Dominica, Cuba, and the United States.
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Andrade Wan
Caransato
Leo
Castro
War Department
Eas
Hooker
Corregidor Island
Te Lima
Peru
San Mravcisco
Pizarro
Otis
Morgan City
Lenox
Mass
Aie
Norfold
Haled
English Frantic for War Demonstration Fails in Trafalgar Square
London reports a pro Hoer anti war rally degenerates into chaos as thousands sing Rule Britannia and the national anthem while opponents hurl apples eggs and jeers. Police clear the square after mounted troops tread crowds and thirty arrests occur amid chaotic platform clashes.
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London
Trafalgar Square
Britannia
Chaimberlain
Kruger
Nationalaire
Chamberlain
Result of Carelessness Collison Kills and Injures Western Train
Six persons killed and five badly injured in a collision near Colliston Colorado as an excursion train bound for the west side collided with an east bound freight. The excursion carried about forty passengers mostly traveling from Massachusetts to the Pacific. A freight misread orders and failed to take a sidetrack at Reno. Trainmen jumped to safety. I Sal tor manager of the excursion and five children died. George J Judkins witnessed the deaths of three of his children while escaping with minor injuries. Injured were sent to Pueblo.
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Colliston
Colorado
Florence
Colo
Philips-dudoon
Maasachusetts
Pacific East
St Ik
Reno
I. Saltor
Pueblo
George J. Judkins
Hik
Spokane
Vice President Hobart Illness Fears Presidency Role
Sept. 6. Reports indicate Vice President Hobart may be unable to preside over the Senate sessions. Kidney trouble is described as non acute but requiring rest, with growing concern that he may withdraw from duties and affect the 1908 campaign plans for President McKinley.
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Senate
New York
Vresx
Hobart
United States Senate
Olend
McKider
Northwest Notes reveals unsettled frontier crises and growth
The Union Pacific payroll in Cheyenne grows to a record high while Reno broker P L Flannigan ships three trainloads of sheep eastward. Reports detail Utah fruit quarantines, Wyoming gunshot incidents, Nevada mortgages, Colorado surveys, and looming Maxwell Land grant evictions in New Mexico. Senator White's grave illness and irrigation plans via Prof Mead appear alongside fires, accidents, and a Montana chief justice misadventure. A large wave of violence near Sterling, Colo., and a Walla Walla family tragedy close the item.
Up-to-Date Hints on Cultivation and Landscape Planting
Agricultural column outlines how to lay out country estates with hedged borders and mixed tree groves for year round beauty. It recommends placing lofty trees at corners and entrances, creating diagonally extending vistas, and using elm, maple, beech, tulip trees, and pines for shade and shelter. It also covers rust-resistant wheat varieties for winter and spring planting including Turkey, Mennonite, Pringle’s No 5, Rieti, Odessa, and Haynes Blue Stem plus Saskatchewan Fife, noting Early May and Zimmermann as early but rust-susceptible for due timing.
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Samuel Parsons, Jr
New York
Scribner
Department of Agriculture
Turkey
Mennonite
Pringle
Rieti
Odessa
Haynes Blue Stem
Saskatchewan Fife
Zimmerman
Wheat and Rust from Farmers' Review
The article discusses plant diseases reducing farm income and two strategies to combat rusts: developing disease resistant cereal varieties or treating the disease. It highlights rusts’ global impact, notes the U.S. Department of Agriculture plans to publish about cereal rusts, and explains orange leaf rust and characteristics of resistant wheats.
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Department of Agriculture
United States
Australia
Russia
India
Argentine
Mark A. Carleton
Flst
Carleton
Depth to Lay Tile for Frost Protection
Depth guidance for tile drainage emphasizes placing tile below frost reach. Frost can pulverize unglazed tile drains. depths vary by soil. On clay land, depths of thirty inches to three feet are advised, with four feet possible on sandy soils given adequate fall.
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Ilinois
Opportunities for Spraying on Lawn War with Fall Army Worms
A columnist urges farmer students to spray lawns against the fall army worm, noting city homeowners lack equipment and funds. The idea could help working students in colleges, with Chicago as a prime venue for offering spray services. The piece also discusses sulphur in salt for cattle and defines sterilized milk and cream with standard heating references.
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Fall Army
Chicago
Minneapolis
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Manila
Hahemian Brotherhood of America
Auielde
Cale
Cohaenay
Novens
Ulysses Houreaux
Santo Domingo
Wistelet
San Juan
Hattan
Mavana Sune Any
Huntington
W. Va
Tila
Merlin Mills Company
Marmington
Maine
Alnglo
Ber
I. A Hawley
Tingurare
Cuba
Matanran
Spain
Cleveland
San Juan de Porto Rico
Nicholas Srange
Daz
Admiral Schley
Washington
Tle Wi
Admiral Dewny
Trew
Johannesburg
Hloemfontain
Manchester Guardian
Steyn
Fischer
Orange Free State
Vollemraat
Transvaal
Hobart Sick
Northwest Notes
Union Pacific
Cheyeone
P. L. Flannigan
Nevada
Nevada Cavalry
San Francisco
Bandman
San Jose
Utah
My Anmae Fonda Stern
John Lindela
Carbon
Wyo
Rock Springs Hospital
William Bueckner
Medicine Row
I. Cravenson
Cravenson
Bueckner
Southern Pacific Company
Central Trust Company of
William Law Campbell
Denver
Campbell
Grant
Senator White
Palace Hotel
Prof. Mead
Wyoming
Bureau of Irrigation
Kelsey
Salt Lake City
Mead
Maxwell
New Mexico
Maxwell Land Company
Salem Tve
Mills Company
James McGrath
Meilivine How
Rawlins
Mia
State Hospital
Beantly
Supreme Court of Montana
Libby Iate
Colt
Warren Live Stock Company
Sterling
Berder
Crane
Victoity
la Joule Iigg
Lyland
Geant
Walla Walla
State Penitentiary
Hyland
Momeroy
Wash
Kilgore
Byland
iIt
Thomas Shaw
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