Apaches Seek Release After 23 Years as Prisoners of War
Government held Apache prisoners of war for 23 years at Fort Pickens, Fort Marion, and Fort Sill. They petition President Taft for permission to return to their homeland, arguing their long confinement warrants release. Geronimo’s successor Asa Dakingi leads the group, while public sentiment in Oklahoma towns grows around the issue.
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Washington
Forts Pickens
Marion
Florida
Fort Sill
Oklo
Interior
L. Q. C. Lamar
Arizona
Miles
Sierras
Goy Torres
Geronimo
Natches
Cleveland
Lamar
Ohio
Asa Dakingi
Bliss
Taft
Prison choir leader Daniel Payson ends 28 years of service
The Windsor Vermont prison choir conductor Daniel Payson, born July 16 1829 in Hope Maine, has just closed his 28 year tenure as foreman and instructor in the workshop. He describes his approach of kindness and personal talk to reach prisoners and notes rare disciplinary reports during his long tenure.
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Windsor
Vermont
Helen Potter
Mme. Rosa
Daniel Payson
Pris
Hope
Ephraim and
Mary Folger Payson
Daniel
Boston
Counterfeit suspicion ends in police action in Oroville
Oakland capitalist H W Plummer and EB A McCulley visited Oroville to inspect a timber claim. A hotel clerk detected counterfeit greenbacks with a water test, phones called police, and three men were detained before Post Office Inspector J L Driscoll verified the notes as genuine.
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Oroville
Cal
H. W. Plummer
Oakland
EB. A. McCulley
Union Hotel
San Francisco
California
Conley
Plummer
Restoring Dead to Life Heartened by New Manual Heart Massage
A Medical Record report cites 45 recent deaths studied under a new heart massage theory. Seventeen revived, nine fully recovered. eight died after brief resuscitation. Most cases linked to anaesthesia. After death, doctors open the chest and manually compress the heart while assisting with artificial respiration and injections.
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New York
Sanitary Upgrades Planned for Panama and Colon
Washington reports plans under Col. Goethals to improve Panama and Colon sanitation during the dry season. An $800,000 appropriation funds street grading sewers and water mains. Labor supply exceeds demand but retention remains a challenge for skilled and common workers across the canal zone. As of January 31 the workforce totals 60,880: Americans 40,295 Europeans 4,915 and West Indian Negroes 15,670.
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Washington
Col. Goethals
Isthmian Canal Commission
Panama
Colon
Congress
Canal Zone
Rare Wiglaf penny fetches 1375 dollars at Sothebys sale
A Wiglaf penny from about 825 AD sold at Sothebys for 1375 dollars, one of only two believed to exist. Wiglaf ruled Mercia during the era when Egbert began forging the Saxon Heptarchy into England.
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London
Sotheby’s
Wiglaf
Mercia
Egbert
England
Proposals and Ads in a Period Voice
A comic exchange shows a stammering suitor proposing to Maud with playful stuttering rhythms. The page also includes short ads for Allen's Foot-Ease, Hamlin’s Wizard Oil, Perry Davis Painkiller, and Mrs. Winslow's Soothing Syrup, plus a Max O'Rell quote and a note on a divine faith healer.
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Windsor, Vt
Post
Guard Health IN
Mina Davis
Chas. H. Fletcher
A. F. Peeler
St. Louis
E. Down
Philadelphia
Edward Parrish
Brooklyn
J. B. Eilisit
New York City
C. G. Sprague
Omaha
Neb
J. A. Parker
Kansas City
H. F. Merrill
Augusta
Norman M. Geer
Harry
Allen
Allen S. Olmsted
LeRoy, N. Y
Max O’rell
Perry Davis
Dodds
Ghys
Guaranty
Fhompson
Carters
Res
THE
Paxton Toilet CO
Cascarets
Daisy Fly Killer
Harald Somers
Dee Kalb Avenue
Gillette
Watson E. Coleman
Wat Pateington
D.C
W. ON. Uz
Denver, NO
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