World brief notes and political mentions in Steele City
Imagined digest of global and national items mentions Champ Clark as a presidential possibility. Reports cover Maine incident reactions Spain tax issues and reapportionment effects on Nebraska. Also included are Taft tour changes, postal relief actions, a fatal Fort Robinson death, Carnegie donation, boxing law talk, and various state and national political notes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Champ Clark
Spain
Maine
Congress
Nebraska
Treasury
Taft
Kernal Forest
California
Frederick D. Grant
Porto Rico
Postal Department
Minnesota
Dakotas
Iowa
House Committee On Interstate Commerce
House Committee
Gore
Atlanta
Post- Office Department
Railway Mail Service
News Notes and Briefs From The Era
The memo covers varied items: Maryland’s anti trading stamp law declared illegal. Guthrie Oklahoma records 94 degrees. The Persian parliament votes to hire five American financial advisers. George Edwin McLean of the University of Iowa resigns. Dr. Cook plans lectures in the west on polar experiences. Edward F Mylius appears in an English court related to reform Gaelse. Nebraska Farmers Congress petitions Congress for eight parcels post. Andrew Carnegie is named honorary member of the New York Chamber of Commerce.
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Maryland
Guthrie
Oklo
George Edwin McLean
State University of Iowa
Dr. Cook
Edward F. Mylius
Nebraska Farmers’ Congress
Congress
Andrew Carnegie
New York Hat of Commerce
Falar
Sete Cieae
Exonerate Oil 60 Hampton's and Moffett Retract Links
Standard Oil cases against Hampton's Magazine and Cleveland Moffett were settled with signed retractions. Moffett admitted no connection to impure candies and expressed sincere regret. Hampton's pledged accuracy and will publish both letters in the March issue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Standard Oil Company
Hampton's
Cleveland Maffett
Philadelphia
Shearman& Sterling
Broadway
Hamptons Magazine
West Thirty-fifth St
Standard of
Hampton’s Magazine
Cassidy
Cleveland
Cleveland Moffett
Moffett
Hampton
Mr. Moffett
Benj. B. Hampton
Broadway Magazine, Inc
Graft Case Ruling in Danville Jury Immunity
In Danville Illinois Judge Kimbrough rules City Attorney Jones cannot be indicted for questions asked by a grand jury on vote selling and buying due to witness immunity. The court finds the city election law constitutional and limits questioning to events within the past eighteen months.
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Danville
Ill
Kimbrough
Circuit
Jones
le Payee Sang Oeermal
Supreme Court of the United States
Nebraska Briefs Chronicle Town News and Tragedies
An epidemic of grip sweeps Nebraska towns with Gothenburg business group forming a new organization. Valentine opera house becomes a hotel. Ashland fire destroys the Commercial hotel about 3500 loss. West Point’s Clausen & Weander open a garage with livery. Hok Drege forms a Boy Scouts of America under Rev. Bennett. George Wellman of Waco dies by self-inflicted wrist wound amid ill health. Bivens and Shinn hunt bobcat near Valentine. Bivens shoots a 15 pound cat. Al McMillan resigns as local Y M C A secretary in Central City to move to Crete. Valentine schools dismiss grades six through eight due to no teacher. Columbus firemen honored with dinner at Y M C A building after Abbs Co. fire threat. Mayor Patterson of Kearney reports $125,000 water works bonds funded by state. Rushville lineman Guy Martin injured after fall from a telegraph post. Eastbound Rock Island train strikes lineman H. Peterson near Hallam, hospital in Lincoln. condition dangerous. James Fiana, a Burt County resident, involved in a disputed matter.
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Vendendeare
Eighth Cavalry
Fort Robinson
Andrew Carnegie
Dunfermline
Scotland
Spain
Connecticut
Reichstag
Germany
Dakotas
Northwest
National Republican Progressive League
Nebraska
Progressive Republican League of
Lincoln
Marih
la Salle Robinoff
East
Denver
Charles Smith
Oklahoma City
Los Angeles Times
Seward
Capital National Bank
Comumnipaw
N. J
United States
Marietta
Navy Department
Key West
Edna Cooper
Chicago Great Western
State Board of Health
United Mine Workers of America
Columbus
Ohio
John Mitchell
Civic Federation
Laws
Oia Nadia
Gothenburg
Valentine
Ashland
Clausen & Weander
West Point
Boy Scouts of America
Hokdrege
G. G. Bennett
George Wellman
Waco
Len Bivens
Shinn
Fire Department
Young Men's Christian Association
Patterson
Kearney
Walter George
Stat
Guy Martin
Rushville
Rock Island
Hailam
Fairbury
H. Peterson
Gravell
Capitol Burned in Missouri Fire Destroys Historic Building
Jefferson City Missouri capitol was destroyed by a Sunday night fire sparked by a lightning strike on the cupola. The 1838 structure, remodeled in 1887, lost governor records and state papers. the senate records were saved while convicts fought flames and Governor Hadley considered pardons for those who saved documents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jefferson City
Missouri Capitol
House of Representatives
Hadley
Penitentiary Fire Department
Senate
Lydia E. Pinkham Remedies Proclaimed by a User
G Johnson of Scottville Michigan praises Lydia E. Pinkham Vegetable Compound for curing female ailments. She notes repeated use by her family and claims strong health and happiness result. The ad touts the product as free of narcotics and widely effective.
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Lydia
Lydia E
G. Johnson
Scottville,Mich
Lydia E. Fee
Noah Fae
Officials and crew held for grand jury in deadly dynamite explosion
Nineteen officials and employees of the Central Railroad of New Jersey and Dupont De Nemours Powder Co plus Capt James Healing of the Katherine W were arraigned on manslaughter charges in connection with a recent dynamite explosion. They waived examination in Jersey City and were ordered held under bond awaiting grand jury action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Central Railroad of
New Jersey
Dupont-De Noumers Powder Company
James Healing
Katherine W
Jersey City
Famine Death Toll in Chinese Provinces Alarmed News
Dispatches from London and Shanghai describe a severe famine in Ngan-Hwei and Kiang-wei with thousands dying and unburied corpses. Relief is urgently needed as about two million are in danger, and American missionaries may be at risk.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Shanghai
Ngan-Hwei
Kiang-8i
Railway mail service turmoil sparks potential upheaval
Washington reports inefficiency insubordination and mismanagement in the railway mail service. Postmaster and inquiry chief rouse indignation as revelations suggest drastic results may follow, though the inquiry remains unfinished.
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Hitchcock
Washington, D. C
Neyada
Engagement Dims as Doctor Doubts Marriage Timetable
An amused exchange from the Rehoboth Sunday Herald shows a physician’s daughter engaged to a college student. The father doubts the timing, saying she must be given up, prompting a hopeful response from the young man and a playful retort from the girl about waiting for the doctor to concede.
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Rehoboth Sunday Herald
Careful Man Quote Recounts Office Cigars and Care
A historical excerpt notes Thackeray’s line about a man who is “pretty careful” and the consequences of his carelessness. It recalls a partly smoked cigar left in an office and a clerk sent afterward, illustrating the contrast between carefulness and its unforeseen annoyances.
Brain and body in harmony through proper feeding
A Boston educator explains that health comes from right feeding and a well balanced body like a regulated machine. She describes resigning from teaching two years ago due to nervous strain and finding a method to restore harmony between brain and body.
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Boston
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Steele City Press
Alex Rough
N - Nebraska
Steele City
of the Globe
Washington
General News
Standard
Hampton’s and Moffett
Standards of Company
New York City
Philippines
James Fiana
Burt
Missouri State House
Lydia E. Pinkham
Thackeray
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