Archbald Removed From Office for Impeachment Conviction
United States Senate finds Archbald of Beranton Pennsylvania guilty of high crimes and misdemeanors. He is stripped of office and barred from any public role for life over misconduct and using his power to aid private coal land interests. House Ways and Means debates wool and silk tariff provisions and potential inclusion with the tariff plan.
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Washington
Robert W. Archbald
Beranton
United States Senate
Senate
Archibald
Pennsylvania
House Committee On Ways and Means
Congress
Parcel Post for Canada Sets Rates and Regions
Canada parcel post plans include Ken Ontario the prairie provinces and British Columbia with local zones established. Rates have not been finally decided but will likely match U S levels.
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Ken
Ontario
Prairie Provinces
British Columbia
United States
Ohio River Rises Threatening Cincinnati Area
The Ohio River has passed six feet and rises two inches an hour. In Cincinnati and across the river, suburbs in Kentucky flood. twenty five hundred refuge in water-logged towns as schools and churches open to shelter. Property losses will reach into the thousands.
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Ohio
Cincinnati
Ohio River
Dayton
Newport
Covington
Kentucky
Democratic Spirit Hails Incoming Governor’s Pick for Seat
Lincoln gubernatorial selection likely to name W. Z. Taylor successor from Sixty-ninth District after his death. Nominees include J. M. Cruse of Culbertson and J. H. Payton of Trenton, with Democrats casting for party loyalty in appointment.
District faces potential nonpartisan election costs
Assertions from officials suggest no special election will be held in the Hitchcock and Dundy counties district. If held, the expense would total about $2,000, per Mr. Kruse.
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Hitchcock
Dundy
Kruse
Reception of Governor Marked by Simplicity and Democratic Spirit
At the Nebraska state house in Lincoln a simple unfussy reception honored incoming governor J. H. Morehead of Falls City. Rural lawmakers and merchants mixed with city elites as hundreds toured the state house and passed along the receiving line with outgoing and incoming governors present. The new board of control for state institutions awaits an act defining duties before Morehead can appoint, with July 1 1913 set by the amended constitution. Sunday baseball legislation is planned by Senator Martling of Otoe county following the 1911 pattern.
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State House
J. H. Morehead
Falls City
Lincoln
Will Watt
Board of Control
Martling
Otoe County
Aldrich
National TB expenditures rise to nearly 19 million in year
The fourth annual statistical statement from the National Association for the Study and Prevention of Tuberculosis shows total anti TB spending approaching 19 million dollars in the year cr. Hospital construction and treatment dominate with about 16.8 million, up nearly 5 million from 1911.
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United States
National Association For the Study and Prevention of
Why He Changed Hie Ming and Humorous Vignettes
A collection of brief 19th century clippings. Sullivan boxing tale ends with a pupil changing plans to train a rival. A doctor visit joke follows about sleep and insomnia. A Rosewater toddler tale questions bath time and a bathing father. Light humor closes with a quip about memory of a proposal.
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John “L. Sullivan
Sullivan
Pittsburg
Balkan peace conference faces possible collapse in London
Diplomats in London push for a Balkan settlement as fears grow the peace conference will fail and allies may resume hostilities. If Arianople falls soon or events shift unexpectedly, delegates may depart England within days. Federal prisoners at Leavenworth seek parole with 150 inmates applying at the quarterly parole board session.
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London
England
Eas
Federal Board of Paroles
Immigrant Literacy Test Advances in Congress
Conferees from both chambers reach a report on immigration literacy tests. The measure would require reading ability for admission and keep out many undesirable classes, while those admitted are expected to become more stable citizens.
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Congress
Washington
Houses
House
Senate
Roumania Delivers Ultimatum Demands Frontiers
Roumania has practically delivered an ultimatum to Bulgaria demanding cessation of Siberia and the northern frontier line to Kavarna on the Black Sea. Bucharest dispatch says Roumania will mobilize her army if Bulgaria refuses immediate satisfaction on frontier rectification.
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Roumania
London
Bulgaria
Siberia
Kavarna
Black Sea
Bucharest
Prohibition Party May Rename at National Conference
Indianapolis hosts a national party conference this week to decide whether to change the party name. Leaders favor the shift arguing the term prohibition omits the broader progressive aims the party now champions. Also noted is an item about Warden Melick receiving a silver service and a Republican elector, Margaret Jane Wiebster, tied to Lincoln era law partners.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Prohibition Party
Collision of Ill Mannered Men and Fire Hydrant Affair
Fragmentary OCR describes a street collision involving ill mannered men and a fire hydrant. The narrator recalls arriving at the hydrant scene and a man who was run into or injured, limp and displeased, with unclear surrounding details.
No Money No Marriage Warns About Fortune Teller
A fragment quotes a Washington Herald tease about a fortune teller predicting marriage and a large inheritance, with a blunt reply that the teller gave no fortune. The dialogue omits reliable guidance and implies caution in placing belief in prophecies.
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Washington Herald
Interesting Noise Dismissed as Pin Incident
A quirky exchange between a pedestrian and a policeman explains a loud noise as caused by a one cent safety pin sticking into a three million dollar baby. The text includes garbled places and names.
Proper Reeetive and the Emergency Cookoff Exchange
A garbled dialogue features a quip about salvaging one’s look after a tilt with a beauty doctor and a Mrs. Winslow’s Geething Syrup for Children mock advertisement claims. The text ends with a joke about cooking on a gas stove during an emergency.
Bashful Mam Drills Sweep Talk With Mrs Jones
Fragmentary dialogue shows a bashful young man and Mrs Jones discussing walking and sweeping as a test of wit and social ease in a domestic vignette. The exchange hints at household roles and conversation as social currency in a quaint setting.
It Takes a Good Pugihet or a Poor Minister
The fragment suggests a saying about leadership and influence, noting that both a good pugihet or a poor minister can soothe a servant into sleep. The text lacks clear context or concrete events for fuller reporting.
Conctipation and Biliousness Mentioned in Medical Note
An unclear historical fragment lists ailments such as constipation biliousness sick headache jaundice liver spots and gall stones. The text suggests a remedy using tonitives though specifics are missing and context is limited.
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Archbald
Parcels Post For
Canada
Parcel Post For
Governor—Board of Cen
William H. Smith
Seward Independent Democrat
Jimmy
Rosewater
Victor Rosewater
Mrs. Rosewater
Federal
Leavenworth
Utah
Hadley
Ways and Means Committee
Rocky Mountains
Joplin Fields
American Screw Company
Lancaster
8. M. Melick
Teitiers
S. Mt. Mt
Garet Jane Wiebster
Repubican
Weehington
Sera Joven
Ceres
Byntona
Snce Sola
Karasalee
Otmeted
LeRoy
MT. Ade
Tonstives Co
Baffaia, N. Y
Jens Ail Orpens
Armens Odom Tens
Cary
Maine
Lydia E Pickham
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