Venezuela Crisis Dominates Washington Talks As Arbitration Fades
Washington reports a strong Venezuelan ultimatum and widespread calls for South American unity. England and Germany show indifference to arbitration, while the United States declines to guarantee Castro pledges. General Hernandez arrives in Guayra rallying support before Caracas.
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Washington
Tuly
England
Germany
Italy
Toth
Castro
United States
Hernandez
Guayra
Caracas
Senate
Venezuela
Rail upgrades loom on Santa Fe line Chicago to Albuquer que
Wopeka Oct 22 Santa Fe management plans to replace all light rails with 75 pound rails. Next year 25 miles of new rail will be laid between Chicago and Albuquerque. Pacific coast line to receive similar treatment to reduce wrecks.
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Chicago
Albuquiergar
Pacific Coast
Crane company gifts $135000 to Chicago workers for Christmas
Four thousand Crane company employees at the main factory and five West Side branches receive an outright Christmas gift of 135000 to be divided pro rata. Each worker gains six percent of annual wages, with longer-tenured staff typically receiving 5 percent for the year.
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Chicago
Hus
Law dispute over council payment to city attorney
Ed Putnam sued Mayor Caton City Attorney Jolson and six councilmen for 400 dollars claimed as an unlawful appropriation for prosecuting last summer. The case was dismissed as to the mayor and councilmen but against Jolson. Jolson granted a new trial and will appeal to the supreme court. The district court ruled the council lacked authority to pay without an ordinance, but recovery rests against Jolson.
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Winfield
Ed Putnam
Caton
Dohnson
Johnson
Jolson
Italian ambassador assures Hay on Monroe doctrine
Washington reports the Italian ambassador pledged to act strictly by President Roosevelt's Monroe doctrine. Officials deem comforting that Britain seems ready to accept the state department's limits on a "peaceful blockade" and to avoid interfering with neutral merchant shipping unless it aids the Venezuelan government.
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Washington
Hay
Roosevelt
Great Britain
State Department
Supreme court rules building for Sunday school not tax exempt
In Springfield on December 20 the supreme court, in an opinion by Justice Boggs, held that a building used solely for Sunday school is not exempt from taxation. The court noted a clear distinction between public worship and religious education and said only property used exclusively for public worship is tax exempt.
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Springfield, Ill
Supreme Court
Boggs
Silk Transit Through Ogdensburg to New York
Japan ese raw silk valued at 1 000 000 was moved to Ogdensburg N Y from Canada and sent to New York by rail and steamship via Vancouver. Within six weeks thirty eight war orders valued near 9 000 000 have passed through for New York over the same route.
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Ogdenburg
N. Y
New York Central Railroad
Canada
New York
Japan
Vancouver
Preauot
Freight Slip Wrecked at Ching Basin Harbor
New Freight Slip Wrecked in San Pranvisto harbor as hundred tons shift behind a mud foundation seawall. Damage not yet estimated. Previous similar accident cost about $60,000.
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San Pranvisto
Des
Santa Fe Railroad Company
Ching Basin
Hamburg Breast Tea and Drops Sold for Cough Cure
Acurate old time remedy advertisement touts Dr August Koenigs Hamburg Breast Tea and Drops for chest coughs, alongside St Jacobs Oil and Defiance Starch. It urges open air living, cold sponge baths, and facial tonics while warning cures depend on lung condition.
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August Koenig
Hamburg
St Jacobs
Ten Wheel Engine Emerges in 1846 Duel for Freight War
The tenwheel engine, long favored in nineteenth century freight wars, reappears in 1846, produced by Septimus Norris and Jade Branch. A note on armaments cites Europe’s peace-time outlay at one thousand million dollars annually, stacked into a 275-foot-high pile of dollar bills, equaling over fifty-two miles in height if laid end to end.
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Warvine
Septimus Norris
Jade Branch
Europe
Testing Vitality of Bacilli From Camp Thomas Site
A bacteriologic test of earth specimens from Camp Thomas at Chickamauga investigates whether the typhoid bacilli causing the recent outbreak are still alive since the Spanish American War epidemic.
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Camp Thomas
Chickamauga
Nervous People Newspaper Proposal In Austria
In Austria there is talk of starting a newspaper aimed at nervous readers. It would treat catastrophe reports in a soothing style and could color journalism with a gray or yellow tone depending on the approach.
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Austria
Rich Unlettered Woman Left $200000 Estate
Maria Schemmer a St. Louis woman who could not read or write died recently leaving an estate valued at 200000 dollars. Her principal heirs are William H Ulrich residing near Racine Wisconsin and Edward W Meyer of St Louis. Miss Schemmer signed her will with an X but it was duly attested and admitted to probate without question.
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Maria Schemmer
St. Louis
William H. Ulrich
Nea Racine
Wis
Edward W. Meyer
Miss Schemmer
Keeping Up War's Memories at Spion Kop Hotel Site
Ladysmith plans a regular coach service to Splon Kop with a route to Threefree Hill. After reaching the fatal summit, passengers will find refreshment and lodging at a Spion Kop Hotel to be built forthwith, echoing Brussels 13 for Waterloo in historic scenes.
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Ladysmith
Brussels
Waterloo
Splon Kop
Spion Kop
Threefree Hill
State Railroads Unprofitable in Norway
Norway's government railways are financially successful overall, but 3 of 11 routes pay no dividend. The eight profitable roads show last year’s dividends from 0.7 to 2.7 percent, while Bergen-Vos, Stavanger Eger sund, and Grundseth-Aamodt provided no dividend for the current or previous year.
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Norway
Bergen-Vos
Stavanger Egersund
Grundseth-Aamodt
Peruna Ad Endorsed by U S Minister to England
In a letter from 1006 F Street Northwest Louis E Johnson son of the late Roverdy Johnson United States Senator and Attorney General praises Peruna for catarrh relief. The ad extols Portna to reach roots of catarrh with radical cure and invites readers to request Dr Hartman s book and petition his free medical guidance.
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Louis EB. Johnson
Roverdy Johnson
United States
Maryland
Alo
President Johnson
England
F. Street
N. W
Johnson
Louis E. Johnson
Portna
Hartman
Peruna Deng Manufacturing
Olumbus
Ohio
Fragmented OCR tastes from a 19th century paper
A garbled OCR snippet mentions real estate values in cities and a front foot worth more than a back yard, references to Krupp cannons and Turkish affairs, a censoring press in Turkey, and a whimsical line about a family member denying the door as chores are done, all from a Globe-like source.
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