Congress Debates Judge Retirement and Pay Increase
Rep De Armond proposes a bill allowing the president with senate consent to retire a federal judge to promote public welfare and fill the vacancy. The House votes to raise congressmen salaries to 7500 dollars annually. Roosevelt seeks stronger ICC powers to address car shortage emergencies. Blackburn amendment to Foraker Brownsville resolution defeated by Republican senators. Crane mobilizes opposition.
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Congressional News
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Missouri
House
United States
Senate
House of Representatives
Congress
Roosevelt
Interstate Commerce Commission
Blackburn
Foraker
Brownsville
Crane
Earthquake and Fire Ravage Kingston Jamaica
An earthquake followed by fire destroyed Kingston Jamaica, killing Sir James Fergusson and 40 soldiers among many dead. Thousands reportedly perished as the harbor sank and lighthouses disappeared. famine and pestilence threatened survivors. US Marines landed to secure the ruined city while relief measures moved forward.
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Paruy
Kingston
Jamaica
James Fergusson
House of Representatives
Ryans
Treasury picks Pittsburg site for new post office
The secretary of the treasury selected the corner of Fifteenth and Penn avenues in Pittsburg for the new post office site. The Ohio river valley flood was the worst in 20 years with many towns left without light or transport.
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Secretary of the Treasury
Pittsburg
Fifteenth
Penn Avenue
Ohio River Valley
Shawneetown
David P. Dyer, Jr
United States
St. Louis
Sub-Treasury
United States District Court
Federal Grand Jury
Chicago
John R. Walsh
Chicago National Bank
Smolensk
Russia
Senor Coronado
Havana
Marianao
Cuba
C. H. Grubb
Macon
P. B. Robinson
Cameron
Burlington Way
Wola
Grubb
Idaho House
Wiscon State Assembly
Democratic
General Assembly of
North Carolina
F. M. Gimmons
Bamar
Leyte
Philippines
Francisco
George Poole
Taunton
Maes
Or Taunton Silver Company
Howard M. Podle
James Wilson
First’ National Bank of Tract
Cooksville
Wis
Northwestern Lumbermen's Association
Ralph Burnside
Oskaloosa
California tunnel collapse follows Santa Fe torch incident
A thousand feet of the Franklin tunnel on the Santa Fe line in California caved after timbers burned from sparks from a locomotive. The incident coincides with reports of wrecks and fires across the country, including a Hutchinson Kansas derailment with fatalities and injuries.
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Chicago Limited
Hutchinson
Kan
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Yokosuka
Great Northern Railway
Nebraska Senate
Southern Cotton Association
Roosevelt
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Chicago
Bank
Midville
C. W. Powers
Barstow
Cal
Alec Ballance
Pearl
Barton
Harvie Jordan
Southern Atlantic Car and Manufacturing Company
Savannah
Philippines
Standard Oil Company
Philippine Islands
MacAndrews & Forbes Company
New York
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Baltimore
Hough
United States
Great Northern
St. Paul
Minn
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Southern Pacific
Santa Cruz County
Arizona
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Industrial School For Girls
Peoria
Albert B. Cummins
Iowa
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Coptic
Orient
China
John Winans
Janesville
Wis
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Standard Glass Company
Pottsville
Philadelphia
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Jackson
Hearst
Convention
United Mine Workers
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Department of Labor
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Turkey
McCormick
France
Imperial Order of
Nichan Cherakat
Safford
Aziz
William Williams
United Mine Workers of America
Indianapolis
Mitchell
Findlay C
Rockefellers
Nebraska
Norris Brown
United States Senate
Colorado Senate
Simon Guggenheim
Powder car explosion destroys Big Four train in Indiana
A powder car explosion near Sandford, Indiana, destroyed passenger train No. 3. At least 27 dead and 35 injured as the wreck and fire spread, with victims, distraught witnesses, and hospitals in Terre Haute and Paris reporting casualties.
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Ind
Big Four
Sandford
Here
Paris
William Thompson
William Davis
Vermillion
J. W. Sutherland
Till
John Franklin
Ashmore
A. D. Hector
Elbridge
Ill
Charles Gosnell
Noah Wolf
Clark Steel
A. A. Hicks
Dr. Haslet
Grand View
Frank Fielder
Findlay
Mary Earhart
H. B. Lakely
John A. Bowen
James Lenton
Kiever
Hilar Southcott
A. Kuykendall
Seitz Wolf
Twin appendices found in Mrs White during surgery
In Des Moines at Methodist hospital surgeons discovered two appendices diseased by gangrene lying side by side inside 23 year old Mrs Ralph White. The four inch long second appendix was removed along with the diseased tissue and the patient has recovered. Doctors vow this rare double organ occurrence is a medical first and consider preserving the specimen for study.
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Des Moines
Ralph White
Methodist Hospital
Mysterious Beaths In Calgary Tannery Family
Calgary Alberta January 21 A deadly incident wipes out the Dardinia tannery family. Ferdinand and Mrs Pordinand are dead, two young sons died from cold after gas may have suffocated them, a newborn infant is found dead. Authorities suggest coal gas poisoning and freezing as likely causes.
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Calgary
Alberta
Edward Dardinia
Ferdinand
Det
Sunday Morning Dan Mirrors Daniel in Church Tale
Willie and his dog Dan attend a church service from a neighborly home next door. Dan wakes with a barked answer to the ministers call Daniel, then returns to Willie in the vestry as the preacher finishes. The minister resolves to tie up the dog if he preaches on Daniel again.
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Willie
Dan
Daniel
Testimony From the Inside on Santa Claus Belief
Rufus L Griswold Cleveland educator argues children should not be lied to about Santa Claus. He recalls a trial about a lunatic asylum inmate who claimed to be Santa Claus and was deemed insane by a witness.
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Rufus L. Griswold
Cleveland
Santa Claus
Boa Constrictor Escapes and Swallows Cat at Stratford
A traveling menagerie caretaker reported a boa constrictor missing from its tank at Stratford. After two hours the reptile was found inside a cinematograph box, resisting returns to its cage. It had swallowed a cat during its wanderings and finally yielded to the snake charmer keeper.
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Stratford
England
Peruna Named Household Friend in Over a Million Homes
Peruna is advertised as a trusted remedy now in more than a million homes and growing daily. The text touts it as a universal cure for catarrhal diseases of the head throat lungs stomach kidneys bladder and female organs. It invites readers to ask their druggist for a free Peruna Almanac for 1907.
Deacon Allen Sheldon Remembered In Humble Tales
A Basic Herald writer recalls Deacon Allen Sheldon, recently deceased, as a man of respect and engaging stories. A childhood town meeting tale shows a squeaky voiced moderator moving to remove a church sound board. The piece closes with a George Sand quotation on generosity and character.
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Allen Sheldon
Basic Herald
Allen
Flagg
Pink Pills Claim Cure For Grip After Blood Decline
Mrs. Jennie Cowan of West Bay City credits Dr Williams Pink Pills with reversing post grip blood decline. She describes severe illness after a cold, including weakness and heart flutter, and says the medicine rebuilt her health and now keeps her well. The ad touts pills as curing blood deficiencies.
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Dr. Williams
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