Special Low Rates to Pacific Coast and West
Daily March and April from Sioux City to California Oregon Washington Idaho and Utah with through tourist sleepers via Denver Scenic Colorado and Salt Lake. Also $27.50 round trip to Big Horn Basin first and third Tuesdays in March. Open government irrigated lands for homesteading at favorable prices. Excursions by D Clem Deaver Omaha Landseekers Information Bureau. Colorado summer rates June 1 to Denver Colorado Springs Pueblo.
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Pacific Coast
Sioux City
California
Oregon
Washington
Idaho
Utah
Denver
Scenic
Colorado
Salt Lake
Seattle
Vis
Northwest Inc
Big Horn Basin
D. Clem Deaver
Landseekers Inforation Bureau
Omaha
Seattle Exposition
Yellowstone Park
Free Prescription Cures Weak Men Promised in Detroit Letter
A male health scam in a 19th or early 20th century style letter claims a doctor’s “new and convincing” prescription cures nervous debility and lack of vigor. It offers to mail a free copy in a plain sealed envelope to any man seeking a quick at home remedy, urging men to stop patent medicines.
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A. EF. Ratinson
Detroit
Mich
New Process For Wood Pulp Reveals Mass Production Promise
Minneapolis reports a major industrial breakthrough. Dr George L B Frankforter and C A Smith announce a distillation method turning waste wood and sawdust into wood pulp with by products, promising vast US output and profitable byproducts. An experimental plant will be built this summer to map large scale plant design.
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United States
Minneapolis
George LB. Frankforter
College of Chemistry
University of Minnesota
C. A. Smith
C. A. Smith Timber Company
Dr. Frankforter
Minnesota
Frankforter
Weryerhaeuser
Providence Steamer Disabled After Paddle Wheel Breaks
Newport March 29 The steamer Providence carrying about 600 school children bound for Washington from New England was disabled near Point Judith when its port paddle wheel broke. Wireless calls led to the nearby steamer Commonwealth and tug Tenser to tow Providence to Newport. All passengers were moved to a special train to New York Real Estate Basin. Washington March 30 Senator Nelson seeks to allow national banks to use real estate as loan collateral with a new bill to permit limited lending on improved farms.
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Newport
Providence
Point Judith
Washington
New England
Commonwealth
Tenser
New York
Nelson
Jenna
Cotter
Suffrage Leader Mrs. Catt Addresses German Women
Berlin reports Carrie Chapman Catt head of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance spoke to a large women’s meeting. Her visit is part of plans for a London alliance gathering next month. She notes Germany’s suffrage delay and plural support by the Social Democratic party.
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Catt
Berlin
Germany
Carrie Chapman Catt
International Woman Suffrage Filance
Nlliance
London
Ausria-Hungary
Social Democratic Party
Waives Hearing On Abduction Charge In Sharon Pa
Sharon Pennsylvania March 30 ex Judge Miller instructed attorney James A Boyle to waive a hearing on the abduction charge before Justice S B Gilbert. Boyle collapsed on arrival at Sharon station amid a cheering crowd feared vengeance but police reported no disturbance. Sheriff Chess says Boyle is nervously distraught and his nervous system is shattered. Kansas City March 30 Mrs Helen Boyle arrested at Mercer Pa for kidnapping Willie Whitla lived in Kansas City in 1907 and 1908 and was later arrested on forgery charges. she was known as Melen Parker wife of Frank A Porter who ran a restaurant on Exet Twelfth street.
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Sharon
Miller
James A1. Boyle
Willie Whills
Gilbert
Erie and Pittsburg
Boyle
Mercer Boyle
Sheriff Chess
Windlow
Kansas City
Helen Boyle
Mercer
Willie Whitla
Melen Parker
Frank A. Porter
Exet Twellh Street
Korean insurgents active in Seoul and Yanofyu province
Reports from Korea indicate rising insurgent activity with spring. District magistrates’ residences raided and government funds stolen. Insurgents overrun Yanofyu province, committing killings and pillaging while spreading terror. Japanese residency generals plan expeditions as the government moves to stamp out the rising before it grows.
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Seoul
Korea
March &J
Yanofyu
Mrs Boyle makes bold bid to flee during kidnapping case
Mrs James Boyle wife of the kidnapper of Willie Whitla made a sensational attempt to escape on a train traveling thirty miles an hour. She denied being Anna McDermott of Chicago and rejected other stories as groundless. Police restrained her as crowds gathered at each station on the Pittsburgh to Mercer leg of the journey. Both Boyle and his wife are jailed in Mercer awaiting trial likely in early May.
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Pittsburg
Attla Walle Whitla
Anna McDertoutt
Chicago
James Boyle
Whitin
Mercer
Bakerstown Hill
Valencia
William Campbell
New Chicago Firm Plans to Take Over Booth & Co
P A Valentine arrived from New York to help organize a new company with 7 million dollars in capital to acquire the business of A Booth & Co including all debts and assets. Valentine is W Vernon Booth’s brother in law and a major stockholder in the old firm which went into receivership last summer with liabilities estimated over five million dollars.
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A. Booth & Co
Chicago
P. A. Valentine
New York
Valentine
W. Vernon Booth
Eliot to Accept Ambassador Post to London
Washington reports on reliable authority that Dr. Charles W. Eliot former Harvard president will accept appointment as American ambassador to London. The decision delays naming a successor to Whitelaw Reid with a dinner planned in Eliot's honor by Washington Harvard alumni next Tuesday night.
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Washington
Charles W. Eliot
Harvard University
Pointment
London
Whitelaw Reid
London Post
Yale
United States
Harvard
Theodore Roosevelt Jr Denies Engagement
Theodore Roosevelt Jr. denied reports of an engagement to Miss Munn of Washington. He stated he had seen no such report and that any claim was unfounded. Miss Munn and her mother were guests at Farrington, Roosevelt’s aunt Mrs. Cowles’s home in Thompsonville.
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Thompsonville
Conn
Theodore Roosevelt, Jr
Munn
Washington, D.C
Farrington
Cowles
Roosevelt
Senators approve continuance in Stephenson inquiry
Madison Wis March 27 The senate has passed a resolution providing for a continuance of the investigation of United States Senator Isaac Stephenson s senatorial primary campaign and his election in joint assembly The vote stood 19 to 9 with two pallid?
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Madison
Wis
Senate
United States
Isaac Stephenson
Joint Assembly
Commerce Council Meeting With Nagel Discusses Trade Needs
Washington March 29 The first official meeting of Secretary Nagel with the national council of commerce was held in the department he heads Plans to extend the council s usefulness were discussed The council functions as a national chamber of commerce and board of trade providing information on industry needs The group includes about fifty large bodies such as the National Association of Manufacturers the American Cotton Manufacturers association and the Cattle Raisers association.
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Secretary of Commerce and Labor
Washington
Nagel
National Council of Commerce
Nogel
Council
Straus
National Chamber of Commerce
Board of Trade
National Association of Manufacturers
The
American Cotton Manufacturers’ Association
Cattle Raisers’ Association
Filipinos Oppose Payne Bill Resolution Adopted in Manila
Manila March 29 Floor Leader Quezon presented a memorial resolution in the Philippine assembly opposing the Payne bill It argues the bill would harm Filipino interests especially in economic administration and revenue and contends new taxation would be impossible The measure also endorses a 1908 resolution demanding free admission of sugar and tobacco to America and rejects free trade or imitations on Philippine products It was adopted without division.
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Manila
Quezeon
Philippine Assembly
Congress
America
Conference on Labor Legislation Set for April 10 in Chicago
Chicago march 29 discuss labor legislation will be the subject of a conference of economists educators manufacturers and labor leaders from across the nation to be held April 10 under the American Association for Labor Legislation. Government representation includes Charles P Nelli commissioner of labor and Daniel J Keefe commissioner general of immigration.
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Chicago
United States
American Association For Labor Legislation
Charles P. Nelli
Daniel J. Keefe
Immigration
Hidden treasure found linked to Hortonville store robbery
Ole Stromberg, a Green Bay and Western railway foreman in New London, recovered a purse with $2,600 in checks and notes from a pile of ties. The belongings were stolen from the Graef store in Hortonville months ago, a case long shrouded in mystery with unknown suspects.
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New London
Wia
Ole Stromberg
Green Bay and Western Railway
Graef
Hortonville
Gract
Forest Service Chief Pinchot Endorses Taft Policy
Colorado Springs March 29 Gifford Pinchot head of the United States forest service announced that President Taft fully supports the forest service policy and has authorized endorsement to be made public before a large audience.
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Colorado Springs
Colo
Giffard Pinchot
United States Forest Service
Taft
Forest Service
Mr. Pinchot
Deposit Guaranty Bill Killed in Des Moines
The Iowa House defeated the state guaranty of bank deposits bill by 50 to 44. The measure would have provided an absolute state guarantee of insured deposits.
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Des Moines
House
Inventor's aging auto airship performs birdlike stunts
Boston March 10. George A Metcalf, a retired inventor of Mainen Massachusetts, claims to have created a new airship design he calls the Aging auto. The machine purportedly can perform birdlike aerial stunts, moving up and down as well as backward and forward.
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Boston
George A. Metcalf
Mainen
Mass
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Pat Pattorag
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McCall CO
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Chapman Catt
Wille Whitis
Sharon, Pa
Yanaiyu Province
Mercer, PA
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Woomen
McDermott
Eliot
Ambassador Reid
Teddy, Jr
Commerce Council
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Gan
Ayer
J.C. Ayer
Lowell
Fass
Canada
Kansas
Western Cansada
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Penn
Hallway
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Mimler
Guawe
D.m. McLachlan
Ox Watertown
J. M. McLachlan
Watertown
A.J. Tower CO
Tower Canadian CO
Led
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FSH
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Gulf Coast
Texas
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Avery Flrat
Directta Our Land
B. Streeter Company
Dank Bidy
Minnsapolle
Minn
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W. F. R. Wehorton
Office
D. O. Root
Notre
August Tamb
Huron
South Dakota
3. S. Jones
He No
Jamer Valiay
Hntidne
Law
Mouser
Huron, South Dakota
Boroham
Trevatt Dattice
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