Reading of a historic rail timetable fragment
The notice shows a Go ing South schedule for a Ki 16 Mail and Express train daily except Sunday at 10 35 a m and an Accommodation service at 6 00 a m on line 502 with connections at Sioux Valley and Redfield for eastbound travel.
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Ears — Express
Ota
Dakota Paseirs
Faaly Oneen
Po. B
Mail and Express
Slyanomet Gerace Eer
Sioux Valier
Deaciae
Redfield F
Redfield
White House summons GOP leaders for tariff talks in January conference
President Roosevelt hosts Speaker Cannon and top Republicans including Aldrich Allison Spooner Platt and others to discuss pending tariff legislation and broader legislative questions. Leaders seek unity while postponing tariff action to next fall unless an extraordinary session is called.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Cannon
Aldrich
Rhode Island
Allison
Iowa
Spooner
Wisconsin
Platt
Connecticut
Payne
New York
Dalzell
Pennsylvania
Tawney
Minnesota
Grosvenor
Ohio
Senate
House
Cullom
Illinois
Beveridge
Indiana
Nelson
Lodge
Massachusetts
Man Accused of Threatening Hungarian Premier
Washington report says Ignas Wenzler of Lebanon Pennsylvania, a mill laborer, was arrested on a $3000 bond for attempting to blackmail and threaten Count von Tisza the Hungarian premier. Wenzler allegedly wrote to the count under fictitious names claiming a relative’s need and demanding $2000 or a Black Hand fatal act before Christmas. Chief Wilkie of the secret service received the telegram and agents were assigned to the case.
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Washington
Wilkie
Secret Service
Lebanon
Ignas Wenzler
Count von Tisza
Hungary
Wenzler
Black Hand
Budapest
State Department
Hope For His Recovery Bishop Spalding
In Peoria Illinois on January 9 the stroke stricken Bishop Spalding remains unchanged though after the initial effects he showed some rally and a quiet night. His attending brother Dr L Spalding reports no relatives summoned as friends deem his condition not yet serious. Close friends attribute the crisis to overwork and worry linked to the Marquis de Monstiers Merinville's renunciation of the Catholic church.
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Peoria
Ill
Spalding
L. Spalding
Marquise de Monstiers-Merinville
Miss May
Caldwel
Railroads Oppose Pooling and Rebates
Roswell Miller chair of the Chicago Milwaukee and St. Paul board says he opposes railroad pooling and favors abolishing rebates. He asserts railroads would welcome strict enforcement of laws and a system to end pooling.
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St. Paul
New York
Roswell Miller
Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul Railroad Company
Hidden Treasure Recovered in Bronx Mansion Vault Tale
In New York a vault under the Theodore M. Macy mansion site yielded a buried chest said to hold enough cash to fund a large Bronx apartment house. The chest, moved to the current owner's home, adds to stories of sudden wealth from the old estate that once stood at Longwood and Prospect avenues.
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New York
Bronx
Theodore M. Macy Massion
Macy
Longwood
Prospect Avenues
Theodore M. Macy
Imposing Naval Spectacle at Fort Monroe Review
Secretary Morton and Admiral Dewey led a grand inspection of the Atlantic fleet at Hampton Roads. The Dolphin positioned off the Capes as the line of battleships including Kearsarge Kentucky Illinois Alabama Missouri Iowa moved in formation. Coast squadron ships Texas Florida Nevada Arkansas followed, with Newark steering the Caribbean squadron consisting of Newark Tacoma and Denver.
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Fort Monroe
Caribbean
Morton
Dewey
Hampton Roads
Capes
Kearsarge
Barker
Kentucky
Ilineis
Alabama
Missouri
Iowa
Texas
Sands
Florida
Nevada
Arkansas
Newark
Sigsbee
Tacoma
Denver
Loeser Questions Chadwick Estate Assets Value
Nathan Loeser of Cleveland, assistant receiver for Mrs. Chadwick’s estate, travels from New York to Buffalo expressing concern that assets are overstated. He cites property, real estate mortgage, and chattel mortgage totals and notes a $5,000,000 Carnegie signature on a disputed note.
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Buffalo
Nathan Loeser
Cleveland
Chadwick
New York
Loeser
Michigan lumbering outlook brightens with logs supply
Bay City Michigan January 10 Lumbering operations in Michigan show improvement over 1904. Eastern Michigan logging conditions are good as markets strengthen and lumber demand rises. Dry fall and adequate snow aid hauling, with mills likely to access over 500000000 feet of logs in the coming year.
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Bay City
Mich
Michigan
Eastern Michigan
Work Resumed at Illinois Steel Company Mills
The Illinois Steel company at South Chicago reopened, employing about two thousand idle workers after a four week shutdown. Officials denied wage cuts of 20 to 45 percent, asserting wages and conditions remain as before.
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Illinois Steel Company
Chicago
South Chicago
Weather and crop damage report from West Virginia town
A brief rural note reports winter weather in Wacenas West Virginia on January 10. A frost and freeze affect crops with 20 to 30 inches of snow or frost damage already observed, hindering communication and farm activities.
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Wacenas
W.va
Smallpox outbreak reported on Chippewa reservation
Indian Agent Campbell reports to the commissioner of Indian affairs that smallpox has broken out on a Chippewa reservation near Ashland Wisconsin. Caseload details and impacted communities are to be determined as health authorities respond.
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Weehington
Cambell
Ashland
Wis
Commissioner of Indian
Indies
Immerae Fox R
German Southwest Africa Fights Halt Witbois Clash
Lieutenant General von Trotha reports Major Meisler fought January 2 to 4 with about 1000 Witbois at Grossnabas in German Southwest Africa. After a fifty hour engagement German forces occupied Grossnab as losses remain unascertained.
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Berlin
von Trotha
German Southwest Africa
Meisler
Grossnabas
General Strike Probable as German Miners Reported
Berlin reports meetings of representatives from about 200000 miners in the Rhenish Westphalian coal syndicate districts over a proposed change in how work hours are measured. Many miners cite unhealthy diggings and rising disease, with 55 percent ill, and one mine already saw a 250 man stoppage.
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Berlin
Paasche Says War Was Narrowly Averted By Diplomacy
Berlin reports the National Liberal leader Dr Paasche telling Creuznach crowds that Germany and Britain were near war last week due to bellicose German warnings. He credited diplomacy with averting the crisis though it was hard. He said Chancellor von Buelow promised to act on the American wine duty dispute despite German friction with the United States.
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Berlin
Dr. Paasche
Creuzenach
Germany
Great Britain
German Foreign Office
Army and Navy
Paasche
von Buelow
Judge Abrogates Rule on Viewing Mrs Chadwick in Jail
Judge Wing of the U S district court lifts his order restricting access to Mrs Chadwick in the county jail. He cites conflict with sheriff rules and Ohio statutes. The sheriff gains sole access authority while she remains confined, with federal officials possibly seeking further action.
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Cleveland
Wing
United States District Court
Chadwick
United States
Court of Common Pleas
Ohio
Othe
Shaw Favors Free Seed
Secretary of the Treasury Shaw will propose to Congress that seed wheat from Canada be admitted free of duty. He notes grass seeds are duty free but grain is not and intends a measure to authorize refunds of duties on wheat imported for seed.
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Washington
Secretary of the Treasury
Shaw
Congress
Canada
Minnesota
Manitoba
Canhon
Senate
Department
Harlen pupil dies after fall during school acrobatics
Henry Talbott sixteen was performing in a Harlem public school show for students when he lost his grip on a flying ring and fell to the floor breaking his neck. The incident occurred during an exhibit for the children including pupils from other classes.
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New York
Harlem
Henry Talbott
Brooklyn trolley wreck injures sixteen Royal Arcanum members
A Brooklyn Rapid Transit trolley carrying forty Adirondack council members of the Royal Arcanum jumped a track on Douglass street and tipped on its side. Sixteen were injured, none fatally, with several pinned under wreckage before rescuers freed them and transported others to hospitals.
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New York
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company
Adirondack Council
Royal Arcanum
Douglass Street
Brooklyn
Yellow fever aboard Dora from Colon to Vera Cruz
Illness on the steamship Dora from Colon and Port Limon to Vera Cruz was diagnosed as yellow fever. With 800 passengers aboard and 200 bound for Cuba, three Cubans, including two women, fell ill and the ship was quarantined. One man died while two women faced critical cases. authorities reported no immediate fear of wider spread.
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New York
Dora
Colon
Panama
Port Limon
Costa Rica
Vera Cruz
Mex
The
Herald
Havana
Cuba
Death by Own Hand Of Ex Mayor Vilas Of Wisconsin
Ex mayor Joseph Vilas of Manitowoc aged seventy three died by his own hand firing a bullet through his brain. The body was found in bed hours after the act. He had long suffered from incurable diseases and this was given as the reason. Vilas was a well known state figure who served in the state senate and as Civil War draft commissioner.
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Manitowoc
Wis
Joseph Vilas
Vilas
State Senate
Husband Under Arrest in Peoria Hair Ribbon Murder
Otis Botts was arrested at William Trautmann's home in Peoria after his wife was found strangled with a hair ribbon Friday. Botts appeared collapsed and denied knowing anything about the murder.
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Peoria
Ill
Otis Botts
William Trautmann
Botts
Lamp Explosion Destroys Home. Child Perishes
In Wilkesbarre Pennsylvania on January 9 a lamp exploded at the Peter Smith residence in Brodericks. The dwelling and a neighboring house were reduced to ashes. Bertha Smith age five was burned to death and Mrs. Jacob Fritz sustained probable fatal injuries after jumping from a window.
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Wilkesbarre
Peter Smith
Brodericks
Bertha Smith
Jacob Fritz
Result of family quarrel ends in triple homicide in Joliet
In Joliet the Higginbotham farm tragedy unfolds after a family quarrel. William Rapson fatally shoots his son Herbert, then calls Herbert's wife to the barn where she is shot dead, and the elder man then dies by self-inflicted or subsequent gunfire.
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Joliet
Lit
William Rapson
Higginbotham Farm
Herbert
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