Busse Wins Chicago Mayoral Race In Bitter Traction Fight
Frederick A. Busse defeats Edward F. Dunne for Chicago mayor by a large plurality amid a fierce campaign over street car reforms. Voter totals show a shift toward municipal ownership and a 40 thousand vote margin. The battle featured sharp charges and heated rhetoric from both parties.
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Chicago
Frederick A. Busse
Edward F. Dunne
Dunne
Republican Party
John M. Harlan
Captain Swift Guilty of Grounding Charges
Captain William Swift, commander of the battleship Connecticut, found guilty of inattention and neglect of duty by a Norfolk court martial after the January 13 grounding near Culebra. The Navy Department approved a nine month suspension and loss of three numbers, short of the court's recommended year and a half and five numbers.
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William Swift
Connecticut
Culebra
P. 1
Norfolk
Navy Department
Newberry
Swift
Japanese Warships Sail to Hampton Roads
Dispatch from Perim reports two Japanese cruisers Chitose and Esukuba bound for Hampton Roads, Va., sailing from Yokohama February 28 under Vice Admiral Ikuin. The vessels were sighted en route in Bab-el-Mandeb strait.
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Hampton Roads
Perim
Bab-El-Mandeb
Red Sea
Aden
Chitose
Esukuba
Yokohama
Ikuin
Congressmen Back Panama Canal Eight Year Plan
Representative Edgar C. Ellis of Kansas City said after a congressional trip to Panama that ships would pass the canal in eight years. He estimated a cost of 500 million dollars and asserted the project should be built by the government rather than by contract, with the army in charge.
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Edgar C. Ellis
Kansas City
Congress
Isthmus
Panama
Panama Canal
Figures of a Crop in Western Canada
Benito Manitoba November 26 1906 a Western Canada homesteader recounts progress from a $10 entry fee to $4530.75 in receipts for 1906 with 80 acres in crop including 5 in wheat 20 in oats yielding 850 and 355 bushels respectively. He notes new railway access and urges contacting a government agent for low homestead rates.
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Western
Canada
Ghosts Haunt Kirkwall St Magnus Cathedral Pranks
In Kirkwall Orkney the bellringer's wife reports a spectral figure snatching her hands from the curfew rope at St Magnus cathedral. By dawn 20 trees planted before the cathedral were felled overnight while many witnesses heard no sound as the police investigate the mysterious events.
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Kirkwall
Orkney
London Daily Mail
St. Magnus
Burgh
Nolice
Blood Cleansing Tonic Promised By Home Remedy
An advisement claims kidneys weaken in this season and blood poisons cause eruptions and rheumatic, nervous, and stomach troubles. It prescribes a home mixture of Fluid Extract Dandelion Compound Karyon Compound Syrup Sarsaparilla to be taken after meals and at night to restore kidney function and blood richness.
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Lydia E. Pinkham
Emma Runtzler
State St
Schenectady
N. Y
Lydia BE. Pinkham
California Fig Syrup Co
United States
Secretary of Agriculture
Washington, D. C
Photographs of Brave Men Album for Japan’s Officers
The Mikado and the crown prince of Japan are compiling photo albums of all military and naval officers killed in the war with Russia. The project honors fallen personnel from both services and preserves their memory in formal portraits.
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Mikado
Crown Prince
Japan
Russia
Court Warned and Contempt Charge in Irish Style Exchange
A prisoner defies the court with a vivid exchange about pay and authority. The dialogue blends humor and menace as the prisoner warns the justice of consequences if the verdict goes against him. The piece ends with an advertisement praising De Forte Starch for laundry stiffness.
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William
Tha
Port of Newcastle Grows as Coal Trade Expands
Newcastle in New South Wales emerges as a major port with 8 000 residents and proximity to Sydney. In the previous year 1 779 vessels entered or cleared, handling a combined tonnage of 2 768 401 while labor troubles remain the main drawback.
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New South Wales
Newcastle
Sydney
Animals With Backbones and Garfield Tea Ad
Naturalists know about roughly 156000 animal species among them about 15300 are vertebrates. Garfield Tea targets laxative needs claiming mild effective relief and liver and kidney regulation, guaranteed under the Pure Food and Drugs Law.
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Busse
Sand
Captain Swift
Ens
Belliringer
Goldsmith
Lewis
Lewis’ Factory
Ill
Emerson
Victor Hugo
Earl S. Sloan
Boston
Mass
Lincoln
Louisville, Ky
San Francisco
Cal
USA
London
England
New York, N. Y
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