Global Briefs and Notable Events in Early 20th Century
Summary of diverse items including Premier Asquith proposing shorter parliaments in March by resolution. a duel in Nice between Dr Doyen and Capt Van Langendonck. Vesuvius eruptions with lava and gas. a London banquet for Arles W Fairbanks led by Earl of Salisbury. antitrust actions pursued by Taft and Wickersham. Dedeff barons extradition bill. railroad revenue for 1903. Panama President Mendoza inaugurated. Buffalo brewery wage increases. 1810 11 army estimates. record steerage arrivals to the U S. a Kansas Bank of Edna robbery with a casualty.
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Asquith
House of Commons
House of Lords
Doyden
van Langendonck
Nice
France
London
Arles W. Fairbanks
Pilgrim Society
Earl of Salsbury
Bunker Hill
Mr. Fairbanks
House
Dill
Ee SR
Taf
Wickersham
Henry
Department of Justice
Garren
Deef Trust
Burkett
Mabray
Kansas
Wichita
Kansas State Editorial Association
Sons and Daughters of Iowa and Friends
Iowa Society of New York
Hotel Astor
Buffalo
Mendoza
Panama
Obaldia
Southampton
United States
Edma
Spring Outlook Mixed as Trade Speech Highlights Reforms
The article notes mixed trade prospects with a spring outlook, a sharp House committee change to rail bill, and Taft's uncertain program. It highlights Illinois Centre vice president W L Parks, Clark’s sixtieth birthday, severe winter impairing railroad motive power, and stalled postal savings bills. It mentions a sensational arrest at John P. Cudahy’s Kansas City home, Belle Fourche irrigation lands opening, funeral of Senator Platt delaying Express service, two women and child found frozen in South Dakota, rising meat prices, Red Oak federal building funding, polar exploration plans, Caruso facing anxiety, near beer law interpretations in Nebraska, Ward injury in LA, and Wellington avalanche victims. It ends with Taft tied to Wade Ellis’s Ohio GOP chair selection.
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House Committee
W. L. Parks
Union Pacific
Illinois Centre
Taft
Champ Clark
House of Representatives
Postal Savings Bank
House
John P. Cudahy
Kansas City
Belle Fourche
South Dakota
Senator Platt
New York
United States Express Office
Smith
Iowa
Red Oak
German Geographical Society
United States
Great Britain
Antarctic
Enrico Caruso
Nebraska
Supreme Court
Montgomery Ward
Chicago
Los Angeles
Wellington
Mangp Bose
Senate examines Missouri river improvements and patent court bill
The Senate Commerce Committee questioned Colonel William H. Bixby on Missouri river projects from Sioux City to St Louis while a patent court bill creating five justices moves forward. January coal and coke shipments rise. a $150000 embassy building cap is set. two Chippewa chiefs from Orr Minnesota die in a lodging gas incident. The agricultural bill totals 3.5 million dollars as Congress sessions run three to five hours.
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William H. Bixby
Mississippi River Commission
Senate Committee On Commerce
Sioux City
St. Louis
Kansas City
St Louis
Department of Commerce and Labor
Court of Patents
Senate
United States Supreme Court
Department of Justice
Pierre Garven
Hudson County
New Jersey
Beef Trust
Washington
Lowden
Foreign Affairs Committee
Orr, Minn
Congress
Bois Forte Indian Reservation
House
Persona x Senator Platt of New York dies of diabetes
Philadelphia strikers and police estimates diverge on how many men are on strike, reflecting conflicting counts and tensions between labor and law enforcement.
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Platt
New York
Philadelphia
Police Department
Government certificates of indebtedness tied to irrigation projects
Representative Smith told the house ways and means committee that thousands of dollars in government certificates of indebtedness issued for irrigation projects were circulating in the west at 50 cents on the dollar. Ranchers held the paper as pay for work, but with projects unfinished they discounted it to buy necessities. He urged action on a bill authorizing 30 million dollars in government certificates to complete the irrigation work. Other representatives supported the bill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Smith
House Wars and Means Committee
West
Morgan
Alabama
Kinkaid
Nebraska
Strike of Firemen Called on Western Railroads
At midnight Monday W S Carter president of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen announced a strike of 25 000 men on western railroads. The decision was reached by forty three western representatives and the exact quitting hour would be set Tuesday and communicated by telegraph to all members from Chicago to the Pacific coast.
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Chicago
W. S. Carter
The
Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
Western Railroads
Pacific Coast
Conditions Believed Improving in Wellington Avalanche
The rotary hit by an avalanche Sunday was not swept into the canyon but remained on the track under twenty feet of snow, trees, and rocks and was dug out Monday. Weather warmed, slides possible, gray granite visible, snow cover thinned ten feet. Seventy-three identified and nine unidentified bodies were recovered in the death ravine. twelve to fifteen victims, mostly laborers, still believed buried.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Wellington
Wash
May Call it Off in Philadelphia Transit Dispute
Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company moves toward ending the ten day sympathetic streetcar strike by meeting Monday with W D Mahone head of the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employes. President Kruger of the transit firm held the first direct talks with a national official of the union, prompted by external influence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Philadelphia Rapid Transit Company
Kruger
Rapid Transit
W. D. Mahone
Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway
Flood Wrecks Steamer Expansion and Halts Traffic
An ice gorge on the Missouri River at Bismarck North Dakota wrecked the steamer Expansion and caused extensive damage along the levee. The west approach to the Northern Pacific railroad bridge is submerged five feet for about two miles and two coast trains are held at Mandan. The Mandan business district is underwater.
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Bismark
N. D
Missouri River
Northern Pacific Railroad
Mandan
Getting Around a Strike in St Louis Painters
In St Louis the master painters association discharged over 1500 workers who refused to stay at 60 cents per hour to avert a citywide strike. Painters demand 55 cents per hour and are pressing for higher wages.
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St. Louis
Master Painters’ Association
Prices Still Climbing at Lane Yards and South St. Joseph Market
Cleveland hog buyers quoted 13.06 per hundred pounds at lane yards on Monday. St. Joseph market showed top hog price reported at the South St. Joseph market.
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Cleveland
St. Joseph
South St. Joseph
Nebraska Brief: Wide-Ranging Countryside News
Shipping alfalfa to St Louis and Kansas City. Albion religious meetings meet little outside church members. Fremont ministerial union plans Billy Sunday series. Custer County records lost in courthouse fire and building proposed. Henry P D Weller former legislator dies. Platte River ice breaks bridge near Fremont likely replacement. Waller of Union Pacific promoted to vice president of Illinois Central. Mrs Mederna near Ankinsid attempts suicide over eyesight. Boy hunter William Konzack fatally shot after gun hammer caught in fence. Omaha seeks water expert as typhoid fever rises. Horse theft near Auburn leads to arrest. Seward County grand jury condemns unsanitary jail conditions. Beatrice horses injured in train collision. one killed. Burlington engineer William Gilmore dies from wreck injuries. Chinch bugs threaten crops in Jefferson County. Merrick County land sells at $200/acre for Bascombe tract. T R Hord gifts aid Nebraska Central College agriculture school. Jefferson County recorder sees record day. $90,000 farm mortgages filed. Ne braska penitentiary inmates show improving outlook. Red Cloud set to join Nebraska State League with pledged support.
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Kearney
St. Louis
Kansas City
Io Albion
Ministerial Union of
Fremont
Billy” Sunday Ho
Custer County
Henry PD. Weller
Richardham County
Platte
W. L. Park
Union Pacific
Ilinois Central
R. G. Rawn
John Mederna
W. H. Jones
Plattsmouth
Seward County
FP. A. Claussen
Beatrice
Rock Island
William H. Gilmore
Burlington
Nebraska City
West
Lebanon
N. H
Johnson County
Merrick County
Bascombe
Old Fair Grounds
T. R. Hord
Nebraska Central College
Central City
Quaker Institution of
Tearning
League
Cuticura Cream Heals Severe Infant Eczema
A two month old baby suffered widespread eczema with raw skin and heavy scalp scab. After trying multiple doctors, a household use of Cuticura Soap Ointment and Resolvent produced new skin within days. The mother credits rapid improvement to Cuticura products and urges others to consider them.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joseph Rosemann
St. John's Place
Ridgewood Heights
Divorce Talk Turns on a Misdeal in Courtroom Chat
A woman who speaks for many notes a divorce is planned. A rude man recalls the husband asked for the hand of the wife only to face a misdeal. The exchange frames a sharp social moment over marriage and conflict.
Nature's NR tablets claim varied health benefits
An old advertisement touts Nature's NR tablets from The A. H. Lewis Medicine Co of St. Louis. It promises mood and liver support, bowel regularity, and relief from biliousness and rheumatism while claiming easy action and superior liver effects.
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A. H. Lewis Medicine Co
Morbid View of Privileges Cited by Sir Walter Scott
A quotation from Sir Walter Scott remarks that many cares are a morbid lens on privileges, suggesting a reflection on perspective and value.
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Sir Walter Scott
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Diller
News OF the
Texas
Butter Trust
Nebraskan Brief
Varieve
Jinks
Pripepsy
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