France and Transvaal war debate in Senate
Paris March 10 Senate discussed the foreign budget and heard Senator Getterman criticize policy citing Fortnightly Review articles on Franco German understandings. Delcasse denied such offers and defended open door in China while noting Britain Japan alliance and Franco-Russian ties shaped by czar visits and Loubet trip.
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Paris
Senate
Getterman
Germany
M. Hanotaux
M. Delcasse
Great Britain
William
Transvaal
France
St. Petersburg
Russia
Japan
China
Gotterman
Loubet
New Theory Links Food to Hay Fever Relief in Georgia Woman
A Cave Spring resident reports dramatic hay fever improvement after switching to Grape-Nuts Breakfast Food. Once frail at 90 pounds, she gained weight and avoided hay fever symptoms by September, crediting better health through diet and health laws. Poctum Co., Battle Creek, Mich.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cave Spring
Poctum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Britain on POW rules and Russia on Far East stance
Britain rejects the view that a POW may only be taken on the field of battle, while another French POW remains unexploited amid efforts for his release. Britain states camps have provisions for French requests, as a minister’s remarks are applauded and the foreign budget is adopted. In St Petersburg the Official Messenger publishes a Franco-Russian declaration and Russia reaffirms support for China and Korea, stresses maintaining the status quo, and notes Britain and Japan share aims without changing the regional balance.
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Great Britain
ST. Petersburg
China
Russia
Korea
Far East
Serouga Manchuria
Japan
Franco Russian alliance extends to eastern Asia debated
New York and Berlin dispatches note mixed reactions to the Franco Russian accord extending to the Far East. London press calls it nonmenacing while Daily Mail flags danger. Berlin reports no German invitation and says Berlin aims to stay clear of Chinese entanglements amid reaction.
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New York
Russia
France
London
The
Tribune
Far East
Daily Mall
Morning Post
Ambassadors deliver open door note on China to Hay
The Franco Russian note on China was handed to Secretary Hay by Ambassador Cambon for France and Count Cassini for Russia. Officially seen as another pledge to maintain the open door. President will study it in a memorandum before acceptance. Ambassadors met at the State Department for casual discussions.
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Washington
China
Hay
Cambon
France
Count Cassini
Russia
State Department
Street railway deal ratified and bond mortgage approved
At a special meeting of Metropolitan Street Railway stockholders the directors lease the property to Interurban Street Railway, guaranteeing 7 percent annual return. A mortgage to Morton Trust Company for 656 million in 4 percent bonds was ratified, with 90 thousand bonds reserved for refunding. Isador Wormser Jr filed suit in Supreme Court to nullify the lease, claiming it diverts the company from stockholders.
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New York
Metropolitan Street-railway Company
Morton Trust Company
Isador Wormser, Jr
Supreme Court
Wormser
Metropolitan Street Railway Company
Brooklyn Rapid Transit approves bond issue at stockholders meeting
At a Brooklyn meeting, stockholders ratified a plan to issue 150,000 dollars in bonds by a vote of 392000 to 220. The action was taken at the Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company gathering in New York on March 2.
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New York
Brooklyn Rapid Transit Company
Ryan
Roosevelt
Buffalo
United States
New Orleans
South Africa
M. Eugene Sailles
Paris
The
Herald
Voltair
Zodig
Felicien Rops
Garnier
Robida
Balzac
Eugenie Grandes
Dagnan-Bouveret
Davies Promoted To Central Division Construction Chief
SAN FRANCISCO March David R. Davies formerly in charge of construction of the Western Minion Telegraph Company in the fourth district covering Oregon Washington Arizona Nevada and parts of Utah and New Mexico has been promoted to general superintendent of construction for the central division encompassing all territory west of Pittsburg to the Canadian and Mexican borders. He departed for Chicago tonight to assume the new duties.
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San Francisco
David R. Davies
Western Minion Telegraph Company
Fourth
Oregon
Washington
Arizona
Nevada
Utah
New Mexico
Pittsburg
Davies
Chicago
American Telephone Company Earnings Report 1901 Shows Growth
Boston report shows total earnings of 11,606.16 dollars versus 9,594,498 in 1900. Net revenue 7,298 dollars against 5,485,087 in 1900. Surplus after dividends 2,545,262 dollars compared with 1,407 AG for 1900.
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Boston
American Telephone Company
Aldrich Report on War Revenue Act Amendments
Senator Aldrich presented the Finance Committee report on repealing the War Revenue Act with minor changes. The bucket shop tax remains, and inheritance tax provisions are rewritten. The report notes penalties and rights survive repeal and discusses a Missouri election vacancy inquiry and other federal matters.
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Washington
Aldrich
Committee On Finance
Senate
House
Internal Revenue
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Dissension in Commons as Dillon Is Suspended
The House of Commons witnessed a lively scene over Irish Nationalist John Dillon after he refused to withdraw a remark about Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman. Dillon was named and suspended from service for a week amid partisan clashes over South African policy and pro-Boer slanders. The debate touched on Boers, War Office actions, and comments by Chamberlain and Lloyd-George, ending with further political exchanges and a note on Australian troop deployments.
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London
House of Commons
John Dillon
Henry Campbell-Bannerman
Henry
Chamberlain
William Court Gulley
Mr. Chamberlain
Dillon
A. J. Balfour
Dillion
David Lloyd George Welsh
South Africa
War Office
Charles Cayzer
Lloyd-George
John Redmond
Charles
W. R. Plummer
Redmond
Brodrick
Australia
Commonwealth
Supreme Court Invalidates Toledo Bridge Bond Law
The Supreme Court rules that bond-issue laws based on local city classifications are special legislation and can be justified only by an emergency. It reverses the Common Pleas and Circuit Court decisions upholding Toledo’s bridge bonds and signals that many local-application laws passed this session may not survive.
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Columbus, CO
Supreme Court
Toledo
Common Pleas
Circuit Courts
Texas Cotton Products Company Incorporation in New York City
Albany March 2 Texas Cotton Products Company was incorporated with a capital of 1 000 000 to gin clean cotton and cotton seed press and bale lint cotton manufacture and refine cotton seed oil and other oils and products make soap fertilizers pulp and paper from the cotton plant and cotton threads principal office to be in New York City
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Albany
WN. Y
Texas Cotton Products Company
New York City
Fair American Honored in Prussia Rename of Torpedo Boat
In Wilhelmshaven Emperor William ordered a former torpedo boat now guarding the harbor to be renamed Alice Roose. Admiral Prince Henry of Prussia raised his pennant at noon aboard the battleship Kaiser Friedrich III as commander of the squadron in Kiel waters.
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Wilhelmshaven
Prussia
William
Alice Roose
Prince Henry of
Kaiser Friederich III
Kiel Waters
Four Men Injured by an Explosion at Citico Furnace
An explosion at Citico furnace in Chattanooga Tennessee early today injured four men none fatally. Injured are Tom Keener master mechanic Lon Hollywood water tender Bill Dooley and John Schoolfield colored laborers. The blast was caused by the crown sheet of the boiler blowing out. Keener and Schoolfield are most seriously hurt.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
Citico Furnace
Tom Keener
Lon Hollywood
Bill Dooley
John Schoolfield
Keener
Schoolfield
Darbyville Man Arrested in Columbus Robbery Plot
Frank Carpenter, a prominent citizen of Darbyville, has been arrested in Columbus on alleged complicity in a plot to rob the city. Secret service men have been investigating for a week leading to the arrest. Carpenter is also held on a shooting charge involving a man named Robinson at Lockbourne.
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Columbus
Frank Carpenter
Darbyville
Secret Service
Carpenter
Robinson
Lockbourne
Wealthy council member murdered in Little Rock home
Green W. Thompson, a wealthy Black former Little Rock City Council member, was assassinated at his home last night. He was struck with an axe after midnight as he entered his residence. The motive remains unknown.
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Little Rock
Ark
Green W. Thompson
Thompson
Ambassador denies Maine plot claim in London visit
United States ambassador Joseph H. Coate rejects a U S report that a man named Griffiths carrying a revolver visited the U S embassy and delivered a confidential package purporting to show British involvement in the 1898 Maine explosion in Havana harbor, February 15, 1804.
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London
United States
Joseph H. Coate
Griffiths
Maine
Havana Harbor
Mutiny in Russian Troops at Tula Incites Striker Stand
Reports from St. Petersburg describe mutinous Russian troops at Tula who refused to fire on striking workers. Troops fired blank cartridges before balking at a general volley, and when ordered to shoot the sergeant was defied. The officer threatened the sergeant, prompting the troops to counterattack.
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ST. Petersburg
Tula
Ballee
Canal property ceded to United States approved
Paris reports civil tribunal approves eventual cession of canal property to the United States with a reserve on Articles 20 and 21 of the agreement following Colombian government modifications. The news touches Panama Canal Company actions and international treaty implications.
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Paris
United States
Preparations to Bar Boracic Acid in Imported Meats
The Agriculture Department will list imported articles containing boracic and related acids to retaliate against Germany’s ban on borax treated meats. Secretary Wilson directed studies with the Treasury and State Departments to bar such products, warning of potential extensions to other imports. Chicago packers deem the German market minimal and plan to ignore it while pursuing broader lard trade.
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United States
France
Thakern
Havre
State Department
Washington
Department of Agriculture
Secreta Wilson
Dr. Wiley
Department
Wilson
Treasury Department
Secretary of Agriculture
Berlin
Germany
Vossische Zeitung
Chicago
Clerk Accused of Embezzling 5008 From New York Firm
NEW YORK March 2 Frank A Suling a clerk was arrested today charged with embezzling 5008 from Gorham Manufacturing Company by making false entries on the pay rolls.
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New York
Frank A. Suling
Gorham Manufacturing Company
Hale's Honey of Horehound and Tar advertising claim
The fragment markets medicines for mothers and children claiming quick cures for coughs and toothache. It touts Hale’s Honey of Horehound and Tar with a fifty cent bottle and a two cent syrup, along with Pike's Toothache Drops promising one minute relief, all presented as life-saving remedies.
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Hale
Pike
List of names appears in OCR drift with many entries
A dense, punctuated roster of personal names, titles, and fragments. The list includes numerous Miss, Mrs., and Mr. names followed by surnames and occasional initials, with company or organizational mentions sporadically interspersed, suggesting a damaged social or membership roll.
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Sun Cros
Pie
U. S
Brazil
R. R
Beit R. R
Indianapolis Fire Ins
Guar. & Loan Co
Law Building
H. P. Wasson Co
J. F. Wild & CO
Stevenson Building
WM. H. Armstrong & CO
Meridian Street
Indianapolis
Ind
Asia
Count von Beulow
Andrench
D. KR. Davies
Telephone Company
Bucket Shops
Norton-Butler
St. Louis
William H. Horton
Ellis Butler
Missouri
Election Committee No. 1
Butler
Horton
Turkey
Miss Stone
Leishman
Leishmann
Spencer Eddy
Congress
Rochambeau
Yorktown Monument
Imperial Apartments
Peking
Nevada N. Stranahan
District of New York
Potomac River
Nathaniel Stubblefield
Lexington
House Committee On Coinage
Hill
Connecticut
Secretary of the Treasury
Michigan
Payne
Ways and Means Committee
Herbert H. D. Peirce
Dr. Hill
Ambassador White
Peirce
Department of State
Colon
Colombia
Pedro Preston
McMillan
Gardner
American Newspaper Publishers’ Association
United States Money Order
Knox
Honolulu
Pacific
Morgan Treat
Eastern District
Virginia
B. Allen
Western District
R. M. G. Brown
Navy Department
Illinois
Crowninshield
Europe
Senate Committee On Commerce Today
N. Y
Senate Committee On Commerce
House of Representatives
Holl
House Committee On Military Affairs
Cortelyou
Thomas F. Stone
White Hrouse
Willam Dubois
James O'Connell
International Assocation of Machinists
Jonn Keegan
Fred Harley
Philadelphia
Frankfort Arsenal
Joseph Chamberlain
Alice Roosevelt
Delaney
Ireland
Kruger
Wilhelmina
Edenderry
Kings County
Delarey
England
Ohio
Texas Industry Incorporated
Choate
Vienna
Daily Chronicle
Austria
Macedonia
Albania
Sofia
Lady Rodney
Rodney
Baron Winborne
Duke of Marlborough
Baron Rodney
Etruria
Southampton
Royal Mail
Ellie
Azore Islands
Cunard One
Marquis of Dufferin
Chaulnes Et
Cecil Rhodes
Cape Town
Wellington
N. Z
Anglia
Doubtless Bay
Lisbon
Nazareth
Mrs. Winslow
Mark Twain
G. C. Clemens
Topeka
Kan
Samuel B. Clemens
Mark
Clemens
Dr. Miles Medical Co
Miles
Norman Waltrip
Bankers’ Fraternal Society
Elkhart, Ind
Central Printing CO
West Peart St
Irwin
Chatham Place, Cor
Massachusetts Ave
Walnut St
A. B.C
Linn
Scott
Lyons
Maggie
Moar
Dorey
McGuire
Lizzie
Merrill
J. BR. Miller
Gertrude
Murr
Wm. McCauley
Chas
McFarlin
Appie
Mitchell
Mattie
Munger
Emma H. McKissick
Nene Newton
Laure
Owen
Laura
Ozment
Mies
Lulu
Ott
Dante
Parkinson
Ethel
Ger
Trude
Hawkins
Estella
Harpole
Miriam
Hergenham
Mise Au
Randies
Rutledge
Mose Russell
Root
John M. Robenson
Anerna
Smith
Hanna
Singleton
Misa Maud
Stewall
Tecate
Swail
Anna
Ura
Behiddmeter
Julia Henry
Doroles
Ida KB. Harrison
BR. F. Thompson
Gus
Hanley
Florence. Tomlinson
Ballle
Hawes
Meranda
Troy
W. H. Hassler
H Turner
Char. Hummel
Thoman
Mary Taaram
Nellie
van Nostre
Ruth. Wright
Alice C. Klosier
Myrtle. Wood
Mian Laurie
Lawrence
Clara. Wilson
Marie. Logan
Baya. Wolf
Cath. Leonard
Edna. Watz
Lillian Lemmon
Persia White
Lang
H. J. White
J. F
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