Protecting American Labor and Local Milk Policy Debates
The Mobile Item reports on tariff debates with Senator Thomas of Colorado challenging sugar industry claims about labor costs in Cuba and Louisiana. It also covers Mobile city officials voting to make iced milk sale optional, balancing public health with cost for residents.
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Thomas
Colorado
Smith
Michigan
Cuba
House of Representatives
Hardwick
Louisiana
Republic of
Cub
California
Works
San Francisco
Cal
Highlands
Washington, D. C
City of
Mobile
County Medical Society
Pillans
Chicago
National Cash Register Case and Pardons Debate
The National Cash Register Company of Dayton, Ohio, faced the severest Sherman anti trust penalties with jail terms for its president and officers. The Dayton flood service by the convicted president sparked calls for presidential clemency by Wilson, debated by The Louisville Post. The Docket outlines the government charges including bribery to reveal rivals' secrets and pressuring banks to aid rivals, with a jury verdict of guilty on key counts.
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National Cash Register
National Cash Register Company
Dayton
Hollister
Cincinnati
Cash Register Company
Wilson
Louisville Post
Patterson
Modern Accident Policy Reform Sparks Industry Debate
The article reviews proposed revisions by the International Association of Casualty and Surety Underwriters to simplify policies. Key points include removing children's and beneficiary insurance, omitting certain perils, and adding limited indemnity for auto boat injuries, reflecting autos as primary claim drivers amid industry pressure.
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International Association of Casualty and Surety Underwriters
Future of Turkey Examined Amid Balkan War Echoes
The piece discusses Turkish threats in its Asiatic provinces amid Balkan War aftermath. It cites Armenian Kurds tensions, Russian demands for Berlin 1878 reforms, and railway concessions to Russians. It notes potential Russian intervention under the pretext of restoring order and mentions regional trade routes via the Caucasus. Additional notes reference Armenian factions and economic trade shifts with caviar and barrels imported.
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Caucasus
Constantinople
Berlin
Russia
Ottoman Empire
Europe
Black Sea
Tabriz
Trebizond
Erzeroum
Russian Caucasus
Jaffa
Batoum
Balkan
Armenia
Kurdistan
Turkey
American Review of Reviews
Army sanitation record cited as saving lives in war era
Washington dispatch reports Major General Leon A Wood praising the Spanish American War era sanitation program. He notes gains in Panama Cuba and Porto Rico and cites malaria typhoid and yellow fever control by army medical staff led by Col Gorgas and Maj Thomas Rhoades. He cites malaria death rates down from 61 to 14.22 per thousand and says the army is immune to typhoid due to a serum from the Army Medical School.
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Victor Elliott
Washington
Leonard Wood
Panama
Havana
Dayton
Thomas Rhoades
Wilson
Walter Reed
Cuba
Ronald Ross
British India
Wood
United States Army
Army Medical School
Navy
Philippines
Philippine Scouts
Army
Guest slain in Cincinnati hotel shooting tale from Everybody’s Magazine
In a Cincinnati hotel a guest is shot dead while a hotel porter testifies at the trial. The witness mimics the interval between shots with hand claps and recalls being in the hotel basement and near the depot as the events unfold.
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Cincinnati
The Ways of a Woman in Tonopah
Jim and Bill clash with a rowdy hall crowd at Azuzena Zolfanelli’s Tonopah appearance. The Sicilian singer faces boos as Bill and Jim defend her, a chair smashing altercation, and a swift afterparty escape. Bill leaves with Zolfanelli, while Jim lingers puzzled by his friend’s rapid forgiveness.
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Jim
Bill
Waanaraaa
Azuzena Zolfanelli
Tonopah
Nevada
Flora
Zolfanelli
Bella Spaganola
Nightingale
Theodore Roosevelt
Billy
Oil Drilling Rumors Stir Sicily Island
On Sicily Island rumors spread that oil lies beneath its shores. Well informed observers say exploration has long been expected, with insiders noting a potential future for local drilling and economic impact.
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Sicily
Beginning of Richard Mansfield
Richard Mansfield rose to fame as a character actor after tensions during Iolanthe rehearsals. Edwin Barry recounts Mansfield’s early 1880s temper and dramatic breakthrough with D Oyle Carte in London and on Broadway, culminating in his celebrated role in A Parisian Romance.
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J. Murray Allison
Casito
Arthur Sulliva
Tolanthe
Richard Mansfield
Edwin Barry
Mansfield
London
Ameriica
D’oyle Carte Company
Lord Chancellor
Ryly
Baron Chevrial
Gilbert & Sullivan
Ryley
The Forgotten City of Cuzco Explored in Scribner's Magazine
Ernest Piexotto surveys Cuzco’s ancient layout and Inca history. He notes the lack of written records, the quipu as a primary source, and the city’s Romanesque plan with four quarters and river Huatanay. The northeast Palatine Hill housed Inca palaces, reflecting imperial customs and provincial governance.
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Cuzco
Garcilasso
Manco Capac
Huayna Capac
Montesinos
Ramusio
United States
Tarantinsuyu
Huatanay
Palatine Hill
Rome
Ernest Piexotto
Scribner’s Magazine
Compensating the Innocent Bill Stirs Legal Reform
Wisconsin Governor McGovern signs the Holmes bill to compensate innocent people wrongfully imprisoned. The piece notes similar laws elsewhere and cites nationwide momentum, including New Jersey and Pennsylvania debates, plus a case of a pennsylvania man released after 20 years. It concludes that innocent prisoners deserve redress.
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McGovern
Wisconsin
Congress
American Journal of Criminal Law
Criminology
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
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