Conference Advances Changes to United States Cotton Futures Bill
The National Cotton Conference executive committee in Augusta recommends revisions to the Lever bill including lower tax per contract, a pure cotton law requiring ginners to tag bellies, and broader tender rules. They call for a decision on commercial differences for spot quotations and place selection to be at the secretary of agriculture's discretion.
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Associated Press
Augusta
National House of Representatives
National Cotton Conference
Executive Committee
Pla&n
Lever
F. H. Barrett
Congress
Secretary of Agriculture
Provisional Regiment of Regulars Mobilized at Brownsville
A provisional regiment of the United States army was mobilized at Brownsville under Lieut.-Col. Guy Carlton. The unit includes five coast artillery companies, two from Jackson Barracks and Fort Morgan, and one each from Fort Barrancas Pensacola and Galveston. The move follows an agreement replacing state militia amid the Mexican situation, with National Guard withdrawals starting last night and border posts like San Benito remaining manned. an attempted dynamite attack on an irrigation pumping plant occurred Sunday on the Mexican side.
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Brownsville
Tex
United States Army
Guy Carlton
Coast Artillery
Jackson Barracks
New Orleans
Fort Morgan
Mobile
Ala
Fort Barrancas
Pensacola
Fla
Galveston
O. B. Colquitt
Texas
National Guard
San Benito
Madame Nordica Shows Improvement After Illness
Opera star Madame Lillian Nordica, long ill in Batavia Java, reported to have slight improvement after shipwreck trauma near Thursday Island last December caused nervous prostration and pneumonia. Early April reports noted grave condition despite recent hopeful dispatches.
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Associated Press
Batavia
Java
Lillian Nordica
Madame Nordica
Thursday Island
Batavian
Vasquez Routed in Dominican Republic Fight Near La Vega
Forces under Le Conte Vasquez in the vicinity of La Vega have been routed and Vasquez wounded, a navy department report says. Slight depredations near San Pedro Macoris on sugar mills are also reported.
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Washington
le Conte Vasquez
la Vega
Dominican Republic
Vasquez
Navy Department
San Pedro Macoris
Mangled Body Found on Tracks in New Orleans
A mangled body with both legs and both arms severed was found last night between tracks of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad in New Orleans. Business cards identified the man as Frank W. Walters of Majestic Pool Hall in Galveston Texas.
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Associated Press
New Orleans
Louisville and Nashville Railroad
Frank W. Walters
Majestic Pool Hall
Market Street
Galveston
Tex
Roosevelt Discovers Unknown Brazilian River on Expedition
Col Theodore Roosevelt told the Associated Press aboard the Dunstan after arriving from Manaus that the expedition for the American Museum of Natural History was a signal success. Naturalists Cherry and Miller collected more than 2,100 birds and mammals while mapping a long unknown river in Mato Grosso, with sixty days in canoes and several losses in rapids.
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Associated Press
Para
Brazil
Theodore Roosevelt
Dunstan
Manaus
Brasil
American Museum of Natural History
George H. Cherry
Leo C. Miller
Matto Grosso
South Latitude
Greenwich
Woman's tonic Cardul praised in Tennessee testimony
Ridgely residents quote Mrs. Jennie Estes saying Cardul cured her womanly troubles after months of illness. She details severe sickness from February to October, weight gain, and renewed energy, urging other sick women to try Cardul as a remedy.
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Cardus
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