Bryan urges slow pace on alien land laws in California
Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan delivers a cautious message at a secret Sacramento conference urging delay on alien land legislation. He proposes four alternatives including treaties with Japan, a commission study, a six year holding limit for all aliens, or a general federal style act. He stresses public policy and state rights while weighing the Progressive majority’s stance.
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Sacramento
Cal
California
Onal
William Jennings Bryan
Wilson
Johnson
Wallace
Bryan
Sacraiento
Assembly
Legislatora
State Department
Japan
Illinois
District of Columbia
Prohibition Debate Reflected In Kansas Opinion
The Saturday Evening Post reports that Kansas enforces statewide prohibition more than many places yet whiskey still circulates in the capital and bootlegging remains. An experienced farmer voices a view that repeal would be defeated and that drink habits form mainly in social siloons, warning against a new generation.
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Saturday Evening Post
Kansas
Commonwealth
Sociablilty
Asheville Street Car Strike Ends In Turmoil
Asheville April 27. A mob of about 2,000 besieged a hotel housing 21 strike breakers brought by Asheville Power and Light Co. City police and Mayor Rankin prevented a riot as drivers retreated to the Southern depot. No cars operated today or tomorrow amid stalled talks. Strikers, 87 strong, held firm for a wage increase from 21 to 26 cents per hour. arbitration was rejected by some as stage for talks ended.
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Asheville
Asheville Power & Light Co
Tie Police Department
Rankin
One-Room Children and Their Growth Factors
The Christian Herald reports on studies of children in crowded housing showing that one room and two room families experience stunted growth. Dark rooms poor sunlight and nutrition correlate with higher risks of tuberculosis and later life disability, creating societal burdens and moral concerns about poverty.
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Christian Herald
Lazarus
Dives
Lagarus
Black egg laying hen from Tennessee
A Hampton, Tennessee man, W A Sorrel, reports a hen that lays entirely black eggs. He shows a sample to visitors in Bristol and plans to exhibit the eggs. The hen is black outside and inside, with no white or red at all, and the owner will affidavits support the color.
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Knoxville Sentinel
W. A. Sorrel
Hampton
Tenn
The Farm as the Proper Plant-Bed for Manhood
A dated opinion extols farming as the best place to shape boys and girls, arguing that a farm surpasses mills banks stores offices or parsonages for training character. It criticizes salesmen for lacking thorough knowledge of goods and asserts the farm’s unique role in upbringing.
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Caesar
Governor lets prisoner slip away in office
James Johnson known as Portland Ned escaped from the governor's private office after being paroled from Spartanburg State penitentiary. US post office inspectors sought to arrest him for a Plymouth, North Carolina robbery in 1898, with warrants left at the sheriff's office. Porter Johnson vanished as officials debated papers and orders in Columbia.
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James Johnson
Portland
Ned
Spartanburg
State Penitentiary
United States Postoffice Department
Johnson
Plymouth
N. C
McCain
Richland County
Jas
D. J. Griffith
Robbins
Griffith
Robins
W. H. Sandley
R. Beverley Sloan
United States
State House
R. 8. Hipp
Hipp
Mr. Hipp
Cochrane
Marshal Senn
Sloan
Oldest Engineer in Railroad Retired After Half Century Service
Spencer April 23 Engineer R B Sigman aged 76 of Spencer retired by the Southern Railway Company on a life salary. He began in rail service nearly sixty years ago and worked through the Civil War era with the Georgia and later Richmond and Danville lines. Known as Dad Sigman he trained many firemen and never had a serious accident or a demerit. He and his large family, including eight sons, are noted in this carrier’s long career and dedication to railroading.
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Southern Railway
Spencer
R. 8. Sigman
Southern Railway Company
Uise
Sigman
Old
Georgia
Conyers
Sherman
Richmond and
Danville Air Line
Compan
Aman
F. G. Sigman
Prac Yeing
Population figures and court actions in early 20th century news
A wide mix of items reports New York City population figures from health records and 1916 census data, court martial reinstatements at West Point for several officers, a New Jersey dealer's jail sentence for selling short tonnage, and various other cases including murder verdicts, a surgical graft in Washington, suffrage considerations for Colorado, and the launch of the Cunard liner Aquitania. The article also notes radio licensing statistics and congressional interest in baseball governance, plus a local murder in Anson and a shooting at a saw mill near Wadesboro.
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New Jersey
Jacob J. Hauser
Mobile County
Ala
Mobile City
Hauser
Lake St John Levee Breach Floods Lower Parish Lands
Lake St John levee breach near Fredy Louisiana at 1 00 am unleashed floodwaters across lower Texas and Cordia parishes. About 20 000 residents evacuated. area covers roughly 900 square miles with property damage in the hundreds of thousands. Six river steamers and many motorboats were sent to the scene. no loss of life reported.
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Sears
Natchez
Mie
Nap Prij St
West Bank
Upper
Louisiana
Lake St. John
Fredy
Lower Texas
Cordia
Lake St
Supreme Court docketed case on Georgia liquor sale law
The Supreme Court of the United States takes up Bob Kirkpatrick of Cartersville Ga on appeal after a jury convicted him of selling intoxicating liquor within the state by distributing samples for out of state liquor dealers. The case questions whether Georgia law interferes with interstate commerce under the Constitution. The second item reports Colonel Goethals' War Department note that a ship might pass the Panama Canal before year end pending slide conditions and partial lock completion. Senator Ashurt of Arizona introduces a bill to regulate stock exchanges by denying mail use to brokers violating prohibitions on wash sales and margin accounts, with penalties starting at fines and imprisonment and extending to five years for subsequent offenses.
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Supreme Court of the United States
Bob Kirkpatrick
Cartersville
Kirkpatrick
Supreme Court
Georgia
Goethals
Panama Canal
War Department
Culebra
Ashuret
Arizona
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