Louisiana swamp lands eyed for drainage and cotton boom
A Troy editor reports a New Orleans citizen has acquired 1,000,000 acres of Louisiana swamp lands with Chicago capital and railroads to raise 1.5 million dollars for drainage. The soil is rich enough to yield over three bales per acre with proper tillage, while vast tracts across several states show similar fertility. Government action on water management is debated, but most swamp lands remain privately owned.
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Great Valley
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South Receives New Push In Agricultural Development
The south regains prominence in nationwide growth as experimental farms spread across southern states for education and scientific farming. Wealth and energy flow toward the region, with home production rising in value. The climate, soil, timber, and long summers bolster agricultural progress and resource utilization.
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Airship crossing prompts cross border policy talk
A pilot flew a machine between the United States and Mexico, undeterred by customs officers on both sides. He did not smuggle, but the incident shows the potential for international scrutiny and the need for an accord on airship use across borders.
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United States
Mexico
American battleship fleet to visit Mediterranean next fall
Washington announces the Atlantic fleet will tour the Mediterranean in division formation to train maneuvering and showcase a first class American naval force. Also noted is the Florizel catch of 45, any seals off St Johns, with North Atlantic seals described as amphibious and abundant, not fur seals, and not in danger of extermination despite annual hunts.
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Roosevelt Sees German Pageant Regiments In Secret Review
Berlin story reports Colonel Roosevelt witnessed a hidden ceremonial drill of Kaiser Wilhelm’s crack regiments at Doeberitz field. A 12,000 troop sham battle contrasted Germany's fighters with France while strict guards barred the public and mourners, with high officials and a select entourage accompanying Roosevelt.
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Col. Koerner
Washington
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Count Zu Eulenburg
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von Plessin
William
Edward
Foreign Office
Railroad Bill Passes House After Narrow Debate
The House approved the railroad bill after a sharp exchange over an amendment from Representative Mann. The final tally was 169 to 160 against Mann's clause to reestablish mergers under certain conditions, with New England regulars aiding the insurgents. A separate motion to recommit with instructions to remove the commerce court provision failed 176 to 150.
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Boston & Maine
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Lorimer Faces Inquiry Refuses Talk Opens Banks
Illinois news reports say Senator William Lorimer rejects resignation and offers no talk on bribery accusations as Sangamon County grand jury probes graft affecting his Senate election. Representative Michael S. Link expected as first witness while Bank openings draw attention.
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Illinois Lawmakers Indicted in Lorimer Inquiry
Grand jury returns true bills charging Browne Wilson and Link with bribery and perjury amid the Lorimer senate probe. Indictments allege Browne paid White $850 for White's vote. Link accused of perjury about a St Louis meeting with Wilson. Wilson charged with delivering funds to White and Beckemeyer. Bail set at 15000, 165000, and 5000 respectively. additional case involves William Henley over railroad bond issue.
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Chinese Rioters Break Out Again In Hunan Province
Reports from China describe renewed anti foreigner and anti Christian violence in western Hunan. Attacks center on Yuen-Chow along the Yuen River with telegraph wires cut as confirmation. Foreign missionaries from the United States Norway and France are isolated and feared for their safety as mobs threaten the inland mission at Yuen-Chow.
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Flirtation Costs Liberty Leads to Arrest in Chicago
Police traced 16 year old Isabelle Gordon after she flirted with two detectives. An investigation showed she had escaped from a Geneva Illinois home for girls, and she admitted fleeing the institution on March 26.
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New Dreadnaught Florida Launched in New York Harbor
In the presence of Secretary Meyer and Governor Hughes, Miss Elizabeth Fleming broke a champagne bottle to launch the new U S battleship Florida at the New York navy yard. Taft intended to attend but could not. The 20,000 ton vessel is 62 percent complete and expected ready by July 24, costing under 6 million dollars and joining the first division of U S dreadnoughts with the Delaware, North Dakota, and Utah.
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Francis P. Fleming
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United States Navy
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New York Navy Yard
Utah
Newport News
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Quitman Editor Resigns After Editorial On Public Hugging
R L Page editor of a Quitman weekly published an editorial condemning a Quitman society dance as public hugging and suggesting virtuous women would not take part. Several citizens forced him to read a clipping of the editorial aloud, then Page left town.
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Quitman
Mississippi
R. L. Page
Page
Ironclad law aimed at girl traders passes Congress
Washington, D. C. details of recent exposures in white slave investigations in New York and other cities suggest congress will support strict measures. The immigration commission findings have spurred passage of a law to protect alien women, while a bill to criminalize trafficking across state lines advances, supported by new evidence from New York.
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New York
Congress
Immigration Commission
Scrap Tin Used for Toys Shipment From Seattle
The steamship Protesflaus loading for Europe will carry 120,000 bales of scrap tin from Puget Sound canneries to Hamburg for toy manufacture, then return to America. Previously discarded waste metal is now pressed into bales for Germany to purchase.
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Washington
Protesflaus
Europe
Hamburg
Puget Sound
America
Germany
Engey
Rockefeller denies national charter plan for foundation
Washington dispatch reports John D. Rockefeller dropping a national charter idea for a proposed foundation. Starr J. Murphy, speaking for Rockefeller and Standard Oil, says the statement is entirely without foundation and that Rockefeller has no involvement with the Economic and General Foundation seeking a New York charter for an aged man of wealth with about 2.5 million dollars for charity.
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Washington
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Starr J. Murphy
Rockefeller
Standard
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Economic and General Foundation
Senate Passes Pension Bill in Brief Session
In under quarter of an hour the Senate in Washington D C considered and passed the pension appropriation bill carrying about 456 million dollars.
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Washington, D. C
Inane courtesy remarks and subway tales provoke ire
A reader laments politeness comments as foolish, mocks a "hor rible monster" and a man dubbed the Ingrowing grouch. The piece recalls a subway mishap with a four year old swallowing a safety pin and a neighbor calling it an accident. It derides outdated home remedies like raw beefsteak for bruises and bacon for felons as too costly.
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Atchison Globe
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