Congress Upheld Statehood Plans and Panama Deficiency Vote
The house passed the Oklahoma and Indian Territory statehood bill and Arizona and New Mexico statehood plans. Senate debates covered Algeciras and San Domingo. the urgent deficiency bill exempted alien laborers on the Panama canal from eight hour law. Several fires, deaths, and trials are noted, including naval losses and political investigations.
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House
Cannon
Lodge
Senate
Algeciras
Morocco
San Domingo
Oklahoma
Indian Territory
Arizona
New Mexico
Indiana
United States
Panama Canal
Williams
Pennsylvania, Baltimore & Ohio
Norfolk & Western
Chesapeake & Ohio
Northern Central
Philadelphia
Baltimore & Washington
Multiple Disparate Historical Notices From Global Events
The items report varied events including a Cuban senate wedding gift appropriation for Miss Alice Roosevelt, a mine explosion in Witteville I T with fourteen deaths, Valencia shipwreck survivors, Venezuelan consular recalls, a fatal oil lamp explosion near Indiana Pa, Irish nationalist Thomas Higgins found dead, weekly US and Canadian failures, New York stock tax law upheld, Stanley Spencer death and London airship flight, Collier’s Weekly editor acquittal, Arkansas medical solicitation ban upheld, Midshipman Mann hazing acquittal, and denial of a Musselshoef tunnel project by G W Snyder.
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Bamfield
B. C
Ella G
Canadian Pacific Railroad
Keewatin
Mann
Cambridge
Mass
Charles L. Tucker
Mabel Page
Weston
New York
Frank W. Shattuck
Advent Christian Church
Whitman
United States
Naval Training Station
Coaster’s Harbor Island
Newport
RK L
Navy
China
Alice Roosevelt
Matthew O’keefe
Church of the Immaculate Conception
Towson
Paul Mosczynski
Union Avenue
Worcester
Thomas Walley
Downingtown
Joseph B. Carpenter
Lizzie Carpenter
Carpenter
Theodore P. Shonts
Isthmian Canal Commission
Moody
Enterprise National Bank of Allegheny
Cleveland & Pittsburg
Steubenville
Bellaire
Pennsylvania Co
Burlington
C. A. Canfield
Los Angeles
Cal
Morris Buck
Col. W. D. Mann
Town Topics
Jerome
Norman Hapgood
Bellevue Hospital
William Janecke
Patrick Downing
Lackawanna Railroad Co
Stephen Buffano
Mountview
N. J
Leo Livingston
W. A. Sewell
Baltimore
Philadelphia
New England Limited
Boston
Montreal
Richardson
Lowell
Stephen Decatur
Commodore Decatur
United States Naval Academy
Bonaparte
Joseph Wheeler
United States Army
Spain
Sterling Smith
Brooklyn
N. Y
C. Augustus Seton
Recorder Golf
Houston, Galveston Interurban Railroad Co
Texas
Bank of
Owasso
I. T
Secretary of the Navy
Chester A. J. Bloebeum
Missouri
Annapolis
Valencia
J. B. Graham
Graham
Witteville, I. T
Klanawa Rocks
Cape Beagle
Banc
France
Venezuela
Mabel Spence
James A. Spence
Indiana
Thomas Higgins
North Galway
John Philip Nolan
Tuam
Ene
Canada
New York State
Supreme Court
Stanley Spencer
Malta
India
Spencer
London
Norman Hepgood
Collier's Weekly
Supreme Court of Arkansas
Richard R. Mann
Pennsylvania Railroad Co
Graft probe report prompt big demand for copies
Albany January 31. A heated hearing as Armstrong and Brandon Printing clash over printing 5000 copies of testimonies from the insurance investigation. The senate finance committee votes to favorably report the Armstrong bill at a cost not to exceed $20,000. Armstrong cites delays and a 900 letter scheme offering printings for sale. He says demand from across the United States and abroad would exhaust 50,000 copies.
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Albany
N. Y
Armstrong
Insurance Investigating Committee
Brandon Printing Co
Senate Finance Committee
Senate
John F. Montignani
Brandon
Supreme Court
United States
Investigation Ordered Into Insurance Fee Retentions
Harrisburg action in a special session calls for a sweeping probe of illegal fee retention by the insurance commission for years. The committee must report by February 6. David Martin now heads the office after Israel W. Durham, who is in poor health in California. Actuary Robert E. Forster testified he collected $53,000 in fees last year in his branch, with most of the sum paid to an unnamed person.
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Harrisburg
Pennypacker
David Martin
Israel W. Durham
Durham
California
Insurance Commissionership
Robert E. Forster
Forster
Butter Making Taught At Illinois Purdue Colleges
Scores of women learn butter making at the Illinois College at Urbana and Purdue in Indiana. The Illinois plant yields about 600 pounds daily while Purdue turns out 2 500 pounds weekly. Students study machinery care, separators and churns, from cream reception to printing bricks wrapped for sale. Brick butter grows in use and is claimed to travel farther than tub butter per pound.
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Agricultural Colleges
Chicago Tribune
Illinois College
Urbana
Purdue
Indiana
Central West
Illinois
Industrial shifts mirror global production trends in 1900s
A survey notes sharp decline of the old style pointed shoe in Mexico, French cabinet makers clinging to traditional styles, Ontario lumber cuts rising by 100 million feet to 450 million, and October pig iron output surpassing one million tons for the first time at 1,006,943 tons. It ranksU.S. leading in paper, with Britain and Germany next. US iron consumption reaches 25,000,600 tons while England and Germany exceed their outputs. A New York brick firm posts a record 84,260,000 bricks. Petroleum world production is led by the United States at 15,000,000 tons, followed by Russia and Southeast Asia.
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Joseph Wheeler
Arlington Cemetery
Griaznoff
Caucasus
Tiflis
Boston & Maine
Billington
Pittsburg
Victor Demageot
France
Ormond Beach
Fla
Panama Canal
William Brusseau
Jackson
Detroit
Horace E. Pope
Big Four
Nabb
Ind
J. H. Dye
Louisville
Southern Railway
Buechel Station
Edelstein
Ill
Stephen Kirby
Detroit Dry Dock Co
Great Lakes
New York
American Window Glass House
Jeannette
Redemptorist High School
St. Louis
Gertha Rude
Josephine Gargone
Brooklyn
N. Y
Craniello Panoviso
Jerome
Colorado Midland Railway
Manitou
Col
Ryder Jewelry Co
Flora S. Nickerson
Boston
Charles Winn
Charles E. Riggs
Portland
James Manes
Bank of Liverpool
Christian IX
Denmark
Europe
George
Greece
Alexandra
Great Britain
Maria Feodorovna
Russia
Haakon VII
Norway
Amalienborg
Copenhagen
William H. van Schaick
General Slocum
Thomas
United States District Court
Evansboro
N. J
John Buzby
Hannah Sharp
John Sharp
Buzby
Victor Emmanuel
Milan
Alice Roosevelt
William van Reypen, Jr
Columbia University
van Reypen
Washington
Navy
Warner
Mexico
Ontario
Germany
America
United States
England
New York State
Bulletin of the Commercial Geographical Society of Paris
Death on the Rail at Seaboard Wreck Near Hamlet
A Seaboard Air Line collision between a northbound passenger train and a southbound freight near Hamlet, North Carolina, and Columbia, South Carolina, left four dead with reports of two more fatalities. Officials cited the freight crew for overlooking the passenger train. engineer John Robertson and fireman Don Douglas were reported killed or injured in varying accounts.
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Norfolk
Seaboard Air Line
Hamlet
N. C
Columbia
S. C
John Robertson
Raleigh
Don Douglas
Seaboard
Portsmouth
Robertertson
Douglas
Fatal accident at Dicus cooperage works
Clarence Bodenbender died instantly at Dicus cooperage works when a balance wheel burst and a 30 pound iron casting ripped through the back of his chair striking him and tearing out his heart.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clarence Bodenbender
Dicus’ Cooperage Works
Bodenbender
Train collision near Columbia Falls leaves three dead
Great Northern Oriental Limited No. 1 westbound and passenger train No. 2 eastbound collided head on on a straight track one mile west of Columbia Falls Mont Monday night. Two firemen and one express messenger are dead.
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St. Paul, Minn
Great Northern Oriental Limited
Columbia Falls
Mont
New York Writer Paul Dresser Gained Notice in City
New York on Tuesday brought Paul Dresser a gang writer into public notice with his works The Banks of the Wa besh and The Blue and the Gray.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Paul Dresser
S City
Wedding Tour Collision Leaves Guests Unconscious
A violent automobile crash during a wedding tour knocked out all in the car, including the porter, while the couple remained only partially conscious. Puck reports the event as highly violent with everyone affected by the shock.
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Puck
Too Much of a Shock in Detroit Exchange Banter
A Detroit Free Press cartoon caption ponders a hypothetical million dollar offer to switch sides. The humorous exchange features a character named Wuzzy contemplating the risk of losing under pressure before completing the deal.
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Fuzzy
Wuzzy
Detroit Free Press
One Man's Wisdom Journal Quote
A Chicago Daily News quip recalls a man answering a woman's question about objection to a kiss. He notes there was no one in sight, implying privacy justified the gesture.
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Chicago Daily News
Markets Report Across U S Cities January 31 1906
Financial notes from New York Cleveland Toledo East Buffalo Pittsburg detail prices for flour wheat corn oats butter eggs cheese potatoes hay cattle sheep and hogs. Prices listed for grades and animals include steers calves wethers lambs and hogs with regional variations.
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New York
Cleveland
Minnegota Spring
York State
East Buffalo
Pittsburg
Business Precepts on Individuality and Opportunity
The text argues that originality widens a talent’s market while conformity drives down value. Habit dulls perception, stifles reform, and chains progress, causing established firms to stagnate as young firms prosper by avoiding time worn methods. It stresses awareness, initiative, and rejecting custom to grow.
Nevada bachelors club president resigns to marry
Swiped squibs note a Nevada Missouri club head resigning to wed. The piece speculates the move stems from fatigue at leadership, while a broader jab questions public obsession with football and social chat as cold weather causes slippery water wagons.
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Nevada, Mo
Facial Paralysis Warns of Serious Nerve Disorder
A case from Trothville, Washington county, N. Y., describes a nervous collapse progressing to paralysis. After doctors failed, the patient recovered through Dr Williams Pink Pills, restoring facial muscles and sight. The pills are sold by druggists and by mail from Schenectady, N. Y. A pamphlet on Nervous Disasters is available.
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Williams
Harry Bemis
Trothville
Washington County
Mr. Bemis
Tam
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Congressional
Elegal
Toledo
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