Death of Madero and Suárez shocks Mexico City
Reports confirm Francisco I. Madero and Fino Suárez were shot while being moved from the National palace to a penitentiary. Provisional president Huerta and premier De La Barra deny government complicity and pledge to punish the murderers. The American ambassador accepts their account amid circulating rumors of la ley de fuga.
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Mexico City
Francisco I. Madero
Fino Suarez
General Muverta
Francisco de la Barra
United States
Madero
Suarez
General Huerta
de la Barra
Cuarez
Gustavo Madero
General Blanquet
Alberto Perez
Senora Madero
Francisco II Madero, Jr
Mexico
Jose Pino Suarez
Pleasant Thoughts Inspire Gentle Reflections
A fragment quotes Ruskin urging readers to cultivate pleasant thoughts as building blocks for beautiful inner palaces. The passage suggests thoughts shape the soul and reminds to nurture hopeful, constructive mental dwellings.
Thaw Case Faces Split Over Anhut Cash Return Plan
Harry K. Thaw wired $25,009 to John Nicholson Anhut to secure Thaw’s liberty. Anhut must return $10,700 if Thaw is not freed by July 1, with $12,500 due Jan 1 last year and July 1 this year. Dr. Russell pressed for control and a larger bonus, while Anhut refused to pay him. Roeder corroborates Russell about Sulzer committee pressure linking Governor Sulzer’s name to the release plot.
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Tee
Russell
Roeder
Sulzer
Clark
Albany
Harry K. Thaw
John Nicholson
Anhut
Thaw
Consolidated
John R. Russell
Matteawan
Sulzer Committee of Inquiry
John Nicholson Anhut
H. A. Hoffman
Archie” Hoffman
Dr. Russell
White Plains
Gus” Roeder
William F. Clark
Dr Friedmann Plans Campaign Against Tuberculosis
New York Feb 27 Dr Friedmann the Berlin physician in the United States to promote his claimed cure for tuberculosis works at the Waldorf Astoria meeting medical men and organizing a city reception and treatment suite for rich and poor He has purchased 200 dollars of culture supplies from a germ traced to a turtle and aims to begin experiments in America soon.
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New York
Friedmann
Berlin
Waldorf-Astoria
Charles Dev. Hundt
America
The Shark's Teeth Move for Prey Capture
The shark’s teeth are movable and can be erected at will when it seizes prey, enabling a swift and effective bite.
Colored suffragists marchers face mixed reception in Laurel
After two weeks en route to Washington the color line suffrage army encounters cool welcomes and rumors of added Black supporters as they pass through Laurel Maryland. locals report hotels briefly refuse housing and a banners conflict follows a Baltimore arrival.
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Baltimore
Winans
Washington
Laurel
Three men arrested for assault on 16 year old in Sunbury
George Myers Harry H and Irvin Hummel were charged with felonious assault on Paul Millhoff a Sunbury youth. In a vacant building Millhoff was tortured with matches singed eyes and an attempted hanging. They paid costs and left Sunbury within 24 hours after jail commitment.
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Selin
Plans Aimed at $100,000 Newfane Storage Plant
A stock company with $100,000 capital is planned to organize within days to build a 35,000 barrel capacity chemical cold storage facility in Newfane New York. A prominent local commission man leads the project and the local grange is said to hold stock, using the storage as a clearing house for farm products. The building is described as solid masonry two stories above ground with two below.
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Newfane
N. Y
Milk Producers Win Settlement Over Milk Strike
In Binghamton New York the Metropolitan Dairy company of Brooklyn settles a suit with a syndicate of Delaware county milk producers over a fall milk strike. The twelve syndicate members are to receive $1 013 under the terms of the agreement, alleging breach of contract after a better offer from W Michaelson of New York.
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Binghamton, N. Y
Metropolitan Dairy Company of
Brooklyn
Delaware County
W. Michaelson
New York
Fruit Growers Call for Investigation at State Meeting
President L. I. Morrell of Kinderhook urged the New York State Fruit Growers Association at its Poughkeepsie eastern meeting to petition Governor Sulzer to appoint a committee. The panel would study fruit packing and selling, address grower commission agen concerns, and devise plans to curb commission men who handle growers goods and money.
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L. I. Morrell
Kinderhook
New York
Loleta Lumber Town to Be Abandoned in Final Wipeout
Loleta Pa once a thriving lumber town with post office stores and over 100 dwellings will be wiped off the map. The village is among the last remaining lumber towns in the state and faces removal as logs are exhausted and the town fades into memory.
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Loleta
Mills to be Cut Up in Ceremonial Move
A large mill site will be dismantled with ceremony as about a hundred residents from Loleta relocate to Bear Creek near Ridgeway. A vast timber area is being opened as part of the move.
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Loleta
Bear Creek
Ridgeway
Earth Slides on Panama Canal Slow Progress Reported
Canal Zone officials say over two million cubic yards of earth and rock are moving along the Panama Canal with higher than usual activity. Additional work is needed before flooding can begin and about four million more cubic yards remain to be excavated before project completion.
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Panama Canal
Canal Zone
Suffragette unrest and arrests spark London uproar
A crowd wrecked a suffragette bookstall in Wallsall while four militants with sandwich boards were hustled at Leigh on Sea. Two people were injured as police rescued two women from a ducked horse trough. A Wimbledon arrestee refused to give her name amid suspicions of arson. Emmeline Pankhurst, arraigned for a Walton Heath explosion, refuses a meal in Holloway as daughter Sylvia goes on hunger strike.
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London
Wallsall
Leigh-on-the Sea
Emmeline Pankhurst
Epsom
David Lloyd George
Walton Heath
Holloway
Sylvia
Liverpool's Chinatown Emerges in Port District
Liverpool England features an extensive Chinatown in the port quarter with many Chinese shops sailors boarding houses several restaurants and a Chinese seamen's mission serving maritime communities and travelers.
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Liverpool
England
New Workmen's Compensation Bill Shaped in Albany
Albany February 27 State Senator Samuel J Ramsperger of Buffalo chairing the senate insurance committee said the panel has framed a committee bill to provide compensation for injured workmen He expects the measure to pass the legislature this year if at all Meanwhile labor representative Thomas D Fitzgerald rejected the compromise bill saying it will be introduced today without any legislator’s name attached.
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Albany
Samuel J. Ramsperger
Buffalo
Senate Insurance Committee
Ramsperger
Thomas D. Fitzgerald
Savings Bank Bills Favorably Reported By Senate
Albany February 27. Senator Pollock had two bills advanced by the senate banks committee. One requires savings banks to maintain reserve funds and the other permits savings banks to establish branches.
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Albany
Pollock
Senate
Committee On Banks
Thames Tunnel Led by Isambard Brunel in Early 19th Century
The 61st Thames tunnel, Brunel’s shield excavation, began in 1825 and took 18 years to finish. Since 1865 it served railways, now enabling electric trains between London north of the river and New Cross. additional Woolwich tunnel and others at Blackwall Greenwich and Rotherhithe brought total ratepayer cost to nearly £4,000,000.
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Thames
Isambard Brunel
Thames Tunnel
London
New Cross
Woolwich
London County Council
Blackwall
Greenwich
Rotherhire
London Mail
Morgan Denied Access to Karnak Temples in Egypt
London reports a Pall Mall Gazette note saying J. P. Morgan and companions tried to reach Karnak Temples in Luxor but were refused by an official. Morgan cited illness and the inspector suggested using an invalid chair. A secretary warned public reaction could trigger a financial panic in America. The tale ends with Morgan retiring defeated.
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London
Cairo
Pall Mall Gazette
J. P. Morgan
Luxor
Karnak
Morgan
Forced Marriage Suit Over Pad Of Wealthy New Yorker
Charges allege four men over 73 and worth about 800000 arranged a marriage for Henry N. Walter after a paralytic stroke. William J. Lehman ordered a jury to decide Walter’s mental condition in the New York Supreme Court. Walter’s wife Anna M. Ruthe objects to moving him from his West 140th Street home for court, fearing another stroke.
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New York
Justice Lehman
Supreme Court
Henry N. Walter
D. N. & E. Walter & Co
Anna M. Ruthe
West 140Th Street
Walter
Utah dinosaur skeleton shipped to Carnegie Museum
Jensen Utah Feb 27 The fifth box car carries part of a Utah dinosaur skeleton en route to the Andrew Carnegie Museum in Pittsburg. Officials expect ten more carloads. The bones are encased in rock blocks for shipment and the complete skeleton spans 84 feet in length.
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Jensen
Utah
Andrew Carnegie Museum
Pittsburg
Old man offers skin to save boy in graft plan
Harrisburg report says 83 year old Davis Dunlap offered his skin to save 8 year old John Shaw, burned a month earlier. Doctors said the elder's skin would not heal properly on the boy in a grafting procedure.
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Harrisburg
Davis Dunlap
John Shaw
Letters Demand Bride From St Louis Man
Robert Peretti, who wed secretly in Chicago, turned over to post office inspectors threatening notes demanding his 19 year old wife and $1000. He suspects he is a target of a new form of blind threat, while an admiral on board a ship is greeted with a classmate’s punning salute about foretop duty on a map of war.
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St. Louis
Robert Peretti
Chicago
Post Office
Peretti
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Lion
DR. Friedmann
Arsene P. Pujo
Money Trust Investigators
American Press Association
Ona
Louisiana
Money Trust
J. Pierpont Morgan
George F. Baker
Congressman Pujo
Jekyteland
Georgia
Samuel Untermyer
William Rockefeller
Suffragette Army
Maryland
Thames Tunnels
Des Moines
F. B. Austin
Lee
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