Debates and storms mark five days in early 1900s news
A roundup of Congress debates on the Philippine tariff with speakers Dalzell Keifer Grosvenor Williams and McCall, plus the senate discussing a national board for corporations. Reports include wrecks, fires, arrests, labor shifts, and political shifts abroad.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dalzell
Pennsylvania
House
Keifer
Ohio
Senate
Grosvenor
Williams
Hyburn
Board For
House of Representatives
Massachusetts
McCall
Longworth
Roosevelt
Poll
North Carolina
Babcock
Wisconsin
Major fires and incidents sweep across early 20th century towns
Reports cover a three year Panama fire affecting poor districts, a Baltimore YM Y building project costing 590000, Canadian financier T R Merritt's death at St Catherines, a Norfolk Va storage fire with one firefighter dead, and 350 Newport naval apprentices linked to spotted fever cases. Includes railroad wreck at Liverpool NY, Cossack assault aftermath at Tiflis, Tyrolean avalanche, Wilkinsburg typhoid outbreak, and the Pittsburg Youngstown & Ashtabula Railroad Co. formation with 15 million capital.
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Panama
Young Men's Christian Association
Baltimore
T. R. Merritt
Imperial Bank
St. Catherines
Ont
Welland Canal
Norfolk Storage and Peanut Co
Norfolk
Newport
R. L
United States
Canada
Samuel L. Russell
Chesapeake Bay
Municipal Court of
Minneapolis
Minnesota Supreme Court
Pittsburg Leader
John P. Hunter
New York Central
Liverpool
N. Y
Edwin Parish
Oswego
Tiflis
Caucasia
Hall Valley
Tyrol
Austria
Wilkinsburg
Pittsburg
Pittsburg, Youngstown & Ashtabula Railroad Co
Ohio
Youngstown & Ashtabula
Marshall Field Dies at 70 in New York
Marshall Field the Chicago merchant and financier died at the Holland House New York at 4 o clock Tuesday after an eight day illness of pneumonia. He built Marshall Field & Co into a world leading firm with Europe and Asia branches and endowed the Field Museum and University of Chicago. Field never borrowed money and paid cash for all purchases. He was born in Conway Massachusetts in 1835 and married twice leaving two children Ethel and Marshall Field Jr. who died after an accidental shooting in 1965. He was once a possible Democratic vice presidential candidate.
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Roosevelt
Congress
Chicago
James Brown Scott
California
Columbia University
New York
State Department
Penfield
Reading Railroad Co
Reading
Washington
National Rivers and Harbors Congress
Lisovski
Social Revolutionaries
Penza
Russia
Fortieth Street
Calumet Avenue
Vienna
Thomas Feeley
Philadelphia & Reading Coal and Iron Co
Feeley
George Campbell
Maple Hill
Riga
Albert T. Patrick
Sing Sing
William Marsh Rice
New York City
United States
Department of Agriculture
Edward R. Tufts
Montana
Prince Philip of
Saxe-Coburg and Gotha
Princess Louise
Leopold
Belgium
France
M. Taigny
Mr. Russell
Venezuela
P. V. de Graw
Samuel Humphreys
Norfolk & Western Railway Co
Gov. Curtis Guild
Warren F. Locke
James O. Otis
Savings Bank
Massachusetts
Gov. Guild
William C. Woodward
United States District Court
Boston
Miner Merriwether
Louisiana
James R. Branch
Marshall Field
Holland House
Conway
Mass
Pittsfield
Cooley, Wadsworth & Co
Levi Z. Leiter
Potter Palmer
Field, Palmer
House of Marshall Field & Co
Field
Field Columbian Museum
University of Chicago
Mr. Field
London
England
Caton
Arthur Caton
Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Praised by Women
A historical notice extols Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound as a remedy for female illnesses. It highlights Mrs Pinkham's free expert advice from Lynn Massachusetts and cites testimonials from women reporting cures and tumor disappearance after following her guidance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lydia E. Pinkham
Lydia IE. Pinkham
Shortage Hits Kansas Treasury Eighty Thousand Dollars
A report by Accountant Morris shows a total treasury shortage of about $78,000 for Kansas covering 1898 to 1905. Most shortfall occurred during Frank Grimes term with $60,000 from missing bond coupons for the state school fund and $18,000 from lost interest on warrants issued by Oklahoma.
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Topeka
Kan
Kansas State
Morris
Hoch
Frank Grimes
Thomas T. Kelley
Grimes
State School Fund
Territory of
Oklahoma
Kansas
Tunnel disaster sinks workers as pipe bursts in East River
New York January 17 two negro tunnel workers died of suffocation and caisson disease two were drowned two others overcome and a white foreman and assistant severely hurt while rescuing survivors when a compressed air pipe burst in the East River tunnel on Man o War reef near Forty second street Tuesday Grand Jury Indicted County Officials Owosso Michigan January 17 forty four indictments returned by the grand jury investigating Shiawassee county affairs and the new courthouse construction All but five indictments target members of the board of supervisors
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Gen
Khovostoff
Chernigoff
Russia
Iris
New Orleans
Esbjerg
Denmark
Horn’s Reef
North Sea
James A. Doran
James Doran & Co
St. Paul
Civic Federation
Crucible Steel Company of America
Pittsburg
Lake Carriers’ Association
Detroit
Quebec
Dakotas
George Sisling
Nottingham
England
Minneapolis
Minn
Carnegie Steel Co
Greenville
Joseph C. Sibley
Washington
L. McKinney
Aledo
Stella Grady
Tokio
Manchuria
Togo
Bessie Hollister
Franklin C. Hollister
Hollister Bros
Chicago
Richard Ivins
Audenreidh
John W. Hill
Philadelphia
National Banking Co
Newark
N. J
Benjamin Robertson
Traverse City
Mich
Robertson
John A. McCall
New York Life Insurance Co
Long Branch
New York Life
Andrew Hamilton
Hamilton
Cherokee
San Domingo
New York
Atlantic City
International Brotherhood of Pulp Sulphite and
Burlington
George Beder
Thompsonville
Justice Woodward
Supreme Court
Brooklyn
N. Y
Abraham H. Hummel
Dodge-Morse
East River
Man o’War Reef
Forty-second Street
Owosso, Mich
Shiawassee
Board of Supervisors
Fire wipes out Russellville business district in January blaze
A Monday night fire in Russellville Arkansas destroyed the entire business district and caused an estimated loss of 300000 dollars. The blaze began Monday night and left the downtown area in ashes with extensive property damage and economic impact on local merchants.
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Russellville
Ark
Dialogue Snapshot from Tokio Puck Comic Exchange
In a Tokyo scene a man asks a woman her age and she replies she has seen 19 summers. The man then inquires about her blindness, prompting a brief back and forth reflective exchange.
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Bataro
Hayjiko
Tokio Puck
Mrs. Wright Credits Dean's Kidney Pills for Cure
Mrs. E. W. Wright of 172 Main Street Haverhill Massachusetts describes four years of back pain dizziness irregular urinary flow and distressing monthly periods. After starting Dean's Kidney Pills she used three boxes and reports a permanent cure. Sold by all dealers 50 cents a box Foster Milburn Co Buffalo NY.
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E. W. Wright
Main Street
Haverhill
Mass
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo, N. Y
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