Free Breakfast Table Reappears in Prohibition Debate
The Anti-saloon League presses a local option bill for the District of Columbia while congress debates revenue needs. The article notes a wave of prohibition influencing internal revenue, coffee duties proposed by Dick Bartholdt, and recalls the 1840s drive for a "free breakfast table" under Pig Iron Kelley. Ex vice presidents Roosevelt Morton Stevenson and Fairbanks are profiled as Congress prepares recess.
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Charles W. Arthur
Washington
Anti-saloon League of America
District of Columbia
Smith
Michigan
Jenkins
House Judiciary Committee
Theodore Roosevelt
United States
Levi P. Morton
New York
Adlai E. Stevenson
Illinois
Charles W. Fairbanks
Indiana
Roosevelt
Congress
Dick Bartholdt
St. Louis
Kelley
Pennsylvania
Big Poultry Show Opens in Chicago Exhibition
The Chicago poultry show opens with thousands of specimens including chickens pigeons turkeys ducks and geese. Prizes exceed 10 000 dollars with entries from 40 states and a $10 000 hen among valued birds.
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Chicago
New York
Boston
German Oak Siegfried sails for world wrestling title bid
After touring France Ernest Siegfried the German Oak sails to New York to challenge Frank Gotch for the world championship. He will be managed by Ernest Roeber and wrestle Joe Rogers and Atlas at Madison Square Garden on January 28 and has agreed to throw both men in a half hour or forfeit 250 dollars.
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Siegfrend
Siegfried
Joe Rogers
Atlas
Papke Kelly Bout Set for Twenty Five Rounds in LA
In Los Angeles tonight Hugo Kelly of Chicago faces Billy Papke in a twenty five round middleweight bout at the Jeffersons Athletic club. Both draw crowds and a packed ringside is expected. The winner will challenge Stanley Ketchel for the middleweight title.
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Los Angeles
Fissiana
Hugo Kelly
Chicago
Billy Papke
Illinois Thunderbolt
Jeffries Athletic Club
Papke
Stanley Ketchel
Kelly
Tonicht
Ketchel
Divine Healer mobbed in Illinois town
Schlatter the self styled Divine Healer was mobbed after declaring President McKinley an anarchist. Police escorted him to the first train out of town bound for Quincy Illinois.
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Illlinois
McKinley
Macomb
Kaisers Castles for Sale to Meet Creditors
Berlin reports the Kaiser may sell the private castles of Benrath and Jaegerschloss near Dusseldorf to satisfy creditors. Officials say his expenditure on art treasures has drained imperial finances and funded costly tastes.
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Berlin
Benrath
Jaegerschioss
Dusseldorf
Moran Neil Scrap Little Fighters Meet In Ring Tonight
In Boston tonight at the Armory Athletic Club Owen Moran of England and Frankie Neil of California meet in a twelve round featherweight bout. Moran claims the featherweight title of England and Neil was formerly bantamweight champion of America.
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Cocton
Boston
Owen Moran
England
Frankie Neil
California
Armory Athletic Club
Moran
Neil
America
President warned on African dangers from insects
J O Thompson of Richmond Ind told the president that his greatest danger in Africa would be poisonous insects not wild animals. He urged the president to sleep in an insect guarded place after being introduced by Representative Bede of Minnesota.
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Washington
J. O. Thompson
Richmond
Ind
Africa
Bede
Minnesota
Evans Refuses LA Citizens House Request
In Los Angeles CaliforniaTy Rear Admiral Bob Evans declines to permit residents to grant him a house. The action underscores ongoing tensions between public demands and official prerogatives in the city.
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Evans Neruses
Mouse
Los Angeles
Cal
Bob Evans
Dhe
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