War Talk Is Absurd Congress May Lengthen Session Time
Congress debates a longer session to finish business before adjournment. The piece notes heavy Senate talk and risk of rushing appropriations while other bills lag, plus public fear of war with Japan and defense funding at Pearl Harbor. It highlights York Taft and Roosevelt in treaty efforts on Japanese immigration and school segregation. It also covers a promotion for Lt. James Carroll and a tipped debate in DC.
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Charles W. Arthur
Congress
Fnally
Senate
Hale
Maine
Japan
San Francisco
Taft
Pearl Harbor
Honolulu
Roosevelt
Viscount Aoki
California
United States
Senate Committee On
James Carroll
Army Medical Museum
Washington
Carroll
War Department
Cuba
Murphy
Missouri
District of Columbia
Nye
Bureau of Entomology
Department of Agriculture
Bill Nye
Kahn
Bill
Humorist
Rabid dog attacks prompt muzzle order in St Paul
Seven people in St Paul were bitten by rabid dogs and the council authorized Health Commissioner O Triage and Police Chief O Conner to muzzle all dogs. Tiny unmuzzled dogs on streets after three days will be shot. Victims include Dr. B J Tenny and Patrolman Johnson among others.
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St. Paul
Common Council
O'Tiage
O'Conner
B. J. Tenny
Adam Robertson
Elmer Hanson
Leonard Landquist
Ivan Nolander
B. Hawke
Johnson
Margaret Street
Legislature Amends Law to Help Reclaim Toy Amid Court Case
Philadelphia February reports a new Pennsylvania law modifying the replevin statute to allow recovery of a toy Kore an girl had from childhood. Mrs Imma B Guillow formerly Brewster of Pasadena California testified the toy was sold by mistake with her late father Judge F Carroll Brewster estate. A buyer refused surrender prompting the legislative change. In Michigan a girl Edna Treen aged 20 was fatally burned when her clothes caught fire from a stove while rocking a baby outside the home. She saved the infant by throwing it onto a sofa before perishing.
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Imma B. Guillow
Pasadena
Cal
F. Carroll Brewster
Mich
Mise
Ednatreen
Fire destroys American Homing Mills plant in Terre Taute
A fire at 3 30 a m gutted the American homing mills plant in Terre Taute Indiana causing an estimated one hundred thousand dollars in losses. Insurance coverage is believed to be placed in Indianapolis.
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Terre Taute
Ind
Indianapolis
Weather forecast for Midwest snow and warmth
The forecast covers Illinois Indiana and Wisconsin with snow and warmer conditions. Lower Michigan may see snow and higher temperatures. Wisconsin and Iowa report snow and warmer weather. The era notation notes a warmer trend across the region.
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Illinois
Indiana
Lower
Michigan
Wisconsin
Towa
Markets Report Chicago Grain and Live Stock Prices
Chicago grain prices quoted on February 6 with wheat and corn futures for February May and July, plus cash bids for winter and spring wheats and various corn and oats grades. Live stock in Chicago and East Buffalo showed hogs firm at around 7.30, cattle and sheep trading within shaded ranges, with receipts overall modest.
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Chicago Grain
Chicago
Chicago Board of Trade
TSM
Wy Agt
AGG
Wisk
Springs
Ile
Lee
Choice Prairie
East Buffalo
N. Y
Dunning & Stevens
Live Stock Commission
General Bragg Downplays U S War with Japan
An Evening Wisconsin report quotes General Edward S. Bragg saying no war with Japan is imminent. He criticizes anti Japanese sentiment, notes Japan’s debt and potential army, and argues against U S interference in California school conflicts.
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Milwaukee
Wisconsin
Bond du Lac
Wis
Edward 8. Bragg
United States
Hong Kong
Oaid
Dan
Roof Fire on Northwestern Sleeper Sparks Beloit Dash
Passengers aboard a Beloit bound sleeper learned after arrival at St Paul that their train’s roof caught fire during the night. Crews rushed twelve miles in ten minutes to Beloit for a fire crew, the blaze on the car roof extinguished without waking travelers.
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St. Pat
Web
St. Paul
Northwestern
Beloit
Wis
Caledonian
Twin Cities
Caledonia
Clerical fraud confessed over payroll padding case
St. Louis authorities report Chief Clerk Thomas V. Peck admitted padding substitute teacher payrolls for four months and defrauding the office of 350 dollars with assistance from Mrs. Van Trump who posed as a teacher and cashed forged checks in the secretary's office.
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St. Louis
Thomas V. Peck
Board of Education
van Trump
Woman's skirt sent to lab shows millions of microbes
London readers report Professor W. Bottomley noting in a biology letter that a woman’s skirt worn in west end streets for half an hour was sent to a laboratory and found to harbor 16 500 000 microbes, including many phthisis bacilli.
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London
Bottomley
West End
Cuban Editor Objects to Magoon Army Decree
Havana reports Governor Magoon issues a decree organizing a Cuban army with males aged 15 to 40 to serve in a permanent force and militia. The Piscatorial editor calls the order a foreign hand dictating compulsory military service and predicts nationwide militarization.
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Havana
Heb
Magoon
Nations
Piscuselon
Cuba
Branded Initiation Mark Scars Two High School Girls
Indianapolis report says three high school girls were branded with acid during an Alpha Gamma Tau sorority initiation. A letter A GT was marked on hands and a bracelet mark on wrists. Two recipients suffered burns requiring medical attention and may be permanently scarred. the third was branded after dilution and may avoid lifetime marks. The initiators claim they believed the acid was harmless and acted in fun.
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Indianapolis
Feb
Alpha Gamma Tau
Ennai
Four Die in Blaze at Pelham Livery Stables
Fire swept through the livery stables and living quarters of R. L. Vaughn in Pelham New York on February 7 engulfing the upper rooms and causing the deaths of four occupants.
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Pelham
N. Y
R. L. Vaughn
Fire Claims Vaughn Family and Helper as Horse Rescue Fails
Mrs Vaughn and her 2 year old son perish in a blaze. A colored woman living with them is burned in bed. Thomas Micky, a stableman, dies trying to save the horses after escaping the house. Washington reports Representative Hepburn of Iowa is home with a severe cold and has not attended the Capitol for two days.
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Washington
Representative Hepburn
Iowa
Loase Committee On Interstate and Foreign Commerce
Capitol
Tiny Kokomo Baby Born At Home of Mr and Mrs McCoy
A daughter weighing one pound eight ounces arrived at the home of Mr and Mrs Charles McCoy in Kokomo on February 7. The infant is reported as well developed and hearty.
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Kokomo
Ind
Dirs
Charles McCoy
Russo-Japanese War Honor Sentence Echoes in Fort
Vice Admiral Nebogatoff faces ten years in a fortress as his share of war honors. He participated in the last major naval engagement.
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Nebogatoff
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