Roosevelt reorganizes Panama Canal project leadership
Washington reports President Roosevelt shifts canal work to the Army Corps of Engineers. The contract on the percentage basis is abandoned for now and John F. Stevens resigns as engineer in charge. The commission will be reorganized with three engineer officers headed by Major J. W. Goethals.
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Washington
Isthmian Canal
Roosevelt
Army
Panama Canal
John F. Stevens
Engineer Corps
J. W. Goethals
D. Duk
Gall Tend
William N. Sibert
Renk
Fire kills Principal and sixteen children at Hochelaga school
A fire at the Hochelaga Protestant school in Montreal claimed Principal Maxwell and sixteen children. About 200 pupils were in the brick two story building when the furnace fire started. Kindergarten on the second floor saw the highest loss as children suffocated on the landing and stairways.
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Montreal
Que
Maxwell
Hochelaga
Protestant School Commission
Miss Maxwell
Currency reform bills pass in Senate and House debates
The senate approved the sundry civil appropriation bill worth 114 million dollars and the Aldrich currency bill. The latter enables ten dollar gold certificates to be issued and converts ten dollar greenbacks into smaller denominations. It also allows customs receipts to be deposited in national banks and expands monthly retirement of national bank circulation. Conference reports on naval, army, fortification, and District of Columbia bills were adopted. General debate on the ship subsidy bill began in the house and extended beyond the five hour limit.
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Washington
Senate
Internal Revenue
District of Columbia
Miss Dixon Case Deepens Over Ledger Shortage
Bloomington HL Feb 27 reports a Northwestern Life Insurance agent alleges Helen Dix on worked as stenographer and bookkeeper for the Chicago company. Auditors find a ledger shortage of 800 dollars and 30 pages torn from the records.
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Dixon
Bloomington
Helen Dixon
Northwestern Life Insurance Company
Chicago
Cost of the Salton Sink Dam Project
The Colorado River aversion at the Imperial Valley dam held for two weeks and is believed safer. Levee construction on a twenty mile stretch will finish by April. Total river-curbing cost ranges from 38 million to 40 million dollars funded by the Southern Pacific.
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Salton
Los Angeles
Cal
Colorado
Imperial Valley
Apell UH
Southern Pacific
He Was Saved by Accident in Evansville
Frank Taub a liveryman fell from the mail line wharfboat and clung to a hanging rope for eight hours until rescue. A steamer from Bomshire inadvertently aided his discovery as storms muffled his cries.
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Fvansville
Ind
Frank Taub
Nub
Yvinling
Bomshire
Two Orham sisters face ruin as cash runs dry
In a small New England home Miss Tempy and Miss Prissy reveal a dwindling bank balance of 580 dollars after bond sales and improvised scrimping. They discuss selling land and sending Bradley to high school while seeking a side job in dressmaking. Bradley returns with Cap'n Titcomb present as tension peaks.
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Miss Tempy
Miss Prissy
Savin’s Bank
Boston
Bradley
Prissy
Tempy
Long
Harniss Bank
Captain Allen
Boston Savin's Bank
Hagniss
Orham
Father
Prissy Allen
South Orham
Temp
Melissa Busteed
Abigail Mullett
Ostable
Blaisdell
Allens
Bradley Nickerson
Cap'n Titcomb
Tie
Brad
Otwell father dies from grief after fire kills two children
Boonville Indiana February 27 Bert Potts of Otwell father of two dead children perished from grief after the fire that destroyed his offspring. His failing health worsened as the tragedy unfolded.
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Boonville
Ind
Bert Potts
Otwell
Potts
Car Demolishes Two-Story Blacksmith Shop in Vassar
A car loaded with merchandise plowed through a two story wooden blacksmith shop 80 by 40 feet at the Pere Marquette spur end, wrecking the building. Seven cars making a flying switch struck another car and pushed it through the bumper into the structure, causing total destruction.
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Vassar
Mich
National League Adopts Season Schedule After Joint Committee
New York Feb 27. Directors of the National League met and adopted the joint JuIsA committee recommendations. The schedule for the approaching season was ratified with President Pulliam presiding.
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New York
National League of Base Ball Clubs
Pulliam
Fish in deep well near Sagview factory draw crowds
In Sagview Michigan on February 27 a deep well near the Quaker Shade Boller factory contains hundreds of small fish. Ralph Morse displays many of the fish he identifies as small pike, drawing local interest.
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Sagview
Mich
Quaker Shade Boller Company
Ralph Morse
W. P. Morse
Zeigler Mine Owner Faces Criminal Negligence Trial
Joseph Leiter, owner of the Zeigler mining town, is on trial in Franklin county circuit court at Benton for criminal negligence linked to the 1905 explosion that killed fifty seven men at his mine.
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PaQuoin
Joseph Leiter
Franklin County
Benton
Leiter
Zeigler
Death of Vicomte de la Rochefoucauld at 40
Paris reports Vicomte de la Rochefoucauld dies of appendicitis at age 40. He was the eldest son by the Duc de Doudeauville and Princess Marie de Lignen and a prominent horseman.
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A de Rochefoucauld
Paris
Vicomte de la Rochefoulcauld
Duc de Doudeauville
Marie de Lignen
Vicomte
Weather forecast for Midwest states shifts to snow and cold
The official forecast up to 8 o'clock tonight calls for snow and colder conditions across Illinois Indiana and Wisconsin with brisk north winds. Lower Michigan and Iowa also face snow and colder weather with strong northerly winds and northerly breezes in the north.
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Illinois
Indiana
Lower
Michigan
Wisconsin
Iowa
Market report on corn by sample and live stock prices
Chicago and East Buffalo quotes for corn by sample hogs cattle sheep and hay. Receipts and bid ranges listed for prime shipping hogs prime fat steers prime heifers and calves with prices across multiple grades and regions. Live poultry hay and cattle figures provided with regional buyers and exact price bands.
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Chicago
Choice Prairie
East Buffalo
Buffalo
N. Y
Dunning & Stevens
Live Stock Commission
Rising From the Grave Electric Bitters Sold in Lucama
Wm A Fertwell of Lucama North Carolina recounts a remarkable cure claim for Brights disease in the diabetes stage after using less than three bottles of Electric Bitters. He says the remedy has stopped liver and bladder trouble and believes it will permanently cure him. Stewart's pharmacy guarantees the product at 50 cents.
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Wm. A. Fertwell
Lucama
N. C
Bright
Stewart’s
One Way Settlers Rates To Western States
The Iowa Central will sell one way settlers tickets from January to March on the first and third Tuesdays at two dollars above half fare. Destinations include Nebraska Eastern Colorado Kansas Missouri Arkansas Indian Territory Oklahoma Texas Louisiana Alabama Mississippi and more. Contact Iowa Central agents for details or A B Cutts G P and T A Minneapolis Minnesota.
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Nebraska
Colorado
Kansas
Missouri
Arkansas
Indian Territory
Oklahoma
Texas
Louisiana
Alabama
Mississippi
Iowa Central
Lowa
A. B. Cutts
Earry
Minneapolis
Minn
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Chichester Chemical CO
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Philadelphia
Frank Rogers
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North Side Square
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Sprague Correspondence School OF Law
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