Heyburn the Fighter Senator and Press Foe
Weldon Brinton Heyburn longtime Idaho Republican senator died in Washington after a long heart illness. He fought for the pure food bill and opposed confederate ties while clashing with newspaper men and defending tariff and industrial measures. He chaired both the manufactures and the revision of laws committees.
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Weldon Brinton Heyburn
United States
Idaho
Washington
Congress
Senate
Heyburn
Mobile
Hey- Be
Tae
Laughus
Robert E. Lee
Statuary Hall
Benedict Arnold
Connecticut
Lee
Virginia
T. ER. Hamer
Wallace
Ida
Sfapator
Indians Allowed to Pay Debts to Traders
Indian claimants amounting to 2,500 individuals press for $2,000,000 in debts owed by tribes. A circular from Acting Indian Commissioner Abbott loosens old restrictions that blocked payment to Indian post traders, aiming to convert tribes to cash or credit and settle about $2.0 million in claims from roughly 150,000 filed against the bureau.
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Threescore
Abbott
Indian Bureau
Bureau
Steel Railway Ties in Panama City Streets
Steel railway ties are being laid on all streets in Panama City where concrete foundations exist for street railways. The tracks rest on crushed rock foundations, using creosoted cypress ties.
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Panama
The Contractor Aims High to Build a Home
A humorous portrait of a contractor who plans to finish a house by the day but often ends up building it by the year. Fine print and legal language entangle the process while movable crews and weather delays test patience. The piece blends wit about contracts, extras, and the fraught dance between builder and client.
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Cate
Sweet Christian Charity
New Armory Saw In Effect Today
Washington reports the new quartermaster corps began work under the recent consolidation of the quartermaster general commissary general and paymaster general offices. Major J B Aleshire is head of the reorganized corps with the rank of major general, guiding implementation as six subsistence captains are advanced to major to preserve rank.
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Washington
Quartermaster Corps
Congress
Army
J. B. Aleshire
Quartermaster General
England Domestics Arrive in Canada
Liverpool reports the second large party of domestic servants imported into Ontario by the Department of Colonization and Immigration failed today on Lake Manitoba. Government matrons oversee the girls and will accompany them to Toronto. Ontario officials in London secure cooperation of booking agents to find emigrants and passage, a plan that yields results.
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Liverpool
Ontario
Department of Colonization and Immigration
Manitoba
Toronto
London
Government Sets New Wireless Rules Amid Shipping Boom
The acting Secretary-Cable announces radio act regulations affecting 400 ships, 100 commercial stations, colleges and labs, with licensing for cross state and sea communications. Inspections will run from New York to San Francisco, nine districts named, exams at military and naval sites, and amateur limits set at 200 meters unless special permission granted.
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Secretary-Cable
Department of Commerce and Labor
New York
Baltimore
New Orleans
San Francisco
Boston
Chicago
Savannah
Seattle
Cleveland
United States
Ciites
Department
Great Lakes
Commissioner of Navigation
Washington
Navy Yards
Naval Stations
Naval Academy
Cable
American instruments sell worldwide despite European competition
A Commerce Department monograph notes American musical instruments reach most regions with strong sales in Canada Mexico and Australia. Phonographs drive early adoption in China and Latin America while the UK and Europe face price competition from cheap pianos and phonographs.
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Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce
Department of Commerce and Labor
Canada
China
Orient
Australia
Germany
United Kingdom
South Africa
Mexico
MAY RAZE FORDS THEATRE IN WASHINGTON DC
The Ford Theatre in Washington DC may be razed after a Taft era economy report deems it insanitary poorly ventilated and unsafe. Lincoln was shot there in 1865 and the building has housed government clerical staff since. A 1893 repair collapse killed over twenty workers.
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Ford Theater
Washington
Abraham Lincoln
John Wilkes Booth
President Taft
Lincoln
Adjutant General’s Office
Births Rise in Chicago Health Department Reports
During the first nine months of the year Chicago health department records 1 846 births up from 1911 levels by about 46 percent. The estimated annual total births including unreported is 5 000 with current rates suggesting about 7 percent of the estimate will be reported.
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Health Department of
Melancholia by Walt Mason and an ad for Chamberlain's Cough Remedy
A verse about hardship and high prices laments the winter strain on savings and spirits. An adjacent druggist endorsement from Enos Lollar of Saratoga Indiana promotes Chamberlain's Cough Remedy as the best on the market sold by Lemmon's Pharmacy.
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Enos Lollar
Saratoga
Ind
Lemmon
Advt
Partition sale notice in Washington County Iowa court
Petition filed by Samuel Anderson D H Miller and Frank Stewart as referees in a partition suit over W F Ashby property in Washington County Iowa. Proceeds from sale amounting to one ninth belong to Charles Ashby. unknown wife may have reinvestment rights. Unknown residence of wife. court may declare Charles Ashby single. Publication warns defendants to appear by the next term starting November 1912 or face default.
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Ea Ashby
Charles Ashby
District Court
Washington County
Iowa
Samuel Anderson
D. H. Miller
Frank Stewart
Eleanor Ashby
Esther Ashby
Elizabeth Ashby
Ashby
Towit
City of
Washington
Court
Hartes Ashby
Safe blowers strike Richland clothing store in Keokuk county
Sheriff McCarty hunts two men after they blew open a Richland, Keokuk county clothing store safe last night and fled with 125 dollars. Sheriff Grimes of Sigourney contacted Washington county officials seeking vigilance as Keokuk county faces a wave of burglaries. Sites include Thornburg, Martinsburg, and What Cheer.
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McCarty
Richland
Keokuk County
Grimes
Sigourney
Washington County
Keokuk
Thornburg
Martinsburg
What Cheer
Allison Memorial Model Accepted for $50,000 Monument
Nes Moines October 24 The model by Mary Evalyn Beatrice Longman of New York was accepted by the Allison memorial committee for the 50 000 monument. Committee members include General G M Dodge Governor Carroll and state curator Edgar R Harlan. About 35 models were submitted. Ad text notes Chamberlains Tablets for headache caused by a disordered stomach and Lemmon's Pharmacy sells them.
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Nes Moines
Mary Evalyn
Beatrice Longman
New York
Allison Memorial
G. M. Dodge
Council Bluffs
Governor Carroll
Edgar R. Harlan
TIME TABLES CR PB Wearthbound Arrives And Departs
Train schedule lists arrivals and departures for multiple numbered services 0 through 89 with local passenger and freight services. Notes indicate Nos 49 60 82 88 89 and certain local passenger trains run daily except Sunday under agent H. W. Russell.
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Lim
Wes
Aves
H. W. Russel
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Collections Notary Public Office
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Washington Co. Savings Bank
Washington Iowa
Edmund D. Morrison
Morrison
North Side Square
J.J. Kellogg
South Side Square
W.M. Keeley
Butterfield & Frame
Special Collection Department
Crall’s
P. J. Hanley
Klein Klo Ko Store
Harry H. Ross
Casexn Bros
E. J. Perry
West Washington Street
Ray H. Dean
Sherman Brother's
K. Wilson
Wallace & Wallace
McCall's Grocery
D. F. Macon
Macon
Austin Sutherland
Allison
Luse Land & Development Co. Ltd
St. Paul
Minnesota
Southwell & McCulley
Mars. S. E. Lowa
J.D. Dayton
West Chester, Iowa
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Geo. Peck
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Bright
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Nicola
Harmon
Fr. O. E
Alpine Aerie No. 1948
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Washington Lodge
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