Panama Canal feasibility eyed by congressional party
A Washington Post special reports on the Isthmus of Panama inspection by the House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee led by Chairman Hepburn and Senator Kittredge. They saw Panama as a model for a sea level canal and pressed for legislation supporting feasibility, with engineers Wallace and Davis expressing confidence in progress despite costs.
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Washington Post
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Louisiana
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Missour
Ryan
New York
Lorvat Fletcher
Minnesota
New Congress
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Sumner
New Orleans
Santiago de Cuba
Kingston
Jamaica
Kingstan
Colon
Luex
Titus
Ormmmutte
Yeassel
Hittredge
House Committee
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Wittredge
Pact With Panama Defines Dockage and Transit Privileges
The agreement details reciprocal dockage rights between Ancon Cristobal and Panama ports, allows lighterage at Panama anchorage near Las Hermanos and Punta Mala, and preserves full island port jurisdictions. It also outlines clearance documents, postal and tariff arrangements, and sanitary authority mandates for Panama and Colon waters.
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Cristobal
Panama
An Coton
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Perica
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Nags
Culebra
Ancon
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United States
Canal Zone
Congress
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Punta Wala
Las Tres Hermanes
Funta Mala
Canal Gene
Canal Cone
Pouohea
Miss Tartle Believed Arrived From Chicago For Funeral
Miss Anne Tartle Gilbert, actress, arrived from Chicago tonight at 8 oclock aboard the Erie road train. She was taken to her West Sixty-first Street home where many theater people called. Funeral at Bloomingdale Reformed Church Tuesday morning. Interment at Greenwood. Honorary pallbearers named: Sir Charles Wyndham, Justice Joseph F Daty, A M Palmer, Daniel Frohman, N C Goodwin, Clyde Fitch, John Drew, Francis Wilson, and Frank E Aiken. George Ade, writer and playwright, improving at Holland House and expected to be out tomorrow after recent stomach trouble.
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Anne Tartle
Gilbert
Chicago
Gelock
Erie Road
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Bloomingdale Reformed Church
Gibert
Greenwood
Charles Wyndmer
Joseph F Daty
Palmer Daniel Frohman
N C Goodwin
Clyde Fitch
John Drew
Francis Wilson
Frank E Aiken
Panama and United States Agreement on Canal Zone Hospitals
Secretary Taft and Panamanian leaders approve executive order linking hospital sites to land grants and per capita payments. Amador and Guardia endorse the accord, Panama to welcome Taft visit with public support planned. Taft to sail to Pearl Islands then Pensacola before returning to Washington.
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Washington Line
Republic of Panama
United States
Uniesa
Republic of
Phinama
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National Assembly of
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Canal Sone
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Canal Cone
Republic
United Begion
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Republic of Fanama
W. 1, Tart
Amador
Taft
Senor Guardia
Manual Amador
Santiago Guardia
Closing WCTU Service Sees Growing Abstinence Push
Philadelphia hosts the final session of the national Woman's Christian Temperance Union convention. Evangelist Eugenia F. Bt. John of Kangas preached that America’s middle class is increasingly abstaining while much liquor is produced for distant outposts. National President Lillian M. Stevens presided at Grace Baptist Temple.
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America
Philadelphia
Woman’s Christian Temperance Union
Nermon
Eugenia F. Bt. John
Kangas
Grace Baptist Temple
Lillian M. Stevens
Maine
United States
Prince Fushimi Hosts Informal Boston Dinner At Somerset
Fatigued by tours and functions in his honor Prince Fushimi of the Imperial family of Japan spent Sunday in his Boston hotel apartments. Tonight he entertained a select group including Harvard’s John C Gray and Dr Charles W Eliot Japanese consul Osborne Howes and others at an informal dinner
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Harvard
Bostoniang
Boston
Prince Fushim
Imperial Family of
Japan
Somerset
John C Gray
Harvard University
Charles W. Eliot
Osborne Howes
Henry M. Whitney
Chamber of Commeres
Francis C. Lowell
United States Court
Charles H. Hamlin
the Treasury
Kenetaro Kaneko
United States
W. R. Richards
Monument to James Bridger Will Be Erected in Local Cemetery
Bones of James Bridger the famed scout and discoverer of Great Salt Lake will be moved from a south of Kansas City grave to a local cemetery for burial tomorrow. A granite monument will be unveiled next Sunday with Bridger’s granddaughter Mary Leightle present. Gen. Granville M. Dodge funds the monument as engineer who aided the Union Pacific’s Rocky Mountain pass discovery.
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Kansas City
Great Salt Lake
Mary Leightle
Bridgers
Granville M. Dodge
Union Pacific Railway
Bridger
Rocky Mountains
World's Fair structures to be sold to wrecking firm
St Louis reports a contract set this week for the sale of eleven large exhibit palaces stock barns Festival Hall Colonnade of States pavilions aerodrome bank intramural railway hospital press building police and fire stations and other World’s Fair structures at about 28000. Rolling stock of the intramural is sold separately and the State foreign and Pike buildings are excluded. Funeral of banker John Monroe held at Church of the Holy Trinity with attendance by Ambassador Porter and Sir E M Monson and other dignitaries. body to rest in church vaults.
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Canal Zone
John Barrett
United States
Republic of Panama
Colon
Panamaio
Amador
Panama
Pana
Flords
Willise
Colon Harbor
Wis
Chagres
Empire
Old
St Louis
Festival Hall
Chicago
Monroe
Paris
John Monroe
Church of the Holy Trinity
Porter
E. M Monson
Death by Morphine Overdose Shocks Meridian Hotel
Otto Mayer district manager for Maas and Newburger cotton brokers was found dead in his bed at the Southern Hotel in Meridian Mississippi. Coroners jury ruled accidental morphine overdose used to induce sleep. In Ardmore Indian Territory investigators report a bank shortage of 22000 to 25000 dollars at First National Bank Madilla with one officer missing and others unaware of his location.
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Otto Mayer
Maas & Newburger
Southern
Jeep
Ardmore
I. T
First National Bank
Madilla
Fewer Aliens Coming and Labor Law Enforcement Keystone
Commissioner General Frank P. Sargent reports a drop in immigration and a rise in the moral and economic quality of entrants. He notes 812,870 aliens arrived, with Italy and Austria-Hungary leading origins, a shift toward higher literacy and wealth, and 7,994 refusals at ports, including 1,501 contract laborers despite fewer arrivals. He urges harsher penalties for employers who violate the alien contract labor law and stronger DOJ action to enforce it.
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United States
Frank P. Sargent
Europe
Asia
Italy
Austria-Hungary
Russia
Germany
England
Ireland
Sweden
Norway
Greece
Scotland
Japan
China
Sargent
Invention Promotes Health via Grape-Nuts Reform
A Chicago mother recounts a seven year old daughter’s letter about using Grape-Nuts and cream transforming her weak son into a tall athletic boy and boosting his health. The mother, later, used Grape-Nuts in soup and with eggs, aiding her 82 year old stomach. The girl’s tale of illness and recovery is shared, praising the product as a godsend from Battle Creek makers Postum Co. The package includes a small recipe book titled Read to Wellville.
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Battle Creek
Postum Co
Mich
Wellvills
Alien Immigration Dangers Highlighted By Commissioner Sargent
Commissioner Sargent warns of grave risks from alien colonies and disease carriers sown across the United States. He cites 1560 infected passengers denied entry, 24,400 dollars in penalties, and vessels warned that discharged alien seamen become immigrants under law. He calls for better distribution of admitted aliens and enforcement at Eastern ports.
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Marine Hospital Service
Princpal
United States
Yokohama
Nagasaki
Sargent
Battle at Zeigler in Coal Region Blockhouse Attacks
Zeigler Illinois reports two attacks on the Gordon blockhouse near the pumping station and administration building. firing from outside answered by soldiers, rapid fire guns, deputies search for a suspect linked to assaults on Superintendents Whittier and Jones. Maj Elliott of Arcola moves to Zeigler to assume command as Adjutant Gen Scott orders Maj Elliott to depart. no official report of firing last night.
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Arcola
Fourth Infantry
Zeigler
Tthott
Springfield
Adjt
Scott
Rural carriers deny organized political activity
President Cunningham of the National Rural Letter Carriers Association based in South Omaha says there is no official action by rural letter carriers in politics. He refutes a charge that carriers attempted to defeat certain Congressmen, noting only about twenty to twenty-five carriers in Overstreet's district. The official organ urged the association to abstain from political involvement.
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Nebr
Cunningham
National Rural Letter Carriers’ Association
South Omaha
Overstreet
House Post-Office Committee
Potter on Old Testament Relation to Modern Life
Bishop Henry C. Potter of New York told Wellesley College chapel listeners that the Old Testament should be judged in light of its age and social conditions. He argued barbaric passages reflect early ethical growth and a long-progressing understanding, not modern ideas.
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Henry C. Potter
New York
Wellesley College Today
Man Burned to Death at Missouri Baptist Sanitarium
A fire at the Missouri Baptist Sanitarium in St. Louis killed Frank Roberts, a firefighter, while he tried to save nurses. Four young women nurses jumped from windows or fled through flames. Effie Morgan of Ray County and Charity Laubender of Massillon are the most seriously injured, with Morgan sustaining broken ankles and possible internal injuries. Ella Rock of Michigan also suffered severe burns during escape.
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Missouri Baptist Sanitarium
Frank Roberts
Effie Morgan
Ray County
Charity Laubender
Massillon
Ohio
Morgan
Dyspepsia Tablets Proclaimed As Safe Cure For Dyspepsia
A long promotional text asserts Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets cure dyspepsia by strengthening weak digestive organs. It warns against other treatments as unscientific and claims immediate digestion aid, safety, pleasantness, and permanence for many thousands of users.
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Tuart
Readjusting steel mill wages at Illinois Steel Company
Chicago December news reports an equalizing wage plan at the Illinois Steel Company plate mill in South Chicago. Unskilled workers will see raises to about 1.85 dollars daily while higher paid craftsmen face reductions, reversing earlier cuts from the shutdown a year ago. Most workers earning over four dollars a day are projected to lose pay under the new arrangement.
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Chicago
I Mnois Steel Company
Body Found in Pond Solves Providence Manufacturer Mystery
Charles Holbrook, 59, wealthy Providence cotton picker maker and senior partner of A. C. W. Holbrook, disappeared November 7. His body was found by Bertram Jenks while skating on Stump Hill pond, under ice with a hole cut for retrieval. no foul play suspected. Holbrook left a nervous trouble history and leaves a family. In Richmond, Ind., a Knights of Pythias age-limit proposal to raise admission to eighteen was approved by Supreme Chancellor Shively and proceeds to grand lodges.
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Lincoln
R. I
Albert Holbrook
Bertram Jenks
Stump Hill Pond
Holbrook
Richmond
Ind
Knights of Pythias of the World
Supreme Convention
Charles ED Shively
Mother and Son Perish in Gas Tragedy in Philadelphia
Mrs Ida Slaysman and her eleven year old son Harry were found dead from asphyxiation in a lodging house room in Philadelphia. A gas jet was likely left on accidentally while either parent or boy was turning it off. The son was found in his mother’s arms. In Worcester Massachusetts Patrick Conaty died at the Church rectory, father of Bishop Thomas J. Conaty of Los Angeles and Rev Bernard S. Conaty, rector.
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Ida Slaysman
Harry
Bishop Conaty
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Mass
Patrick Conaty
Thomas J. Conaty
Los Angeles
Bernard S. Conaty
Church of the Sacred Heart
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