Prisoners escorted as city braces for heavy guards
Report describes authorities distributing security around the city with a large force to confront threats of violence linked to the Jane Adams case. Detectives Malseed and Miller are expected to reach the scene with two men, while Captain Whalen withholds some details of the information obtained.
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Redler
Malseed
Miller
Herd
Whalen
William
Orvin
Jane Adams
William Peyler
Charges pressed against revenue cutter service official
A Columbia Lodge meeting agreed to appoint a committee to question Secretary MacVeagh and Assistant Secretary Filter regarding alleged charges of misconduct by former engineer James A Burns. The group will seek action by Congress to form a board to investigate the Revenue Cutter Service and forward the charges with explanations to lawmakers in both houses.
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Hargested
Trafiy
MacVeagh
James A Burns Cormerly
Columbia Lodge
Naval Lodge
Hab Artion
Revenue Cutter Service
Alsa
Congress
Menatoré
Norfolk Civil War Veteran's Will Sparks Hospital Bequest Debate
The will of John R. Core highlights a plan for a 100000 statue and a Cleopatra's needle monument, while bequests include 6000 for a hospital and a 266000 mausoleum fund. Mosby and Norfolk figures recall Core's eccentricities and debate his charitable choices and political past.
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Doling Mosby
Norfolk
John R. Core
Mosby
Core
Jonn W Mackay
New York
Homself
Taea? Hospital
Ja 10
Mi Cores
Col Momby
Omedia
Grant
Taft to attend Southern education aid meeting at Boardman home
An important meeting will be held to aid education in the South at Miss Mabel Boardman's residence. President Taft is expected to preside with Thomas Nelson Page leading sessions. Distinguished speakers include President Finney of the Southern Railway, Hollis Burke Frissell of Hampton, Va., President Mitchell of the University of South Carolina, and Dr. Dillard formerly of Tulane University.
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Mabel Boardman
South
Taft
Thomas Nelson Pato
Finney
The
Southern Railway
Hollis Burke Frissell
Hampton
Mitchell
University of South Carolina
Dillard
Tulana University
VOTED 50 YEARS NO CITIZEN
Robert Gordon of Pittsburg discovers he is not a U S citizen after voting in every section for 50 years. Born in Ireland, he came to the United States at age five and voted for Fremont. He filed naturalization papers and must wait two years to be examined under the 1907 registration law.
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Pitsburg
Robert Gordon
United States
Gordon
Ireland
John C. Freemont
Nice
Eithar
Lodge Heads Senate Inquiry Panel
Public hearings seem unlikely as Vice President Sherman appoints a select committee to probe higher living costs. Lodge chairs and plans to consult experts across executive departments, aiming for a thorough inquiry into rising prices. Elkins declined chair due to other duties. committee strategy to determine procedure.
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Senator Elkins
Sherman
Lodge
Gallinger
McCumber
Bmoot
Crawford
Simmons, and
Lodgs
Meat Kings or the Stand in Beef Price Inquiry
Jefferson City Missouri testimony before Special Examiner Dillon reveals competing packers deny price fixing in beef markets. C W Armour H Hodge of Armour Packing Co and G F Swift of Swift & Co dispute meetings fixed prices while Swift claims stock holdings and seller roles across several firms. Michael Ryan of Cincinnati Abattoir cites crop shortages and limited slaughter animals as factors raising meat prices, arguing no single group can control the market.
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Dillon
Companiex
C. W. Armour
Swift & Co
Tlinois
Schwerachila & Sulzberger Company
National Packing Company
New Jersey
Maine
West Virginia
Illnois Company
Hodge
Armour Packing Company
Armour & Co
Chicago
Michael Ryan
Cincinnati Abattoir Company
American Most Packers’ Association
Federal Grand Jury
Bagia
Food War Progressing in New York State
Mrs Max H senwarn of Syracuse was named state director of the National Antifood Trust Leagues for New York outside Greater New York. She will organize branches and appoint local directors as a nationwide bulletin outlines meatless menus with nutritive notes by Mrs Alice Whittaker and Mrs John Henderson.
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Max H,senwarn
Syracuse
Antifood Trust Leagues
New York
Greater
League
National League
Alice Whittaker
John ‘B. Henderson
District of Columbia
Live Hogs Hit Unmatched Highs at Markets
St Louis on February 17 reports hog prices at the National Stock Yards rising to 39.0 per hundred pounds, nine cents above the prior record. Chicago daily price at stock yards reached 2.40 per hundredweight, with tight supplies and farm shortages fueling forecasts the 710 mark could be surpassed. War era highs cited and past peaks noted as markets push to new records.
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St. Louis
National Stock Yards
Amoga
Chicago
Prica
Foreign eggs held up in New York import checks
Traffic in European eggs arriving in New York has been checked with three shipments detained by orders of the pure food bureau pending inspection. The move follows a ruling aimed at ensuring compliance with import and safety standards.
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Washington Post
New York
Pure Food Bureau
Fractured OCR List of State and U S Representatives
A garbled OCR fragment lists numerous U S state and district representatives from various states including New York Texas West Virginia and Minnesota. It cites names such as Crane Scott Bailey Barry Wetmore Tam u Tang e and others with misspellings and broken formatting, resembling a political roll call or candidate list from a newspaper page.
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Attorsey Ganars
Wickersham
Crane
Examination of eggs in bureau and warehouse offices
An examination is underway in the bureau offices and the appraiser's warehouse. Some deniers of domestic eggs claim foreign eggs may have a coating compound with a paladin-like shell. The substance is described as an adulterant not belonging in natural eggs and said to harm health.
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Bureau
Senator Smith Escapes Knife as Home Doctor Arrives
Senator William Alden Smith of Michigan lay ill in Washington with a severe appendicitis attack. He refused immediate surgery for two days, telegraphed for his hometown surgeon Dr. Louis Barth of Grand Rapids, who arrived late at night. Barth assessed the condition as not immediately dangerous, surgery possible only if his condition worsened, and Smith rested with a low fever awaiting further consultation.
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William Alden Smith
Michigan
Capitol
Washington
Hferlong
Louis Barth
Grand Rantda
Mich
Barth
T Ai
South
Smith
Austria for Low Tariff
Vienna February 17 Under Count von Aehrenthal the Austro Hungarian minister of foreign affairs a conference was held with officials and commercial experts to discuss the new United States tariff Washington had demanded minimum rates including reduction in Austria duties on cottonseed oil Austria Hungary would grant concessions but said technical legislative difficulties prevent immediate action These would be removed later The aim is to secure the minimum rates from the United States
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Vienna
Count von Aehrenthal
Ninister of Foreign Affairs
United States
Washington
Austro- Hungary
Austria
Baron Heogelmuller von Heonervyar
Hood's Sarsaparilla Converts Dyspepsia Sufferer
A testimonial from Mike Clara A Dearborn New Hampshire credits Hood's Sarsaparilla with curing severe dyspepsia. He says Friends urged him to try Hood's and it quickly restored appetite and digestion, with strength to eat almost anything without distress. The ad promotes Hood's tablets known as Sarababs.
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Hood
Mike Clara A. Dearborn
Titton, N. H
Kennedy gifts and the proper use of philanthropic funds
The late J. J. Kennedy favored unconditional gifts to educational and charitable institutions, leaving decisions to expert trustees. He warned against forced monuments and “dead hand” control, arguing gifts should empower future needs rather than inflate donor vanity or private interests.
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New York Times
Kennedy
Princeton
Jess
Uies
G A R Officers Ghosen Forty-second Encampment Closes
The Grand Army of the Republic Potomac department closes its forty second encampment with officer elections at G A R Hall. Ven Sant travels to St Cloud Minnesota to visit the GA R colony. A delegation will meet Van Sant in Florida. Women’s Relief Corps installs officers at G A R Hall and announces appointments. Next meeting set for Schmidt's Hall 616 Ninth Street northwest.
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Department of the Potomac
GA. R Hall
Ven Sant
St. Cloud
GA. R
van Sant
Florida
John R. King
Henry F. Nedius
Henry Johnson
James Davenport
Pensions
John McElroy
H. A. Johnson
George C. Reve
J. D. Bloodgood
Comander
N. H. Miller
Thomas Calver
Council of Administration
R. H. Marcellus
Edward Webster
J. W. Butcher
W. L. Schmalhopf
B. H. Bunyen
Atlantic City
James Allen
Thomas H. McKee
Charles Mathews
Joseph E. Hart
J. Tyler Powell
L. P. Williams
B. M. Bliett
B.A. Keeler
R. B. Grant
William Hawthorne
Edith Emerson
Jultz W. Hampton
Gine
Florence Hoagland
Liesie Crisp
Belle House
Sarah van Doren
Margaret Brodt
Alice Burger
Emma Furgeson
Anna M. Dow
Mary E. Hall
Jennie Hamilton
Marian Gregory
Jeanie Bruner
Relef Corpa
Schmidt's Hall
Ninth Street
G. A. R. Hall
Pennsylvania Avenue
Deaths From Blizzard Hit Rail crews and Civilians
A February blizzard caused a freight wreck on the Lehigh Valley Railroad near Scranton. Conductor Bowton Shes and brakeman Edward Bennett perished in a crushed caboose after a collision with three locomotives. Separate incidents report a Rock Island brakeman frozen to death in Americ and three trainmen injured near Rosewood, Ohio. A Cincinnati labor death due to the blizzard is noted at Twelfth and Vine streets.
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Lehigh Valley Railroad
Lehigh Valley
Cutom
Avocs
Jenkins Junction
Bowton Shes
Mauch Chunk
Edward Bennett
Fairview
Springfeld
Ohio
Detroit
Toledo
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Rosewood
Frank
Mills
W. Dickinson
C. C. Brown
Cincinnati
Herman’ Haverkamp
Twelfth and
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Weather Conditions Summary From Coastal Storm Forecast
Weather Bureau reports gulf storm near Prestam North Carolina with widespread precipitation. North Atlantic states expect heavy rain and snow, colder temps inland, and strong winds along coasts from the Gulf to New England. Storm warnings posted from New Orleans to Eastport. temperatures vary across regions with colder weather in mid-Atlantic and upper Midwest Friday into Saturday.
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Thucedas
Fok
Prestam
North Carolina
Misaieaipp
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Gulf Sistas
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Staten
New England
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Rocky Mountain
Misiuelpot
Florida
Wiscainia
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Key West
Lake Michelage
Edanore
Tillman likely out for session due to brain bleed
United States Senator Benjamin R. Tillman of South Carolina is seriously ill and probably unable to take part in any active Senate deliberations for the remainder of the current session. Doctors described a light progressive paralysis from a brain bleed caused by artery issues and urged rest and quiet.
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Hagenital
United States
Benjamin R. Tillman
South Carolina
Senate
Dia Fineas
E. F. Pickford
Tillman
Congress
Wife chained in bed by jealous husband near Steinhell murder site
Parle, Feb. 17. The missing young wife of druggist Porat was found bound in chains between the bed and a nail, wrapped in a coat of mail with copper belt locks. She endured two years of imprisonment and childbirth, while Parat admitted love but claimed jealousy drove him.
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Parle
Porat
Steinhell
Chaine
Theusband
Parat
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