APPROVES LOGE GANAS He Believes in High Level Panama Canal
President Roosevelt sent a special message to Congress endorsing a high level lock canal for the Panama waterway. He attached Taft's letter and engineers' reports, favoring a lock canal over a sea level plan and detailing cost, depth, and navigation arguments for safer, faster passage and strategic military value.
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Isthmus
Roosevelt
Congress
Panama Waterway
Taft
Board of Consulting Engineers
Isthmian Canal Commission
Stevens
Commission
of Congress
Vision on Isthmus Canal Design and Locks
The speaker recalls a past visit to the Isthmus and argues for a sea level canal over a lock canal. He contrasts the majority and minority reports, noting the world wide importance and long-term use, but concedes that a sea level solution with a wide prism is impractical due to time and cost.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Isthmian Canal Commission
Miraefiores
Isthmus
United States
Indian Land Sale Plan Attracts Choctaw Chickasaw Opposition
Indian leaders of the Choctaw and Chickasaw nations contest a Senate Indian Affairs bill altering the sale of 400000 acres of coal and asphalt lands in Indian Territory. They argue the 1903 treaty required sale under presidential direction and fear loss of tribal rights and value to lessees, urging compliance with treaty terms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Senate Committee On
United States
West
Texas
Oklahoma
Secretary of the Interior
Congress
Washington
Senate Indian Affairs Committee
Wey
Mansfield, McMurray & Cornish
South McAlester
J. T
Choctaws
J. F. McMurray
Clark
Wyoming
Hostetter's Will Announces Wide Health Claims
Advertising copy touts Hostetter's Will as a cure for many ailments including poor appetite indigestion flatulence constipation dyspepsia colds grippe female illnesses and general debility claiming thousands have been cured and urging readers to try it today.
Judicial Review in Rate Legislation Faces Senate Test
A senate faction expects no party lines on rate regulation as debate centers on whether Interstate Commerce Commission orders should be reviewable by courts. The Hepburn bill contest, urged by neither Roosevelt nor Parker, hinges on judicial review while the commission and presidents resist unfettered rate making.
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Senate
Interstate Commerce Commission
Congress
House
Roosevelt
Moseley
Commission
Circuit Court of the United States
Supreme Court of the United States
Senate Committee
Knapp
Clapp
Cockrell
Mellen Attacks Hepburn Rail Rate Bill at White House
Charles Mellen president of the New York New Haven and Hartford Railroad after a White House conference says the Hepburn bill is faulty and unjust to larger lines. He notes small lines could gain through terminal facilities and urges a balanced law. Roosevelt Moody Knapp and Prouty discussed shaping a constitutional provision limiting court appeals.
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Charles §. Mellen
New York
Mellen
Pennsylvania
Philadelphia
Mr. Mellen
White House
Moody
Cannon Lawe
Clapp
Delliver
Knapp
Prouty
Interstate Commerce Commission
Roosevelt
Thoreoughly
Tao
Messrs. Moody, Knapp
Interstate Commerce Commissions
Congress
President Declines Invitation to Locomotive Engineers Meeting
The President yesterday declined to attend the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers biennial convention to be held in Memphis next May. W. and Stone, grand chief engineer, and Thomas H. Miner, third assistant grand chief, visited the White House with a Memphis delegation including Mayor Malone. the President is an honorary member of the order.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Locomotive Engineers
The
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Memphis
W. & Stone
Brotherhood
White House
Thomas H. Miner
Malone
Order
Alaska Railways Hope for Government Bond Aid
W B Poland chief engineer of Alaska Central Railway testified before the House Committee on Territories urging the Lover ing bill to guarantee railway bonds. He said unfinished lines need federal help to be completed. John E Balaine of Seattle cited Alaska's mineral wealth and tied its development to railway support.
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W. B. Poland
Seward
Alaska
Alaska Central Railway
House Committee On Territories
Lovering
John E. Balaine
Seattle
Wash
Mineral Wealth of
Indian Seal Hunters on Strike Over Pay
Victoria British Columbia February 19 The steamer Queen City returned from the west coast of Vancouver Island with news that Indian seal hunters are on strike refusing to seal this spring unless ten dollars is paid per skin. Six dollars a skin was paid last year. No schooner has been able to secure a crew.
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Victoria
British Columbia
Queen City
Vancouver Island
Scott’s Emulsion Marketed as Easy Oil Remedy
The Easy Oil Scott's Emulsion is praised as easy to take and easy in action. It claims to deliver relief from griping and nausea associated with raw cod liver oil and discourages cheap emulsions or alcohol-based substitutes. It asserts full fulfillment of cod liver oil benefits and more.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
California Fig Syrup Co
Scott and Bowne Office Address in New York Card
Scott and Bowne at 409 Pearl Street New York appears as the office address in this historic notice or business card item. The listing confirms the firm location and geographic presence in Manhattan during the period.
May Reach Oil Trust Investigation Reported for Immediate Action
The Tillman resolution for a comprehensive probe into the alleged community of interest between railroads and coal companies will be reported to the House today by the Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee with amendments. The inquiry may extend to Standard Oil’s relations with transportation firms, with a subcommittee preparing the report and the attorney general favoring an Interstate Commerce Commission led inquiry for speed and efficiency.
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Tillman
Committee On Interstate and Toreign Commerce
Raiilroads
Standard Oil Company
Col. Hepburn
House
Interstate Commerce Committee
Tulman
Gillespie
Hepburn
Townsend
Adamson
Senate
Campbell
Kansas
Oil Company
Moody
Interstate Commerce Commission
Department of Justice
Congress
Commission
Orders to Naval Officers and Midshipmen in 1904
United States naval orders assign Rear Admirals G. Reiter and B. P. Lamberton to duty and home respectively, with several midshipmen dispatched aboard ships including the Texas, Chicago, Minneapolis, and Rhode Island. Arrivals, sailings, and ship movements noted among various ports. Gen Palmer G Wood retires along with Gen Henry Reed and Col Wheeler. Rhoda Island battleship commissioned at Charlestown. Meade arrives Honolulu. Actor Joseph T Osborne killed after train incident in Chicago.
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G. ©. Reiter
Lighthouse Board
Department of Commerce and Labor
Washington, D. C
B. P. Lamberton
W. H. Booth
H. K. Aiken
J.B. Goldman
Texas
W. Wallace
Giazsford, Jr
G. Davis
W. N. Metcalf
Graves
CG. A. Woodruff
F. M. Perkins
Chicago
San Diego
Cal
Saturn
A. C. Meyers
TS. Moses
AL Sharp
L. M. Atkins
PH. Field
W. H. Stevenson
Minneapolis
B. D. Washburn, Jr
F. J. Bletcher
Jt, G. Stapler
H. B Kelly
N. M. Smith
Rhode Island
Reforming distillates and the whisky origin lore
A fragmented excerpt discusses reducing fusel impurities in distillates by diluting and decanting at patent stills and pot stills, and notes that rectifying wine can convert it into whisky. It cites US v. 8 Barrels and traces whisky’s etymology from aqua vitae and Usquebaugh to modern whisky. It also references Henry VIII era Irish liquor production and the generic sense of Usquebaugh.
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wNettleton
Morewood
Admiral Reiter Ordered to Relieve Lamberton on Board
Rear Admiral George Reiter was ordered to relieve Rear Admiral B P Lamberton as a member of the light house board under the Department of Commerce and Labor. Lamberton retires February 25 due to age. Reiter began naval service in 1861, became rear admiral in 1895, and commanded the Philippine squadron.
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George . Reiter
B. P. Lamberton
Department of Commerce and Labor
Lamberton
Rejter
Philippine i
Squadron Remains In Asiatic Waters Waiting Homeward
A squadron of the Asiatic squadron has remained at sea awaiting orders to return to port as tensions and movements in the region continue to unfold yesterday.
Army Orders With Multiple Promotions And Departures
Leaves of absence for Maj Granger Adams Artillery Corps for about three months begin around March 20 1906. Lieut Col Henry G Ree Artillery Corps extends ten years. Col William B Wheeler Twenty second Infantry retires from February 1906. Brig Gen Palmer G Wood retired from February 17 1906. Second Lieut George E Welson Third Cavalry to proceed to the Philippine Islands and sail around March 25 1906.
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Palmer G. Wood
Henry A. Reed
William B. Wheeler
War Department
Wood
Reed
Col. Wheeler
Twenty-second Infantry
Granger Adams
Artillery Corps
Henry G Ree
William B Wheeler
George E Welson
Third Cavalry
Philppine Islanda An
Admiral Longnecker Retires From Navy at Age Limit
Rear Admiral Edwin Longnecker, former commandant of the League Island Navy Yard, has been placed on the retired list after reaching the age limit. Promotion actions follow, with Capt J M Daston to rear admiral, Commander H Osterhaus to captain, and Lieutenant Commander R S Griffin to commander. Longnecker began naval service in 1861 and served seventeen years and six months at sea.
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Navy Department
Edwin Longnecker
League Island Navy Yard
Navy
J. 11. Daston
H. Osterhaus
R. S Griffin
Lpangnecker
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Macdonough
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Newport News
Columbia
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Yankes
Monte Criet
Denver
Santa Cla
Boston
Rhoda Iland
Charlestown Navy Yard
Perry Garst
Meade
San Francisco
United States Army
Joseph T. Osborne
Osborne
British Parliamentary Commission On Whisky
Hebner
Willard H. Morse
North American Review
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