Moody pushes for freight rate reform to curb trusts
Attorney General Moody leads a push for interstate commerce laws to curb railroad rebates and beef packers. President Lincoln urges quick Congress action while Moody contemplates retirement and Morton stays to back rail legislation amid a cabinet reshuffle.
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Vic Moody
Tas
Bostor
Ruiread Rate Legislathon
Gomgress
Woodys Deemon
Moodvs
House
Senate
Iood
Morton
Moods
Navy
The
Santa Fe
Gieneral Moody
Congress
Capitol
Martial Law Declared in Coloma and Cundinamarca
Radio and dispatches report that martial law has been proclaimed in the Colombian departments of Cundinamarca and Santander due to revolutionary activity in Venezuela. The decree names necessity to curb unrest and maintain order amid regional tensions.
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Coloma
State Department
Russell
Bagota
Cundinamarca
Santander
Venezuela
President Roosevelt Walks Along Pennsylvania Avenue
President Roosevelt and Mrs Roosevelt left the White House unaccompanied for a brisk walk down Pennsylvania Avenue. It marked a rare appearance in the city business district, with officers later locating them. The pair attracted respectful attention as they walked, returning to the White House after about half an hour, the President then going to his offices.
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Roosevelt
White House
Pennsylvannia Avenue
Pennsylvania Avenue
White Hout
Secret Service
House
Patronage Plan in Virginia Discussed With Roosevelt
A Virginia Republican delegation met with President Roosevelt to press patronage reform. The group led by Representative Slemp and including Judge Waddill Senator Nogl and others proposed an advisory committee with one member from each district to handle federal patronage matters. The President reportedly found the arrangement satisfactory after Roanoke talks.
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Virginia
Roosevelt
Slemp
Ninth
Edmund Waddill
United States District Court of
Eastern District of Virginia
Nog
J Powell Rosal
Virgina
H Hermans
L P Summers
Roanoke
Stempt
Pattern Makers League Directors Thank President for New Year
John J Jung John J Palles and James I Gernon, directors of the National Pattern Makers League of New York City, called on President Roosevelt yesterday to express gratitude for favors and to urge changes for pattern makers in the navy eras of Washington Philadelphia and New York. The President acceded to the request, adding hope for a happy prosperous new year.
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Pattern Makers’ League
John J Jung
John J Palles
James I, Gernon
National Pattern Makers
Leigna
Plea from Philippines urges tariff abolition
Secretary Taft receives a cablegram from the president of the Philippine Chamber of Commerce at Manila. The message asks Congress to save the Philippines from ruin by wholly abolishing the tariff on tobacco and sugar.
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Taft
Philippine Chamber of Commerce
Magala
Washington Pulippine Chamber of Commerce
Congress
Philippines
Panama Mail Agreement Sets New Postage Rules
The Post Office Department moved to implement Panama agreement provisions as a treaty soon. Postmaster General Wynne issued an order effective December 12 requiring Panama mail to follow US domestic postage rates except letters without stamps are dispatched. Panama prepaid mail is treated as fully prepaid unless stamped with a Panama overprint, Canal Zone stamps only valid in Canal Zone, and postmasters must deliver Panama mail without postage when not marked collect. A treaty will formalize enforcement by both nations.
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Post Office Department
Panama
Taft
Wynne
Panama Republic
United States
United States Exchange Offices
Postal Administration of
Postal Union
Republic of Panama
Canal Zone
Porto Ricans for Canal labor experiment proposed
Secretary Taft discussed Panama Canal plans with the President proposing to move about 500 Porto Rican laborers to Panama as an experiment. The aim is to test efficiency in canal work, with success possibly leading to thousands of workers from Porto Rico relocating to the Isthmus.
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Panama
Porto Rico
Taft
Panama Canal
Cotton crop forecast defends reporting system and yields
Secretary Wilson and John Hyde discuss cotton yields and the reporting system. They defend government estimates as reliable and explain how drought and boll weevil damage affected last year’s crop, while noting a favorable season could yield near normal production next year.
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Wilson
Nature
Texas
New Orleans
Lousiana
Mississippi
Burleson
Agricultural Department
John Hyde
Bureau of Statistics
Census Bureau
Mr Hyde
United States
North Carolina Cotton Planters Sign Acreage-Reduction Pledge
A mass meeting in Raleigh on December 31 brought cotton planters and supplying merchants into an accord to cut cultivated acreage. The pledge aims to curb overproduction and stabilize prices, signaling cooperative action among farmers and dealers in North Carolina.
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North Carolina
Washington Post
Raleigh
N. C
State pledge bars supplies to non-signers in farmers meetings
Merchants signed a pledge not to furnish supplies to any planter who declines to sign the agreement. The planter’s crop cannot be marketed until spring when government acreage reports are issued. Similar meetings were held in scores of other townships in the state.
Cotton Burned in Ocilla and Hatchechubbee Gatherings
Specials from Ocilla Georgia and Hatchechubbee Alabama report farmers burning cotton in the streets of both towns. Crowds cheered as blaze surrounded by flames. No figures given on bales destroyed.
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Atlanta
Ocilla
Hatchechubbee
Ala
Yarn Spinners To Meet In Charlotte On Price Drop
Southern hard yarn spinners in Charlotte will convene next Thursday to discuss the drop in cotton prices. Secretary A Hutchinson reports widespread letters of intent to attend from mills across the territory, including non cooperating firms pledging cooperation. The advisory board promises plans of supreme importance and urges broad representation to sustain the organization amid opposition.
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Charlotte
Hutchinson
Advisory Board
FAVORS REDUCED ACREAGE IN COTTON PLANTING
A Dallas meeting of the National Association of Cotton Growers and the National Farmers Union with Texas delegates adopted a plan to curb the recent slump. Producers nationwide should pledge to reduce acreage by 1.25 percent from 1904 levels and hold crops until January 20. A second resolution urged Congress to amend statistics laws to publish foreign and domestic cotton stock, consumption, and demand data alongside production reports.
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Cotton Growers’ Committee
Dallas
Tex
National Association of Cotton Growers
National Farmers’ Union
Texas Farmers Congress
Texas Cotton Convention
United States
Congress
Bureau of Statistics
Census Bureau of
A Day in Exile: Monotony and Barrenness
Isador Lado writes from a forced exile in Kolymsh describing daily routines, language study, meager meals, and a life of isolation. He contemplates freedom, identity, and the slow passage of time as he endures a “death in life” day with few signs of relief.
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Isador Lado
Harper's Weekly
Kolymsh
Cure claim letters boost false Brights Disease cure
A San Francisco publication reprints an appeal from a Seattle editor praising a new Fubton Compound claimed to cure Bright's Disease and Diabetes. The letter notes personal recovery and urges readers to request pamphlets from Williams' Drug Store, warning of kidney issues and diabetes symptoms.
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San Francisco
Washington
Bright
Pacific States Type Foundry
Wood
Williams’ Drug Store
Four Eclipses in 1880 Moon Sun and Planets
The article outlines a celestial calendar for 1880 noting four eclipses two solar and two lunar with one lunar partial eclipse visible in February and another in August across North America. It discusses planetary positions including Uranus Mercury Saturn Jupiter Neptune Mars and related elongations and conjunctions, plus a New Year reference and a White House children's party hosted by President Roosevelt.
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Garden of Eden
Uranus
Far East
Recerly
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Lyra
Venus
Mercury
Old Sal
Verus
Jupiter
Neptune
Mars
White House
Mra Roosevelt
Zionist debate on East Africa colonization by England
Aarikn editor writes in Jewish Comment opposing Zionism and large scale Jewish colonization in East Africa. He argues against settlement as utopian and urges Zionist unity and assimilation in the United States, noting immigration plans, Jewish communal progress, and the need for reforms and cohesion among orthodox, reform, and anti Zionists in America. Washington, December 17, 1904.
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England
East Africa
United States
Galicia
Roumania
Plons
Germany
Haat Africa
Jacob Schiff
Russia
New York
Holy Land
Great West
Republic
Washington, D
Maritime Decline Alarm Credited to Lacking National Aid
Winthrop Marvin, secretary of the United States Merchant Marine Commission, warns that without vigorous nationwide assistance the United States will lose its deep sea mercantile fleet and skilled seamen. He notes Europe’s shipping woes contrast with America’s distress, urging Congress to consider subsidies or other aid as the commission prepares its report.
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Federal Commission
Philadelphia
American Association For One Advancement of Science
Winthrop Marvin
Boston
United States Merchant Marine Commission
Europe
Merchant Marine Commission
Uns
United States
Housevent
Congress
Senate
House
Congressional Commission
Electric pad replaces hot-water bottles in hospitals
The Chicago Chronicle notes electricians increasingly use asbestos in insulation for the electrotherm. A flexible asbestos pad with embedded wires heats by 160 to 320 degrees under ordinary bedding, controlled by a switch. It serves as a safe, reusable heat source for chills, cramps, and medical care, with models from simple pads to neck and foot coverings.
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Chicago
Ita
Turkey follows buffalo in extinction warned by dealer
A Kansas City Journal report quotes a grand avenue product dealer predicting turkey scarcity as civilization expands. He argues turkeys, once wild, have declined with farming, raising prices and shrinking supply, especially in the East, while Texas leads in production. He urges buyers to stock up this year before prices rise further.
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Kansas City Journal
Grand Avenue
Union
Texas
Fracas in San Francisco Street as Bull Calf Rescued
A Japanese observer recalls a chaotic morning scene near a San Francisco street where a cowboy anchors a bull and calf with a rope. Pleas from an elderly man fail, the bull attacks a bystander, and rescue comes when a passerby suggests loading the calf into a wagon to separate mother and calf, allowing safe escape for all.
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San Francisco
New York
The
Sun
Wrancisco Dec
Huttons One Recipe Autograph scheme and prank
Laurence Hutton recounts a peculiar autograph scheme where a Western town fundraiser for a public library planned an Authors Recipe Book. Authors would send favorite dishes and methods, while Hutton suggested a bizarre contribution involving a paper cutter ink eraser marshmallow and a dangerous plan to burn and eat a hot marshmallow. He never saw a copy of the book.
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Laurence Hutton
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