Red Cross of Russia a Model Organization in War and Peace
John Callan O Laughlin surveys the Russian Red Cross, noting its vast wartime relief in Manchuria, base hospitals, and trains, with $4.6 million expended of $5 million contributions. He highlights imperial support, widespread home aid, and a 37 year, highly organized structure lauded as a model for the United States Red Cross.
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Imperial Red Cross in Russia Quietly Strengthens Aid
The Imperial Red Cross mobilizes a large volunteer force, supported by private funds and small taxes on rail tickets and passports, with strict accounting to prevent fraud. Donations from the United States have been carefully disbursed to ease suffering, aided by public collections and performances.
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Cassini
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Methods of Reclamation Congress Session in Geological Survey Office
Government reclamation engineers held the second annual conference discussing various reclamation phases. Asa Phillips described Washington sewer work and cement and concrete pumping while Rep. Dixon stressed reclamation value for Montana. Auditor Robert Persap spoke on auditing accounts as a committee on transportation formed to consider railroad rates for arid-region materials.
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Howard Ebbott
Thomas Cooper
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Robert 8. Persap
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Blen
Sugar Beet Tests Show Low Temperature Boosts Sugar Content
Five years of Department of Agriculture experiments across New York to North Carolina identify low temperatures and longer sunshine as key factors in sugar beet quality. Best beets require average June to August temps no higher than seven degrees Fahrenheit, with longer days enhancing sugar richness.
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Department of Agriculture
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Irrigation Tunnel Contract For Uncompahgre Project
The Interior Department signed a construction contract for a six mile tunnel near Montrose and Delta Colorado. The Uncompahgre Valley project involves 125000 acres with a 1012 by 112 foot cross section tunnel to carry 1200 cubic feet per second. Taylor Moore Construction Company of Hillsboro Texas holds the award and a 150000 bond. work to start within a month.
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Distinctive Uniform Ordered for Customs Staff After May 1905
The Treasury Secretary ordered a distinctive uniform for customs officers including inspectors boarding officers clerks and weighers who handle declarations and baggage on shipboard. The plan covers dock watchmen inside watchmen messengers attendants and other staff. Baron Giskra visited Secretary Hay as charge d affaires during the ambassador's leave.
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Conger’s Gubernatorial Ambitions Spark Iowa Laughs
Peking reports Minister Conger will leave for Mexico to become ambassador and then retire to run for Iowa governor. Iowa politicians find the timing hyperbolic as Conger may vacate the Mexico post and a new director at the Bureau of American Republics may be filled by Pepper, a Cuba South America observer.
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Washington Petition Portico and Fleet News
A dramatic scene in Speaker Reed's Capitol office shows Thomas's petitions stretched wall to wall. In port news the cruiser Chattanooga returns to Newport amid heavy seas and ice, with crew reporting no major damage and plans to seek government acceptance after a rough sea trial. Army and Navy personnel movements follow, detailing surgeon reassignments and inspections at Watervliet, Fort Stanton, and various posts, plus a War Department notice on a new Army Bakers training program at Fort Riley.
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Taft to Deliver Yale Dodge Lectures in 1906
New Haven February 5 1906 William H Taft Secretary of War named to deliver the Dodge lectures at Yale University for the year 1906 The endowment created by William E Dodge 330000 in 1990 funds the lectures promoting Christian citizenship and personal responsibility among students and educated men Postmasters appointed yesterday include M Betz Rupert Pennsylvania and M Mitchell Oakland Rhode Island
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Demands Jury Trials in Court on Bench Warrant
Lindsay E. Sinclair, superintendent of the Washington Railway and Electric Company, asked for jury trials in sixteen smoke law violation cases. Bond set at $200 per case. total collateral $3,200, with an additional $200 posted later. Staples of the National Hotel fined for prior violations, witnesses described intermittent smoke from the hotel stack. Golden & Co. cited for violation. first offense yielded the lowest fine. A warrant issued for J Frank Legg of Baltimore and Ohio Railroad for smoke violations at the depot heating plant.
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Cold weather halts work on House Office Building excavation
Severe weather stops excavation for the House of Representatives office building. Brennan Construction Co. nearly finished before the freeze and will complete the site when air turns warm. Specifications for foundations and structural work are being prepared by Capitol grounds superintendent Elliott Woods, likely within three to four weeks. In a second note from Mobile, Guatemalan railroad progress is reported as opened to freight and passenger traffic between Porto Barrios and Rancho, forty five miles from Guatemala City.
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Rheumacide claims cures for hopeless rheumatism cases
A display at Affleck's features letters from many individuals who say their rheumatism was hopeless until Rheumacide cured them after other remedies failed. J J McCaffrey of Bobbitt Chemical Co will visit Affleck's Drug Store Friday and Saturday to offer free consultations and explain permanent cures.
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