Taft Finance Panel Hears Debate on Isthmian Coinage Deal
A discussion before the Finance Committee centers on a monetary agreement for Ismthan Canal maintenance. Secretary Vegterdas reports key points about gold and silver coinage, with senators Gailey and others probing the scope and authority of the commission to issue tender. The exchange reveals tensions over prerogatives, disbursement plans, and party influence as the Isthmian project unfolds.
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Isthmian Canal
Finimiasion Witi Foul
MT Vegterdas
Tanance
Gailey
Maine
Mil
Rrbs
Commission Wien
Blin
Mersi
Canal lock plan favored by Stevens for Isthmus route
Flooded OCR notes recount Stevens urging a lock canal above sea level with a string of five feet-high locks spanning one mile wide, ending at the Pacific side. Committee members heard arguments for the project, detailing a submarine capability and a long concrete structure. The hearings adjourned with plans to visit the exposition site on Monday.
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Ens
Lorie
Panama
Ponney
Cmn
Hamman Bes
Shontscot
House
Jamestown Exection Company
Chimenr Gardner
Massachusetts
Wall
Roosevelt sisters attend congressional session as spectators
Mrs Cowles and Mrs Douglas Robinson of New York joined Mrs Roosevelt and Miss Roosevelt in the House Executive Gallery during a Statehood fight. They watched the adoption of the rule, then moved to the Senate gallery for Senator Lodge’s speech. Miss Roosevelt and her aunts later attended luncheon with Mr Morrell of Pennsylvania.
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Cowles
Douglas Robinson
New York
Mrs Roosevelt
Miss Roosevelt
Capitol
Rebbinser
Senate
Senator Lodges
Morrell
Pennsylvania
Longworth
Alice Re Cowies
Division Abolished in Pension Bureau Amid Staffing Cuts
Commissioner Warner moves to abolish the hive appointment division of the Pension Bureau and shift duties to the Commissioner’s office. Eight clerks have left, with four transferred, reducing the payroll and potentially lowering annual appropriations by hundreds of thousands. The pension bill totals about 3140 240 dollars, higher than last year, while pensioners counted drop from about 24,200 to 23,000-plus.
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Warner Commissioner of Pensions
Piison
Sone
Cmmissioner Warner
Brooks
Warner
Prieta
Milo Aridurs
aSyre
Porto Rico elective senate advocate before House committee
Advocacy in San Juan and by Mayor buso of Hu- Tt O Sunday morning backed the Witzinaga bill to reorganize Porto Rico government. The speaker urged creation of a senate with legislative and executive powers appointed by the President, deemed acceptable to the people of Porto Rico.
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Porto Rico
House Committee
Buso
Hu- Tt
Iland Mi Buso
San Juan
Porto Rhco
Burnham Is Again President At Mutual Reserve Meet
At the Mutual Reserve Life Insurance annual meeting in New York directors were reelected including John W Borden Charles W Camp and W T B Abusden. Proxies were barred under a company rule requiring ten days notice, a dispute raised by policy holders and attorney John J Jordan who warned of future legal action. The board also re elected President Frederick A Burnham and officers George D Eldridge and George Burnham Jr.
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New York
Poly
Mutual Reserve Life Insurance Company
John W Borden
Charles W Camp
W T B AbUsden
John J Jordan
Bord of Directors
Frederick A . Burnham
George D Eldridge
George Burnham
Little Comforters Dr Miles Anti Pain Pills Ad
A traveling salesman praises Dr Miles Anti Pain Pills as soothing for nerves and stomach, preventing dizziness and headaches. Claims quick relief from pain and car sickness with harmless effects. First package helps, druggist will refund if not satisfied. 23 doses cost 25 cents.
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Miles
Dr. Miles
M Oh. Charths
St. Loui Mo
Bowdoin Alumni Dine as Fairbanks Guests Honor Hyde
Bowdoin alumni held their twenty fourth annual banquet at the Raleigh hotel. Vice President Fairbanks and Bowdoin President Hyde addressed guests, with stories, songs, and toasts recalling twenty years of college life and growth.
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W. D. Hyde
Bowdoin College
Henry W Longfellow
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Raleiga
Senator Strye
United States
William de Witt Hyde
Congress
Bureai Lerds
Washnston
Crosby Noyes
Frye
Noyes
Willard
Minot
Maine
King Chapel
Willa King
Justice Fuller
Senator Puy
Mexander
Buffalo
Willam Frye Wilite
Sirator Frye
Johns Hopkins Univeirsity
Webster
Marchal
Kiam
Coffin
M Webb
Woodberry Pulsifi
Charles E Littlefeld
Minine Ot
D J Cook Willam E Speer
Join Redmond
S Alexander
Hyde
House
Bowlein College
Thoes Yeird
Filier
L Ynar Stull
Thomas H Hubbard
Amos I. Alien
S&s. Alexander
A J Boardman
John W Butterfield
Edward B Chamberlain
Charles Chestey
John W Chickering
Roland E Clarke
Dohn B Cotton
S G Davis
Stephen D Fessenden
Charles A Mage
Wiliam P Frye
Melville Www Fuller
Charles H Hastings
Paul & Hill
Arthur L Hunt
Horace M Jordan
John B Redman
NM A. Robbins
Frank Sewall
F. D. Sewall
Ollis Spear
Wiliam
Brown Alumni Reunites at University Club with Carnegie Offer
The Brown Alumni Association of Maryland and the District of Columbia held its annual reunion and dinner at the University Club. More than twenty-five members attended as Dr. W. H. Faunce of Brown University and Andrew Carnegie spoke, announcing a $150,000 John Hay memorial library, matched by alumni funds.
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Brown
Maryland
District of Columbia
Quick
Baltimore
W v HH Faunce
Brown University
Faunce
Andrew Carnegie
Browns
John Hay
Br J F Jameson
Department of Historical Research
Carnegie Institution
Lewing
Jim J & Bishop
Isthmian Canal Commission
H M Tore
Senate
J C Monaghan
Bureau of Manufactures
Department of Commerce and Labor
M Quick
John H Olcott
George BeCleNan
Pope
W P Faunce
Joseph B
Jernegan Lawrence
Panter
G Leland
Ho Metcalf
Ellis F Frost
Blackburn swaps Naval Affairs for District Committee post
Senator Blackburn of Kentucky yesterday exchanged his seat on the Naval Affairs Committee for Senator Mallorys District Committee assignment. He plans to attend the first committee meeting tomorrow to help consider Commissioner Wests confirmation.
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Naval Affairs Committee
Senator Mallory
Blackburn
Kentucky
Naval Affairs
Mallory
West
Blackburn Wile
House
Washington
Scott
Hannas
Gen Wood
Rate legislation talks with President and lawmakers
President receives Col Peter Hepburn and Senator Elkins to discuss rate regulation. Hepburn asserts House will pass the bill smoothly with a unanimous committee report. Elkins cannot promise quick action or assured paper-backed support, though a majority may move a bill soon.
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Peter Hepburn
House
Elkins
Senate
Col Hepburn
Furthe
Uran
Hay
Town Topics editors tied to Mann faced testimony and letters
Witnesses identified Town Topics contributors and editors linked to Col Mann including Wayne Lehr and Deuel. Testimony covered suppressed paragraphs, blackmail fears, and conflicts over biographies and social notes, with out of town contributors listed and a note on rural delivery curtailments due to route returns.
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Post
Charles 5S Wayne
Town Tonics
Seward Wetch
E J Berwind
James W Gerard, Jr
Thei
Wich
Col Mann
Shepard
Lehr
Harry Lehr
Rowe
Wayne
Burton Harrson
Abraham Hummel
Simmons
Goelels
Rachael Techotan
George Kemp
Rev
Jerome
Saratoga
Town Topics
Harry Lel
Justice Deuel
Goff
Newport
Domes
Col Mant
Osborne
Mr Osborne
South
George Cretshton
Never Intended Who Prevents the Intent of Providence
A Meadville reader credits Postum Food Coffee with ending years of headaches kidney trouble and coffee poisoning. After quitting coffee and switching to Postum the writer reports better sleep weight gain and improved health and states life looks brighter now. Read the Road to Wellville in the package.
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Meadville
Postum
Battle Creek
Mich
Theresa Reason
Wellrilie
Wireless Telegraph Station Moves to Navy Yard Building
Next week the Wireless Telegraph Station at the Navy Yard akan move its dynamo plant from the old stock house to a new waterside building. By February 1 the plant should be installed and operating with some fixtures already in place. The guardhouse and telephone station near the gates are nearly finished, replacing the old, cramped frame station installed last summer.
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Navy Yard
Stock House
Mohawk Destroys Irish Barkentine Wreck Off Nantucket
Revenue Cutter Mohawk exploded the wreck of the Polock Pup off Nantucket Shoals using eleven torpedoes in two blasts to clear a navigation hazard. The previous day the Welsh schooner Jon, of Cape Page Martha’s Vineyard, had floated after grounding days earlier. the Thomas W Lawson, once the largest sailing vessel, was mentioned in the report.
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Mohawk
Nantucket Shoals
Revenue Cutter Service
Wohawk
Jonas W Lawson
Cape Page Marthas Vineyard
Thomas W Lawson
Departure of Troops Delayed and Bureau Changes
Denver reports that orders from Washington delayed the Second Infantry’s departure to the Philippines. Quarantine due to measles and mumps among troops required postponement. Also, Rear Admiral Cowles named chief of the Bureau of Equipment, succeeding Admiral Manney who retired but remains on duty to finish ongoing work.
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Denver
Jin M
Esterday
Cowles
William S Cowles
Bureau of Equipment
Admural Manney
Department
Army Orders and Assignments in garrison and training
A series of Army orders extends or assigns personnel across posts. Capt William M Busphant and Capt William Welger receive short extensions. Dr Parker Dillon Lob to Hot Springs Ark for observation. Lt Oliver Nelson Burt to attend Fort Rob comprehensive course with attendance authority revoked. Lt Paul S Halloran detailed to Mort Leavenworth examining board. Capt Lucien Kerr relieved. Maj William K R Hamilton to St Louis for recruiting duty. Maj Hart Taylor to Springfield Illinois for testimony. Col Charles R Suter to New York for board examinations to assess fitness for Corps of Engineers duties.
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William M Busphant
William Welger
Parker Dillon
Hot Springs Ark
Wipson
Army and Navy General Hospital
Oliver Nelson Buret
Tantis
Paul S Halloran
Sue Foon
Mort Leavenworth
Hays
Jere B
Clayton
Lucien Kerr
Connecticut
Harford Conn
Adjutant General of
William KR Hamilton
Rtitlery Corps
St Touls Monon
Alea
Springfield
Hart Taylor
Naval officer appointments and promotions notice
Orders to naval officers list promotions new assignments and retirements. Rear Admiral WS Cowles named chief of the Bureau of Equipment in Washington DC for four years from January 22 1906. Capt G L Ther promoted to captain. Several officers granted retirements acting and passed assistant surgeons assigned to naval hospitals and schools. Details include dates and ships or stations such as Eagle and Cavite with staff roles and detachments across Asiatic Fleet and Naval Officers School Washington DC.
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WS Cowles
Bureau of Equipment
Waltington DC
G L Ther
Ani
Navy
Navy Department
Washington DC
C E Rommel
J F Leys
Naval Hospital
G Pickrell
Home
Griven
New York
WX Huges
Nava
Mr Goodreil
Marine Corva Frm
Wood Davies
Staf Asiane Feet
Ohio
Commasiaer
JC Gilmore
Cured by Cuticura in Two Weeks for 75c
A Akron Ohio mother praises Cuticura for curing her child’s widespread skin humors after doctors failed. She notes the cure in two weeks with Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment costing 75 cents, contrasting prior expenses on medicines. The letter follows with ads and details on Cuticura products.
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George J. Steese
Coburn St
Akron
Ohio
Neghbors
Cuthurs
Coatid
Thor
Marvelous relief in asthma seems vague and garbled
Fragmentary OCR text mentions asthma relief, medical terms, and several unclear proper nouns, but lacks coherent events, dates, or identifiable individuals to form a clear news item.
Presbyterians Urge Chaplaincies Plan Amid War Service
A Presbyterian delegation urged President to approve 16 chaplaincies in the armed services, seeking wartime church support and possible legislation to trim chaplains. Rev T Bancroft and Dr John T Edwards pressed for church recognition while committee members listed ship and base assignments. A charity Lutheran event at Pythian Temple drew strong turnout with songs recitals and tableaux, funds earmarked for church improvements.
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Presbyterian Church
Athe Presbyterian Chu
Tohn Bancrofe
John TI
New York
Army
Navy
Cillers
Tor
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Charlenton
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Kongkong
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