Taft Finance Committee Debate Over Isthmian Coinage Policy
A Finance Committee session explored a disputed monetary agreement on Isthmian Canal coinage. The secretary stated the pact, linking silver and gold standards, was not to cede party control and noted disbursement limits and the need for cooperation with banking firms on the Isthmus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Isthmian Canal
MT Veqterdas
Tanance Corrt
Gailey
Maine
Rrbs
Commission
Wien
Rome
Bats
Mersi
Canal proposal sparks debate on lock system and canal route
Ill formed report notes Stevens endorsing a lock canal project above sea level. It describes a plan with five foot high gates, a one mile wide channel, thirty cubic locks, and a submarine approach. The committee heard arguments for a canal with a potential Panama side link and will reconvene after hearings and visits to the exposition site.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ens
Lorie
Panama
Ponna- EY
Halnman & S
Shontscot
Cinninnat
Roosevelt Sisters Attend Capitol Spectator Role
The Roosevelt women Mrs Cowles and Mrs Douglas Robinson joined Mrs Roosevelt and Miss Roosevelt as spectators in the House and Senate galleries during a Statehood debate. They arrived with Miss Roosevelt and later listened to Senator Lodge speak before departing the Capitol, where they were hosted at luncheon by Mr Morrell of Pennsylvania.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cowles
Douglas Robinson
New York
Mrs Roosevelt
Miss Roosevelt
Capitol
Rebbinser
Senate
Senator Lodges
Morrell
Pennsylvania
Longworth
Alice Re Cowies
Division abolishes pension division as clerks shift roles
Commissioner Warner declares the pension bureau will drop the hive appointment and abolish the division. Eight clerks are reassigned to handle records, with supervisorial changes. The pension appropriation rises to 3140 240 dollars, reflecting more pensioners and earlier spending.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warner
Prieta
Milo Aridurs
aSyre
Porto Rico Senate Election Advocated Before House Panel
A Porto Rico government reform advocate urged the House Committee on Insular Affairs to endorse the Witzinaga bill to reorganize the island's government. He criticized the current elective council as unjust and called for a presidency endowed with legislative and executive powers to be accountable to the people.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Porto Rico
House Committee
Buso
Hu- Tt
Iland Mi Buso
San Juan
Porto Rhco
Burnham Is Again President At Mutual Reserve Life
At the Mutual Reserve Life Insurance Company annual meeting, directors John W Borden Charles W Camp and W T Abbsden were re elected. Proxies were barred under a ten day notice rule prompting protests from policy holders and attorney John J Jordan. The board subsequently re elected Frederick A Burnham as president and George D Eldridge as vice president, with George Burnham also re elected to second vice president.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
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
Dr Miles Anti Pain Pills Travel Aid
A compact testimonial style note promotes Dr Miles Anti Pain Pills for travelers. It claims relief from dizziness, sick stomach, and headaches caused by motion sickness. The ad touts quick, harmless relief and a money back guarantee if not beneficial, with a sample offer of 23 doses for 25 cents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miles
Dr. Miles
M Oh. Charths
St. Loui Mo
Bowdoin Alumni Dine as Fairbanks Guests Honor Hyde
Bowdoin alumni banquet at the Hotel Ritz last night honored President William DeWitt Hyde with a broad review of college history. Vice President Charles Fairbanks addressed attendees, recounting Bowdoin’s twenty-year span, praising trustees, faculty, and donors, and recalling campus legends, with anecdotes, songs, and fellow graduates’ speeches.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
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
Spear
Fred C Stevens
Everett W Varney
C H Verrill
William Frye White
Joseph N Whitney
A.D Willard
I H. Wing
Melvine W Fuller
Amos L Aljen
Whham Frye White
Elis Spear
Melille W Fuller
Woodbury Puistfer
Howard L
Prince
Fairbanks
John H Harlan
The
Supreme Bench
Fom
Justice Harlan
Brown Gets Carnegie Offer at Alumni Reunion
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. speeches praised football reform and noted a $150,000 Carnegie memorial library gift by Andrew Carnegie to be matched by alumni funds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
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 Exchanges Naval Affairs Seat for District Committee
Senator Blackburn of Kentucky swapped his seat on the Naval Affairs Committee for Senator Mallory’s District Committee post. He will attend the panel’s first meeting tomorrow to help review Commissioner West’s confirmation. He seeks renewed District influence and remains aligned with Senator Scott on naval matters alongside past ally Hannas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Naval Affairs Committee
Senator Mallory
Blackburn
Kentucky
Naval Affairs
Mallory
West
Blackburn Wile
House
Washington
Scott
Hannas
Gen Wood
Talk Rate Legislation Faces House Action
President, Col Peter Hepburn and Senator Elkins discussed rate regulation. Hepburn assured smooth House passage of the bill with no big hurdles. Elkins could not promise similar certainty, though a majority in his committee was hoped for and a bill may emerge soon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peter Hepburn
House
Elkins
Senate
Col Hepburn
Furthe
Uran
Hay
Town Topics editors and contributors cited in 1905 cases
Testimony details Town Topics staff writers and correspondents, including Col Mann and Mrs Wade Hampton, with notes on anonymous paragraphs, blackmail threats, and social news from Newport and Bar Harbor. Out-of-town contributors and postal service updates appear, along with a remark on rural delivery routing changes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Post
Charles 5S Wayne
Town Tonics
Seward Wetch
E J Berwind
James W Gerard, Jr
Thei
Wich
Col Mann
Shepard
Gould
Bar Harbor
Club News
James B Townsend
Calumet Club
Allen
Club
Society News
W J Robinson
William Binninger
Fechheimer
Wade Hampton
New York
O'Neill Sevier
Belmont Purdy
Harry Smith
H L Robbins Howard
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
Webb
Osborne
United States Army
Robert R Rowe
Bere
Newpottiss
Coffee Poisoned Life Replaced by Postum in Meadville Tale
A Meadville woman plagued by headaches and kidney trouble after years of doctor visits and medicines finds relief by stopping coffee. She drinks Postum Food Coffee, learns to prepare it, and reports fewer headaches, better sleep, weight gain, and regained health after two years, urging others to read The Road to Wellville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Meadville
Postum
Festum
Mich
Theresa Reason
Wellrilie
Wireless Telegraph Station Moves to New Navy Yard Building
The wireless telegraph station at the navy yard will transfer from the old stock house to a waterside new building next week. By February 1 the plant should be installed and operating. power equipment to be set up by next Wednesday. the adjacent guardhouse and telephone station near the gates are nearly finished replacing the old cramped frame facility.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Navy Yard
Stock House
Mohawk Destroys Wreck Off Nantucket Shoals
The revenue cutter Mohawk blew up the wreck of the Irish barkentine Polock Pup off Nantucket Shoals to clear navigation. It used eleven torpedoes in two explosions to remove the obstruction. The prior day the Welsh vessel Jonas W Lawson, a seven masted schooner, had run ashore off Cape Page Martha’s Vineyard. the Lawson is described as the Thomas W Lawson, the largest sailing vessel in the world.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mohawk
Nantucket Shoals
Revenue Cutter Service
Wohawk
Jonas W Lawson
Cape Page Marthas Vineyard
Thomas W Lawson
Departure of Troops Delayed in Denver
War Department orders delay the departure of the Second Infantry for the Philippines due to outbreaks of measles and mumps among soldiers. They will be quarantined at the post. regiment set to start for San Francisco previously. Bear Admiral Cowles assumes duties as chief of the Bureau of Equipment with rank of rear admiral, succeeding Admiral Manney who retires but stays on to finish equipment work.
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Denver
Jin M
Esterday
Cowles
William S Cowles
Bureau of Equipment
Admural Manney
Department
Army Orders and Assignments Across Posts
The document lists extended leaves for Capt William M Busphant and Capt William Welger at Hot Springs Arkansas and 1st Lt Oliver Nelson Burret pursuing a course of destruction at Fort Roat Nebr with authorization to attend and mileage provisions. It notes 1st Lt Paul S Halloran joining Mort Leavenworth examining board, Capt Lucien Kerr relieved, and Maj William K R Hamilton and Maj Hart Taylor assigned to duty and testimony duties in Connecticut and Springfield Illinois.
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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 orders place Cowles as chief of Bureau of Equipment
Rear Admiral WS Cowles is appointed chief of the Bureau of Equipment in the Navy Department Washington DC for a four year term from January 22 1906. Capt G L Ther is commissioned a captain in the Navy from September 20 1905 to Washington DC February 11 1906. Several medical and staff appointments and detachments are listed including surgeons assistants paymasters and fleet officers with duties at Navy Hospital Anacostia the Navy Pay Officers School and various fleet stations in the Asiatic station Cavite and Cavite station assignments and promotions across January 1906 to February 1908.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
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
Cure by Cuticura in two weeks for 75c
Akron Ohio mother Mrs George J Steese shares a astonishing cure for her child. She details a brutal skin humor collapsing with sores that vanished after using Cuticura Soap and Cuticura Ointment. The testimonial claims cost of cure was 75 cents versus five dollars for doctors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George J. Steese
Coburn St
Akron
Ohio
Neghbors
Cuthurs
Coatid
Thor
Marvelous relief in asthma action ends in Japan
Fragmented report notes a relief in asthma treatment, referencing naval figures and medical facilities. Names and places are unclear, with several garbled terms. The piece mentions a wreath, Lawton, and a national hospital context tied to Navals and medical care.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Japan
Torsteur
Naval Hovy Lal Kulehama
Bert Jo
Presbyterians Visit President on Chaplains Requests
A Presbyterian delegation urged the President to support expanding chaplaincies to 16 in the armed services, with a plan to reduce the number in the army and navy if needed. The group, led by Rev John Bancrofe and Dr John T Edwards, pressed for recognition and urged action on pending legislation. Also noted: a charity entertainment at Pythian Temple by the Georgetown Evangelical Lutheran Ladies Aid raised funds for church improvements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Presbyterian Church
Athe Presbyterian Chu
Tohn Bancrofe
John TI
New York
Army
Navy
Cillers
Tor
Pythian Temple
Ald Suet
Georgetoun
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Ek Iwlads
Roy Mic
Chilf Engid
Teer Stevens
Stevens
Con Nutes
Jamestown Esxellon Company
Chimenr Gardner
Massachusetts
Nia Wapa
Pension Bureau
Warner Commissioner of Pensions
Piison
Sone
Cmmissioner Warner
Brooks
Sorat
Burnham
Bowdoin
Fuller
Carnegie
Hay Memorial Library
Hepburn and Elkins
Society For
GOL
Mann
Justice van Brunt
New York Supreme Court
Devel
Manhattan Island
Peter Cooper Hewitt
Irving
Harry
Domes
Col Mant
Mr Osborne
South
George Cretshton
William 8Erininger
Osaning
Baltimom
Wade
Postminster General McGraw
Revenue Cutter
Second Infantry
Fort Logan
Ieadway
Uniq
Exyerson
Tia
New Lore
Kearsarge
Alabama
Lina
Nieyourt
Yabkton Hopkins
Troytur Madunaugh
Stewart
Culepre
Lhasa
Nevada
Florida
Charlerton Basin
Anton Salod-H Noibss
Newport News
Culebra
Arethusa
Charlenton
Sured
Pion Tren Banchee
Monte Cmatt Dubujuc
Sanchez
Santo Domingo
Fromy Fanton
Kongkong
S. S.S
Swiet Specific CO
Atlanta
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