America Surpasses Europe in Enterprise and Wealth
A sweeping report highlights U S industrial growth and wealth gains across 1911. It details America's outpacing Europe in agriculture, manufacturing, and trade, with rising farm values, record railroad expansion, and booming exports. The piece cites high dividends, irrigation spending, school funding, and large-scale infrastructure investments as indicators of national prosperity. Nations and markets grow wealthier as U S output and trade set new records in pig iron, steel, copper, and agricultural products.
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Greatest Nerve Vitalizer Known for Health Breakthrough
A sensational ad claims a new nerve vitalizer boosts strength and vitality with no weight gain, promising dramatic relief from fatigue headaches and brain fog. It offers a free trial pack by mail, urging men and women to act quickly, citing health improvements and enhanced well being.
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Porters Swindle Railroads On Trains In Chicago And West
A report states porters on trains out of Chicago have switched liquor cigars and cigarettes for company stock causing losses over the last year. Arrests of porters on the Pacific coast reveal graft schemes with profits from low grade whiskey sold at inflated prices. The article also notes Persians and Armenians in Tabriz are ordered to surrender arms within a fortnight under threat of punishment by Russian forces.
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Chicago
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Pacific
Tabriz
Persia
Harvard Mex Worth $15 in Alumni Earnings Report
Harvard statistics indicate grads' average earnings near five dollars weekly with many earning nothing. President Hibben notes delayed 1911 report. Harvard Alumni Association reports higher wages for some permanent positions though numbers vary by vocation and over time.
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Boston
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Harvard
Harvard Alumni Association
Higher rates for Woodmen of America adopted
Chicago January 27 The convention approved a proposal to raise Insurance Rates for the Modern Woodmen of America by two to one with 460 for and 9 against The plan raises rates from 50 to 108 percent and introduces twelve annual assessments Members had previously paid nine to eleven assessments each year
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Chicago
Woodmen of America
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Death Affects Richeson in Wake of Phelps Execution
Clarence V. Richeson, awaiting execution for Avis Linnell’s murder, learned of Silas N. Phelps’s Friday morning execution at Charlestown State Prison. The news visibly distressed him, though he recovered to express sympathy for Phelps’s family. Richeson hoped executive action would bring commutation. Attorney William A. Morse delivered the update, finding Richeson in fair health but noticeably weaker than before.
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Gas Rate Fight Involving Washington Gas Light Co
District commissioners pursue further price reductions after receiving a letter from Joseph Lester of Washington Gas Light Company promising to provide a state ment of the physical properties as of December 11 1911. A conference with company officers may be requested as inspectors review last year operations to judge if a 7 cent rate is fair and if continued dividends reflect value.
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Washington Gas Light Company
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Vandals Wreak Havoc in Highland Park Art Crime
Thousands of dollars in art gems and costly furniture were destroyed in Highland Park and nearby towns by an unidentified vandal. A single witness glimpsed the suspect who vanished before identification. The intruder damaged interiors shattered glass and paintings and kicked a football through club house lockers. Police set traps but have not captured him.
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Highland Park
Indictment Charging Mrs Heney Morrow in Husband Murder
Chicago January 27 indicts Mrs Heney Morrow for the murder of inventor Charles B Morrow whose body was found on the rear porch December 28 An examining magistrate heard that two gunshot wounds would have been instantly fatal and Mrs Morrow testified her husband was despondent over finances Witnesses described quarrels between the couple.
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Chicago
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Charles B Morrow
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Poison case set for Monday trial in Newark jail
Allisto Mac Farland, jailed in Betex county, faces a life trial for the murder of his wife Evelyn. Chief Justice Gutsmere will preside on Monday. Witnesses include George S. Crockett and wife, Elden parents of the deceased, arriving from Rockland. Evelyn MacFarland died companion to cyanide poisoning at Hast Orange home October 18, initially thought accidental.
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Kansans to Give Banquet For State Anniversary
Fifty-first anniversary observance of Kansas admission to the Union will be marked at Congress Hall Hotel with speakers including Dr William M Davidson district schools head and senators Curtis and Bristow. Local officials and representatives will also speak. musical solos and a piano performance will conclude the event.
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George AL Neeley
Victor Murdock
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Catholic Convert League Meets at Catholic University
Annual meeting of the Catholic Convert League is held today in the Ana Maxima at McMahon Hall. Brooks and officers will be elected and a report on committee work will be given. An address will be delivered by Jean Baptiste Edouard Saint-Seine, Georgetown professor, on Religious Controversy in Europe.
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