Vast Valuation Task Challenges Interstate Commerce Body
The Interstate Commerce Commission faces a monumental mandate to appraise railroads and telephone telegraph lines under a new federal act. Engineers and writers will compile original costs, donated lands, taxes, and reproduction values for each system, with separate state valuations. The task mirrors prior government purchases but dwarfs previous efforts in scale and detail.
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Garrison Vaccinated Under War Department Order
Secretary Garrison first to comply with a War Department vaccination order issued after two smallpox cases. About 1400 employees affected. inoculation required or take annual leave or leave without pay until contagion period ends. those inoculated within five years may be exempt. Capt Albert G Love administered the vaccination.
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Albert G Love
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Default in Seal Treaty Cited by President Jordan
President David Starr Jordan of Stanford cites a 1911 treaty with Great Britain Japan and Russia that ended pelagic sealing for fifteen years and shared land catch with allied fleets. He argues Congress later suspended land sealing for five years and that the United States defaulted on treaty obligations.
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Speaker Champ Clark Admitted to Supreme Court Practice
Justice White smiled as Speaker Champ Clark, after nearly four decades as a lawyer, was admitted to practice before the Supreme Court. Clark, who had focused on congressional duties in Washington, took the oath with Pedro Ay Rivera, a young Puerto Rican attorney, at the court yesterday.
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Supreme Court
Champ Clark
Supreme Court of the United States
Washington
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White
Pedro Ay Rivera
And Quality and Quantity Are Evenly Balanced Here as in Washington
A concise bakery note touts a unique balance of quality and quantity, claiming superior value among Washington shops. It highlights generous portions, careful craftsmanship, and a welcoming storefront in the city.
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Kann Sens & Co. Ltd
Pa. Ave
Washington, D.C
Washington
Prince Henri de Bearn fails in French appeal for inheritance
Paris March 12 Prince Henri de Bearn et Calais failed to win aid from the French court of appeals in securing $20,000 from a Baltimore bank as part of his late wife Beatrice Winans fortune. He alleged her brothers opposed his inheritance. The judge ruled the case must be heard in American courts. Beatrice died in St Petersburg in 1907, leaving two small children.
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Paris
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Calais
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The Daughter of Heaven at National Theater
National Theater shows The Daughter of Heaven with Viola Allen in the title role. The production, from New York’s Century Theater, aims to dazzle with orientalist scenery and literary pedigree from Pierre Loti and Judith Gautier, following The Garden of Allah precedents by Liebler Company.
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Garden of Allah
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Sahara
Lilian Russell
Lillian Russell
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Incoherent fragments from 25c sample ad only
Fragments note a 25 cent sample and a man who put the feet into shoes. Mentions Alten Olmsted Le Roy and references a standard ready for the Red for five quarter century. No clear event or full names available.
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le Roy
Droup Names Peace Delegates to Fourth Congress
The Board of Trade membership committee approved eight new applicants, bringing the year’s total to one. President Droup appointed delegates to the fourth American peace congress in St Louis on May 12 and 13: George W. Harris chairman, Samuel W. Curt den, William F. Downey, B Hege, and William W. Baldwin.
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