School Examinations Opposed as Unjust to Pupils
Washington school board debates whether normal school pupils should face exams not planned when they enrolled. Committee reports delay on Arthur Craig case and office methods inquiry. Textbooks to be packed and redistributed as 27 343 old volumes are inventoried. District site decisions clash with commissioners and a faculty transfer faces opposition.
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Washington
Board of Education
Franklin
Craig
Arthur BE. Craig
Armstrong Manual Training School
Admiral Baird
Mussey
B. W. Everman
J. F. Cook
Franklin School
Oyster
Everman
Chancellor
Deanwood
Sheriff Road
Col. Biddle
Echoe
Existence in a Great City. ee) From the North Awerican sov
The narrator questions national mood from a grim city scene. Observations claim widespread melancholy, economic strain, and illness across social ranks. Newsprint voices scold, few smiles remain, and jokes fade beyond chatter in Harpers Weekly.
Steel Makers Busy Rail movement seen as not yet harming market
The Iron Age notes current crude and finished iron product demand remains largely unaffected by Wall Street turmoil and railway strike talk. Buyers grow cautious for H2 amid backlogs while mills push to catch up. several large contracts and shipments from Salt Lake City to Shanghai, with Chicago and Detroit active in steel pipe and iron trades.
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Harper
Iron Age
New York
Wall Street
Cruda Iron and Steel
Middlesborough
Shanghai
China
Salt Lake City
Pacific Coast
Chicago
Sewells Point
Detroit
Ohio
Pennsylvaia Railroad creates Western Pennsylvania division
At a board meeting in Philadelphia on March 27 the Pennsylvania Railroad Company announced a new Western Pennsylvania division. It includes Pittsburg West Pennsylvania and Monongahela divisions and the Allegheny Valley section to Kiski Junction. C. Long named general superintendent. division covers coke and coal regions and Pittsburgh mill district.
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Railroad Company
Western Pennsylvania Division
Pittsburg
West Pennsylvania
Monongahela
Allegheny Valley
Kiski Junction
C. Long
Pitta+burg
Pennsylvania Railroad
Altoona
Cambria and
Clearfield
Coke
Western Pennsylvania
Pittsboro
Conemaugh
Revenue Receipts Rise In February 1907 Total
The February 1907 monthly internal revenue statement shows total receipts of fees, up $1,917,318 from February 1906. Major sources include Spirits 13,488,790 with a 1,558,381 rise, tobacco 4,078,033 up 252,034, fermented liquors 23,520,076 up 57,766, oleomargarine 90,576 up 40,138, and butter 16,122 up 8,057. miscellaneous 71,053 up 5,904. For eight months of the current fiscal year the increase is 318,444,982 over the corresponding period last year.
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Internal Revenue
Open Shop Policy Pressed on Panama Isthmus Shops
President Taft has served notice that open-shop rules must prevail in Panama Canal Zone machine shops. Labor agitators seek to unionize and impose closed-shop demands, with steam shovel crews pushing for raises from 210 to 260 monthly, crane men from 80 to 260, and firemen from 93.3 to 100. Officials expect Taft to investigate the labor situation during his Isthmus visit, aiming to keep shops open while avoiding a broader strike that could halt digging for weeks.
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Canal Zone
Canal Commission
Washington
Taft
Spanish labor popularity as Panama Canal recruitment grows
The Isthmian Canal Commission weighs moving entire Spanish families to the Canal Zone while offering married European laborers homes on the Isthmus. In the past year Le Roy Park sent over 6,000 European laborers to the Canal, about 4,000 Spaniards and the rest Italians, amid Chilean government efforts to attract families from Spain to Chile.
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Chile
Isthmian Canal Commission
Panama Canal
Spain
Canal Zone
Canal
le Roy Park
Commission
Europe
Baltimore Runaways Held at Detention
Two Baltimore youths, John McClure age eleven of 906 North Calhoun and Allen Goswell age twelve of 908 North Calhoun, are detained at the House of Detention awaiting their parents. Policeman Frank Merrell arrested them after spotting the boys wandering. they expressed a wish to return home at once.
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Baltimore
John McClure
North Calhoun Street
Allen E. Goswell
Frank Merrell
Mansfield Abandons Tour For Rest After Illness
New York report states actor Richard Mansfield has abandoned his spring tour due to nervous exhaustion. He is confined to his bed in the city and ordered to rest by his physicians. Managers say he will stay home until early May, then perhaps move to his English estate. The strain of performing Peer Gynt is blamed for the breakdown.
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New York
Richard Mansfield
BD. S&s Stevens
Mansfield
Manuafield
Mansfeld
England
Stevens
Majestic
Texas
Majestic Theater
Southwest
J. Mauldin Felgt
Arizona
Texas West
Valverde County
Jack Dallam
Water the key to kidney trouble and rheumatism
A physician urges keeping hydrated to treat kidney and bladder diseases and rheumatism. He warns against patent medicines, endorses vegetable remedies, and shares a simple prescription: Fluid Extract Dandelion half ounce, Compound Karyon one ounce, Compound Syrup Sarsaparilla three ounces, taken after meals and at night with plenty of water.
Belasco to Feature Puccini Opera and Met Casts Tonight
Washington sees three grand operas from the Metropolitan company led by Ernest Goerlitz at Belasco. Puccini’s Madama Butterfly opens with Miss Farrar as Cio-Cio-San and Mr Stracciari, Mr Vigna conducting. Faust features Mme Eamas and Plancon with new conductor Bovy. Also announced is a revived She Stoops to Conquer at Columbia Theatre with Crane and Jeffreye leading an Anglo-American cast.
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Puceini
Gounod
Veral
Belarca Theater
Ernest Goerlitz
Puccini
Metropolitan Opera House
New York
Arturo Vigna
Missa
Geraldine Farray
Metropolitan
Lieut. Pinkerton
Washington
Barytone
Riccardo Straceleri
Clo-Olo-Ban
Mme Farrarme
Homer Tawrence
Garusa
Reiss Dutrlohe
Louise Homer
Carasotis
Radamos
Columbia
W. H. Crane
Ellis Jeffreya
Chaves Frohman and Liebler & Co
Goldsmith
London
England
America
William K. Crane
Ellis Jeffreye
Haymarket
George
Giddens
Walter Hale
Fred Thorne
Herbert Sleath
Lesie Kenyon
Mansfield
Harry Léllford
Fanny Addison Pitt
Margaret Dale
John Drew
Free sample offer for Stuart's Charcoal Lozenges
To Owners of Bad Breath and Indigestion victims a free sample package is offered to prove that Stuart's Charcoal Lozenges absorb odors and gases improving breath complexion and digestion. Send name and address to Stuart Co Marshall, via Stuart Building.
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Fituert
Addrey
Wats
Stuart” Co
Stuart Bldg
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