National Waterway Commission Debates St Lawrence Improvements
The international waterways commission began hearings in Buffalo on a plan to connect the Great Lakes to the sea via the St Lawrence. US members led by Gardner argue for the project while Canadian delegates and New York barge canal interests oppose it. proponents cite potential power and shipping gains.
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St. Lawrence
Great Lakes
Chicago
Chicaso
International Waterways Commission
Buffalo
United States
Canada
Obadiah Garner
Maine
R. B. Glenn
North Carolina
Clarence D. Clark
Wyoming
Charles A. McGrath
A. J. Powell
Sir William Hearst
Gardner
Lake Ports
Seaboard
Atlantic
New York Barge Canal
Congressmen boast of prize corn yields in brief session
In a light house exchange, Missouri’s Rubey cites a farm paper prize for best five acres of corn awarded to J. R. Shelton of Holden Missouri with a stated average yield of 127 144 bushels per acre. Various states claim high per acre yields for corn and potatoes, prompting laughter and applause.
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Rubey
Missouri
Speaker
United States
J. R. Shelton
Holden
Johnson County
Wood
Indiana
Washington
Bankhead
Alabama
Kitchin
North Carolina
Mann
Ilinois
Joseph C. Sibley
Hadley
Fred de Wilde
Oak Harbor
Wash
John le Sourd
Coupeville
Justus L. Hancock
Hersey
Aroostook County
Civil Service Aims At Scientific Overhaul Of Treasury
A federal reclassification project for 106000 DC civil service workers seeks equal pay for equal work and salary readjustment to living costs. Arthur Young & Co. aided the plan, with criticism labeling it a scientific raid on the treasury. A woman appointment to the civil service commission is among recommendations.
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Joint Commission On
District of Columbia
Congress
Arthur Young & Co
Chicago
Canada
Mann
Illinois
Commission
Treasury
Civil Service Commission
Maple Sugar Potential Expands Beyond New England
Sugar weather and a shortage prompt Agriculture Department experts to note thousands of farms across more than twenty eastern and central states could tap sugar maples for home use and sale. North Carolina groves show high value as tapped sap yields syrup sold at four dollars a gallon, spurring plans for larger operations this spring.
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Department of Agriculture
United States
New England
New York
North Carolina
Tennessee
Missouri
Iowa
Minnesota
Oregon
Washington
Invents Wonderful New Phonograph
George W. Bowers of Boston unveils a phonograph that can reproduce continuously or intermittently for an hour or more and stop at a set time or spot. It plays a concert of one or more hours from records lasting from three minutes to one hour and advances automatically between records.
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George W. Bowers
Boston
Mass
Training the Lively Flea in New York City
Charles Klenke runs an animal shop in New York training fleas. He hires out squads of trained insects to circus performers. A flea, placed in a covered bowl, learns to escape, then becomes trainable under harness.
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Charles Klenke
New York City
Mr. Klenke
Big Snake Makes Shipworkers Fly at Work
In Wilmington a 11 foot green snake with fangs disrupted repairs on the Tuyamel at Bethlehem Shipbuilding. Tarantulas and scorpions swarmed in the hold, forcing workers to abandon tasks until volunteers returned with tools and weapons to confront the reptile and arachnids.
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Wilmington
Del
Yarlan
Bethlehem Shipbuilding Corporation
Tuyamel
Tuyamel Fruit Company
New Orleans
Killed in Fight Over Girls in Allendale South Carolina
In the parlor of Bb. P. Phillips’s farmhouse Allie Cone twenty and his cousin Orbie Cone seventeen were killed instantly. John Brent twenty two was slightly wounded. Brent and his brother Earl seventeen were arrested on murder charges.
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Allendale
S. C
Bb. P. Phillips
Allie Cone
Orbie Cone
John Brent
Mr. Phillips
Earl
Bremen Engineer Steals Idle Engine for Yeast Run
Tageblatt notes lax Prussian rail oversight as a Bremen engineer borrows an idle engine to buy yeast for his wife and visits his aunt, then returns the engine to the Bremen roundhouse.
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Berlin
Tageblatt
Bremen
Defies Gale in Barrel Rescue Near Plymouth
In a Bay of Biscay gale six hours tossed the Bloomington chief officer Weldon and four sailors overboard before a rescue by the ship. The schooner Manuel Tampa, abandoned, was taken in tow but later wreckage appeared. The mate survived in a barrel. four others drowned.
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Plymouth
England
Bay of Biscay
Weldon
Bloomington
New Orleans
Manuel Tampa
Burglar forces entry to Columpus workhouse
Fieldy Hubbard broke into the city workhouse at Columpus Ohio and faces burglary charges. A caller warned police there was a burglar in the workhouse with other inmates in the penitentiary. Officers found Hubbard fumbling over desks. he claimed he sought refuge from thugs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fieldy Hubbard
Columpus
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Attairs
Civil Service
Lafayette
Marquis de Lafayette
America
France
Union Square
New York Customs House
Peary
Robert E. Peary, Jr
Robert E. Peary
North Pole
Frank W. Belmont
Ruth
Frank, Jr
Belmont
Peter Rush
Danville
T. Belmont
Julia
Detective Bureau
Nott
Tie
Thomas Slattery
Dan Gilbert
Big Snake
Qhioan
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