World News Roundup of Conflicts and Finances
Post office contract probe by six inspectors in Washington. Civil service rules broaden classifications effective April 15. Madison Indiana horseman John V. Connolly killed after a fall. Pa. husband shoots wife then kills himself at B&O depot. Chickasaw leader Francis Hare slain in Ravia Oklahoma. New Jersey Traction officials indicted after high school girls’ railway accident. Elkins law may abolish excess fast-fare charges. Missouri legislature adjourns with 6.463 million dollars appropriated. Akron fires destroy American Cycle and India Rubber plants, losses placed at 250 thousand. Secretary Shaw resumes old-bond refunding to expand currency by 200 million. Burdick inquest closes in Buffalo with identity withheld. Drake University trustees announce 150 thousand dollars in donations. Two boaters drown near Caruthersville Missouri. Post office assistant James Tyner resigns. U.S. money exchanges total 2.0 trillion in seven days. weekly immigrant arrivals in New York up 4 thousand. US business failures total 214 in the week. Michigan railroads sue to block ad valorem taxes. Mills Knight Boston signs Knapp in murder indictments. Trade reviews say spring business picks up.
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Post Office
Washington
Civil Service
Civil Service Act
John V. Connolly
Madison
Ind
P. J. Cogan
Saxton
Baltimore & Ohio
Hynman
Francis Hare
Ravia
I. T
Hare
New Jersey Traction Company
A. J. Cassatt
Newark
N. J
Elkins
Missouri
American Cycle Company
India Rubber Company
Akron
Shaw
Burdick
Buffalo
Arthur R. Pennell
Lowell
Mass
Drake University
Des Moines
N. M. Drake
Walter Chism
Luther Owen
Jennie George
Caruthersville
James N. Tyner
Post Office Department
United States
New York
Michigan
Mills & Knight Company
Boston
New England
Alfred A. Knapp
Hamilton, O
Trade Reviews
Roosevelt to lead western tour and tariff push
President Roosevelt plans an April 1 western trip covering 14 000 miles through 22 states and two territories with speeches urging tariff revision. The St Louis exposition will feature a April 30 parade and addresses by Roosevelt and Cleveland.
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Roosevelt
Congress
United States
Will Dorsey
Birmingham
Ala
Greenville
Miss
West
National Council of Women
New Orleans
Mary Wood Swift
San Francisco
West Virginia
Newport News
Co. K. G. Billings
New York
Coal Strike Commission
Ellis Island
Harbor
Chicago
Seventy-First
Maine
James
Harlan
Porto Rico
Grover Cleveland
William B. Allison
Havre, Mont
Tanana
Alaska
Klondike
Notable Chicago Pioneers and Leaders Pass Away
Uriah Crosby a Chicago builder died in Brewster Massachusetts at 72. Isaac Price celebrated his 101st birthday in New York after leaving the city once. Nathaniel Fairbanks prominent Chicago philanthropist died at 73. William McKean longtime Public Ledger editor died in Philadelphia at 83. Gustavus Swift head of Swift and Co died in Chicago at 64. Dr John Wood longtime physician died at 101 in Thomas Oklahoma.
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Uriah H. Crosby
Chicago
Brewster
Mass
Isaac B. Price
New York
Nathaniel K. Fairbanks
William V. McKean
The
Public Ledger
Philadelphia
Gustavus F. Swift
Swift & Co. Packing Industries
John P. Wood
Thomas
Okla
Foreign news and events from around the world
Castro reads a special message to Venezuela’s congress and withdraws his resignation. The British commons advance an Irish land bill offering 750 million dollars to help tenants buy holdings. San Juan hosts a grand reception for Miss Alice Roosevelt. The German empress breaks a shoulder in a fall near Berlin. A railway crash at La Coste, Mexico kills three and injures nineteen. San Miguel is killed near Mariquina amid fighting with Philippine insurgents.
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Castro
San Juan
Porto Rico
Alice Roosevelt
Emperor William
United States
Kiel
Germany
William Nichol
James McLellan
Hugh McCallum
H. Bolton
San Miguels
la Coste
Mexico
San Miguel
Mariquina
Newfoundland fleet season catches 360000 seats forecast
The season's catch for the Newfoundland fleet is expected to reach 360000 seats. The Cuban senate approves the reciprocity treaty with the United States by a 12 to 9 vote. The sultan of Turkey asks Miss Alice Roosevelt to christen the Ottoman cruiser Medjidia at Cramp yard in May.
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Newfoundland
Cuba
United States
Senate of the
Turkey
Alice Roosevelt
Medjidia
Cramp Yard
Judge Haneey Fails to Order Arrest in Lorimer-Durborow Ballots
Series of varied reports include a judge not ordering arrest over Lorimer-Durborow ballots, a barber kill suicide in Bowerville, 18 trolley strike arrests in Waterbury, a veteran civil war inn owner death in Chillicothe, and a Virginia storm causing damage. Other items note Cuban treaty ratification, a lynching in Bradley Arkansas, senate currency plans, MacArthur takeover, Booth welcome in London, a mixed race couple killed by cars in Quincy Illinois, a counterfeit ten dollar note, Berlin anger over Dewey, King Edward and Queen Alexandra Irish visit, canal work at Hammond Indiana, Iowa city elections, four tracking Lake Shore line, and a Ky. landowner shot by wife.
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Haneey
Chicago Election Board
Lorimer-Durborow
Forrest McCord
Bowerville
O.C
Charity Storts
Waterbury
Conn
John T. Roper
Ohio Soldier
Chillicothe
Newport News
Senor Quesada
Hay
Senate
Frank Robertson
Bradley
Ark
United States Senate Subcommittee On Finance
New York
MacArthur
Department of California
William Booth
Salvation Army
London
America
James E. Pearl
Quincy
Til
United States
Berlin
Admiral Dewey
King Edward
Queen Alexandra
Ireland
Lake Michigan
Hammond
Ind
Iowa
Lake Shore Railroad
Chicago
Buffalo
Junius B. Clay
Cassius M. Clay
Paris
Wfe
Minor News Items: Rail Terminals Begin April
The $14,000,000 railroad terminals in Washington DC are set to begin April 15. Other items note US naval power ranking, a beet sugar bounty veto in Washington, and various notable appointments and opinions from public figures.
Keeping the Average
A playful exchange between Miss Jones and Mr Bates reveals a brace of ducks and a farmer involved. The dialogue captures a light rural moment with understated humor.
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Miss Jones
Mr. Bates
Bunker and Penn Quip Highlight City Populations
Comic exchange contrasts New York’s vast population with Philadelphia and Chicago Daily News notes. The dialogue pairs Bunker of Boston and Penn of Philadelphia debating size and oddities in an urban scene.
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Bunker
Boston
New York
Penn
Philadelphia
Chicago Daily News
Lancaster man cured diabetes by Dodd's Kidney Pills
Postmaster Remers of Lancaster New York recounts his battle with diabetes. After doctors failed, eight boxes of Dodd's Kidney Pills brought improvement and full recovery, with no recurrence. He confirms the cure remains lasting and strong. The piece ends with a humorous exchange about money.
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Lancaster
N. Y
Remers
Dodd
This Will Interest Mothers
Mother Gray's Sweet Powders for Children used by Mother Gray, a nurse at the Children's Home in New York, claim to cure feverishness teething disorders and stomach troubles while destroying worms. Sold by all druggists for 25 cents sample free address A S Olmsted Le Roy New York. Ascum twins at your house eh We bet they're pretty boisterous Nupop Partly so One of them is girlsterous Philadelphia Press.
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Mother Gray
New York
A.s.olmsted
le Roy
N.Y
Philadelphia
Vose Piano Company
Boylston Street
Boston
Mass
Wabash Avenue
Chicago
Ill
VOSE
California Fig Syrup Co
Cure-alls and quotations in a 1900s Washington brief
A collage of patent medicine ads and aphorisms from a 1900s page includes Laxative Bromo Quinine claims with 25 cent price, Hale’s Honey of Horehound and Tar, and Pike’s Toothache Drops. It lists addresses like Methow Valley Bureau of Information in Pateros Washington and notes railroad lines Chicago & North Western.
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West
Hale
Pike
Doctrine of nonresistance and a wife who runs things
A Detroit Free Press quotation notes a man who “believes in the doctrine of nonresistance” but adds that, in practice, his wife handles affairs. The line underscores domestic power dynamics implied in the era.
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Detroit Free Press
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