Items of Interest

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The National Farmers' Congress will be held at Macon, Ga.
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Memorial Day was observed at Washington, D.
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Judge Grosscup has issued a temporary injunction against the six great packinghouses that together control sixty per cent of the meat business of the United States.
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President Roosevelt did not wait for special authority from Congress before he sent relief to the sufferers of Martinique and St.
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If Senator Lodge succeeds in reorganizing the consular service and putting it on a permanent life-tenure basis, as he is now endeavoring to do, there will be about three hundred ideal positions for ambitious young Americans which will be well worth studying for.
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Oscar Fish of Valdez, Alaska, is the best-paid mail carrier in the world.
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The executive council of the American Federation of Labor had a conference with President Roosevelt last week in which the President stated that he was in sympathy with the demands of labor as to an eight hour bill and a prison labor bill.
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The United States Government will spend $6,600,000 on the St.
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The final results of the twelfth census give the total population of the United States on June 1, 1900, as 84,233,069.
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The conditions of the United States treasury near the close of the third quarter of the fiscal year indicates that the surplus for the twelve months will reach $100,000,000.
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Judge Cox of the United States Supreme Court has handed down a decision to the effect that an American citizen does not forfeit his citizenship by residing abroad.