Ackley World: Ackley Iowa weekly newspaper boast
Ackey World reports weekly publication every Wednesday in Ackley Hardin County praising waterworks electric lights and schools including Sacred Heart Academy. Describes rail facilities creameries mills elevators and commerce with population over 2000 classed as wealthy for its size. Notes free notices for marriages deaths and news and invites correspondence and articles.
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Ackiey
Hardin County
Sacred Heart Academy
Acle
Iown
Ackley
Harriman Plans Massive Chicago Corporate Combine
Plans reported by the Chronicle outline J. E. Harriman and Eastern financiers forming a giant Chicago corporation. The merger of the Illinois Tunnel and Chicago Edison companies is cited as the first step to control subway, transport, freight, electric lines, power and telephone franchises. The aim is to create a vast distributing system for freight arriving via Harriman’s rail network.
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Chicago
J. E. Harriman
Illinois Tunnel Company
Harriman
Wavy
Transmissisgrypl Commercial congress adjourns
Kansas City November 24 After electing Ti D Loveland of San Francisco president for the ensuing year the congress adopted two resolutions after they had been voted down by the committee on resolutions and adopted a set endorsing Elihu B Kellit s proposal for encouraging our merchant mining and for increasing our intercourse with South America by adequate mail facilities The congress adjourns to meet in 1907 at Muskusgee i T
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Kansas City
Ti. D. Loveland
Sanu
Republican Club Dinner Honors Hughes in New York
Governor-elect Charles I Hughes was guest of honor at the Republican Club of New York dinner held at the Waldorf Astoria. General Henry J Tremain presided and introduced State Republican Chairman Throby L Woodruff as toastmaster. Governor Higgins was absent, as were Banors Piutt and Depew.
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Hughes
Aw York
New York
New York State
Charles i. Dlushes
Republican Club of
Waldorf-Astoria
Henry J. Tremain
Throby L. Woodruff
Higgins
Piitt
Depew
S Hostagg
Hair found in rowboat key to Gillette trial
At Hig Moose lake, the rowboat used by Chester Gillette and Grace Brown yielded crucial evidence. Hair strands clung to cleats and braces, matched to Grace Brown’s lock by Frances Brown during the trial, as District Attorney Ward argued the hair pulled free when the body was recovered and the boat overturned.
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Herkimer
Chester Gillette
Grace Brown
Moose Lake
Gillette
Frances Brown
Ward
Mayor Schmitz lands in New York amid charges
Landed aboard the steamship Patricia in New York City Mayor Schmitz of San Francisco denied the charges against him and said he would seek a full inquiry in San Francisco. He left the dock with his wife amid cheering friends and reporters. He said he faced indictment without fear and would prevail.
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New York
Schmitz
San Francisco
Patricia
Perjury indictment against Brenen restaurant proprietor Adler
Grand jury in San Francisco charges Nathan Max Adler with perjury. A warrant is issued for his arrest with bail set at 5000 cash or 10600 bonds. The indictment states he denied under oath that on June 2, 1905, a committee of restaurant owners visited him and asked to contribute to a fund to hire Abraham Ruef to influence police commissioners to protect liquor licenses for the French restaurants.
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San Francisco
Nathan Max Adler
Ader
Adler
Abraham Ruef
Board of Police Commissioners
Jealous husband fatally wounds man in wife's Cleveland apartment
Jola Young fatally shot Herman Brobst after finding him crouched in a closet at Mrs. Young's Cleveland apartments. Brobst hid when Young arrived unexpectedly and attempted to shoot his wife, who escaped injury. The man had been separated from his wife. jealousy over Brobst led to the tragedy.
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Cleveland
Jola Young
Herman Brobst
Caruso Found Guilty in Central Park Incident
Eurico Caruso, famed opera tenor, found guilty of insulting women at the zoological garden in Central Park New York on November 24. He was fined, and his counsel said an appeal would be filed via a writ of certiorari to the court of special session for review.
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New York
Eurico Caruso
T Te Zoological Garden
Central Park
Balier
Caruso
Cerriorari
Court of Special Session
Labor Reform Split Over Child Labor Law
Minneapolis delegates at a national labor convention reject a federal child labor ban as unconstitutional and back state laws to curb child exploitation in mills and factories. In Poland, Warsaw editors report Socialists threaten a general strike over four executions they deem unjust.
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Minneapolis
Albert J. Geverige
Richmond
Ind
Senate
Warsaw
Will Be No Strike Wages Rise Across New England Mills
News from Boston dated November 24 reports a 10 percent wage advance granted by Fall River manufacturers to 40 000 employees. The rise, though unlikely to reach 10 percent everywhere, would affect about 100 000 mill workers in Southeastern Massachusetts Rhode Island and Eastern Connecticut plus workers in other areas. New Bedford mills employ 13 006 and 4 000 in yarn mills. Rhode Island manufacturers expect to meet any rise and would affect about 20 000 Rhode Island hands and 15 000 in Eastern Connecticut mills under Providence control, with ~6 000 more in Rhode Island benefiting.
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Boston
New England
Fall River
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Connecticut
New Bedford
Providence
Labor Union Convention Debates AP Denunciation Proposal
Minneapolis November 24 The American Federation of Labor considered a resolution by Daniel L Russell urging the Associated Press be denounced for unjust treatment of telegraphers and the AFL executive council weigh placing the AP on an unfair list after extended discussion the council favored amicable inquiry and impartial investigation. The convention also grappled with a separate issue about a brewery workers wager and urged nonassociation with any militia.
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Minneapolis
American Federation of Labor
Daniel L. Russell
Commercial Telegraphers’ Union of North America
Associated Press
Executive Council
Associated Presa
Wnion
Sori America
Vic of Ve P
Stingers
Frenigy
Teamsters
Allo Winge Ouu
Berger
Milwaukee
Riots erupts as Hamilton streetcars clash with strike
In Hamilton Ontario on November 24 a bid to restart streetcar service degenerated into rioting. Police were overwhelmed and Toronto dispatched 100 troops. The strike began on November 1, with strikebreakers arriving November 12. Cars were wrecked and crowds dispersed after soldiers were reported en route.
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Namilton
Ont
Hamilton Street Railway
Liesollte
Wayer
Toronto
Steel Trust in Line Announces Wage Increase
New York on November 24 4 percent. H. Gary of the board of directors of United States Steel announces that wages for common labor in subsidiary plants will rise 10 cents per day starting May 1. Day and turn labor wages will be adjusted accordingly.
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New York
H. Gary
United States Steel Corporaton
United States Steel Corporation
Automobile Strikes Car Endangering Pedestrian in New York
A car driven by Karl Wanser struck a pedestrian Nicholas Sullivan likely fatally injuring him. The car, with two women, fled but was caught in streetcar traffic. A pistol shot was fired during the pursuit. William Doran was wounded in the neck. Wenzey was charged with the shooting, which he denied.
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New York
Karl Wanser
Nicholas Sullivan
William Doran
Wenzey
British press focuses on American topics in diplomacy
In London Nov 24 British journals give unprecedented space to American affairs. Discussion centers on who will replace Sir Mortimer Durand as ambassador to Washington, deemed the world’s most important diplomatic post. The Outlook leads with a long feature noting Washington’s primacy and the embassy’s fall from political and social ascendancy.
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London
Mortimer Durand
Washington
Mortimer
Outlook
Lord Pauncefote
Sir Mortimer
Weekly Trade Review Signals Early Holiday Goods Rise
R G Dun weekly report notes weather slowing seasonable staples yet holiday goods moving early and strongly. Wholesale activity outpaces last year with improving collections while machinery stays fully employed. Delays in deliveries and weak railway facilities hinder producers. iron and steel demand remains high with likely order backlogs. structural steel sees reduced new business amid cautious money markets and restrained speculative building.
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New York
R. G. Dun & Co
Immense Prairie Fire Reaches New Mexico Border
Reports from Santa Fe claim a prairie fire swept from Western Texas into Eastern New Mexico burning over 1,000,000 acres of grazing land and homes. No deaths reported in New Mexico yet, but several may have perished in Texas. Between 50,000 and 100,000 cattle are left without grazing on both sides of the border.
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Santa Fe
N. M
Texas
New Mexico
Earthquake and Tidal Wave Hit German New Guinea
Alarming shocks reported in German New Guinea and the Bismarck archipelago followed by tidal waves. The Miowera passenger steamer from the South Sea brings word of coastal devastation for forty miles and widespread destruction at Chéassi island in Dampier straits. Native huts burned or destroyed, many lives lost.
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Victoria
B. C
German New Guinean
Bismarck Archipelago
Miowera
South Sea
Chéassi Island
Dampier Straits
Root Addresses Cincinnati Commerce Conference
Secretary of State delivers remarks at the twenty sixth annual Diner of the Cincinnati Commercial Club advocating expanded commerce with South America and moral support for Panamanian canal construction. Guests include Ignacio Calderon Bolivian minister, Henrique Cortez Colombian minister, and Albert Yeatcham Chilean charge d affaires.
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Cincinnati
South America
Roui
Ignacio Caldaron
Bolivia
United States
Henrique Cortez
Colobit
Albert Yeacham
Norfolk and Southern Railway Merger Unites Lines
In Norfolk Virginia on November 24 stockholders from the Norfolk and Southern Railroad the Virginia Carolina Coast Railroad and the John L. Roper Lumber Company merged to create the Norfolk and Southern Railway with terminals in this city.
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Norfolk, Va
Norfolk and Southern Railway Company
North Carolina
Virginia
Norfolk and Southern Railroad Company
Virginia, Carolina Coast Railroad Company
John Ll. Roper Lamber Company
Found Dead in Bed in Toledo Rooming House
Mr and Mrs James Scott Mitchell of Salem Massachusetts were found dead in a Toledo rooming house. The coroner ruled double suicide, later inquiries suggesting Mitchell drugged his wife before killing her and then died by the same method. The couple had traveled together for years, the woman known as Ole Courtland a palmist.
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Toledo
James Scott Mitchell
Salem
Mass
Ballayue
Here
Vermilya
Mitchell
Ole Courtland
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