American Ambassador Sees Bright Economic Outlook At London Banquet
Whitelaw Reid told a Thanksgiving dinner crowd in London that the United States is better positioned than ever to meet a financial crisis. He praised Roosevelt, noted improved world relations, and predicted a 46 state, 100 million population era under the next President.
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London
Whitelaw Reid
George Stuart White
Roosevelt
England
Reid
Republic
Mr. Reid
Far East
Oklahoma
Love at First Sight Ends in Evansville Wedding
Lloyd W. Allen a 28 year old railroad man from Minden Nebraska fell in love at first sight with Olive Mays Evans 17 in Evansville Indiana. After a telegraph proposal she invited him to Evansville where her father gave consent and the couple married and left for a New York honeymoon. Allen is described as wealthy.
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Evansville
Ind
Lloyd W. Allen
Minden
Neb
Olive Mays Evans
Allen
Papa
Conesta
New York City
Robbery at Amber's Palace Ameer Treasury Looted
Report from Pokhara indicates a bands attack on the Ameer's palace killing the finance minister. Robbers escaped on horseback with $90,900. Cavalry pursued and captured a railway battalion soldier among the suspects.
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St. Petersbuug
Pokhara
Central Asia
the Ameer
Mexico City Police Saddle Up for Largest Kidnap Ring
Mexico City police fight one of the citys biggest kidnaping cases. Over two months an organized gang has stolen forty nine children from homes. Forty nine victims include twenty two boys and twenty seven girls aged two to twelve. The whereabouts and fate of the children remain unknown.
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Mexico City
Great Walking Feat by Edward Weston Between Portland and Chicago
Edward Payson Weston completed a new long distance walk between Portland Maine and Chicago in twenty seven hours and twenty five minutes slower than his own forty year old record. His current trip covered about 1234% miles by map with an automobile pace measurement at 1375 miles. Weston remained physically sound, with a physician confirming his health after reaching the Illinois Athletic Club.
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Chicago
Edward Payson Weston
Portland
Weston
Walker
Illinois Athletic Club
Powers Oay Hit Six Democrats and Six Republicans Make Up Talismen
Georgetown Kentucky special reports selection of a twelve juror panel to try Caleb Powers for conspiracy in the Goebel murder. after two weeks and 400 men examined, the jury of four Republicans four Democrats and four independents was completed with all sides agreeing. the case was read and prosecution opened as judge Williams warned bias could sway verdicts in the political charged trial.
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Georgetown
Caleb Powers
William Goebel
Powers
Williams
Commonwealth
Franklin County Grand Jury
Rich leper finds a cure and returns home
Juan Bring as, a Guaymas millionaire leper, traveled via private car with Ramon Corral's four daughters from El Paso to his country home near Guaymas after a year and a half in Europe seeking a cure. He previously paid for a steamer stateroom that was destroyed after he left the vessel.
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el Paso
Tex
Juan Bringas
Guaymas
Mexico
Leper
Europe
America
Ramon Corral
Senor Corral
Royal Victim Held for Ransom Case in Naples
A sensational kidnapping in Naples detained Marquis Giuseppe Cito, a royal cousin, who was seized to a grotto and tortured. A ransom letter demanding $500 was left with him, linking the crime to high aristocracy and royal circles.
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Naples
Guiseppe Cito
Reprieved on Eve of Death in Ohio Case
Columbus special reports Frank Earl, condemned to be electrocuted Thanksgiving night for the murder of William Legg, a Sidney butcher, was granted a respite to December 20 by presidential pardon authorities after the Supreme Court denied a retrial.
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Columbus, O
Frank Earl
William Legg
Sidney
Board of Pardons
Supreme Court
Thornless Cactus Leaf Exhibit by Luther Burbank
Washington Special reports the National Museum exhibits a leaf like stem specimen of a thornless cactus bred by Luther Burbank. The plant promises a valuable forage crop adapting to arid and moist regions with a flattened stem nearly three feet long, a foot wide and three inches thick, resembling a watermelon surface.
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Washington
United States National Museum
Luther Burbank
California
Congress W Session Thirteen Senators Sworn In
The Sixtieth Congress began at noon with Vice President Fairbanks and Speaker Cannon presiding. Thirteen newly sworn senators included Borah Bourne Brown Dixon Guggenheim Bankhead Johnston Briggs Davis Paynter Richardson Stephenson Taylor. House sessions were longer due to oath administration. Cannon predicted May adjournment amid a push for early Democratic convention and currency relief measures. President Roosevelt favors a modest agenda with tariff revisions postponed until after the election.
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Washington
Sixtieth Congress
Fairbanks
Cannon
Morgan and Pettus
Alabama
Senate
Four Quarters of the Earth
President Fairbanks
William E. Borah
Idaho
Jonathan Bourne, Jr
Oregon
Norris Brown
Nebraska
Joseph M. Dixon
Montana
Simon Guggenheim
Colorado
John H. Bankhead
Joseph F. Johnston
Frank O. Briggs
Congress
Joe
Roosevelt
Thomases
Moorhead Forgives Son After Thanksgiving Victory
Pittsburg highlight notes John Alston Moorhead, son of John K Moorhead Jr, has been reconciled with his family after eloping with and marrying a French maid. He had trained Western University of Pennsylvania players for a 6 to 0 win over State College, drawing praise as his father embraced him.
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Pittsburg
John Alston Moorhead
John K. Moorhead
Western University of Pennsylvania
State College
John K. Moorhead, Jr
Paris Enacts Window Over Tomb Of Marie Duplessis
Spanish resident seeks permission to place a glass covering over Alphonsine Plessis grave in Montmartre cemetery. The famed Dame aux camellias is referenced in reports on protective measures for the site.
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Paris
Alphonsine Plessis
Montmartre
Marie Duplessis
Indiana Solid for Fairbanks Delegation Backing
Representative Crumpacker declared an Indiana delegation will back Vice President Fairbanks firmly. He arrived and stated there should be no doubt about Indiana's solid support.
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Washington
Crumpacker
Fairbanks
Indiana
Girl to Manage Theater in Chippewa Falls
Miss Laura Wall has been chosen manager of the new Victor theater in Chippewa Falls Wisconsin becoming the state’s only female opera house manager.
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Chippewa Falls
Wis
Laura Wall
Victor Theater
Wisconsin
Jamestown Exposition Closes Amid Financial Troubles
Norfolk notes the Jamestown Exposition ends at midnight with a bugler from the Twenty third Infantry sounding the knell. Fewer than three million paid admissions and blamed on bad management and internal controversies. President Tucker delivered a farewell, lights went out, and government exhibits stay to await Congress decision on reopening.
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Norfolk
Twentythird Infantry
Harry St. George Tucker
Congress
Farmers Are Nabobs of Prosperity in 1907 Census Outlook
Washington reports farmers enjoy unprecedented wealth as 1907 farm values surge with corn leading exports. Total farm production totals $7.412 billion, up 10 percent from 1906, with dairy, poultry, eggs and livestock contributing major value beyond crops.
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Washington
Wilson
United States
Chinaman Exemption in Canada Head Tax Case
Halifax special reports that the Supreme Court holds a Chinaman cannot be convicted solely for entering Canada without paying the $500 head tax. The ruling centers on the legality of applying the tax to a person who has not otherwise committed an offense.
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Halifax
N. S
Canada
Supreme Court
Engagement at Adjor ondkiss in Lala Maghnia clash
In Lala Maghnia Algeria a confrontation at Adjor ondkiss pits French troops against Benis Nassen tribesmen numbering about 2500. The tribesmen initially drove back French outposts but later retreated under heavy fire.
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Lala Maghnia
Algeria
Adjorondkiss
Benis Nassen
Reichstag Sensation As Bebel Attacks German Upper Classes
In the Reichstag Berlin Socialist leader August Bebel delivered a forceful address warning of a crisis in Germany. He claimed vice and degeneracy are widespread among the upper classes and argued that exposing offenders would dwarf the Panama Canal cabal or the Dreyfus affair.
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Reichstag
Berlin
Bebel
Herr Bebel
Germany
Endurance Run From New York to Paris Planned
Paris Cable reports an international automobile endurance run from New York City to Paris across Alaska Siberia Russia and Europe. Start is set for late February with a tough Yukon to Bering Strait section and vast frozen plains ahead. Several major makers including American firms show interest in entering cars.
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Paris
New York
New York City
Alaska
Bering Straits
Siberia
Russia
Europe
Yukon
Dominion of Canada
Alaskan
Siberian
Ural
Navy seek $69 million for new ships in Metcalf report
Secretary Metcalf’s annual report to President Roosevelt requests Congress authorize building navy vessels costing 69 270 000 to sustain U S sea power. He cites current second rank but notes replacement of old ships with Delaware class battleships at about 9 500 000 each totaling 38 000 000.
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Washington
Congress
Navy
Metcalf
Roosevelt
United States Navy
Midnight Funeral Held For Noted Mason In St Paul
In St Paul Minnesota the kadosh or midnight funeral service of the Scottish Rite marking the seventh time in US and fourth in St Paul was held over the body of W H S Wright a leading thirty third degree Mason who died in St Paul last Thursday Masons from many regions attended.
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St. Paul, Minn
United States
St. Paul
W. H. S. Wright
New York Plans Unrestricted Skyscraper Heights
The Blue Sky Is the Limit view for New York skyscrapers removes height limits. Builders may rise as many stories as they choose, as long as their design ensures adequate light and ventilation for neighbors on all sides.
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New York
Plot to Rob State Vaults Sparks Indianapolis Warning
An anonymous note to State Treasurer Oscar Hadley warns of a vault robbery plan at the State House. Two men would watch the night guards while a third carried out the theft. Hadley and deputies sleep near the vault and guards are well armed. Little state money reportedly held in vaults.
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Indianapolis
Oscar Hadley
State House
Japanese Immigration Increase Sparks U S Concern
American Ambassador Thomas J. O'Brien urged the Japanese government to investigate arrivals on the Pacific coast. The State Department fears students who later become laborers may breach promises given by Japan.
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Tokio
Thomas J. O’brien
Pacific
State Department
America
Roosevelt Considers National Highway From Oregon Trail
Washington Special reports President Roosevelt examined Ezra Meeker with his oxen and prairie schooner after a 3,000 mile trip from Washington along the old Oregon trail. Meeker urged turning the trail into a national highway. the President said it should be a commercial project, not a sentimental one. Meeker is described as a former Hoosier.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Ezra Meeker
Meeker
Kill Groom of Few Hours in Brownsville
In Brownsville Pennsylvania a groom, George Bea, was killed after leaving a wedding celebration to fetch a friend. Six men, believed to be rejected suitors of the bride, emerged from hiding and struck him, fracturing his skull. He died several hours after the assault.
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Brownsville
George Bea
Bea
Bank of England to repay historic 1722 deposit
The St. Petersburg Bourse Gazette reports the Bank of England may be required to repay a sum lodged in 1722 that has grown to 400 million dollars by compound interest. The deposit, payable at sight, has never been claimed and was placed by Polubotko, a local governor in a Russian district north of Kiev, who served from 1722 to 1724.
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Bank of England
London
St. Petersburg
Kieff
Polubotko
Pictures Across the Sea Telegraph Project
Paris inventor Edouard Belin plans an improved telephotography system to send pictures via the ordinary submarine cable from Paris to New York. He expects to demonstrate the new method next spring.
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Paris
Edouard Belin
New York
M. Belin
Football Fan Drops Dead at Franklin Field
A Philadelphia man, Thomas P. McCutcheon, collapsed and died after leaping from his seat and waving a Penn touchdown flag during a game against Cornell at Franklin Field. Doctors attributed his death to a fatal heart condition triggered by excitement.
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Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
Cornell
Franklin Field
Thomas P. McCutcheon
All Lovely in Portugal. Rumor myths debunked in Lisbon
The alarmist stories claiming Portugal faced civil war are dismissed as baseless. There was no prisoner king no banished crown prince and no navy mutiny despite frontier rumors.
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Lisbon
Portual
Chicago Special Excludes Bible In Schools Policy
Chicago public schools exclude all books containing biblical quotations from the system. Officials cite fear that official sanction would erode trust in the schools' integrity and unsectarian character.
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Chicago
Board of Education
Washington Controller Ridgely Reports Middle West Currency Return
Special Controller Ridgely returns to Washington after a brief Illinois home visit. He says Middle West currency conditions are rapidly normalizing and banks are ready to resume full currency payments.
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Washington
Ridgely
Illinois
Middle West
Chip Man Enters Great Race
Hamilton Ohio news notes C H Tangeman a former Hamilton boy and son of George Tangeman of New York City enters the New York Paris race the great auto event tracing a route across America Alaska the Bering straits Siberia Russia Germany and France. Tangeman also lived in Cincinnati for years and attended Woodward High School.
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Hamilton, O
C. H. Tangeman
Hamilton
George Tangeman
New York City
New York-Paris
New York
Paris
America
Alaska
Bering Straits
Siberia
Russia
Germany
France
Tangeman
Cincinnati
Woodward High School
The Handsome People and Happiness on Their Faces
A reflective statement lauds those who let happiness show on their faces, claiming beauty resides in joyful expression rather than appearance alone.
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