Roosevelt Addresses Sixtieth Congress on Sound Business
President Roosevelt’s message to Congress argues that business conditions are sound but urges greater currency flexibility and stronger anti fraud measures. He calls for trust supervision parity with banks, national incorporation or licensing for interstate railways, expanded anti trust powers, postal savings banks, and national river and coast defense programs. He stresses taxation reform and preserves tariff support while backing public ownership of mineral resources and forest products.
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Roosevelt
Parcel Post
Department of Justice
Interstate Commerce Commission
District of Columbia
Territories
Panama Canal
Canada
Tobacco Barn Destroyed in Lawrenceburg Fire
Lawrenceburg Indiana report says William Stephenson’s barn and 75 acres of tobacco north of town were burned. Authorities call the blaze inciendrism after Stephenson, recently moved from Kentucky, refused a payoff to refrain from selling his crop. He sought to sell to the American Tobacco Company.
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Lawrenceburg
Ind
William Stephenson
Here
American Tobacco Company
Course in Love Making Sparks Controversy in Greenfield
In Greenfield Illinois a school program on lovemaking has sparked conflict. Prof H G Russell and his assistant wife teach courtship as part of the high school curriculum. A 23 pupil class plans to study love literature and include defensive and offensive lessons.
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Greenfield
Ill
H. G. Russell
Russell
Stringent laws urged after Fontanet powder mill blast
Indiana State Factory Inspector Blakely reports to Governor Hanly on the Fontanet explosion. He urges stricter powder manufacturing laws, notes inability to fix blame, calls the incident inexplicable, and says the company showed some precautions but was careless. He rejects the hot box theory.
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Indianapolis
British Aid Urged as Natal Unrest Grows
Pietermaritzburg cable reports murders and outrages across Zululand that threaten friendly chiefs and British interests. The Governor proclaims stronger forces in Zulu land and calls for public aid to restore order.
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Pietermaritzburg
Zululand
Great Britain
Natal
Ban on Mo and Miss Vienna Cable
Government cautions against emigration to Missouri and Mississippi unless Austrian sources provide reliable information. Action follows complaints about treatment of Austrian workmen in those states.
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Vienna
Missouri
Mississippi
Plan Gift for Mitchell in Hazleton Fund Drive
Hazleton plans a $20,000 fund by United Mine Workers of America as a testimonial to John Mitchell on his retirement from the presidency of the union he built up.
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Hazleton, Pa
United Mine Workers of America
John Mitchell
Death of Oscar II and Elevation of Gustave V in Sweden
King Oscar II of Sweden dies at 9 10 Sunday morning in the royal palace. Crown Prince Gustave Adolphe of Varmland ascends as Gustav V after swearing allegiance before the Cabinet and Court. The aging monarch had been fai ling for months and his death follows Norway’s separation, seen as breaking his heart.
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Stockholm
Oscar II
Sweden
Sophia
Oscar Gustave
Oscar Gustave Adolphe
Varmland
Council of State
Gustave V
Lindman
Princes of the Blood
Carl
Oscar
Vermland
Gustave
Napoleon
Bernadette
Europe
United States
Great Briton
Norway
Negroes Plan Swell Funerals in Richmond
Richmond story reports plans by the local Black community to hold funerals at night with electric light to avoid docked time for mourners. A company is being formed to install lighting in Negro cemeteries, enabling funerals after working hours.
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Richmond
Presbyterians Consider New Bible Textbooks
The national missionary conference in Des Moines Iowa debates adopting Presbyterian prepared textbooks to replace the International books after ten years of Sunday school attendance.
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Des Moines
Presbyterian Church
National Missionary Conference
Girl and Brother to Hang in Louisiana Case
Nicolina Gebbia and her brother Leonardo Gebbia have been sentenced to hanging as accessories in the Walter Lamana case. The eight year old boy was held against his will in a spring plot orchestrated by the Gebbias.
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Hahnville
Nicolina Gebbia
Leonardo
Walter Lamana
Gebbias
Taft's Mother Dead in Milbury Massachusetts
Special death expected for a week ends as Mrs. Louisa Maria Taft mother of William H Taft secretary of war dies at her Milbury home Sunday morning. The passing marks a quiet close to a long illness with Taft receiving news at the bedside.
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Taft
Milbury
Mass
Louisa Maria Taft
William H. Taft
Bloodthirsty mob carries out brutal lynching in Genoa
In Genoa Italy Giuseppe Quat trocchi and his wife allegedly killed their landlord Anthony Bianchi his wife and nursing baby and three older children after a rent dispute. The couple were executed by a mob using a trolley car to end their lives and were dragged along the tracks. The motorman aided the lynching and the bodies were scattered along the rails.
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Genoa
Italy
Giuseppe Quattrocchi
Anthony Bianchi
miners demand union aid against mine owners and troops
Goldfield Nevada issues call to union labor supporting the Western Federation of Miners amid a life and death clash with operators. The statement denounces President Roosevelt for sending federal troops to mines, cites Monongah abuses, and urges the working class to protest the government push into mining affairs.
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Goldfield, Nev
Western Federation of Miners
Roosevelt
West Virginia
Goldfield
Nev
Esmeralda County
Wells Fargo Express Company
Monongah
W. Va
Discontinuation Ordered for New Twenty Dollar Gold Pieces
Philadelphia reports the government has ordered the coin age of the new twenty dollar gold pieces discontinued due to a rough wire edge defect from the concave design. About 125000 coins circulated. new dies are being made to remove the defect with no design change.
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Philadelphia
Roosevelt Declines Further Term Sayings Report
President Roosevelt reportedly told Pennsylvanian Samuel Watts that he cannot serve beyond his present term and that someone else must carry on the work. The remark, widely cited, is seen by many as settling doubts about his future intentions.
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Teddy
Washington
Roosevelt
Samuel Watts
Pennsylvania
Ev e Hundred Buried In Monongah Coal Disaster
Five hundred miners trapped after explosions at Consolidated Coal Company's Mines Nos 6 and 8 near the West Fork river in Monongah West Virginia. Rescue work continues as debris blocks tunnels while authorities fear many deaths and anticipate weeks to recover all remains.
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Monongah
W. Va
Consolidated Coal Company
West Fork River
Buffalo Bill Denies Ties to Katherine Clemmons
Colonel William F. Cody denies any association with Katherine Clemmons and states that Howard Gould paid Helen Mar to testify in Gould’s divorce case. He notes Gould offered 50 000 to corrobor Miss Mar testimony, while Gould relies on Miss Mar’s statements about Clemmons.
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Cody
Gould
Denver
Col
Howard Gould
Helen Mar
Miss Mar
William F. Cody
Buffalo Bill
Katherine Clemmons
Miss Clemmons
Col. Cody
Berlin Silent Sundays Barring Mormon Public Meetings
Hessian authorities follow Saxony and ban public meetings by Mormon emissaries from Salt Lake City aimed at persuading girls to join the faith. The move clamps down on organized proselytizing and reflects a broader clamp on religious outreach in Germany.
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Berlin
Saxony
Germany
Salt Lake City
Chicago Lands G. O. P. Convention
The Republican national committee selects Chicago Coliseum as site for the 1908 party convention to be held on June 16.
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Chicago
Washington
Republican National Committee
Chicago Colliseum
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