Wave of Temperance Statistics Shows Situation
A Chicago report forecasts an era of national prohibition soon, with only large cities likely to retain liquor trade. It lists state by state dry gains, noting counties dry, towns dry, or licenses in effect, and cites Territory and District details.
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Chicago
United States
Lee
Alabama
Arkansas
California
Colorado
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maine
Mississippi
Missouri
Montana
Nebraska
Nevada
New Hampshire
New Jersey
New York
North Carolina
North Dakota
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Vermon
Virginia
Washington
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Territories
Arizona
District of Columbia
New Mexico
Milwaukee mayor offered 1900 weekly vaudeville stake
Milwaukee special mayor Becker has been offered $1,900 per week for forty weeks to perform a fifteen minute vaudeville stunt. He would tell audiences what he knows about young men in politics and share his personal campaign experiences.
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Milwaukee
Wis
Becker
Walker Wins $2,000,000 in Wheat Pit Speculation
The Chicago Special reports J Brandt Walker claiming a $2,000,000 wheat pit win. He is described as a bear in the market and reputed to have earned millions recently on the bear side of Wall Street activities.
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Chicago
J. Brandt Walker
Wall Street
Indiana Coal Price Increase Sparks Shortage Notice
Terre Haute reports a twenty five cent coal price rise at Indiana mines. Production is at one third capacity due to shortages of coal and ore impacting shipments across the state.
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Indiana
Terre Haute
Ind
Vice President Fairbanks Heads to Washington for Session
Vice President Fairbanks has left Indianapolis for Washington to stay through the coming Congress session. He will open his home there for the winter on arrival. Mrs. Fairbanks is visiting relatives in Ohio en route to Washington. The Presidential boom will be run from Washington and his lieutenants plan a busy winter there.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Fairbanks
Washington
Congress
Fairbanks Jis
Ohio
Goshen man found cut to pieces on Lake Shore tracks
Ralph Kyle a 20 year old resident of Edgerton Ohio and former telegraph operator at Mishawanka was found killed near a Goshen Indiana Lake Shore crossing. Relatives believe he was murdered while returning home on a freight train.
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Gosheen
Ind
Ralph Kyle
Edgerton
Ohio
Mishawanka
Lake Shore
Goshen
American Heiresses Linked to European Titles Stir Debate
New York reports claim over 400 American girls married into noble families abroad, with $900,000,000 in assets allegedly leaving the U S. Henry Clews doubts the total but notes a significant capital outflow tied to European marriages. A parade of heiresses lists millions in dowries and expenditures on European estates. Chicago is cited as a slave-trafficking concern with 278 underage girls rescued in two months from vice districts.
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New York
le Petit Parisien
Europe
Paris
America
Atlantic
Henry Clews
May Goelet
Pauline Astor
Wees
Anna Gould
Marshall O. Roberts
Sarah Phelps Stokes
Onsuelo Vanderbilt
Mary Leiter
Nancy Leiter
Ceace
Margaret Leiter
Belle Wilson
Caroline Astor
Marie Satterfield
Duchess of Marlborough
Blenheim Castle
Huntington
Mackay
Hatzfeldt
Colonna
Levi P. Morton
Boni de Castellano
George
Treasure of a Sunken Yacht Found Near Willisville
John M. Sparks of Nacogdoches discovers the hulk of a British yacht in the Trinity River above Willisville. The wreck, dated 1836, reportedly carried arms and ammunition for Santa Anna's Mexican troops and $150,000 in English gold.
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Willisville
Texas
John M. Sparks
Nacogdoches
Trinity River
Santa Anna
Fontanet Explosion Appraisal Values Loss at Fontanet
Appraisers for Dupont Powder report Fontanet mill explosion caused $135000 damage to Fontanet property and $220000 to company property. Settlement based on these figures expected.
Balks Gunpowder Plot Uncovered in St. Petersburg Cable
The arrest of several military clerks exposes a plan to blow up the military council, including the minister of war, at the next weekly sitting.
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Balks
St. Petersburg
Military Council
Navajos in Utah uprising sparks troop patrols
A Navy prompted clash between U S soldiers and Indians in southern Utah led to raids, arrests, and the killing of three Navajos with one wounded. Troops I and K of the Fifth Cavalry under Captain H O Willard moved from Ft Wyngate to Aneth to demonstrate presence and quiet unrest led by Baillie.
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Washington
United States
Utah
Indian Bureau
Ship Rock
N. M
Baillie
New Mexico
Arizona
Bylillie
Indian Office
Shelton
Fifth Cavalry
H. O. Willard
Ft. Wyngate
Aneth
Bysillie
Byaillie
San Juan River
San Juan Agency
Landslide Buries City Karatagh in Bokhara
A massive landslide after the October shocks buried the town of Karatagh in Russian Turkestan, wiping out about 15,000 inhabitants. The governor and his mother are reported as possible survivors. Communications with the district are cut, and details will take days to emerge.
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Taskend
Russian Turkestan
Karatagh
Bokhara
Samarkand
Weather Bureau Instruments
Washington
D. C
London
Taft Candidacy Faltering as Other Booms Rise
The Washington Herald reports Taft's presidential campaign is failing to gain momentum and faces collapse. It notes rivals Uncle Joe Cannon, Cortelyou, Knox, and Fairbanks launching or reviving their efforts, while Taft struggles to spark life amid discouraging prospects.
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Washington
Taft
Washington Herald
Uncle Joe Cannon
Cortelyou
Knox
Fairbanks
Plan Mile-a-Minute Boat In Private View
New York Special reports that a mile-a-minute boat may become a reality after naval engineers yachtsmen and others viewed Joseph Turner’s vertebra propeller and voiced opinions in a private demonstration.
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New York
Joseph Turner
Football Prize Fighting? High Court Injunction Sought
In ankakee Illinois Attorney 8. R. Moore filed a bill in the Circuit Court seeking an injunction to stop high school students from playing football claiming the sport is prize fighting.
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Ankakee
Ill
R. Moore
Circuit
Woman Hanged After Killing General Maximoffsky in St. Petersburg
Mile Ragozinikova, who on October 28 killed General Maximoffsky, director of the prisons department, was hanged Thursday. During Maximoffsky’s funeral police arrested two men with magazine pistols. they were believed to plan an assassination of General Hassenkamp, who signed the death warrant.
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St. Petersburg
Mile
Ragozinikova
Maximoffsky
Department of Prisons
Ministry of the Interior
Hassenkamp
Mlle
Ragozinnikova
Movement seeks larger pay for ministers in Kingston district
In the Kingston New York Methodist District Conference a push for higher salaries for ministers is gaining momentum due to rising living costs. Despite strict economy many country pastors cannot meet expenses or properly support their families.
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New York
Methodist
Kingston
N. Y
Gas Fight Ended as Citizens' Gas Pays Option Price
Indianapolis reports the Citizens' Gas Company completed purchase of the Consumers' Gas Trust property for 409000 dollars, enabling a new system to supply gas at 60 cents per thousand feet. Promoters expect to deliver cheaper gas amid heavy stock subscriptions and last minute financing.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Citizens’ Gas Company
Consumers’ Gas Trust Company
Citizens’ Company
Eureka Investment Company
Brenzels
Indianapolis Gas Company
Holtzman
Union Trust Company
J. D. Forrest
Citizens
Great Boulevard plan eyed for Chicago region expansion
A proposed Great Boulevard would circle Lake Michigan and tunnel under the Straits of Mackinac. Sketches were discussed with Mayor Busse and city officials. Architect D H Burnham is interested. Four states Illinois Wisconsin Indiana Michigan would share the effort. Legislatures will be asked for appropriations.
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Chicago
Lake Michigan
Straits of Mackinac
Busse
D. H. Burnham
Illinois
Wisconsin
Indiana
Michigan
Philadelphia Mint Prepares to Coin 15 Million in Double Eagles
Washington directs immediate coinage of 15 million dollars in double eagles to ease money stringency. The Philadelphia mint readies for the task as silver coinage for the year is largely completed. The issue will consume about three-fifths of the current bullion stock.
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Philadelphia
Washington
Finland Enacts Nationwide Liquor Prohibition Law
Finland’s parliament passed a law prohibiting liquor sales nationwide after a lengthy battle. Temperance supporters celebrate the victory as a cablegram reports the result to the W. C. T. U. headquarters in America.
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Helsingfors
Finland
American
Alaska-Yukon Pacific Exposition Seeks No Loan Aid
Washington states that the exposition will not request a loan or further aid beyond an ample appropriation for government participation. A pledging section for this policy is included in the bill to be introduced at the next Congress session.
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Washington
Congress
Uncle Sam
Grand Duke commutes death sentence for Karl Haul
The Grand Duke of Baden commutes the death sentence of Karl Haul, former professor of Roman law at George Washington University, for the murder of his mother in law Frau Molitor, to life imprisonment in penal servitude.
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Bertin Cable
Grand Duke of
Baden
Karl Haul
George Washington University
Frau Molitor
Hfe
Pennsy Not to Reduce Force Denial from Railroad Officials
Philadelphia special reports rumors that the Pennsylvania Railroad would lay off between 20 000 and 30 000 men have been denied by high officials of the company.
Admiral Evans Targets War Cruising Plans and Pacific Departure
Admiral Robley D. Evans told a Lotus Club dinner that a fleet of sixteen battleships will sail from Hampton Roads for the Pacific on December 16. He praised gunnery, recalled sharp target practice, and said he would welcome a Yokohama reception while noting concerns about western hospitality. Chicago report adds Kokomo, Indiana, celebrates Booth Tarkington’s The Man from Home and plans a delegation to weigh its success.
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New York
Hampton Roads
Robley D. Evans
United States Battleship Squadron
Pacific
Lotus Club
Evans
Yokohama
San Francisco
Massachusetts Bay
Cunarder Lusitania sails with record $10 million gold aboard
New York reports the Lusitania departed from Liverpool with $10,000,000 in gold coins, the largest single-ship gold shipment. The voyage forms the advance guard of $26,500,000 in gold destined abroad to ease monetary stringency and restore confidence.
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New York
Liverpool
Carrie Nation Breaks Into Print in Evansville
Mrs Carrie Nation delivered two talks in Evansville Indiana criticizing President Roosevelt calling him the greatest enemy in the White House and likening him to the Snake River with two currents devised to mislead voters about Taft Fairbanks and Hughes while pushing for a Roosevelt third term.
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Evansville
Ind
Carrie Nation
Roosevelt
White House
Snake River
Idaho
Temperance Advocate
Taft
Fairbanks
Hughes
Hanly seeks opinion on Indiana boxing legality
Gov. Hanly asked Attorney General James Bingham whether boxing is legal in Indiana and if prize fights are defined under state law. Bingham answered that boxing matches are prize fights and contrary to the statute, and he has submitted his opinion to the governor.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Hanly
Indiana
James Bingham
Bingham
Duquoin Mayor arrested in Missouri hotel incident
Benjamin W. Pope, mayor of Duquoin Illinois, and Mrs Ida Lee Manion wife of a Mt Vernon businessman were arrested at the Burlington Hotel St Louis Missouri and taken to Central District Police Station where Mrs Manion broke down in front of her husband.
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St. Louis, Mo
Benjamin W. Pope
Duquoin
Ill
Ida Lee Manion
Mt. Vernon
Burlington Hotel
Central District
Manion
Boy fatally shoots sister during mirror viewing
Terre Haute special reports 9 year old Laura Irwin at Dugger held a mirror to view wash hair when her 12 year old brother Willard fired a shotgun at the mirror. The blast struck the girl, killing her.
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Terre Haute
Ind
Laura Irwin
Dugger
Willard
Man Killed Cleaning Gun in Fort Wayne
Fort Wayne Indiana special report Carl Burdoine was killed Sunday by an accidental gun discharge while cleaning the weapon in preparation for a hunting trip. He leaves a widow and one child.
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Fort Wayne
Ind
Carl Burdoine
Tobacco Deal Buys 1907 Crop For Farmers
The Imperial Tobacco Company buys the entire 1907 crop pledged to the American Society of Equity across Henderson Union Webster Hopkins and Crittenden counties. The 16 000 000 pounds of tobacco will yield 1 500 000 English pounds to farmers, the highest price here since the war era.
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Henderson, Ky
Imperial Tobacco Company
American Society of Equity
Henderson
Union
Webster
Hopkins
Crittenden
Death by own action questioned in Perkins case
In Kansas City a federal court expert panel found enough morphine in L. H. Perkins of Lawrence to kill. Dr. Walter M. Cross testified Perkins’ life was insured for 600000 dollars and some insurers contest payout claiming self-inflicted death.
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Big
Kansas City
L. H. Perkins
Lawrence
Walter M. Cross
Perkins
Kentucky Girl Kills Herself in New York Convent
Miss Josephine Hill, a beautiful Kentucky girl, shot herself in the House of Mercy where she had led a two year secluded life as a teacher. Sister Superior Gertrude said she knew little but that Miss Hill came from Kentucky and wished to seclude herself from the world.
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New York
Josephine Hill
Kentucky
House of Mercy
Gertrude
Miss Hill
Czar Scores Against Sultan Via Turko Bulgarian Pact
Russia gains leverage over Turkey through a Turko Bulgarian treaty. In a crisis, Russia would aid Bulgaria with eighteen cavalry and artillery regiments, and Bulgaria would lend its torpedo flotilla for use against the Sultan if needed.
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Paris
Russia
Turkey
Bulgaria
Land Claim Offers $2 Million Settlement for $10 Million Property
John Cord of Fargo North Carolina arrives from Linleigh North Carolina claiming forty acres in Pana Illinois valued at ten million dollars. He states his grandfather leased the land to the city for ninety nine years and the lease has just expired. He offers two million dollars to settle the matter.
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Pana
John Cord
Fargo
N. C
Iinleigh
Cord
Bishops Lead Prayer March for Rain as Drought Grips City
In Bucharest a large procession of bishops clergy and thousands of citizens marched through the city praying for rain. All business was suspended as the drought distress prompted a united appeal for relief from clergy and residents.
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Bucharest
Land transfer widens U S Alaska border at 600 foot strip
A joint survey party last summer led to transferring a 600 foot wide strip of land several miles long from Canada to the United States in Alaska. The move enlarges U S territory along the Ottawa route.
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Ottawa
Ontario
Canadad
United States
Alaska
Petition Calls for Abolition of Censor of Plays
London cable reports a petition to the premier demanding the abolition of the censor of plays. The document has seventy signatures and includes nearly all leading authors and dramatists.
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London
Breaks Neck in Halloween Prank
Terre Haute Indiana special report Peter Byrne broke his neck in a fall from a ladder while placing a small wagon on the roof of his house to amuse his children on Halloween.
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Terre Haute
Ind
Peter Byrne
Laughed Too Hard Ends life of Edith Queen
Edith Queen of Sandfork died after laughing at her father’s attempt to solve a problem. The laughter caused a burst blood vessel in the brain, ending her life in Gallipolis Ohio.
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Gallipolis
Edith Queen
Sandfork
Knoxville a Dry Town in Tennessee After Pendleton Law
Knoxville Tennessee remains dry after the Pendleton law allowed reincorporation without saloons. Over 100 saloons closed their doors in a single night as the city voters, who cast ballots last March, observed the change and kept the city quiet.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Tennessee
Acelin
Holy War Declared by Mulai Hafid in Morocco
A Paris Matin special from Morocco reports Mulai Hafid brother of Sultan Abd-el-Aziz declares a holy war amid despair over French support.
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Paris
Matin
Morocco
Mulai Hafid
Sultan Abd-el-Aziz
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