Burglars Fail to Crack Courthouse Safes
A historic note on a courthouse safes break in, with text attributed to President Roosevelt regarding a plan to limit state legislative salaries for insurance officials. The Associated story outlines a letter dated November 29 1906 from Theodore Roosevelt to Thomas F Drake, DC superintendent, and its circulation among a 15 member reform committee planning salary caps of 50 000 per year.
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Roosevelt
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Thomas F. Drake
District of Columbia
Drake
White House
Washington
Mr Drake
Theodore Roosevelt
Insurance Commissioners
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Burglars Miss Target in Pueblo Court House Heist
Burglars attacked two safes at the county courthouse in Pueblo on Saturday morning. They disabled the safes and fled with about cash of 1.25, a gold watch, and a Colt revolver. Officers work on promising clues but have not made arrests.
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Court House
Pueblo
Colo
Orly
Arrien’s Devotion to Duty in Snowbound Mountains
Joseph Burke mail carrier between Highland and Fredalba Park faced deadly conditions as talpine limbs toppled around him. With horses abandoned he improvised snowshoes and crossed deep snow to reach help. A three day communication blackout followed due to sleet breaking wires and poles.
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Arriens
San Bernardino
Cal
Joseph Burke
Highland
Fredalba Park
Burke
City Creek
Tnes, Mall
Snow reports reach Arrowhead Reservoir plant
Joseph Smith arrives from Little Bear valley on a pair of snowshoes to deliver word of three feet of snow in Little Bear valley, the location of the Arrowhead Reservoir company plant.
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Toseph Smith
Little Bear Valley
Arrowhead — Reservoir Company
Murderer McGarvey Hanged After Family Refusal
Canon City reports the execution of Cole John McGarvey, condemned for murder, who was hanged at the state penitentiary between 7 and 8 p m Saturday night. His father Barney McGarvey refused any greeting or letters, while his brother from Colorado Springs expressed sorrow. McGarvey spent his final days reading the Bible and receiving spiritual counsel from Loch emidt of Canon City.
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Canon City
Cole John McGarvey
Ed. Innes
State Penitentiary
McGarvey
Barney McGarvey
Long Branch
N. J
St Francis Hospital
Colorado Springs
Immedia
Alness
Loch=emidt
Peculiar Vetack on Wipe of a Friend in Chicago
Chicago police and Grand Junction deputies hunted Patrick O Connor a Pittsburg man accused of drugging and abducting Ella Witte wife of Julius Witte an electrician. Ella was hospitalized declared insane then escaped and was recaptured. She aided officers with details of two friends aboard the train while O Connor allegedly tried to trap her husband.
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Chicago
Grand Junction
Patrick O'Connor
Pittsburg
Ella Witte
Julius Witte
Witte
Grand Dumette
Pris
Grant Junction
O'Conner
State of the Almshouses in Missouri Report
Jefferson City reports detail a state almshouse system with a total population of 2 450. The male and female breakdown shows 1 116 males and 1 235 females including 418 feeble minded, 180 epileptics, 10a sick or crippled, and 1 paralytic. Thirty almshouses use leases and forty nine are county-run. some provide cells for juveniles and work is not required at fifty homes. Twenty four county clerks failed to report to their county poor.
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Jefferson City
Corey says he will marry Miss Gillman
Paris reports that El will marry Miss Gillman, stated by Corey, head of a billion dollar steel firm, on Saturday marking the first explicit confirmation of the famed romance. The millionaire and the actress have long inspired international speculation, though Corey refused to discuss details beyond acknowledging the approaching marriage.
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Corey
Gillman
Paris
Gillsman
Steel Corporation
America
Europe
Steel
Gallup Woman's Card Club Elects Officers
The Gallup Woman's Card Club held a regular election of officers at the president Mrs Gregory Page home. E Aldrich was named president, B A Pinney vice president, B C Smith secretary, and John Howle treasurer.
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Gallup
Woman's Card Club
Woman's Card Club of
Gregory Page
E. Aldrich
B.A. Pinney
B. C. Smith
John Howle
Phonograph Replaces Choir At Nebraska Church Service
In Guiana Nebraska Reverend Lester Gerard Leggett, pastor at First Presbyterian, used a phonograph to play sacred music during services, replacing a traditional choir. Attendance reportedly rose about twenty five percent, as some songs from Trinity Church Choir in New York were reproduced, though internal choir disputes and talent issues preceded the change.
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Lester Gleggett
Guiana
Neb
Lester Gerard Leggett
First Presbyterian Church
Nebraska City
Trinity Church Choir
New York
Leggett
Curb Brokers Housed by Produce Exchange
Special Correspondent reports New York interest in curb brokers moving to unlisted security trade under a Produce Exchange plan. If approved, unlisted securities would transfer to the exchange with strict investigations. curb brokers expect benefits but fear Stock Exchange resistance, while membership prices rise amid gambling crackdown uptown.
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New York Produce Exchange
W York
Fea
New York Stock Exchange
Brand Street
Stock Exchange
Ito
New York Apt Hotels See Off hours Bets and Pool Rooms
The city hosts a network of stock brokers in hotel offices after markets close. Odds are secured via telegraph wires for bets on southern and western tracks, with random brokerage activity near the Waldorf Astoria. Private poolrooms and home gambling rooms claim clientele among the wealthy.
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Heroie
ACE OT Kock
Stock Exchange
Waldorf-Astoria
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