From popcorn vender to United States senator
Wm. Alder Smith, a Republican from Michigan, rose from a poor boy in Dowagiac to U.S. Senator. He began as a popcorn vendor, befriended Speaker J. T. Rich who helped him become a page, studied law, and built a rail line while amassing wealth. Elected to the Michigan legislature in 1894 and a long political ascent followed. Born May 12, 1869, he married Maria Osterhout in 1886 and is father to Wm. Alden Smith Jr.
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Conkreseman
Gen. Alver
United States Senate
Michigan
Dowagiac
Mich
Grand Rapids
J. T. Rich
Michigan House of Representatives
Rich
Young Smith
Chicago & West Michigan
Detroit, Grand Rapids & Western
Gov. Luce
Rapid City
Kalkaske
Stratford
Lowell and Hastings
Belding
Pere Marquette
Smith
Mongreas
Grand Rapids Herald
Maria Osterhout
Wm. Alden Smith, Jr
Tragedy in El Paso Endures Amid Family Crisis
The El Paso incident ties into ongoing city rain calamities with G C Boone, a 28-year-old railroad conductor, fatally wounding his wife aged 21 before shooting himself. The couple, said to have endured unhappy marriage, clashed in their Texas street room before the shootings. The event follows a broader pattern of distress in the area.
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el Paso
Bia
G. C. Boone
el Paso & Southwestern Railroad
Hamburg
Lloyd
White Star Line
Freight engine boiler explosion kills five near Norristown
A Philadelphia and Reading Freight engine boiler burst at Bridgeport near Norristown Pennsylvania today killing five crew members. The dead include conductor Charles Stein fireman John Nobler and brakemen Roy Scheder Elmer Kane and an unnamed livestock carman. A boiler fragment flew 160 yards. Scheder was torn apart while others were scalded to death.
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Norristown
Philadelphia & Reading
Bridgeport
Here
Charles Stein
John Nobler
Roy Scheder
Elmer Kane
Scheder
Washington Cabinet members reveal living costs and salaries
Special Correspondence notes Roosevelt era cabinet figures disclose annual living expenditures. Hitchcock and Root spend 40k to 50k and 40k respectively, Taft 20k, Shaw 18k, Moody about 2k over salary, Bonaparte 20k, Wilson and Cortelyou rely on salaries, non supports a quiet life.
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Washington, D
House
Roosevelt
Washington
Hitchcock
Root
Taft
Shaw
the Treasury
Moody
Bonaparte
Wilson
Cortelyou Lye
Non
McGovern Boxing Carnival and Benefit in Philadelphia
A boxing carnival and testimonial for Terry McGovern will be held tonight at the National Athletic Club arena in Philadelphia. Volunteers from across the states have offered their services and all seats are sold. Once a boxing king, the "Invincible Terry" is now penniless after 127 career wins and a single defeat. The event is expected to be a success.
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McGovern
Philadelphia
Terry McGovern
National Athletic Club of Philadelphia
Terry
Porty-Six Tory Building Rises as World’s Loftiest Tower
Work began today on a 667 foot forty six story marble office tower for Metropolitan Life Insurance on Madison and Fourth avenues from Twenty third to Twenty fourth streets. The structure will top the Singer building in height and cost about 3 million dollars.
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TORY
New York
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
Madison and
Fourth Avenues
Twenty-third
Singer
American Steel Company Invades Canada Project News
Detroit reports United States Steel plans a new city on the Canadian riverfront below Sandwich. A 25 million dollar steel plant will employ 5000 workers with dock and coal storage facilities to support large ore shipments and harbor upgrades. The project signals major cross border industrial expansion.
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American Steel Corporation
Canada
Detroit
Mich
United States Steel Corporation
Sandwich
Berlin Chamber Seeks 1912 Great Fair to Surpass World Fairs
The Berlin Chamber of Commerce announced at its annual meeting a plan for a grand 1912 fair to outshine Paris and the American expo. Berlin aims within five years to be Europe’s leading capital in population, commerce, and politics with lavish plans for foreign guests. The government may be asked for twenty million marks to support the project.
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Amas Yrar Ite
Berlin
Chamber of Commerce
Ite
Paris
Government Wastes Money on Railroads
Washington reports that the government pays railways three times as much as express companies for mail transport. Postmaster estimates show the five year total ending June 2007 would cost almost $32,000,000 more to railroads than to express firms hauling equal tonnage. The figures aim to cut postal costs and prevent higher second class rates.
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Washington, C
Snsert
Memorial hall dedicated to Jay Cooke legacy in Philadelphia
Rev Alex Mackay Smith and Rev Henry Cooke assumed leadership from Cooke heirs in dedicating the Memorial hall honoring Jay Cooke founder of St Pauls church. Memorial windows depict life scenes. Professor Ellis Oberholser will lecture tomorrow on A Message From the Life of Jay Cooke. Donors were Rev Henry Cooke Warren Cooke Jr Mrs John M Buth and others attending a state Protestant gathering.
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Philadelphia
Alex Mackay Smith
Henry Cooke
Jay Cooke
St. Paul's Church
Cooke
Ellis Oberholser
University of Pennsylvania
Jay Cook
Warren, Cooke Jr
John M. Buth
Mining activity in Utah yields 33 million in ore value
Salt Lake City report shows Utah ore mined last year valued at 33 million dollars, up over eight million from 1905. Gold accounted for 9,786,083, silver for 10,629,546, and lead or other metals for 12,744, with total dividends paid reaching 168,044 by December 31.
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Utah
Salt Lake City
Fire at Portsmouth stores destroys army corps equipment
London Jan 16 Major Marriden of the Royal Engineers estimates the Portsmouth equipment stores fire caused about 1 250 000 dollars damage. The entire equipment of an army corps was destroyed. The cause of the blaze cannot be determined.
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London
Marriden
Royal Engineers
Portsmouth
Severe sleet halts Kansas City rail traffic across Missouri
A major sleet storm freezes wire communications, halts trains from the east and north, and cripples stock and fires in Kansas City and northern Oklahoma. Power and telegraph lines are down, delaying travel as weather worsens across the region.
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Kansas Citys
Missouri
Kansas
Oklahoma
Arkansas City
Kan
Gallup Electric Light suit moves toward trial
Attorneys William F B Childers F W Dobson and Harry Owen returned from Gallup where they took deposition in the Gallup Electric Light company versus Pacific Improvement company case. The Gallup firm seeks to enjoin Gregory Page from entering Gallup’s electric light business under a contract he allegedly violated. Maynard Guneul of this city is connected with the Gallup Electric Light company.
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William FB. Childers
F. W. Dobson
Harry Owen
Gallup
Gallup Electric Light Company
The
Pacific Improvement Company
Childers
Dobson
Owen
Bernalillo County
the Light Company
Gregory Page
Page
Plainiic Company
Maynard Guneul
Kingston Earthquake Levelled Kingston and Surrounding Areas
Kingston was struck by a major earthquake at 4:30 PM Monday, causing widespread damage across a ten mile radius and destroying most buildings in the city. Fire followed, killing around 400 and injuring thousands, with churches, offices, and hotels gone except for a hotel at Constant Spring. London reports uncertainty but confirms grave damage and widespread ruin beyond Kingston.
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Kingston
Constant Spring
James Ferguson
Earthquake and Fire Ravage Kingston Jamaica
A cable dispatch reports a major earthquake in Kingston Jamaica with extensive casualties and fires. Reports say hundreds killed, including 45 invalid soldiers burned in a hospital, and widespread ruin in the mercantile district. Royal and Hamburg line ships offered free relief shipments, while officials in London and Washington coordinate aid. The fate of Sir James Ferguson remains uncertain, with conflicting dispatches.
Free From Corporations to Work for Colorado
Denver reports Simon Guggenheim elected United States senator at a joint session. Guggenheim vows loyal, efficient service, says he resigned all corporate ties, supports Roosevelt administration, aims to curb industrial abuses with proposed legislation.
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Erastus B. Harper
Simon Guggenheim
United States
Guggenheim
Senate
Roosevelt
Congress
Optimistic Kingston Earthquake Report Reaches New York
New York on January 16 reports come in from Jamaica detailing the Kingston disaster. A Holland Bay cable message says the damage is less than feared and only part of the town was ruined with loss of life.
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United Fruit Company
Jamaica
Holland Bay
New York
Kingston
Fret
Indians as citizens rule liquor sales at Taos Pueblo
Assistant U S Attorney Medler reports Santa Fe Supreme Court ruling that Taos Pueblo Indians are citizens and may buy liquor like others. Mares was charged with selling liquor to Pueblo Indians. indictment quashed, government appeals as it concerns police regulation in the territory.
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Supreme Court of the United States
United States
Mares
Supreme Court
New Mexico
Congress
Fashionable New York Wedding Highlights Society
Miss Irene Fitch Shepherd wed T. De Vereaux Barker of Floaton at the Church of the Incarnation in New York. A fashionable crowd attended the ceremony with Dorothy L Shepherd as maid of honor and bridesmaids Elizabeth Parker of Boston, Marian Jeffries of Boston, Alice Shepherd of Washington, and Margaret Scott of New York. Dr. John Printan of Washington served as best man.
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Irene Fitch Shepherd
Church of the Incarnation
T. Devereaux Barker
Floaton
Mise Shepherd
Iinceiery
Dorothy I
Shepherd
Elaabeth Parker
Boston
Mike Marian Jeffries
Mike Alice Shepherd
Washington
Mise Margaret Scott
Mr. Barker
John Printan
Treaty signed giving water to Mexico from Rio Grande
Root and Senor Daviles, Mexican chargé d affaires, signed a treaty today recognizing Mexico's right to use a proportion of Rio Grande waters soon to be impounded by a major dam about 100 miles above El Paso for irrigation purposes. The agreement sets the basis for allocation of the river flow between the two nations.
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Mexico
Washington
Jan
Root
Senor Daviles
Rio Grande
United States
el Paso
Caribou Forest Reserve Established in Idaho and Wyoming
Washington January 16 The president signed a proclamation creating the Caribou forest reserve spanning about 600000 acres mostly in Idaho with portions in Wyoming The move formalizes vast public land protection and sets aside timber and watershed resources in the region.
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Idaho
Washington
Caribou
Wyoming
Pacific Coast Needs Laborers in San Francisco
San Francisco dispatch reports labor conditions improving yet a high demand for ordinary laborers across the coast. Bricklayers carpenters and iron structural workers are scarce as sixty steel frame buildings rise within six blocks of Union Square. Clerical office and household help are also in increasing demand.
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Pacific Coast
San Francisco
Union Square
Anothut
Cunard Todays Port Choice Shifts to Southampton
London reports Cunard Steamship Co. has long studied using channel ports for first class continental traffic. Liverpool remains the departure port for now with Southampton poised as the next step. Quitting Liverpool could cost Chatelty up to 10 million dollars yearly in wages, affecting manufacturers and coal merchants. The Cunard line is expected to favor Southampton later this year. The 1908 gold production news notes a 15 million dollar rise over 1905, led by Nevada and Alaska mining expansion.
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London
Cunard Steamship Co
Liverpool
Cunard
Chatelty
Washington D.C
Nevada
Alaska
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