Kingston Disaster Sinks Shores In Jamaica Earthquake
Kingston faces a dire disaster as earthquakes and fires ruin the harbor area. Reports place the death toll from hundreds to possibly over a thousand with 310 horses buried or drowned. Kingston’s business district lies in ruins and ships and piers are destroyed while Port Antonio ferries homeless residents away.
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National Wool Growers Association Meets in Salt Lake City
Salt Lake City Jan 17 The 4th annual convention of the National Wool Growers association opens here as the most important gathering for the wool industry. Delegates from twenty seven states discuss proposed revenue regulations predatory animal pest 28 hour fever and scab eradications.
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Chicago Real Estate Board Banquet Tonight
Chicago real estate board holds its twenty fourth annual banquet with guests from Milwaukee St Louis Kansas City Duluth and nearby commercial centers expected to attend tonight in Chicago.
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Wires Down Snow Cover Midwest Slows Trains
Kansas City reports ice and snow impacting rail lines and telegraph services across Kansas Missouri and Oklahoma with trains delayed one to three hours as stock suffering reports emerge from Topeka and nearby regions. An Independent Grain Buyers meeting in Bargo North Dakota discusses organizing wheat buyers with state bankers backing.
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Pennsylvania agriculturalists discuss plans at Horticultural meeting
Harrisburg Pa June 17 at the annual meeting of the state Horticultural association prominent speakers and practical discussions were held Dr E F Phillips of Washington DC Charles Stewart inspector of apiaries of New York and editors of all the bee papers were represented A capital exhibition of bees honey and beekeepers supplier goods was shown.
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Tallest World Building To Rise In New York
A Metropolitan Life Insurance tower in Madison Square is planned to reach 654 feet, becoming the world’s tallest business structure. The project, costing about 4.3 million, will exceed the Eiffel Tower by 426 feet but remain primarily a steel frame. The Incomplete Singer Building in Broadway stands as the second tallest in the world at 692 feet upon completion.
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Woolgrowers Meet Opens With 1000 Delegates in Attendance
Salt Lake January 17 A thousand delegates attend the forty third annual convention of the National Woolgrowers Association beginning a three day session. Wyoming Montana and Idaho send large delegations. With no national president present western vice president Dr. J M Wilson presiding. Governor John C Cutler gives welcome, Wilson delivers annual address, Thos J Walsh speaks on reserves from a sheepranching standpoint, and Gifford Pinchot, chief forester, discusses The Grazing Industry.
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Department of Agriculture
Garter Harrison for Mayor Again
Special Correspondence from Chicago reports Carter Harrison, son of the famed mayor, seeks a fourth term with an organization and a finance committee nicknamed the 80 000 000 committee. A Carter Harrison Business Men's League is rallying 100 000 pledges while street railway stockholders fear municipal ownership. Headquarters opened Saturday in a downtown hotel.
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Czar Moves to Reform Russia Navy After War Defeat
In St Petersburg a conference of top naval officials summoned by the czar discussed full disclosure of naval corruption tied to defeats by Japan. The czar rejected adopting the German system as untimely but vows a full reorganizational program limited by the country’s finances.
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Brit ish Navy to undergo February reductions across fleets
London reports official circles announce a navy cut after February maneuvers. The Channel fleet drops from seventeen to fourteen battleships with three small cruisers, the Atlantic from eight to six with three small cruisers, and Mediterranean forces mirror the pattern. First and second armored cruiser squadrons fall from six to four vessels, leaving the main active squadron at twelve battleships and sixteen armored cruisers.
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Dishonorable Philippine soldiers to be recounted and removed
A Manila report states all 11 All dishonorably discharged soldiers in the Philippines must be recounted and expelled. After discharge they linger near garrisons and local populations, harming the islands. Military courts will sentence dishonorable discharged men and transport them to the United States, removing them from Philippine society.
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Senatorial Battle Routinely Tussles In Michigan
Detroit Jan 17 Arthur Hill leading Michigan Republican seeks U. S. Senate while Governor Warner and boss Atwood clash over campaign spending. Hill, a Saginaw lumberman and University of Michigan engineer, faces a finish fight as Atwood backs Hill’s bid with quiet power.
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Benjamin Franklin Bicentennial Celebrations Across Cities
Philadelphia New York Albany and Boston mark the two hundredth birthday of Benjamin Franklin with scientific society delegates, public banquets, and lectures. Governors and notable speakers attend as cities illuminate buildings and recount Franklin’s diverse roles as statesman inventor and author Poor Richards Almanac.
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Young Men's Christian Association Convention at Gatoville
The Pensacola Florida Southwide division of the Young Men’s Christian Association holds its annual convention at Gatoville University today with speakers including W D Weatherford and J Cooper. About 2 600 delegates attend as qualifying exams for Rhodes scholarships at Oxford proceed. candidates declare citizenship in the United States.
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Companies fined separately for Neorice paste monopoly
New York Jan. 11 The McAndrews Forbés company was fined 1009 and the J Young company of Baltimore 8000 in the United States district court for conspiring to monopolize the Neorice paste trade. A sixty day stay on execution was granted and a new trial motion was tented.
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McAndrews & Forbés Company
J. & Young Company
Baltimore
Amalgamated Copper Declares Dividend
The Amalgamated Copper company directors declare a regular quarterly dividend of 1% and an extra dividend of 0.5%, unchanged from the previous payout. The announcement was made in New York on January 17.
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Texas House Still Investigating Batley Case
Austin says the Texas House voted to have the attorney general present all papers on charges against Senator Joseph W Batley. Batley invited to address the House on these charges and is expected to speak before adjournment tonight. The year 1906 shows the largest mining output in U S history with new discoveries in Nevada Utah and copper ore near Bingham.
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Southern Cotton Association Convention Expands Trade Debate
At Birmingham on January 17 the Southern Cotton Association opened its annual convention with full discussion on expanding cotton trade abroad. Committees reported steps to export cotton and products to foreign markets, urging farmers to learn where their cotton goes after sale. Attendance exceeded prior years with over 5,000 present. Officials seek more space, additional clerks, and higher pay for patent examiners amid rising applications, signaling strain in Washington’s patent office and a wave of new devices, including submarines and warfare tech.
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Salt Hreings Com Newfoundland Trade Update
New York reports herring shortages eased by large imports from Newfoundland after a season with partial East Coast failure. Through last week 9605 barrels arrived, totaling 25 rapaele with 48 278 burele. later shiploads sold at 7 1/2 cents per pound. Also notes future resources talk by Grover with 700 guests attending in our capital region.
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