Takahira Guests at Lotud Banquet Toasts US Japan Ties
Baron Takahira Japanese ambassador to the United States praised the growing bond between Japan and the United States at a Lotus Club dinner in New York. He called the recent China and Pacific policy declarations a transaction between trusted friends and urged mutual trust and benefit. The dinner honored him with toasts from Consul General Midson Andrew Carnegie and others.
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New York
Japan
United States
Pacific
Baron Takahira
Frank R. Lawrence
Harlem
China
Baron Tahkahira
Washington
Italy
Austria-Hungary
Portsmouth
Taoy Ambeenador
Am Dogeadior
Consul Gener! Midson
Andrew Carnegie
Hear
Imilial Goodrich
John & Wire
James M Meck
Mineral Resources Survey Highlights Vast U S Output
The Geological Survey report notes principal mineral products totaling over two billion dollars annually, a leap of more than 100 percent in under a decade. Director Smith cites a comparison to farm value growth and states 1907 mineral output would index to about 264 if set to 100 for 1900.
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Geological Survey
United States
Smith
Wilson
Aged farmer slain in Kansas amid murder inquiry
Dennis Casey, a 65 year old farmer in Sabetha Kansas, was found fatally murdered in a haystack after missing for a week. Coroners verdict cites death by a weapon wielded by David Woods a suspected assailant. Woods had recent financial dealings with Casey and remains at large.
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Sabetha
Kas
Dennis Casey
Casey
Causey
David Woods
Woods
Oneida
New Immigration Inspection System Initiated at Yokohama
Officials from Japan and the United States begin joint inspection of Japanese travelers at Yokohama as the Toyo Maru is called to Seattle for December. Armors arrive by ereamer compress of China as part of the arrangements shaping immigration between America and Japan.
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Victoria
Chow
Ereamer
China
United
America
Japan
United States
Yokohama
Seattle
Remarkable Growth of Mineral Wealth
Washington reports a remarkable rise in mineral production since the start of the century, with annual outlay reaching two billion dollars. Official figures released from Washington, D.C., on December 1 indicate a rapid expansion in national mineral wealth and export activity.
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Washington, D.C
Senate Convenes Briefly Adjourns to Year End
The Senate held a short session devoted to routine business and messages from the president. It adjourned at 12:50 pm until January 4, 1909, as Captain John W. Batin is found incapacitated and will retire with the rank of rear admiral.
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Washington
Senate
Batin
Washington, D
John W. Batin
Burreau of Steam Engineering
Hee
Will Bee
Laue Back Pain Relief Advice with Liniment
An 19th century style remedy advises using Chamberlain's Liniment twice daily for back pains. Massage five minutes then apply a damp cloth bandage over the seat of pain to hasten relief. Sold by all druggists. Also note mention of home couching at the Columbus Tote.
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Chamberlain
Three Idaho Children and Wife Die in Mother's Strychnine Act
A Montana to Idaho dispatch reports Mrs. John Rosen poisoned her three children and herself with strychnine after dissolving the drug in wine. The eldest son summoned aid. the mother and youngest child died, the father and son found dead nearby. the second son survived after resisting the poison. The mother had suffered melancholia.
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Morning Journal
Salt Lake City
The
Herald
Montpelier
Idaho
John Rosen
Pulitzer Goes to Panama to Investigate Canal Zone
New York World publisher Joseph Pulitzer sailed aboard the yacht Liberty from Newport to investigate conditions in the canal zone. He aims to secure evidence for the government canal purchase and plans to reach Panama around President elect Taft's arrival. The trip follows Roosevelt’s push to prosecute publishers for alleged libel.
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New York World
Canal Zone
Newport
Joseph Pulitzer
The
Panama
Old Point
Taft
Pulitzer
Roosevelt
Congress
Mr. Pulitzer
Hbel
Women On OT Dow By Texas Pusoe
Two women, Mrs. Joseph Ferguson and her daughter Bertha, were mortally wounded in a pistol duel with a citizen posse aiding officers who sought to arrest a hotel boarder on a minor charge. Sheriff Watt and Deputy Avernitt faced a four hour standoff at the Ferguson home before the shooting.
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Dow
Texas Pusoe
Joseph Gerguson
Bertha
Watt
Avernitt
Wage Dispute Halts Glass Plants in PA and WV
Western Pennsylvania and West Virginia hand glass plants idle after a midnight strike. The wage committee and manufacturers failed to reach agreement while the American Window Glass company kept machine plants running after signing the scale. The company recalled quotations on glass signaling a possible price rise tied to a twenty five percent wage increase for cutters and flatteners unions.
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Wpitteburg
Pennsylvania
West Virginia
National Window Glass Workers
American Window Glass Company
Cutters and
Alabama physician arrested for murder in arsenic death
Birmingham police arrest Dr. T A Jones east Lake physician and Mrs Bertha M Taylor in a coroner case tied to the December 1 death of Joseph Baker from arsenite poisoning. Investigators plan exhumation and path analysis. insurer payouts noted during probe.
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Birmingham
Ala
T. A. Jones
East Lake
Joseph Baker
Bertha M.taylor
Dtuker
Taylor
Young white youths fire at Teach Georgia town rallying five hundred shots
Waycross Ga Dec 19 six young white men rode into Teach nineteen miles north of here and fired 500 shots in revenge for a companion's arrest on drunken charges. Chuddtinge and Magele Taylor fourteen shot and wounded as townsfolk fled. Six alleged rioters were reported under arrest with locals calling them night riders.
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Waycrase
Draunk
Teach
Here
Magele Taylor
Leonard P. ‘Tayloe
Plans for merger of Mexican railroads outlined in New York
The Republic reports plans to consolidate all Mexican National railroad systems under government control with a nine member New York financed auxiliary board and a twenty one member Mexican operating board. H Chay Pierce of St. Louis will head the new system aided by Judge Pierce and Eben Richards. The board will meet in New York City on Wednesday with directors from the Interoceanic railway and Mexican Central among others.
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Ot. Louis
Dee
the Republic
New York City
H. Chay Pierce
St. Louis
Mexican Central
Pierce
Eben Richards
Piierce
Acamora
Interoceanic Railway
New York
Belen
Albuquerque
Mealoo
Santa FE
Chicago
Kansas City
Galveston
San Francisco
Old Mexico
Belen Townsite and Improvement Company
Beles
New Mexico
Les Ta
Mio Gremio
Belcan
Santa Fe Railway CompAny
California
Harvey Eating House
Negroes Unite in War Against Tuberculosis
In Tuskegee Alabama on December 19 the closing session of the negro congress on tuberculosis formed a broad health campaign. A committee of teachers, church organizers, women’s societies, lodges, business leagues and farmers’ clubs will draft resolutions. A final conference with thirty welfare groups outlined a program for more than twenty organizations to participate in the year long drive.
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Tuskegee, Ala
Negro Congress
Don’t Be Hopeless About Your Rheumatism
Advert says Ballard's Snow Liniment cures aches pains and stiffness for those crippled with rheumatism or stiff joints. Claims relief and returning health. Sold by J. H. M. Rielly & Co.
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Ballard
J. H. m. Rielly & Co
Two Fall Dead In Virginia Street Duel
In Rowneke Virginia Dee and Hee Waiter Meatlinteck and EFA Gregger die in a rain drenched street duel in Wyethe ville. Mortally wounded Cregger kills Hatock then dies. Chief McClintock and Deputy seize a warrant for Cregger and his brother David on robbery charges.
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Rowneke
Dee
Wyetheville
Val
Meatlinteck
Efa Gregger
Afet
Cregger
McClintock
Fof
David
Georgia Mule Jokes Highlight Rail News in Cartoonish Fashion
The Wadley Star editor laments Georgia mules as the source of local humor while recounting a Georgia mule that reportedly kicked a railroad train and escaped unharmed. The piece mocks mule punchlines and notes their stubborn yet gentle reputation for a long stretch of time.
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Wadley Star
Georgia
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