World’s Sunday School leaders honored at Washington
Taft Roosevelt Bryan and King George named life members of the World’s Sunday School association at the Washington convention. Each honoree required a $1000 subscription. A bronze Spencer statue was unveiled in Atlanta by 30,000 Southern Railway workers. Hetty Green faces a $550 rental suit in New York. Senator Scott escaped death after his car fell into an embankment in West Virginia. George W. Wilson elected president of the Grand International Auxiliary in Detroit. Reverend Wasson resigns to combat the temperance curse in Riverhead. Max Lansburgh proposes Roosevelt name all boys born on Roosevelt’s return to New York.
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Taft
Theodore Roosevelt
King George
England
Diaz
Mexico
William Jennings Bryan
World’s
Sunday School Association
Washington
Samuel Spencer
Southern Railway
Atlanta
Georgia
Hetty Green
New York
Safe Deposit Company
United States
Nathan B. Scott
West Virginia
Loveland
Wheeling
W. Va
George W. Wilson
Allegheny
Grand International
Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers
Detroit
Mich
William A. Wasson
Grace Episcopal Church
Riverhead
L. 1
Max Lansburgh
Roosevelt
Milas Myrtle Biers
Palo Alto
Emmetsburg
Brooklyn
N. Y
Patterson
Grundy County
Iowa
Belle Plaine
Iowa River
John P. White
District Miners’ Union
John P. Reese
State Operators’ Association
St. Paul
McIntire
Elmer Cosgrove
Selby Avenue
Youngstown
Ohio
Jacob Graham
Centerville
Mary Nelson
Clearfield County
Pennsylvania
Oscar Lawler
Los Angeles
Cal
Department of the Interior
Marshalltown
Ballinger
Tenth Iowa Infantry
Twenty-eighth
Iowa Infantry
Fortieth
Montezuma
Catherine Upman
Dubuque
Notable Trials and National Scrutiny Across Warps of News
The Venice trial of Countess Tarnowska Doctor Naumoff and Prilukoff ends with convictions for the first three. the maid Elsis Perrier is acquitted. In Washington Representative Ames exposes Payne in a letter controversy. London funeral crowds disrupt order as Edward VII’s procession passes. Ballinger and Pinchot hearing nears closure with closing arguments May 27 28. Cubs writer George McDonald and player John Byers injured in Chicago streetcar crash. Tornado wipes Maysville Oklahoma killing several. nearby McCarty hit hard with three dead. Miners’ convention adjourns sine die as strike begins at Peoria. National Conference on Education begins in St Louis. Worcester treasurer John A Hall defrauds bank funds totaling about 70 000 to 370 000. Bryan defends Taft in Buffalo remarks. Presbyterian assembly moderator elected in Atlantic City. Korean figure Yie Chaim Yong sentenced to death in Seoul.
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Countess Tarnowska
Naumoff
Prilukoff
Elsis Perrier
Venice
Count Komorowski
Butler Ames
Massachusetts
Sereno E. Payne
Ways and Means Committee
Payne
Edward
London
George McDonald
Chicago Journal
John J. Byers
Chicago Cubs
Evers
Chicago
Maysville
Okla
McCarty
United Miners
Peoria
National Conference On Education
St Louis
John A. Hall
South Bridge Savings Bank
Worcester
Mayzs
Hall
Buffalo
N. Y
Norman E. Mack
Wiliam Jennings Bryan
Taft
Charles Little
Wabash
Ind
Presbyterian General Assembly of the
United States
Charles Dick
Cuyahoga County
Princeton University
Isaac C. Wyman
Salem
Mass
Edmund Burke
Springfield
William H. Roberts
Philadelphia
Presbyterian General Assembly
Atlantic City
N. J
Foss
Washington
Department
Bouches du Rhone
Lambesc
Rognes
Champ Clark
Missouri
Minnie Adlers
Princeville
Metropolitan Hotel
Ill
T. Easterly
Chillicothe
Santa Fe
Cairo
Brownsville
Tex
Matamoros
Mexico
Col
Roosevelt
Diaz
James M. Anderson
Emil Winter
Workingmen's Savings Bank and Trust Company of
Pittsburg
Charles de Witt
Canton
B. Clark Hyde
Kansas City
Cal
Thomas Swope
Swope
Sidney Lascelles
John J. Truby
Oscar Lawler
Crogps
Brandeis
L. R. Glavis
Carornia
Glavis
Pennsylvania
Senate Committee On Public Health
Arthur E. Halder
American Federation of Labor
Elgin Butter Trust
Department of Justice of
Large scale wage hikes reshaping US labor payrolls
The Standard Oil firm plans retroactive raises from six to one hundred percent starting May 1 boosting annual payroll by six to ten million dollars. About seventy thousand employees nationwide in works and factories gain, while office staff are unchanged. The move follows a long period without a strike.
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Ac Orue
United States
Commission proven a great friend to people by Palmer figures
Chairman David J. Palmer presents striking figures showing the commission's impact on the public. He claims strong support and measurable benefits across programs, highlighting savings, services, and improved access for residents.
Three Revisions of Iowa Clastications Outlined
The Iowa article notes three major revisions to state classifications over the past years. Details clarify changes in structure and policy.
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Iowa
Iowa Railroad Commission praised by Col. Palmer in Des Moines
Des Moines report highlights 2,884 complaints resolved and 340 rate reductions since Palmer’s tenure. Joint rate order, uniform demurrage rules, and class revisions aid shippers. The piece notes the commission’s value to Iowans and that legislators resisted abolition or intermingling of the agency.
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Des Moines
Iowa
Iowa Railroad
David J. Palmer
Washington
Palmer
Iowa General Assembly
General Commerce Commission
Iowa Commission
National Baptist Sunday School Congress Opens in Atlanta
Delegates from across the nation gather at Liberty Baptist church in Atlanta for the fifth annual National Baptist Sunday School congress chaired by Rev. C. H. Clark. Five days of practical discussions follow with separate sessions for teachers and a mass gathering Sunday afternoon in the auditorium featuring a $59,000 pipe organ.
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Atlanta
National Baptist Sunday School Congress
Liberty Baptist Church
C. H. Clark
Nashville
Charles S. Morris
Delavan
N. J
J. H. Kelley
Birmingham
Ala
Congress
Lightning Fire Burns Griepenburg Drug Store Roof
A small blaze in Manson Iowa on May 22 caused about 200 dollars in damage to the Griepenburg drug store building. Lightning started the fire, a large hole burned in the roof and flames spread into the store.
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Manson
Griepenburg Drug Store
Tornado Hits Harper County Farms Destroying Homes
A May 22 in Bluff City Missouri reports a tornado in eastern Harper county that wrecked farm houses barns orchards and crops with hail stones as large as clods. No lives were reported.
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Hall
Bluff City
Harper County
Advertising and odd snippets from a clipped page
Fragments include medical ad copy for Dr Caldwell’s Pepsin and Walding pills, mixed with stray lines from social chatter, a catarrh cure pitch, and brief anecdotes. The readable items show 19th or early 20th century tone with names, places, and odd dialogue fragments but few coherent stories.
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General News
Hawkeye State News
R. A. Smith
Lake City
Mr. Smith
New York State
Illinois
Fort Sumter
Smith
New England
Roxanna A. Gault
Charles P
Carl G
Richard S
John A. Kasson
Kasson
Austria
Germany
Joint High Commission
William McKinley
Dennis Ricard
Myr
Ricard
Howth Head
County of Dublin
Abraham Lincoln
Cerro Gordo County
David Shenton
Nineteenth
Josie Huddleston
Ottumwa
Bert Dickey
Nevada
Sheriff Warrick
Lee D Jerman
Mason City
Cedar Valley
Chicago & Northwestern
Mechanicsville
Oxkaloora Paving Bride Company
D. C. Barnes
Martin Sauer
Iowa Railway Commission
Kemp Tetia
Troubiea
Caldwell
Risinaun
Indiana
Koloom
Boonter
Puck
Cheney
Tae Hoon
Yellers Ba Orabie
Mdi Walding
Kixway
Sup
Ilferi
Creston Clark
Asheville
Mike
Office of Justice Wiliam
Montclair
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