Pressed Steel Cargo Takes Over Local Plant
After a presidential and vice presidential visit, Pressed Steel Car Company assumes active management of Western Steel Car and Foundry in Anniston. A. C. McCord remains president. H. A. McCord stays as manager. Capital will rise and improvements begin immediately with no staff shakeup.
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Pressed Steel Cargo
Logal Plant
Hoffstat
Friend
Pressed Steel Car Company
Western Steel Car and Foundry Company
C. W. Wrenshall
Pressed Steel Company
Anniston
A. C. McCord
Chicago
H. A. McCord
Strother Trial Impartial Mental Condition Said Irritable
Culpeper Va March 2 Dr Clark alienist in the Strother trial described the brothers as irrictible and impulsive insanity caused by brain strain. Under cross examination Captain Woods pressed whether acts of violence in anger fit the doctor's opinion of their condition.
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Culpepper
Clark
Strother
Woods
Disturbance at Pleasant View over Eddy financial suit
A suit filed in Merrimac county seeks an accounting of Mrs. Mary Baker Glover Eddy's finances. The bill names Alfred Farlow and trustees of the Boston church, Eddy's secretary and assistants, and asks for restitution and a possible receiver during litigation.
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Star
Concord
N. H
Pleasant View
Tribunal of
Christian Science
Mary Baker Glover Eddy
Christian Science Church
Merrimac County
Christian Science Leaders Deny Mrs Eddy Feeble Health
Boston March 2 Trustees of the Christian Science church hurry to Concord to confer on an accounting suit over Mrs Eddy finances. General Manager Alfred Farlow says Mrs Eddy is in excellent health and active in business. Church members suggest New York papers stirred the suit with claims of feeble condition.
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Christian Science
Boston
The
Christian Science Church
Concord
Impulsive insanity defense cited in early trial remarks
Dr. Clark argued that the defendant acted under strain and was not fully responsible. The remark reflects the era's legal considerations of criminal accountability and mental state during trials.
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Clark
Prisoner Bullard Executed After Daughter’s Death in Georgia
In Marietta Georgia John Bullard was hanged after claiming his daughter Ruby 17 was killed in an accident. As he approached the trap a black musician named Man Porter played banjo and several prisoners danced and sang, the scene echoing from cell doors to the gallows.
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Bullard
John Bullard
Ruby
Mr. Dobbs
Man Porter
Seaboard Train 26 Wrecked and Burned Near Powder Springs
Seaboard Air Line passenger train No. 26 from Birmingham to Atlanta crashed into a rear freight at Powder Springs Georgia. Engineer Charles Hutching cremated under the engine. Fireman Will Bolton and baggage master Clisby seriously injured. Mail clerk and a Pullman porter slightly injured. About 50 passengers shaken. entire train and freight cars burned.
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The
Star
Powder Springs
Seaboard Air Line
Birmingham
Atlanta
Here
Charles Hutching
Cedartown
Will Bolton
Clisby
Dinner to Tody Hamilton Draws Notable New York Testimonial
Tonight in New York a major testimonial dinner honors Tody Hamilton, famed as a premier American fiction writer though his works are seldom shelved. Hamilton retires after 25 years with the Barnum and Bailey circus press team.
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Cial
New York
York
Ly Hamilton
America
Tody
Barnum & Bailey Circus
Appalling six months of railroad disasters and calls for reform
The article tallies 381 killed and 608 injured across major wrecks including Baltimore & Ohio, Seaboard, and New York Central. It argues American rail safety lags Europe and urges strict rules and safer practices to be adopted nationwide.
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Baltimore & Ohio
Seaboard
New York Central
Atlanta
Europe
England
The
New York Tribune
National
Railroad
Pennsylvania
Maine Central
Canadian Pacific
Hook Island Teweete
St Louis & San Fisco
Boston & Albany
Southern
Oregon Short Line
Rock Island
Union Pacific
Southern Pacific
Buffalo
Rochester
Pittsburg
Central
New England
Reading
Lake Shore
Big Four
Wee
Inliana Harbor
the . Ee
Great Northern
Atlantic Coast
Raosas Ee
Atchison
New Orleans
Northeastern
Henaine Ie Pie
Lake Bore
Essee
Atlantic Coast Line
Erie
Eee
Northern Pacific
Boston & Maine
Chicago Great Western
Lehigh Valley
Ontario
Woskere
Breight Advange On Iron Postponed To April
A fierce storm hit the city with repeated lightning and thunder. Rain and hail flooded streets and sewers, while Snow Creek overflowed its banks sweeping away movable items and damaging bridges. The severe weather marks March 1907's arrival, with 30 days left to find the lamb.
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Breight Advange
General Agent Salter notified of rail rate delay
General Agent Hiram P. Salter of the Louisville and Nashville railway reports that the Interstate Commerce Commission granted a further postponement of the 25 cents per ton rate increase. The extension runs until April 1, easing shipping for local shippers amid a backlog of iron in stock. If the March 5 date had held, shippers would face a 25 cent loss per ton on already sold goods. Railroads sought the delay, citing shipment delays and car scarcity.
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Interestate Commerce Commission
Col W H Heuer Retires From Engineer Corps
Col W N Heuer of the engineer corps retires today under the age limit. He routed surveys of the Union and Central Pacific railways and directed harbor improvements and coast defenses in California Key West New Orleans and other points.
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Star
Washington
W. N. Heuer
Engineer Corps
Union and
Central Pacific
California
Key West
New Orleans
Arbor Day Observed Across Arkansas
Arbor day was widely observed in Arkansas with tree and shrub planting and special school exercises.
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Arkansas
Little Rock
Ark
Congress Adjourns At Noon As Term Ends
The fifty-ninth congress will expire at noon Monday and many lawmakers depart Washington for home never to return. George B. Cortelyou to be sworn as secretary of the treasury. James A. Garfield to become interior secretary. Trial of Standard Oil Company of Indiana on oil shipment concessions begins next Monday.
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the Star
Washington
Fifty
Congress
George B. Cortelyou
Whiting, Ind
Wadaworth Seeks Deposition In Thaw Trial
District Attorney reports receipt of a letter from Craig Wadaworth the second secretary of the American embassy in London offering to provide a deposition. Wadaworth cites a Thaw letter claiming insanity and says Thaw was under Evelyn's control. The letter may illuminate the alleged dispute between a London embassy secretary and Mrs Nesbitt and ensuing cables to White.
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the Star
New York
Jerome
Craig Wadadworthe
London
Wadaworth
Thaw
Tie
Evelyn
Collision Kills Four on Connecticut Trains
A head on collision in Waterbury between a regular passenger train and a special train carrying Connecticut National Guard members killed four and injured about twenty. The crash happened as the special train failed to wait on a siding for the regular train. Governor Woodruff and three staff were aboard one train but unharmed. An immediate investigation was launched.
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The
Star
Waterbury
Conn
Naugatuck
New York, New Haven & Hartford Railway
Connecticut National Guard
Woodruff
New Haven
Pension Fund Raised to 600000 a Year
Philadelphia March 2 The Pennsylvania railroad increased its pension fund to 600000 dollars annually for retired employees, up from 390000. The 1906 pension disbursements totaled 467614.47 dollars, the highest year yet, with 1949 on pension rolls and 200 deaths offset by 321 retirements.
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the Star
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania Railroad
Pension Department of the Railroad
New Go Carts Patterns Sale At Bars Gain Prices
Buy go carts with all new patterns at bars, featuring sale prices. Trigg-Steele Co advertises limited time offer MH1-6T.
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Trigg-Steele CO
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Hiram P. Salter
Louisville & Nashville Railway
Interstate Commerce Commission
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