India Under Reign of Terror Ends Calm for Lord Minto
A wave of violence sweeps India with daily attacks on English officials and civilians. Lord Minto, returning to Calcutta, orders measures to curb rising disaffection. A Bengali hurled a bomb at a train carriage near Angurpara, injuring none. Police Superintendent Clough was slain at Lyallpur, his head severed with a spade while he slept.
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Lord Minto
India
Calcutta
Hume
Angurpara
Clough
Lyalpur
Church Bank to Be Started by Manchester Parish
St. Marys Church members in Manchester New Hampshire organize a popular bank with savings and co operative features. Depositors may borrow up to their savings and by responsibility as judged by a board of advisors. Deposits are trusted and converted to redeemable shares in the depositors name. Officials chosen from the shareholders.
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Manchester
Canada
St. Mary's Church
N. H
Haitien Minister is Killed in Jeremie Outrage
Confirms that Gen Leconte Haiti interior minister was slain at Jeremie by enraged citizens after he ordered executions of two prominent residents protesting soldier recruitment. Also notes multiple other brief items from crime to politics across the United States.
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Leconte
Jeremie
Hughes County
Blunt
R. C. Greer
Divorce Rates Rise Shown By Commerce and Labor
Statistics released by the Department of Commerce and Labor show that one of every twelve marriages ends in divorce, divorces are more than twice as common as forty years ago, and Illinois grants the most decrees. Big Minnesota Mill Burned at Red Lake Falls. The Red Lake Falls Milling Company mill burned to the ground, origin in the elevator, loss about 75,900 with 55,000 insured.
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Department of Commerce and Labor
Mllnois
Lamphere Guilty of Arson in Gunness Case
Ray Lamphere is found guilty of arson after a 26 hour jury deliberation in Laporte Indiana. Judge John C Richter sentences him to prison for two to twenty one years and a $5000 fine. Jurors admit compromise with murder in the second degree discussed. Lamphere believes the adult body in the ruins is Mrs. Gunness and accepts his verdict as fortunate while maintaining innocence.
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Ray Lamphere
Laporte
Ind
John C. Richter
Lamphere
Gunness
Belle Gunness
Massachusetts Firms Embrace State Insurance Plan
Large stores and factories in Massachusetts advertise cheap rates under the State savings bank insurance and annuity system. Agencies run through Whitman Savings Bank where the first department opened. Brandeis advocates say Massachusetts may develop an old-age provision on American lines, avoiding British pension act types.
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Massachusetts
Whitman Savings Bank
Louis D. Brandeis
Charities
Brandeis
Farmers' College on Wheels Hits Eastern Pennsylvania
The first Pennsylvania farmers' special instruction train left Philadelphia for a three day tour through eastern Pennsylvania carrying State College of Agriculture representatives. They will deliver free lectures on soil fertility dairy output livestock care seed testing and alfalfa cultivation at various stations with notices stating no sales will be advertised. the aim is farmer assistance.
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Farmers’ College
Pennsylvania Farmers
Philadelphia
Pennsylvania
State College of Agriculture
University shakeups and educational milestones across states
Dr. R. W. Copeland resigns from the University of Michigan faculty as Prof. Richard C. MacLaurin accepts the MIT presidency. Southern Minnesota teachers form committees for winter schooling legislation. William E. Benson, longtime Kansas City education official, dies at 57. Liang Ching Kwai arrives in Chicago to open a Chinese government backed school. Minnesota regents swap plans, choosing a new anatomy building after fire. John D. Rockefeller offers 1500000 to Richmond College with 450000 required from Baptists to create a southern Baptist university hub.
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R. 8. Copeland
New York Homeopathic College
University of Michigan
Richard C. MacLaurin
Columbia
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Southern Minnesota
William Edgar Benson
Kansas City Board of Education
Liang Ching Kwai
Chicago
America
San Francisco
New York
Minnesota Board of Regents
General Education Board
Johin D. Rockefeller
Richmond College of
Richmond
Baptists
Baptist University
South
Rockefeller
Ocean liner Sardinia fire kills nearly 200 near Malta
The Ellerman line steamer Sardinia burned after leaving Valetta bound for Alexandria, as a furious gale hindered rescue. Nearly 200 passengers and crew perished or were fatally burned as panic spread aboard and many leapt into the sea before lifeboats could be launched.
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Ellerman Line
Sardinia
Alexandria
Egypt
Valetta
Malta
Grand Harbor
End of Tobacco War Brings Kentucky Growers Victory
After years of depredations by night riders and pressure from the American Tobacco Trust, Kentucky burley growers form the Burley Tobacco Society and secure a five year deal worth fourteen million dollars and eighty million pounds of tobacco. The average price for 1906 is twenty percent cents per pound and seventeen cents for 1907, lifting rural prosperity in central Kentucky. The farmers’ union, comprising about fifty five counties, pooled crops and operated like a corporation, ending the trust’s long control over prices.
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American Tobacco Trust
Burley Tobacco Society
Kentucky
United States
Burley Tobacco
Trust
American Tobacco Company
New York
Burley
Burley Society
Sardinia Tragedy Amid Storm Leaves Decks Crowded
News notes a tempest hindered rescue of the liner Sardinia off Liverpool on Nov 14. Crew of 44 and many passengers faced deck congestion as Maltese and Egyptians traveled from Malta to Alexandria, with tents pitched on deck for shelter during the voyage.
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Sardinia
Liverprool
Mediterranean
Liverpool
Malta
Alexandria
Swiss Balloon Wins Long Distance Race Prize
The official award of the long distance balloon race gave first prize to the Swiss machine Helvetia and second to the English balloon Banshee.
Nef Proposes Health License for Food Handlers in City
At a Philadelphia meeting on tuberculosis Dr. Joseph F. Neff of the Health Department urged licensing all food preparers and handlers, garbage collectors, tenement house conductors, factory and home workers, ice dealers, and similar workers. Licenses would be issued by the Health Department with power to revoke for sanitary violations.
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Nef
Philadelphia
Joseph F. Neff
Health Department
Kaiser Wilhelm interview claims pan European war urged
The New York World summarizes Kaiser Wilhelm’s interview on the Hohenzollern off Bergen. He says Edward VII humiliated him, Germany seeks supremacy in Europe, Britain tries to curb them, France is under control, Russia is weak after the Japan war, and war is inevitable.
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New York World
New World
Kaiser Wilhelm
William Bayard Hale
Hohenzollern
Bergen
Norway
Edward
Great Britain
Germany
Europe
England
France
Russia
Japan
Transvaal
Orange Free State
Global War Fears and Alliances Mentioned in Prospect of Conflict
A historical commentary warns that a vast war is looming with Anglo Japanese ties branded as wicked and treacherous. It argues Germany and America must unite to counter Japan within ten months, predicting Britain’s colonial losses in the Pacific and Egypt's fate, plus Germany leveraging zeppelin air power to its fullest.
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England
Japan
India
Germany
America
Pacific
Egypt
Holy Land
Infidel
Wood arrives in New York as new department commander
Major General Leonard Wood arrives from Europe to assume command of the Department of the East with headquarters at Governor's Island, expressing relief at returning home after six years in the Philippines. He praises dirigible balloons as a European success and predicts better aeroplane use, notes peaceful Philippines prosperity but urges freer Philippine trade, and lauds Philippine scouts as among the finest soldiers.
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Leonard Wood
New York
Europe
Gen. Grant
Department of the Host
Governor's Island
Gen. Wood
Philippines
France
Germany
Wright Brothers
Stingless bee specimens bring Englehardt home to New York
G P Engelhardt returns from Guatemala with stingless bee specimens. F L De la Barra named successor to Enrique Creel as Mexican ambassador to Washington. Thomas McGrath, a St. Louis election official, jailed four years for false returns. Myron W Haynes resigns Delmar Avenue Baptist pastorate amid claimed persecution. Col William J Tucker to undergo Bright's disease operation per his physician. J W Solomon, Salt Lake City lineman, nearly dies after falling from a pole amid 4 000 volts, miraculously survives.
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G. P. Engelhardt
New York
Guatemala
F. L. de la Barra
Enrique Creel
Washington
Thomas McGrath
St. Louis
Myron W. Haynes
Chicago
Delmar Avenue Baptist Church
William J. Tucker
John A. Logan
Bright
J. W. Soloman
Salt Lake City
Health very poor restored by Peruna recalls Evanston case
Miss Sophia Kittlesen of Evanston Illinois describes twenty five year catarrh and a bad cough. After trying many remedies she used Peruna and reports full recovery with improved health. She recommends Peruna to friends. Also mentions Peruna tablets and Manalin laxative and offers a free 1909 Peruna Almanac from the druggist.
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Sophia Kittlesen
Evanston
Ill
Man-a-lin
Bombarded by Wild Ducks Off Iroquois Light
A Cleveland vessel captain recounts a near midnight incident in Waisaka Bay near Iroquois light where wild ducks struck the pilot house of the ship, knocking the skipper, and leaving three duck carcasses aboard after the collision. The captain insists the event is true despite skepticism.
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Cleveland
Waisaka Bay
Iroquois Light
Fly blocks electric signal in Welsh single line
A small fly entered a signal instrument in north Wales causing a five hour outage on a single line under the electric train staff system. The insect died while touching a contact, leaving a barrier to current and stopping train dispatch. Great Western Railway Magazine.
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North Wales
Great Western Railway Magazine
Living Advertisement Postum Health Boosts A Tenn Lady
A Tennessee woman credits Postum with ending coffee related indigestion and insomnia. She recalls suffering after years of coffee use, then switching to Postum, adjusting preparation, and gaining weight and better health. She recommends Postum as a living advertisement and mentions The Road to Wellville and the slogan There’s a Reason.
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Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
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