Liquor Dealers Threaten Tax Fight In Missouri
St Louis August 15 The Wholesale Liquor Dealers Association vows to contest the new merchants tax set to take effect tomorrow arguing unconstitutionality. Excise Commissioner Caulfield says all merchants failing to file reports will be cited to the circuit attorney. Wholesalers plan not to initiate suits but will resist tax collection. the rate starts at 100 and up with a minimum for five thousand gallons or less per year.
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St. Louis
Associaton
Caulfield
Fight Over Ice Cream Ends in a Killing at Flint Tent Restaurant
In Flint Michigan on August 13 Frank Lind, 63, was shot and killed during a quarrel over payment for a dish of ice cream. The gunman, Greek tent restaurant owner George Lambie, fled as two hundred patrons panicked and several were injured while exiting the tent.
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Flint
Mich
Frank & Lind
Bher H Lamble
Lambie
Detroit Storm Claims Lives in Quick Fury
A violent storm in Detroit, Michigan, left one man dead after being struck by lightning and another man shocked. A young man and woman canoeing on the river are believed drowned. The squall brought half an inch of rain, winds at 60 mph, and a 25 degree temperature drop over 20 minutes, causing widespread damage.
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Detroit
Mich
Convention in Denver to discuss Western growth topics
Denver August 15 delegates from five to seven thousand will attend the twelfth annual convention of the Trans Mississippi Commercial committees in Denver this week. The conference covers commercial industrial and agricultural growth from the Panama Canal to dry farming and identifies related developments.
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West
Strikers Return to Work in Fort William
Fort William Ontario August 18 striking dock laborers of the Canadian Pacific railway will return to work en masse tomorrow morning. A meeting in the dock district drew about 8000 people in heavy rain and was addressed by Mayor Peltier urging resumption of employment and submission of grievances to a board of arbitration under the Lemieux act.
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Fort William
Ont
Canadian Pacific Railway
Moraine
Peltier
Board of Arbitration
Lemieux
Confer Over Immigration Aid by Jewish Fraternal Order
The executive committee of the Independent Order of B nai Brith met to confer with federal immigration officials regarding preventing hardships from strict enforcement. A special committee was named to aid Jewish immigrants, with Washington D C named for the next convention on April 30 1910. The district sanitarium at Hot Springs Arkansas was to be nationalized.
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United States
Independent Order of B'Nal Brith
Washington, D.C
Santorium
Hot Springs
Ark
Arms for Peru sailings raise fears of conflict
August 15 report from Valparaiso says the steamer Alexandria, bound for South American ports and San Francisco, carried arms and ammunition to Mollends Peru after leaving Hamburg August 8. Locals fear Peru renews threats against Chile. Yonkers Statesman notes a Jersey tunnel joke in a Gotham exchange.
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Hamburg
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San Francisco
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Chill
Yonkers Statesman
Church
Jersey
Gotham
Rechad Mohammed I Becomes Sultan and Caliph in Constantinople
Abdul Hamid's prisoner for thirty years, Rechad Mohammed ascends with vows to honor the constitution. He aims to modernize Dolma-Baghtche with telephones and electric light, plans a Yildiz museum, and shifts to a Europeanized court while balancing Young Turk influence. He shows a cautious, learning-minded approach, fond of birds, gardens, and public prayer, with a modest private income and a wary eye on future rivals.
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Constantinople
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Ahmed
Rechad
Achmed Bey
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Salonica
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Abdul-Hamid
Zla Eduln
Nedzim Eddin
Omer Humi
Refta
Za Findin Fa
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Mehmed Burhan
Dolma-Baghthhe
Receiver's Sale of Printing Plant and Book Bindery
Stuart Boyd, receiver, will sell at public outcry on September 7, 1909 at 10 a.m. on premises 65 Evy Street Atlanta Georgia the Brenklin Turner Printing Company printing plant and book bindery including cylinder and job press no type machines ruling machines and sweepers. Sale subject to court confirmation with certified check for at least 10 percent and free of court costs. inspection at the receiver's office East Alabama Street.
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J. Z. Pendleton
Fulton County
Richards
Brest
Stuart Boyd
Alabama
Bernhardt and the Heel of Youth in Paris
Paris date Aug 14 reports Sarah Bernhardt credited with introducing a new Heel of Youth device in Grand Boulevards circles. The clever boot maker's hidden spring heel and glove masque conceal age while preserving a youthful gait. Bernhardt's revival season and performance as the boy prince drew crowded houses and lively chatter.
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Paris
Sarah Bernhardt
Sarah
Bernhardt
Poor Man's Pope and Egypt Divorce Season
The article contrasts Pius X as the poor man’s pope with Leo XIII’s aristocratic stance. It then discusses Egypt’s divorce season as the tourist season ends, noting dragomen, merchants, and clerks’ workloads shift. Divorces can occur without lengthy courts, with husbands free to remarry soon and wives needing clearer grounds. collusion and social shifts affect the process.
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Egypt
Harriet Quimby
Leslie'g Weekly
Sesson
Immigration inquiry sparks anticipated scandal at Ellis Island
Will lam Williams, recently reappointed Ellis Island commissioner, reports migrant home practices in New York City are far from their stated purpose. He says young girls are lured to disreputable resorts with promises of decent jobs, has barred agents, and warns closures if abuse continues. Washington officials expect a genuine sensational development from the inquiry.
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Congressional Commission On Immigration
Commigsion
Ellis Island
Willlam Wiliams
New York City
Hel
Williams
Washington
Hurrying Home to Wife Man Drowns in Coosa River
Gadsden Alabama August 15. Sam Wood a prominent county man drowned while rushing home to his bride of a few weeks. He attempted to swim the Coosa river and was seized by cramps near landing. Body not recovered.
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Gadsden
Ala
Sam Wood
Wood
Coosa
Soldiers Charge Crowd With Bayonets Riot in Chicago Picnics
Chicago on August 15 reports twenty people were injured as a Polish sharpshooter company returning from a picnic charged a crowd with bayonets after a captain struck a boy. The crowd surrounded the unit, police arrested five soldiers, all bruised.
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Chicago
Svers
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