Industrial and Rail Rivalries Across America
Harrison outlines non interference stance after three months inspecting Union Pacific properties. Twenty hour trains announced between New York and Chicago by Pennsylvania and New York Central with rapid speeds. Pennsylvanian terminal franchise payments and river tunnel rights noted. Suez Canal profits exceed 100 million francs. Morgan opposed consolidation prompts fresh coal and oil alliance talk. Locust outbreak in New Jersey and rising rice culture in New Orleans. Strikes expand across coal mining and rail sectors with Roosevelt arbitration decline. Chicago strike ends in wage compromise at 15 dollars weekly and 70 hour cap.
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Harrison
E H. Harriman
Union Pacific
New York
Chicago
Pennsylvania
New York Central
Central
Pennsylvania Railroad
Pennsylvania Railway
New York City
North River
Mlinois Railroad and Warehouse Commission
Springfield
BUEZ
Suez Canal
Cunard Line
London Shipping Gazette
Morgan Combine
Illinois State Board of Arbitration
Farge
International Paper Company
Providence
United Traction and Electric Company
RB. I
Pittsburg
New York Central Railroad
Signal and Telegraph
Philadelphia School Scandal Prompts Citywide Probe
A second investigation into allegations of pay for positions among Philadelphia teachers expands beyond a ward, revealing gatekeeping and solicited money by board members. Accused officials refuse to resign amid demoralization among teachers and pupils.
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Philadelphia
Board of Education
Felix Adler
Columbia University
Lung
Adler
Society For Ethical Culture
Century Old School
Salem, N
Academy and College For Women
Pennsylvania
Hanna
Dickinson College
Carlisle
United States
Hanne
Mark Twain
Samuel L. Clemens
Missouri University
New York Board of Health
Chaffin University
Orangeburg, & C
Charleston
Stuents
Gravity cooling machine demonstrated by Professor Moore
A gravity cooler apparatus invented by Willis L. Moore of the U S Weather Bureau was demonstrated in Washington last Monday. The device uses atmospheric weight differences to cool air with no external power and self adjusts to maintain temperate conditions, resembling a cylinder stove in appearance and economy.
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Willis L. Moore
United States Weather Bureau
Weather Bureau
Washington
Mooré
Heilprin
PSLEE
National Geographical Society
Week of international peace and domestic political shifts
The week featured global peace signals from British-Boer terms and a hopeful Taft commission stance on the Philippines. Domestic items include the Philippines bill passage, canal bill activity, Oregon result, Bryan omission in Indiana Democrats, coal strike tensions, street riots in Chicago, and a new cotton mill cartel in the South. Local races crown Terrell as Georgia governor while locusts plague New Jersey. Scientific feats and notable accidents add to a broad record of events across politics crime sports and industry.
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South Africa
Taft Commission
Pope
Philippines
Senate
Chamber
Chili
Colombia
Venezuela
Oregon
Bryan
Indiana
New York
Roosevelt
Chicago
Morgan Ship Combine
Canada
J. J. Hovs
Harriman
South
Joseph M. Terrell
Georgia
New Jersey
Heilprin
Mont Peles
Moore
St. Louis
Keene
Mont Pelee ascent yields crater details and early observations
Professor Heilprin and three guides summited Mont Pelee on May 31 observing a 500 by 160 foot crater opening. Steam and ash eruptions obscured vision, leaving volcanic mud on clothing. He confirmed three vents and noted simultaneous eruptions at summit and mid/crater toward the sea. Next day he climbed again with George Kennan and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Heilprin
Mont Pelee
Hellprin
George Kennan
Kannan
Borchgrevink
Washington
Peabes
Verrill
Yale
Mantinique
St. Pierre
Behring
Berlin
Germany
Paris
Duc de Chartres
Prince Henry
Geographical Society
Asta
RELIGIOUS NOTES ON PRAYER MISSIONS AND TRENDS
Religious items report Dr. Hale praising the Lord's Prayer as a core statement of religion. A former army chaplain urges Presbyterians to halt missions in the Philippines until withdrawal, while Catholics are seen as a moral force there. United Presbyterians postpone liberalizing rituals amid church divisions. Mormon emigration to Mexico rises, with land and citizenship offers amid plural marriage disputes. Pope Taft meeting signals support for US rule in the Philippines and conciliatory stance. New York Rabbi Association declares Emil Hirsch a heretic for Sunday services, prompting his defiant response.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
DR. Hale
Chicago
Edward Everett Hale
Uitil
Philippines
United Presbyterians
General Assembly
Pittsburg
Mexico
Phoenix
Ariz
Pope
Taft
Rome
United States
Roosevelt
New York Rabbinical Association
Emil Hirsch
Chicago Temple Israel
Hirsch
New York Association
New Strike Statistics Highlight 6 Percent U.S. Strike Success
In the sixteenth annual report of Labor Commissioner Carroll Wright as presented in the June North American Review, new strike statistics are averaged over twenty years. Salient points show 6 percent of all strikes succeeded with 13 percent succeeding (text truncated).
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United States Commissioner of Labor
Carroll & Wright
North American Review
Quarantine lifted as Indiana promises action on smallpox
Reports show widespread strikes with 22 783 incidents averaging 68 23 8 days and a total loss of 5380 000 000. Labor disputes blamed on rising intelligence as motives cited. Kentucky suspends emailpox quarantine awaiting Indiana governor Durbin’s use of emergency funds. Various health and social initiatives highlighted from tuberculosis cures to tenement reform and infant adoption improvements.
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Ees OM Gare
Wright
Kentucky Board of Health
Indiana
Indiana Board
Durbin
French Mission Returns After Boston Newport Tour
After four receptions in Boston and Newport, the French mission led by Count de Rochambeau sailed from Boston on the battleship Gaulois last Sunday for home. The report also notes social bans at New York's Union League Club, a volcanic dust ballast incident in New York, a tiger and horses accident on a circus train, and a South Dakota tornado with significant damage and injuries.
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Boston
Newport
Count de Rochambeau
Gaulois
Union League
Union League Club
New York
John W. Gates
la Souffriere
Barbados
Tiger
Leath
South Dakota
Alasica
Mount Blackburn
Aloaka
Beolo
Volcanic Eruption Impacts Russia and Steel Drafts Record
Reports describe a volcanic eruption near Busygran by the village of Kobi in Caucasia, setting surrounding countryside aflame with sheep perished and shepherds burned. Separately, the steel market quotes $20 a ton as the Bessemer Association of Pittsburg inks an order for 100,000 tons, totaling $3.5 million in advance of the steel trust's prior orders.
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Russia
Kobi
Caucasia
Bessemer
Bessemer Association of Pittsburg
Steel Trust
World record at Berkley Oval 100 yard dash by Arthur Duffy
Aftercollegiate meet at Berkley Oval New York on May 31 saw Arthur Duffy Georgetown nominate break the amateur world 100 yard record in 9 3 5 seconds equalling the professional mark. DeWitt of Princeton lowered the hammer throw record to 164 feet 10 inches. Horton of Princeton vaults 11 feet 7 inches. Harvard leads 84 points Yale 30 Princeton 27. Marcus Hurley sets new 5 mile cycling record 11:09 1 5. Sheridan tops discus with 4 71 4 inches over prior 12? The American polo team wins the American Cup in Hurlingham England 2 1. 55 cars run 100 miles from New York to Southport Conn. La Roche 9hp lead. Grant City speed trial sees Mars car 65 1 5 sec mile 1 12 steam 1 10 2 5. Auto Club of America bans future Staten Island speed tests. Ard Patrick wins the Irish Derby ridden by J H Martin royal family present.
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Berkley Oval
New York City
Arthur ¥. Duffy
Georgetown College
R. DeWitt
Princston
Marcus L. Hurley
Amateor
Newark
Ingraham
M. J. Sheridan
Pastime Athletic Club
New York
Hurlingham
England
Automobile Club of America
New_York
Southport
Conn
F. A. la Roche
Grant City
Bcaten Island
Staten Island
Ard Patrick
J. H. Martin
Royal
Thawrignen
John Gubbins
Ireland
Alabamans in court and political moves noted
In brief items from the South Barclay is jailed near Paducah for luring a young woman into a mock marriage then abandoning her. Rebel committees report 216 miners died at Fraterville mine leaving many dependents. Alabama State Treasurer Smith backs a state primary. University of Alabama trustees elect J W Abercrombie president. A Memphis case reports a sun’s stomach finding glass and arsenic linked to a murder. Colonel Higdon refuses command unless his relief wasn t punitive. A duel in Fayetteville ends with a fatal wound to Miss Boatwright. Coal Creek mine owners face indictments for inspection failures. W W Quarles may oppose Governor Jelks. A Cincinnati Southern train strikes a cow near Cave Springs. Continued on Twentieth Page.
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Fune
Barclay
Paducah
Rebef
Fraterville
Smith
Alabama
University of Alabama Trustees
J. W. Abercrombie
Glass
Hooks
Memphis
Higdon
Third
Jelis
Fayetteville
Arts
Cave Springs
Independence talk and Roosevelts fall trips noted
The item discusses Philip pine independence urged by Cornell's President Schurmen at the Free Religious Association in Boston, compares it to Cuba in spirit, and notes President Roosevelt planning two fall Western trips. It also covers Georgia local option results, Indiana Democrat platform shifts, and South African peace terms with Kitchener and Milner.
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Vitaman
The
Free Religious Association of America
Boston
Schurmen
Cornell Univer
Sity
Philippines
Cuba
Roosevelt
Southwest
Georgia
Joseph M.terrell
Dupont Guerry
J. H. Estill
Savannah
Indianapolis
Albert Schoonover
Bryan
Kansas City
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Morgan
Wall Street
J. P. Morgan
F. L. Underwood
Carolinas
Southern Cotton Yarn Company
Texas Oil
Iowa
W. B. Brice
Iowa City
Jersey
New Jersey Bureau of Statistics
Industrial Directory of
Austrian Iron Combine
Austria
Vienna
Hungary
New Orleans
Louisiana
Texas
Hunterdon County
Mitchell
Jalthough
Couny
Shoedlums
Baer
Reading System
J P. Morgan
New York Board of Trade and Transportation
New York Board of Trade
Hagleton
Loering Valley Coal Company
Yorktown
Roan Junction
Charles McCann
Stanton
Wilkesbarre
Stock Yard
Chiéagh
Lord Kitchener
Asterg
Religious
Sociological
City and Suburban Home Company of
State Charities Association
Association For the
Annapolis Junction
Baltimore
College Settlement Association
Herbert Parsons
Hayt Thirty-fifth Street
Baker
Kitchener
Lord Milner
Vereenigen
London
Edward
Transvaal
Cape Colony
Natal
Mafeking
Schalk-Burgher
Botha
John Redmond
Chamberlain
Congress
Tongue and Williams
TL Hoe Ay
Pete Vaenel Ceed
Sigat Thin
Pekin
Tien-Tsin
Pe-chil
Michael Henery Herbert
Thas
Lord Pauncefote
Herbert
Lelia Wilson
Senor Ojeda
Duke de Arcos
United Statns
Kaiser
State Department
Emperor Wiliam
Corbin, Young and Weed
Columbia Vv
Hay
United States of Colombia
Castro
Panama
Chile
Argentina
Tuc
Gon
Arig
Shanghai
Sze-Chuen
Li Hung Chang
China
Chamber of Deputies
Leon Bourgeois
Radical
Martinique
Waldeck-Rousseau
Gomez
Maximo Gomez
Spain
Gomes
WAR Department
Culberson
Arnold
Fourth Cavalry
Beveridge
Foreign Express
Treasury Department
New York Custom House
RES War College
War College At
Chadwick
Aoes
Messrs
Hoar
Mason
Wellington
Laurin
Supreme Cour
United States Supreme Court
Felipe Buencamino
Aguinaldo
House
Bickinsey
Clark
Missouri
McKinley
Ray
Judiciary Committee
Wood
Department OF Commerce
House Committee On Commerce
President Roosevelt
New York Chamber of Commerce
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