Roosevelt Handshake Tour At Oyster Bay Draws Thousands
President Roosevelt greeted six to seven thousand Nassau County residents at his Oyster Bay camp on Bagatelle Hill. The event featured thorough security, with three hundred deputies and many plainclothes officers. Guests included longtime acquaintances and workers, with lemonade served along paths from the porch to the grounds.
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Oyster Bay
Roosevelt
Nassau Courts
Bagatore Hill
Johnson
Secret Service
New York
William Roosevelt
Christine Roosevelt
Loriaina Roosevelt
E. Reed Merritt
Frank E. Travis
Loeb
Father Powers
Henry Homer
Washburn
Judge Refuses Charter for First Church of Christian Scientists
In Philadelphia on September 15 Judge Arnold refused the application for a charter by the First Church of Christian Scientists. He ruled the request combined church and business aims, noting courts may charter churches but not for profit corporations. He cited Eddy texts promoting sale of publications as evidence of a business purpose.
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Philadelphia
First Church of the Christian Scientists
First Church of Christian Scientists
Arnold
Common Pleas Court
Mary Baker G. Eddy
Miss Eddy
President Roosevelt Receives New York Visitors at White House
New York residents and their relatives attended a White House reception to greet the president. They brought a photograph of the elder's father and one of the visitor at age four, and the president expressed pleasure at the reunion. Mrs. Roosevelt was introduced to the sisters as bands played on the lawn.
Death of Samuel D. Babcock Dated in New York
Samuel D. Babcock, longtime director of the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York and prominent financier, died at his New York home Sunday. Manager Robert F. Shedden received notice yesterday afternoon and ordered draping in his honor at the office.
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Samuel D. Babcock
New York
Mutual Life Insurance Company of
Robert F. Shedden
Babcock
Babcock A Key Figure in Mutual Life Heads Georgia Meet
New York instructions placed Babcock at the center of Mutual Life affairs. He has long been a major figure on Wall Street, rivaling only J. Pierpont Morgan in influence. The Georgia Association of Life Insurers will elect officers and delegates at 12:15 PM at Mutual Life of New York offices in Atlanta. Special Agent L. C. Fletcher has returned. Clarence Arman joins Hearst's Chicago American after serving Atlanta.
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Wall Street
Street
J. Pierpont Morgan
Georgia Association of Life Insurers
Robert F. Shedden
Mutual Life of New York
National Life Underwriters’ Association
L. C. Fletcher
North British
Clarence Arman
Atlanta
Hearst
Chicago American
Pope declines interview on Spain church troubles
Rome September 15 The pope refuses to talk to a French newspaper man and will not comment on or aid French policy. Cardinal Rampolla says the pope will not utter words that could be interpreted as favoring or opposing any side.
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Spain
Rome
Great Trust for England Aggregate of Capital Total $60 Million
The Daily Mail reports an alleged secret agreement among leading British steel rail makers to fix prices and regulate output. Firms named include Barrow Hematite Steel, Beickow Vaughan, Guest Keen, Dowlais Cardiff, Crawshay, Moss Bay, Cammell, Northeastern, and Rhymney, with an estimated capital around 60 million dollars. The piece notes skepticism amid denials and cites a New York engineer’s claim of vast European orders that England might have secured if mills could accept them.
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London
The
Daily Mail
Barrow Hematite Steel Company, Limited
Beickow, Vaughan & Co., Limited
Guest, Keen & C
Dowlais
Cardiff
Crawshay Bros
Merthyr-Tydvil
Moss Bay Hempetite Iron and
New York
Europe
America
England
Germany
Belgium
Fight Enjoined Over Louisville Prize Cont est
Kentucky Attorney General prepares to file in Jefferson Circuit Court to restrain the Southern Athletic Club from allowing the Corbett McGovern prize fight in Louisville or Kentucky. Judge Barker says the law defines prize fights and vows enforcement. Pratt plans injunction after arriving from Frankfort with Governor Beckham’s instruction.
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MacGovern-Corbett Mill
Louisville
Frankfort
Pratt
Jefferson Circuit Court
Southern Athletic Club of
Kentucky
Commonwealth
Bo An
Barker
Beckham
Aim of a selfish monopoly by British tobacco men
Sir John Archibald Willcox at the Cope Brothers meeting accuses competitive tobacco firms of merging into a deliberate monopoly. He denounces British capitalists for squeezing profits from consumers after winning dominance and warns American firms may seize control of the British tobacco trade.
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John Willcox
London
John Archibald Willcox
House of Commons
Cope Brothers
Sir John
Steamer Nithsdale Founders, Captain and Thirteen Lost
Elombe Ceylon September 16 reports the British steamer Nithsdale, grounded on a reef south of Cardina islands September 8, has foundered. Part of her crew reached this port, and the captain with thirteen crewmen are believed drowned.
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Elombe
Ceylon
Nithsdale
Cardina Islands
Indian Ocean
Cantain
Fortune Favors a Texan in Health Tussle
W P Whitehead of Kennedale Texas reports relief after using King’s New Life Pills for distress pain in head back and stomach and loss of appetite. He says the remedy restored his health and energy.
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W. P. ‘Whitehead
Kennedale
Tex
Forest fires sweep Oregon and Washington leaving many missing
Reports from the Lewis River district warn of widespread devastation with dozens dead and hundreds missing. Firefighters, relief workers from Tacoma Seattle and Vancouver rush aid as thousands lose homes and crops across Lents Springwater Bridal Veil Wifty Plain Lewis River Elma. Est. property loss reaches millions while timber and camps are burned and remote areas still relay casualty counts.
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Kalame
Wash
Lewis River
Pounty
Portland
Ure
Oregon
Washington
Tacoma
Seattle
Vancouver
Wifty Plain
Lewis Rive
Elma
Clark
Cowling
Times
Kalama
Trout Lake
Peruna Lauded As Essential Family Medicine In Letters
Readers praise Peruna for curing cold saved by one bottle and for curing stomach and catarrh ailments in family members. Noted testimonial from Louis J. Scherrinsky of Atlantic Iowa cites dramatic relief of a severe cough and healing of wife and children. Georgia legislator George H. White also endorses Peruna as an excellent remedy for grip and catarrh.
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Louis J. Scherrinsky
Locust Street
Atlantic
Iowa
Peruna
L. J. Scherrinsky
Nannie Wallace
Tulare
Cai
The
Western Baptist Missionary Society
George Henry White
Tarboro
N. C
Hartman
House ofRepresentatives
Washington
Columbus
George H. White
Dr. Hartman
Hartman Sanitarium
Ohio
Labor Uniting to Use Ballot in Chicago Platform
Chicago moves toward a semi political labor platform backed by the Chicago Federation of Labor. It calls for primaries for citizen nominees, initiative and referendum, recall of unresponsive representatives, eight hour day, safety, higher wages, abolition of convict labor, free school texts, and limits on corporate power and capital stock issuance. Vigilance committees urged to enforce laws and popular election of federal judges and senators.
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Chicago
United States
Chicago Federation of Labor
Askea
Morgan buys five Leyland steamers to run Antwerp Montreal trade
A Liverpool dispatch reports J Pierpont Morgan has bought five Leyland Line steamers from J R Ellerman. The ships, engaged in the Antwerp Montreal trade, are to be managed by the Leyland Line, per the dispatch.
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Leyland Line
London
Liverpool
J. Pierpont Morgan
J. R. Ellerman
Antwerp
Montreal
Mr. Morgan
Nine French codfish vessels foundered in North Sea
A telegram from Jalais, France, reports that nine vessels of the French codfish fleet foundered in recent gales off the North Sea and fifty fishermen were drowned.
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Crown
London
Jalais
France
North Sea
Morris Puts Lead in Head
Lieutenant John R. Morris of the U S Navy Soviet Olympia was found dead in his cabin by two officers and had shot himself in the head. He served as engineering officer since January and is the second Olympia officer to die by suicide within five days. A separate Huntsville robbery is noted with a cash drawer theft and hidden funds. The piece also references a political platform urging public ownership, old age provisions, and denouncing child labor while advocating ballot box relief and workers’ governance.
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Boston
John R. Morris
United States
Olympia
Navy Yard
Morris
Gause
Dewey
Morrison
West Bound Ticket Bargain Offer From Atlanta Office
Tickets go on sale at 13 Peachtree Street Atlanta offering cheap travel options over the Union and Southern Pacific lines. Contact the office for details on discounted fares and travel windows.
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Union
Southern Pacific
Peachtree Street
Atlanta
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Pope
Great Trust For England
Combine of
British Steel Rail Vickers
Combine
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1ORGI
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