Dissolution of the Duma Sparks Mixed Reactions in Russia
St Petersburg reports confirm the imperial ukase dissolving the second duma and postponing elections. Officials fear peasant unrest when the news spreads while Odessa and Kiev may see riots. Premier Stolypin influenced electoral law changes. Tsarskoe Selo drafted the manifesto. reactionary circles celebrate with champagne and loyal speeches.
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Drowning at Lake Minnetonka Claims John Ahlstrom
Minneapolis June 17 John Ahlstrom twenty two of 108 Forty fourth avenue north drowned in Lake Minnetonka after his boat with three friends capsized about 200 feet from Spring Park dock. The others were rescued though he vanished beneath the water.
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John Ahlstrom
Forty Fourth Avenue North
Lake Minnetonka
Ahlstrom
Spring Park
Abistrom
France Japan entente hinges on Paris market access deal
Paris reports that political considerations shaped the Franco Japanese entente with France’s offer of access to its market for future Japanese loans as the main quid pro quo. The accord is framed as a high order bargain, signaling a strategic economic concession in exchange for Tokyo’s financial prospects.
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Operators Vote For Action In Telegraphers Grievances
In Chicago on June 17 about 1500 Commercial Telegraphers' Union members from Western Union and Postal Telegraph voted to back their leadership in pursuing grievance adjustment. Postal workers urged drastic measures while Western Union staff set ten days' notice to New York officials to meet for discussion or face interference with public business. A $5,000 strike fund was approved. The Order of Railway Telegraphers pledged personal support to the commercial operators.
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Postal Telegraph Companies
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Commercial Telegraphers' Union of America
Order of
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President refers labor chief Neill on telegraphers strike
Oyster Bay N Y June 17 President Roosevelt has referred to Charles P Neill commissioner of labor the appeals to intervene to prevent the threatened telegraphers strike The article notes no emergency like the coal strike and says action by the bureau of labor may be initiated by Neill on his own motion his prior investigations having aided settlements but no intimation was given to him by the president.
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Radical Change Looms in San Francisco Government
San Francisco faces a potential executive overhaul tied to Mayor Schmitz who is jailed in the county facility. Sentence for extortion convictions is set for June 27. bail prospects depend on post judgment decisions by multiple courts. Attorneys have not disclosed whether a June 27 sentencing or a continuance will be sought.
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Dunne
Mexican Legation Leaves Guatemala Over Barrilla Assassination
Reports across Central America say the Mexican legation withdrew from Guatemala after evidence linked high government officials to ex President Barrilla's killing. President Cabrera tried a secret pact with El Salvador via a confidential agent, but M Gamboa blocked it. Guatemala reportedly has 4000 well equipped frontier troops and over 1090 prisoners suffering after a recent bomb attempt.
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Murder at Sebastopol Docks Claims Harbor Official
On June 17 at Sebastopol a revolver fatal shot near the docks killed Colonel Guess ekoffsky assistant harbor commandant. The assassin was arrested and detained.
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Guessekoffsky
Trouble Looms for Drug and Food Stock Dealers
Washington reports trouble for jobbers and wholesale dealers under the food and drugs act. A guaranty of purity from the Department of Agriculture was once thought valid for all subsequent sales. now the department holds the guaranty applies only to the seller of record. If A & Co. sell to B & Co. and issue a guarantee, it does not shield C & Co. from action if C & Co. bought the goods from B & Co.
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Department of As
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Girl Rescues Companion From Drowning at Lake Calhoun
Minneap olis June 17 Miss Frances Hanson aged nineteen rescued Walter Griffith twenty from drowning when a gale capsized their canoe on Lake Calhoun. She rowed out in a nearby boat against rough seas, reached Griffith, secured him to her craft, and towed both to shore with bystanders aiding ashore.
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Frances Hanson
Walter Griffith
Fremont Avenue North
Lake Calhoun
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Mr. Griffith
Lake Street
Griffith
Hanson
Fire destroys NYC Railway car barns on Madison Avenue
Fire in Madison avenue between Eighty-fifth and Eighty-sixth streets sweeps the New York City Railway car barns. Several nearby homes damaged, losses exceed 200000 dollars. Thirty electric automobiles and several building cars perish. Two safes with 3700 dollars believed safe. company books and records lost. Firemen suffer bruises from falling walls.
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Madison Avenue
Eighty-fifth
Eighty-sixth Streets
Saloons Closed Overnight Under New St Louis Law
The new saloon closing law took effect this week in St Louis requiring closures from midnight Saturday to 5 am Monday. The measure, replacing the prior 24 hour Sunday night closure, was strictly enforced in the city.
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St. Louis
Tolstoi illness and Paris race mention in telegraph briefs
Telegraphic items report Count Tolstoi seriously ill from Tula. Edmund de Rothschild’s Sans Souci SI won the grand Prix de Paris under favorable conditions Sunday. Suburban Handicap race set for next Thursday at Sheepshead Bay. Roosevelt replies to Georgia day controversy via Governor Terrell telegraph disclaimer.
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Edmund de Rothschild
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Terrell
Georgia
Baseball Scores National League and American Association
National League games in St Louis Boston 2 Cincinnati 0 Chicago Brooklyn 11 Philadelphia 0. American Association results Toledo 3 Kansas City 1 Columbus 5 Milwaukee 4 Louisville 5 Minneapolis 3. Second game Louisville 13 Minneapolis 3.
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Drowned jeweler in Diamond lake near Atwater
Atwater Minnesota June 17 Louis W Harris a local jeweler was drowned in Diamond lake six miles north of town. He and another man were in a boat that capsized the survivor clung to the boat and was saved while Harris tried to swim ashore and was seized with cramps.
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Louis W. Harris
Diamond Lake
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Taft in South Dakota Recovered and Visitation
Secretary of War Taft arrived in Sioux Falls and said he had fully recovered from his indisposition. Several hundred residents paid respects, he attended church, and then departed for Fort Mead with Senators Gamble and Kittredge and Governor Crawford. In Minnesota, the Sons of Hermann held their annual summer festival with over 1,000 visitors and the presentation of an autograph portrait of Emperor William by the German consul Hanns Gnu now of St. Paul.
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Market Quotations for Wheat and Farm Prices Across Cities
Minneapolis and Duluth report on track and arriving wheat prices with No 1 hard and Northern bids. St Paul shows cattle, hogs, sheep and pasture values, while Chicago lists wheat, corn, oats, pork, butter, eggs, poultry prices, and cattle and hog ranges.
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Bristow Teacher Acquitted After Spanking Charges
Bristow Iowa on June 17 Professor D Correl principal of Bristow Schools faced assault and battery charges filed by girl students who testified he spanked them. He argued discipline justified the acts and was acquitted. The school board then increased his salary.
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D. Correl
Bristow Schools
Search for drowned midshipmen continues without result
Norfolk Virginia June 17 naval ships dredge Hampton Roads for six midshipmen and four seamen drowned last Monday night. Searchlights ceased as crews hope to recover bodies while naval board and steamboat inspectors press the disaster investigation. James Bryce British ambassador visits Lawton Fort Sill meets Geronimo and Quaanah Parker during weekend stay.
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Sleep Feigned, Melancholia Claims Death of Man on Train
Thomas C. Webster 60 of Horseshoe Bend Idaho died at a Kansas City hospital after 77 days of sleep begun on April 1 aboard a Kansas City Denver train. Doctors concluded the long sleep was feigned and Webster suffered from acute melancholia.
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Denver
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Real estate and loan offers from Chas H Webber
The ad promotes loans on farm and city real estate and chattel mortgages at low rates. It lists eight houses in Third Ward for bargain installment sales, six top lots in LaCom's addition, and a 24 acre farm known as The Shady Nook Farm offered on easy terms or rent after Aug 1907. Also advertised are a high grade survey and a two horse rig bargain.
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Farma
Mower County
How He Caught Them in Grammar Snags
A delighted old Englishman recalls Archbishop Whately delighting in classic grammar pun questions. One famed query asked for the vocative of cat, with common reply O cat. Whately smiled and corrected, saying puss, puss, in a playful language moment.
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Archbishop Whately
How to Make Oi of Swallows from a 1676 Manual
A snippet from the Countess of Kent's Choice Manual describes a curious remedy for "oi of swallows." It instructs combining thyme lavender and strawberry leaves with four swallows feathers, wallet oil, bruising, simmering in a posnec, straining through canvas, and storing for use.
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Countess of Kent
Smith Good Morning Exchange Reveals Household United Kingdom
In a brief exchange reported by the Liverpool Post a speaker notes that their household now represents the United Kingdom. He identifies himself as English, his wife as Irish, the nurse as Scottish, and the baby as part of the national tapestry.
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Jones
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Liverpool Post
Cockney rhymes in Thackeray and Barham noted
The remark discusses William Makepeace Thackeray in Peg of Limavady calling himself a cockney and rhyming ing with syllables like in and en, and Richard Harris Barham of Ingoldsby legends is accused of similar easy rhyming, easing his verse composition.
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Peg
Limavady
Richard Harris Barham
Ingoldsby
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