KING OF PLUNGER GATES DIES AT AGE OF WALL STREET GIANT
New York reports the death of John W. Gates a famed barbed wire pioneer and financier known as Bet-you-a-Million. He built a fortune through wire company consolidations and large stock plays while steering through lawsuits and market upheavals. He rose from a country hardware store to lead Consolidated Steel and Wire American Steel and Wire and United States Steel mergers. He influenced railroads and oil efforts in Texas, reflecting a life of risk embracing opportunity.
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New York
John W. Gates
Gates
Wall Street
Eivery
West
Turner Junction
Chicago
Texas
St. Louis
Organis
Ing
Consolidated Steel and Wire Company
Federal Steel Company
American Steel and Wire Company
United States Steel Corporation
Gates’ Companies
Spain
Louisville & Nashville Railroad
J. Pierpont Morgan
Standard Oil
England
American Woman in London Hallie Rives a Noted Hostess
Hallie Erminie Rives wife of Post Wheeler stands out in London society during the coronation era. A Kentucky native and cousin of Amelie Troubetzkoy, she wrote popular novels including Satan Sanderson. She married Post Wheeler in 1906, a former embassy secretary now stationed in St. Petersburg, and he has written on the Tukadh Indians.
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London
Hallie Erminie Rives
Post Wheeler
Tokyo
St. Petersburg
Doctor Dies of Glanders in Des Moines
Dr. Henry E. Talbot, 47, a veterinarian from Des Moines Iowa, died at home after contracting glanders. He had treated the last glanders case in a horse a year earlier. Medical authorities say glanders is often fatal in humans.
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Des Moines
Henry E. Talbot
Glanders
Talbot
Kansas Stops Advertising to Hire Idle Men
Charles Harris director of the state free employment bureau argues Kansas has enough idle men and rejects advertising to draw more. He cites Topeka as having hundreds of men per available job and notes similar conditions nationwide. He warns advertising could worsen conditions unless new arrivals can buy land or start businesses.
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Pera
Charles Harris
State Free Employment Bureau
Kansas
Topeka
Germans Skeptical As To Potash Discovery
Berlin observers and the German potash syndicate question Secretary Wilson's claim of large US potash finds. Syndicate representatives express skepticism about the significance and test of the discovery, fearing Germany’s monopoly may be affected.
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Berlin
Wilson
United States
Germany
English Channel Tunnel Project Revival Gains Momentum
Paris reports the long delayed tunnel under the English Channel is being revived with better prospects. Public opinion in England shifts as Franco British relations improve under the Entente Cordiale and mutual commercial benefits are highlighted by backers in both nations.
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Paris
English Channel
England
Germany
Taft Sets Vast Travel Record Across States
President Taft adds about 15 000 miles to his travel tally during a tour of twenty four states. Since 1900 he has logged total travel of 298 728 miles by steamship and rail, with many additional miles by automobile on global trips.
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Washington
William Howard Taft
United States
States of the Union
Monkey Faced Owl Captured Near Cemetery in Sheridan
Earl Moore, a blacksmith in Sheridan, captured a strange bird described as a large yellow owl with a monkey like face and tail. The creature, said to eat meat greedily, puzzled locals and sparked tales it may be a sacred Indian species or a native monkey faced owl.
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Sheridan, Ore
Earl Moore
Moore
India
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