Wright brothers receive national and local honors in Dayton
The Wright brothers receive medals from Congress Ohio and Dayton amid a massive Dayton celebration. They proceed to Washington to meet government officials as a crowd of 120000 fills the city streets. A separate fire and other incidents are reported, including a major blaze in New York and a fatal double murder in South Dakota linked to robbery.
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Wilbur
Orville Wright
Congress
Ohio
Dayton
Y D. C
Morgan Co Underwrites 15 Million in Railroad Bonds
J P Morgan and Company underwrite 15 000 000 of bonds for a 60 000 000 issue by the Chicago Great Western Railroad The Soo Railroad contracts 220 miles of track from Moose Lake to Thief River Falls May traffic on major western roads shows 30 percent gains Missouri Pacific stockholders vote on merging 21 subsidiaries into one corporate entity affecting northern routes and connections Seattle to New York Pennsylvanian flier plans to move passengers in four days transit system adjustments referenced.
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J. P. Morgan & Co
Chicago Great Western Railroad
Soo Railroad Company
Moose Lake
Duluth
Thief River Falls
Winnipeg
Western
Northern Pacific
Sys Icombin
Seattle
AON
Ayith
Pennsylvanih
Win
Death of Virgil A Geiger Editor of Churubusco Truth
Virgil A Geiger owner and editor of the Churubusco Truth died at his home after a long illness caused by a nervous breakdown and an eye disease that left him practically blind. He was 11 at the time of the automobile accident near Fort Wayne and leaves his wife Mrs Made Shisle Geiger and a daughter from a former marriage, Miss Katherine Geiger aged 18. He led the Truth for twenty two years and built a notable local publication with wide circulation.
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Virgil A. Geiger
Churubusco Truth
Geiger Telephone Company
Churubusco
Ind
Lenalth
Fort Wayne
Sur Vivilte
Made Shisle- Geiger
Katherine Geiger
the Truth
Ulysses Mob Drives Bishops Priests From Church Site
Rt Rev Bishop Bonneum of Lincoln diocese Father OBrien Seward and Father Kline Brainard were driven from Ulysses Nebraska by an angry mob of 200 to 250 sympathizers of Father Murphy who blocked violence and urged visitors to leave. In a separate report train robbers held up a St Louis Tram Mountain Southern freight near Bragg Oklahoma prompting a gun battle. Deputy Constable Johnson Kirk was killed and one robber shot and captured.
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Bonneum
Lincoln
Father O’brien
Seward
Father Kline
Brainard
Ulysses
Neb
Father Murphy
St. Louis, Tron Mountain
Taft Proposes 2 Percent Tax on Corporate Net Income
President Taft on Wednesday urged Congress to amend the Constitution to allow a 2 percent excise tax on the net income of most corporations and joint stock companies. The plan aims for $25 million in annual revenue and federal supervision of corporate affairs to curb abuses of power.
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Taft
Congress
Supreme Court
Pollock
Farmers’ Loan and Trust Company
Government Surgeon Calls End to Smallpox Vaccination
The bulletin from the Public Health and Marine Hospital Service argues vaccination is unnecessary, citing Germany’s 30 year compulsory program. Dr. Henry Mathewson notes a five year U S decline with 54 014 cases and 2 088 deaths in 1902 then 12 503 cases and 90 deaths in 1906, and 11 701 cases with 52 deaths by June 1909.
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Germany
United States
Henry 8. Mathewson
Public Health and Marineospital Service
Washington
Mathewson
Building collapse buries four at Peninsular Stove Plant
A six story storehouse at the Peninsular Stove Company in Detroit collapsed just before noon, burying four workmen. Three bodies were recovered and several others injured. The building, used as a warehouse for 25 years, housed finished stoves on upper floors. The top floor sagged and fell, with lower floors sinking under the debris. A basement fire was extinguished.
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Detroit
Peninsular Stove Company
8Th and
Fort Streets
Twelve in Black Hand Net Raids in Cincinnati
Post office inspectors and City detectives raid a Cincinnati patrol wagon arresting twelve Italians. Vicenzo Arrigo and Frank Spadero are held on conspiracy charges linked to Black Hand extortion against John Amicq of Columbus. Spadero previously led the Society of the Banana, now renamed by Salvatore Lima. Literature seized ties to other Black Hand cases in Ohio.
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Post Office
Cincinnati
Loveland
Vicenzo Arrigo
Frank Spadero
John Amicqn
Columbus
Ohio
Oldfield
Spadero
Society of the Banana
Salvatore Lima
Marion
Tornado Rips Purdy and Monett Area in Missouri
Passengers on a Frisco train to Joplin report Purdy and Monett wrecked by a tornado. Two killed, Andrew McCormick and others injured as the cyclone devastates farms. Farmhouse demolished, buildings razed, stock killed, and communication lines down in southern county.
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Joplin
Purdy
Monett
Andrew McCormick
Noel
McCormick
Fight for the Pennants Standings in Principal Leagues
Baseball standings show the top clubs contending for pennants across the major leagues. Teams compete for lead positions with few games left in the season, highlighting shifting ranks and key matchups.
Attempted assassination and arson targeted Bellefontaine mayor
An assailant tossed a kerosene filled bottle through the plate glass window of Mayor William R. Niven’s Bellefontaine home in Ohio. Fire from curtains and furniture was quickly extinguished while the mayor was away. Niven, a Democrat, state committee member and past congressional candidate, had led a dry ticket victory two years prior.
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Ohio
William R. Niven
Bellefontaines
Niven
State Committee
Congress
Explosion Injures Boy from Tonkawa
A 12 year old boy, son of Warren Her bag of Tonkawa Oklahoma, was injured when a firecracker exploded near his face. He will lose sight in one eye due to the blast. The incident occurred as the device exploded beside a bottle, with details incomplete.
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Warren Herbag
Tonkawa
Okla
Mass Strike By 10,000 Tin and Sheet Workers Sets June 30
More than 10,000 skilled workers of the Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers, employed by the American Sheet and Tin Plate Company, will quit June 30 as the company enforces an open shop. The move follows a Pittsburg convention and advisory board resolutions urging resistance. The strike affects 152 tin and 51 sheet mills across several states, with major plants listed in Pennsylvania Ohio West Virginia and Indiana.
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Amalgamated Association of Iron, Steel and Tin Workers
American Sheet and Tin Plate Company
Pittsburg
Advisory Board
United States Steel Corporation
Pennsylvania
Greer
Shenango
New Castle
Sharon
Connellsville
Ohio
Martins Ferry
Bridgeport
Cambridge
Piqua and Struthers
West Virginia
Wheeling
Indiana
Elwood
Anderson and Gas City
Muncie
President Penna of Brazil Dies in Washington Dispatch
President Penna of Brazil died at 7 20 Monday morning, a State Department dispatch from the American Ambassador in Rio de Janeiro said. Alfonso Penna, born May 30 184 , led Liberal party politicians and rose from provincial legislator to National Assembly member before the empire fell in 1889. He became Brazil’s President in November 1906 and his term would have ended in 1910.
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Brazi
State Department
Washington, D. C
Rio de Janeiro
Alfonso Penna
Santa Barbara
Minas Geraes
Ilara
College
Brazil
Lady School
Sao Paulo
Liberal Party of
Minjas
National Assembly
Woman shot by husband in Cincinnati reformer saga unfolds
Rose Shuck, 20, married to youth reformer Deck, was shot by Deck who fled after firing three times at her. one bullet hit her chest and another her arm. She is in critical condition at city hospital. Deck, also 20, previously a thief, was sent to Mans Ohio reform school.
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Andrew Deck
Cincinnati
Deck
Rose Shuck
Mans Ohio
Parmet
Reforma
Howe
Accou
Eld
Detroit fair race reports scattered results
The fragmentary note records brief mentions from a Detroit fair race event. It lists several competitors including Kerra, Jrdemann, Gotch, Henry, LagApOliss, Minoru, and Greener, with mixed outcomes and a few times noted. The text also references a Cincinnati medical observer and a Dr Burga.
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Kerra
Detroit Fair Sr
Stiff Jrdemann
Kk Gotch
Henry
Natch
LagApOliss Minoru Wel
Ehip Hills
Ain
Cincinnati
Work of Congress Nears Climax in Tariff Bill Debate
A Senate discussion Monday centers on the tariff bill affecting Philippine commerce. The debated point is the committee substitute to the House provision regulating duties on shipments to the Philippines. Bristow questions a clause about the duty on safes admitted into the Philippines.
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Senate
Aldrich
Brown
Nebraska
Canada
Dominion
United States
Hale
House
State Department
Germany
Hull
Tennessee
Philippine sugar tariff debate in the Senate
The session debated duty free sugar for the Philippines and 300 tons exempted, with Bristow and allies clashing over free admission. Amendments shifted to silk and other schedules as Taft's tariff plan moved through a long, factional process amid votes on cigars and taxes.
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United States
Jas
American Sugar Trust
Bristow
Lippines
Senate
House
Representativeurphy
Missouri
Secretary of Interior
Rus Bede
J. Blair Schoenfldt
Union Station
Idian Territory
Bede
Schoenfeldt
Snow slide buries two men in Aber crombie canyon Alaska
James J. Hill at Seattle says James A. Patten did not cause a corner in wheat. The editor attributes the wheat fluctuation to supply and demand as U.S. consumption reaches 330 million bushels annually with 20 million left for export.
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Abercrombie Canyon
Copper River
Alaska
James J. Hill
Seattle
James A. Patten
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