Four00ton torpedo destroyers ordered by Russia
The Russ line reports the Russian admiralty ordered four 400 ton torpedo boat destroyers from England with turbine engines. Other items note Ira B. Smith’s two year Milwaukee sentence for obtaining money under false pretenses, a preacher gag in Georgia, and various local incidents including a Canton home transfer, a Cleveland assault case, and outbreaks in La Guayra and Colorado coal mine threats.
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Russ
England
Ira B. Smith
Milwaukee
House of Correction
Hoke Smith
Marietta
Joseph M. Brown
Gov. Smith
Charles Maitland
Los Angeles
President McKinley
Canton
Ohio
Rose C. Klover
Helen McKkinley
Cleveland
Levine
Jacob Gideon
South Omaha
Neb
la Guayra
State Department
Washington
Moffat
Champion
Royal Coal and Coke Company
Durango
Colo
Ferdinand Schumacher
America
Akron
American Cereal Company
Roosevelt Urges Four New Dreadnought Battleships
President asks Congress to fund four of the heaviest battleships to restore naval parity. He argues rapid modern dreadnought construction is essential to keep the United States as a leading sea power, while stressing the plan is a measure of peace, not war. The House approved, but the Senate read the message quickly and largely ignored it.
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Roosevelt
Congress
House
Senate
United States
Japan
Hobson
Alabama
Pacific
Mr. Burton
Ohio
W. W. Kitchin
North Carolina
Minnesota Governor for President Support and Party Moves
Political maneuvering across parties shown as Johnson supporters push for Bryan alternatives. Socialist Party plans a New York daily paper starting May 1. John Mitchell declines Panama commission, starts a weekly Indy paper. Indiana Republicans push Roosevelt, tariff revision, and Fairbanks for president.
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Johnson
Denver
Minnesota
Socialist Party
New York City
National Democratic Club of
New York
Bryan
John Mitchell
Miners’ Union
Panama
Indianapolis
Ninth
New Bryan
Gay
Roosevelt
Congress
Fairbanks
Naval debate shapes up as battleships vs arbitration
Federal lawmakers split over naval policy with Senate speeches urging a four ship build up and House calls for restraint. Roosevelt’s call for four battleships drew applause while amendments on naval pay and bands faced defeat. Debate shifted to naval stations in the Philippines as sessions adjourned for the day.
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Senate
Foas
Illinois
Mr. Padgett
Tennessee
Messrs
Favrot
Louisiana
McKinlay
Knowland
California
Scott
West Virginia
Navy
Marine Corps
Madden
Ilinois
Mudd
Maryland
Bartholdt
Missouri
Senator Foraker
Brownsville
House
Philippines
Olongapo
Subig Bay
Roosevelt
Fire Devastates Chelsea Suburb Wrecking Churches and Banks
A Boston suburb blaze leveled Chelsea causing $10,000,000 in damage, leaving about 1,500 families homeless and 10,000 others displaced. One square mile burned, with 500 buildings destroyed, including 13 churches, 2 hospitals, the city hall, library, and several schools. Firefighters, militia, and marines fought the flames through a NW gale, as officials warned of possible additional fatalities.
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Chelgea
Boston
Charlestown Navy Yard
Chelsea Brigade
Chelsea
Boston Blacking Company
West 3d Street
Boston and Maine Railroad
Everett City
Chelsea Creek
East Boston
National Capital Notes on Senate Bill and House Actions
The Senate passed a bill repealing the act denying pay to Civil War loyalty claimants. The House judiciary committee voted to table the reports on Judge Wilfley charges for further investigation. The mines committee favors a bill to create a monies bureau in the Interior Department. The Pan American Congress organizing committee announces a postponement to December 25, 1908, at Santiago Chile.
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Senate
United States
House
Judiciary
Wilfley
Shanghai
House Committee On Mines and Mining
Department of the Interior
Commission of Education
Santiago
Chile
Genius and Insanity Linked in New Book Theory
Prof Cesare Lombroso asserts a real link between genius and insanity while Dr Joseph Grasset counters with a semi insane and semi responsible approach. Grasset argues intellectual excellence often coincides with marked psychic defects and that intellect and nervous affection are connected but not causally.
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Cesare Lombroso
Joseph Grasset
Jellife
New York
Ir. Grasset
Kasser
Egyptian cotton tests show progress in New Mexico and Arizona
After years of effort, the bureau of plant industry reports promising results with Egyptian cotton in New Mexico and Arizona. Eight suits have been filed against the Great Northern Railroad Company for violating federal law requiring unloading of cattle for rest, food, and water at intervals no longer than twenty eight hours during transit.
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United States
Bureau of Plant Industry
Department of Agriculture
New Mexico
Arizona
Great Northern Railroad Company
Cure for eight years skin sickness by Cuticura heals in a week
Fritz Herschlaff of New York reports eight years of rough, sore skin between toes and under the anus. After spending about three hundred dollars and visiting many doctors with no relief, he used Cuticura remedies for seven days costing a dollar and a half and is cured, able to work again. His dates are March 29 and April 6, 1906.
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Fritz Herschlaff
Columbus Ave
New York
N. Y
Newtons Telescope Recalls Early Royal Society Work
The Pall Mall Gazette notes Newton built a clumsy nine inch by two inch aperture telescope capable of thirty eight magnification. He exhibited it before the Royal Society in 1671 and over a century later a successor to the presidency presented it to George II. The piece also mentions Sir William Herschel's plan for a forty foot telescope with four foot aperture based on Newtons design.
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Newton
Royal Society
Society
George II
William Terschel
Pall Mall Gazette
From Sunny Orange Groves San Bernardino Tale
Lionel M. Heath of 158 Eighth Street recounts a decade and a half of back and kidney troubles, frequent urination, and rheumatic pains. He credits Dean's Kidney Pills with a complete cure five years ago and says this is his second public endorsement. Sold by all dealers for 50 cents a box.
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San Bernardino
Calif
Lionel M. Heath
Eighth Street
Dean
Foster-Milburn Co
Buffalo
N, Y
The Icelandic Language Preserved Through Ages
The piece compares Icelandic to an isolated Anglo Saxon colony, noting Icelanders still speak the tongue of their forefathers as Danes and Swedes modernize. It highlights sagas read in the old tongue, akin to reading Shakespeare and the Bible today.
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Newfoundland
Alfred
Iceland
Rolf the Ganger
Harold Sardrada
Grasso of Italy Delights Algiers Audience
Signor Grasso, a celebrated Italian actor, moved Algiers crowds after a performance by revealing a letter from his 80 year old mother in Catania. He expressed gratitude and wished to embrace the entire audience, his emotion turning the reception into delirium.
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Signor Grasso
Italy
Catania
Paris
London Mail
Coffee Eyes and the Postum Cure Shown in Eye Disease
A Oswego Montana woman reports gradual vision loss linked to coffee. After switching to Postum Food Coffee she notes eye health improved within three months, with no medicine used. A friend also reports relief from dyspepsia and headaches after replacing coffee with Postum. There’s a Reason.
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Oswego
Mont
Postum
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Chicago Trade Review Notes Mixed Signals in 1908 Chicago Market
R. G. Dun & Co reports overall business not advancing as much as seasonally expected though outlook remains confident amid favorable agricultural reports. Weakness rumors in steel and iron, mine delays, and fragile price stability weigh on heavy buyers. Banking shows ample credit and low discounts. transportation earnings recover. retail demand holds in staples with rising summer and fall orders in textiles, foods, footwear and clothing. Failures in Chicago district rise to 20 from 16 and 11 last year, liabilities over 5000 total ten, up from prior weeks.
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R. G. Dun & Co
Chicago
Stes
New York Week Sees Mixed Economic Signals and Rainy Outlook
Bradstreet's Commercial Report notes uneven improvement with Easter trade boosting some retail and jobbing activity while insect damage falls. Cereal and cotton prices hit yearly lows as leather and hides edge higher. Shoe shipments fall 27 percent from 1907, eastern declines persist. 258 business failures reported for the week ending April 9, up from prior weeks. Canadian failures tally 28.
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Bradstreet
Trading prices across major livestock and grains
Chicago cattle and hogs trade from four to seven dollars, with sheep up to six. Indianapolis and St Louis show similar ranges for cattle and hogs. Wheat No 2 and corn No 2 white list in the mid to upper teens and mid to high teens respectively. Buffalo and New York round out a broad market snapshot with oats, rye, butter, eggs, and clover seed also priced.
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Chicago
Indianapolis
St. Louis
Ube
Cincinnati
St Detroit
Ste
Milwaukee
Toledo
New York
New York Board of Education Plans $1 Million School Safety Upgrade
New York's board of education will spend one million dollars to upgrade school buildings for safety. Fire started by burning brush destroyed the central part of Greenville, Kentucky, damaging structures and prompting investigations.
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New York
Board of Education
Greenville
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Caney
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United States Navy
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