Syndicate Plans Chicago Lake Shore and South Bend Railway
A Cleveland bankers and traction syndicate formed to build and equip the Chicago Lake Shore and South Bend line, aiming for operation by September. Navy chaplains flood applications. Empress of Japan notes a Chinese constitutional translation project led by Prince Su, to take twelve years. Miss Mabel Swallow, 19, heir to a $500,000 English estate, will travel to England on September 1 to claim it. Howard Ohio fire wipes out two business blocks. loss exceeds $25,000, with Mount Vernon supplying relief. BasebalL league standings follow.
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Cleveland
Chicago
Lake Shore
South Bend
Navy Department
Japan
Hattori
Peking
Prince Su
China
Mabel Swallow
Niagara Falls
N. Y
Jackson Swallow
James Hess
Marion Tracey
Jacob Vestry
Keidy
Wolf & Critchfield
Undertaking
Miss Anderson
Mount Vernon
Japan to extend Korean industry and grant amnesty
Japan will extend Korean industry and introduce civil service reforms, with amnesty for Korean political prisoners. In Buffalo the American Federation of Catholic Societies denounced socialism and Sunday amusements. San Francisco Mayor Schmitz uncovered extensive city payroll robberies and will act against the public works board. A Cincinnati publisher was placed in receivership. A Minnesota murder case received a commutation to life. An Atlantic City post office gas plant explosion damaged the basement machinery. A farmer near Springfield was struck by lightning. Four men died and another missing after a Newark gun cotton plant explosion. A new direct telegraph cable between Japan and the United States via Bonin opened. A Greenville divorce case ended in wife and child murder-suicide. Michigan Democrats in Detroit endorsed Bryan, investigated Chairman Taggart, and nominated a full ticket led by Kimmerle. Brady of Standard Rubber faced arrest after burglar prank. friends intervened. The Samoan settlement sees the US contributing its share of $20,000 for sufferers.
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Japan
American Federation of Catholic Societies
Buffalo
Schmitz
San Francisco
Board of Public Works
Men and Women Publishing Company
Cincinnati
United States
Thompson
W. R. Thrall
Henry Prolow
Charles F. Zemk
Goodhue
Minn
Atlantic City
N. J
Luther Lorton
Springfield
Clyde Naders
Cooper Chemical Company
Newark
Bonin
Samuel Demond
Greenville
Michigan Democrats
Detroit
Bryan
Taggart
Charles H. Kimmerle
Cassopolis
J. H. Brady
Standard Rubber Company
Trenton
Karl C. Roebling
England
Germany
Shutting Out the Women From Chicago Business Posts
A rising movement in Chicago business seeks to replace women with men in jobs. Examples include Barter Acphal Company clerks quitting, Post Office Postmaster Basse barring women, County Treasurer Hanberg denying female hires, and the Chicago Northwestern Railway terminating women workers. An officer cites gendered limits on stenographers and claims promotion prospects for men to lead to stronger railroad operations. The policy signals broad bias rather than an absolute ban.
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Chicago
Barter Acphal Company
Basse
Hanberg
Chicago United States Pension Office
Chicago and Northwestern Railway Company
Arim
Railrad
Onbr
Gorkys Opinion of America in Appletons Magazine
Maxim Gorky, visiting New York, criticizes American society as rusting democracy. He notes Liberty Statue corrosion by commerce and a labor treadmill. He laments lack of free creativity and sees people closely bound to life, contrasting energy with self-satisfaction and tragedy.
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Appleon
Booklovers
Maxim Gorky
New York
America
Rate Law Becomes Etective
The Interstate Commerce Commission begins enforcing the new railroad rate law by appointing experts to appraise and value every railroad in the United States. Prof. Henry C. Adams of the University of Michigan joins to devise a uniform accounting system and assess railroads. The system aims to start by July 1, 17 and align railroads’ fiscal years with the government.
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Interstate Commune Commission
United States
Henry C. Adams
University of Michigan
Interstate Commerce Commission
Standard Loses Big Pennsylvania Rail Contract
The contract to equip the Pennsylvania lines west of Pittsburg with rolling stock, previously held by the Stanfani Company and yielding about $12,000 annually, has been canceled after a dispute before the interstate commission. Attorneys claim Standard profits by passive pricing and say the railroad paid more than independent firms would.
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Pennsylvania Lines
Pittsburg
Stanfani Company
Penn
Short News Notes from the Carmesie steel works
A string of brief reports from various locales. A saloon keeper in Belair was fatally shot and his porter wounded during a failed robbery attempt. A man and a woman die in separate incidents. A prisoner in Newport News, Davenport, hanged for murder after confessing. A Los Angeles hotel quarrel ends with a woman drinking carbolic acid. An electric car crash injures many in Worcester. An insane patient in Scranton kills two inmates and wounds a guard. Mining deals near Hiermeside, Mexico sell to a British syndicate. A man in Trenton sentenced for plotting to poison his daughter. A St Louis attorney presses perjury charges in a long boodle case.
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Carmesie
Pirestarg
Kraft
Michael Maxson
George Suyplkr
George J. Jackson
Fort Worth
Texas
Los Angeles
Thomas Reid
Martin Krafee
Worcester
Mass
Ignatz Krewnup
Scranton
Ann Golden
Ann van Valen
Richard Davies
Mark Smith
L. O. Cowan
Tucsory Ariz
Congress
el Senado
Hiermeside
Mexico
Charles Davenport
Trenton
N. J
Josephine
St. Louis
Nille
Charles A. Gutke
House of Delegates
Frisco City Hall Declared Dangerous After Fire Damage
San Francisco city hall, ruined by earthquake and fire and costing seven million dollars, was declared unsafe at a Board of Public Works meeting. Police department was notified to relocate its station. The building, once magnificent, faces continued clearance after disaster.
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San Francisco City Hall
Board of Public Works
Police Department
San Francisco
City Hall
Domeed City Landmark in San Francisco Disaster
An artistically classic structure in the stricken city spent about twenty years in erection at a cost near 7 million dollars. The dome rose 335 feet above the sidewalk, crowned by a noble figure of Progress, with a symmetrically grand subordinate dome over a semi detached hall. The great dome stands on iron columns, illustrating the earthquake and fire wreckage in this striking disaster scene.
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San Francisco
Railway fare cuts and ads spread nationwide
The article notes western passenger fare reductions from 4 to 3 cents and fare drops from Chicago to Colorado common points from $29.50 to $28.65. It reports the Indianapolis Appellate Court upholding appeal rights from the railroad commission, and a Monon railroad appeal. It mentions St Paul’s Grand Army pamphlet promotion, Southern Pacific Shasta route ads, Lake Tahoe and Mount Shasta imagery, and death of Col A J Smith, Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway official, in Harrietstown New York after pneumonia and lung abscess. He began railway work in 1868 and became general passenger and ticket agent in 1888.
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Chicago
Colorado
Indianapolis
Railroad Commission
Monon Railroad
St. Paul Road
Grand Army
Twin Cities
Southern Pacific
Shasta
Lake Tahoe
Nevada-California
Mount Shasta
Col
A. J. Smith
Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railway
Harriettstown
N. Y
Adirondack Montains
Smith
Insurance losses from San Francisco fire totaled 132 million
Otto Kelsey of New York released the sworn statements of 173 fire and marine insurers. State totals show gross insurance 222,836,307 with net loss 132,827,067 after reinsurance and salvage deductions. Hartford Fire of Connecticut suffered the largest individual loss at 6,186,701.
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Frisco
Otto Kelsey
New York
San Francisco
California
Hartford
Connecticut
Wreck on Hudson River Line Kills Two On Central Express
A landslide one mile south of New Hamburg New York wrecked the New York Central Pacific express at 11 30 Sunday night killing engineer Edward Wells of Albany and fireman Edward Warren of New York. About a dozen passengers were injured none fatally. The engine plunged into the Hudson River and three tracks were torn up over 100 feet blocking traffic. The wreck was the worst on the Hudson River division since the New York tunnel disaster.
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New Hamburg
N. Y
New York Central Pacific
Edward Wells
Albany
Edward Warren
New York
Hudson River
Hudson River Division
New York Tunnel
Shaw's Financial Move Marks Shift to Government Depositories
Secretary Shaw designated national banks as government depositories and ordered bonds to secure deposits placed with the government immediately. He called in loans backed by state and municipal bonds totaling 10 million dollars, due by the 20th when Panama bonds would be sold. The treasury will keep at least one third of the Panama issue on deposit with banks.
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Shaw
Panama
Treasury
Rebels Capture Sveaborg Mutineers Seize Forte
Mutineers seize Sveaborg known as the Gibraltar of the North after heavy fighting. Desperate cannonading between warships loyal fort and mutineers rages under searchlights. Reported death toll exceeds a thousand as Finland’s sea fortress falls to revolt amid conspiracy to topple Cronstadt and Sebastopol.
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Gibraltar
North
Sveaborg
Helsingfors
Finland
Russia
Soldiers’ Revolutionary League
Cronstadt
Sebastopol
Mutiny at Sveaborg Sees Forts Seized and Loyalists Hard pressed
In Helsingfors a mutiny within Sveaborg Fortress sees four loyal infantry companies remain, while mutineers seize quick firers, light artillery, and five smaller forts. Torpedo vessels fire on Skatudden, panic erupts among crowds, officers are killed, and mutineers gain control aided by Cossacks. Sveaborg spans seven islands with redoubts on each side.
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Skatudden
Helsingfors
American Farm Products Company forms to control dairy items
A new enterprise with 20 million capital plans to dominate American dairy products eggs and chickens. Headquartered in New York with general offices in Chicago, it aims to raise producer prices and lower consumer costs while standardizing quality and distribution. Key backers include Thomas P. Ryan Levi P. Morton Harry Payne Whitney Kuhn Loeb John A. Spoor and James R. Morse. The venture already controls butter plants producing 100000 pounds daily and may include Bordens and other large milk concerns.
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American Farm Products Company
New York
Chicago
Thomas P. Ryan
Levi P. Morton
Harry Payne Whitney
Kuhn, Loeb & Co
John A. Spoor
Chicago Stock Yards
James R. Morse
Bordens
Pearson Tuberculosis System Shown Effective at U Penn
University of Pennsylvania announces the Pearson vaccination system for tuberculosis as proven effective. Dr Lenard Pearson of the Phipps institute reports six years of monkey trials with strong results suggesting human immunity and disease arrest, with plans for statewide vaccination in Pennsylvania.
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University of Pennsylvania
Lenard Pearson
Phipps Tuberculosis Institute
Pennsylvania
Taft to speak in Ohio campaign venues alas arranged
Representative Sherman prompts Secretary Taft to deliver fall campaign speeches in Ohio but locations and dates remain to be set. A Marion man C G Johnston quarrels with his sweetheart Miss Cora White ending in her death by carbolic acid. Johnston then took carbolic acid and turned on gas to ensure death.
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Sherman
Republican Congressional Committee
Taft
Ohio
C. G. Johnston
Marion
Cora White
Johnston
West Virginia Official Praises Pe-ru-Na as Tonic
Hon W H Kelbaugh of West Virginia extols Pe-ru-Na claiming it strengthens the system during colds and heat. He presents it as an unequaled tonic for such conditions with reader testimonials supporting the claim.
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W. H. Kelbaugh
West Virginia
Peruna Endorsements From Public Figures
Hon W H Kelbaugh ex legislator of West Virginia praises Peruna as an unrivaled medicine and tonic after a stubborn cold and fatigue, claiming it saved money and cured him. Mrs Clara Litterst of Seafield Indiana reports severe cold last fall improved after taking Peruna and she was able to resume work.
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W. H. Kelbaugh
W. Va
204Th Street
Washington, D. C
Clara Litterst
Seafield, Ind
Old Sailor Rides Carousel Ten Times Then Buys Five More Tickets
An elderly man with a white beard visits a box office and buys ten tickets to ride. He moves between cars, taking ten rides, then purchases five additional tickets. An attendant notes the man grows pale, but he explains the ride stirs seasickness he once felt as a sailor and calls it great.
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Frank White
Elitel’s Gardens
Denver
Unkempt Applicant Seeks Work in Garden Tale
At a suburban Philadelphia residence a rough looking man applied for a job. He claims limited gardening experience and offers to sit in the greenhouse smoking out insects with a cigarette tucked by the husband’s cigars, leaving the plant tasks unsettled in this Humorous Weekly vignette.
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Philadelphia
Huarper
Conscientious Woman Refuses Summer Trip
Conscientious remark about Mrs. True surfaces in a Detroit Free Press clipping. The citizen is praised for prioritizing obligations, noting she won’t take a summer trip until her dressmaker’s bill is settled. The snippet captures a judgment of thrift and responsibility in a light social moment.
No Trouble From Coffee To Postum Change
An Illinois man credits Postum with curing lifelong indigestion from coffee. He quit coffee and switched to Postum, noting immediate improvement and no more hungry spells. He praises the beverage and mentions the Postum Co. of Battle Creek Michigan and the book The Road to Wellville.
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Illinois
Postum
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
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