Runaway student cites craving for simple life in disappearance
Kalamazoo college student Lee A. Wolford vanished from his room last September after writing friends from Encampment Wyoming and Curtis family. In letters he explains overtaxed strength and ambition for education plus a longing for rural life led him to rise at midnight and walk eighteen miles to Decatur then board a train to Chicago. Police in over a hundred cities pursued clues while the town and families awaited news.
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Lee A. Wolford
Kalamazoo College
Kalamazoo
Wolford
A. J. Curtis
Manitoba
Walford
Decatur
Chicago
Encampment
Wyo
Detroit
Negro Students Strike Over Admission Dispute
Thirty four junior class members at Grand Rapids Veterinary College walked out when two colored students tried to resume studies. The court ordered admission, ruling the quasi public college could not discriminate by color, leading to suspension of the entire junior class.
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Grand Rapids
Kisses Nurse Leads to Expulsion of Student Medic
Clar ence Pennman a Beaumont Texas senior and Phi Beta Pi member in Ann Arbor was expelled from the university hospital corps after kissing a nurse on duty late at night. The head nurse witnessed the act and Pennman was removed from duty and expelled.
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Ann Arbor
Clarence Pennman
Beaumont
Texas
University Hospital
Pennman
Leo
Fugitive Found in Hay Hidden Jail Escape Story
Jesse Sturgis, 17, of St Johns, hidden in a haystack after fleeing Kingsley jail. Alva Seymour, 35, who allegedly aided the escape, denies knowledge and is held only as a witness. Sturgis returned to St Johns to face charges of jumping a board bill and stealing a watch.
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Lad
Jalil
St. Johns
Jesse Sturgis
Kingsley
Alva Seymour
Seymour
Sturgis
Salt Company Loses Decision Plea May Free Stearns
Judge Knappen in Grand Rapids denied Stearns Salt and Lumber Company of Ludington’s motion to open the interstate commerce case and set a $20,000 fine on twenty counts for rebates from Pere Marquette railway. The court offered suspension of judgment if the firm pleads guilty to six counts. President Justus S. Stearns argued the prior plea of guilty last May stemmed from a misapprehension.
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Stearns Concern
Knappen
United States District Court
Grand Rapids
Stearns Salt and Lumber Company
Ludington
Interstate Commerce
Pere Marquette Railroad
Stearns Company
Justus 8S. Stearns
Man Struck and Killed by Train in Flint Yard
W P Carr died instantly after stepping in front of a passenger train at the Pere Marquette yards in Flint. A train crew says Carr moved from the side of the track directly into the locomotive’s path. motive remains unknown.
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Pere Marquette
Flint
W. P. Carr
Carr
Kalamazoo Abandons Mail Notices For Water Taxes
The Kalamasoo postal service bans sending water tax notices by mail due to 20 percent penalty wording. The city will stop mail notices and instead deliver them by messenger.
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Kalamaszoo
Sawyer Store Riddled In Feud Related Shooting
An early morning attack on David Knight, who runs a store in Sawyer, left the shop riddled with buckshot. Police say the shooting stems from a long standing feud between rival factions, with Sheriff Tennant leading the investigation.
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David Knight
Sawyer
Knight
Sheriff Tennant
Yale Schoolteacher Ethel Spitzer’s Cyanide Suicide
After tearing up a letter from Cleveland parents, Miss Ethel Spitzer a Yale school teacher left her boarding house, bought cyanide of potassium, and drank the poison in a flax field. Death was swift, and a village-wide search recovered her body after she removed valuables from the room. She did not reveal the letter’s contents.
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Cleveland
Ohio
Ethel Spitzer
Yale
Miss Spitzer
Death in a Battle Creek construction accident
William Moore a 35 year old unmarried builder's assistant was killed when a three foot joist collapsed on his skull while he and Henry Derby worked under Macomber Johnston's drug store on Marshall Street Battle Creek. Derby survived the incident.
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William Moore
Battle Creek
Henry Derby
Moore
Hank
Derby
Macomber & Johnston
Marshall Street
Robbery Arrests Farmer Near Escanaba
William Mason, a farmer living near Escanaba, was held up by two masked men on the Ford river road. They took his money, gagged him, and tied him to a tree. He freed himself and reached Escanaba to report the crime. police have no clue yet.
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William Mason
Escanaba
Ford River
Mason
Thirteenth Child Dies on Thirteenth Night
Laurene Funke, the thirteenth child of Brewmaster Funke of the Furniture City Brewing Company, died in Grand Rapids Friday the 13th after only one day of illness. All of Funke's other children are dead.
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T Laurene Funke
Funke
Furniture City Brewing Company
Grand Rapids
Gold Found Along Grand River Near Grand Haven
A late 19th or early 20th century style notice reports gold discovered along the Grand river near Grand Haven. Additional items note E G Johnson elected school commissioner by Baldwin township board chairs, and multiple hunting incidents in Chippewa and Iosco counties with injuries and fatalities.
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Grand River
Grand Haven
Steamer Sar dina Burn En Route to Alexandria Disaster Claims Nearly 200
Fire aboard the Ellerman line steamer Sar dina near Grand Harbour Malta caused rapid blaze and panic as passengers and crew leaped into the sea. With a furious gale impeding lifeboat deployment, roughly 200 people are believed drowned or roasted as ships and tugs nearby could not render aid. The vessel had departed Valetta for Alexandria when the disaster struck.
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Ellerman Line
Sardinia
Alexandria
Egypt
Valetta
Malta
Grand Harbor
Burley Tobacco Society Reaches Five Year Pay Deal With Trust
After years of conflict with the American Tobacco Trust, the Burley Tobacco Society closes a five year agreement worth 14 000 080 dollars and 80 000 000 pounds of barley tobacco. The deal sets an average price of 24 cents for 1906 and 17 cents for 1907, returning prosperity to northern and central Kentucky growers who organized into a cooperative. The settlement marks a rare instance of farmers overcoming a major corporation through collective action.
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American Tobacco Trust
Burley Tobacco Society
Kentucky
United States
Burley Tobacco Growers
Trust
American Tobacco Company
New York
Lanner
Sardinia Sails From Liverpool Amid Bitter Gale
The Sardinia left Liverpool Nov H with a cargo of general merchandise for Mediterranean ports. Its forty four crew and about twenty first class and six second class passengers embarked there. Most passengers were Levantines Maltese or Egyptians. Many cross from Malta to Alexandria aboard this line. They camp on deck to shelter during the four day voyage, cluttering the decks and hampering orderly clearance as a gale rages and tug boats fail to reach the liner.
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Sardinia
Liverpool
Mediterranean
Malta
Alexandria
Elks Fight Ends in Death in San Francisco Garden
A clash between two elks in a San Francisco botanical garden left one dead. Across the Atlantic, Guglielmo Ferrero of Rome plans a visit to the U.S. for lectures. Oklahoma’s official count shows Bryan ahead of Taft by 13.57 points. Newport canal conference confirms battleship defects noted by Commander Keres. Mrs. Matthew Birchard, mother of the American consul’s wife in Paris, dies at 81. Camphor tree cultivation discussed as a substitute for orange crops in Florida. Fire at 221 Sidney Street in St Louis injures two children and leaves a man missing. William A. Biggs found dead in a Greenville, Mississippi, deserted house. a woman’s body found with him. Wells Brothers’ store in Litchfield, Minnesota, burned. losses total $60,000 with $5,000 insurance.
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San Franciso
Cal
Leombroso
Guglielmo Ferrero
Rome
Oklahoma
Bryan
Taft
Keres
Newport Canal
Matthew Birchard
Frank H. Mason
Paris
France
Florida
Sidney Street
St. Louis
William A. Biggs
Greenville
Miss
Burley tobacco farmers curb trust prices with pool deal
Farmers in the Burley district organized against trust prices and by a recent deal averaged nearly 19 cents a pound for their tobacco. They curtailed production this year, causing lawless acts as some farmers resisted pooling. Officers opposed the violence but some depredations occurred before the pool's impact was felt. The pooled crop is seen as ending night riding in central and eastern Kentucky, signaling a shift to next year’s crop.
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Burley
Burley Society
Kentucky
Swiss Balloon Wins Long Distance Race Prize
The official awards for the long distance balloon race name the Swiss balloon Helvetia as first prize winner and the English balloon Banshee as runner up.
New Would License Food Sellers. Philadelphia meeting on food handling licenses
Dr. Joseph F. Nef of the Health Department urged licensing for all who prepare or handle food and for garbag e collectors tenement house conductors factory workers and ice dealers. Licenses to be issued by the Health Department with power to revoke for sanitary violations.
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Philadelphia
Joseph F. Nef
Health Department
Navy debate over North Dakota design and open country reform
The Newport conference reveals 90 percent of officers backed Commander Key against the North Dakota design amid minor magazine placement defects. Roosevelt urges Country Life Commission to study rural conditions and local school use. two extra members added. Forest fire losses estimated at 1 million dollars per day, with calls for better patrols and brush disposal. Navy bids for eight submarine torpedo boats show prices from 360,000 to 460,000 per boat. The Country Life Commission plans a 300,000-person inquiry on farm life, roads, schools, and postal service. George Otis Smith bans survey members from owning mining stock. Corporal Cox recommended for heroism in Alaska blaze rescue.
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Metcalf
Admiral Sperry
Key
North Dakota
Sperry
Reuterdahl
L. H. Bailey
Ithaca
Country Life Commission
Roosevelt
Navy Department
Congress
Electric Boat Company
Quincy
Mass
Atlantic
Lake Torpedo Boat Company
Bath
Pacific Coast
I. H. Bailey
Census Bureau
Trade recovery shown in Bradstreet report for week
CHICAGO The Weekly Review notes a clear uptick in commerce with higher bank payments and a large aggregate surpassing last year. It highlights reduced defaults, fewer idle workers and freight cars, ample money, rising manufacturing orders, and improving railroad earnings, with bank clearings up 35.4 percent from 1907 and 1906 figures.
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Weekly Review of
Chicago
R. G. Dun & Co
Wall Street
Gary
Pullman
Pittsburg
United States
Canada
Bradstreet
Chicago market prices for cattle hogs and grains
Market listing shows regional price ranges for cattle hogs and sheep across major cities including Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Detroit Milwaukee Buffalo New York and Toledo. It includes wheat corn oats rye and other feed and farm commodities with varying grades and sources. Prices are given per unit and reflect regional trading conditions of the period.
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Chicago
Indianapolis
St. Louis
Detroit
Milwaukee
New York
Toledo
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Mirror OF Michigan
Nurse
Michigan
Salt Company
Train
Flint Shopman
Girl
E. G. Johnson
Baldwin
Silas Hare
Chippewa County
Hare
A. Deacon
Cross Village
Pierce
G. K. Hoyt
Muskegon
White Lake
Tende
Michigan Union
University of Michigan
Clarence W. Barbour
University Senate
Iosco County
Norman Emmons
Ellington
Tuscola County
Elvin Balthh
Emmons
Hale
George Bartley
David Friedland
Otto Davigowski
Mathews
Monroe
Irene
R. Baumgarth
Cincinnati Post
W. J. McGee
Department of Agriculture
Forest Service
Sydney Buxton
British Post Office Department
J. Henneiker Heath
Meyer
Great Britain
George Otis Smith
The
Geological Survey
Survey
Alaska
James Allen
United States Army
Wright
Roy F. Cox
Cox
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