Farmer uncovers stone carved with 1408 date in Michigan field
Julian Duprront finds a skull shaped stone in a Provement field bearing a portrait, the date 1408 and the initials J. A. T. on one side a bird and swordlike implement on the other. He believes the artifact is aged and genuine and may prove Columbus’ expedition left remains in the area five centuries ago.
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Julian Duprront
Provement
Duprront
America
Lake Michigan
Duprient
Northwest Passage
Made Mad by Microbes Drives Woman to Insanity
Miss Grace H Parker of Montague township is alleged by sister Violithian A Parker to be driven to insanity by fear of deadly microbes. Violithian filed in Muarkegon probate court for admission to the northern Michigan asylum at Traverag City.
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Grace H. Parker
Montague Township
Violithian A. Parker
Muarkegon
Northern Michigan Asylum
Traverag City
Miss Jurker
State treasury cash balance amid bank deposits
At year end the state treasury shows a cash balance of about 1.1 million. Of this 685,000 is tied up in the Glagier bank at Chelsea and 35,000 more is deposited with the state by the receiver of the Chelsea bank. Another 340,000 belongs to Detroit City Savings depositors. About 400,000 remains available for state uses until December taxes arrive.
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Siantatios
Glagier Bank
Chelsea
Chelaea Bank
City Savings Bank of Detroit
Baby’s feet frozen as husband jailed for assault and neglect
Asa Wilson pleaded guilty to assault and battery in Adrian and received 10 days in the Detroit house of correction after officers found his wife and two children nearly destitute. The 5 month old baby’s feet were frozen and nearly starved. Wilson faced the nonsupport charge tied to shoving IL C. Au cust into a plate glass window.
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Asa Wilson
Adrian
Detroit
Judge rules cereal and water in sausage adulteration
Circuit Judge Wiest of Lansing held that using cereal and water in sausage violates the state pure food law. The decision arose in Armour & Co. seeking an injunction to stop state dairy and food department interference with sausage sales.
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Wiest
Lansing
Armour & Co
Shavy and Food Department
Local Option Vote On Saloon Question In St Joseph County
The St Joseph County board of supervisors voted 16 to approve submitting a local option measure to voters at the April election. Lawyers for saloonists spoke but made little impact. A petition with 2000 seven hundred signatures was filed in support of submission, 1000 over the legal requirement.
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St. Joseph County
Board of Supervisors
Spouse Uses His Revolver in Tragic Ludington Shooting
Leonard Brown of Grand Rapids shot and killed his wife at the Ludington home where she had been living, then tried to kill Robert Johnson and fatally injure himself by shooting three times. A letter in Brown's pocket accused his wife of misconduct with Johnson.
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Leonard Brown
Grand Rapids
Robert Johnson
Ludington
Brown
Wis
Johnson
Hunter Tracks Record Otters Near Grand Marais
George Butler, longtime hunter, trapped two giant otters near Grand Marais. The largest measured 5 feet 4 inches tip to tip, the other 4 feet 6 inches. Collectors value the pair at $60.
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George Butler
Grand Marais
Manominee brakeman killed by switch engine near docks
Roy Scott a brakeman for the Chicago and Northwestern Railway died after being run over by a switch engine while switching near the Ann Arbor docks in Menominee.
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Roy Scott
Chicago & Northwestern Railway Company
Ann Arbor
Menominee
Richard Crawford Serves as Santa for St Joseph Poor
Richard Crawford, wealthy Chicago bound grocer and son of the late Andrew Crawford, appeared as Santa Claus in St Joseph and distributed several hundred dollars worth of Christmas gifts to the town’s poor children.
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Richard Crawford
St. Joseph
Andrew Crawford
Chicago
Santa Claus
Big Chimney Completed in Battle Creek
The tallest cement chimney in Battle Creek at the Grand Trunk locomotive shops rises to 175 feet. It sits on a 28 by 28 foot base and weighs 280 tons. The two-wall construction with a four inch air gap extends to 60 feet, then thickens to six inches.
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Battle Creek
Grand Trunk Locomotive Shops
Muskegon Boy Adams Burrows Case On Wages Suit
Adams Burrows, a fourteen year old from Muskegon County with no knowledge of God or dates, was examined in justice court for a wage lawsuit against an employer. The report notes his odd background and lack of birthday or religious awareness.
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Adams Burrows
Michigan
Muskegon County
Justice Court
Menominee Justice Ties 198 Marriages in 1907
Justice Van Den Berg, Menominee's marrying justice, breaks all records by uniting nearly 200 couples in 1907. Many couples traveled from Wisconsin to avoid the state's five day notice, marking a notable regional trend.
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Justice van den Berg
Menominee
Upper Peninsula
Wisconsin
Family Behind Bars Sees Lamphere Family In Jail
The arrest in Grand Rapids of Starry Lamphere aged 21 and his highway robbery conviction led to the imprisonment of the last member of his immediate family. Grace Lamphere his sister in law received sixty days for shoplifting. Garfield Lamphere another brother was convicted and sentenced for stealing a chicken and meat. Florence Llall a sister is serving a shoplifting sentence.
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Grand Rapids
Starry Lamphere
Grace Lamphere
Garfield Lamphere
Florence Llall
Ann Arbor Thief Guilty Plea in Circuit Court
In Ann Arbor Scott Webb pleaded guilty to complicity in a theft from Mrs. M Bush at her home, involving 81 000 in diamonds and money. Judge Kinne sentenced him to 18 months to 2 years in Jackson prison.
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Ann Arbor
Scott Webb
M. Bush
Kinne
Jackson Prison
Never Saw His Children William Mengennett Pioneer Dies
William Mengennett a Ne aames pioneer aged 98 has died. He was blind when married and never saw his 28 children. He lost his sight in a mine explosion but married despite his condition. The widow survives.
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William Mengennett
Neaames
Ile
Mengennett
Minor State Items From Michigan News Briefs
In November the State oil inspector passed 3,500,000 gallons. The Bliss coal mine at Swan Creek is three to four feet thick and will triple its force. Bay City reports a 300 ton sugar beet pile worth 47,600, 700 feet long and 17 feet high. Richard's Landing on St. Joseph's Island was nearly destroyed by fire causing about 200,000 in losses. The Rev James Osborne of Albion extols perfume as a germ killer. Isaac Slaring, Civil War veteran famed for height, died in Gladstone at 8 feet tall. Lt. C Crawford, Chicago-born St Joseph grocery man, advocates local option in Berrien county. J W Belknap, rich lumberman, injured in Greenville fire. M A Kemp hurt. Tidy home destroyed, maid and husband escape. Leo Berman of Chassell, 65, burned dead in Marinette hotel room. I W Remensnider gave sons axes, they battled a bear. elder boy killed the bear with an ax.
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Bay City
Richard's Landing
St. Joseph's Island
Sault Ste. Marie
James Osborne
Albion
Jesus
Isaac Slaring
Gladstone
Upper Peninsula
Michigan
Lt. C. Crawford
St. Joseph
Chicago
Andrew Crawford
Berrien County
J. W. Belknap
M. A. Kemp
Charles HH. ‘Ridy
Mr. Tidy
Greenville
Belknap
Kemp
Leo Berman
Chassell
Marinette
Wis
IF. W. Remensnider
Lee Township
William J Bryan Defines His Issues in Chicago Speech
William J Bryan defended the 1896 Democratic platform at the Jackson Day banquet in Chicago praising Roosevelt for endorsing many Bryanian principles. He affirmed allegiance to the 1896 platform, argued all Democratic and Republican doctrines are stronger now, and pledged to seek the voters’ will rather than editors or magnates. He praised trust regulation, arbitration, tariff reform, and opposition to government by injunction. He noted a Republican president endorsing several Democratic positions and asserted continued strength of Democratic tenets.
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William J. Bryan
Chicago
Roosevelt
Bryan
Democratic Party
Cost of Panama Canal Expenditures and Labor Totals
A Isthmian Canal Commission report up to July 1 shows canal construction appropriations of 7,008,568 with expended 8 42385110. Excludes 40,000,000 paid to the French Canal Company and 10,000,000 paid to Panama for the right of way. Construction and engineering 30452,490. civil government 23135,277. sanitation 5,550,208. miscellaneous 555,126. Balance July 1 was 31,228,458. In fiscal year 1907 about 20,884 workers were brought to the Isthmus for construction. Skilled workers rose from 2,500 to 4,404 by year end. Total Isthmian Canal Commission and Panama railroad labor, 20,446 as of June 30.
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Panama Canal
Isthmian Canal Commission
French Canal Company
Panama
Cleveland's Big Hippodrome Opens as Largest Playhouse
The new Hippodrome in Cleveland claims the nation’s largest non New York playhouse status with 4 500 seats and a 2 000 000 cost. Hydraulic lift stage sections reveal a 455? gallon aquatic tank beneath. A 44 foot megaphone proscenium arch and a stage 100 by 104 feet set the renderings. Built by local capitalists, it will operate as an independent venue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
New York
New Hippodrome
Cleveland
Taxation plan for corporations debated at constitutional convention
After sessions on tax dodgers and conferences, the taxation committee backs a Bird draft to tax corporate property at true cash value by a State board of assessors. Public service corporations may be taxed, sparking city and utility concerns over potential removal of property from municipalities. Debates ease into measures to curb judges, bar associations, and local act prohibitions, with reform proposals tabled.
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Taxation Committee
Constitutional Convention
Bird
Tax Commission
Board of Assessors
Public Utility Commission
Judges Burdened If Supreme Court Written Opinions Required
The constitutional convention debated a plan requiring written opinions in all Supreme Court proceedings including mandamus and certiorari. Supporters urge public reasons. opponents say it overstates necessity in decided cases. The body also voted to fix legislative salaries at 600 dollars a year, and discussed probate judges terms and juvenile court supervision, with other fiscal and structural changes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Supreme Court
Fyfe
Judiciary Committee
Moore
Committee of the Whole
PAY ARMY MORE SAYS TAFT AND COAST DEFENSE
Secretary Taft urges higher army pay to curb enlistment losses and favors a naval pay system. He recommends a general service corps, new regimental posts in the Philippines, larger Fort McKinley lands, an electric Mindanao railroad, and a statue for Edwin M. Stanton in Washington as part of a broad coast defense and military buildup plan.
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Taft
Congress
Regular Army
Baguio
Philippines
Fort McKinley Reservation
Manila
Camp Overton
Mindanao
Camp Keithley
Lake Lanao
National Coast Defense Board
United States
Edwin M. Stanton
Washington
Pettibone Declared Not Guilty In Idaho Murder Trial
George A. Pettibone, an official of the Western Federation of Miners, was acquitted at Boise of the murder of Governor Steunenberg. The acquittal follows the earlier acquittal of Haywood on the same charge. Pettibone, like Haywood, had been tried on confessions implicating Orchard and Adams in bloody plots. Western Federation members nationwide welcomed the verdict and John Mitchell of the United Mine Workers praised it as satisfactory.
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George A. Pettibone
Western Federation of Miners
Boise
Idaho
Steunenberg
Pettibone
Haywood
Tettibone
Marty Orchard
Steve Adams
Western Federation
John Mitchell
The
United Mine Workers of America
Power Lifeboats Prove Effective in Rescue Test
The United States lifesaving service conducted a careful test of the power lifeboat and found it efficient for rescuing persons from wrecked vessels. Plans are made to add several of these boats to the life saving equipment along the New England coast.
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United States Lifesaving Service
New England
Cotton Mills Pay Dividends in New Bedford History
The cotton mills of New Bedford Massachusetts have paid dividends totaling 13 percent, the largest in the city’s history, reflecting strong industry performance this period.
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New Bedford
Mass
Chicago business tone shifts as new year brightens outlook
In Chicago the holiday lull eased into a more encouraging start to the year with clearer signs of activity. Retail clearance sales show no pressure in heavyweight apparel while wholesale inventories rise and road salesmen prepare to depart. Iron and steel anticipate relief next week as repairs continue and idle hands grow. Stocktaking indicates snug conditions with fair profits and no overaccumulation. January disbursements crown large dividends and interest as currency circulation improves and credit loosens. Mercantile collections remain slow in the West with occasional help needed, but district defaults do not rise. Chicago district failures reach 28, up from 22 last week and 29 a year ago.
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Chicago
Dun
Trade conditions and pattern in early January 1908
New York reports quieter post holiday trade with overall improvement in finances. Retail activity varies by region as mild Northwest weather curtails distribution, cotton stockholding weighs on the South, and money remains accessible for business. Dry goods and clothing are sluggish though sentiment improves. leather trade quiet with low sole stocks and ample hides. wholesalers cautious despite a 7 percent cut in 1907 shipments. Weekly business failures total 845 in the U S and 27 in Canada, with year-over-year comparisons noted.
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Canada
Bradstreet
Historic Chicago and regional grain and livestock price listings
Pricing table spans multiple markets including Chicago, Indianapolis, St. Louis, Cincinnati, Detroit, Milwaukee, Buffalo, New York, and Toledo. Items cover cattle hogs sheep wheat corn oats rye hay butter eggs potatoes and clover seed with range values, quality descriptors, and unit notes. Key markets show varied price bands and commodity grades across dates and regions.
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Chicago
Timothy
Indianapolis
Ste
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Detroit
Milwaukee
Scharley
New York
Toledo
Twelve men arrested over two story house theft in Camden
Short notes report twelve men in Camden New Jersey charged with stealing and carrying off a two story house. Reading Railroad will cash pay shop bonds while other employees receive checks. The Bishop of London plans a Russia tour and chaplaincy visits. Insane asylum officers take milder insanity patients on a shopping tour with beneficial results. Prof Oscar Lassar a dermatologist and Berlin faculty member dies in Berlin after car accident.
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Camden
N. J
Reading Railroad Company
Reading
Ondon
Russia
St. Louis
Oscar Lassar
Berlin
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Syival
the Limit
Monroe
Marshall
Nora McConnell
Bliss
Swan Creek
Seth E. Engel
Burton
Engle
State Constitutional Convention
City of Washington
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