Week's News Record Mixes Industrial Plans and Disasters
A scattered week’s record notes three coke plant projects planned by the H. C. Frick Company in Pennsylvania, with costs around four million. Other items recount a poisoning suicide in Kansas City, the death of Sir Henry Campbell-Bannerman in London, a fatal train wreck in West Virginia, and various criminal cases including parole, embezzlement, and murder. International and immigration notes mention fluctuating arrivals and treaty impacts, while miscellaneous incidents cover fires, thefts, and personal dramas.
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H.C. Frick Company
Comwelsville
Pennsylvania
Tien
Melbourne
Australis
Rey Warwick
Lewis Leather Company
Kansas City
Henry Campbell-Rancerman
Great Britain
Belgrave Square
Lendon
England
Ramses City
Arevstiza
Taxation of Timber Problem of States
New Hampshire forestry commission and the U S Forest Service launch an exhaustive study of forest land taxation and fire protection. J H Foster surveys how laws are applied, aiming to craft a wiser, practical tax system to promote forestry and preserve forests statewide. States like Maine and New York consider contrasting tax reforms, with debates over taxing wild lands versus exempting reforestation.
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Washington
New Hampshire Forestry Commission
United States Forest Service
New Hampshire
J. H. Foster
Forest Service
New York
Maine
Michigan
Pennsylvania
Foster
Forest, Fish and Game Commission
H Thoopshire
Louis Sherry Sued for Separation by Wife
All around the globe reports Louis Sherry the New York restaurateur is facing a separation suit filed by his wife. The item notes other world news including a large fire in Lynchburg Virginia destroying three Panzington tobacco factories with estimated losses of two hundred thousand dollars. It also mentions Roosevelt's potential Brazil visit and charity closures by Miss Helen Gould.
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Louis Sherry
New York
Lynchburg
T. P. Panzington
Helen Gould
Woody Crest
Lyndhurst Club
Paul Morton
Equitable Life Assurance Society
Seatle
Edna Goodrich
N. C. Goodwin
James H. McMillan
Nevada
Charles Dalmores
Manhattan Opera House
Gavel for Democratic National Convention in Denver July 7
A gavel and sounding board, linked to the Denver convention, are shown as Chief figures in Democratic circles. Chairman Tom Taggart will call the convention to order on July 7, with Nebraskan and Omahan figures expected to play key roles. The items were sent to Mayor Dahlmann of Omaha by T. G. Harris of Fort Robinson, a Bryan supporter.
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Union Station
Denver
Tom Taggart
Democratic National Committee
Dahlmann
Omaha
T. G. Harris
Fort Robinson
Neb
Harris
Bryan
Dahlman
Black Hills
Big Algerian Battle Near Tamlet Hill
Advices from Colomb Bechar say a French column on Talzaza Hill guarding the Tamlet plain engaged at daylight Thursday with Berbers and nomad Arabs. The French, though surprised, rallied and drove their enemies six miles, recovering dead and wounded. French losses were 28 killed and 100 wounded, including 10 officers. Berber losses were 125 bodies found. pursuit halted at night.
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Colomb Bechar
Algeria
Talzaza
Tamlet
Density of congestion in New York blocks study
Harold M Finley reports for the Federation of Churches on crowded New York areas. He notes over seventy five blocks exceed 1000 people per acre with 122 blocks highly congested and aliens at 53 percent. The upper West Side block at Amsterdam West End and Sixty first Sixty second streets held 6173 people.
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Harold M. Finley
Federation
Federation of Churches
New York
Upper West Side
Amsterdam and
West End Avenues
Two In An Aeroplane In Europe First Time
Henry Farman and Leon Delagrange achieved a joint flight in the same aeroplane at Issy France with Farman controlling the craft. Farman earlier set a record route of two and a half kilometers in three minutes and twenty one seconds.
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Europe
Issy
France
Henry Farman
Leon Delagrange
Farman
Northern Minnesota saw mills resume day shift operations
Many northern Minnesota saw mills have resumed operations and, as a rule, will operate only day forces.
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Minnesota
History of State Prohibition Across Several States
A survey of states showing adoption and repeal of Prohibition era laws. Maine 1846 to 1858, New Hampshire 1855 to 1903, Vermont 1850 to 1903, Massachusetts multiple acts 1852 to 1875, Rhode Island 1852 to 1889, Connecticut 1854 to 1872, New York 1855 legal issues, Ohio 1851 license tax, Indiana 1855, Michigan 1855 to 1875, Illinois 1851 to 1853, Wisconsin 1855, Iowa 1855 partial then full 1884, Nebraska 1855 to 1858, Kansas 1880, North Dakota 1890 to 1896, South Dakota 1890, Georgia 1907, Oklahoma 1907, Alabama 1908.
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Maine
New Hampshire
Vermont
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Connecticut
New York
Ohio
Indiana
Michigan
Illinois
Wisconsin
Iowa
Nebraska
Kansas
North Dakota
South Dakota
Georgia
Oklahoma
Alabama
Catholic leadership tops religious denomination totals in America
A New York Christian Advocate compilation by Dr H K Carroll lists last year’s gains across denominations: 2 401 ministers 4 214 churches and 627 546 communicants. Catholic membership estimated at 11 000 000 though Sadliers Directory cites 13 500 853 led by 15 093 priests. Methodist 6 660 784 communicants with a 101 606 rise. Baptists 5 224 305 up 103 000. Presbyterians 1 821 504 up 50 000. Lutherans 2 022 005 up 65 172. Disciples 1 285 125. American Jewish Year Book 1 777 185 Jews. Episcopalians 830 059. Christian Scientists 85 006. Unitarians 71 200. Congregationalists 699 327. Bishop Fallows prescribes a 120 year life plan via early to bed and rise, hygiene, honesty, and buttermilk, citing Bible and Metchnikoff. In Oakland the Rev Walter Tanner’s wife preached after his auto crash. sermon titled Daniel in San Francisco and Oakland. Bishop Jaggar named head of American Episcopal church in Europe may decline due to age and residence in Paris.
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H. K. Carroll
New York Christian Advocate
Sadlier
Methodist Church
Disciples of Christ
Samuel Fallows
Reformed Episcopal Church of Chicago
Metchnikoff
Pasteur Institute
Oakland
Cal
Walter E. Tanner
Melrose Baptist Church
Daniel
San Francisco
Thomas Augustus Jaggar
Europe
Worthington
Paris
Congress Debates Brownsville Texas Race Riots and Naval Bill
Senate and House tumult over Brownsville affair and naval and Indian appropriation bills. Debates on discipline and pay, with Republicans pushing rules changes and a large defence and land program shaping the week.
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Brownsville
Senate
Hale
Senator Warren
Secretary of War
Oregon and California Railroad Company
Oregon
Five Civilized Tribes
United States
Philippine Islands
Hawaii
Postal savings banks bill proposed by Senator Carter
National Capital Notes report several congressional actions. Senator Carter introduced a bill to establish postal savings banks. The House judiciary committee voted to table the sub committee report on Judge Wilfley until further investigation. The mines and mining committee recommended creating a bureau of mines within the Interior Department. The Pan American Congress organizers announced the first congress date moved to December 25, 1908 in Santiago Chile.
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Warner
Missouri
Senate
Brownsville
Texas
Twenty-fifth Infantry
Cannon
Mann
Illinois
Miller
Kansas
Stafford
Wisconsin
Bannon
Ohio
Sims
Tennessee
Ryan
New York
Board of General Appraisers
Circuit Court of Appeals
Circuit Court
Carter
Committee On Post Office and Post Roads
House Committee On Judiciary
Wilfley
Shanghai
House Committee On Mines and Mining
Bureau of Mines
Department of the Interior
Commission of Education
Santiago
Chile
Lydia Pinkham's Vegetable Compound Praised by Leesburg Woman
Maude E. Forgie of Leesburg Virginia writes Mrs Pinkham praising Lydia E Pinkham's Vegetable Compound for curing months of feminine ailments. The letter touts the remedy as helping thousands of women with inflammation ulceration fibroid tumors irregularities backache and nervous prostration and invites other sick women to write for advice from Lynn Mass.
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Maude E. Forgie
Leesburg, Va
Mrs. Pinkham
Lydia E. Pinkham
E Pinkham
Hall's Catarrh Cure advertised as cure all stages
An old advertisement claims Hall's Catarrh Cure can cure catarrh in all stages, describing internal action on mucous surfaces and offering a $100 reward for any failure. It urges readers to send for testimonials and lists F. J. Cheney & Co. Toledo as the makers, with sale through druggists and a note to take Hall's Family Pills for constipation.
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Hal
F. J. Cheney & CO
Toledo
Hall
Survival of the Unfittest in the Bone Shad Tale
A science tale chronicles the boneless shad as a tested advance that sparks German corporate interest. Yet subsequent events reveal crowding, and the boneless shad fades from history as progress is reassessed.
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German Corp
Everything Was Work at Polly of the Circus Rehearsal
In February at the Liberty Theater in New York Frederick Thompson called a rehearsal after two months. Star Mabel Taliaferro protested fatigue claiming everything is work. Mrs Thompson urged focus while the manager reminded her she is Miss Taliaferro in the theater.
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New York
Polly
Liberty Theater
Frederick Thompson
Mabel Taliaferro
Baml
Gianater
Sid
Sherester
Suvers Magazine
Built Right Brain and Nerves Restored by Grape-Nuts
A Wisconsin woman recounts long dyspepsia and severe weakness. After starting Grape-Nuts with milk and lime water she regained strength, can eat varied foods, and her speech improved. She continues Grape-Nuts for breakfast and supper, noting brain and nerve improvement. There's a Reason, Postum Co. Battle Creek, read The Road to Wellville in packages.
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Iibe
Postum Co
Battle Creek
Mich
Wellville
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