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Newspaper
Big Timber Pioneer
Location
Big Timber, Montana, United States of America
Date
Jul 15, 1909
Page
4
A Butte editorial urges Montana cities to end the floating system that shuffles vagrants among towns. It argues cooperation is needed to reduce crime and prevent cities from becoming repositories for criminals.
Judges Baker Grosscup and Seman in Chicago circuit court hear a rail rate dispute from eleven railroads challenging an Interstate Commerce Commission cut on through traffic. Chicago and Milwaukee Electric Railway investors face hefty losses with $10 million diverted from construction. Denvers National Woman’s Christian Temperance Union convention backs defeating Cannon’s re‑election. Saturday football scores include Navy Harvard Princeton Chicago and Michigan. Massachusetts courts permanently bar labor unions from fining members to force strikes. Three $100,000 suits filed in Chicago against William R. Wearst and associates.
A severe blaze in the Neave building in Cincinnati injures many and prompts a dramatic jump by a frightened woman from a tenth floor. In Pennsylvania a Delaware Lackawanna and Western train collision with a Wyoming Valley streetcar at Dorranceton leaves thirty injured. Salisbury Beach loses most of its summer colony to fire destroying over a hundred cottages. Shea's livery barn in St Paul also burned with one life likely lost and extensive property damage.
The shelter committee of the unemployed bureau proposes converting several recreation piers into shelters to address a humanitarian crisis with 0,000 unemployed and 10,000 homeless sleeping in city parks. Dock Commissioner Spooner requested permission from the corporation counsel to repurpose piers for housing. Dispatches note improving business sentiment and seasonable weather boosting activity. A new uniform bill of lading approved by the Interstate Commerce Commission has begun affecting 416 railroads in the official classification territory.
Oscar Straus then U S ambassador to Turkey intervened during Aguinaldo's rise in the Philippines. He appealed to Sultan Abdul Hamid II to enlist Muslim support in Mindanao and the Sulu archipelago for the U S side and to prevent their joining the insurgents.
Rear Admiral Robly D. Evans, in Los Angeles, reportedly regained movement in his left great toe after a one hour hands on healing with R. G. Doyle who chants words known to himself. He also moved his right thumb for the first time in years without crutches.
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