President in Error and Family Tragedy in Omaha
News notes President Roosevelt challenged on the Panama Canal claim. In Wakefield Hiram Badger, a frenzied father, killed two daughters, injured others, and wounded a man before citizens overpowered him. Police found the two young girls dead with fatal head injuries at the Badger home.
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Wakefield
Hiram I. Badger
Main Street
Badger
Florence Badger
Catherine Badger
Charlotte Badger
Roosevelt urges federal action to curb railways and trusts
President Roosevelt in his annual message asks Congress to empower the federal government to regulate railways and trusts. He backs modifying the Sherman act to distinguish good and bad trusts and favors executive rather than judicial action to curb improper favoritism. The reading drew little attention in Congress amid a somber scene. In Kansas City a fierce street battle leaves Patrolman Dalbow and 13 year old Lola Pratt dead and several others wounded as police clash with followers of the preacher John Sharpe known as Adam God.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Congress
Senate
House
Kansas City
A. O. Dalbow
Lola Pratt
John Sharpe
Adam God
Patrick Clark
Mullane
Holt
Sharpe
Policeman Brown Sweeps Lowell-Big No License Races
Election returns list results across many cities including Lowell and Brockton with Brown winning in Lowell along with multiple mayoral races and party affiliations noted for several contenders. The compiled figures show varied tallies across cities such as Fall River Gloucester Haverhill Holyoke Lawrence Lynn Malden Medford Melrose Newton Salem Somerville Springfield Taunton Woburn Worcester.
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Beverly
Trent
Brockton
Kent
Chicopee
Fuller
Everett
Bruce
Fall River
Coughlin
Gloucester
Parsons
Haverhill
Moulton
Holyoke
Avery
Lawrence
White
Lowell, Brown
Lynn
Rich
Malden
Richards
Medford
Brewer
Melrose
Moore
Newton
Salem
Hurley
Somerville
Woods
Springfield
Sanderson
Taunton
Crosman
Woburn
Bond
Worcester
Logan
Financial inquiry questions canal land sale links to Cromwell
Millard asserts the French government played no role in selling canal property. He identifies William Nelson Cromwell as the key intermediary and says payments went to J P Morgan & Co rather than the French government, with unclear outcomes for the funds.
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Millard
William Nelson Cromwell
Cromwell
J. P. Morgan & Co
Roosevelt
France
Tragedy in Sullivan Square: Children Slain in Night
Mutilated bodies found at night show children slain as they slept. A hand axe in the cellar bloodied with hairs clings to the crime scene. Badger, bound to a stretcher, is held at Cambridge house of correction after a quarrel in Sullivan Square station. Mrs Badger and a male companion are linked to the incident and her absence is noted.
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Town Hall
Badger
Cambridge House of Correction
Important Recommendations in Roosevelt's Message
Roosevelt urges regulated business combinations under federal oversight and ICC control for railways and interstate communications. He calls for child labor bans, shorter hours, anti stock watering, inheritance tax on large fortunes, and tax relief for small earners. He supports labor injunction reforms, Filipino self-government steps, and a naval expansion including eight battleships and new destroyers.
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Interstate Commerce Commission
General Board
Roosevelt Calls for Broad Reforms and Stronger Federal Oversight
The President groups anarchists and wealth wrongdoers as equally undesirable and urges federal control ideas. He backs labor legislation, child labor prohibition, reduced women’s labor, shorter hours, anti stock watering, higher inheritance taxes, broader liability laws, and doubled salaries for judges. He cites court decisions against workers, urges injunction law reform, stresses court inefficiency with trusts, and calls for forest and soil conservation, an inland waterway commission, and merit promotion in the army with four more battleships and a navy general staff.
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Roosevelt
Congress
Navy
Bowerman New Manager for the Boston Doves
Frank Bowerman is officially announced as the new manager of the Boston Doves. The six day cycle racers remain ahead of the record. Five teams are tied for the lead. Jim Driscoll knocks out Charlie Griffin in the eleventh round at the Armory. Arthur Willis is set to race Hugh Mac Lean in Boston next Saturday. Maiden High drops its plan for a school basketball team. The Boston school league opens its basketball season today.
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Frank Bowerman
Boston Doves
Jim Driscoll
Charlie Griffin
Armory
A. A
Arthur Willis
Hugh MacLean
Boston
Maiden High
Boston School League
Dramatic Missouri River police shootout ends with surrender
A riot at a riverfront houseboat turns deadly as Sharpe and followers gun down officers including Patrolman Dalbow and Lieutenant Clark. Lola Pratt is wounded when a volley hits the rowboat during the woman's surrender, who claims to be Mrs. Pratt.
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Sharpe
Holt
Dalbow
Clark
Mullane
Missouri River
Cemen
Lola Pratt
Weather forecast for east New York and New England
Forecast shows increasing cloudiness in east New York with likely snow flurries in the north and central areas. Thursday should be fair with moderate variable winds. New England also expects rising clouds with probable snow flurries Wednesday, then fair Thursday with southwest moderate winds.
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Boston
Washington
New York
New England
Average temperatures report yesterday and prior year
The record shows yesterday's average temperature 35.17 units and the same day last year 389.20 units. Data appears from a meteorological table with numeric readings and units.
Subway Snap For Thieves
Harvard student Arthur Woods deputy police commissioner of New York said a recent arresting pickpocket named the Boston subway as the greatest snap he had ever struck.
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Harvard Union
Arthur Woods
Harvard
City of
New York
Boston
Arrest Warrant Issued for Patrick J. Kieran
New York dispatch reports an order from Pittsburg to police in multiple cities to arrest Patrick J. Kieran former president of Fidelity Funding Company. He is charged by affidavit with larceny and false pretences amid alleged heavy losses to Roman Catholic institutions tied to the firm.
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New York
Fidelity Funding Company
Pittsburg
Patrick J. Kieran
Subway pickpocket menace in Boston courts
The speaker described a clever light fingered man who targets diamonds watches and purses among subway crowds. Curley, Park Square station master, has seen many pickpocket cases and convictions. Inspector Knox recently arrested a suspect in the Washington Street tunnel. A diamond scarfpin worth 450 dollars disappeared on a Massachusetts Avenue car. Plain clothes officers will patrol subway stations in the coming weeks ahead of Christmas shoppers.
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Park Square
Curley
Knox
Washington Street
Back Bay
Massachusetts Avenue
Catholic Church Liabilities Threaten Institutions in Diocese
State Receiver T F Gilroy Jr puts liabilities near 4 .5 million dollars. St Marys Academy Nauvoo Ill and a Pittsburg charity face large losses from alleged peculations. Kieran noted as organizer of loans. police alerted for possible return from Washington.
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T. F. Gilroy, Jr
St. Mary’s Academy of
Kieran
Medicine ad claim for Fr. John's boosts health
Fragmentary ad copy notes that Fr. John's Medicine prevents colds and builds you up with a health-boosting claim. The snippet appears as a brief promotional line in column text.
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FR. John
Ade
No License Vote Dominates Worcester and Gloucester Election
The no license camp retained Worcester in a fierce fight and carried Gloucester for the first time since 18%. Fall River lost Haverhill and Salem, while multiple cities show gains for no-license advocates. Republican George W. Brown wins Lowell mayoralty. William P. White tops Lawrence’s Cronin in a landslide, amid campaign disputes over White’s eligibility and his self-published "The Truth" paper.
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Worcester
Gloucester
Fall River
Haverhill
Salem
George W. Brown
East
Lowell
James B. Casey
William P. White
Lawrence
Michael F. Cronin
White
Brown
Melrose Elects a Republican Mayor
Eugene H. Moore won the Melrose mayoralty with 1,830 votes in a no opposition race. Total ballots 2,270. Republicans also won alderman seats John Buffum Thomas FEF Gilmore and Woodbury I Keene. City approved no license and backed a $3,000 addition to the High School and a public playground.
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Melrose
Eugene H. Moore
John Buffum
Thomas Fef
Gilmore
Woodbury I. Keene
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ER. H. Moulton
Chickering
John T. Coughlin
Barry Studio
John F. Hurley
George H. Brown
Notman
Daniel W. Bond
Jordan
James E. Rich
Thomas F. Porter
Gace
Canal
Omaha, Neb
J. H. Millard
Nebraska
Rees
Sunday’s Post
Hovey's
Pip
Fidelity Funding Co
Pemberton Sales CO
Pemberton Square
Scollay Square
Mr. Kieran
Cense
Democrats
Wood Beaton
Salem Springfield
Roswell IL
Wood
Edwin H. Moulton
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