Naval Scouts Head South for Wireless Test Cruise
The scout cruisers Birmingham and Salem, now at Norfolk, depart for South American waters to test wireless telegraphy. The first Atlantic test near the Virginia Capes was only partly successful, prompting contractor modifications to reach Brant Rock Mass. at 3000 miles. If distance proves workable they may proceed to the African coast.
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Washington
Birmingham
Salem
Norfolk
South American
Atlantic
Virginia Capes
Brant Rock
Mass
Appartus
Yale Alumni Fund Receives 652000 For Permanent Funds
Yale Alumni Fund reports 652072.95 received by July 1 1909. Of this 359653.89 is given to the university as an unrestricted permanent fund.
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New Haven
Yale Alumni Fund
Yale appoints George Day as new university treasurer
In New Haven on January 13 the Yale corporation named George Parmly Day of New York as treasurer to succeed Lee McClung who resigned. Day, a Yale 1897 alumnus and senior partner at Day Adams & Co., will take office May 1.
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New Haven
Yale Corporation
George Parmly Day
New York
University
Lee McClung
United States
Day
Day, Adams & Co
Bankers and Brokers
Wall Street
Benjamin H. Day
New York Sun
Yale
Morgan Gives Yale Laffan Professorship
A $100000 gift from J Pierpont Morgan established the William M Laffan professorship of Assyriology and Babylonian literature at Yale University. Accepted by the Yale corporation, the fund in 7 percent securities honors Mr Laffan editor of the New York Sun who recently died.
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New Haven, Donn
J. Pierpont Morgan
William M. Laffan
Yale University
Yale Corporation
Laffan
New York Sun
Campaign managers sought Chanler defeat for cash
In New York on January 13 a civil suit over Chanler’s Democratic nomination bid revealed that campaign managers tired of Bryan would pay large sums to secure Chanler’s defeat. Testimony named W. T. Manning as authorizing bills, though Manning claimed he had no authority to run up charges for Chanler. Robert Chanler testified Manning sought 10000 to start the effort, promising support from state managers tired of Bryan.
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New York
Bryan
Lewis Stuyvesant Chanler
William F. Clarke
Chanler
W. T. Manning
Manning
Mr. Chanler
Robert Chanler
Mayor Gaynor Holds Hearing Over Beating by Police
In New York on January 18 Mayor Gaynor conducted a hearing into Oscar Gregory’s charge that Policeman James Deven brutally beat him on a Tuesday night. Gregory and witnesses testified, his injuries visible, as a photographer was summoned to document the disfigurement for trial preparation.
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New York
Gaynor
Oscar Gregory
Brooklyn
James Deven
Gregory
Indian man abducts 13 year old girl in Carleton county
Paul Newell, 28, an Indian, abducted Kola Milton, 13, near Cloverdale while her father was away. They stayed in his camp through Sunday and started for Woodstock an Indian reservation. Newell jailed awaiting preliminary examination. The girl remains a witness.
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Woodstock
N. B
Cloverdale
Carleton County
Paul Newell
Kola Milton
Thomas Milton
Newell
Milton
Miltons
Kola
Dibble
Girl Finds 30000 Dollar Gem Necklace in New York
Mrs Irene Isman, ex-wife of Felix Isman, regains a lost pearl necklace worth 30000. A teenage working girl who found the gems received a 2000 reward from Tiffanys and remains anonymous to protect her mother. Both women share in the luck of the recovery.
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New York
Irene Isman
Felix Isman
Road Refuses Wire Men's Wage Demands
A committee of telegraphers from the Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern railroad and General Superintendent Brimson failed to reach an agreement on a new wage schedule after a morning conference. Negotiations are severed.
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Cincinnati
Baltimore & Ohio Southwestern Railroad
Brimson
Road
Express Firms Challenge Use of Four Pound Parcels
Nathan B. Williams of Fayetteville Arkansas files a complaint with the Interstate Commerce Commission alleging private express companies Wells Fargo and others cannot carry parcels four pounds or less across state lines. He argues Congress reserved such transit to the mails and denies the commission authority to set rates or enforce tariffs on express transport.
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Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Nathan B. Williams
Fayetteville, Ark
Wells, Fargo & Company
Congress
Lieutenant Shean Dropped From Army Rolls
Lieutenant Daniel E. Shean of the Sixteenth Infantry at Fort Leavenworth Kansas who vanished from his command over three months ago was dropped from the army rolls today marking an end to the missing status and official records.
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Washington
Daniel E. Shean
Sixteenth Infantry
Fort Leavenworth
Kan
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Ira F. Clarke Co
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