Harvard Astronomer Trials Airship Drive on Tricycle
Professor William H. Pickering, Harvard astronomer, tests a foot powered propeller device mounted on a tricycle to propel the rider at about 10 miles an hour. He plans to display the machine at New York’s Aero Club exhibition next month as part of studies into efficient aerial propulsion. The three year project centers on optimizing a screw propeller shape for air navigation and uses a rear propeller driven by a belt and pulleys connected to a pedal chain.
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William H. Pickering
Harvard
New York
Home Market Club Still Stands Pat
A speech praising the Home Market Club's unwavering allegiance to its principles. The speaker notes other groups changing names or fading away, while the club endures. He cites growth figures for the boot and shoe, cotton, and woolen industries.
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Home Market Club
Pat
Draper
Tariff Revision Talk Dominates Last Night's Dinner
James W. Van Cleave of St. Louis urged a tariff commission to study revision during the 18th annual Protectionist Home Market Club dinner at the Hotel Vendome. Lieutenant-Governor Eben S. Draper hailed protection, while Rep James T. McCleary and Charles Heber Clark warned against immediate changes. The event drew 250 guests, and no sentiment favored immediate tariff revision.
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James W. van Cleave
St. Louis
National Association of Manufacturers
Home Market Club
Hotel Vendome
van Cleave
Eben S. Draper
Commonwealth
George W. Wells
Governor Guild
Wells
Draper
Ernor Guild
James T. McCleary
Minnesota
Charles Heber Clark
Philadelphia Manufacturers’ Club
Roosevelt
McCleary
Clark
John Snyder
Summer Street
Draper Addresses Home Market Club Banquet
Lieutenant-Governor Draper speaks to the Home Market Club, recalling his varied roles and praising the club as citizens of the nation, noting his pride in greeting them as fellow members as applause breaks out.
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Draper
Home Market Club
Commonwealth
Mr. Clark Defends Tariff System as Justified Policy
Mr. Clark argues that tariff reform is impossible to please all and urges cautious amendment only when a clear harmed party proves their case. He claims the protective system is justified by current economic results, warning of widespread disruption if tariffs are loosened. He calls for official signals of impending downward duties to ease manufacturing and labor fears.
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United States
Department of Business
James W Van Cleave Praises St Louis GOP Tariff View
James W. Van Cleave reports St Louis has just elected a solid Republican delegation and warns against delaying tariff revision. He says demagogues oppose tariff changes but would intensify in 1909, urging action immediately after the Republican president’s inauguration.
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van Cleave
St. Louis
Congress
Gompers
Bryan
Hearst
Moran
Republican Party
Republican appeal for immediate tariff revision after 1908 election
A Republican speaker urges Home Market Club members to back tariff changes to fit new trade conditions. He argues most western Republicans favor revision and asks for party pledges in 1908 to ensure post election action. He speaks as a Republican seeking a square deal for all sections and sustained prosperity.
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Alleghany Mountains
The
Home Market Club
Republican Party
National Association of Manufacturers
McCleary Urges Patriotism and Patience in Debate
Congressman McCleary argues that defeat can signal real victory for a principle. He says time vindicates the righteous and warns against narrow self interest. He praises a larger patriotic selfishness that serves the nation.
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McCleary
Bunker Hill
Eye of Patriotism Shapes National Protection Policy
The Home Market Club urges a national, non sectional view of protection as a equal policy benefiting farm and factory. It argues protection binds regions, rejects selfishness, and should be taught and proclaimed across schools churches platforms and papers.
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Home Market Club
Verdict awards $3000 for death from a fall at wharf
A verdict of $3000 was returned in the United States Circuit Court in the suit of John Dunn administrator to recover for the death of William T Fan ton on December 3 1905. The death resulted from a fall caused by a staging breaking at the coal wharf of Sylvanus Smith Jr of Gloucester.
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United States Circuit Court
John Dunn
William T. Fanton
Sylvanus Smith, Jr
Gloucester
Somerville Turkey Graft Stir Causes Veteran Turkeys Debate
Somerville faces anger over an alleged graft linked to a Civil War era ordinance meant to provide Thanksgiving turkeys to indigent veterans and families. Commander Israel H. De Wolf urges halting a $750 appropriation as Somerville officials decide tomorrow, with about 390 on the needy list and turkeys priced at $2 to $2.50.
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Israel H. de Wolf
Willard C. Kinsley Post
Somerville
Board of Aldermen
de Wolf
Kinsley Post
William Mitchell
Amesbury Poisoning Case Examined With Marsh Test Evidence
The Amesbury investigation cites the Marsh test as proof of arsenic poisoning in the Pickard family case. Harvard College findings align with Mr. Pickard, while $75,000 will be distributed from the Pickard will. No arsenic purchases in town. Dr. Murphy, once linked to the illness, withholds comment. This city faces a second poisoning attempt in two years, with officials unable to secure arrests in the prior case.
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Harvard College
Pickard
Murphy
Pickards
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