Pure Food Inspectors Organized for District Sampling
A practically complete food inspection service has been formed by the Bureau of Chemistry in the Department of Agriculture. About thirty five inspectors, under Inspector Campbell, will visit factories in Baltimore and other cities, collect samples, and determine product composition to support potential prosecutions. Also noted is a proposed corset trust by four major corset manufacturers, anticipated to provoke public reaction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Bureau of Chemistry
Department of Agriculure
Campbell
Kentucky
Civil Service
Baltimore
Roosevelt
Department of Justice
Connecticut
Seizure of a Vessel Explained by State Dept
The State Department reported Ambassador Bryce’s note about the seizure and spring release of the American fishing schooner Alert in the Gulf of St Lawrence. Canadian authorities acted to preserve fisheries, not nationality. Instructions were sent to avoid interference with trap nets by Americans when a British license would be granted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Department
Bryce
Gulf of St. Lawrence
Alert
Arbitration plans swirled by labor law debate and cabinet rumors
The article notes praise for Labor Commissioner Charles P. Neill and ICC chair Martin A. Knapp for curbing labor unrest and telegraph strikes, sparking discussion on broad arbitration law. It reports cabinet tensions between Taft and Cortelyou, with whispers of Cortelyou's ambitions and possible cabinet disruption as the president backs Taft.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles P. Neill
Martin A. Knapp
Interstate Commerce Commission
Mr. Neill
Messrs. Neill
Knapp
Taft
Cortelyou
Crop Report Expenditures And Extensions Discussed
Government spends more on crop report service as work improves and discussion grows on whether further extensions are wise. Opinions vary on economy and future outlays depending on efficiency of current methods.
Whiskey Case Compromise Between Wolff and Officials
Internal Revenue Commissioner Caspers recommended accepting a compromise offer by Joseph Wolff of Chicago. Wolff, buyer of whiskey from a Louisville distilling company, would pay a 2500 pound fine and have the seized whiskey released. The whiskey, seized in Louisville warehouses for caramel coloring added before filling, was deemed adulterated.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Internal Revenue
Capers
Joseph Wolff
Chicago
Louisville
Wolf
Special Weighing of Mail Postponed? Thirty Two Companies Appointed
Announcement reports the appointment of thirty two companies under a congressional act granting 300000 dollars for a special weighing of all mails from July to December. Records will cover every class of matter, including franked mail, with aims to guide legislation to make the post office service more self supporting than ever before.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Congress
Post Office
Turret Board to Report on Battleship Georgia Disaster
Naval officials anticipate the turret board findings after the Georgia accident that killed ten sailors. The board was appointed to investigate the cause and make recommendations. The coming report is awaited with high interest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Georgia
Gallatin Bank Reopens After Insolvency Declared
The Comptroller of the Currency says Peoples' National Bank of Gallatin Tennessee, once insolvent and placed under a receiver on July 18, may reopen with capital stock unimpaired.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gallatin Bank
Comptroller of the Currency
Peoples’ National Bank of Gallatin, Tenn
Admiral Stockton's Squadron Arrives in New York
Admiral Stockton and his squadron of armored cruisers Tennessee and Washington reach New York after a cruise to France. He will haul down his flag and be succeeded by Admiral Sebrec, the Lighthouse Board secretary. The Washington to undergo a full overhaul at the New York Navy Yard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Admiral Stockton
Tennessee
Washington
New York
France
Sebrec
Lighthouse Board
New York Navy Yard
Panama Exposition Backed by Nashville Board of Trade
The Nashville Board of Trade directors passed resolutions endorsing the New Orleans Progressive Union move to hold a Panama Canal celebration exposition in 1915. The plan aims to mark the canal’s completion with a major event in New Orleans.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nashville
Tenn
Nashville Board of Trade
New Orleans
Progressive Union
Panama Canal
Japs and Mexicans Fight at El Fuerte Camp
A telegram from El Fuerte reports a days long feud between Japanese and Mexican workers at a KC M Orient Railway camp. Three Japanese were killed and three seriously injured while two Mexicans were mortally wounded and one was killed. The clash began after a dispute between a Japanese and an Mexican worker.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Antonio
Tex
el Fuerte
Kansas City, Mexico and Orient
Germans Make Appeal Over Deportation of Chinese Sailors
Through the German Ambassador the State Department received an appeal from the action of the ship ping commissioner at San Francisco who had ordered deported twenty four Chinese members of the German tramp steamship Tolosan who had deserted from that ship on account of alleged ill treatment. The Germans wish the men returned to the ship to which it is understood the Chinese view consul at San Francisco objects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Department
San Francisco
Tolosan
Sanisco
Mississippi farmers urged to boost corn and cattle output
The Holmes county farm of Abe Shepherd produced nearly 150 bushels of corn on a banner acre. A county correspondent urges forethought and cropping diverse plans, praising young farmer Jed Powers and advocating contests to raise better horses and mules. The piece stresses agricultural development as key to Mississippi's future, calls for state competitions, and for government boards to reward home raised stock. It also notes campaigns to improve cotton quality for export and hints at girls’ premium programs in domestic arts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mississippi
Abe Shepherd
Holmes County
McClellans
Jed Powers
Powers
Board of Supervisors
Ben Lundy
Prof. Smith
Good Roads and County Plans in Mississippi
Letter from C C Gregory Center Miss argues for higher road funding and a road commissioner to oversee maintenance. He critiques current pay for contractors and supervisors, proposes tolls on gates or removal, and urges broader road policy backed by ad valorem tax hikes. The piece also covers State Fair plans, county fairs growth, and call for active teacher and superintendent involvement to educate and organize for rural Mississippi telephone service reform.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. E. Blakeslee
Board of Supervisors
Center
Miss
Poplarville Welcomes New Municipal Water and Light Plant
Poplarville jubilant as town adopts a municipal water and light plant seen as a major convenience and essential service for a community likely to number around five hundred. The Free Press notes improvements and growing modernization across Mississippi towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Poplarville
Free Pres
Mississippi
Is Quantrell Alive in Quatsino BC as John Sharp
The report claims Civil War raider Quantrell survives and uses the name John Sharp, living in Quatsino on Vancouver Island. Duffy, a timberman, says he identified Sharp as Quantrell, who allegedly fled after being wounded in Louisville, then moved through Chile, Texas, Oregon, and British Columbia before working as a carver at West Vancouver mines near Quatsino.
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Quatsino
British Columbia
Victoria
B. C
Bill Quantrell
Quantrell
Kentucky
Vancouver Island
John Sharp
J. F. Duffy
Quatissno
Duffy
Michigan
Sharp
Louisville
South America
Chile
Texas
Oregon
West Vancouver Mines
Federal Judge Criticises States Over Interstate Traffic
Judge Peter S. Grosscup of the U S Circuit Court told the Traffic Club at Exmeer County Club that federal courts will retain authority over interstate commerce despite state attempts to curb it. He said the fault lies not in regulation volume but its past character and urged wise administration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peter S. Grosscup
Chicago
United States Circuit Court
Exmeer County Club
State
Prosperity Of Southwest Report From Railroad Chief
President A J Davidson of the St Louis and San Francisco Railroad tours the cotton belt and grain country from Chicago to Mexico. He says eastern recession fears fade as widespread prosperity spreads across the region with crop outlook now splendid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Davidson
New York
A. J. Davidson
St. Louis
San Francisco
Mississippi Valley
Kansas
Oklahoma
Texas
Chicago
Mexico
To Consider Child Labor Conference in Nashville 1907
Governor Patterson issues call for a conference of textile manufacturers and labor representatives from cotton states to meet in Nashville on October 14, 1907. The aim is to consider child and female labor in shops and factories and adopt uniform laws acceptable to all parties.
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Nashville
Tenn
Patterson
Cotton States
Mass Deportation of 106 Japanese From Fort Worth
One hundred six Japanese, the largest deportation from this coast, left on the steamer Manchuria for the Orient. They were detained for stealing over the Mexican border into the United States and were brought here by the immigration bureau inspector at Fort Worth, Texas.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
San Francisco
Manchuria
United States
Immigration Bureau
Fort Worth
Tex
Knights Elect Officers at Norfolk National Convention
Knights of Columbus officers elected for the next two years include E. L Hearn as supreme knight David Colwell as national secretary James Flaherty as deputy supreme knight E. W Buckley as national deputy and Joseph Pettur as national advocate Six directors were also chosen and August door noted as the winner with the largest vote count.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norfolk
The
Knights of Columbus
E. L Hearn
Supreme Knight
David Colwell
James Flaherty
Supreme Knights
E. W. Buckley
Joseph Pettur
Peed V
Alabama Rail Rate Accord Restores Southern License
Gov Comer and Alabama officials reach a settlement with the Southern Railway restoring its license while Sept 1 1907 sees two and a half cent passenger fare and freight rate cuts on 110 commodities. Judge Jones injunction keeps other laws inoperative pending final court rulings. The agreement ties license revocation to the pact, with rail interests insisting concessions were practical for patrons.
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Montgomery
Alan Gov. Comer
Southern Railroad
Southern Railway
Alabama
United States
Gov. Comer
Southern
Julian
Comer
Charity rail rates spark Alabama two cent race debate
Chicago Transcontinental Passenger Association roads refused to discontinue selling tickets at reduced fares to clergy Sisters of Charity inmates of national or state soldiers homes to from and through Alabama. Western roads plan to reduce rates for all classes in states enacting two cent rate laws, but Transcontinental lines are not adopting the policy in Alabama.
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Chicago
Transcontinental Passenger Association
Sisters of Charity
Alabama
Transcontinental Association
Death of peon sparks regional arrest case in Mexico
Parents of Patrick Haffey of Louisville Kentucky report he is jailed in Jiminez Mexico after a Mexican fireman fell from a train and died. A mob formed amid anti American sentiment and Haffey was nearly lynched. The American Ambassador has been appealed to.
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Louisville
Patrick Haffey
Jiminez
Mexico
Haffey
Roosevelt pardons Nancy Miller in manslaughter case
President Roosevelt grants a full pardon to Nancy Miller who was convicted in Indian Territory six years ago for manslaughter in the killing of Alice Blake during a gosling dispute. Miller, who was sentenced to $500 and ten years’ imprisonment in the Ohio penitentiary, has served about six years and is described as the mother of six to eight children.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Nancy Miller
Indian Territory
Alice Blake
Gosling
Garve
Ohio
Police uncover central revolutionary lab at imperial technical schools
Police searched the imperial technical schools and found a central revolutionary laboratory producing hazardous devices and powerful materials, with regular shipments to interior points. They seized hazardous devices, 600 time fuse appliances, outfits and forbidden literature, and arrested twenty one female members of the group.
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Moscow
Imperial Technical Schools
Central Revolutionary Laboratory
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Orient
Thei
Carami
Landis
Standard Oil Trust
Harvie Jordan
Cotton Association
Acciat
H. E Blakeslee
Jackson, Miss
State Fair Association
Grosscup
Peon
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