Russia's Duma Debates Peasant Rights and Reform
July reports describe the Duma considering granting peasant enfranchisement and broader political reform after war era pressures. The piece notes historical emancipation of serfs, nobility resistance, and ongoing government controls shaping potential rights for peasants and related governance reforms.
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Duma
Poland
Wink
Junea
Reece
Withholain
Ioney
Council of the
Emira
Zemstrot
Council of the Empire
Dima
Russia
Catherine the Great
Alexander Jr
Assassination of the Czar Sparks Peasant Reform Debate
The Czar ordered an official announcement before a deadly sleigh attack that killed him as he left the Winter Palace. Opponents of reform are blamed, while his successors show leniency toward peasant arrears. Zemstvos push for full political enfranchisement at annual meetings.
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Council of Ministers
Winter Palace
Alexander Til
Nicholas II
Zemstvos
Alexander II
Local Lady Seeks Relief with Lax-a-Tone Remedy
A local woman describes kidney and liver trouble and reports relief after using Herbal Lax-a-Tone. The ad cites Mrs. Baker praising improved back pain, reduced gas and bloating, and renewed strength, urging readers to try the product for a week and visit Hartigan's drug stores for purchase.
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M. J. Kraus
Hartigan's Drug
Fairfield Avenue
Main
Congress Streets
Stratford Court Annual Report Ready
Stratford town court ends year with 1 540 17 income and 1 332 14 disbursements net 203 03 savings. 178 cases heard 75 breach of peace 41 motor vehicle 20 trespassing. Local cases include non support arrest and assault warrant issued for Max Miller. Stratford Suffrage group to meet July 12 at Stratford High assembly hall.
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Stratford
Walter S. Curtis
Howard M. Curtin
Ivan L. Morehouse
Frank L. Blakeman
Curtis
Johnna
Cur_tha
Morehousehas
Max Miller
John Tretow
Gottlieb
Tretow
Miller
Stratford Suffrage Association
Stratford High School
New Haven Celebrates in Safe and Sane Way
New Haven marked the Fourth with strict explosive sale rules and no major crowds or injuries. A trolley collision caused a fatality while an elderly man died after a fall, and a robbery on Seavn Avenue netted $40 as residents observed a low casualty Fourth across Connecticut towns.
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New Haven
Connecticut
William H. Olmstead
Hallett Street
Seavn Avenue
Herwegh von Ende to speak at Hugo school concert
J Adam Hugo invites pupils and guests to tonight and tomorrow evening’s concerts in New York City. Director Herwegh Von Ende of the Von Endé School will address the audience on standardizing piano music in America.
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Herwegh von Ende
von Ende
New York City
J. Adam Hugo
Pupi
America
President cites calm counsel at labor building dedication
Washington July 5 President Wilson addressed 10 000 attendees at the dedication of the American Federation of Labor building praising labor as workers not commodities and urging calm talk to resolve disputes. He praised a Clayton Act provision and pledged labor support if war comes. Miss Alice Paul and Miss Mabel Vernon interrupted. police removed Vernon amid suffrage protests. New York July 26 reports Hetty Green fortune estimated at 100 160 million with tactics to minimize inheritance tax. investments include New York real estate mortgages industrials railroads and land. son H F H Green named to several boards. details describe her asset mix and risk management.
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Washington
American Federation of Labor
Wilson
Samuel Gompers
Federation
Organized Labor
Mexico
United States
America
Marshall
Or. Department
Alice Paul
Congressing’. Union For Woman, Suffrage
Mabel Vernon
Nevada
New Woman's Party
Miss Vernon
Miss Paul
Congress
Vernon
Congressional Union
Republican Party
New York
Hetty Green
Co. F H. R. Green
Texas
New York City
Boston
Chicago
St. Louis
Russelle
Green
Rockefeller
Manhattan
Fifth Avenue
Broadway
Twenty-third
Fifty-ninth
Pega
The
Westminster Co
Mrs. Green
Ks and Trust
London
Paris
G. W. Gage
Western Avenue
Fifty
W. R. Hearst
Columbus Circle
Columbia Trust Co
Produce Exchange Safe Deposits@ Storage Co
Seaboard National Bank
Col. Green
American Exchange National Bank of Dallas
Tex
American National Bank of
Bridgeport Reports Remarkable Fire Record For Fourth
Bridgeport yesterday posted an almost clean fire day with no bell alarms and only two minor still alarms from firecrackers. The department credits recent warnings by Chief Daniel E B Johnson and Captain Thomas Broderick for the safety, noting nominal damage overall. A small awning fire at 425 Hallett Street, John London’s home, at 6 p.m. caused minimal trouble.
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Bridgeport
Daniel EB. Johnson
Thomas Broderick
John London
Hallett Street
Remarkable Texas Midland Railroad Magnate Holdings
The Texas Midland Railroad operates 111 miles of track and absorbed a Texas Central Railroad branch. Through foreclosure she owns houses in Hoboken Jersey City New York and 20 other cities and vast Florida and Pacific Coast lands. She recently sold a gold mine and maintains immense cash reserves enabling rapid access to 10 million dollars. She loaned 1 million to New York City and six months ago lent 5 million in Wall Street with 12 percent on call, receiving gilt edge securities as collateral.
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Texas Midland Railroad
Texas Central Railroad
Hoboken
Jersey City
New York
Florida
Pacific Coast
City of
Wall Street
Ten-year-old Wilhelm of Germany Gains Crown Heir Status
Prince Wilhelm Friedrich, eldest son of Crown Prince Friedrich Wilhelm, turns ten today. He trains daily in military tactics and arms, leading a boy army on palace grounds. He dislikes scholarly work, favors riding and shooting, and speaks French and English less now. He has three brothers Louis Ferdinand, Hubert, and Frederick, and his mother is Crown Princess Cecilie of Mecklenburg Schwerin.
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Wilhelm Friedrich
Friedrich Wilhelm
Germany
Wilhelm III
Wilhelm
Wilhelm III Beleves
Louis Ferdinand
Hubert
Frederick
Cecille
Mecklenburg-Schwerin
First Railway in Nan America Breaks Ground in 1828
July 4 1828 marked ground breaking for the Baltimore and Chile line as Maryland state and Baltimore contributed equally to fund the railway. Charles ape of Carrollton, then 92, led the ceremony declaring it a major act second only to the Declaration of Independence. Locomotive by Peter Cooper followed the canal company lineage from the Potomac Company.
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America
Baltimore
Chile
Maryland
Charles Ape
Carrollton
Balore
Peter Cooper
Chesapeake & Ohio Canal Co
Potomac Company
Washington
Reginald McKenna Turns Fifty Three Tomorrow
Chancellor of the Exchequer Reginald McKenna, a key figure in the British coalition ministry, nears his fifty third birthday tomorrow. Once Home Secretary he was expected to return to the Admiralty but instead was assigned the pivotal wartime duty of managing the nation’s financial sinews.
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Rewind McKennna
National Cabinet
McKenna
Home Secretary
Admiralty
Exchequer
Mr. McKenna
Britain Faces High War Costs and Allied Aid Demands
The piece notes staggering sums Britain must demand from its people to fund participation in the conflict and to aid allies. It cites the Chancellor urging strict economy, warning that the war costs Britain about 25 million dollars daily, and profiles Mr. McKenna as a Cambridge alumnus with a long political career culminating as Home Secretary.
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Britain
England
Great Britain
McKenna
Cambridge
Bon
The
Treasury
Board of Education
the Admiralty
Home Secretary
Yankee Doodle Comedian George M. Cohan Biography
George M. Cohan born July Fourth 1878 in Providence Rhode Island is a stage veteran at thirty eight with twenty eight years in show business. He started at age ten in a play by his father Jerry Cohan and became a famed actor manager playwright producer with a fortune and philanthropic giving record.
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George M. Cohan
Providence
R. I
Mr. Cohan
Jerry Cohan
Helen Cohan
George
George Michael
North America
Europe
Cohan
George M Cohan Pioneer of American Broadway
The piece traces George M Cohan’s lineage from an Irish minstrel O’Caomhan to Rhode Island descendants who dropped the O, the rise of the Cohans in vaudeville, and George’s iconic stage career. It notes his early songs and sketches, the Four Cohans, Broadway hits like The Governor’s Son, and his ascent as a leading Yankee entertainer.
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George
O’caomhan
Ireland
Tara
Rhode Island
O"cohan
Jerry Cohan
Josephine
Four Cohans
Witcha
Angel
Four Cohays
Broadway
America
Little Johnny
Yankes
Mililo Hairé
Geore Aid
Fourth of July Snowstorm Halts Leadville Ball Game
Leadville’s romantic mining camp lore recalls a 1886 Fourth of July game with the St Joseph club. A sudden snowstorm halted play for about half an hour before the contest was resumed, making it a unique local sports moment in wild west history.
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Emily E. Baker
Mill Plain Road
Fairfield
Stratford Court
Olmstead
Galmer
NEW York Report
Reginald M’kenna
Bea
Yankee Doodle
Leadville
Sterling
Rueter
Porter Brewers
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