House Special Committee Rejects Roosevelt Attack
A special House committee delivering a vitriolic report refuses to accept parts of President Roosevelt's message on the secret service. It declares portions beneath Congress, dangerous to public confidence, and recommends laying the objectionable portions on the table, signaling strong rebuke of the President.
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Special Committee of House
Roosevelt
Congress
House of Representatives
Secret Service
President Roosevelt
Secret Service Row
Rosevelt
Mitchell
Tawney
Walter [T Sndth
Iowa
Swager Shirley
Kentucky
Shirley
Congressional Record
Sherley
House
Committee On Appropriations
Fawney
President Angers Senate Over Steel Merger and Cabinet Roles
The Senate is told the President consented to the Tennessee Coal & Iron merger with the Steel Corporation after explanations by Judge Gary and Frick. Cabinet heads are bound by Congress laws and presidential direction, not unilaterally acting without authority.
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Shields Bonaparte
Tam
Senate
Congress
Culberson
Supate
Bonaparte
Steel Corporation
Tennessee Coal & Iron Company Iy
Boungarte
Gary
HCC
Frick
Tennessee
Steel Trust
New York
Night Riders Found Guilty in Union City Trials
A Union City jury convicted Garrett Jogoson Tid Burton Stoy Ranson Fred Pinion Arthur Clenr Sam Applewhite of murder in varying degrees at about 9:15 p.m. Thursday. The panel returned verdicts after deliberating on the night rider cases.
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Union City
Tenn
Garrett Jogoson
Tid Burton
Stoy Ranson
Fred Pinion
Arthur Clenr
Sam Applewhite
Mit
Night Riders Case Sways From Politics to Murder Verdicts
The article outlines heated House committee proceedings over secret service limits and quotes threats of death sentences for six defendants. It recounts the Reel Foot incident where Col Taylor and Capt Ranken were lured, attacked, and Taylor escaped by diving into a slough, evading capture for hours.
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Taylor
Staaken
Raaken
Swater
Dolinds
Ohio Legislature in Session Elects U S Senator Foraker Successor
The Seventy-eighth General Assembly convened in Columbus in extraordinary session to elect a successor to Senator Foraker. It also addresses state appropriations, penitentiary reform under the Wertz law, convict employment, and potential inheritance tax changes due to revenue shortfalls.
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Columbus
Senagior Foraker
Seventy-eighth
General Assembly of
Ohio
Gor Harris
Statehouse
United States
Joseph B. Foraker
Convict Visits Wife's Grave After Murder Trial
In Dayton Ohio Harry Crooks who murdered his wife and received the electric chair was granted permission to visit his wife’s grave. A strong guard accompanied him to the cemetery while he refused a new trial and insisted the verdict was just.
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Comersey
Méanest
Dayton
Ohio
Harry Crooks
Grooks
Roosevelt Defends Secret Service Use in Congress Probe
The president denies charging corruption against current Congress members while defending the secret service role in investigating frauds. He cites past cases like land frauds and the Ink scandal to justify inquiry and urges strict accountability in executive departments.
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Timiague
Congress
House
Secret Service
Nebraska
Oregon
Goanor & Greene
Tomduran
Bureau of Printing
Aimilar
Cortelyou
Chadrovan Pawney
Death sentences in Russian military court at Yekaterinoslav
The military court in Yekaterinoslav Russia sentenced forty one men to death with nine for recent crimes. Thirty two of the condemned were strikers in the October 1905 railroad disturbances. Twelve were given life penal servitude while forty eight received longer exile terms and thirty nine were acquitted.
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Yekaterinoslav
Russia
Appendix proves its value as medicine conduit
A London hospital physician says the vermiform appendix, once deemed useless and dangerous, is now used as a shortcut to deliver medicines to the lower intestines. The operation cuts the appendix and inserts a tube to apply drugs directly to the lower digestive tract.
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London Hospital
First Session of the Illinois Senate and House
The opening session shows a tame Senate with 27 new members taking oath by Justice Cartwright. Robert Shirley Hamilton named president pro tem. James H. Paddock clerk. Evelyn Kinne post mistress. In the House Edward J. Stuartle elected Speaker after a party-shifting ballot, Shurtleff securing the gavel with 85 votes to 54 for King.
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Senate
House
Lawrence Y. Sherman
Justice Cartwright
Supreme Court
Robert Shirley [Hamilton
Marissa
James H. Paddock
Evelyn Kinne
Bloomington
Frank W Burton
Lim
Shortle
Edward
Stuartle
Marengo
Simaker
Cnucua
Shurtleff
Edward Jo King
Ésalesburg
Chawuplop
Progressives
Oath of Office and Nominations Amid Legislative Turmoil
Secretary James A Rose cabled the House to order at noon Wednesday with a formal oath of office administered by Chief Justice James A Cartwright. Nominating speeches followed for temporary Speaker, with candidates including E R Reynolds and E M Chiperfield. Four months of anticipated trouble loom as recounts, deep waterway talks, and local option amendments stir Senate and House proceedings.
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James A Rose
Offee
James A Cartwright
Supreme Court
E J King
Earl PD Reynolds
Charles Durfee
Shurtleff
E M Chiperfield
Charlies Lederer
W .H. Troyer
B. F Kleeman
Christopher Beck
Lee O'Neill Browne
Charles 8
Luke
Pop Murray
Albert Jo Hopking
Wags Mide
Early legislative bills address salaries and ballots
The first bill by Senator Dunlap asks for 190000 to pay General Assembly salaries. Turburgh introduces a halt on Senate rental expenses. McElvain proposes salaries of 1000 yearly with 750 at session start and the rest at end. Bailey seeks public funding to print ballots with candidate names in alphabetical order.
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Dunlap
Turburgh
Senate
McElvain
Bailey
Anti Fraternity Bill Introduced By Senator Breldt
Senator Breldt introduces an anti fraternity bill granting school boards power to bar fraternities from public schools and making it unlawful for students to join them.
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Senator Breldt
Senator Glackin pushes $200,000 tuberculosis bill
Senator Glackin reintroduces a bill he authored last session to appropriate $200,000 for a state tuberculosis sanitarium. The measure aims to fund construction or operation at a state facility.
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Glackin
Bitter Cold Grips Chicago As Towns Struggle With Frost
Bitter cold settles over Chicago and surrounding cities with nine below zero at 9 am the coldest since 1905. The cold wave drives fuel and clothing shortages among the poor, triggers more fires, and prompts emergency aid from the Bureau of Charities as alarms total 92 in 24 hours. Weather officials warn the deep freeze will extend from the Rockies to the Atlantic Coast with further cooling expected inland.
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Chicago
Medicine Heat
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Bureau of Charities
Bureau
Weather Bureau
Washington
Rocky Mountains
Appalachians
Gait
Interior States
Minnesota football captain elected at annual banquet
At the Minnesota annual banquet John Mediovern was elected captain for next year. Students favor a football game with an eastern college and Warren Garst laid the cornerstone of the new law building at Iowa University assisted by Dean Charle.
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Minnesota
John Mediovern
University of Minnesota
Roy Warren Garst
Law
Iowa University
Charle
Noble Grategory
College of Law
Lowell
Harvard
aAssintanta
Mars
Chicago Commercial Outlook Brightens Amid Bootstrapping Rest
The January business mood shows improved production and increased raw material demand. Shoe factories report orders for future completion as leather trades move forward while banks record heavy disbursements.
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Eiteg
Chicago
Dan's Weekly Review
Post holiday quiet rules shape spring trade outlook
Wholesale and jobbing sectors report finish of inventories and active spring preparations amid lingering storms and cold spells from Canada to the Alleghenies. Trade sentiment remains cheerful yet conservative as merchants note slow collections in the South but improvement in the West, with jobbers and travelers already moving goods and cases of fair results in limited periods. Business failures show a sharp week to week rise in the United States to 329, with Canada at 41, reflecting ongoing economic strain.
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Texas
Alleghanies
United States
Canada
Bradstreet S
United Midwest Commodity Prices in Mixed Markets
A long list of regional price quotes for cattle hogs sheep and grains across Chicago Indianapolis St Louis Cincinnati Detroit Milwaukee and Buffalo with bid ranges for wheat corn oats rye barley butter eggs potatoes and pork products showing varied No 2 and No 4 grades and per bushel or pound figures. Specific city price spreads indicate market variability and regional trading activity.
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Chicago
Prairie
Indianapolis
Caottle
St Louis
Cincinnati
Detroit
Milwaukee
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