Greek Workers Perish in Milwaukee Box Factory Blaze
A $300000 fire at the Kieckhofer box factory in Milwaukee injures three workers and two firefighters. Two Greek employees, Peter Bongalos and Constanti nos Ganos, are believed dead after entering the building to retrieve clothes. Panic caused a window jump. Byron Fullerton and Arthur Fulbrigger suffer broken legs, rescued by bystander Eddie Bryant.
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Kieckhofer
Milwaukee
Peter Bongalos
Constantinos Ganos
Byron Fullerton
Arthur Fulbrigger
Eddie Bryant
Speculation Bubble Critique From Chicago Inter Ocean Cites Mrs Gould
The piece argues money is easy for speculators while productive enterprise remains tight. It cites New York World and Mrs Gould as symbols of excess and warns prosperity may rest on speculation rather than labor and capital.
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New York
New York World
Gould Divorce Case Reveals Costly Simple Life
The Gould divorce case outlines a marriage marked by extreme recklessness and dissipation. Mrs Gould spent lavishly on jewels land and caprices, while Abs Howard Gould’s once ample fortune could not sustain her rising annual needs, now pegged at 120000 dollars.
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Lfe
Mrs. Gould
Abs. Howard Gould
High Income for a Baby Sparks Debate on Living Wages
A New York widow seeks support for her four year old son and is awarded not less than 15 750 a year. The case prompts reflections on wealth, work, and the wisdom of lavish allowances for children, with critics calling 16 000 a year in a baby’s hands folly.
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New York
James E. Martins
Philadelphia Public Ledger
Quieting England’s nerves and the bugaboo fear
The article notes England has stopped shrieking and now stares at the world with fright over its own creation. It argues Germanophobia is serious, beyond nerve specialists, needing patient treatment and time to pass.
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Cleveland Plain Dealer
Novel sheet music cabinet aids needle search in haystack
A New York inventor unveils a three sided sheet music cabinet on a stationary stand. It arranges music in stepped vertical compartments allowing quick at a glance retrieval and optional alphabetical or separated vocal and instrumental sorting. It suits homes stores and conservatories. A Philadelphia device called the mine gauge helps keep hems and tucks perfectly straight on sewing machines with a cross bed scale for consistent width.
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New York
Philadelphia
The Greatest Wealth of a Trained Mind
A reflective meditation questions whether money can compensate for a starved mind and narrow life. It weighs lands, houses, stocks, and bonds against the value of mental capacity to appreciate life, civilization, and meaning, posing a stark critique of material wealth.
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Wnfe
Stamp moistening device speeds mail stamping
A California inventor created a combined stamp-sticker and envelope-sealer. The tool feeds a strip of stamps, moistens them, pastes onto envelopes, and seals while a roller extends to seal.
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California
Notable Quotes on Mindset Reputation and Humor
A collection of aphorisms on self discipline and intellect by Orison Swett Marden, assessing the value and danger of reputation and the charm of a wholesome, humorous take on children's meals.
Tremendous oil well breakthrough in California gusher
Palmer well in Catcanyon Santa Maria breaks through eight foot cement cap after two week shutdown. Pressure estimated 400 psi. Oil and sand fill earthen sympholes and two steel tanks almost finished. Crowd gathers as preparations to restart oil flow proceed amid industry debate.
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California
Palmer
Catcanyon
Santa Maria
Los Angeles Times
Pennsylvania
Oklahoma
Nature fakers bite back in Roosevelt animal tale
A Baltimore American quip quotes a head of family and child debating President Roosevelt's Africa hunting claim. The child labels it a nature faker while the father reads the papers for sensational wildlife news.
The Destiny of Poema in a Birmingham Age Herald quip
A Birmingham Age Herald quips that it isn’t out of place to call a girl a poem and follows with a playful jab about a girl wearing a wastebasket hat. The exchange reflects whimsical prose and contemporary slang.
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Birmingham Age-Hérald
Murder Follows Joke in Atlanta Office
E C Williams of New York Fidelity and Casualty slapped Donald M Bain in a Prudential Building office after Bain allegedly mocked Williams with a placard about Milledgeville. Bain died from a brain shot moments later. Bain surrendered to police.
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E. C. Williams
Atlanta
Fidelity and Casualty Company of
New York
Donald M. Bain
Bain
Prudential
Williams
Milledgeville
State Asylum For Lunatics
Ten Millions in Four Drays Haul Gold Through Frisco
Fourteen fine truck horses pull a ten million dollar fold coin shipment through San Francisco streets from the California Safe Deposit building to the old city hall vaults. Twenty five mounted police guard the caravan while John E. McDougall rides beside the driver. The east wing of the old city hall houses the vaults remaining after quake wreckers cleared the rest.
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Frisco
Market Street
San Francisco
City Treasury
California Safe Deposit and Trust Company
Old City Hall
John E. McDougall
Criticising Officials Not Libel Verdict Reversed
The Missouri Supreme Court Division No 2 unanimously rules that criticizing public officials is not libelous. In Glover Branch v Knapp & Co the court reverses a $12,500 verdict and upholds press fairness during a 1905 Senate race.
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Division No 2
Supreme Court of Missouri
Glover Branch
George Knapp & Co. _ publishers
Branch
Three Held as Black Handers in Toledo Hearing
Salvatore and Sebastian Lima and Salvatore Rizzo, all of Marion, were bound over to the federal grand jury after a Toledo preliminary hearing. Bonds were set at 6000 dollars for Lima and 9000 dollars for the others as they failed to post prior smaller sums. Georgia fires on negro workers head for exclusion. bill seeks to bar degrees from fireman and trainman jobs.
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Limas
Risso
Toledo
Ohio
Salvatore
Sebastian Lima
Salvatore Rizzo
Marion
Salvatore Lima
Georgia
Blades Posse with Death Near Valley Junction Iowa
The body of Calvin Little Page, who the day before killed Mr and Mrs Elmer Jamieson, parents of his ex wife, near Valley Junction Iowa, was found Wednesday by John Ritchie. Page had shot himself, despairing of escape from armed posses.
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Blades
Calvin Little Page
Elmer Jamieson
Valley Junction
John Ritchie
Jamieson
Page
Man jailed for bootlegging pardoned to harvest work
John Cunningham, a Black man, was fined $100 and sentenced to six months in Hutchinson Kansas for bootlegging. Judge Campbell ordered parole to let him work off the fine in the wheat fields due to harvest labor shortages.
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John Cunningham
Hutchinson
Kan
Campbell
Cunningham
Pittsburg Streetcar Strike Ends After City Losses
The Pittsburg street railway strike ended at 10 30 p m Monday night after Mayor Magee oversaw a signed agreement between Pittsburg Ways Company officials and the Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway Employes. The pact includes proper hearings for discharged workers and shortened swing runs, with pickets instructed to return workers at 5 am. The two-day stoppage cost the city over 200 000 dollars.
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Pittsburg
Magee
Pittsburg Ways Company
Amalgamated Association of Street and Electric Railway
Allegheny County
Lightning Reveals Cave Den in Pittsburg Storm
A severe storm with lightning injured twenty five young men in Leech Hollow near Beechwood boulevard. Two may die. The cave hideout housed gambling tables poker chips cards dice and liquor. Police found the group burned shocked and partly stripped from the lightning impact.
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Pittsburg
Leech Hollow
Beechwood Boulevard
Railroad accidents kill 663 in January to March 1909
Accident bulletin No. 31 from the Interstate Commerce Commission reports January February and March 1909 saw 663 deaths and 15 122 injuries. There were 1 042 collisions and 1 242 derailments causing 1 847 202 dollars in damage with 168 collisions and 145 derailments affecting passenger trains.
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Interstate Commerce Commission
Washington, D. C
Sugar Trust Case Falters Over Statute of Limitations
Federal case against the sugar trust for blocking the Pennsylvania Sugar Refining Company collapsed in New York as prosecutors conceded the statute of limitations precludes any possible prosecution. Grand jury evidence and indictments were rendered moot, leading to a loss for the government.
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Grand Jury
Sugar Trust
Pennsylvania Sugar Refining Company
New York
Wise
Tragedy in church as son-in-law shoots father in law
In a Texas church near Chicot Roy E Burnham aged 19 fired three shots at J E Moser 47 as he prayed on Saturday night. Moser died instantly and Burnham's wife who had recently left him stood beside her father during the attack.
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Roy E. Bersham
J. E. Moser
Chicot
Texas
Roy E Burnham
Moser
Burnham
New Troops Arrive at Fort Brown Brownsville Texas
Federal authorities announce two companies of white troops will occupy Fort Brown in Brownsville Texas. The garrison replaces the Twenty-fifth Regiment troops discharged after a prior raid years ago. This marks the government’s first step to fill those vacancies.
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Brownsville
Texas
Fort Brown
Twenty-fifth Regiment
Plague Caste Reports Massive Deaths in Amoy Amoy
Official reports state 177 deaths from bubonic plague in Amoy China over a fortnight. Native accounts indicate improved health in interior towns but some villages have been decimated this month.
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Amoy
China
Three Hart in Pittsburg Crashes
A newsboy aged S, an 11 year old office boy and a 48 year old crippled man were injured probably fatally by cars in Pittsburg. Only the newsboy’s driver stopped to learn the extent of the injuries. Police made no arrests.
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Pittsberg
Pittsburg
Recovery Gains Across Banks and Trades in Latest Year Start
A Dun's Weekly Review summary notes year start gains versus 1908 and 1906 in payments, resources, deposits, loans, and building values. It cites reduced commercial failures, lower liabilities, rising wholesale bookings, and stronger railway movement with bank clearings at 250 million, up over 20 percent from 1908.
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Chicago
Dun’s Weekly Review of Trade
Improvement in Trade and Industry Amid Better Weather
The week shows broader economic upturn led by iron and steel with higher output and wage gains. Leather trades remain strong while wholesale trade picks up on crop reports for fall and spring delivery. U.S. and Canada business failures for the week ending June 24 are 225 and 30 respectively.
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Iron and Steel
United States
Canada
Bradstreet
Chicago and other markets list live cattle hog and grain prices
Market snapshot shows Chicago bids for cattle 4.00 to 7.40 with hogs 4.50 to 8.15 and sheep 4.25 to 5.75, plus grain Quotes for wheat No 2 at 1.42 to 1.45 and corn No 2 72 cents. Regional figures cover Indianapolis St Louis Toledo Cincinnati New York with varied prices for cattle hogs sheep wheat corn oats rye butter eggs and clover across multiple ports.
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Chicago
Indianapolis
St. Louis
Toledo
Cincinnati
New York
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