Countess of Aberdeen pleads for Irish tuberculosis aid
Sunday reports the Countess of Aberdeen in New York urging cooperation with Irish women in fighting tuberculosis. It notes Wall Street activity on United States Steel trading in Paris and a Union Pacific agreement, with other political and social items across the week.
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Countess of Aberdeen
New York
Ireland
Wall Street
United States
Paris
Union
Northern Pacific
Japan
America
Fire official rescinds fireworks ban and issues permits
Fire Commissioner Hayes cancels the New York sale ban for July 4 and will issue 150 permits for fireworks. A Minnesota delegation led by Gov Johnson, Mayor Haynes, and others will travel to Seattle on August 12 to observe Minnesota and Twin City Day at the Alaska-Yukon-Pacific exposition.
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Hayes
New York
Gov Johnson
Minnesota
Haynes
Minneapolis
Seattle
Twin City
Arrests Made in Marion Ohio Black Hand Ring
Federal inspectors in Columbus, Marion and Dennison, Ohio, announce arrests of Sam Lima, Joe Rizzo, Antonio Vicario, and A. Marfis as chiefs of a Marion based Black Hand gang. The group allegedly extorted thousands via notes and money orders to Italy, with links to Cleveland Cincinnati and Forbes area cities, and suspected murders tied to the organization.
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Columbus
Marion
Dennison
Ohio
Post Office
Charles Holmes
Cincinnati
Sam Lima
Joe Rizzo
Antonio Vicario
A. Marfis
Lima
Holmes
Bellefontaine
Italy
John
Charles Amicon
Columbus Commission
Agostino Gennarino Columbus Gennarino
Pittsburg
Woman Held In Train Hold-Up Case Named In Omaha Entry
Stephenson on Witness Jack Shelton alias Jack Gordon and Lillian Stephenson arrived in Omaha under guard of two deputies. Shelton faces charges as one of the men who robbed the Overland Limited on the Union Pacific. The Stephenson woman says she will testify but knew nothing of the holdup before arrest. Authorities drop the fifth man theory and will prosecute the four men now ordered arrested.
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Jack Shelton
Jack Gordon
Lillian Stephenson
Omaha
Shelton
Union Pacific
Stephenson
Presque Isle Fire Destroys 100 Homes and Buildings
A sweeping northeasterly blaze in Presque Isle Maine destroyed 100 dwellings and several structures including the Congregational Church and Masonic Hall. A Canadian Pacific Railroad station and two large potato storehouses were burned. Total loss estimated at 30900 dollars.
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Maine
Presque Isle
Wer
Congregational Church
Canadian Pacific
Floods in Colorado Claim Four Lives and Halt Trains
Heavy rains and melting snow flood Colorado causing four deaths and widespread property damage. Train service is interrupted statewide while rivers including the Grand and Gunnison threaten water systems. Englewood and Greely suffer flood damage as cloudbursts swell rivers near Limon and rail junctions.
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Colorado
Grand Junction
Grand
Gunnison
Greely
Cache la Poudre
Denver
Englewood
Limon
Rock Island
Volon Pacific
SHIFT IN COFFEE TRADE BRINGS HINT OF ABANDONING BRANCH
Herman Sielcken of Crosman and Sielcken, coffee importers in New York, buys Woolson Spice Company from Havemeyer estate and others. He plans a greatly enlarged plant and the deal suggests the sugar trust may abandon the coffee branch. Sielcken is a stockholder in the American Sugar Refining Company.
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Broasinexza
Herman Sielcken
Crosman & Sielcken Coffer
New York
Woolson Spice
O'Brien Johnson Bout Leaves Crowd Unshaken in Philadelphia
In Philadelphia Jack O'Brien fought six rounds with Jack Johnson with no punch landed on either side and a draw seemed possible if a decision had been made. Edward Payson Weston walked 63 miles daily from New York toward the Pacific across Kansas and Colorado, near a mile per year of his age. In Louisville Gypsy King and Hyperion II battled to a photo finish in the third race, so close the judges could not separate them.
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Philadelphia
Jack O’brien
Jack Johnson
Edward Payson Weston
New York
Pacific Coast
Kansas
Colorado
Louisville
Gypsy King
Hyperion II
Wright Brothers Receive Aero Club Gold Medals at White House
The Wright brothers Wilbur and Orville of Dayton Ohio receive gold medals from President Taft at the White House ceremony marking the invention of the first successful flying machine. More than 1000 invitations issued. governors send laudatory messages and scientific bodies prepare resolutions for the Wrights.
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Washington
Europe
Wilbur
Orville Wright
Dayton
Ohio
White House
Taft
Aero Club of America
Wrights
Wright Brothers
Aero Club of
Herbert Parsons
New York
Pioneer Aviation Club
United States
Katherine Wright
Cosmos Club
Sumatra Quake Destroys Korinchi. 200 Killed, Many Injured
An earthquake in Korinchi Sumatra, 185 miles southeast of Padang, struck on the night of June 3 4. The tremor was followed by a tidal wave that swept away huts. About 200 people were killed and many more injured.
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King and Queen of
England
London
Russell Sage
Andrew Carnegie
Sumatra
Korinchi
Padang
Former Capitalist Sentenced in Pemina Case
Andrew Hobbie former president of the Croydon Milling Company pleaded guilty in the District Court Pemina North Dakota to forging James Bellamy's name on a six thousand dollar note and received a two year penitentiary term.
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Andrew Hobbie
Croydon Milling Company
Pembina
N. D
James Bellamy
U.S. Gains in Canada Trade Show Growing Import Share
Canadian official figures show United States goods rising to 60.4 percent of Canadian imports for the year ending March 31, 1909, with Britain declining to 23.69 percent. Two thirds of Canada’s imports are manufactured, led by $89 million from the United States, while Britain accounts for $54 million. Britain and colonies enjoy lower tariff treatment than U.S. merchandise.
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United States
Canada
Bureau of Statistics
Department of Commerce and Labor
Washington
Great Britain
Canadas
United Kingdom
British Colonies
Fire destroys Decatur Cereal Company mill and elevator
A blaze starting after 1 a.m. Tuesday from wiring on the sixth floor of the Decatur Cereal Company mill, Eldorado and Vandyke, destroyed the plant valued at 650000 with 165000 insurance. 80 000 bushels of corn housed in an adjacent elevator were also lost. Fireman John Sheehy was killed by a falling timber. Local department lacked water pressure and could not stop the fire.
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Cereal Company
Decatur
Decatur Cereal Company
John Sheehy
Eldorado
Vandyke
Starch
Governors appointed and assembly defies Senate in Wisconsin
Walter E. Clark named Alaska governor and William B. Washburn named civil service commissioner to replace James T. Williams. Wisconsin assemblymen, spurred by a Senate committee, ignore the upper house order to halt reelection investigations and support continuing the probe into the extra session in January.
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Walter E. Clark
Washington
Alaska
William 8. Washburn
New York
James T Williams
Wisconsin
Senate
Stephenson
Assembly
Chicago Business Review Notes Broad Market Signals
A Dun's Review of Trade summary reports improved industrial prospects with stronger demand in wholesale and finished goods, rising bank clearings at 275 million over five days, and 21 failures in the Chicago district. Tariff revisions remain a key outlook factor alongside agriculture gains.
Business conditions outlook from leading industries
New York reports generally favorable booking of future orders across sectors. Iron and steel activity rises in finished lines while some districts run below normal output, and wage advances plus blast furnace restarts ease floating labor. Cotton goods demand widens, print cloths recover losses, woolen trade remains strong at high prices, and leather remains active with high prices on scarce hides. Eastern shoe orders steady. shipments up 24 percent from a year ago but below peak years. Building trades predict a record spring construction surge, while U.S. and Canadian business failures for the week ending June 10 show modest increases versus prior periods.
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United States
Canada
Bradstreet
Market Prices Across Cities for Grains, Livestock and Butter
Prices from Chicago Detroit Milwaukee Buffalo New York and Toledo show cattle hogs sheep and lambs ranges. Wheat corn oats rye barley butter eggs and clover seed are listed with various grades and unit prices.
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Chicago
Detroit
Dominon Td
New York
Toledo
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