French and British missions plan Niger to Lake Chad border delimitation
Capt Tilho leads the French mission to define the frontier from the Niger to Lake Chad in concert with Maj OShee of the British mission. Work is slated to take about eighteen months, with meetings at Ito and Daker and a completion target by December 1907. Both groups expect to return to Europe in spring 1908.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tilho
Sudan
Nigeria
O’shee
Niger
Lake
Chad
Tildo
Daker
Ito
Lake Chad
Europe
Mexico's President Diaz Keeps Pace With Long Career
The 76 year old leader has guided Mexico for over half a century while remaining effective at 56. Under his tenure the nation enjoys peace, railroad expansion, mining growth and extensive telegraph networks. He oversaw drainage of the Valley of Mexico and port improvements amid sustained modernization.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Diaz
Mexico
Valley of
Caterpillar Fever Epidemics Reported In Rural Areas
The Medical Times cites the London Mail warning that caterpillar fever is common in rural districts. It describes caterpillar rash with intense itching on the palms and sometimes the face, plus vesicles that can obscure vision if near the eyes. Prophylaxis calls for avoiding contact with caterpillars, especially the hairy gold-tail moth caterpillar whose hairs trigger urticaria.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Medical Times
London Mail
France leads in protection for working men
New legislation in France guarantees workers compensation without proving employer negligence. The state covers losses if the employer goes bankrupt and in some cases may provide an annuity up to 60 percent of wages to the worker’s family on death. Employers insure against liabilities and insurers are inspected by the government.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
France
Gailey Sails for China to Build Peking YMCA
Robert Gailey veteran Princeton center rush transfers to Peking to found a YMCA for educated and official classes. He spent seven years at Tientsin and a year in the United States after the Boxer War before resuming overseas work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Gailey
Princeton
China
Peking
Gailey
United States
Tientsin
Association
Penny Saving vs Wise Economy, a Success Mindset
The author contrasts two economies: a broad, wise system that governs well with a thrifty mindset focused on saving pennies. It argues saving for its own sake is weak and cites that no one who overrates penny saving undertakes tasks suited to a large, ambitious mind.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minda
None so blind as will not read latest projected magazine
A terse line notes that some readers fail to peruse the newest projected magazine, implying limited engagement with the upcoming issue. No names, dates, or places are provided.
appoints Oren Root to VP post at Metropolitan Elevst Railway
Oren Root, a nephew of the secretary of state, is named vice president of the Metropolitan Elevst Railway company of New York. He started as a construction laborer and worked upward through the ranks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oren Root
Metropolitan Elvest Railway Company of
New York
News of the Week Condensed From WorldEvents
General Greely to command the Missouri Department replacing Wint who heads to Cuba. Sheridan buys controlling share of Kansas City Post. Boiler explosion near Knobview kills one and injures another. Roosevelt returns to Washington from canal zone trip. Various notes on pensions, ship collisions, deaths and political moves across the U.S. and abroad.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gen. Greely
Department of the Missouri
Wint
Cuba
B. J. Sheridan
Paola Spirit
Kansas City Post
E M. Joselyn
P. T. Roach
Frisco
Knobview
Booker T. Washington
Andrew Carnegie
Tuskegee ‘Institute
Roosevelt
Washington
Isthmian Canal Zone
Gen. Blackmar
Grand Army of‘ the Republic
Second Unitarian Church of
Boston
New Britain
Conn
New York Harbor
Neville
Hugh H. Henry
Army and
Navy ‘Union
Postage stamps 1907 issue to bear state city on face
Across the United States a 1907 postage stamp program adds the issuing state and the specific city to each stamp. Other items note international cabinet changes, disasters, labor and canal reports, and various transport and mining incidents with dates and places.
Missouri Child Labor Law Debate Highlights Illiteracy Concerns
Dr C A Elwood of the state university outlines Missouri child labor and illiteracy issues. He notes 25.2 percent of boys aged ten to fifteen are at work or have left school and warns Missouri leads in child illiteracy among states, urging compulsory education.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Missouri
C. A. Elwood
The
State University
Tremont House Demolished as Unsafe Landmark in Kansas City
The Tremont house, a three story frame hotel built in 1866 in Kansas City's business district, has been condemned as unsafe by the superintendent of buildings. Vacated in days, its site likely to host a new business building. once a center of dinners and receptions, it later served as lodging amid a wholesale hardware store.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Burnham
New York
Payn
Mutual Reserve Company
Salvation Army
St. Louis
Congress
Oklahoma
Missouri
Roosevelt
Panama
Herr von Tschirsky
Berlin
American Tariff Committee
S. N. North
Kansas Editorial Association
Kansas City
State Industrial Home for Girls seeks 1887 1908 funds
The board of managers for the State Industrial Home for Girls at Chillicothe asks the Folk created legislative junketing committee for 1907 and 1908 appropriations totaling 88350 dollars. Included is 30000 dollars for a new cottage due to crowding and furnishing for the negro annex and administration building. The committee is expected to recommend a state board of control to oversee all institutions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Industrial Home For Girls
Chillicothe
Legislative Junketing Committee
Folk
Board of Control
Aunt Elsie Williams 112 Years Old Dies Near St Louis
Mrs Elsie Williams known as Aunt Elsie, said to be 112, died at her Webster Groves home. She wore a white linen dress she said Mrs Lincoln gave her and preserved for half a century. She recalled fleeing in youth during the 1833 star event and watching Jackson’s funeral cortege in 1845.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elsie Williams
Elsie
Webster Groves
St. Louis
Abraham Lincoln
Andrew Jackson
United States
Kansas City Nevada Springfield Electric railroad plans
The project has secured funds for construction. Five thousand dollars is deposited in Nevada bank as a guarantee to start once the city and county grant right of way and terminal ground and a bonus of fifteen thousand dollars is raised. The line will run from Stotesbury in Vernon county through Nevada Cedar Dade Greene to Springfield.
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Nevada
Stotesbury
Vernon County
Cedar, Dade and
Greene Counties
Springfield
Y M C A Elects State Officers at Joplin Convention
At the Y M C A state convention in Joplin the elected officers are Dr William R Dobyns of St Joseph president A B McConnell of Joplin F A Undergraff of Kansas City Prof R H Emberson of Kirksville normal vice presidents O E Maple of Nevada secretary and William Knight of Drury college assistant secretary.
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Joplin
William R. Dobbyns
St. Joseph
A. B. McConnell
F. A. Undergraff
Kansas City
R. H. Emberson
Kirksville Normal
O. E. Maple
Nevada
William Knight
Drury College
Senator Warner Receives Honorary Doctor of Laws
A special convocation at the state university conferred an honorary Doctor of Laws on Senator William Warner. About two thousand people attended the ceremony.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Warner
The
State University
William Warner
Button Causes Death of Child in Butler
Elsie Lona Herrell, two year old daughter of County Clerk John R. Herrell and his wife of Butler, died after swallowing a button that became lodged in her windpipe a day or two earlier. The incident is being investigated locally.
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Button
Elsie Lona
John R. Herrell
Butler
Stone courthouse contract awarded to J A McCarter
The $100,000 stone courthouse in Columbia is awarded to J A McCarter of Columbia. The three story fireproof building will replace the old courthouse built six years ago under the previous plan.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Columbia
J. A. McCarter
Fire at Nodaway County Jail Aims to Aid Escape
Prisoners at Nodaway County Jail started a blaze hoping to trigger a sheriff's exit from court and aid Henry Stell, on trial for burglary and arson. Stell had previously escaped once. inmates set the fire while he watched from court, but deputies quickly contained the flames and kept him in custody.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nodaway County
Henry Stell
Steel
Who Was the Joke On A Centralia Woman Attacks Editor
A Centralia woman attacked editor J. K. Pool with an umbrella demanding an apology for an alleged insult in his paper. Pool had written after the election inviting the “Mysterious Stranger” to “go way back and sit down.” She attended a Methodist service and, seeing the reference, believed it referred to her.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Centralia
J. K. Pool
Cutcheon
Mine Operator Involves Man In Threat Letter Case
T F Coyne of Webb City had T W Lewis arrested on a charge of sending threatening letters by mail. Coyne received a letter November 5 demanding 350 dollars under threat of being blown to atoms with nitroglycerine. Lewis admits guilt and will be tried at the January term of the Federal court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. F. Coyne
Webb City
T. W. Lewis
Coyne
Miner Awarded Damages Over Lethal Prescription
John Bilderback, a Carterville miner, won $1,159 in the circuit court at Carthage against Mollie McCullum, a Carterville druggist. A prescription clerk gave poison labeled quinine, leading to the infant child's death within minutes of administration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Bilderback
Carthage
Mollie McCullum
Carterville
Board appoints architects for new southwest Missouri State Normal
The board of regents hires an architectural firm to draft plans and supervise construction of a new normal building. The main building will span 226 feet with three wings, plus two smaller structures 130 by 150 feet. Statehouse funds of $250,000 will be requested, with concrete construction faced in stone, fireproof and heated throughout.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Board of Regents of
The
Southwest Missouri State Normal
Normal
Trenton and Grundy Citizens Invest in Texas Land
The St. Joseph Gazette reports many residents from Trenton and Grundy County bought land in Texas. Excursions from the area to the Panhandle district have occurred recently, with large tracts purchased.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Joseph
Trenton
Grundy County
Texas
Panhandle
Centralia Election Special Highlights and Water Issue
A brief look at an election in Centralia covering voter considerations on a water problem. The notice mentions polling and community concerns while outlining expected coverage in upcoming editions.
Oklahoma constitutional convention debates rail regulation and segregation
Guthrie Ok May 20 1906 propositions in the Oklahoma constitutional convention include a railway regulation bill to make railroads common carriers and prohibit free passes, and a Jim Crow segregation plan for whites and blacks. Judge Ledbetter opposes federal supremacy and denounces the press while urging state sovereignty, with both measures referred to the railroad committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Guthrie
Oklahoma
Clint Graham
Ledbetter
Ardmore
I. T
Committee On Railroads
Uniform box rents ordered for U S post offices
Washington reports an order from First Assistant Postmaster General Hitchcock effective January 1 to standardize rent rates for post office boxes nationwide. The minimum starts at ten cents per quarter for small fourth class offices and rises on a graduated scale to four dollars per quarter for certain New York city boxes, with no overall rent increase intended.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Hitchcock
United States
New York City
Gas at Home Plank Proposed in Constitution
Tulsa meeting of the commercial club moves to prohibit piping gas out of the territory. Kansas Natural Gas Co. reportedly planned to pipe gas to Kansas City and St. Louis, with all commercial clubs in the two territories uniting to keep gas for home use. Wabash Fireman Killed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tulsa
I. T
Kansas Natural Gas Company
Territory
Kansas City
St. Louis
Wabash
Bank robber shoots self after failed hold up in Benedicta
In Benedicta on Friday J. W. Harris, a farm hand, attempted to rob the bank. Realizing capture was near he killed himself. Theo dore Selb, a bank clerk, escaped the building and Harris shot at him before turning the revolver on himself. Harris died about three hours later.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Troy
Kan
J. W. Harris
Bendena
Theodore Selb
Harris
Lipton Praises American Prosperity in Dispatch
Sir Thomas Lipton contributed a piece to the Weekly Dispatch praising unprecedented prosperity in the United States across all trades and industries. He argues no period of human enterprise has matched the current boom.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Thomas Lipton
The
Weekly Dispatch
America
Department of Trade and Commerce
Wreck Near Sawyers Depot Blamed On Telegraph Operator
President Samuel Spencer and a party of New York and Baltimore men died in the Sawyers depot wreck ten miles south of Lynchburg Virginia. Authorities blame telegraph operator C D Mattoux in Rangoon for the disaster. Mattoux disappeared after relief and has not been found near Sandy Level Pittsylvania County.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lynchburg
Sawyers Depot
Samuel Spencer
New York
Baltimore
C. D. Mattoux
Rangoon
Mattoax
Sandy Level
Pittsylvania County
Record Inland Revenue receipts set in Peoria district
The fifth internal revenue district based in Peoria reported a new single day collection of 250367 dollars on Friday surpassing the prior 231858 dollar mark set on February 13 1904. Monthly total reached 3677325 dollars exceeding November 1905 by 500000 dollars while the district record stands at 3858854 dollars for November 1904.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Peoria
Ill
Internal Revenue District
Kansas Teachers Elect Hall President at Abilene Session
North Central Kansas Teachers Association closed a two day session electing W. B. Hall of Abilene as president and Miss Elvina Neilson of Lincoln as secretary Beloit chosen for next meeting site.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Abilene
Kan
North Central
Kansas Teacher’s Association
W. B. Hall
Elvina Neilson
Lincoln
Beloit
Illinois Veteran Dead in Quincy Retirement Home
Springfield Ill veteran Col Theodore Ewert longtime assistant adjutant general of Illinois died Friday at Illinois Soldiery and Sailors Home in Quincy The obituary notes his longtime service in state military affairs and his residence in Springfield.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Springfield
Ill
Theodore Ewert
Illinois
Illinois Soldiery and Sailors Home
Quincy
King Menelik Illness Sparks Succession fears in Abyssinia
Rumors from Adie-Bria report King Menelik gravely ill. Officials fear power struggles may erupt over the line of succession as the crisis unfolds in Addis Ababa.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Menelik
Rome
Adie-Bria
Abyssinia
Williams Pink Pills Claim Rheumatism Cure
An advertisement asserts rheumatism is hereditary and can be cured by Dr Williams Pink Pills, which purportedly purify and enrich the blood. It includes a testimonial from Mrs. Henry Cota of West Cheshire, praising relief and a permanent cure after using the pills. Sold by druggists or by mail for 50 cents per box.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mrs. Cota
Dr. Williams
Henry Cota
West Cheshi Conn
Alo
Steigy
Willian
Dr. Williams Mécine Co
Schenectady
N.Y
Alten
Boston Sends Youthful Boston Delegation to Washington
All three elected Boston congressmen Joseph O Connell John A Kelcher and James J Peters are bachelors and youngest delegation ever sent by the city to Washington confirming a first in national history.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Boston
Joseph O'Connell
John .A. Kelcher
Drew’ J. Peters
Husband
Jon
Washington
The Scotsman's Diet and the Oats Advantage
The article claims oats as the Scots nations strongest asset, praising rolled oats as Quaker Oats. It promotes a family package including free imported china with each purchase and urges readers to ask grocers for the deal.
Traveling drummer’s scare ends with mistaken telegram
A traveling drummer receives a shocking delayed telegram about his wife’s illness after a cook misreads a message. The errant telegram prompts a late-night return home, but the drummer discovers the situation was resolved and ultimately does not dismiss the cook.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cook
Drummer
Terri
Doctor's Trials Highlight Grape-Nuts Benefit
A hard-working Ohio physician describes extreme overwork and health decline from three years of dual duties. He credits Grape-Nuts with restoring his weight, energy, and mental stamina after adding the cereal to breakfast and dinner, aided by a pamphlet.
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Browning
Gilbert S. Kays
News OF the
G. B. Ferguson
British Medical Association
J. D. Deb’s
Eugene V. Debs
Terre Haute
Ind
William A. Howe
Cambridge
Mass
Capt. Amundsen
Northwest Passage
Geographical Society of Norway
Florida
Genoa
Naples
Senate Committee Investigating
War Department
Willam J. Bryan
Nebraska Volunteers
W. P. Dilworth
Oklahoma City
Southern Railway System
Spencer
Volga
Russia
F. D. Coburn
Kansas
Sumner
Banner County
Mallory
Warren and Clark
Wyoming
Richards
General Land Office
George F. Pollock
Department B
Interior Department
Utah
Salt Lake
Eugene E. Schmitz
San Francisco
Truckee
Cal
Offic
Waters- Pierce Oil Company
Rule
Neb
Berkshire Cotton Manufacturing Company
Adams
New Jasen
Miscellanea
Senor Morety Pendergast
Alfonso
Amen
Germany
Board of Education of
East St. Louis
Trans-Mississippi Commercial Congress
American Society of Equity
Farmers’ Organization
American Federation of Labor
Mineapolis
Canal Commission
Canal Zone
American Sugar Refining Company
New York Central Railroad Company
Santa Fe
Bilibid
Manila
John D. Rockefeller
Sacramento Mountains
New Mexico
Mountain Green
Animas Forks
Moe Lendiena
Billy” Driskill
Cooke County
Tenn
Mr. Driskill
Jacob Eisler
Holt
Burlington
New Columbia Courthouse
Mo A Poe
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