Educational Association at Los Angeles sets school reforms
The National Education association closed its meeting in Los Angeles with resolutions urging teachers to begin a systematic moral and patriotic instruction, enhanced civics, and property rights education. It endorsed simplified spelling and urged salary increases, child labor law harmony, and elimination of secret societies in schools, while supporting merit systems and world peace.
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Ted Angeles
National Biecation’ Sesociation
Alexander Hogs
Fort Worth
Tex
Republic
Associaton
Japanese Sketches At Fort Rosecrans Lead To Arrest
A Japanese worker at Fort Rosecrans was arrested after authorities found a dive print of sketches at the fort. The artifact depicted skilled, though incomplete, drawings. The incident follows another Japanese individual detected nearby, connected to the same trustful group.
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Aether
Ben Diggo
California
Fort Rosecrans
Ieee
Acquittal in Slaying Case Ends Fridgy Jury Debate
Jury acquitted Raymond Teson of killing George Mayham in a grocery store, finding him not guilty by reason of insanity. Teson will be committed to the state insane asylum. The trial revealed Mayham's alleged intimacy with Mrs. Teen and questioned Teson's sanity during the incident.
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Joesph
Raymond Teson
George Mayham
Mayham
Teson
Cantedd
Teen
Korea emperor May Have Quit
Tokyo dispatch reports a Belpali Is newspaper declares the emperor has abdicated. The note suggests a formal step away from the throne, reflecting rumors of dynastic change and political shifts within the empire during the period.
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Korea
Tokyo
Japan
Bepal
Is! Shimpo
Mia
Oklahoma Convention Reconsiders State Constitution Provisions
Guthrie Oklahoma convention reconvened to set a new election date and finish minor work on the proposed constitution for Oklahoma. Changes target initiation and referendum, corporation appeal rights, railroad mergers, and habeas corpus among others before adjourning sine die. Also Tokyo news reports Hocht withdrawing interview with Admiral Sakamoto criticizing American naval training and praising U S Navy efficiency.
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Guthrie
Board of Agriculture
Oklahoma
Toklo
Sakamoto
Ite
State Rates Not Sacred in Interstate Commerce Rulings
Washington. An ICC opinion with Commissioner Harlan states that state fixed rates deserve respect but lack the sanctity of interstate rates. When proper evidence shows a railroad rate is unjust to carrier or shipper, the commission would refuse it as a basis for setting an interstate rate.
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Washington
Interntal Commerce Commission
Harlan
To & Shipper
Kanese Law In Question Before U S Supreme Court
Washington Kansas pulls case to the Supreme Court regarding state power to ban interstate business by the Pullman company. Kansas law challenged as Bish act basis. Pullman appeals Kansas ruling seeking Supreme Court validation or reversal of the state statute.
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Washington, D.C
Pullman Company
War on Farmers Elevators and Michigan Workmen Split
In Des Moines the Iowa Grain Dealers Association announced opposition to farmer cooperatives amid alleged Stillman law violations. Michigan A D U W Grand Lodge voted to surrender after a long battle, as membership dropped from 23,000 to under 3,000.
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Des Moines
Iowa Grain Dealers’ Association
Micnigan
Government seeks dissolution of tobacco trust in New York
In a circuit court petition the government targets the American Tobacco Imperial Tobacco British American Tobacco and 22 other corporations and 19 individuals. The aim is to dissolve the trust formed since 1890 to prevent monopolization of the tobacco industry. A receiver may be sought depending on evidence, with criminal prosecutions likely under the Sherman act for restraint of trade.
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New York
United States Circuit
American Tobasco Company
Imperial
Trust
Jamon C. Reynolds
Tobacco Trust
Telegraphers Strike Expands Across the West
A Western Union telegraphers committee urged talks with assistant general superintendent I N Miller Jr but was refused. Chief Operator H J Jetts read a note saying he sent a telegram to President Roosevelt and had no hope of settlement without a broad strike, planning to depart for Chicago Wednesday.
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San Francisco
Western Union
I. N. Miller, Jr
Western Union Telegraph Company
H. J. Jetts
Roosevelt
Chicago
Indicted Rail Firm Charged With 12000 Rebates
A grand jury in the United States district court indicted the Atchison Topeka and Santa Fe railroad for granting rebates totaling 12000 to United States Sugar Beet company of Garden City Kansas. The 65 counts allege violations of the law and carry a maximum fine of 65000. Also reported, a boycott by Northwestern firemen after a proposed 10 cent excursion rate was denied, and John T Thompson’s escape from a Portland train on a theft charge. Western railroads announce rate reductions set for July 18 and July 20 for interstate trips across several states.
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Chicago
Atchison, Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad
United States Sugar Beet Company
Garden City
Kas
United States District Court
Ramon
Deadwood
Northwestern Railroad
Denver
John T
San Francisco Mayor Testifies in Glass Trial
Dr. Charles Boxton, temporary mayor of San Francisco, testified Thursday in the Glass trial about his debauchment by Theodore V. Haley, the indicted Pacific States Telephone Company agent. He said Haley paid him 15,000 largely in hundred dollar bills for influencing votes and using his influence.
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Boxton Bays
San Francisco
Charles Boxton
Theodore V. Haley
Pacific States Telephone, Company
Rock Island wreck disrupts Kansas Line near Peabody
A Rock Island passenger train No 24 en route between El Reno Oklahoma and Kansas City Missouri derailed a few miles south of Peabody Kansas at midnight. No further details on injuries or causes available in the fragment.
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Rock Island
Kansas
Wichita
Kan
el Reno
Kansas City
Peabody
Pacific Coast Trip By U S Labor Chief Neill And Aides
Charles P. Neill United States commissioner of labor and three Commercial Telegraphers Union executives left Chicago Monday night for San Francisco. The trip followed a late Monday meeting approving the Pacific coast journey amid secret coast advices. Depositors will lose ten percent in the First National Bank windup after Devlin crash, with liquidation to take about six weeks and total 90.1 cents on the dollar. Chicago reports the commerce department bans gambling boats on the Great Lakes and rivers.
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Pacific Coast
Chicago
Charles P. Neill
United States
Commercial Telegraph‘rs’ Union
San Francisco
Topeka
James T. Bradley
First National
Taseday
Attaik
Jury To Try Glast On Bribery Charge In San Francisco
The jury to try Pacific States Telephone and Telegraph official Louie Glast was seated this afternoon to hear charges that he bribed Supervisor Charles L Barton with 98000 to vote against granting a franchise to the Home Telephone Company of San Francisco.
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Giese
San Francisco
Louie Glast
Pacific States Telephone and ‘Telegraph Company
Super
Charles L. Barton
Home Telephone Company of
Lindan Francisco
Calif
Schmitt
San Quentin
Glass
Pacific States and Telegraph Company
MOYER A WITNESS Weot on the Stand in Haywood
Moyer testified as a witness in a Haywood courtroom case. The proceedings focused on key factual questions and the defense challenged certain statements. Court records indicate continued testimony and reference to prior evidence presented in the trial.
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Haywood
Haywood trial reads San Francisco deposition testimony
Boise July reports detail defense reading San Francisco depositions on the Bradley house explosion and the Orchards plot. Clarence Darrow questions Haywood defense witnesses while McParland denies improper influence. Moyer takes the stand to rebut Orchard testimony and outlines federation funding and prior arrests.
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Boise
Haywood
Fred Bradley
Washton Street
San Francisco
Wood
Harry Orchards
Bradley
Western Federation of Miners
Steunenberg
Commission
Clarence
Idaho
Tuseday
James McParland
William D. Haywood
Denver
Swain
Ward
McParland
Orchard
Allen F. Gul
Tiger and Poorman
Spokane
Charles Moyer
Harry Orchard
Western Federation of Minera
Caldwell
Bteuneabers
Pg Mover
Jack Sime
Kina
Fred Mi
Telegraph Rates and Graft Allegations Sweep Cities
The report notes alleged combinations to raise telegraph and freight rates across states, with officials accused of diverting profits to shared offices. It mentions related bribery probes, Standard Oil proceedings, and calls for investigations by judges and the public. Indicators point to broad graft concerns spanning multiple cities and agencies.
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