National Exposition Proposal and Freight Rate News
California Governor Billett urges Congress to authorize a San Francisco Panama Canal celebration expo. A federal injunction blocks 23 western railroads from raising freight rates, sparking a market drop. The river and harbor bill limits Missouri river projects, and Lake Contra near St. Joseph gains funding share. Justice Moody hints at October retirement. The ICC rate cuts face court actions. Taft reviews veterans in New York. Shippers seek injunctions to curb rate hikes. Virginians press for a Cloyds Farm monument. Wickersham to meet with western shippers on blocking rate increases. Taft protests House travel expense remarks. Cornell beats Harvard in the boat race. Michigan snowstorm hits May end. Judge Dyer grants injunction against rail rate increase. Omaha waterworks to be purchased by the city.
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National Capital
Billett
California
Washington
Congress
San Francisco
Panama Canal
Missouri River
Lake Contra
St. Joseph
Federal Grand Jury
Chicago
Elgin
Supreme Court of the United States
Interstate Commerce Commission
Missouri
Mississippi
St. Louis
Denver
Moody
United States Supreme Court
Supreme Court
Taft
New York
89Th Street
West
Wickersham
Cloyd’s Farm
William McKinley
Rutherford B. Hayes
Omaha
Tawney
House Committee On Appropriations
House
Cornell
Harvard
Charles River
Michigan
United States
Dyer
United States Circuit Court
Eastern District of Missouri
Diverse 1909 Headlines Signal Global Tensions
Government sues western railroads to curb freight rates and Illinois plans similar action against Eastern lines. Prairie sails to Bluefields to protect American interests while San Francisco Chinese boycott American goods. Rock Island links to Pacific coast and Gulf routes. New York shipyard fire losses reach 500,900. Reform bureau seeks to block Jeffries Johnson fight. Rough Riders head to New York to meet Roosevelt. Oliffield sets American mile record. Salt trolley wreck kills one, injures 35. Crohn suicide follows sugar conspiracy charges. St Joseph banker swindle case yields four-year term. Oklahoma site offer for state capitol. Columbia grants W A White honorary master of arts. Long eyed as Ballinger successor. Lorimer vote bribery case arrests rich politician Broderick. Arkansas Mrs Potterton murder link dies. Pinchot arrives from Europe. Curtiss flies Albany to NYC 137 miles. Patten vows wheat retirement amid Ar mour feud. Kincade wins Indy 100 miles. Holstlaw admits Lorimer vote payoff. Edwards hails 16 hits in navy record. Sugar case pleas by Walker Voelker Halligan. Taft appoints Carpenter as Morocco envoy.
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Illinois Manufacturers’ Association
United States
Prairie
Bluefields
San Francisco
Rock Island
Pacific Slope
Indiana
Gulf of Mexico
Eastern Shipyard Company
New York
International Reform Bureau
Congress
Rough Riders
Texas
Oklahoma
Mr. Roosevelt
Barney Oliffield
Indianapolis Speedway
Oakland
Cal
R. S. Crohn
Kansas City
Stock Exchange
Joseph Hardebeck
St. Joseph
I. N. Putnam
Oklahoma City
State of Oklahoma
Columbia University
W. A. White
Emporia
Chester I Long
Kansas
Ballinger
John Broderick
Chicago
Holstlaw
Lorimer
Allen
Arkansas City
Kan
Potterton
Senator Burrows
Michigan
Gifford Pinchot
Department of Agriculture
Europe
Glenn H. Curtiss
Albany
N. Y
New York City
James A. Patten
J. Ogden Armour
Kincade
Indianapolis Automobile Speedway
Illinois
Sangamon County
J. R. Edwards
South Carolina
Harry W. Walker
John F. Voelker
James Halligan, Jr
New York Court
Taft
Fred W. Carpenter
Morocco
South Africa Joins Nations Amid Naval Effort and Disasters
Foreign Affairs notes the Union of South Africa asserting nationhood as it seeks American aid to raise the battleship Maine in Havana harbor. Lisbon dispatches report a Mozambique cyclone killing hundreds and devastating the city. divers find the French submarine Pluviose crushed after a collision with an English channel steamer, all 27 crew lost.
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Union of
Roosevelt on Biological Analogies in History Lecture
Roosevelts lecture explores analogies between animal life evolution and the rise and fall of nations. He discusses new forms from old civilizations, the death and transformation of tribes and states, and the need for science and moral strength to guide modern nations.
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Roosevelt
Western
Europe
Germany
Scandinavia
Eastern
Carthage
Syracuse
Tyre
Corinth
Victoria
Manitoba
England
Scotland
Warsaw
Kiel
Novgorod
Moscow
Poland
United States
Nile
Euphrates
Minoan
Crete
Aegean
Timoleon
Hampden
Washington
Lincoln
Geateoy
Charity and Prudence Reflected in City Fountain Inscriptions
An observant man found a drinking fountain with two conflicting inscriptions. The original Bible line read And whosoever will, let him take the water of life freely. A placard above urged Please do not waste the water. The juxtaposition sparks a meditation on life choices.
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British Isles
India
Egypt
Philippines
Lfe
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Holland
Great Britain
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