Bloody Streets Reported as Europe Faces General Strike
Telegrams from Riga and St Petersburg describe railroad workers and socialists rallying against the tsarist regime. Arrests of union leaders prompt mass statements to resist. editors defy press law while rail lines threaten across Livonia and Moscow.
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Livonia
Riga
St. Petersburg
Central Committee
Moscow
M. Dronshilny
M. Kokhanovski
Durnovo
Methodist New Parsonage to Be Built This Year in Bryan
Dr. Betts, serving a third year as pastor of Bryan Methodist Church, reports strong church growth and plans for a new parsonage to be built and paid for within the conference year. The congregation added 152 members in two years, raised nearly ten thousand dollars, and reduced church debt to about three thousand dollars.
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Bryan
Cloarch Extension Board
Epworth League and
Juvenile Missionary Society
Betts
Bryan Church
Witness Ide Testifies in Home Life Inquiry
George E. Ide president of Home Life Insurance Co of New York testifies before the legislative investigating committee. He states the company pays no broker commissions on investments and that some officials may have received commissions on their own policies. He offers to provide a list. The company pays a $1,000 pension to a clerk unable to work since founding.
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New York
Home Life Insurance Company of
Legislative Insurance Investigating Committee
George E. Ide
Ide
Hughes
Ire
Tuskegee Institute Anniversary to Be Celebrated in April
It is announced that the twenty-fifth anniversary of the founding of the Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute will be celebrated in April 1906. President Eliot of Howard University will be one of the principal speakers.
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New York
Tuskegee Normal and Industrial Institute
Eliot
Howard University
Football Fatality in Russiaville Claims Grover Mason
Grover Mason aged eighteen, injured with a head blow in a Ridgeville versus local high school football game three weeks ago, died at his Russiaville home. Initial medical notes had deemed his injuries minor.
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Russiaville
Ind
Grover Mason
Ridgeville
Travelings Man's Wife Faces Fatal Self Inflicted Wound
Atlanta December 11 Mrs Cora Jones wife of J M Jones a traveling man and daughter of the late Jesse Wood shot herself through the heart in a suicide prompted by ill health.
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Atlanta
Cora Jones
J. M. Jones
Jesse Wood
Engineers Strike Near on Atlanta and Birmingham Route
Waycross Georgia December 11 Engineers on the Atlanta and Birmingham railroad and the firemen threaten to strike over salary raises. The heads of both unions have authorized the action imminent and the dispute centers on pay increases.
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Waycross
Atlanta and Birmingham Railroad
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Howell Brothers
Batavia
Oliver Typewriter
Geo. A. Adams
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Pure Drugs
Sef
Wer
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Chine Guns
Methodist New Parsonage
Dr. Betts
Gins
Home Life Insurance Company
Grand Opera House
Mr. Albert Taylor
Stevenson Machine
Japan
Apohdes
Sam Leading Brands
Post
Silas &. Johnson Parker
Montreal
Oriental
Roauve
Globehernieke
Brussels
Levy Bros
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