Banquet to Feature 100 Possums for Taft Visit
Atlanta voters plan a banquet for January 15 with President Elect Taft as guest of honor. One hundred possums will be served with sweet potatoes, chosen from Rabun to Okefenokee to feed 600 guests, as southern hospitality lauds Taft’s southern welcome.
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Atlanta
Atlanta Chamber of Commerce
Eelect Taft
Taft
White House
South
Georgia
Rabun
Okefenokee
Persimmon
Diplomats Gather At Doorway In South End
A fragment describes diplomats and aides near a doorway in the south end, noting entrances and figures such as the ambassador and ministerial staff. Mentions Moltke and various European representatives with limited context.
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Helvimar
Arral
Red
Mass Meeting Aids Italian Disaster Survivors In City
Italian residents of this city organize committees to aid survivors of the disaster in the Fatherland. A mass meeting is planned for Sunday at the Horticultural Benevolent Association hall to discuss relief efforts, recalling prior floods and support from King Humbert's era.
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Horticultural Benevolent Association
Brazos
Brazos River
Humbert
Galveston
Movement Toward Establishing a National Children’s Bureau
Chicago notes a January conference where statesmen philanthropists and labor leaders plan a national child bureau. Dr Thomas Rotch of Boston will argue laws should consider autonomous age rather than chronological age in child labor protections.
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Chicago
Children's Bureau
National Child Committee
Thomas Rotch
Boston
Saloons Near Churches Banned In Louisiana
Louisiana's Gay-Shattuck law took effect forbidding saloons within 200 feet of churches or schools and banning gambling devices and musical instruments in bars. Several parishes statewide went dry, with Shreveport closing many saloons and Natchez delaying under streetwise legal questions.
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New Orleans
Louisiana
Acadia
Caddo
Vermillion
Calcasieu
Vernon
Fast Carroll
St Landry
Tangipahoa
Shreveport
Caddo Parish
First Birth of Year in Chicago at Midnight
Mrs. Mary Vietka is the proud mother of Chicago’s first baby of 1909 born at 12:01 a.m. as a police ambulance transported the mother to the county hospital. The child is a girl and the birth occurred just after the new year began.
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Chicago
Mary Vietkas
Girl
Texarkana Split Over Prohibition School District
Texarkana Arkansas faces a jurisdictional dispute as residents within three miles of the city schoolhouse seek a prohibition declaration. Petitioners claim a majority support but two and a half miles lie in Texas, placing the request outside state court authority. The case moves to the state supreme court.
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Texarkana
Ark
Texas
Barkansas
Supreme Court of the State
Biloxi Ends Saloon Era as Prohibition Takes Hold
Biloxi Mississippi reports the first time in 200 years no saloons operate after statutory prohibition. One saloon is adorned with crepe and a "Gene, but not forgotten" legend. In Mobile the Southern Railway shifts leadership to Colonel BR L Russell with expanded clerical staff. Civil action in New Orleans seeks 15500 from banker R L Riggs against William Rudolph for alleged misrepresentation and theft.
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Biloxi
Miss
Mississippi
Mobile
Southern Railway
BR. L. Russell
H. Hatcher
Columbus
New Orleans
R. L. Riggs
Morgan City
New York
William Rudolph
Riggs
Rudolph
Scientists' Views on Calabria Sicily Earthquake Discussed
Two scientists from Columbia University and New York University offered opinions on the Calabrian and Sicilian disaster. Dr James F Kemp argues the quake fits a theory of crustal contraction and submergence along the Strait of Messina while Prof Joy J Stevenson likens the event to a small dynamite blast with wide regional impact. He also compares it to the Charleston quake felt across several states. Additional items note counterfeit charges in Eufaula Alabama and near beer dealer closures in Atlanta.
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New York
Calabria
Sicily
James F. Kemp
Columbia University
Strait of
Messina
Joy J. Stevenson
New York University
Reggio
Palmero
Taormina
Naples
Stevenson
Charleston
S. C
Atlantic Ocean
Arkansas
Minnesota
Maine
Frightful Anarchy Plagues Reggio After Destruction
Jan 1 reports from Reggio describe mobs wrecking jewelry stores and banks, shedding blood of opponents, while disciplined soldiers patrol to defend remaining property. As chaos grows, relief teams struggle to cope with a devastated city and innumerable injured survivors.
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Reggio
Cholera Cases Rise in St Petersburg City
Cholera incidence in St Petersburg has increased due to cold weather with twenty six new cases and four deaths reported for the twenty four hours ending at noon Tuesday.
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St. Petersburg
Death of U S Consul Cheney and wife in Messina quake
News from New Haven reports the deaths of United States Consul and Mrs. Arthur Cheney in Messina after the earthquake. Postcards received by Cheney relatives and friends here wished them a merry Christmas and a happy New Year, adding a poignant note to the tragedy.
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New Haven
Conn
United States
Arthur Cheney
Messina
Cheney
Steamer Grange Rescued After Fierce Storm Sinks
Forty five aboard the Grange from Grange Mouth to London faced a violent sea in a recent storm. Water swept the deck and hatchways as waves broke on board. Passengers and crew launched in small boats and were rescued by a traveler before the Grange foundered.
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Shields
England
Grange
Grange Mouth
London
Birthday celebrants mark New Year in Chicago
Chicago residents observe the arrival of 1909 with birthday anniversaries and public festivities. The Tribune lists more than twenty prominent men taking part in the double celebration amid New Year events and social honors.
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Chicago
The
Tribune
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