Uncle Joe Cannon Poised to Redraw Ohio Roles in Congress
Old Order of Committee Apportionments to be changed as Speaker Cannon signals a new deal. General Grosvenor reports talks with Cannon about Ohio divisions and individual treatment, with assurances of fair consideration for his district. Urban migration and census shifts also noted.
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Otto Carmichael
Commercial Tribune
Washington
Ohio
Buckeye
Reed
Henderson
Cannon
Grosvenor
Not a Philistine She Asks Divorce in Roycroft Saga
Mrs. B Dibert Hubbard wife of Fraelbertus Hubbard the Roycroft crafts leader has left him and stays with her sister in Buffalo. Attorney Norris Morey will file for divorce while Fraelbertus defends their bond and explains she favors society and admiration over Roycroft ideals. The couple's children Ralph and others are in East Aurora with Hubbard parents. A separate custody suit by Weyland W Woodworth seeks $3,000 for a child’s board, with Fra Elbertus letters said to be used as evidence.
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Commercial Tribune
Buffalo
Bdibert Hubbard
Fraelbertus _Hubbard
Roycrofter
Hubbard
Fraelbertus
Morey
Roycroft
Hibbara
Bert
Ralph
Ford
Grove Street
East Aurora
Albertus
Roycroft Shop
Bertha C. Craw
Bloomington
Illinois
Highty
Silas Hubbard
Julia
Elbertus
Elbert
Weyland W. Woodworth
Alice
Moore
Woodworth
Addicks Tells Roosevelt He Is Sure To Win
J Edward Addicks of Wilmington Delaware met President Roosevelt to urge neutrality in the Delaware senatorial contest. Addicks could not pledge support and sought presidential stance on the political situation in the state.
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Addicks
Roosevelt
Delaware
Washington
J. Edward \adicks
Wilmington
Del
German writer fined for hippopotamus remark
In Berlin on December 6 a court awarded Fraulein Grete Meyer 25 dollars damages from critic Herr Strecker who likened her stage movements to a hippopotamus. The judge said such criticism lowers public esteem and must observe standard tones of the day. A separate Whiteville Tennessee report notes a bank robbery where a guard blew open the gate with dynamite and escaped with 2000 dollars before fleeing by car.
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Berlin
Fraulein Grete Meyer
Lessing ‘Theater
Herr Strecker
Canadian Pacific Express Derails in Halifax Tragedy
Six killed and many injured as Canadian Pacific Express plunges down an embankment near Belmont. Among the dead are engine driver Lemuel Triver of Truro and W B McDonald of New Glasgow. one unidentified woman and three unidentified men also confirmed dead. Fireman exposed to wreckage survived largely unhurt. cause under investigation.
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Halifax
Cynadian’ Pacific Express
New Ginsown
N.S
Cambon Sails for Havre From New York
Jules Cambon, former French ambassador to the United States, sailed from New York today aboard La Champigna bound for Havre.
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M. Cambon
New York
Jules
Cambon
France
United States
Havre
La‘Champigna
Death of ex Speaker Thomas Reed in Washington
Former U S House Speaker Thomas Brackett Reed died in his Arlington Hotel apartment at 12 10 AM after a brief illness of uremia. He had been bedbound since Tuesday and received saline transfusions as his kidneys failed. Born in Portland Maine October 18 1839 he rose to Congress in 1879 and served as Speaker in 1889 1891 and 1897.
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Washington
Thomas Brackett Reed
House ‘of Representatives
Arlington Hotel
Rees
Maine
Reed
Portland
Dartmouth College
House of
Hig
Wall Street
United States Supreme ‘Court
Capitol
Congress
Gardner
Ted
German Admiralty Denies West Indies Cruisers Deployment
Berlin December 6 The Admiralty Secretary Von Tirpitz told a U S Embassy member that the German cruisers Amazone Ariadne and Niobe will not be sent to the West Indies. Kiel and Wilhelmshaven papers note the 1900 naval law requires small cruisers to remain with the first squadron, delaying any foreign service until new ships are completed.
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Berlin
Admiralty
von Tirpitz
United States
Amazone
Pforeigh
Pers
Morgan’s coal trust to rival Northern Securities
In New York on December 6, financier J Pierpont Morgan plans a vast coal trust. He aims to control independent mines and nine coal carrying roads with capital near 400 million dollars. Morgan seeks to dominate the anthracite coal field and create a nationwide coal king.
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Delepatelito Commercial Tribune
New York
Pierpont Morgan
Northern Securities .Company
Will. Outao
United States
George F. Baer
Jerm
Igh
Faeshihases
Baer
Morgan
Lehigh “Valley
Barr
Dayton Factory Wins Share Of $300 Each In Tribune Dividend
Employed workers at a large Dayton Ohio factory rejoiced as ten of roughly 900 employees shared a $3,000 dividend from the Commercial Tribune contest on the Indiana vote. Foreman W W Spink collected the prize for his colleagues and his family celebrated at home on Horton Street.
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Dayton
Star of Fortune
Commercial Tribune
Indiana
A. Spink
Horton Street
Tribune
Spink
Davis
Club of Ten
Cercial Tribune
Mae Town
Janstbakike
Lawrenceport man to name town addition after vote contest win
Alfred Berry Andrews of Lawrenceport Indiana won a $4000 award from the Commercial Tribune Company for closest estimate of the total Indiana Secretary of State vote. A building boom will follow with ten cottages to be erected on Berry Andrews land, and a new street name in Lawrenceport is planned to honor the company.
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Lawrenceport
Lawrence County
Ind
Alfred Berry .Andrews
Town Commercial Tribune Co
Andrews
Indiana
Commercial Tribune Company
Commercial Tribune
Lawrt
Bedford
Riverdale
William Turley
Alfred Berry Andrews
Lawrence
Tunnel Finished After Six Years of Labor in Cleveland
The final earth depade and water tunnel sections were removed as workers completed most of the lake tunnel project stretching five miles to an intake crib in Lake Erie. Since work began, fifty lives have been lost to explosions and accidents as the tunnel lies 100 feet below the lake bottom.
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Cleveland
Erie
Lake Erie
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