Sound Money for the Philippines Congress to Act
Cabinet discussion on Philippine currency shifts from a depreciated Mexican dollar to a fixed peso or peso based on silver. Secretary Root and Secretary Gage favor a silver peso with two pesos per two gold dollars, plus risks of bullion value shifts and redemption costs. Congress urged to decide on free coinage or a minted peso tied to silver ratio.
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Rcial Tribune
Washington
McKinley
Philippines
China
Root
Congress
Manila
United States
Gage
Groat Oleo Bill Passes the House
Long debate blocks the measure as Representative Grosvenor opposes it stating it would create laws on marriage and divorce. Senate and House War Claims committees favor a bill giving the Court of Claims jurisdiction to hear heirs of William Kiskadden for 21000 tied to destruction of horses wagons and harness used for transporting the First Colorado Volunteers from Denver to Fort Union New Mexico during the Civil War. Judge Alexander Kiskadden of Tiffin Ohio is named as an heir.
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Rivers and Harbors Committee
E. P. Wilson
Cincinnati
John L. Vance
Gallipolis
Ohio Valley Improvement Association
Wilson
Ohio River
Comptroller of the Currency
Citizens’ National Bank
Chillicothe
George A. Vaughters
Herbert E. Holland
Southard
Foraker
Senate
Bramwell
State Department
Milton A. McRae
Turkey
Egypt
Greece
Wheeler
Kentucky
Secretary of the Treasury
van Voorhis
Weaver
House Committee
Zansville
Taylor
Ohio
Congress
House Committees On
Court of Claims
Wm. Kiskadden
Colorado
Denver
Ft. Union
N. M
Alexander Kiskadden
Tiffin, O
Outlook Steady Trade Lift Despite Quiet Markets
R G Dun and Co reports a cautious, steady US economy with booked industrial orders at near full capacity for months, steady commodity prices, and brisk holiday trade in footwear, with crop markets mixed as hides ease and wool holds. The note highlights strength in cereals and a firmer cotton and rice outlook in the South.
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New York
R. G. Dun & Co
Chicago
Religion of a Gentleman by Charles F. Dole
New pamphlet promoted by author of The Coming People and Theology of Civilization offers practical spiritual guidance. Cloth binding with gilt top priced at one dollar, praised by the Boston Herald as a thoughtful, action encouraging read.
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Charles F. Dole
Boston Herald
J. R. Miller
D.D
Merrymount Press
Maysville Murderer Gibson Breaks Under Pressure
John Gibson, jailed in Maysville for the Catlettsburg child murder, shows signs of collapse as officials press him for a full confession. He maintains innocence, claims the girl died from a fall, and fears lynching though no mob action has occurred.
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Commercial Tribune
Maysville
John Gibson
Catlettsburg
Gibson
Funston Leads Charge Against Insurgents in Luzon
Reports from Northern and Southern Luzon note intensified operations. General Funston with Troop A and scouts crossed the Nehico River driving insurgents from cover and leaving four dead. Lieutenant Morrow’s party from the Forty-seventh Regiment occupied Bulacan after engagement with Colonel Victoris’s entrenched force. Major Flores and several followers were captured earlier.
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Manila
Luzon
Funston
Fourth Cavalry
Nehico River
Morrow
Forty
Bulacan
Victoris
Flores
Bevis Seeks Legal Separation From Wife Over Minister Allegations
Elias G. Bevis of Prospect files in Common Pleas Court for legal separation from Jennie M. Bevis alleging numerous charges against a local minister of the Gospel involving indiscreet pastoral duties.
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Commercial Tribune
Marion, O
Elias G. Bevis
Prospect
County
Common Pleas Court
Jennie M. Bevis
Transatlantic Arrivals and Arrivals Reported Abroad
MARINE news from Gibraltar and Queenstown notes arrivals of the Aller to Naples and Genoa and the Cam pania to New York for Liverpool arriving in Rotterdam and Liverpool reports. The Book sails from Liverpool and The P Liverpool arrives via Boulogne with the Amsterdam to New York.
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Queenstown
Campania
New York
Liverpool
Rotterdam
Amsterdam
Boulogne
the Book
Senate to vote on Hay Pauncefote amendment Thursday
In executive session Senator Teller offered an amendment to the Hay Pauncefote treaty. The amendment would strike the ban on fortifications near the canal and allow a military force to protect the canal against lawlessness. The vote is set for Thursday at 3 o'clock.
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Washington
Senate
Committee On Foreign Relations
Teller
United States
Colorado
Netherlands and Portuguese ministers resign over exequatur dispute
In Lisbon on December 7, Dutch ministers to Portugal and the Portuguese minister in the Hague resigned. The withdrawals relate to a dispute over the exequatur for the Dutch Consul at Lorenzo Marques.
Dutch Portuguese Ministers Temporarily Leave Posts
In The Hague on December 7 the temporary departure of the Dutch minister in Lisbon and the Portuguese minister in The Hague is not seen as a recall. Count de Selix will travel to Lisbon for a verbal explanation of issues tied to the Netherlands consul Herr Pott at Lorenzo Marques.
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The
Hague
Netherlands
Lisbon
Portugal
Count de Selix
Herr Pott
Lorenzo Marques
Disappearance Case Ends in Found Body at Aplin Farm
Four months after Lew Campbell vanished from Greenville Michigan, authorities found his body, packed in lime, in a hole under an old haymow on the farm where Amos Aplin had lived. Aplin had earlier arrived and claimed to have bought Campbell's property. The skull was present and the body badly decomposed.
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Greenville
Mich
Lew Campbell
Aplin
Campbell
Grape-Nuts Aids Yet Does Not Cure Rheumatism Case
A Harrisburg Ohio woman says Grape-Nuts greatly helped her health after years of poor diet. She describes relief from insomnia and nerve weakness, less sleep disruption, and reduced rheumatic pain, though she remains not fully cured. The Pos tum Cereal Company will furnish the name.
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Harrisburg
Postum Cereal Company, Ltd
Battle Creek
Rathbone's Cuba Post Office Bill of Expenses Revealed
Senate release shows E G Rathbone late Cuba Postal Director charged with 16 month disallowances totaling 72631 dollars. items include 850 dollar Duchess carriage February 1899 and numerous carriage and stable costs through 1900 plus 925, 368, 133, 121 and 1356 dollar bills to firms. printing bills to R H Cowan & Co deemed illegitimate.
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Washington
Platt
Connecticut
Senate
Cuba
War Department
E. G. Rathbone
New York
Rathbone
R. H. Cowan & Co
Muncie
Ind
Reminiscences and Historical Works for Sale
Book list announcing Reminiscences of a Very Old Man by John Sartain and other titles by Edgar Sanderson M.A. Edgar Stanton Maclay A.M. A. A. Macdonell and more. Describes formats 12mo 8vo half leather cloth with prices from 1.50 to 3.50.
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John Bach
John Sartain
Edgar Sanderson
M.A
Edgar Stanton Maclay
A.M
United States Navy
Ohio Representative Proposes Federal Polygamy Prohibition Plan
Representative Taylor of Ohio introduces a measure for a constitutional amendment to create uniform marriage and divorce laws nationwide. He aims to extend beyond mere standardization to abolish polygamy and end it, after a conference of supporters and despite not being on the Judiciary Committee.
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Washington
Taylor
Ohio
Brigham H. Roberts
Utah
Congress
Judiciary Committee
Gage urged to stay as Treasury head by Baltimore businessmen
President Hoover and thirty Baltimore Clearing House, savings bank, and Merchants and Manufacturers Association leaders met at the Treasury to press Secretary Gage to remain for another four years. Gage responded he hopes to stay, asking bankers to “hang out cautionary signals” if he errs and praise if he is right.
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Washington
Homer
Baltimore Clearing House
Clearing House
Savings Banks
Merchants’ and Manufacturers’ Association
Baltimore
Treasury Department
Gage
Auditors Seek Early Decision on Decennial Board Case
In Columbus Ohio Auditor Eugene Lewis and several county auditors push for an early ruling on parts of the Roger and Hendley acts focusing on the validity of the Decennial Board of Revision. The case will be heard on briefs and a decision is hoped before the December 20 holiday adjournment, potentially enabling the Cincinnati Equalization Board to sit next summer as the Decennial Board of Revision.
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Commercial Tribune
Columbus
Eugene Lewis
Roger and
Hendley
Board of Revision
Cincinnati Equalization Board
Cure a Cold in One Day Uses Laxative Bromo Quinine
An advertisement touts a one day cure for colds with Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets. It promises refunds if ineffective and features E Wy Groves signature on each box. The price is 25 cents.
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Aists
E. Wy. Groves
New Fiction Notices from London Authors at Reasonable Prices
The London Atheneum praises Mr. Garland for fresh vigorous work and strong storytelling in Cupid's Garden as well as noting his skill and artistic sympathy. Also advertised are The Story of the Plains by E Hough and Or, The Six Golden Horseshoes by Hezekiah Butterworth with illustrations by Frank T. Merrill, all in 12mo cloth bindings at $1.50.
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Cyrus Townsend Brady
Reuben James
James Grant Wilson
G. A. Forsyth
Army
R. F. Zogbaum
Ripley Hitchcock
A. A. Macdonell
M.A
Boden
University of Oxford
Edmund Gosse
The
London Atheneum
Garlard
Garland
Ellen Thorneycroft Fowler
Plains
E. Hough
Kentucky
William E. Barton
Hezekiah Butterworth
Lincoln
Frank T. Merrill
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