Roosevelt Criticizes Perkins Over Navy Policy
President Roosevelt condemns Perkins for seven years of hindering navy support and urges Speaker Stanton to consider a fair, Western-friendly approach. He expresses willingness to assist and directs Governor Gillett to relay messages to Flint and Stanton.
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Perkins
Washington
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Eldothetun
J. P. Transue
Los Angeles
Modern Whale Meat Could Be Marketed As Food
Frederic J. Haskin discusses a planned shift in whaling economics with Alaska’s Tyee as the first hub. He notes 70 ton whale meat equaling 200 fat steers, the move from fertilizer to canned meat, and the fishing fleet based in San Francisco heading to Arctic grounds with harpoon guns and steamers.
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Norway
New England
New Bedford
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Divorced Wife of Lee Jung Tries Suicide in Cincinnati
Ethel May Nash a 19 year old divorced wife of Lee Jung the wealthiest Chinese man in Cincinnati attempted to end her life with permanganate of potassium at Mrs. Kate Harrington 714 Walnut street where she roomed. She was taken to the city hospital in critical condition. Nash had a brief marriage to Lee Jung then filed for divorce a few weeks earlier. She had posed as the wife of a soldier named Hutchinson at Fort Thomas and rented rooms from Harrington. After a quarrel with Hutchinson police say she was depressed and had no friends or relatives remarks she made before collapsing.
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Kate Harrington
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City Hospital
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Lee
West Sixth Street
Indianapolis
Jou
Taft Completes His Panama Canal Investigation Report Expected
President elect Taft and party left Colon aboard the North Carolina and Montana as he said engineers will hand him a report by the New Orleans landing. He praised progress and esprit de corps while visiting the isthmus and urged completion funding discussions in Washington.
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New Orleans
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Martin Behrman
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Senate
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Japan
A. E. Campbell
Two Revenue Cutter Skaters Drowned in Ice Break
In Woods Hole a cedar swamp pond claimed Charles Gottliebson from the revenue cutter Acushnet and Seaman Oscar Rongvens after ice failed during a rescue attempt. Bodies recovered after about fifty minutes in frigid water. Both men had been skating with Acushnet and Fish Hawk crews. ice honeycombed by recent warm days. Gottliebson was from New York. Rongvens a Kabelnaag native.
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Charles Gottliebson
Acushnet
Oscar Rongvens
Fishhawk
United States Fish Commission
Gottliebson
New York
Rongvens
Kabelnaag
Norway
Southern Christian planters press prompt sale of leaf tobacco
About sixty farmers from southern Christian county met at Longview schoolhouse to demand that Ewing permit immediate sale of their leaf through the Planters Protective association. They argued that selling through loose floor sales delays and raises costs. A follow up meeting is set for Thomasville with a county mass gathering planned in Hopkinsville. the group controls about 2,000,000 pounds of tobacco.
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Ewing
Thomasville
Hopkinsville
Rowe Reports On Pan American Visit And Canal Progress
Dr. I S Rowe chairman of the American delegation to the Pan American scientific congress arrived on the Al lliancia from Colon after a week on the isthmus studying canal work He met President elect Taft and presented his view of South America's international situation He praised Canal workers zeal and Colonel Goethals esprit de corps noting a minor sinking at Gatun dam as a temporary setback in a colossal project.
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I. S. Rowe
Pan-American Scientific Congress
Alliancia
Colon
Taft
South America
Rowe
Goethals
Gatun
Cardinal Gibbons Leaves for New Orleans Visit
Cardinal Gibbons departed Baltimore to visit his brother in New Orleans where he will attend a dinner for President-elect Taft and deliver the invocation.
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Elves of Oberon
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Country Club
Hotel Grunewald
Cardinal Gibbons
Baltimore
New Orleans
Shooting at Halsted Street five-cent theater in Chicago
Confusion near panic as a quarrel over seating led a patron to draw a revolver and fire multiple shots during a crowded show. Daniel Zincarreli was wounded and likely to die. the assailant escaped into the night.
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Chicago
Halsted Street
Daniel Zincarreli
Navy reorganization board named by Roosevelt meets in Washington
The Roosevelt appointed board includes former secretaries Paul Morton and W H Moody judge Alston G Dayton and five retired rear admirals R D Evans S B Luce W M Folger A T Mahan and W C Cowles. It aims to prepare the navy for potential hostilities by studying foreign models and industrial organization practices.
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Roosevelt
Washington
the Navy
Paul Morton
W. H. Moody
Alston G. Dayton
West Virginia
House Naval Affairs Committee
R. D. Evans
S. B. Luce
W. M. Folger
A. T. Mahan
W. C. Cowles
Great Britain
Germany
France
Simple Ceremony Planned for the Taft Ratification
Washington Feb 7 The formal ratification of Taft and Sherman as president and vice president will be held in the House chamber next Wednesday. The event will be ceremonial with both houses, diplomatic corps, officials, and families attending. The procession from the senate to the House will include the gavels and electoral certificates and conclude with Taft and Sherman officially declared elected.
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William Howard Taft
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James Schoolcraft Sherman
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Dayton Girl Died Unsovled Autopsy Fails to Name Cause
Dayton Ohio February 7 final autopsy on Elizabeth Fulhart Vandalia victim reveals no poison traces or skull fracture and shows death likely occurred before water exposure. Police consider possible drugging as the remaining theory while officials say crime attempt may have been concealed by discarding the body in a cistern. Nearby Mrs Edward Hatfield fought off a nighttime attacker, rescued by her husband. assailant fled.
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Elizabeth
Fulhart
Vandalia
Madman with Rifle Kills Two and Wounds Three
In Shelbourne Ontario on February 7, George Stewart, a mentally unbalanced young farmer, killed two people and seriously injured three others with a rifle. After attacking his brother, he shot Mrs Spanhouse and killed her husband, beat a man upstairs, and assaulted Edwin Pounds' household, before fleeing to Maple Valley where he was arrested.
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Ont
George Stewart
Maple Valley
Stewart
Reddickville
John Spanhouse
Edwin Pounds
George Beaumont
Duel Ends in Tragedy in Leadwood Main Street
In Deslogh Missouri on February 7 George Ketcherside and John Hughes killed each other in a duel on Leadwood Main street in front of widow Mrs Adams home. Ketcherside boarded with Adams and jealousy sparked the confrontation. Hughes returned with a revolver and both men fired at close range, dying as their bodies lay across one another.
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Deslogh
George Ketcherside
John Hughes
Leadwood
Battleship Fleet Passes Cape St. Vincent All Well
The American battleship fleet led by Rear Admiral Sperry, returning from Gibraltar, passed Cape St. Vincent at 10 this morning and signaled that all ships were well.
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Portugal
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Governor Harmon plans sweeping changes in Ohio board
Gov Harmon intends to remove at least four of ten Ohio state board of agriculture members claiming geographic and other flaws. He has named Jacob Biedler and Jesse Crosse as new members and will appoint William L. Finley as oil inspector. Finley faces a leadership fight as he seeks to place allies in key state positions while balancing administration relations.
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Commercial Tribune
Columbus
Harmon
Ohio State Board of Agriculture
A. “Pat’’ Sandles
Ottawa’ County
Tr. Au. Calvert
Jacob Biedler
Lake County
Jesse Crosse
Fayette County
State Board of Agriculture
William L. Finley
William H. Phipps
Finley
Garber
Flood Losses Rise to Seventy Three Million in Seven Years
Washington reports show flood damages rising from 45 million in 1900 to 118 million in 1907 with the sharpest gains on streams draining heavily logged mountain forests. The majority backs land acquisition for watershed protection, while a minority urges soil tillage and fire protection instead.
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