Roosevelt Rivalry Over Hospital Ship Command Explained
The article details President Roosevelt's stance on placing hospital ships under medical officers, the Navy's need for obedience to lawful orders, and Secretary Bonaparte's 1906 order. It recalls historical cases, argues against line officers' command, and notes Admiral Brownson's silent response amid a South Carolina duck hunting trip.
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Isthmian Canal docks stay at 100 feet width
The Isthmian Canal Commission will urge the War Secretary to keep canal docks at the projected 100 foot width, deeming it ample for years. If Navy and President decide on 110 feet, expansion is possible at reasonable cost to meet future warship beam growth.
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Commercial Tribune
Washington
Isthmian Canal Commission
Secretary of War
Canal
Navy Department
Navy
Rent Riots Break Out On East Side
Incipient rent riots erupted on the East Side as landlords clash with striking tenants. Police reserves quelled disorders though many combatants were injured and five were arrested. Injured could not be counted as they were moved by friends. The unrest spread across the affected district.
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Commercial Tribune
New York
MUNCIE SITUATION SEEMS BETTER DESPITE CLASHES
Special Dispatch reports in Muncie Indiana that the mob backbone is broken as car lines run all day with few attacks on the outskirts. Troops under Major General W J McKee maintained order. he says today was calmer and expects no further major outbreaks, only possibly minor incidents by small children.
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Commercial Tribune
Muncie
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W. J. McKee
Money in a Nutshell and the Gold Inflation Question
Frank C. Harper argues that excess money beyond gold coinage and clear gold backing causes inflation and rising costs. He links recent price hikes to increased gold production and bank credit, noting global price trends and the burden on workers, with a forecast of further effects during the coming financial crisis.
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Muhleman
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Latin America Plans Approved Foster Close Ties
President Roosevelt expresses interest in Latin America relations in a letter to Dr. L. S. Rowe of the University of Pennsylvania. Rowe's tour of South America informs plans for closer intellectual ties, to be discussed at the Association of American Universities meeting at the University of Michigan. The aim is university cooperation to solve American continental problems and strengthen Western hemisphere unity.
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Commercial Tribune
Philadelphia
Roosevelt
Latin America
L. 5. Rowe
University of Pennsylvania
United States
Rowe
Association of American Universities
University of Michigan
South America
Western Hemisphere
Obituary notices of Lane Kaiser Allstatter and Fairbank deaths
Obituary notices report the deaths of Mrs. C. H. Lane mother of Franklin K. Lane aged 70 in San Francisco and Rev Alois Kaiser aged 68 in Baltimore a gantor and composer native of Austria. Robert Allstatter 73 Hamilton founder Long Allstatter and water board former president died suddenly in Hamilton of heart disease. William H. Fairbank 71 ex Massachusetts commissioner at Portland and Jamestown expositions died in Warren Mass. His 1906 libel suit against District Attorney Moran over state property accounting awaits docket action next week.
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Public Ethics Lecture by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Mrs. Charlotte Perkins Gilman author and reformer will lecture at Vine Street Congregational Church this evening at 8. The English press praised her tour of England. Her talk will cover the subject Public Ethics.
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Vine Street Congregational
Ohio State Poultry and Corn Show Opens Next Tuesday
Entries closed last night for the Ohio State Poultry and Corn Show to be held in the opera house at Washington Court House starting Tuesday morning. Ohio leads with many exhibitors from Cincinnati Cleveland Toledo Columbus and other cities with Indiana close behind. The event features grain displays including prize corn from the National Exposition winners and a special ladies department with bread butter and cakes.
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Jerome May Bar Evelyn Plans to Attack Experts
Attorneys for prisoner Will R rely on claim of temporary insanity in a case echoing Thaw and Nesbit hearings. The article outlines legal strategy over admissibility of testimony, cross examination limits, and the mental state claims surrounding Thaw and the Wood case.
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Thaw
Dowling
Garvan
Harry Thaw
Evelyn Nesbit
Jerome
Stanford White
Justice Fitzgerald
Mattawan
Tobacco Pooling Fight Feeds Day Riders and Night Riders Rumors
The article reports a clash between antitrust growers and pooling societies over control of Kentucky and Tennessee tobacco markets. It notes losses from warehouses, pressure on independents, and plans by pooling leaders to withhold planting in 1908 to push prices higher. It warns of intimidation by day riders and ongoing fights for market power and fair prices.
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Night Riders
Tobacco Company
Excerpts From General Bell on European Horsemanship Tests
General Bell summarizes European cavalry standards noting regular equitation and endurance courses for officers from major to colonel, daily schooling, and active riding when not engaged in duty. He cites French, German, and Italian practices, including long drag hunts and strenuous marches, as models for maintaining frontline readiness.
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Germany
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Hanover
Riding Institute
Italy
Hopkinsville Tobacco Gathering Promises Large Farm Meeting
Reports from the region say a vast gathering of farmers will convene in Hopkinsville tomorrow to advance their tobacco organization. Thousands of growers are expected. The grand jury investigating the Hopkinsville night riders raid has not returned indictments. Judge James Breathitt has received anonymous threats linked to his probe.
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Commercial Tribune
Hopkinsville
James Breathitt
Kentucky
Night Riders
Will Expel Night Riders from the Equity Society
James Helen of Fargo travels to Indianapolis for a special Executive Committee meeting to address depredations by night riders in Tennessee and Kentucky. He plans a resolution to expel members if they are proven to belong to the society and to condemn unlawful methods harming the society and thousands of farmers.
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Commercial Tribune
Fargo
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American Society of Equity
Indianapolis
Tennessee
Kentucky
Helen
Jury pool narrowed for Thaw trial progress
Report notes only 100 of 300 talesmen summoned will be present tomorrow to begin jury service. Plan calls for a similar number each of the first three trial days as judges anticipate a lengthy jury panel process for the Thaw case.
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