Naval Academy midshipmen merit appointments and pay increase
The bill outlines merit based appointments for naval line and corps vacancies after graduation and sets a yearly cap of seventy five for new appointments. It allows honorable discharges and sea pay for those not receiving positions, and provides for retirement rules after thirty and forty years of service. It also mandates a 25 percent pay rise for officers and 40 percent for enlisted members in the navy and marine corps.
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Hival Democrats Still Wide Apart
Boston January 9 The Massachusetts Democratic factions from the Springfield state convention remain split at a Boston meeting of 27 of 56 committee members. Some refused to attend, awaiting tomorrow’s regular gathering. Calls by McNary and Feeney precede two expected spring conventions to contest Denver convention claims.
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Boston
Massachusetts
Springfield
William 8. McNary
John P. Feeney
Woburn
Denver
NYSE Member William Bourne Nevin Dies by Suicide
New York stock exchange veteran William Bourne Nevin aged 44 committed suicide by leaping in front of a subway train at Broadway and Seventy ninth street. His wife identified the body and said he had suffered heavy financial losses in recent months and had been in a demoralized health condition.
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Commercial Tribune
New York
William Bourne Nevin
New York Stock Exchange
Broadway
Seventy- Ninth Street
Kansas football captain commits suicide at university
Special Dispatch to Commercial Tribune from Lawrence Kansas reports Angney 22 year old captain of last year's Kansas Tate football team leaped from Frazer Hall at the university grounds and died. He is believed despondent.
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Tribune
Lawrence
Kan
Urban
Angney
Kansas
Tate
Frazer Hall
University
Should Man Benefit By His Own Crime Verdicts Settle Insurance
New York court faces a jury on whether a life insured policy benefits go to Mari Laeske and her sister from their murdered mother's life. The man serving life for murder reportedly would otherwise receive the deceased mother's policy share, but insurer refuses to pay to the convict, insisting crime bars gains.
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Commercial Tribune
New York
Supreme Court
Blanchard
Mari Laeske
Equitable Life Assurance Society
Mari
Julia
Equitable
Fish dealer acquitted on bass selling charge
William Co. Atherton, proprietor of a large market in Hamilton Ohio, was acquitted today by a jury in Magistrate Murphy's Court of selling black bass. Deputy State Warden C A Acton of Cincinnati arrested him. Witnesses testified the fish were salt water bass.
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Commercial Tribune
Hamilton, O
William Co. Atherton
Murphy's Court
Atherton
C. A. Acton
Cincinnati
Lindenwald Board of Education Sees Resignation
William J. Graham resigns from the Lindenwald Board of Education in Hamilton Ohio. The board issues a statement accusing his departure of failing to be re elected president. His son was accepted tonight and A Letherby chosen in his stead.
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Commercial Tribune
Hamilton, O
William J. Graham
Lindenwald Board of Education
Graham
Night End
A. Letherby
Tobacco Situation Probed in Kentucky Legislature
Kentucky Senate considers a three member Senate panel and four Representatives to investigate the tobacco industry, including the Tobacco Trust, and whether convict labor could be used in tobacco production. The move aims to address Kentucky’s tobacco troubles and potential state involvement.
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J. W. Newman
Woodford County
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Kentucky
Tobacco Societies
Tobacco Trust
Newman and Linn
Botsford
American Fleet Detected at Pernambuco En Route South
News from Pernambuco reports fifteen battleships visible from shore as the American fleet passed at noon. The German cruiser Bremen arrived in Rio de Janeiro and the American collier Abarenda has waited there since January 3. Captain Deichoff of Russia has come to witness the arrival of the fleet.
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Ohio Medical Board Announces New Licenses and Officers
The Ohio State Board of Medical Registration and Examination lists successful medical licensees from the latest exam, including names from Freeport to Columbus and Cleveland to Cincinnati. The board also announces officers with Dr A Ravagli as President, Dr S M Sherman as Vice President, Dr E B Wilson as Treasurer, and George H Matson as Secretary.
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Ohio State Board of Medical Registration and Examination
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Freeport
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Bridgeport
D. R. Canfield
Perrysburg
Frank D. Crowl
de Graff
James H. Deverb
Youngstown
Augustus L. Faler
Wapakoneta
Clarence McDonald
Newark
Samuel L. Fisher
Night riders threaten steamer captain and crew in Paducah
Paducah, Kentucky January 9 night riders warn the steamer W. H. Buttorff under Captain James Tyner not to move tobacco for American Tobacco Company American Snuff Company or French Italian Reggies along Cumberland River landings to Paducah. The crew is armed and warned to burn or sink the boat if orders are disobeyed with tobacco on board.
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Commercial Tribune
Paducah
Kentucky
Willson
James Tyner
W. H. Buttorff
Nashville
Cumberland River
Tyner
Two Million Tobacco Guarded in Lexington District
In Lexington Kentucky the white Burley tobacco region, containing warehouses and millions in value, is guarded by 75 state guards and a Gatling gun. Captain Woodyard commands four militia deputies, with 25 city policemen and 50 warehouse officers patrolling all night. Tobacco moves through Carlisle Paris Versailles as American Tobacco closes houses.
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Commercial Tribune
Lexington
White Burley Tobacco District
Frankfort
Willson
T. W. Woodyard
Tobacco
Burley
Carlisle
Paris
Versailles
American Tobacco Company
Equity society meeting seeks legal action on tobacco trust
Henderson Kentucky January session of the State Union of the American Society of Equity gathered as Louis Hancock a Webster County farmer urged Governor Willson to retract or prove his denunciation of the society. Delegates adopted a memorial urging Congress to enforce laws curbing the Tobacco Trust and to enact protections for growers.
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Henderson
State Union of the American Society of Equity
Louis Hancock
Webster County
Willson
Congress
Tobacco Trust
Guards Sent to Lebanon to Protect Tobacco Property
A detachment of twelve men from the First Regiment Kentucky militia left Louisville for Lebanon to guard tobacco warehouses after threats by night riders. Tobacco from across the state is being rushed to Louisville for storage to secure insurance amid fear of raids and policy cancellations. Local insurers said no policies had been canceled yet.
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Commercial Tribune
Louisville
Kentucky
Willson
Independents Halt Tobacco Purchases for 30 Days
In Cynthiana Kentucky on January 9 independents agreed to stop buying tobacco for thirty days. The American Tobacco Company warehouse will not buy further but will accept already contracted goods and then close. Ten state militia members guard the town each night.
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Commercial Tribune
Cynthiana
American Tobacco Company
Barnett Declines Fort Fire Marshal Post Offers
Cicero M. Barnett explained after a meeting with State Auditor James that he would not take the Fire Marshal appointment. He cited unjust criticism over his role as President of the Society of Equity and his decision not to relocate his family to Indianapolis. Stanley Milward of Lexington is reported to have been offered the post. Barnett also said he filed resignation with the Society of Equity’s Executive Board in Indianapolis for action at the next meeting.
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Commercial Tribune
Frankfort
Cicero M. Barnett
James
Society of Equity
Stanley Milward
Lexington
Executi Board
Indianapolis
Independent tobacco firms suffer as Metropolitan moves in
In a New York hearing on the governments suit against American Tobacco Company, A. F. Hillman testifies that New York City tobacco jobbers declined from 175 to about 20 after Metropolitan Tobacco Company entered the market. David H. Schulte says his chain’s profits fell from 30 to 15 percent as United Cigar Stores expands and pushes small dealers out.
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Commercial Tribune
New York
A. P F. Hillman
A. H. Hillman Company
American Tobacco Company
New York City
Metropolitan Tobacco Company
David H. Schulte
Metropolitan
Schulte
United Cigar Stores Company
Relief Ordered Into Commission as Naval Hospital Ship
Washington January 9 The Navy Department issued the formal order to put the hospital ship Relief into service as a naval auxiliary under Surgeon Charles F Stokes. It is planned to have her ready by February 1 but funding remains unclear with more than 20 000 needed and current allotments nearly exhausted due to repairs to auxiliaries.
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Commercial Tribune
Washington
Brownson
Navy Department
Naval Auxiliary
Charles F Stokes
Oxford Farmers Institute and Co Show Opens in Hamilton
The Oxford Farmers' Institute and Co Show opened in Oxford with State speakers John P. Brown of Mechanicsburg and J. P. Davis of Sheridan Indiana. The sessions run through Saturday afternoon.
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Commercial Tribune
Hamilton
Oxford Farmers' Institute and Co
Oxford
John P. Brown
Mechanicsburg
J. P. Davis
Sheridan
Ind
Obituaries for Connor Goldfaden and Lawrence in New York
Christopher H. Connor Democratic politician and Bryan campaign leader in La Crosse died in Spokane Washington. Abraham P. Goldfaden 67 famed poet playwright Father of the Jewish Drama died in East Side New York City. Cyrus J. Lawrence 76 banker and vice president of Bush Terminal Company died in New York City. director of New York Susquehanna & Western Railway.
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Spokane
Wash
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East Side
New York City
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Bracken Society of Equity Defends County Reputation
A Bracken County committee denounces false reports blaming the Society of Equity for violence. They stress peaceful visits to recruit farmers, credit over 100 signups, and a $425 reward for the Germantown warehouse arson investigation. Committee members include George B. Kinney and James A. Thompson.
Revolutionary Plot Found in Warsaw Fortress
Warsaw January 9. Seven officers are imprisoned after authorities uncovered a revolutionary plot in the fortress artillery command. Police conduct domiciliary searches across the garrison quarters.
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Warsaw
Cotton Ginning Totals for 1907-08 by State Report
The Census Bureau reports 9,955,427 bales ginned for growth 1907 to Jan 1 1908, with round bales counted as half. Sea Island totals, ginneries active in 1907, and state by state ginnings and ginneries are listed, including Florida 25,214 and Georgia 37,129 bales, with Texas leading at 2,092,735 bales and 3,968 ginneries.
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Washington
Census Bureau Today
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Florida
Georgia
South Carolina
Father of seven takes own life in Millville
Joseph H. Sheppard, a Millville man with seven children, ended his life citing inability to support his large family. Despondent after the seventh child was born this week, he paced the floor all night and then shot himself.
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Commercial Tribune
Millville
N. J
Joseph H. Sheppard
Woman fatally struck by Erie train in Warren
A 70 year old woman, Mrs Charles Islas, was struck by an Erie passenger train at 5 pm in Warren Ohio. She was killed instantly and her body wedged against the locomotive pilot, carried several blocks before the train could be stopped.
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Commercial Tribune
Warren, O
Charles Islas
Erie
Old Soldiers Urge Canteen Restoration by Congress
Resolutions passed by trustees of the soldiers' home in New York request Congress to restore the canteen. Major Benjamin McConnell, a trustee, says reestablishing the canteen is an absolute necessity.
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Congress
Commercial Tribune
Bath
N. Y
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Taft Seeks Law Change To Define Rights
Ohio labor leader asks critical questions and Taft answers in full. The discussion covers proposed legal definitions and the scope of worker rights as debated on the political stage.
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Ohio
Taft on Judge Substitution and Court Authority in Contempt
The letter argues against allowing a change of judge in contempt cases to preserve court authority and timely enforcement. Taft emphasizes that appearance of justice matters, warning that jury intervention could delay rulings and weaken the court’s power, while noting possible public confidence gains from preserving dignity of judicial action.
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Court of Appeals
Federal Court of Appeals
William H, Taft
Miss Anna Hall Appears in Supreme Court Case
In Columbus Ohio on January 9 Miss Anna Hall of Cincinnati presented her own case in the Supreme Court. Daughter of Arctic explorer Dr John Hall she backed a controversial bill two years ago to end pain for the hopelessly wounded. Her ongoing litigation stems from the administration of her father’s estate with her brother as an opponent.
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Columbus
Supreme Court
The
Fair Advocate
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Hall
Cincinnati
John Hall
General Assembly
Miss Hall
Granular nourishment touted over traditional bread
A writer argues that the most nourishing bread-like food may be granules rather than bread, suggesting a novel form of sustenance.
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