Canalers Protest Lowering of Mohawk Lift Bridge
Attorney Harry R Probasco warns the board of public works over a lowered Mohawk lift bridge that blocks canal traffic. Frank Morris resigns as assistant city engineer amid blame, while plans for reorganization and supplementary contracts unfold with Grainger & Co of Louisville.
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Board of Public Works
Miami & Erie Canal
Harry R. Probasco
Clifton Springs
Ohio Boat Company
Fred J. Broxtermann
Ridge
Frank Morris
Landmaker
Morris
Probasco
Gouncil
Mangame
Mohawk Place
Sandmaker
Board of Works
Crescent Mills
Woodsdale Island
Hamilton
Cincinnati Traction Company
Mohawk
Willis Fisher
Grainger & Co
Louisville
Truss Fire Collapses Chamber of Commerce Building
Building Commissioner Kuhlman says heat caused a truss to buckle, dropping weight onto the lower chord. The collapse buried six men under debris and six bodies were recovered. A coroner inquest has been underway, with testimony indicating the truss plan left girders unprotected from fire. The photos show the wreckage and fallen girders.
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Kuhlman
Chamber of Commerce
Progressive movement keynotes at McKinley Day banquet
Henry L. Stim son, defeated New York governor candidate, led the address at the Tippecanoe club banquet in Cleveland. He argued for strengthening state executives and integrating the progressive program with the Republican Party, citing initiative, referendum, recall, and direct senator elections. About 400 Republicans attended. Day was toastmaster as Stimson warned weak governors threaten representative government.
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Cleveland
Tippecanoe Club
Hollenden Hotel
Henry L. Stimson
New York
United States
Stimson
Ohio
William L. Day
Misuse of the Chamber of Commerce Building Charged by State Inspector
In Columbus on January 28 the debate over the United States senatorship between Atlee Pomerene of Canton and Edward W. Hanley of Dayton featured Governor Harmon speaking in parables. He also faced the Dean bill clash over local option law on saloons, with Harmon “taking no hand” as secretary George S. Long said. The governor remained inaccessible to reporters amid Democratic leadership troubles.
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Stimson
Republican Party
Jefferson
General Assembly
George S. Long
Alsdorf
Corey
Gosthal
Ohio
Licking County
Harmon
Dean
Senate
Tolman Heads National Loan Agents in US and Canada
D H Tolman with offices in sixty three cities including Cincinnati is seen as a leader of loan agents opposing a bill to recollect all interest from usury. Reports claim the governor may defeat the measure in the house. The piece notes Tolman’s Cincinnati office in Johnston Building Room 300 run by Miss S E Spicer and that he hires young women across offices.
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D. H. Tolman
United States
Canada
Cincinnati
Johnston Building
S. E. Spicer
Tolman
Senate
Attic misuse blamed for Cham ber of Commerce fire
State workshop and factory inspector Thomas C earn holds the disaster was caused by attic misuse rather than flaws in the building plan. City Building Inspector George Kuhlman supports the finding, noting the attic was not intended for storage of combustible material.
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Thomas Cearn
Chamber of Commerce
George Kuhlman
Kearn
Coe
Kuhlman
Fire destroys Carr Milling plant in Hamilton
A fire at the Carr Milling company plant in Hamilton Ohio gutted the four story building within an hour, causing about 125000 in loss mostly insured. The plant produced 250 barrels of flour per day and three thousand barrels of flour stored in the building were ruined. W P Carrols was named president of the company.
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Hamilton, O
Carr Milling Company
Fourth
Dayton
W. P. Carrols
McKinley memorial noted at Pittsburg tariff club dinner
Seven hundred or more members of the Young Men's Republican Tariff club and guests honored the late President McKinley at the annual dinner in Pittsburg. Judge Buffington presided as toastmaster. speakers included Governor Tener Congressman Madden Diekema and Senator Oliver who contrasted tariff principles with Taft's reciprocity policy and discussed the Panama canal project.
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Pittsburg
Young Men’s Republican Tariff Club
President McKinley
Joseph Buffington
United States Circuit Court
John K. Tener
Pennsylvania
Martin B. Madden
Chicago
Gerit J. Diekema
Michigan
George T. Oliver
Madden
Panama Canal Project
McKinley
United States
Washington
W. H. Taft
Oliver
Boy Accidentally Kills Sister in Kentucky Home
Special Dispatch reports Nellie Hagan six killed instantly when fifteen year old Flourny Hagan shoots sparrow with a twenty two caliber rifle. The hammer strikes the door as he enters Nellie’s room causing the discharge. Nellie dies and Flourny pleads to die, feared to lose his mind.
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Commercial Tribune
Lexington
Nellie Hagan
Flournoy Hagan
W. K. Hagan
Paris
King Seeks Criminal Libel Case Against Editor
London dispatch reports King George plans to pursue criminal libel against Edward F. Mylius of The Liberator for alleged morganatic marriage rumors to the prince of Wales. Mylius, jailed after Bow Street arrest, may be tried in central court or the high courts with a possible royal witness.
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London
News of the World
George
Prince of Wales
Malta
Edward F. Mylius
the Liberator
Paris
Mytius
Bow Street
Central
Alverstone
London Morning
Sunahead
Morn- Post
Mysae Ce
Taft backs reciprocity bill as McCall gateway to change
Washington January 28 President Taft backs a Canadian United states reciprocity accord while Representative Samuel McCall introduces the administration bill. The Ways and Means Committee will take it up next week with hearings limited. The bill proposes duties on Canadian goods and hinges on a proclamation of Canada matching New tariff acts. The outcome may require an extra session to complete action in both houses.
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Washington
Canada
United States
Congress
Taft
Samuel Walker Mc
Call
Massachusetts
Ways and Means Committee
House
Committee On Ways and Means
Payne
New York
Ways,and Means Committee
McCall
Poneaee Rece
Tari
Ways and Means
Rules Committee
Noittle
Capitol
Senate
Ways and, Means
State Department
Newt Ian Aes
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Thomas A. Dean
Fremont
Rose County
Wheeler
Portsmouth
Billy
Scioto County
Monister
Memorial
A. Z. Blair
Bowen
Carolna County
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Kuhlman Agrees
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M Call
Bureau of Statistics
Department of Commerce and Labor
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