Real estate man shot in Key Park Mississippi
A real estate man Middagh formerly of Chicago was shot and killed in Key Park Mississippi by Wes Young a Black man. The motive appears linked to an attempt on W G Grubbs who accompanied Middagh. Young escaped.
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Jast
Missouri
Cimarron
Kan
North Yakima
Wash
Interstate Emmerce Commission
Northwest
East Ninety-ninth Street
New York
Exess
Edwater
Texas
W. A. Gristte
Gris Bette
John Brand
Mcixeesport
Fire damages Hygeia Brewery plant in Passaic NJ
Fire at Hygeia Brewing Company in Passaic New Jersey causes 175000 dollars in losses. The news item covers multiple unrelated events including a deadly lamp explosion in Hagerstown Maryland and a dynamite blast at Moccasin Gap Virginia.
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Hygeia Brewing Company
Passaic
N. J
Emma Brnde
Grace
Gladys
Hagerstown
Moccasin Gap
South and Western Railroad
Magnate Killed in Virginia Railroad Wreck
Samuel Spencer head of Southern Railway died in a Virginia wreck ten miles south of Lynchburg while guests on a hunting trip perished. Eleven were injured. only Merrill and one porter survived. The collision of Jacksonville express and Washington and Southwestern vestibule limited caused the fire and deaths.
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Samuel Spencer
Southern Railway
Virginia
Southern Railroad Company
Lynchburg
Spencer
Mr. Spencer
E. A. Merrill
Charles D. Fisher
Baltimore
Gill & Fisher
Francis T. Redwood
Lownes & Redwood
Philip Schuyler
New York
New York Life Insurance Company
Southern Railway Company
Mr. Fisher
Mr. Redwood
Friendship
North Carolina
South
Jacksonville
Washington and Southwestern Vestibule Limited
Davis
Fisher
Desertion Rates Rise in United States Army
The 1906 annual report of the military secretary shows 6,258 desertions, equal to 7.4 per 100 soldiers. The rate rose from 6.1 in 1905 and averages 4.5 from 1895 to 1904. Field artillery led at 9.2 percent, cavalry 7.8 percent, white soldiers 8.4 percent, and Black soldiers 2.3 percent.
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United States Army
Field Artillery
Hadley speaks on ethics of trade and competition
Yale President Hadley, delivering a New York lecture, argues trade ethics mix of risk and necessity. He concedes bad speculation but calls some speculation vital, likening risky bets to gambling with loaded dice. He credits competition with labor progress in the nineteenth century and dismisses sweatshop abuses as remnants, not traits of modern systems.
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Hadley
Yale
New York School of Philanthropy
Laundry Trust in St Louis Prompts Price Fix Probe
A St Louis laundryman testified before a court commissioner that the laundrymen's association voted to fix laundry prices and discipline violators. Since the association's start, the price of laundry service has risen about 40 percent.
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Laundry Trust
St. Loouis
St. Louis
Laundrymen’s Association
Train Wreck Near Edenburg Kills Fireman P J Kearns
A Pittsburg and Lake Erie fast train collided with a wagon loaded with logs near Edenburg Ohio. Fireman P J Kearns was killed. A fire from the Packham cottage at Cape May Point New Jersey destroyed about $50 000 in property, spreading to the Cape house cottages and then the public school building, which sustained only slight damage.
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Pittsburg and Lake Erie
Edenburg
Ohio
P. J. Kearns
Packham
Cape May Point
N. J
Packham Cottage
Cape House
Yearlong U S Business Gain Tracks Agriculture and Trade
Bradstreet's Commercial Agency presents a table on American agriculture, manufacture, and general trade for the year. Crops show larger yields with strong prices. industry output rises, building is active, coal shipments fall, and foreign trade climbs while money in circulation reaches a record high.
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Bradstreet
Louisiana
Porto Rico
Hawaii
United States
Eerease Nesome
Tillman in Fiery Talk at Chicago Lecture
Senator Benjamin R. Tillman spoke at Orchestra Hall Chicago for the benefit of Chicago Union Hospital predicting a race war within ten years. He argued against enfranchisement for blacks noting state imbalances and warned of possible negro domination in South Carolina and Mississippi. He said he has been charged with advocating lynch law and justified it for one crime.
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Chicago
Benjamin R. Tillman
Orchestra Hall
Chicago Union Hospital
Statesman
South Carolina
B. R. Tillman
North Carolina
Georgia
Florida
Alabama
Mississippi
Radium Viewed as Compound by Soddy Says Authority
Frederick Soddy, a leading English radium expert, states radium may be considered a compound for now rather than a chemical element, challenging the prior view of radium as a chemical element.
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Frederick Soddy
Damp Winds and Tuberculosis Deaths in North Devonshire
In the current British Medical Journal Drs Gordon and Harper report forty four years of data on consumption in North Devonshire. They note higher phthisis deaths in districts with frequent damp rain laden winds, with rates of 0.999 per 1 000 versus 1 89 elsewhere.
Fire at Salvation Army Hotel in St Louis Kills Six
A blaze at the Lighthouse hotel in St Louis Ninth and Market streets damaged the Salvation Army barracks. About 500 homeless men were lodged inside, with six killed and around thirty five injured as the fire swept through on the third floor. Firemen forced an opening after a stairway jam threatened many lives. The cause is not yet known.
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Salvation Army
Lighthouse Hotel
Ninth and Market Streets
St. Louis
Mystery of a Woman with a Man’s Baritone Voice
New York researchers study Edna Murray once from Fort Worth Texas who developed a deep baritone voice and masculine handwriting after initially singing late She noticed no sings at age twenty and now speaks with a feminine voice, while experts examine her throat and voice culture potential.
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New York
Edna Murray
Fort Worth
Texas
Hyslop
G. W. Colby
Albert Gerard-Thiers
Murray
Fire destroys Newtonian hotel and two stores at Somerset
Telegraphic brief reports a large fire at the Newtonian hotel in Somerset Kentucky burning the hotel and two neighboring stores with losses estimated between seventy thousand and one hundred thousand dollars. Separately the Niles Bement Pond Company of New York plans to acquire Ridgway Machine Tool Company of Ridgway Pennsylvania. The Luther League of America held its seventh biennial convention in Canton Ohio drawing five hundred delegates from across the United States.
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Pennsylvania
Arthur H. Buck
Butte
Mont
Gwrorth
Abel & Co
New York
Princeton
Beck
Marcus Daly
Monsna
Eapolis
League Island
Philadelphia
Newtonian
Somerset
Niles-Bement-Pond Company
Ridgway Machine Tool Company
Ridgway
Luther League of America
Canton
Ohio
United State
Congress At Work In The Fifty Ninth Congress
Washington correspondence reports the Fifty-ninth Congress resuming with three months left. Major items include inheritance tax, corporate regulation, tariffs for the Philippines, river and harbor funding, ship subsidy, eight hour work bill, anti injunction measures, currency reform, alien admission rules, naval expansion, and Panama canal plans. The session may address the Santo Domingo and Isle of Pines treaties and potential government printing investigations.
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Washington
Fifty-ninth Congress
Senate
Postal Savings Banks
Parcel Post
Lakes
Gulf
Santo Domingo
House Committee On Labor
Cannon
House
Roosevelt
Judiciary Committee
Navy Department
Congress
Panama Canal
Southern Railroad Company
New Orleans
Gained 84 Pounds After Pink Pills Cure Anaemia
Mrs. Nathaniel Field of St. Albans Maine credits Dr Williams Pink Pills with curing lifelong anaemia after two doctors said she was doomed. She describes severe pain vomiting gas backache neuralgia and fear of eating, then rapid improvement and weight gain from 120 to 154 pounds after starting the pills. The ad claims the pills produce new blood and offer 50 cents a box with six for $2.50 from J Williams Medicine Co Schenectady NY.
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Dr. Williams
J. Williams Medicine Company
Schenectady
N. Y
Reason Enough
A child explains he was late for breakfast because he woke from a funny dream and slept a few minutes longer. The exchange features Bobby and his father as the morning routine unfolds with light humor.
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Bobby
Puck
Webster's Dictionary valued as national standard by scholars
The Webster International Dictionary is praised as the nation’s standard by Editor in Chief William T Harris and hundreds of educators. It is cited as the basis for Supreme Court usage, the Government Printing Office, and most U.S. schoolbooks. Readers are invited to request The Story of a Book from Department C G and C Merriam.
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Webster’s Dictionary
William T. Harris
United States Commissioner of Education
United States Supreme Court
Supreme Courts
Government Printing Office
C. G. & C. Merriam
Springfield
Mass
School for Smiling Reflects Changing Social Attitudes
A teacher notes the growing role of the smile in daily life and public life. The piece discusses how Women and girls now smile more than in Jane Eyre era, citing Queen Amelia of Portugal and Queen Alexandra as examples of royal smiles.
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Amelia
Portugal
Alexandra
Quoted remarks spark debate on love and wings
The Baltimore American and Atlanta Constitution publish provocative quotes about love and women. The exchange features a man asking if he is the only beloved and a comparison to angels and wings, ending with a vivid line about giving a man wings to fly ten yards.
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Atlanta Constitution
New Year Calls and Postum Offer a Brighter Tradition
A long standing New Year calling custom fades with excess egg nog and apple jack. A Staten Island doctor urges Postum as a healthier host beverage, noting it contains wholesome food material and offers to demonstrate it to Christmas and New Year’s callers. There’s a reason.
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Staten Island
Whville
Plega
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