Flagler’s Ocean Railway Opens with Concrete Arches
Henry M. Flagler’s rail line across the Florida Keys reaches Knight's Key, eighty one miles from Miami, with through sleeping cars planned from New York and Chicago. Trains will eventually run to Havana via ferry, beginning next tourist season as the project nears completion.
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Henry M. Flagler
Keys
Florida
Keight’s Key
New York
Chicago
Key West
Havana
Knight's Key
Flagler
Miami
Tlamestead
Minami
North America
Ocean
Ney Largo
Key
Global upheavals and political shifts stir early tensions
A flood of reports notes earthquakes in Haiti, immigration talks between Japan and Canada, Berlin riots, Persia peace terms, M Blériot’s Paris accident, a Russian war auto corps pledge, Berlin hunger worries, Portuguese republicanism, Kaiser era scandal, Russia naval expansion talks, U S exclusion fears, and a Moroccan pretender’s conditional sovereignty.
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Haiti
Canada
Japan
Berlin
Persia
Teheran
M. Bleriot
Paris
Russian War Department
War Automobile Corps
Henry Farnam
Harden
Prince Bernard of
Saxeneimar
Lucchesini
Russia
United States
Morocco
Algerciras
Pacific Fleet Draws Attention to West Coast Defenses
Washington correspondent argues sixteen battleships highlight the Pacific coast’s weak defenses from Lower California to the Canadian border. He urges San Diego and Puget Sound protection plus a harbor dredge and secure drydocks, citing San Francisco Mare Island yard as inadequate and concerns over provisioning if the fleet arrives.
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Pacific
Washington
California
San Francisco
Humphrey
Stumphrey
San Diego
San Pedro
Mexico
Magdalena Bay
Pacific Coast
Mare Island Navy Yard
Labor union notes and organize efforts across regions
Reports detail the formation of a new machinists union in Hudson Wisconsin a 6000 member Glass Workers Union with a 100000 treasury a Canadian labor party branch in London England and wage gains for miners across Great Britain Bartenders in Denver organize for eight hour day loggers and carpenters in Hamilton seek higher wages while strike threats loom. A British trade union congress meets at Nottingham September 7 1908. Ohio Oklahoma and Washington union activities focus on suffrage cooperation and centralized building trades councils. The Rhode Island Label League campaigns for union labels and textile workers issue sixty charters since 1900. A wave of cooperative stores grows in Washington with Seattle hosting one and opening a coal mine for union sales.
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Bartenders
Denver
Colo
Larbers
Hamilton
Ont
Trade Union Congress of
Great Britain
Nottingham
Daltimore
Washington
Minneapolis
Minn
Building
Building Trades Council
Max Morris
American Federation of Labor
Western Federation of Miners
A. F. of L
Samuel Gomprrs
Rhode Island
Seattle
Vanderbilt Heiress Weds Count in New York Mansion
Miss Gladys Moore Vanderbilt, daughter of Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt, married Count Laszlo Szechenyi at the Fifth Avenue home in New York. The ceremony, led by a clergyman, drew about 150 guests in a salon adorned with orchids and an altar beneath a bowed bower.
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Gladys Moore Vanderbilt
Cornelius Vanderbilt
Laszlo Szechenyi
Tenutenant
Hussars
New York
Fifth Avenue
Vanderbilt Residence
Suits to recover 3 million from American Sugar Refining Co
Government to sue the American Sugar Refining Company for 3 million dollars claiming duties dodged since the Dingley tariff act due to underweighing sugar shipments at New York docks. Treasury agents report a likely average 1 percent shortage across a decade, with bribery suspected and grand jury investigations underway.
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American Sugar Refining Company
Sugar Trust
The
Treasury
New York
Grand Jury
Hiveinds
Clersk
Thuy
Low Death Rate in Navy Report Reveals Health Trend
The annual report of Surgeon General Rixey notes a Navy life death rate around 3.66 per thousand, lower than urban rates of 30 or more. Among 620 deaths, only a single digit from disease. most fatalities stemmed from warfare and accidents, with a few from poisons.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Supeco Coeneral Rixey
Marine Corps
Orthent
Aspere
Eto Lorie
Ehlass
Aliens Take Billions From US in Return to Europe
Figures from the North German Lloyd and agents show 8170 million dollars left the United States last year as aliens returned home. The study assumes returning foreigners carry about 200 dollars each and 550,445 immigrants went back, with 200 dollars lasting a year or more in idleness. Returning travelers reportedly will not take American savings as payment, only gold from their country.
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Ldord Dine
United States
Europe
Alred
Fire devastates Sunflower Islass plant and others in 1910s chaos
All Around the Globe reports fires destroying the Sunflower Islass Company's Colleyville plant and the Cleveland Steel Casting pattern shop and armature winding plant with losses around 100000 dollars. Emperor William in disguise attended a Prince Adalbert masked ball while Curzon’s son faces a voter qualification issue for an Irish representative peer.
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Sunflower Islass Company
Forty Percent at the Front in First Eighteen Months
The Indiana census shows Clay county and Sugar Ridge township leading mobilization. At the war’s start in 1862, 15 counties had full volunteer credit, while 77 counties carried quota gaps. Clay county sent 40 percent of its eligible population to the front in the first eighteen months, with Sugar Ridge township totaling 31 percent.
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Brown
Clay
Crawford
Daviess
Jennings
Lawrence
Newton
Parke
Perry
Scott
Spencer
Switzerland
Vermilion
Warren
White
Jasper
Allen
Clay County
Sugar Ridge Township
Feeble harnessmaker attacked in North Salem
Feeble harnessmaker Mr Weekly aged years, in North Salem, was struck twice during a shop closing by a stranger seeking leather shoe strings. He fell with deep head wounds. The assailant fled. bloodhounds traced a trail to the IL & D railway. Police fear critical condition.
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Indianapolis
IL & D. Railway
Despondent husband shoots himself in Jackson township
John W. Touricholz, 50, of Jackson township, died by self-inflicted gunshot in his sitting room. The revolver fired into his mouth and dropped into his wife's workbasket near his chair. His wife, unaware, thought he slept and only learned after calling him to supper.
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John W. Touricholz
Jackson Township
Ife
Druggists Warned to Hire Registered Clerks
R F Sala secretary of the State Board of Registration and Examination for Pharmacists warns Columbus druggists to employ registered clerks. He cites the law requiring registered clerks and says prosecutions will follow if compliance fails within two or three weeks.
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R. F. Sala
State Board of Registration and Examination
Columbus
Sala
Union Chapel Dedicated Near St. Paul
The United Brethren church known as Union Chapel near St. Paul was dedicated recently. Services were conducted by Rev. St. Ul. Paut of Dayton Ohio. The building was designed by Rev. Fe. Pl Day and cost 2500 dollars, all of which has been subscribed.
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Union Chapel
United Brethren Church
St. Aul
ST. U1. Paut
D. D
Dayton
Ohio
FE. PL
Chapmen and Alexander Plan World Evangelistic Tour
Dr. J Wilbur Chapman a Presbyterian evangelist and Charles M Alexander renowned sacred music leader join forces announcing simultaneous world campaigns. They will tour together promoting religious outreach across multiple regions.
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J. Wilbur Chapman
Warsaw
Charles M. Alexander
Torrey
Messrs. Chapman
Alexander
Found Dead by Railroad Track in Peru
Local authorities report Jacob Tseons of Peru found dead beside a railroad track. Investigators say the body appeared recently warm with a vessel erect, suggesting he was injured and bled to death before help could be summoned after a train passed hours earlier.
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Jacob Tseons
Peru
Lyons
Goodland Public School Fire Destroys Building
A gasoline engine in the basement caused a blaze that totally destroyed Goodland’s public school. The loss totals $48,000 with $10,000 covered by insurance. A modern replacement building will be constructed as soon as possible.
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Goodland
Two Women Burned by Gasoline Stove in Shelbyville
Gasoline stove overturn in Shelbyville caused Mrs Barbara Schroe der and her daughter Miss Katherine to suffer severe burns to bands arms and face with extensive hair singeing.
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Shelbyville
Barbara Schroeder
Katherine
Fire destroys mill and homes at Kings area
A blaze at Kings destroyed the T. P. Moore Milling Company's flour mill five buildings including three residences a store and several small structures. Loss estimated at 350 000 with partial insurance coverage.
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Kings
T. P. Moore Milling Company
Los
State Happenings Report Barn Destruction and Fatal Hunting Incident
A wire at Orwell destroyed a barn owned by Joseph Bengey with hay and grain, totaling a loss of 1200 dollars. Near Evansville farmer William York was instantly killed by an accidental discharge held by a companion. Open winter harms winter wheat and threatens crop failure near St. Paul without snow.
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Orwell
Joseph Bengey
Evansville
William York
St. Paul
Trade Conditions In Chicago Dist Summarized
R G Dun & Co reports on Chicago district trade noting a high commercial mortality but improving confidence as weak firms fade. Closest year over year debt activity, easier discount rates, and steadier manufacturing indicators reflect gradual revival. Raw materials firming, construction prospects brightening, and winter merchandise absorption support retail demand despite some lag in order books. district failures total 3H with liabilities over 50 dollars at 16.
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Chicago
R. G. Dun & Co
Chievary
New York Trade Sluggish as Prices Drift Downward
The New York market shows quiet trade and generally lower commodity prices. Rail and iron industries report idle capacity, wage talks loom as a response to reduced production, and wholesale trade opens slowly with cotton goods cuts stirring interest. Bradstreet notes weekly business failures at 408 in the week ending Jan 25, up from last week and well above prior years.
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Bradstreet
Chicago Cattle and Hogs Prices and Wheat Trends
The report lists commodity bids across multiple markets including Chicago Indianapolis Detroit Cincinnati Milwaukee Buffalo New York and Toledo. Prices cover cattle hogs sheep wheat corn oats rye butter and clover seed with ranges for “prime heavy” hogs and “common to prime” cattle and sheep, noting regional variations.
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Chicago
Ste
Indianapolis
Carlie
Sean
Detroit
Milwaukee
Ria
New York
Toledo
New Neurological Hospital Planned on Blackwell's Island
Commissioner Hebberd of New York City and local experts establish the first neurological hospital with a distinct medical board. The facility will be on Blackwell's Island and named the Hospital for Nervous Diseases of New York City.
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Commissioner of Charities
Hebberd
New York City
Blackwell's Island
Hospital For Nervous Diseases
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New York Mansion
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Ruth
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Miss Ruth
Wan
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Pnd
Tim Gas
First Neurological Hospital
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